The Daily Populous

Friday February 14th, 2025 evening edition

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It was followed by a livestreamed chat with party leader Alice Weidel and a virtual appearance at a party conference.

Musk also used X to berate mainstream German politicians, calling center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz a “fool,” while touting the AfD as the only force that can “save” the country.

When asked whether any government response post election could affect Tesla’s gigafactory near Berlin, Merz said: “I am deliberately leaving the consequences open for now.”.

The authorities also needed to look into whether Musk’s support for the AfD qualified as an illegal party donation, Merz said, something transparency organizations had previously hinted at.

Based on POLITICO’s Poll of Polls, Merz’s conservatives are in pole position to lead the next government, with around 29 percent support.

Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens are in third and fourth place with 16 percent and 13 percent, respectively.

As all mainstream parties have ruled out governing with the AfD, Merz is most likely to form a coalition with either the SPD or the Greens. »

Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says

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Approved flags for display in government buildings and schools would include the Utah state and U.S. flags, military flags, flags for other countries, flags for Native American tribes and official flags for colleges and universities.

When he first introduced the bill, Lee said on the social media platform X that his goal was to ban pride flags.

But Nazi and Confederate flags, he told the committee Thursday, would be included in the approved flags. »

Invasive ‘murder hornets’ are wiped out in the US, officials say

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The Washington and US Departments of Agriculture announced the eradication Wednesday, saying there had been no detections of the northern giant hornet in Washington since 2021.

Scientists destroyed the nest just as a number of queens were just beginning to emerge, officials said.

He noted that other invasive hornets can also pose problems: Officials in Georgia and South Carolina are fighting yellow-legged hornets, and southern giant hornets were recently detected in Spain. »

NATO is in disarray after the US announces that its security priorities lie elsewhere

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He insisted NATO will not be involved in any future force that might be required to police the peace in Ukraine.

NATO has also helped Ukraine’s armed forces shift from Soviet-era military doctrine to modern thinking, and has strengthened Ukraine’s defense and security institutions.

After years of cuts, NATO members committed to ramp up their national defense budgets in 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. »

It Takes Two Boss Says Studio Will Never Make A Live-Service Game

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Josef Fares, the director of It Takes Two and the upcoming Split Fiction, said that Hazelight Studios will never make a live-service game.

Hazelight's previous game, It Takes Two, won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2021.

The studio's next game, Split Fiction, launches on March 6 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. »