Travelodge eyes Taylor Swift boost as sales hit £1bn pred 3 urami in 17 minutami However, the budget hotel chain saw softer sales growth at the start of 2024, amid a quieter period for both business and leisure travel.(London News)
Massachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshed pred 3 urami in 28 minutami Robotic dog, controlled remotely by state troopers, deployed in house to locate person and found someone armed in basementA robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home.The robotic dog named Roscoe was part of the Massachusetts state police bomb squad and deployed on 6 March in a Barnstable house after police were fired upon. Police sent in two other robots often used for bomb disposal into the house to find the suspect along with the robotic dog. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Argentina angers Colombia over 'terrorist' jibe pred 3 urami in 43 minutami President Javier Milei calls his Colombian counterpart a "murdering terrorist", triggering diplomatic expulsions.(BBC News)
Bernie Moreno says he fled socialism in Colombia for the US in 1971. What does history say? pred 3 urami in 54 minutami The Republican challenger to Democrat Sherrod Brown for US Senate in Ohio has made dubious claims in his campaignBernie Moreno, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio who expected to mount a stern challenge to Sherrod Brown, the incumbent leftwing Democrat, says his family fled socialism when they came to the US from Colombia in 1971, when he was four years old.Though such statements formed a central part of Moreno’s campaign message on his way to securing the Republican nomination with support from Donald Trump, they do not withstand historical scrutiny. Continue reading...(The Guardian)