A panel of Supreme Court justices in Mexico has ruled against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s rules that favored the state-owned electrical power company over private power companies ByThe Associated Press January 31, 2024, 7:29 PM MEXICO CITY — A panel of Supreme Court justices in Mexico ruled Wednesday against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s rules that favored the state-owned electrical power company over private…

Georgia senators passed a bill to allow sports gambling Thursday, but not before deciding that the measure also requires a state constitutional amendment, throwing ultimate passage into doubt. The Senate voted 35-15 to pass Senate Bill 386, sending it to the House for more debate. But 34 senators went against the sponsor’s wishes by attaching the requirement for the amendment in a separate vote. That…

ByThe Associated Press February 1, 2024, 9:52 AM FILE – A farmer checks his phone as a tractor casts its shadow under a bridge on a blocked highway, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. French farmers maintained their protests on major roads around Paris and across the country on Wednesday as police was deployed to protect the capital, its airports and an…

More than 27,000 people have been killed and 66,000 wounded by Israel’s offensive in Gaza, the Hamas-controlled territory’s Health Ministry said Thursday. South Africa’s foreign minister has accused Israel of ignoring last week’s ruling by the United Nations’ top court, which ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent deaths in Gaza. The number of deaths has grown by more than 1,100 since the…

PARIS — France’s two major farmers unions announced they would lift country-wide blockades Thursday, shortly after the prime minister introduced new measures aimed at protecting their livelihoods that they described as “tangible progress.” However, farmer activists who have snarled traffic along major highways around Paris said they would stay put at least another day to see the government commitments in writing, and both unions said…

PHILADELPHIA — For weeks, scrutiny over singer Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up on social media, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions of carbon dioxide released with every flight. The megastar is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, one of the NFL’s most celebrated players. The growing romance between the couple has been closely watched, with Swift showing…

LONDON — Climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke defiantly about her mission outside court Thursday on the first day of her trial for refusing to leave a protest that blocked the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year. Thunberg, 21, was among more than two dozen protesters arrested on Oct. 17 after preventing access to a hotel during the Energy…

LONDON — Climate activist Greta Thunberg was acquitted Friday of a charge of refusing to follow a police order to leave a protest blocking the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year. The courtroom gallery erupted with applause as Judge John Law told Thunberg and her four co-defendants to stand and told them they were cleared of the criminal…

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Apple, Skechers fall; Amazon, Deckers Outdoor rise ByThe Associated Press February 2, 2024, 12:20 PM NEW YORK — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Apple Inc., down $1.01 to $185.85. The company issued a lukewarm forecast for its current quarter that indicated iPhone sales will slip from last year….

A senior Hamas official said Friday the group will respond “very soon” to a proposal that includes extended pauses in Gaza fighting and phased exchanges of Hamas-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. Hamas and other militants in Gaza are holding dozens of hostages, after having abducted about 250 during their deadly Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and…