BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected to ask for a vote of confidence in his government on Dec. 16, paving the way for a new parliamentary election as early as February, German media reported Tuesday. The expected vote in the Bundestag would come well ahead of original plans, marking a step to reach…
Climate change makes my head hurt. Remedies seem insufficient and technological breakthroughs uncertain. While governments squabble, students at Berea College are re-thinking the planet’s future and working together. This year U.S. News and World Reports, in its annual college review, selected Berea College the #2 innovative college in the U.S. It’s no surprise. Berea, in…
Joe Swift created a Chelsea garden where wood and wood tones take center stage. The structures are beautifully finished modern arches of layered cedar wood. I would love to know how well they would weather in a real garden. The stonework is interesting as well. The garden features large boulders that have been horizontally sliced to…
Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Congress returns this week with a busy agenda. The first item on the list is electing who will lead each chamber. President-elect…
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Exxon Mobil CEO and chairman Darren Woods joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the COP29 Conference in Azerbaijan, long-term approach to reducing emissions, impact of President-elect Trump’s energy policy on oil production outlook, and more. Source link
CNN — On a busy weekend in Freetown, Sierra Leone, dozens of people gather to watch an afternoon football match not unlike countless others you’d find anywhere else in the world. But there’s one striking difference – these players are all amputees. They’re members of the Single Leg Amputee Sports Association (SLASA), an organization co-founded…
Forty-two million dollars can buy a lot of things, but apparently it can’t buy an MLS championship, because for the second time in as many seasons Inter Miami came up short in trying to spend its way to a league title. This time it was Atlanta United, the lowest seed in the 18-team playoff field,…
Getty Images A vaccine is to be trialled on thousands of people to find out if it could protect against norovirus – a stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea. The easily spreadable winter virus can affect people of all ages and have huge consequences – often closing hospital wards, taking children out of school…
Lawyers hired by MrBeast to investigate claims that his former co-host groomed a teenager have concluded that the allegations were “without basis”, the star YouTuber has said. Ava Kris Tyson stopped working with MrBeast in July after other YouTubers accused her of sending inappropriate messages to a minor, reportedly then 13, when she was 20….
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish police said Tuesday that they were closing the investigation into the devastating fire that destroyed more than half of Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange, saying nothing points at the blaze being the result of a criminal act. Despite extensive forensic investigations, review of surveillance and the questioning of a large number of…
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