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Scotland to get 1st Muslim leader as SNP elects Humza Yousaf

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s governing Scottish National Party elected Humza Yousaf as its new leader on Monday after a bruising five-week contest that exposed deep fractures within the pro-independence movement.The 37-year-old son of South Asian immigrants is set to become the first person of color and the first Muslim to serve as Scotland’s first minister since the post was established in 1999.Yousaf, who currently is Scotland’s health minister, beat two other Scottish lawmakers in a contest to replace First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. She unexpectedly stepped down last month after eight years as leader of the party and of Scotland’s semi-autonomous government.Yousaf, who is due to be confirmed as first minister by Scottish lawmakers on Tuesday, faces the challenge of uniting the SNP and reenergizing its campaign for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.“Just as I will lead the SNP in the interests of all party members, not just those who voted for me, so I will lead Scotland i...

Whitney Houston’s family wants to highlight her gospel roots

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Whitney Houston’s brother remembers when his young sister listened to their mother during gospel rehearsals before she mimicked every tune that was sung.As Houston rose to pop superstardom, her exceptionally talented vocals were rooted in gospel music. And now, her family — led by her sister-in-law Pat and brother Gary Houston — wants the foundation of her musical legacy to continue to live on through her new posthumous gospel album and documentary under the same name, “ I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston. ”“Gospel was in her heart,” said Gary Houston, who recalled his sister around the age of 5 wearing their mother Cissy Houston’s wig and high heels while using a broom as a microphone. “We woke up to and went to sleep to gospel. She would sing exactly what she heard my mother and her siblings. No secular music. It was all gospel.”Pat Houston, the executor of Whitney Houston’s estate, said she’s excited for listeners to hear the six-time Grammy-...

Sheriff: Man who fled traffic shot shoots officer in Florida

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A man who sped away from a traffic stop in Florida last week shot and critically wounded a sheriff’s officer before killing himself following a standoff at his home, officials said.The shooting early Sunday morning left Officer Malik Daricaud, 25, in “tenuous condition” and “fighting for his life,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said during a news conference. When no one answered the door at Tyliko Maduro’s home, the officers contacted the 32-year-old man’s mother, Waters said, describing the body cam footage. She agreed to come over, and approached the front door with one officer, while another was stationed around the corner of the house and Daricaud stayed a few feet back. She knocked a couple of times and yelled, “hello,” before unlocking and pushing open the door. A dog came out the door and a volley of shots rang out.Daricaud fell backwards and collapsed onto the ground, Waters said. The other officers and Maduro’s mother wer...

Louvre staff block entrances as part of pension protest

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed to the public on Monday when its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the government’s unpopular pension reform plans.Dozens of Louvre employees blocked the entrance, prompting the museum to announce it would be temporarily closed.The demonstrators toted banners and flags in front of the Louvre’s famed pyramid, where President Emmanuel Macron had celebrated his presidential victory in 2017. They demanded the repeal of the new pension law that raises the retirement age from 62 to 64. The showbusiness, broadcasting and culture branch of the CGT union tweeted an image of the Mona Lisa with an aged and wrinkled face, with the words: “64 it’s a No!”The action comes on the eve of another nationwide protest planned for Tuesday against the bill — and as Macron holds a meeting with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne to discuss the way forward. The Louvre is always closed on Tuesdays, so staff protested a da...

Anti-government protesters in Kenya march in Nairobi streets

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

Nairobi, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of anti-government protesters marched on the streets of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Monday despite the government’s declarartion that the protests are illegal.Opposition leader Raila Odinga joined protesters on the western side of the capital where his convoy attracted thousands of supporters and he addressed them at various stops calling for electoral justice and reduced prices for food items.Police used a water cannon and teargas to disperse supporters. Police chief Japheth Koome insists that the protests are illegal but Odinga says Kenyans have a right to demonstrate.Odinga and his party, Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition, are leading the protests against the rising cost of living and calling for President William Ruto’s resignation saying he wasn’t validly elected in last year’s election.More than a dozen civil society groups have in a joint statement expressed concern over police declaring Monday’s protests ...

Israeli mass protests, strike ramp up pressure on Netanyahu

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated outside parliament and workers launched a nationwide strike on Monday, as a surging mass protest movement threatened to paralyze the economy in its efforts to halt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary.Departing flights from the country’s main international airport were grounded, large mall chains and universities shut their doors, and Israel’s largest trade union called for its 800,000 members — in health, transit, banking and other fields — to stop work. Diplomats walked off the job at foreign missions, local governments were expected to close the preschools they run and cut other services, and the main doctors union announced its members would also strike.The growing resistance to Netanyahu’s plan came hours after tens of thousands of people burst into the streets around the country in a spontaneous show of anger at the prime minister’s decision to fire his defense minister ...

Troubled Silicon Valley Bank acquired by First Citizens

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — First Citizens will acquire much of Silicon Valley Bank, the tech-focused financial institution that collapsed this month, setting off a chain reaction that caused a second bank to fail and tested faith in the global banking sector.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and other regulators had already taken extraordinary steps to head off a wider banking crisis by guaranteeing that depositors in SVB and failed Signature Bank would be able to access all of their money.While more than half of Silicon Valley’s assets will remain in U.S. receivership, the First Citizens deal announced late Sunday, at least initially, seemed to achieve what regulators have sought: a shoring up of trust in U.S. regional banks.At the opening bell Monday, shares of midsized banks like Keycorp, Zions and First Horizon rose 8%. First Republic Bank, which received a $30 billion rescue package from 11 of the biggest banks in the country as it teetered in the wake of the Silicon Valley collapse, ju...

Bank of America signs on as new Boston Marathon sponsor

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon has agreed to a 10-year sponsorship deal with Bank of America that organizers hope will allow the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual 26.2-mile road race to grow over the next decade while maintaining its historic character.Financial terms of the deal announced Monday were not disclosed. But the deal does not include the naming rights that typically allow the sponsor to boost its profile and an event to boost its coffers.“Why would you ever change a legacy? … No, we’re not going to do that,” said David Tyrie, Bank of America’s chief digital officer and chief marketing officer. “Everything you know and love about the Boston Marathon — and things that are around it — will continue. And then there’s going to be (an additional) 30% that we haven’t figured out yet that are going to be the taking it to the next level thing. And those are really exciting ones.”The bank already had a foot in the distance-running world as the sponsor of th...

Protestas y crisis política en Israel: última hora y noticias en vivo

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

Haz clic aquí para ver las entradas más recientesManifestantes se reúnen en medio de las manifestaciones en curso en Tel Aviv el 23 de marzo de 2023, contra las controvertidas reformas legales que promociona el gobierno de extrema derecha del país. (Crédito: JACK GUEZ/AFP vía Getty Images)The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

Los clientes ahora enfrentan una cultura de las propinas radicalmente diferente a la de hace unos años

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:11:43 GMT

Nueva York (CNN) — Cada vez son más los establecimientos que ofrecen a los clientes la opción de dejar propina, desde cafeterías hasta heladerías.Alrededor del 48 % de los restaurantes de servicio rápido como Starbucks, Panera y McDonald’s ofrecen ahora a los clientes la opción de dejar propina, según datos publicados este mes por Toast, una empresa de software de gestión de restaurantes. Esta cifra es superior al 38% de 2020.Pero los estadounidenses dejan menos propina.El porcentaje de propinas en los restaurantes de servicio rápido el trimestre pasado fue del 15,9%, frente al 16,4% del año pasado.Según los expertos, la gente deja menos propina debido, en parte, a la inflación. También está abrumada por el número de lugares que le dan la opción de dejar propina con una tarjeta en un iPad, lo que lleva a las personas a ser menos generosas.“Fuera de control”: ya nadie sabe cuánto dejar de propinaClientes y trabajadores se enfrentan hoy a una cultura de la prop...