By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a major blow to climate action by handcuffing the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate planet-warming emissions from the country’s power plants, just as scientists warn the world is running out of time to get the climate crisis under control. It is a major loss
Continue Reading
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, has died. He was 83. Barger’s death was announced on his Facebook page late Wednesday. “If you are reading this message, you’ll know that
Continue Reading LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, has died. He was 83. Barger’s death was announced on his Facebook page late Wednesday. “If you are reading this message, you’ll know that
Continue Reading
MOSCOW (AP) — A leading economic expert in Russia has been detained on embezzlement charges. Investigators on Thursday accused Vladimir Mau, the rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, of taking funds from the institution. The investigators said the accusations were part of a broader embezzlement probe involving a former
Continue Reading
By DAVID PITT Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a long-standing precedent that allowed landowners to sue for damages when a neighboring hog farm causes water pollution or odor problems that affect quality of life. The court concluded, 4-3, that a 2004 decision was wrong. The earlier
Continue Reading
USC and UCLA announced a major move that will shake the foundation of college sports. The two schools announced that they leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten starting in 2024. On Thursday, ESPN reported that the schools’ applications to join the Big Ten were accepted. Sources: USC and UCLA have been notified that their
Continue Reading By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former Associated Press board chair Frank Daniels Jr. has died at 90. His son says he died Thursday. In addition to his service on the board of directors of the not-for-profit news cooperative, Daniels shepherded The News & Observer of Raleigh through an era of
Continue Reading By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Help is coming for many people with medical debt on their credit reports. Starting Friday, the three major U.S. credit reporting companies will stop counting paid medical debt on the reports that banks, potential landlords and others use to judge creditworthiness. The companies also will start giving people a
Continue Reading BOSTON (AP) — A Rhode Island man who authorities say made a more than $50,000 profit by trading shares of a Massachusetts semiconductor company based on insider information has been sentenced to a month of home detention and two years of probation. John Younis, 59, of Bristol, Rhode Island, was sentenced in federal court in
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA and STAN CHOE AP Business Writers Americans with stock portfolios or retirement investment plans would likely prefer to forget the last six months. The S&P 500, Wall Street’s broad benchmark for many stock funds, closed the first half of 2022 with a loss of more than 20% after starting the year at
Continue Reading
Andi Babineau, CNN The man who sold a semi-automatic weapon that was later used to take hostages in a Texas synagogue in January has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms charge, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. Henry “Michael” Dwight Williams, 32, admitted Thursday to being
Continue Reading By JESSICA GRESKO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Thursday the Biden administration can scrap a Trump-era immigration policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration courts, a victory for a White House that still must address the growing number of people seeking refuge at
Continue Reading By JESSICA GRESKO and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Thursday the Biden administration can scrap a Trump-era immigration policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration courts, a victory for a White House that still must address the growing number of people seeking refuge at
Continue ReadingBy KIM PASSOTH Click here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS, Nevada (KVVU) — It is a case of mistaken identity and it will cost the Henderson and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police $90,000. Henderson will pay $25,000 and Metro $65,000 to Shane Lee Brown who was held for nearly a week for a crime
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Una pareja de orcas ha alejado a los grandes tiburones blancos de un tramo de la costa sudafricana luego de matar a cinco tiburones en un periodo de pocos meses en 2017, según un nuevo estudio. Los tiburones blancos solían dominar zonas de la costa de Gansbaai, a unos 100 kilómetros
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi and Rebekah Riess, CNN A Kentucky state court on Thursday halted enforcement of two Kentucky laws passed in 2019 that had stopped abortion services in the state last Friday, after the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. The two measures are Kentucky’s so-called trigger law and a “heartbeat” law restricting abortions
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Los pandas gigantes tienen una fama notable de ser quisquillosos con su comida. Únicamente comen bambú y pasan 15 horas al día comiendo hasta 45 kilogramos de su platillo favorito. Pero sus ancestros, como la mayoría de los osos, consumían una dieta mucho más amplia que incluía carne, y se creía
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN The latest test of a US hypersonic weapon failed after an “anomaly” occurred during the first test of the full system, the Pentagon said Thursday. The test, carried out at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, was supposed to launch the Common Hypersonic Glide Body atop a two-stage missile booster.
Continue ReadingBy Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent The Defense Department is reviewing 1,300 proposals from 800 companies for innovative new weapons and commercial capabilities they may be able to develop and produce for Ukraine to use in its fight against Russia’s invasion of the country, a defense official told CNN on Thursday. The Pentagon hopes to
Continue ReadingCNN By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent The Defense Department is reviewing 1,300 proposals from 800 companies for innovative new weapons and commercial capabilities they may be able to develop and produce for Ukraine to use in its fight against Russia’s invasion of the country, a defense official told CNN on Thursday. The Pentagon hopes
Continue Reading