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Bennet bashes last-minute funding deals

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A last-minute deal prevented a government shutdown, but now the House of Representatives is without a speaker, and the next deadline is quickly approaching.Ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pushed a deal through hours before a government shutdown, earning bipartisan support. The measure was approved in the Senate, despite U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet briefly holding up the vote over Ukraine funding. Ken Buck joins historic vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as House speaker The Democrat talked about that decision this week on “Colorado Point of View.”Bennet said he’s hopeful the government will continue to support Ukraine but is concerned the aid won’t be approved by both chambers of Congress."There’s this tiny group of people that are willing to distort the House for their own purposes," Bennet said.Will there be a government shutdown?When asked about the likelihood of a coming government shutdown, Bennet said there has been bipartisan support but blamed the setbacks on ...

Off-duty Hialeah Police officer killed in motorcycle crash in Homestead

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

Police are investigating after, they said, an off-duty Hialeah Police officer was killed in a motorcycle crash in Homestead.In an Instagram post Thursday, the police department confirmed that “Officer Anthony Caabeiro passed away earlier today after being involved in a traffic crash. He was transported to a local area hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.”At around 10 p.m., 7News cameras captured officers from several law enforcement agencies as they stood outside the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office. They came to show their support while Caabeiro’s body is transported from the hospital where he was taken to the medical examiner’s office.Hialeah Police’s Instagram post further states, “At this time, we ask that you keep Officer Caabeiro’s family, friends, and his Hialeah Police Brothers and Sisters in your thoughts and prayers.”Homestead Police is investigating the crash.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more...

Authentic Indian cuisine meets Bollywood flair in new Wynwood restaurant Rishtedar

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

India is a world away, but culturally, one restaurant in Wynwood says it’s never been closer … because in Wynwood, authentic Indian dishes meet traditional Indian entertainment. Deco’s world cultural ambassador, Alex Miranda, a jack of all trades, has more.At Rishtedar, the atmosphere will get you first, and then the food. But stick around for special themed nights, where cultural immersion is also on the menu.Rishtedar is as authentic as it is hot.Ninad Patil: “All the spices, we get from India.”And I don’t just mean the spicy foods, which they offer four levels of.Alex Miranda: “Some people like their spice. Some people don’t like their spice. So who can handle level four?”Ninad Patil: “People handle it, believe me. Every single day, people are like, ‘spicy level four.’ More than 50.”I’m like a two, but hot or not, the chic Indian restaurant — hailing all the way from, of all places, Santiago, Chil...

How did free-market think tanks take over Westminster?

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast Amazon Music One year on from Liz Truss’ chaotic premiership, host Ailbhe Rea takes on what remains a controversial topic: the role free-market think tanks really play in our politics. Ailbhe interviews the co-founder of one of these free-market think tanks, the ASI’s Madsen Pirie, and...

Donald Trump 2.0 — is Europe ready?

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play EN_Google_Podcasts_Badge Created with Sketch. Acast In this episode of the EU Confidential, we entertain the idea of Donald Trump returning to the White House in 2024 and what that would mean: for the EU, for the war in Ukraine and for transatlantic relations.The U.S. presidential election is more than a year away and Trump has yet to secure the Republican Party’s nomination; ...

Markus Söder’s crumbling empire

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

ROTH, Germany — Michaela Wild believes it’s time for a change.Standing behind the counter of the café where she works in this small town in northern Bavaria, the 48-year-old barista said she’s tired of the economic malaise that has gripped her area.Local stores had shut down or left town of late, and cutbacks at a nearby air force base hadn’t helped local business. Wild had a sense perhaps her area’s best economic days were behind it.This was one reason, she said, she and many people had just about had enough of mainstream parties, including the Christian Social Union (CSU), the conservative party that has ruled Bavaria — but for a relatively short interruption — since the end of World War II.On Sunday, Wild and others who share her views will have a chance to voice their dissatisfaction as the states of Bavaria and Hesse hold parliamentary elections, which have become a bellwether of the national mood, at a particularly volatile moment in Germany’s history.Wild said some people clo...

Disorder! The (occasionally) eventful life of a parliamentary speaker

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column.Most kids dream of growing up and being an astronaut, an international sporting superstar, or doing the accounts for a midsized company that makes ink cartridges for printers. No one wants to be the speaker of a parliament. And yet these supposed keepers of order and schedule keep on making the news. Sometimes that’s a good thing (Canada’s House of Commons has just elected its first Black speaker, Liberal MP Greg Fergus) and sometimes it’s not, as just happened in the U.S.As you will have seen, House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy was toppled in a right-wing revolt because of his reliance on Democrats to pass funding to avert a government shutdown.That revolt was led by pompadoured Florida Republican member of Congress Matt Gaetz, who looks like if you asked a 6-year-old to draw the bad guy in a superhero comic. In the U.K. in the 1980s, French cookware brand Tefal’s TV adverts featured boffins wi...

Xavier Bettel’s last stand

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel’s political fate hangs in the balance as voters head to the ballot box on Sunday. After a decade in charge, polls suggest Bettel’s time could be up, as the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) is currently in the lead. That could pave the way for CSV lead candidate Luc Frieden to become prime minister, a well-known face in Brussels as a former finance minister and ex-president of industry and services lobby Eurochambres. Wait a second, though: Luxembourgish politics are never that simple. In the two previous elections, the center-right CSV was also the biggest party, but struggled to find partners to reach the 31 parliamentary seats required to form a government. So after polls close, the real power struggle will kick off as a hunt begins for coalition partners to lead the Grand Duchy.  For an indication of who might prevail in coalition talks, watch which smaller parties rise highest, said Philippe Poirier, a politic...

Paris is disgusting, and I love it: A bedbug’s tale

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

YOUR BED, PARIS — The French capital is wonderful. That’s if you can get used to the rats … and the smell … and the locals.I moved to Paris in mid-September, having heard great things about the place from my thousands of cousins who already made the journey there. They were right. The conditions are perfect for me and there are amazing opportunities to put down roots and do what we bedbugs do best — get plenty of rest during the day and suck your blood at night. I feel so at home that I’ve even started using a French name, Benoît. People seem to struggle with my birth name, Cimex Lectularius.At first, I had to find temporary accommodation but Paris hotel prices are extraordinary. So I moved into a rental apartment in Montmartre. It’s touristy, of course, and I have to cohabitate with humans but most of them are friendly. We even share a bed. Well, it is France! Sometimes in the morning, my human bed buddies seem annoyed, though, and there̵...

Family members mourning divers who died in Rockport diving accident

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:23:00 GMT

Family members are mourning after two men in their 70s died in a diving accident in the waters off Rockport Wednesday. Authorities first responded on Wednesday after police said they were notified of a diver in medical distress on Front Beach in Rockport around 11 a.m. Rockport Police Chief John Horvath and Essex County District Attorney Paul Tucker in a joint statement said the diver was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities then launched a search later in the day after officials said they learned a second diver was unaccounted for. The search continued for hours and ultimately ended when officials said they recovered the second diver’s body late Wednesday afternoon. While an investigation was ongoing, officials on Thursday said the deaths were apparent drownings and identified the individuals who died as Alan De Oliveira Leao, 75, and Richard Brady, 78.Officials said there did not seem to be any signs of foul play.“These two were a pretty awesome duo,”...