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Democrats and Republicans are skeptical of US spying practices, an AP-NORC poll finds

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — As it pushes to renew a cornerstone law that authorizes major surveillance programs, the Biden administration faces an American public that’s broadly skeptical of common intelligence practices and of the need to sacrifice civil liberties for security. Congress in the coming months will debate whether to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Section 702 authorizes U.S. spy agencies to collect large amounts of foreign communications for intelligence purposes ranging from stopping spies to listening in on allies and foes. Those collection programs also sweep up U.S. citizen communications that can then be searched by intelligence and law enforcement officers.The new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that Democrats and Republicans have similar views on surveillance tactics, while Republicans have become substantially less likely over the last decade to say it’s at least sometimes necessar...

Declan Rice set to leave West Ham after winning European trophy, club chairman says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

LONDON (AP) — England midfielder Declan Rice looks to have played his final match for West Ham.Rice, who captained West Ham in its victory over Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League final on Wednesday, has been promised he can leave the club and wants to go, chairman David Sullivan said.“You can’t keep a player who doesn’t want to be there,” Sullivan told British radio station Talksport on Thursday.Rice has been linked with some of Europe’s top teams, including Arsenal and Bayern Munich.“It’s not something we want to happen,” Sullivan said. “We offered him 200,000 pounds ($250,000) a week 18 months ago. He turned it down.”The 24-year-old Rice has played for West Ham since 2017. He said after Wednesday’s final that “it’s not a goodbye yet.”“Obviously there’s loads of speculation but nothing’s happened,” Rice said. “I’m a West Ham player, I’ve got two years left on my contract. I love every minute of it.”Sullivan said West Ham has yet to receive an offer.“But I think the of...

Tom Holland se tomará un descanso de la actuación después de una experiencia “difícil” filmando ‘The Crowded Room’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

(CNN) — Tom Holland aprendió el valor de priorizar su salud mental después de producir y protagonizar su próxima miniserie de AppleTV+ “The Crowded Room”.Eso es parte de lo que ha llevado a la estrella de “Spider-Man” a tomarse un descanso de la actuación para simplemente ser un “tipo normal de Kingston y simplemente relajarse”, dijo al medio de comunicación Extra en una entrevista publicada este martes.Con un tema pesado relacionado con la salud mental, hacer “The Crowded Room” fue “un momento difícil”, dijo Holland, porque estaba “explorando ciertas emociones que definitivamente nunca antes había experimentado”.Tom Holland deja las redes sociales por un tiempo para cuidar su salud mental: “Son abrumadoras”Inspirada en la novela de 1981 de Daniel Keyes “The Minds of Billy Milligan”, la miniserie sigue el arresto de un joven por un crimen impactante y el “investigador poco probable” que resuelve el misterio detrás de él, según una sinopsis.Y aunque Holland dijo que...

Argentina midfielder Alexis Mac Allister joins Liverpool from Brighton

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

Argentina midfielder Alexis Mac Allister signed for Liverpool for a reported initial fee of 35 million pounds ($43.6 million) on Thursday to mark the start of an expected rebuild by the club.Mac Allister, part of Argentina’s World Cup-winning team last year, completed a move from Brighton on what Liverpool described as a “long-term deal.”“Since I won the World Cup, I said that I want to win more trophies and I think that this club will help me to do that,” the 24-year-old Mac Allister said. “That’s the aim and when you are in a big club like this one you have to win trophies. So, that’s what I want.”Mac Allister helped Brighton secure its highest-ever Premier League finish of sixth place, which was one spot below LiverpoolBrighton also qualified for the Europa League. Mac Allister’s reputation has soared over the past year after playing a key role in Argentina’s World Cup triumph alongside Lionel Messi. “It’s a dream come true — it’s amazing to be here and I ...

ANÁLISIS | Terminó el contrainterrogatorio del príncipe Harry en el caso de hackeo de su teléfono contra un medio de comunicación. ¿Cómo le fue?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

Londres (CNN) — Fuentes, sospechas y especulaciones: esta fue terminología que se exploró con frecuencia durante el último día y medio cuando el príncipe Harry testificó en un tribunal de Londres en su demanda contra un importante editor de periódicos británico por afirmaciones de escuchas telefónicas históricas.El duque de Sussex regresó al estrado de los testigos este miércoles, para otro enfrentamiento agotador contra Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), al que está demandando junto con otros tres demandantes que representan a docenas de celebridades.Su aparición se centró en 33 artículos, que cubrían varios eventos durante un período de aproximadamente 15 años de la vida del duque, publicados en títulos de MGN: Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror y The People. El príncipe Harry alega que el editor usó métodos ilegales para producir historias sobre él y otras personas a su alrededor.El editor ha negado cometer cualquier acto ilícito, y sus abogados argumentan que las historias selecciona...

Salmonella outbreak linked to flour is over, CDC says, but consumers should still check for recalled bags

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

(CNN) — A salmonella outbreak that was linked to Gold Medal flour is over, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. However, consumers should still make sure they don’t have any recalled bags of flour at home.In late April, General Mills recalled certain 2-, 5- and 10-pound bags of Gold Medal Bleached and Unbleached All-Purpose Flour with use-by dates of March 27 and 28, 2024. The CDC says data showed that some Gold Medal flour was contaminated with Salmonella infantis bacteria that was responsible for at least 14 infections in 13 states. Nearly all of the patients interviewed reported eating raw dough or batter, and all of those who recalled the flour brand identified Gold Medal.A US Food and Drug Administration investigation identified a single production facility for the flour that the sick people used, and an inspection of the General Mills facility in Kansas City, Missouri, turned up a sample with the outbreak strain of the bacteria.“Although this outbr...

France ‘in shock’ after knife attack on children in the Alps

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

PARIS — Five people, including four children and one adult, were injured in a knife attack in the French Alpine town of Annecy on Thursday, according to French media reports.Two children and one adult are in critical condition, according to the AFP.A man attacked young children in a playground in a park near the lake of Annecy before being stopped by the French police. The suspect, a Syrian asylum seeker, has been arrested, according to local media.French President Emmanuel Macron has denounced the stabbing as an act “of absolute cowardice” in comments made online.“Children and an adult are between life and death. The nation is in shock. Our thoughts are with them, their families and the rescue services,” he said.French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin were heading to the site of the attack on Thursday morning. The attack is not being treated as a terrorism case, per authorities.A security perimeter has been set up around the park and childre...

Pharma reform: Patients can’t afford to wait. Act now.

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

As EU health ministers convene for their meeting on June 13 2023 they have been asked by the Presidency to consider: What measures on EU level do we need in your view to ensure equitable access to medicines to all patients in EU? What do you consider as important elements in order to ensure a highly competitive and innovative pharmaceutical industry in EU for the benefit of EU citizens? These two questions have been central to the revision of the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation. And across the innovation community, from large research-based pharmaceutical companies, to contract research organizations and biotech SMEs, there is growing concern that the raft of proposals in the Commission’s draft text will fail to have an impact on access for patients and cost Europe dearly in lost competitiveness, research, investment, jobs and growth.  The views of the health ministers will be key. Many of the competencies that impact on faster, more equitable access to medi...

Eurozone fell into recession as energy prices soared

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

The eurozone confounded previous forecasts and shrank for two consecutive quarters, figures on Thursday showed, as energy shocks, Russia’s war in Ukraine, inflation, and monetary tightening gnawed at growth momentum over the winter.Data showed the 20-nation currency area wasn’t able to dodge a recession — albeit a very shallow one for now — making politicians’ sense of optimism about the eurozone’s economic resilience to such challenges look premature.GDP shrank by 0.1 percent over the first three months of 2023, according to the revised data from Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office. The news was made worse by its revision of the last quarter of 2022 — to a contraction of 0.1 percent, having previously forecast 0 percent. A recession is defined as two successive quarters of contraction. The figures make difficult reading for governments battling Europe’s cost-of-living crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion and resulting soaring energy prices, and heap pressu...

Britain’s political parties are quietly raking in millions. No one will say where it’s coming from

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:42:11 GMT

LONDON — What connects a Lancashire manor house, several exclusive dining clubs, and a bronze sculpture of David Cameron on a bicycle? The answer is millions of pounds in opaque donations to Britain’s political parties.This is the weird world of “unincorporated associations” — shadowy groups which constitute one of the least-regulated and most-poorly understood aspects of British election finance. Jess Garland, of campaign group the Electoral Reform Society, said they represent a “dangerous loophole in our political financing rules.”In the past five years alone, donations to British political parties from these little-known entities have surpassed £14 million — a sum almost equivalent to the ruling Conservative Party’s entire outlay during its triumphant 2019 election campaign. British political parties are generally required to be open about how and where they raise their cash. Yet unincorporated associations remain an enormous transparency black...