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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Weekend Desk: Andrea Mitchell Receives Peabody Career Achievement Award
Awards watch: Andrea Mitchell was honored with a Career Achievement Award during this year's Peabody Awards held on June 1 in Los Angeles. 'This award means the world to me-not just for what it says about my work, but for what it represents about the importance of journalism,' NBC News' chief Washington and chief foreign affairs correspondent said. Over the course of her lengthy career, Mitchell has covered eight White House administrations, 12 presidential races, numerous global conflicts, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11 and the Iraq War. Al Jazeera English also received a Peabody for its Fault Lines segment "The Night Won't End," which follows three families who have experienced the increasingly desperate situation in Gaza firsthand. Happy birthday to ya: CNN celebrated its 45th anniversary on Sunday. The network celebrated the momentous occasion on social media with various reporters and talent acknowledging the milestone on their respective social media pages. Also celebrating a weekend anniversary is Fox News Radio, which marked its 20th year on Sunday. In a memo to staffers, Fox News Audio's senior vice president John Sylvester wrote: 'For two decades, the Fox News Radio Network has been a definitive source for breaking news and in-depth analysis. We're 20 years strong and still growing, proudly keeping radio affiliates informed 24 hours a day.' Leguizamo's back: MSNBC announced that Season 2 of John Leguizamo's docuseries Leguizamo Does America will premiere on July 6 at 9 p.m. ET. 'I wanted to go deeper into America and put a magnifying glass on Latino exceptionalism, Latino ingenuity, and Latino genius,' the actor and comedian said in a statement. Ground floor training: C-SPAN is launching a 15-month professional development initiative geared towards entry-level journalists. Launched in May, the inaugural Network Associate Program will offer three associates-Emily Blumberg, Yasmin Kettani, and Donovan Hunt-a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience by rotating through C-SPAN's various content teams. Network Associates will help the trio build essential skills in editorial judgment, research, writing, and the production of both live and recorded content.
France 24
3 days ago
- Politics
- France 24
Trzaskowski: pro-EU polyglot eyeing Polish presidency
Trzaskowski narrowly won the first round of voting on May 18, polling 31 percent against 30 percent for Karol Nawrocki, a historian backed by the conservative opposition. "I promise you that I will be a president who unites, who is ready to talk to everyone," Trzaskowski promised a crowd of supporters as he rallied for support a week before the runoff. A former deputy foreign minister, the 53-year-old is also the son of a jazz pioneer and great-grandson of the man who created Poland's first secondary schools for girls. Trzaskowski is backed by the governing Civic Coalition party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and will face off against Nawrocki, the Law and Justice candidate. Trzaskowski narrowly lost his first presidential bid in 2020 to the conservative Andrzej Duda, who backs Nawrocki. Early start Trzaskowski comes from an intellectual Warsaw family. His father Andrzej was a famous pianist during the 1950s, when jazz was considered the music of the "enemy" under the Iron Curtain. Trzaskowski himself started out in politics in a seismic year for the former Soviet bloc -- 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down. A teenager at the time, he quit school and worked as a volunteer campaigning during the first free elections in Poland, which marked the end of the communist era. He graduated from the University of Warsaw, where he later earned a doctorate with a thesis on EU reform. He has also studied in Oxford and Paris, and at the College of Europe outside Warsaw. He speaks English, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish and worked for a time as an English teacher. As a Francophile, he has even earned the nickname "Bonjour", or hello in French -- a jab from critics who view Trzaskowski as elitist. In 2000, he worked on Poland's accession to the European Union, then became an adviser to the Civic Platform delegation in the European Parliament. He became an EU lawmaker in 2009, and in 2013 joined an earlier government led by Tusk, who went on to become president of the European Council. Trzaskowski first served as technology minister and then deputy foreign minister. As a member of the Polish parliament between 2015 and 2018, he was elected vice president of the European People's Party in 2017. Trzaskowski was elected mayor of Warsaw in 2018 and re-elected in 2024, but critics say he has failed to do enough while in office. 'Absurd' Trzaskowski, who is married with two children, has vowed to campaign for women's rights and legalise abortion in the predominantly Catholic country, which has a near-total ban on the procedure. In March, on International Women's Day, he promised to ensure that "this medieval anti-abortion law becomes a thing of the past". He has said he would back measures to allow abortion until the 12th week -- a move pledged by the Civic Coalition, which has yet to vote the changes through in parliament. On LGBTQ rights, another hot-button issue in Poland, Trzaskowski has said he backed the idea of civil unions, including for same-sex couples. The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Poland for refusing to recognise and protect same-sex couples, who cannot marry or register their partnerships. In an election debate in April, Trzaskowski said it was "completely absurd that two people... who are together their whole lives, cannot visit each other in the hospital or inherit from one another". When he was elected Warsaw mayor, he signed an "LGBT+ Declaration" promising to protect gay people, angering the country's right-wing nationalists, who campaign against a perceived "LGBT ideology". But as he tried to woo voters from across the political spectrum ahead of the runoff, he was photographed chatting over pints with far-right leader Slawomir Mentzen. In a Facebook post he once described his love of old books and stated that he had smoked marijuana in his youth but only "rarely". He owns a French bulldog named Babel ("Bubble"), with whom he frequently poses for photos. © 2025 AFP
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
This German town wants to lure new residents with free accommodation
A town in eastern Germany is offering two weeks free accommodation to encourage people to relocate there in a bid to boost its population. Eisenhüttenstadt, which sits on the border with Poland around 60 miles from the German capital Berlin, is offering a 14-day trial stay for potential new residents, according to a statement from the local council on May 13. 'The project is aimed at anyone interested in moving to Eisenhüttenstadt—such as commuters, those interested in returning to the town, skilled workers, or self-employed individuals seeking a change of scenery,' it said, with applications open until the beginning of July. Selected participants will live for free in a furnished apartment from September 6-20 as part of an 'innovative immigration project' named 'Make Plans Now,' said the council. They 'will have the opportunity to get to know the life, work and community of (Eisenhüttenstadt) in a 14-day living trial — for free and in the middle of the town,' reads the statement. In order to help participants get a feel for the town, the council will lay on a number of activities including a tour, a factory tour and various outings. The council will also encourage participants to stay permanently, with local businesses offering internships, job shadowing and interview opportunities. Founded in 1950, Eisenhüttenstadt, which can be translated as Steel Mill Town, was the first fully planned town built under the socialist government of the former East Germany. Sitting on the banks of the Oder River, socialist planners built the town around a huge steelworks. Previously known as Stalinstadt, or Stalin Town, after former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, it was renamed after East and West Germany reunified following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Like many towns and cities in the former East Germany, it has seen its population decline since reunification, from a peak of more than 50,000 to the current level of around 24,000, local official Julia Basan told local media outlet RBB24. The scheme aims to attract more permanent residents, particularly skilled workers, said Basan. Today, Eisenhüttenstadt is home to the largest integrated steelworks in eastern Germany, which employs 2,500 people, as well as being a hub for metals processing. Many of the socialist-era buildings are listed as historical monuments and the openness of the town's layout is striking, attracting visitors interested in architecture. One recent new arrival said that the architecture was responsible for his decision to move to the town. It was 'a complete coincidence,' the man said in a video posted on the town hall Instagram account. 'We were travelling to Ratzdorf with friends and drove through Karl-Marx-Straße. And I saw these houses, this architecture that completely blew me away and I said to my wife, 'I'm going to move here,'' he said. The man later organized a tour of the town with a local historian to learn more. 'After the tour we were so blown away by this architecture, that was actually the trigger,' he said.
CNN
6 days ago
- Business
- CNN
This German town wants to lure new residents with free accommodation
A town in eastern Germany is offering two weeks free accommodation to encourage people to relocate there in a bid to boost its population. Eisenhüttenstadt, which sits on the border with Poland around 60 miles from the German capital Berlin, is offering a 14-day trial stay for potential new residents, according to a statement from the local council on May 13. 'The project is aimed at anyone interested in moving to Eisenhüttenstadt—such as commuters, those interested in returning to the town, skilled workers, or self-employed individuals seeking a change of scenery,' it said, with applications open until the beginning of July. Selected participants will live for free in a furnished apartment from September 6-20 as part of an 'innovative immigration project' named 'Make Plans Now,' said the council. They 'will have the opportunity to get to know the life, work and community of (Eisenhüttenstadt) in a 14-day living trial — for free and in the middle of the town,' reads the statement. In order to help participants get a feel for the town, the council will lay on a number of activities including a tour, a factory tour and various outings. The council will also encourage participants to stay permanently, with local businesses offering internships, job shadowing and interview opportunities. Founded in 1950, Eisenhüttenstadt, which can be translated as Steel Mill Town, was the first fully planned town built under the socialist government of the former East Germany. Sitting on the banks of the Oder River, socialist planners built the town around a huge steelworks. Previously known as Stalinstadt, or Stalin Town, after former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, it was renamed after East and West Germany reunified following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Like many towns and cities in the former East Germany, it has seen its population decline since reunification, from a peak of more than 50,000 to the current level of around 24,000, local official Julia Basan told local media outlet RBB24. The scheme aims to attract more permanent residents, particularly skilled workers, said Basan. Today, Eisenhüttenstadt is home to the largest integrated steelworks in eastern Germany, which employs 2,500 people, as well as being a hub for metals processing. Many of the socialist-era buildings are listed as historical monuments and the openness of the town's layout is striking, attracting visitors interested in architecture. One recent new arrival said that the architecture was responsible for his decision to move to the town. It was 'a complete coincidence,' the man said in a video posted on the town hall Instagram account. 'We were travelling to Ratzdorf with friends and drove through Karl-Marx-Straße. And I saw these houses, this architecture that completely blew me away and I said to my wife, 'I'm going to move here,'' he said. The man later organized a tour of the town with a local historian to learn more. 'After the tour we were so blown away by this architecture, that was actually the trigger,' he said.
CNN
6 days ago
- Business
- CNN
This German town wants to lure new residents with free accommodation
A town in eastern Germany is offering two weeks free accommodation to encourage people to relocate there in a bid to boost its population. Eisenhüttenstadt, which sits on the border with Poland around 60 miles from the German capital Berlin, is offering a 14-day trial stay for potential new residents, according to a statement from the local council on May 13. 'The project is aimed at anyone interested in moving to Eisenhüttenstadt—such as commuters, those interested in returning to the town, skilled workers, or self-employed individuals seeking a change of scenery,' it said, with applications open until the beginning of July. Selected participants will live for free in a furnished apartment from September 6-20 as part of an 'innovative immigration project' named 'Make Plans Now,' said the council. They 'will have the opportunity to get to know the life, work and community of (Eisenhüttenstadt) in a 14-day living trial — for free and in the middle of the town,' reads the statement. In order to help participants get a feel for the town, the council will lay on a number of activities including a tour, a factory tour and various outings. The council will also encourage participants to stay permanently, with local businesses offering internships, job shadowing and interview opportunities. Founded in 1950, Eisenhüttenstadt, which can be translated as Steel Mill Town, was the first fully planned town built under the socialist government of the former East Germany. Sitting on the banks of the Oder River, socialist planners built the town around a huge steelworks. Previously known as Stalinstadt, or Stalin Town, after former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, it was renamed after East and West Germany reunified following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Like many towns and cities in the former East Germany, it has seen its population decline since reunification, from a peak of more than 50,000 to the current level of around 24,000, local official Julia Basan told local media outlet RBB24. The scheme aims to attract more permanent residents, particularly skilled workers, said Basan. Today, Eisenhüttenstadt is home to the largest integrated steelworks in eastern Germany, which employs 2,500 people, as well as being a hub for metals processing. Many of the socialist-era buildings are listed as historical monuments and the openness of the town's layout is striking, attracting visitors interested in architecture. One recent new arrival said that the architecture was responsible for his decision to move to the town. It was 'a complete coincidence,' the man said in a video posted on the town hall Instagram account. 'We were travelling to Ratzdorf with friends and drove through Karl-Marx-Straße. And I saw these houses, this architecture that completely blew me away and I said to my wife, 'I'm going to move here,'' he said. The man later organized a tour of the town with a local historian to learn more. 'After the tour we were so blown away by this architecture, that was actually the trigger,' he said.
