He’s a precious wide-eyed red headed cartoon pup dressed in a yellow-safety vest, blue trousers and sneakers and his job is to teach 4- to 9-year-olds emergency preparedness. His name is Rocket ...

As part of his environmental policy strategy, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a green tax on fuel last month to go into effect Jan. 1. The move set off nearly a month of protests around ...

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The movement takes its name from the yellow safety vests French law requires all motorists to carry [File: Benoit Tessier/ Reuters] Supporters’ goals are amorphous. Some want to reverse tax cuts ...

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Their emblem, the fluorescent yellow safety vest, unlike the revolutionary patriots’ red cap of liberty, symbolizes angry anarchism rather than democratic freedoms, and concessions do little to ...

French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe says the country's planned fuel tax is now on hold, after weeks of large protests were mounted by people wearing yellow safety vests. In a live TV address ...

Members of the yellow vest movement in France have reportedly ... have been vandalized since November, threatening road safety and putting people's lives at risk. The demonstrations, which began ...

Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, donned a yellow safety vest on the floor of the House for Gov. Jay Inslee’s State of the State Address Tuesday as a way of illustrating his concern about the governor’s ...