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By Web staff Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on an agenda next week that would ask voters for the right to remove an elected sheriff from office. The proposed change to the county’s charter could be on the
Continue ReadingCNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN In February 2016, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee was holding her dying husband’s hand, watching him lose an exhausting fight against a deadly superbug infection. After months of ups and downs, doctors had just told her that her husband, Tom Patterson, was too racked with bacteria to live. “And I
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI, CHISATO TANAKA and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned a nation with some of the strictest
Continue ReadingCNN By Christine Romans, CNN Business It’s “almost impossible” for the Fed to tamp down inflation without tipping the US economy into a recession, says Former IMF Chief Economist Ken Rogoff. “[The Fed] would have to be very lucky,” Rogoff told CNN’s Christine Romans on Early Start. “They have to decide: Do they have to
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PARIS (AP) — Hundred of firefighters backed by water-dropping planes battled a large forest fire Friday in southeastern France that has forced the evacuation of nearby villages. Thirteen firefighters have been injured in Bordezac — the village where the fire started. Overall, 18 firefighters have been injured amid several forest fires that have burned for
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Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new budget on Thursday that works to make insulin affordable and accessible for those who need it. California is going to start making its own low-cost insulin. The Governor revealed he is allocating $100 million in the state budget to go towards manufacturing the drug at a cheaper price. $50
Continue ReadingBy John Lauritsen Click here for updates on this story BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota (WCCO) — There are efforts to reduce invasive fish populations on Twin Cities lakes by a process called “electro-shock.” “We were catching them by the buckets. Five-gallon buckets. We couldn’t even count them there were so many,” said Jordan Wein of WSB. Last
Continue Reading By BARRY HATTON Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos has died in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain, the Angolan government said. He was 79 years old and died following a long illness, the government said Friday in an announcement on its Facebook page. The announcement said dos Santos,
Continue ReadingBy Chloe Melas, CNN Paul Rudd showed a young fan some much-deserved kindness. The actor reached out to a Brody Ridder, 12, after learning the boy was being alienated at his middle school. Ridder made headlines in his hometown of Westminster, Colorado after his mother posted a photo to Facebook, revealing that his classmates refused
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The leaders of Greece and Bulgaria have marked the completion of a new pipeline that will supply natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria. Bulgaria’s vital supply of Russian gas was cut off in April amid the fallout over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Greece’s prime minister stressed the importance of the new
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Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — La economía estadounidense añadió 372.000 puestos de trabajo en junio, un impulso inesperado a la contratación y una señal de que el mercado laboral sigue caliente a pesar de los temores de recesión, según el informe mensual de empleo de la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales, publicado este viernes. La tasa
Continue Reading RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has received a call from Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Yair Lapid, the first such conversation between Abbas and an Israeli premier in years. The call came amid a rare flurry of high-level Israeli-Palestinian contacts ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the occupied West
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Cathedral City and WeeCare teamed up to help local childcare providers make daily tasks easier and to help families easily find available childcare near them. Finding available childcare has been an ongoing problem families face. On the other end, small facilities are having trouble getting the word out they have vacancies. Diana Beltran owns Cuidando
Continue Reading By ODED BALILTY Associated Press MICHMORET, Israel (AP) — Over a dozen endangered sea turtles that were rescued after suffering major injuries in the Mediterranean scuttled their way over a beach in Israel on Friday after months of medical care. The 15 loggerhead sea turtles and two green sea turtles were released back into the
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI, CHISATO TANAKA and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press NARA, Japan (AP) — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned the nation that has some of
Continue Reading HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — Mourners are preparing to gather for services to remember three of the seven people killed when a gunman opened fire on a July Fourth parade in Highland Park. Friday’s scheduled events will be the first formal opportunity to grieve the deaths of two beloved grandfathers and a former synagogue preschool
Continue ReadingBy Joseph Hennessy Click here for updates on this story KANSAS CITY, Missouri (KCTV) — A Kansas City, Missouri, church’s doors recognizing pride month were vandalized. It is the church’s second pride-related banner vandalized this year. The Kansas City United Church of Christ put up the doors in the beginning of June. They were untouched
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s employers shrugged off high inflation and weakening growth to add 372,000 jobs in June, a surprisingly strong gain that will likely spur the Federal Reserve to keep sharply raising interest rates to cool the economy and slow price increases. The unemployment rate remained at 3.6%
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, women living in states that criminalize abortion are grappling with the possibility that their phones could now hold incriminating information about their travel, search history and menstrual cycles. With that in mind, some popular services are rethinking the data
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LONDON (AP) — Twitter and Facebook parent Meta said Friday they’re deleting any videos of the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that break their rules on harmful content. Multiple videos of the attack showing a gunman firing a double-barreled weapon twice at Abe were circulating on social media. Some only show the
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