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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Judge plans to temporarily halt part of a California law that would make challenges to state gun restrictions costlier.
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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, JAE HONG and AMY TAXIN RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. (AP) — The November elections saw Californians continue to embrace progressive leadership, but voters in one of the state’s most populous counties are so frustrated with this political direction that they voted to consider seceding and forming their own state. An advisory ballot
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In a story published Dec. 15, 2022, about a ban on the sale of cats, dogs and rabbits in New York’s pet stores, The Associated Press erroneously reported that breeders would be prohibited from selling more than nine animals a year. The law defined a “pet dealer” as a person who
Continue ReadingBy Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden signed a one-week stopgap funding bill on Friday to avert a government shutdown, extending the deadline until December 23 to allow congressional negotiators more time to finalize a full-year funding deal. The House approved the measure on Wednesday, and the Senate voted on Thursday evening to pass the
Continue Reading By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A conservation group is suing in federal court over a U.S. agency’s timeline for dredging a Georgia shipping channel, saying dredging in the summertime would threaten rare sea turtles. A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Savannah targets the Army Corps of Engineers. Georgia environmental
Continue Reading PANAMA CITY (AP) — A Canadian company is claiming the government of Panama cut off talks, resulting in the closure of a huge copper mine. Canada’s First Quantum Minerals Ltd. says it had been negotiating with the government of Panama, which wants vastly increased royalty payments of $375 million per year from the company. First
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a case brought by four cisgender high school girls in Connecticut who claimed the state’s trans-inclusive sports policy violated their civil rights and deprived them of a “chance to be champions.” The lawsuit, filed in 2020, had been seized on in recent years
Continue ReadingBy Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN High lettuce costs are coming for Olive Garden’s never-ending salad. Darden Restaurants, which owns the casual dining chain in addition to Longhorn Steakhouse, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen and other restaurant chains, said that a spike in wholesale lettuce prices led to a big hit in the quarter ending November 27. “It was,
Continue Reading By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Twitter has been engulfed in chaos since billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the helm, cutting the company’s workforce in half, upending the platform’s verification system, reinstating previously banned accounts — including those of white nationalists — and suspending journalists who’ve been covering him. While it’s not clear if
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Cybercriminals have in recent months stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of shipments from US food suppliers by placing fraudulent orders for milk products, the FBI and other federal agencies warned on Friday. The unnamed criminal groups set up email accounts impersonating top executives of food companies and convinced their
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By JIM SALTER Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The judge presiding over a hearing to determine if a Missouri man’s murder conviction should be overturned questioned if police and prosecutors “were in a little bit of a rush” to convict Lamar Johnson. St. Louis Circuit Judge David Mason is presiding over a hearing on
Continue Reading By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Supreme Court has determined the local chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy lacks standing to challenge the city of Winston-Salem’s removal of a Confederate monument on private property, but it can refile a future lawsuit making similar arguments. The high court
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A push by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to speed permits for natural gas pipelines and other energy projects has failed in the current Congress, but could come back as soon as next month. The Senate rejected the permitting proposal Thursday night, ending a months-long effort by
Continue Reading By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A push by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to speed permits for natural gas pipelines and other energy projects has failed in the current Congress, but could come back as soon as next month. The Senate rejected the permitting proposal Thursday night, ending a months-long effort by
Continue Reading By TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Pentagon office set up to track reports of unidentified flying objects has received “several hundreds” of new reports, but no evidence so far of alien life. That’s according to the leadership of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. It was set up in July and is
Continue Reading By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed legislation to fund the government for an additional week as lawmakers race to finish work on a full-year spending package before they head home for the holidays and a new Congress is sworn in. Congress in September passed a bill to keep
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN A flu season that hit the United States early and hard is showing the first signs of slowing in parts of the country. For the first time this season, flu hospitalizations have dropped week-over-week. The week after Thanksgiving was the season’s worst yet, but data published Friday by the US Centers
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — El hundimiento de FTX, la segunda plataforma de intercambio de criptomonedas más grande del mundo fundada por Sam Bankman-Fried, ha vuelto a poner bajo escrutinio legal a las populares celebridades y superestrellas del deporte que alentaron, por medio de la publicidad, a cientos de personas a invertir en un terreno
Continue Reading By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of migrants packed shelters on Mexico’s border with the United States on Friday as an end neared to Trump-era asylum restrictions, with fresh numbers showing that fewer single adults crossed illegally last month. Border Patrol agents stopped single adults 143,903 times along the Mexican border
Continue Reading By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of migrants packed shelters on Mexico’s border with the United States on Friday as an end neared to Trump-era asylum restrictions, with fresh numbers showing that fewer single adults crossed illegally last month. Border Patrol agents stopped single adults 143,903 times along the Mexican border
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