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Why Nando’s picked DC for its first US locations (and what’s a Peri-Peri?)

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

South African grilled chicken restaurant Nando’s Peri Peri opened its first location in Johannesburg in 1987. Despite growing to locations in 24 countries around the globe, you won’t find a Nando’s in the U.S. outside of the D.C. area and the Chicago area.The first U.S. Nando’s location opened in D.C.’s Chinatown in 2008. Why did the company pick D.C. to enter the U.S. market?“We picked D.C. because of the international mix here, and the exposure that residents have to International flavors and foods. It was a great place for us to land,” said John Fisher, Nando’s North America CEO.The company has 50 locations in the D.C. and Chicago regions, and is now slowly expanding elsewhere. Its next markets will be in Texas, with locations planned for Houston and Dallas.The first Nando’s Peri-Peri opened in D.C. in 2008. (Courtesy Nando’s Per-Peri)The Peri-Peri in Nando’s name is reference to a key ingredient that is used to both marinate its chicken and to serve as hot sauc...

El plan de tres etapas que propone Javier Milei para llegar a la presidencia de Argentina

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

(CNN Español) — Javier Milei, precandidato de derecha a la presidencia de Argentina, impulsa un plan que promete transformar el país en tres etapas que abarcarían 35 años.La plataforma electoral nacional de su partido, La Libertad Avanza ―donde formaliza su programa de gobierno―, señala que en una primera instancia se trabajaría en un recorte significativo del gasto público y una reforma para reducir impuestos, con una flexibilización en los ámbitos laboral, comercial y financiero.Las medidas de segunda generación incluirían una reforma para recortar los fondos que se destinan a jubilaciones y pensiones, una reducción del número de ministerios a ocho y disminución paulatina de los planes sociales. Y para concluir con el plan se prevé la “liquidación” del Banco Central y reformas de los sistemas de salud, educación y seguridad.¿Quién es Javier Milei, el precandidato presidencial de derecha que irrumpió en la política argentina?Otras propuestas polémicas, como la dolarización de...

Terremoto de magnitud 6.4 sacude el noroeste de México

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

MÉXICO – Un terremoto de magnitud 6.4 con epicentro en el mar, entre los estados mexicanos de Baja California Sur y Sinaloa, sacudió hace unas horas el Golfo de California, al noroeste de México, según informó el Servicio Geológico de EEUU (USGS)La oficina de protección civil de México confirmó a través de Twitter que no había daños en las zonas donde se sintió el sismo, pero recomendó a las embarcaciones y a la población costera tomar precauciones debido a las posibles corrientes en los puertos.El sismo ocurrido el domingo a las 8:30 p.m. (20:30 horas UTC) se produjo a una profundidad de 6.2 millas (10 km) y con epicentro 76 millas (122 kilómetros) al este de San José del Cabo, señaló el Servicio Sismológico de México. Informe: miles de edificios en San Francisco podrían derrumbarse durante un gran terremoto Terremoto de magnitud 7.7 provoca tsunami en las islas del Pacífico Sur Poco después del terremoto, el sistema de al...

Real Madrid signs Spain striker Joselu on loan from Espanyol

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid signed Spain striker Joselu on a one-year loan from Espanyol on Monday, boosting its attack after the departures of Karim Benzema, Marco Asensio, Eden Hazard and Mariano Díaz.Madrid said it will have an option to buy the 33-year-old player at the end of next season.Joselu helped Spain win the Nations League over the weekend, scoring a late winner in the team’s 2-1 win over Italy in the semifinals.He was a member of Madrid’s youth squads before playing for Hoffenheim and Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany, Newcastle and Stoke in England, and Alaves in Spain. He made his first-team debut with Real Madrid in 2011 after two seasons with the “B” team.Joselu will be officially introduced on Tuesday.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Wyndham Clark's US Open win on Father's Day is also a tribute to his late mom

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. Open wrapped up, as it always does, on Father’s Day. Golf’s newest champion would be the first to tell people he’s always been a mama’s boy.Wyndham Clark’s victory Sunday will be remembered for how a 29-year-old newcomer to the big time held off some of the biggest names in the game to stamp a poignant exclamation mark on a U.S. Open that had been, to that point, kind of hard to love. Colorado’s Wyndham Clark plays big and becomes a major champion at the US Open Clark's mother, Lise, died of breast cancer in 2013 — a family tragedy that sent him spiraling. The win brought with it a chance to share memories, and a chance to reflect on the long road between then and now.“I didn’t show any emotion off the course, but when I was on the golf course I couldn’t have been angrier,” Clark said of his state of mind when he first learned of his mom's diagnosis. “I was breaking clubs when I didn’t even hit that bad of a shot. I was walking off golf courses.”The roa...

Florida deputy sucked into drainage pipe during water rescue

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLA. (WSVN) – Amidst the severe weather and torrential downpours that plagued Florida in recent days, one deputy risked his life to save a citizen trapped in rising waters. On patrol during the peak of the storm on June 16, Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Deputy William Hollingsworth came across stranded motorists battling the rapidly rising floodwaters. While approaching a citizen in distress, he witnessed the individual being submerged and immediately sprang into action.In a harrowing turn of events, both the citizen and Deputy Hollingsworth were sucked into a drainage pipe, hurtling beneath the four-lane expanse of Hwy 98. Submerged for 30 seconds, they were carried approximately 100 feet underwater. Luckily, they resurfaced on the opposite side of the roadway, narrowly escaping tragedy.

Judge issues order that Trump keep quiet about disclosure of discovery material issued in classified documents case

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

Washington (CNN) — A magistrate judge has signed off on special counsel Jack Smith’s request that former President Donald Trump and his co-defendant Walt Nauta be prohibited from disclosing information the discovery handed over to the defense in the criminal case Trump and Nauta now face from the special counsel.Among the restrictions approved by US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who previously approved the search warrant the FBI executed at Mar-a-Lago last year, is that “The Discovery Materials, along with any information derived therefrom, shall not be disclosed to the public or the news media, or disseminated on any news or social media platform, without prior notice to and consent of the United States or approval of the Court.”The order sought by prosecutors and approved by Reinhart was expected and used standard language. However, it comes in a first-of-its-kind federal criminal case against an ex-president who has a proclivity to express opinions on social media and who is b...

Amazon is trying to make it simpler to sift through thousands of user reviews

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

(CNN) — Amazon is experimenting with using artificial intelligence to sum up customer feedback about products on the site, with the potential tocut down on the time shoppers spend sifting through reviews before making a purchase.On the Amazon product page for Apple’s third-generation AirPods, for example, the AI feature now sums up the more than 4,000 user ratings to note that the wireless headphones “have received positive feedback from customers regarding their sound quality and battery life.” But, it adds, “mixed opinions were also expressed about the performance, durability, fit, comfort, and value of the headphones.”The summary features the disclaimer: “AI-generated from the text of customer reviews.”“We are significantly investing in generative AI across all of our businesses,” Amazon said in a statement to CNN on Monday, referring to the technology that underpins services such as ChatGPT.The effort, first reported by CNBC, marks Amazon’s latest attempt to incorporate generati...

Scholz wants Germany to become ‘major’ chips producer, inks €30 billion Intel deal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

BERLIN — Germany should become a leading semiconductor producer, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday, while also stressing the need to reduce dependencies on China and urging Beijing to refrain from aggression against its neighbors.Scholz’s remarks came shortly before the chancellor reached a deal Monday on a more than €30 billion investment by U.S. chipmaker Intel in Magdeburg, following a meeting with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger.Speaking earlier at the German Industry Day conference in Berlin, Scholz lauded efforts to boost the EU’s share in global semiconductor production and said that “every third chip produced in Europe comes from Saxony,” a state in eastern Germany, while adding that big chip producers are planning further investments in Germany.“If these are implemented in this way — and we are working on this — then Germany will become one of the world’s major semiconductor production locations,” Scholz said, adding that this would also h...

Blinken meets with Xi amid mounting US-China tensions

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:58:45 GMT

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, rounding out a high-stakes trip to Beijing that the U.S. hopes will help ease the mounting tensions between the two countries.Xi’s willingness to meet with Blinken is a signal from the top of the ruling Chinese Communist Party that Beijing wants to move past the acrimony that has curdled U.S.-China ties since the Chinese spy balloon episode in February. Xi’s conversation with Blinken — on the heels of the secretary’s meeting with Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Sunday, which affirmed both a follow-up discussion in Washington later this year and a need to bolster U.S.-China people-to-people exchanges — reflects Beijing’s desire to resume high-level official contacts despite festering disagreements over issues including Taiwan’s status and China’s role in America’s opioid overdose epidemic.In a statement delivered ahead of the meeting, Xi hailed the “candid discussions” Blinken had with Chinese o...