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Month: December 2023

After St. Charles’ anti-migrant resolution fails, local couple patiently awaits Cuban migrants who plan to come live with them

By Jon Kipper Click here for updates on this story     ST. CHARLES, Missouri (KMOV) — Heidi Sowatsky is patiently awaiting the arrival of Cuban migrants into her and her husband Bruce’s home. So much so they’ve set up the two kids’ bedrooms and even bought them Christmas presents. Heidi and Bruce met Ida around five

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New US rules, aimed at curbing China, could make it harder for EV buyers to claim a full tax credit

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans could have a harder time finding electric vehicles that qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit under new rules being proposed. The Treasury and Energy Departments unveiled the rules Friday. They limit electric vehicle buyers from claiming the full tax credit if they purchase cars

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Police: St. Charles County suspects lured cousin to U.S. on promise of education, trapped him in basement and subjected him to slave labor for a year

By Caroline Hecker Click here for updates on this story     ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Missouri (KMOV) — Three St. Charles County men are in custody after police say they lured a family member to the United States from India under false pretenses, enslaving him over the course of the last year. Venkutesh Sattaru, 35, Nikhil Penmatsa,

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Harris heads to Dubai to tackle delicate tasks of talking climate and Israel-Hamas war

By WILL WEISSERT and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will face two delicate tasks when she attends a climate summit this weekend in Dubai. She’ll be trying to demonstrate U.S. environmental leadership despite President Joe Biden’s absence from the annual gathering on climate change. And she’ll meet with regional

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Jaw-dropping video shows collapse at Coquitlam, B.C., construction site

By Andrew Weichel Click here for updates on this story     VANCOUVER, B.C. (CTV Network) — Emergency work is underway after a collapse at a Coquitlam, B.C., construction site that was caught on camera this week. The jaw-dropping video (reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/187t8qu/catastrophic_failure_at_county_green_construction) was posted on social media Thursday afternoon, showing cracks forming in a shoring retention wall at

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Canadian-owned mine will begin closure in Panama after contract deemed ‘unconstitutional’

By Avery Haines Click here for updates on this story     BOQUETTE, PANAMA (CTV Network) — A Canadian mining company is expected to begin the process of closing its multibillion-dollar operations in Panama today after weeks of civil unrest and protests from civilians fearing the ecological repercussions of its open-pit copper mine that is twice the

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Pilgrims yearn to visit isolated peninsula where Catholic saints cared for Hawaii’s leprosy patients

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (AP) — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black rock shores that glisten under the Pacific’s pristine waters. As a daily Mass-going Catholic devoted to Saint Damien of

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Pilgrims yearn to visit isolated peninsula where Catholic saints cared for Hawaii’s leprosy patients

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (AP) — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black rock shores that glisten under the Pacific’s pristine waters. As a daily Mass-going Catholic devoted to Saint Damien of

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Banco Central de Argentina pospone la entrada en vigor de una medida que afecta a usuarios de Mercado Pago y otras billeteras virtuales, ¿de qué se trata?

Sofía Benavides (CNN Español) –El jueves, el Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA) anunció que pospondría la entrada en vigor —prevista para el viernes 1 de diciembre— de una norma que afectaría a los usuarios de  billeteras virtuales. Se trata de una normativa que impediría a los usuarios vincular sus cuentas bancarias a sus cuentas en billeteras virtuales

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Russia’s Lavrov declares at security talks that his country’s goals in Ukraine are unchanged

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has delivered a blunt message to Western leaders and declared at an international security conference that his government was not prepared to “review its goals” in Ukraine. Lavrov told reporters while attending an Organization for Security and

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