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By Alan Charlish and Barbara Erling WARSAW, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Poland’s government failed to overturn a presidential veto of a bill regulating cryptocurrencies on Friday, hampering its bid to increase oversight of a market it says is plagued by money laundering and open to exploitation by Russian intelligence.     The clash over the cryptocurrency bill is the latest chapter in a bitter feud between liberal Prime Minister Donald […]

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The 2026 World Cup draw will take place at 1700GMT on Friday and though the 42 nations assured of their slot will have to wait more than an hour to discover their opponents, they will have to wait another 24 to find out where and when they will be playing. The draw at Washington’s Kennedy Center will be preceded by a glitz-rich show dripping in […]

Mike Tomlin isn’t just hearing “Fire Tomlin!” chants from Steelers fans. A couple of the franchise’s greatest players are saying Pittsburgh needs to make a coaching change. The NFL’s longest-tenured coach has been under heavy criticism and even Ben Roethlisberger and James Harrison have joined in. “Coach Tomlin’s been here a long time,” Roethlisberger said on his “Footbahlin with Ben Roethlisberger” podcast this week. “You’d give him a statue, whatever […]

CRAIG, Colo. (AP) — The Cooper family knows how to work heavy machinery. The kids could run a hay baler by their early teens, and two of the three ran monster-sized drills at the coal mines along with their dad. But learning to maneuver the shiny red drill they use to tap into underground heat feels different. It’s a critical part of the new family business, High Altitude Geothermal, which […]

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from “everyday Americans.” Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the White House launched a web portal it says will spotlight bias on the part of news outlets, targeting the Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent as its inaugural “media offender of the week.” It’s the latest wrinkle in the fight […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration set forth a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere. The document released Friday by the White House is sure to roil long-standing U.S. allies in Europe for its scathing critiques of their migration and free speech policies, suggesting they face the “prospect of civilizational erasure” and raising doubts about […]

A divided Supreme Court has come to the rescue of Texas Republicans. Thursday’s ruling allows the state’s next congressional elections to use the GOP’s new map pushed by President Donald Trump despite a lower-court ruling that it likely discriminates on the basis of race. The U.S. Southern Command announced another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, the 22nd attack on the Trump administration asserts […]

BEIRUT, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday criticised the Lebanese government’s decision to send a civilian delegate to the ceasefire committee, calling it a “free concession” to Israel and a clear violation of previous government positions. On Wednesday, both Israel and Lebanon sent civilian envoys to a military committee monitoring their ceasefire, marking an expansion in the scope of talks between the two nations. (Reporting by […]

Dec 5 (Reuters) – Delta Air Lines issued a ground stop for all its flights at Detroit airport on Friday, citing a technical connectivity issue. A ground stop is an air traffic control measure that temporarily halts flights from departing for a specific airport or region, usually due to safety, weather or operational issues. The carrier said it was working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. “We apologize […]