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Xi-Biden meeting seen as putting rocky relations back on course, though main differences remain

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Perhaps just shaking hands and sitting down together can be enough sometimes. At their four-hour meeting Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping didn’t resolve any of the vital geopolitical issues dividing the world’s two largest economies and chief rivals for global influence, but they struck a conciliatory tone that came as a relief to other countries, especially China’s neighbors. The two leaders met at a northern California country estate, holding talks, lunching and taking a garden stroll designed to show that while the two countries are global competitors, they’re not locked in a winner-take-all faceoff.“Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed,” Xi told Biden.Biden emphasized the need to avoid miscommunication. “We have to ensure competition does not veer into conflict,” he said. The leaders’ first face-to-face encounter in a year appears to have put a floor under a relat...

Última hora de Massa, Milei y las elecciones en Argentina 2023 en vivo

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

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These places need volunteers for Thanksgiving in Denver

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Thanksgiving is one week away, and it's time to start making plans for the holiday. Whether you're keeping it simple for the holiday, have some time off work or just want to give back, Denver has plenty of places to volunteer and donate. This is how much your Thanksgiving meal will cost this year FOX31 put together a list of places to volunteer or donate in Denver for the holiday. There are plenty of places to donate or volunteer in Denver, these are listed because they are advertised as Thanksgiving-related opportunities to provide families with food and other necessities during the holiday.Donate in Denver for ThanksgivingIf you don't have time to volunteer, you can always donate. These places are looking for monetary or food donations. While these spots promote Thanksgiving donations, they all take donations past the holiday.Ms. Betty's Harvest Madsgiving Dorinda Levy Thanksgiving Fund Denver Rescue Mission Denver Feed-A-Family 2023: In Honor of Daddy Bruce Rand...

Pentatonix spreads holiday cheer with new album and Christmas tour

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

Grammy-winning vocal group Pentatonix just wrapped their world tour and they’re already prepping for another one! They’re amping up holiday cheer with their new holiday album “The Greatest Christmas Hits” and a new holiday tour! The Grammy-winning A Cappella group Pentatonix is ready to kick off the holiday cheer with “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year Tour”.Mitch Grassi: “Christmas is always the best part of, of what we do because it’s, it’s the most fun, it’s the most festive, it’s the most showy tour that we do and, uh, we have a lot of really fun surprises in store for this Christmas show.”The group plans to outdo last year’s Christmas arena tour.Kristin Maldonado: “We’re adding in extra gags and things for the audience. New fun things for us. Doing a lot of new songs. I feel like now that we’ve done so many Christmas songs too, like, you’re really getting, like, all the hits,...

Travis Kelce sings on brother’s Christmas song

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

(CNN) — Taylor Swift might literally be able to make sweet music with Travis Kelce.The Kansas City Chiefs tight end has crossed over NFL lines to record a duet with his brother, Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce.The pair teamed up for the song “Fairytale Of Philadelphia” from “A Philly Special Christmas Special.”According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the project is “a Philly-ized rewrite of ‘Fairytale of New York,’ the Pogues’ 1987 tale of an Irish immigrant spending Christmas eve sleeping off a bender in the drink tank.”Travis Kelce’s higher register has been noted as a nice compliment to his brother Jason’s gruffer and lower voice on the song.The newspaper reported it was recorded before Travis Kelce was known to apparently be dating Swift.Neither Swift nor Kelce have verbally confirmed their relationship, choosing instead to let their lyrics, public displays of affection and togetherness speak for them.The Instagram account for the special posted a claymation-like...

South Florida deals with damage, flooding as communities brace for ongoing rain rounds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

MIAMI-DADE/BROWARD COUNTIES, Fla. (WSVN) — South Florida faced a relentless storm, unleashing heavy rain, thunderstorms, and whipping winds throughout Wednesday. The aftermath reveals a region grappling with the impact of widespread flooding and record-breaking gusts. The widespread flooding has left many cars stranded across Miami-Dade County and Broward County. The aftermath of Wednesday’s heavy rainfall has resulted in road closures and has led Broward County Public Schools and Broward College to cancel classes on Thursday.A sinkhole opened at the intersection of Northwest 186th Street and 68th Avenue, leaving two cars submerged. Officials have not yet determined what led to the sinkhole, but the rain could be a factor.Another disaster occurred for a family in Miami when an abandoned two-story building collapsed due to unfavorable conditions, Wednesday. A family is now displaced as a result of that incident. Miami Beach experienced gusts reaching 74 miles per hour, ...

Finland slams shut some Russia border crossings

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

Finland announced Thursday it was completely closing four border crossings with Russia, shortly after accusing Moscow of pushing undocumented migrants toward the frontier.“We have acted decisively and swiftly to ensure that the situation on the eastern border does not worsen,” Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said, according to the Finnish news outlet Iltalehti. “Amendments were made to the Border Guard Act during the last parliamentary term specifically for such situations. Now these tools have been used.”Finnish Interior Minister Mari Rantanen said later at a press conference that “the risk of the situation escalating poses a serious threat to public order and national security,” adding that the closures — which begin Friday night — will be enforced until February 18, 2024.Finland’s move comes amid an increasing number of asylum-seekers crossing the border from Russia in recent weeks. Some other border crossings will remain open.“The gove...

China’s EV overcapacity will get worse, von der Leyen warns

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

BERLIN – Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday doubled down on the need for the EU to investigate Beijing’s state subsidies into the electric vehicle industry, saying the Chinese economic downturn will accelerate overcapacity.Speaking three weeks before she visits Beijing for an EU-China Summit, the European Commission president called on China not to go for a “race to the bottom” in the green tech transition.“Europe is open to competition, but it is not open to a race to the bottom,” von der Leyen said. “We will go to China in good faith. We will never shy away in raising our concerns.”On electric vehicles, she said: “There is a clear overcapacity in China, and this overcapacity will be exported for sure, especially if overcapacity is driven by direct and indirect subsidies.“This will worsen as China’s economy slows down — and as its domestic demand does not pick up,” von der Leyen added. “This in the very end affec...

Elon Musk agrees with antisemitic X post that claims Jews ‘push hatred’ against White people

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

New York (CNN) — Agreeing with an antisemitic post on his social media platform X, Elon Musk endorsed the claim that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites.”An X post Wednesday afternoon said: “Jewish communties (sic) have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” The post also referenced “hordes of minorities” flooding Western countries, a popular antisemitic conspiracy theory.In response, Musk said: “You have said the actual truth.”The antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews want to bring undocumented minority populations into Western countries to reduce White majorities in those nations has been espoused by online hate groups and echoed by Robert Bowers, the convicted killer of 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. It was the deadliest attack against Jews in American history.Musk, in subsequent posts, said he does not believe hatred of White ...

Democrats On Beacon Hill Punt Shelter, Spending Talks To Conference

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:13:23 GMT

The Massachusetts Legislature ended formal sessions for the year early Thursday morning with no agreement on a spending bill to steer money toward the emergency shelter crisis, a negotiating collapse among Democrats that douses the state’s response to that situation in uncertainty.After keeping sessions open for roughly 13 hours over the course of the day while top Democrats traded proposals via email and phone, the House and Senate abruptly pivoted after midnight to naming a conference committee to embark on more formal negotiations.Ways and Means Committee Chairs Aaron Michlewitz and Michael Rodrigues told reporters — in separate press huddles — that they were unable to find agreement to resolve differences in the House and Senate versions of a $2.8 billion spending bill.“We weren’t close enough to try to see it through tonight. Obviously, over the last couple of years, we’ve had some late nights here, and I think at those points in time, we fel...