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Senator asks LIV Golf, PGA Tour leaders for records on merger

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of a Senate subcommittee is demanding the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf present records about negotiations that led to their new agreement and plans for what golf will look like under the arrangement.Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent letters Monday to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and LIV CEO Greg Norman spelling out the “serious questions regarding the reasons for and terms behind the announced agreement.”Blumenthal, who is chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said he also wanted to hear the tour’s plans to retain its tax-exempt status.Last week, LIV and the tour stunned the golf world by agreeing to merge the PGA Tour and European tour with the Saudi golf interests, while also dropping all lawsuits between the parties. The governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which bankrolls LIV, will join the PGA Tour board of directors and lead a new business venture as its chairman. The PGA T...

Pulse nightclub victims remembered on 7th anniversary of massacre

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-friendly nightclub were remembered with the unveiling of a 44-foot (13.4-meter) -wide mural, the ringing of church bells and an overnight vigil at the site of the Pulse club on Monday, the seventh anniversary of the tragedy.Several people gathered at the site of the Pulse nightclub near downtown Orlando at 2 a.m. Monday, around the time that gunman Omar Mateen opened fire in 2016, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded. At the time, it was the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, but that number was surpassed the next year when 58 people were killed and more than 850 were injured among a crowd of 22,000 at a country music festival in Las Vegas.Mateen was killed after a three-hour standoff by SWAT team members. He had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.At the Orlando Museum of Art, a colorful, a 44-foot-by-18-foot (13.4 meters by 5.5 meters) mural depicting...

Prayers and tears: Silvio Berlusconi’s death draws tributes, even from his critics

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

ROME (AP) — Adored, scorned, impossible to ignore in life, former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in death drew tributes even from his critics, and ever more lavish praise from admirers, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as prayers from Pope Francis. Following word of Berlusconi’s death on Monday in a Milan hospital, where he was being treated for chronic leukemia, reaction poured in from around the world, from national leaders to announcers who burst into tears on one of his television networks, for the populist three-time premier and media mogul.Here are some of the reactions:— In a condolence telegram, Putin hailed Berlusconi as a “patriarch” of Italian politics and a true patriot who had improved Italy’s standing on the world stage. “I have always sincerely admired his wisdom, his ability to make balanced, far-sighted decisions even in the most difficult situations,” Putin said in the telegram released by the Kremlin. “During each of our meetings,...

GM to invest $632 million at Fort Wayne assembly plant to prepare for new generation of pickups

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will spend $632 million to update its Fort Wayne, Indiana, assembly plant so it can make the next generation of full-size pickup trucks with internal combustion engines.The investment in new conveyors and equipment in the body shop and assembly areas won’t create any new jobs. But GM said on Monday it will keep jobs for about 4,000 people who work at the plant.Construction will start in 2024 at the plant, which now builds the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 light-duty pickup trucks. GM wouldn’t say when the next generation of trucks will go on sale. Source

Turkey’s president unwavering on two-state policy to resolve Cyprus’ ethnic division

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkey’s president said Monday that any deal resolving Cyprus’ nearly half-century ethnic division must be based on recognition of a breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the island nation’s northern third.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remarks in the north during his first overseas visit after his reelection last month aren’t new, but suggest that Ankara’s policy line on Cyprus remains unwavering, despite international condemnation of the two-state deal proposal that runs contrary to U.N. resolutions calling for a single, federated Cyprus. “No one can bear to waste another 50 years of time,” Erdogan said during a joint news conference with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. “If there is to be a return to the negotiating table, the only way to do this is to recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.”It also dashes hopes harbored by Cyprus’ internationally-recognized government of a speedy return to negotiations, although a spokesman f...

Australia vive una intensa temporada de gripe, y podría ser una señal de lo que se avecina en EE.UU.

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

(CNN) — Apenas estamos en junio, pero los científicos estadounidenses ya están pensando en la temporada de gripe. Como siempre en esta época del año, no pierden de vista a Australia, que ha tenido un comienzo temprano de la temporada de esa enfermedad.En algunas partes del país se registra un aumento en los contagios, y el mayor número de casos se da entre niños. Estos patrones de gripe podrían ser un indicador de lo que está por venir en EE.UU.En EE.UU., la actividad gripal es actualmente baja, como suele ser en esta época del año. La pandemia de covid-19 hizo que la temporada de gripe fuera un poco menos predecible, pero por lo general la gente no empieza a enfermar hasta alrededor de octubre, y las consultas de los médicos no están realmente ocupadas hasta algún momento entre diciembre y febrero.En el hemisferio sur, donde ahora es invierno, los casos empezaron a aumentar “bruscamente” a principios de mayo, según informó el viernes el Ministerio de Sanidad y Asi...

La UNESCO anuncia que EEUU planea reincorporarse y pagar más de $600 millones en cuotas atrasadas

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

PARÍS — La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), anunció este lunes que Estados Unidos planea reincorporarse a la agencia cultural y científica de la ONU, y pagar más de 600 millones de dólares en cuotas atrasadas, después de una disputa de una década provocada por la decisión de la organización de incluir a Palestina como integrante.Los funcionarios estadounidenses dicen que la decisión de regresar estuvo motivada por la preocupación de que China esté llenando el vacío dejado por Estados Unidos en la formulación de políticas de la UNESCO, en particular en el establecimiento de estándares para la Inteligencia Artificial y la educación tecnológica en todo el mundo.El subsecretario de Estado para Gestión y Recursos de Estados Unidos, Richard Verma, envió una carta la semana pasada a la directora general de la UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, en la que formalizaba el plan de su gobierno para reincorporarse. Biden firma orden ejecu...

When Denver could finally start to dry out from the rain

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — It has been quite the rainy start to June, but the Pinpoint Weather team has some good news if you have been wishing for some sun.Storms, storms and more storms. That has been the weather forecast for the first two weeks of June. While more rain is on the way for Monday, the seven-day weather outlook shows some relief from the precipitation. Is Denver finally going to dry out?Monday and Tuesday will start off the week with cool temperatures in the mid-60s and afternoon showers. However, storm chances will be much smaller on Wednesday and Thursday with more sunshine peaking through. Road gives way to create sinkhole in Parker And finally, by the weekend temperatures will be more seasonal with highs in the low-80s. Pinpoint Meteorologist Travis Michels said there are still chances for rain, but they are a lot lower than we have seen in the past 12 days.Pinpoint Weather 7-day forecast on June 12 in Denver.At long last, Denver will start to dry out for this weekend. It...

How can you watch the Nuggets play in Game 5 of NBA Finals?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Game 5 of the NBA Finals is Monday night, and with the Denver Nuggets up 3-1 against the Miami Heat, there's a chance this game could cinch the series and give the Nuggets their first-ever NBA Championship.If you want to watch what may be a historic game, there are a few options to choose from depending on what kind of game-watching experience you want.Tip-off for the game is at 6:30 p.m.How can you watch Game 5 of the NBA Finals?There are essentially three ways to watch the game.The first, and most obvious, is to attend the game in person at Ball Arena. If you're in Denver and have a grand or two laying around -- or just haven't gotten around to buying tickets yet -- this is an option.The cheapest nosebleed tickets start at $1,034.06 including fees as of Monday. Want to see the Nuggets play in Game 5? Get ready to spend If you don't have that kind of money and can't buy tickets, the second option is to watch it in a public place.With this being the game that coul...

Trump traveling to South Florida as history-making court appearance approaches in classified docs case

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:36 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was traveling to Florida on Monday ahead of a history-making federal court appearance this week on dozens of felony charges accusing him of illegally hoarding classified documents and thwarting the Justice Department’s efforts to get the records back.Trump’s Tuesday afternoon appearance in Miami will mark his second time since April facing a judge on criminal charges. But unlike a New York case some legal analysts derided as relatively trivial, the Justice Department’s first prosecution of a former president concerns conduct that prosecutors say jeopardized national security, with Espionage Act charges carrying the prospect of a significant prison sentence.Ahead of his court date, he and his allies have been escalating efforts to undermine the criminal case against him and drum up protests. He’s ratcheted up the rhetoric against the Justice Department special counsel who filed the case, calling Jack Smith&...