THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The four parties negotiating to form the next ruling Dutch coalition plan to send a policy blueprint for the next term of government to lawmakers this week. The move will mark another step toward the end of marathon talks that followed a March election. The two officials overseeing the talks
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business Some brand new car companies are hitting huge home runs with groundbreaking new vehicles, according to the staff at MotorTrend. The Rivian R1T has just been awarded the 2022 MotorTrend Truck of the Year Award just a month after the Lucid Air won the Car of the Year award. In
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The Associated Press Stocks are opening modestly lower on Wall Street Monday as the market gets the week off to a slow start following its best weekly gain since February. The S&P 500 index fell 0.3% in the early going. The tech-heavy Nasdaq gave up 0.2% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4%. Energy
Continue Reading MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson will take its electric motorcycle division public through a blank-check company, valuing the enterprise that has been part of the Harley for 10 years at $1.77 billion. The news gave a jolt to long-suffering shares of Harley-Davidson, which are up 12% before the opening bell Monday. Under the agreement, the special
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN The UK’s largest spy agency, GCHQ, has sent out its annual Christmas card — with a set of puzzles aimed at inspiring young would-be secret agents. Every year, the intelligence, cyber and security agency releases a card containing a festive brainteaser to national security colleagues and partners across the world. But
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN There is a new comet in town, and December is your only chance to see it before disappears forever. Astronomers say that Comet Leonard is our best and brightest comet to see in 2021. The comet was first discovered in January of this year by astronomer Greg Leonard. Leonard, a senior
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police say a man has been fatally shot outside a home in Kansas City just west of Marlborough Park. Kansas City police say the shooting happened around 12:15 a.m. Monday, when gunshots were reported in the area. Arriving officers found evidence of a shooting, police said, but someone had driven
Continue Reading By The Associated Press This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from rapper Roddy Ricch, a prequel to the TV series “Yellowstone” on Paramount+ and Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God.” What’s better than a Mahershala Ali performance? How about two? In Benjamin Cleary’s “Swan Song,” Ali plays a terminally ill
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Opinion by Dana M. Peterson for CNN Business Perspectives Inflation now tops the list of complaints among US consumers. Prices for everything, from necessities like food, energy and shelter, to luxury goods like autos and vacations, continue to climb. Amid this worsening challenge, Americans are looking for some relief. In November, the consumer price index
Continue Reading By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A rarely used impeachment court in Denmark has convicted a former immigration minister over a 2016 order to separate asylum-seeking couples when one of the partners was a minor. The Danish parliament voted to try Inger Stoejberg after a commission it appointed concluded that separating
Continue Reading By HARRIET MORRIS and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Japanese space tourist has rebuffed criticism from those who questioned his decision to pay a fortune for a trip to the International Space Station, saying the “amazing” experience was worth it. Speaking to The Associated Press in a live interview Monday from the
Continue Reading By HARRIET MORRIS and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — A Japanese space tourist has rebuffed criticism from those who questioned his decision to pay a fortune for a trip to the International Space Station, saying the “amazing” experience was worth it. Speaking to The Associated Press in a live interview Monday from the
Continue Reading By KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — As the omicron variant sparks worldwide fears of renewed virus outbreaks, Americans’ worries about infection are again on the rise. But fewer say that they are regularly wearing masks or isolating compared with the beginning of the year. A new poll conducted by The Associated Press and
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Pfizer is spending $6.7 billion to buy a drugmaker with no products on the market and a focus on developing treatments for inflammatory conditions like Chrohn’s disease. The pharmaceutical giant said Monday it will pay $100 in cash for each share of Arena Pharmaceuticals in a deal already approved
Continue Reading MADRID (AP) — More than 50 people have been evacuated from areas in northern Spain hit by record flooding following heavy rain and snowfall. Spanish authorities blamed the flooding for the deaths of at least two people since Friday. The regions of Navarra and Aragón remained under severe weather warnings. In Novillas, a village of
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El papa Francisco envió este lunes un telegrama para expresas sus condolencias a los afectados por los tornados que azotaron en las últimas horas el centro y sur de Estados Unidos, en los que murieron varias personas y hubo cuantiosos daños materiales. En el telegrama enviado al reverendo José Gómez,
Continue Reading By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The World Health Organization and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are working to provide cancer medicines at no cost to children in under-resourced countries. Their $200 million investment announced Monday addresses an imbalance of survival rates compared with richer nations. They’ve created a Global Platform for
Continue Reading By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Geneva prosecutors have fined a Swiss bank for failing to alert money laundering authorities about millions in funds from Saudi Arabia that went to former Spanish King Juan Carlos and his ex-lover, but have dropped any charges against his associates in the case. The Geneva prosecutor’s office
Continue Reading By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Sudanese activists say security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital of Khartoum. Thousands of people took to the streets on Thursday against a coup that has plunged the country into grinding deadlock. The demonstrations in Khartoum and other cities across Sudan
Continue Reading MILAN (AP) — Milan menswear previews for fall/winter 2021-22 are returning to a mostly in-person format in January, with Zegna, Giorgio Armani, Fendi and Prada among the 22 brands staging live runway shows. The president of the Italian National Fashion Chamber said Monday that the success of the womenswear calendar in September, when there were
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