By Philip Blenkinsop and Nick Carey BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU countries are wavering over whether to back additional tariffs on Chinese-built electric vehicles, highlighting Brussels’ challenge in building support for its largest trade case yet as Beijing threatens wide-ranging retaliation. Germany, whose carmakers made a third of their sales last year in China, wants to […]
By Philip Blenkinsop and Nick Carey BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU countries are wavering over whether to back additional tariffs on Chinese-built electric vehicles, highlighting Brussels’ challenge in building support for its largest trade case yet as Beijing threatens wide-ranging retaliation. Germany, whose carmakers made a third of their sales last year in China, wants to […]
STORY: Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have finally put an end to their long-running feud. Under a new agreement announced this week, the entertainment giant will invest $17 billion over the next 15 years to develop its Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando. That’s according to the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, the special […]
(Reuters) – Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have put an end to their feud with a deal that allows the entertainment giant to develop the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando for the next 15 years. DeSantis and Disney, one of Florida’s biggest employers, had been embroiled in a dispute since 2022, when former […]
A 22-year-old woman was stabbed to death by a woman she was arguing with across the street across from Manhattan’s Port Authority Bus Terminal, police said Wednesday. The victim was stabbed in the chest on W. 40th St. near Eighth Ave. in Midtown about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, cops said. Medics rushed the victim to Bellevue […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union moved Wednesday to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing’s subsidies for the exports that Brussels worries is hurting domestic automakers. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said it would impose provisional tariffs that would result in Chinese automakers facing additional duties of […]
Justices with the 7th Court of Appeals Texas have upheld a Lubbock jury’s highly debated 70-year sentence handed in April 2023 to a violent repeat offender who spat on police officers arresting him in connection with a domestic assault investigation. The opinion was issued May 15 and was one of two Lubbock County cases involving […]
WASHINGTON — Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday declined to step aside from two pending cases relating to former President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol following recent news reports about contentious flags flown at his private properties. In letters to members of Congress calling for his recusal, […]
The Brazilian government officially withdrew its ambassador to Israel on Wednesday, following a diplomatic dispute over the Gaza war. Federico Meyer will represent Brazil at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament in future, according to an announcement in the nation’s official gazette. This means that the Brazilian embassy in Israel will only be led by a […]
Firefighters rescued a dog that fell off a cliff edge in San Francisco after being chased by raccoons on Sunday, May 26, local authorities said. Footage released by San Francisco Fire Department shows crews in harnesses scaling the steep terrain at Turner Terrace and using ropes to lift the dog to safety on Sunday evening. […]
The Spanish government withdrew its ambassador in Buenos Aires amid a deepening diplomatic scandal unleashed during Argentinian President Javier Milei’s visit to Madrid at the weekend. “The situation has not changed and I am therefore announcing that we are withdrawing our ambassador in Buenos Aires. The ambassador will definitely remain in Madrid,” Foreign Minister José […]
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is launching “A Crockett Clapback Collection” of t-shirts meant to raise money for Democratic candidates following the attention on her clash with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Crockett wrote on social media platform X on Friday that she will be launching a merchandise collection that will include things that “will feature […]