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German rail union threatens open-ended strikes over pay dispute

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — A German rail workers’ union said Thursday that it will ask its members to vote on all-out strike action after long-running salary talks with the main national railway operator broke down.The EVG union has already staged hours-long or one-day “warning strikes,” a common tactic in German wage negotiations. But it’s now threatening to move to longer walkouts as its negotiations with state-owned Deutsche Bahn have reached an impasse.Union leader Martin Burkert said authorization for open-ended strikes will require three quarters of all votes cast in the ballot that will take four to five weeks to be completed. He said “warning strikes” would not be ruled out while voting is taking place. The announcement comes just as school summer vacations are starting in Germany.Union leaders on Wednesday said the latest round of talks had failed. EVG has called for a pay increase of 12% and for the agreement to remain valid for 12 months rather than Deutsche Bahn’s propose...

Britain eyes boost for baseball with return of MLB, new youth programs

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

LONDON (AP) — In a country full of soccer, rugby and cricket stars, young Alex Lintern went in a different direction on dress-up day at school.“I was two people: a baseball player and Spider-Man,” the 6-year-old Londoner said.That was shortly after the World Baseball Classic, where Britain’s first-ever win at the tournament sparked some interest back home. Harry Ford, the 20-year-old American catcher with British parents, became a mini-celebrity.Baseball enthusiasts in the U.K. — there’s more than you’d think, they say — hope to build on that momentum with the return of Major League Baseball to London this weekend when the St. Louis Cardinals face the Chicago Cubs at London Stadium.“America’s pastime” likely won’t be challenging anytime soon as a first-choice sport in Britain, but baseball officials are optimistic they’re making gains. In a country that has just 60 baseball clubs and a limited Little League system, five new youth programs popped u...

Crown Crafts: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

GONZALES, La. (AP) — GONZALES, La. (AP) — Crown Crafts Inc. (CRWS) on Thursday reported profit of $828,000 in its fiscal fourth quarter.The Gonzales, Louisiana-based company said it had net income of 8 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for costs related to mergers and acquisitions, were 11 cents per share.The maker of children’s products posted revenue of $21.6 million in the period.For the year, the company reported profit of $5.7 million, or 56 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $75.1 million._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on CRWS at https://www.zacks.com/ap/CRWSSource

El tráiler de ‘Priscilla’ repasa la historia de amor de la icónica pareja de Elvis

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

(CNN) — La famosa directora Sofia Coppola presenta una nueva visión cinematográfica de la relación entre Elvis y Priscilla Presley en “Priscilla”, un año después de la película biográfica de Baz Luhrmann, “Elvis”.“Priscilla” está protagonizada por el actor de “Euphoria” Jacob Elordi como Elvis y Cailee Spaeny como Priscilla. La película está basada en las memorias de 1986 “Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N’ Roll”, que Priscilla Presley escribió junto con la escritora Sandra Harmon.El primer tráiler de la película, publicado este miércoles, ofrece una mirada al origen de la pareja.Jacob Elordi y Cailee Spaeny en ‘Priscilla’. (Crédito: A24)El tráiler muestra cortes rápidos del enamoramiento de Elvis y Priscilla, junto con lo que parece ser su primera cita y visitas a la mansión Graceland de Elvis en Memphis.“Priscilla” es la más recien...

Weekly US applications for unemployment aid remain relatively elevated

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits remained relatively elevated last week, potentially another signal that Federal Reserve rate hikes are beginning to cool a surprisingly resilient labor market.U.S. applications for jobless claims were 264,000 for the week ending June 17, the same as the previous week’s revised number, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s slightly more than analysts were expecting. The claims numbers for the past two weeks are the highest since October of 2021.The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out some of the week-to-week volatility, rose by 8,500 to 255,750. That’s the highest level since November of 2021.Jobless claims in the past three weeks have pushed closer to 300,000 after mostly being in the high 100,000 to low 200,000 range for since the fall of 2021. But that’s likely not enough for Fed officials, who have said in the past that the unemployment rate needs to rise well past 4% to bring ...

Police investigate area in NW Miami-Dade after hit-and-run leaves 1 critical

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

Miami-Dade Police officers investigated an area in Northwest Miami-Dade after a pedestrian was hit by a car that fled the scene. Officials said around 4:00 a.m. Thursday, someone was struck in the area of Northwest 32nd Avenue and 103rd Street. Once fire rescue crews arrived, they transported the victim to Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition. Police do not have a description of the vehicle. Authorities closed off Northwest 32nd Avenue from 103rd Street, but have since reopened the street.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Steamy Summer Storms

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

South Florida we remain stuck with the same steamy and stormy pattern through next week as upper-level lows are expected to stall over the East, keeping conditions unsettled and riper for daily showers and storms across the region. Today in the Tropics: Tracking Two Bret is near hurricane strength and forecast to move across the islands as a strong tropical storm tonight into Friday morning. A Hurricane Watch is in effect for St. Lucia where the center will likely move through, but conditions will deteriorate this afternoon between Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines including Barbados. On the forecast track, once Bret moves into the Caribbean it will encounter an area of high wind shear and drier air causing it to weaken gradually. By Saturday, it could completely fall apart over the Central Caribbean. The risk for flooding from heavy rainfall, strong winds, and dangerous waves along the area under watches and warnings increases this afternoon and into tonight with the worst o...

‘Tiger King’ star ‘Doc’ Antle convicted of wildlife trafficking in Virginia

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

A wild animal trainer featured in the popular Netflix series “Tiger King” has been convicted of wildlife trafficking in Virginia, the attorney general’s office announced Tuesday.Bhagavan “Doc” Antle was accused of illegally buying endangered lion cubs in Frederick County, Virginia, for display and profit at his South Carolina zoo, Attorney General Jason Miyares said in a news release. A jury convicted Antle on Friday of two felony counts each of wildlife trafficking and conspiring to wildlife traffic.Antle, who owns the Myrtle Beach Safari, appeared in “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” a Netflix documentary miniseries that focused on tiger breeders.Courtesy Horry County Sheriff’s OfficeThe jury acquitted Antle of five counts of animal cruelty and Judge Alexander Iden dismissed four additional animal cruelty charges against Antle and all charges against his two adult daughters, The Winchester Star reported.Prosecutor Michelle Welch said Myrtle Beach SafariR...

Everyone the Tories are blaming for Britain’s mortgage crisis — except themselves

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

LONDON — The “Tory mortgage penalty,” a high-profile banker or Vladimir Putin — take your pick of who is to blame for Britain’s mounting economic crisis. The U.K.’s ruling Conservative Party is growing jittery in the face of stubbornly high inflation, which Thursday pushed the Bank of England to raise interest rates for the 13th consecutive time — a move which will hit U.K. mortgage-holders hard. Hiking rates to 5 percent — a level not seen in 15 years — will result in an immediate sharp rise in monthly payments for some mortgage-holders, and the prospect of higher payments in the near future for others. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, some 1.4 million mortgage holders will see their disposable incomes fall by more than 20 percent.“People are very concerned about what is being described as the mortgage bomb about to go off,” the senior Tory MP Jake Berry told Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in the Commons Tuesday. A former Tory Ca...

Restaurant review: Be Bo Bun

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:24 GMT

Avenue des Arts 24What’s good? This place is a (well) hidden gem in the food desert that is Rue de la Loi. The lunch menu offers delicious Vietnamese cuisine classics ranging from Bánh mì, a Vietnamese-French fusion sandwich born out of colonialism, comprising a baguette, a meaty or plant-based protein, minced carrots, cucumbers and coriander, to Bò bún, a cold dish with rice vermicelli, the same vegetable-protein mix and tasty nems topped with sweet and sour sauce. Otherwise, when the Brussels weather inevitably takes a turn for the cold and wet again, Phô — the traditional Vietnamese noodle soup with a flavorful broth — was recently added to the menu.The friendly staff are happy to accommodate dietary requests. Want the cucumbers or coriander removed from certain dishes? That’ll be no problem. What’s not? The lemongrass sausage proved to be slightly too odd a flavor for my palate.Vibe: Bit peculiar. The restaurant’s entrance is h...