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EU countries are poised to push for tougher anti-smoking rules on Tuesday, backing a ban on smoking and cigarettes in many outdoor spaces, including playgrounds and cafe terraces. A recommendation calling on member states to crack down on second-hand smoke – and vapor – will be on the table as health ministers from the 27…

President-elect Donald Trump will attend re-opening celebration for Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this weekend, his first trip abroad since the election. The cathedral is due to reopen on Saturday after more than five years of reconstruction following a devastating fire in 2019 that engulfed and almost destroyed the elevated Parisian landmark. Ceremonies are held…

President Joe Biden’s decision to return on his word and issue a categorical pardon for his son, Hunterjust weeks before the scheduled gun and tax ruling was a surprise that wasn’t so surprising. Not to those who witnessed the president’s shared anguish over his two sons after the boys survived the car crash that killed…

Trump threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico unless they stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders with the United States. He said on social media last week that he would impose a 25 percent tax all products entering the US from Canada and Mexico as…

Wisconsin public worker and teacher unions have achieved major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores the collective bargaining rights they lost under the 2011 law. state law it sparked weeks of protests and made the state the center of a national battle over union rights. That law, known as Act 10, effectively ended…

General Motors has reached an agreement to sell its stake in the nearly completed battery factory for electric vehicles in Lansing, Michigan. The company said on Monday that it has a non-binding agreement to sell to joint venture partner LG Energy Solution of South Korea. The companies expect to close the sale by the end…

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he would “block” Japan’s Nippon Steel’s planned takeover of US Steel, a deal worth $14.9 billion including debt. “I am totally against the once great and powerful US Steel being bought by a foreign company, in this case Nippon Steel of Japan,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social…

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