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By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed increasing ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the nation’s fuel supplies over the next three years. Thursday’s announcement was welcomed by renewable fuel and farm groups but condemned by environmentalists and oil industry groups. The proposal also includes
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Ten students at Van Nuys Middle School were treated for possible overdoses of an unknown substance today, but all suffered only mild to moderate symptoms. Paramedics were sent to the campus in the 5400 block of North Vesper Avenue late Thursday morning, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The students exhibited overdose-type symptoms,
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By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press Aline Kominsky-Crumb, an American cartoonist known for her feminist themes and often brutally frank, highly personal and self-critical work, has died at the age of 74. Kominsky-Crumb, who was a close collaborator of her cartoonist husband, Robert Crumb, died of cancer Tuesday at their longtime home in France, said Alexander
Continue Reading By JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press Aline Kominsky-Crumb, an American cartoonist known for her feminist themes and often brutally frank, highly personal and self-critical work, has died at the age of 74. Kominsky-Crumb, who was a close collaborator of her cartoonist husband, Robert Crumb, died of cancer Tuesday at their longtime home in France, said Alexander
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company “cultivated a culture of fraud and deception” by lavishing luxe perks on executives and falsifying records to hide the compensation, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday during closing arguments at the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial. Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Joshua Steinglass’
Continue ReadingBy Paul LeBlanc, CNN US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron signaled progress on Thursday in a lingering impasse over the billions of dollars in electric vehicle subsidies included in the sweeping health care, tax and climate bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act that was passed over the summer. Macron has repeatedly
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By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Biden administration program to cancel student loans will remain blocked for now, but the justices agreed to take up the case in late winter. The court’s decision to hear arguments in about three months means it is likely to determine whether the widespread loan
Continue Reading By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers A day of wobbly trading on Wall Street ended Thursday with a mixed finish for stocks and bond yields broadly lower after the government reported that a measure of inflation that’s closely watched by the Federal Reserve eased in October. The muted action came as
Continue Reading WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s culture authorities say a painting by Wassily Kandinsky that was auctioned in Germany for almost 390,000 euros belongs to Poland, where it was stolen in 1984. They threaten legal steps. Kandinsky’s 1928 composition “Untitled” sold Thursday at the Grisebach auctioneers in Berlin. Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage along
Continue ReadingBy ALECIA REID Click here for updates on this story NEW YORK, NY (WCBS) — Colder temperatures are heading our way and tenants from a NYCHA housing complex in Queens are concerned they’ll have to face another winter with no heat. They tell CBS2’s Alecia Reid they can’t get a solid answer from anyone. “It’s
Continue ReadingBy Uliana Pavlova and Tara John, CNN The Kremlin said on Thursday that any details of prisoner swap discussions with the United States will not be publicly disclosed and that Moscow is not planning to engage with the Biden administration before the end of the year, according to Russian state media. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The ACLU of Arizona says it is suing the city of Phoenix in order to block resumed sweeps of a huge homeless encampment downtown that they say has displaced people and destroyed identification documents, prescription medications and other belongings. The ACLU says it filed the complaint late
Continue Reading By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The ACLU of Arizona says it is suing the city of Phoenix in order to block resumed sweeps of a huge homeless encampment downtown that they say has displaced people and destroyed identification documents, prescription medications and other belongings. The ACLU says it filed the complaint late
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE, Maryland (WJZ) — The Maryland Department of Health announced the launch of the Trained Military Assistance Provider program, an initiative to reduce suicides among Maryland service members and veterans, in a statement Thursday. The TMAP program, which consists of 3.5 hours of online training
Continue ReadingBy RYAN YAMAMOTO Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Three days a week, a line forms on the basement floor of San Francisco State University where students show up for a pop-up food pantry. The pantry is free for any student who needs food, and the need is growing. “We
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NEW YORK (AP) — Hate rats? Are you a “somewhat bloodthirsty” New Yorker with excellent communication skills and “a general aura of badassery”? Then you might have what it takes to be the city’s new rat czar. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration posted a job listing this week seeking someone to lead the city’s long-running battle
Continue ReadingBy Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN Closing arguments began Thursday in the Trump Organization tax fraud trial, where defense attorneys blamed the alleged criminal tax schemes on former CFO Allen Weisselberg, who’s already pleaded guilty to 15 counts in the case. “Weisselberg did it for Weisselberg,” defense attorney Michael van der Veen told
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macamilarincon (CNN) –– La Corte Suprema dijo este jueves que el programa de condonación de préstamos estudiantiles del presidente Joe Biden permanecerá bloqueado por el momento. Pero los jueces acordaron escuchar los argumentos orales en el caso en febrero, y se espera que tengan una decisión para junio. El programa de Biden ofrecería hasta US$
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story BRAINERD, Minnesota (WCCO) — Family members say Connor Erickson, who suffered a serious head injury during a football game in September, will soon come home after months in rehab. Erickson, who played for Brainerd High School, was injured on Sept. 9 during a game against
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business Inflation is cooling. Consumers are still spending. And hiring is slowing — but not collapsing. That’s why Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi is increasingly confident that the American economy will — narrowly — escape a recession. “It’s going to be a struggle. It’s going to feel uncomfortable. But I
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