The budget motel chain Motel 6 is being acquired by the parent company of Oyo, a hotel operator based in India. The New York-based investment firm Blackstone, which owns Motel 6’s parent company G6 Hospitality, announced Friday that the deal would be an all-cash transaction worth $525 million. The transaction will also include the sale […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched new strikes in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv that hit high-rise apartment buildings, leaving at least 21 wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack, authorities said. The bombs fell Saturday night on the district of Shevchenkivsky, north of the center of Kharkiv, which is the second-largest Ukrainian city, local Gov. Oleh […]
LONDON (AP) — This should be a time of celebration for Britain’s Labour Party, which opens its annual conference Sunday less than three months after winning power in a landslide after 14 years in opposition. But it’s no victory lap for Prime Minister Keir Starmer. His government is facing a reckoning with a battered economy and an electorate […]
LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, made her first public appearance Sunday since she announced she had completed chemotherapy and would return to some public duties. Kate and her husband, Prince William, were seen Sunday attending church with King Charles III and Queen Camilla near their royal Balmoral estate in Scotland. Kate, 42, announced on Sept. 9 that […]
Four people are dead, and at least 17 others are injured after a mass shooting in Birmingham, Alabama, in the nightlife district of Five Points South on Saturday night. Two men and a woman were pronounced dead at the scene, which is near entertainment venues and bars near the University of Alabama at Birmingham, while […]
(The Center Square) – The Arizona Republican Party and Latino Americans for Trump hosted an event Friday afternoon rallying Hispanic voters behind former President Donald Trump. Also in attendance was Rep. Steve Montenegro. “Kamala Harris’ failed policies have crushed Hispanic communities across Arizona,” reads a statement from Jaime Florez, the Trump Campaign Hispanic communications director. […]
(The Center Square) – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently expressed outrage over “Texas’ latest move” installing barriers in an area where they have been for nearly one year. A KRQE News report claims Texas Army National Guard troops were erecting concertina wire fencing along the Rio Grande River near El Paso “on the […]
(The Center Square) – Vice President Kamala Harris’s comments on faith and women drew questions from an NFL Hall of Famer and two-time Super Bowl champion who is also well known for his outspoken religious convictions. Harris, in a social media post Thursday afternoon, wrote, “One does not have to abandon their faith or deeply […]
(The Center Square ) – Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez is sounding the alarm about an increase of “Special Interest Aliens” (SIAs) being apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico. In a social media post, he published a video of an interview between a Texas DPS trooper and a Turkish […]
(The Center Square) – As Americans struggle with high inflationary costs, paying record high grocery costs and energy bills, Congress continues to allocate billions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund services for illegal border crossers living in U.S. cities. Prior to the last budget funding showdown in March, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, said […]
