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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A voter initiative that would overturn a California law aimed at raising wages and improving working conditions for more than a half-million fast food workers has qualified for next year’s ballot, authorities said Tuesday. The referendum raised more than 623,000 valid voter signatures to be placed on the Nov. 5, 2024,
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — Paula Durán, la madre colombiana de 27 años que fue diagnosticada con un cáncer terminal y cuyos padres recibieron una visa humanitaria de Estados Unidos para acompañarla en sus últimos días, murió este martes en California, informó su esposo, Sergio Vega, a través de Instagram. “Hoy tenemos un angelito que
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The Board of Supervisors today tentatively approved plans for the establishment of a special tax district to pay for future projects intended to improve transportation, wastewater discharge and other infrastructure in the Eastern Coachella Valley, including part of the Salton Sea. The board voted unanimously to initiate the process of implementing an enhanced infrastructure financing
Continue Reading By TERRY TANG, OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — In the wake of the worst massacre in Los Angeles County history, the California governor was meeting gunshot victims in the hospital when he was pulled away and briefed on a mass shooting at the other end of the
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Loved ones are remembering Palm Desert resident Sara Ahmadie, 36, who was killed in deadly crash earlier this month. 26-year-old Alberto Lopez of Coachella is suspected of driving under the influence at a high rate of speed when he crashed into the Ahmadie’s car. Lopez has been charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
Continue Reading SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Rescue personnel in California have found a 75-year-old hiker who was lost on the same snow-covered mountain where actor Julian Sands is missing. NBC LA captured images of Jin Chung, of North Hollywood, being loaded into an ambulance Tuesday afternoon. He had a leg injury and some weather-related injuries but
Continue ReadingBy Morgan Rimmer, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday officially denied seats on the House Intelligence Committee to Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff, the former chairman of the panel. The decision reflects the increasingly politicized nature of one of Congress’ most important national security committees and was swiftly met with outrage by
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A voter initiative that would overturn a California law aimed at raising wages and improving working conditions for fast food workers has qualified for next year’s ballot, authorities said Tuesday. The referendum raised more than 623,000 valid voter signatures to be placed on the Nov. 5, 2024, election ballot, Secretary of
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A voter initiative that would overturn a California law aimed at raising wages and improving working conditions for fast food workers has qualified for next year’s ballot, authorities said Tuesday. The referendum raised more than 623,000 valid voter signatures to be placed on the Nov. 5, 2024, election ballot, Secretary of
Continue ReadingStephy Chung, CNN A young man stands grinning in Beijing’s Forbidden City. It’s the dead of winter, and one of his hands is buried deep into the pockets of his long overcoat to protect it from the chill. The other grasps the unmistakable contours of a glass Coca-Cola bottle. Today, Coke is the world’s most
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN Español) — La Policía Nacional de Ecuador informó este martes que, durante la madrugada, se ejecutaron diversos allanamientos en el cantón Durán, provincia de Guayas, que permitieron la detención de 10 personas en conexión con varios asesinatos y los atentados con coches bomba ocurridos en noviembre pasado en Guayaquil y Durán. La
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The city of Monterey Park held a vigil in front of city hall to honor the victims of Saturday’s mass shooting. Investigators continued pouring over evidence today as they tried to determine what led a 72-year-old man to gun down 11 people and wound nine others at a Monterey Park dance studio, while the coroner’s
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By Lauren del Valle, CNN Closing arguments concluded Tuesday in the trial of Sayfullo Saipov, the man prosecutors say was radicalized by ISIS propaganda before he allegedly drove a rented truck down a bike path in New York, killing eight pedestrians in 2017. The judge is expected to charge the jury with the case Wednesday
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean and Japanese coast guards are searching for 17 crewmembers of a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship that sank in waters between South Korea and Japan. The coast guard of the southern South Korean island of Jeju said five crewmembers were rescued by nearby vessels after the Jin Tian sank
Continue ReadingJANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A former University of Wisconsin football player has been convicted of two counts of first degree homicide and other charges Tuesday in the February 2020 shooting deaths of two women. Jurors deliberated about two hours Tuesday before finding Marcus Randle El guilty in the slayings of 27-year-old Brittany McAdory and 30-year-old
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Families from Uvalde on Tuesday pleaded with new urgency for tougher gun laws in the wake of a series of mass shootings in California, including the nation’s deadliest act of gun violence since last year’s attack at a Texas elementary school. “People are dying every day,
Continue Reading By ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Families from Uvalde on Tuesday pleaded with new urgency for tougher gun laws in the wake of a series of mass shootings in California, including the nation’s deadliest act of gun violence since last year’s attack at a Texas elementary school. “People are dying every day,
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Riverside County’s largest animal shelter is under siege from a contagious pathogen that’s causing canines to suffer severe respiratory illness, which has turned fatal in multiple instances, authorities said today, prompting a call for help from the public to foster healthy shelter pets to lower their exposure risks. An outbreak of the bacterial infection
Continue Reading By DAVID PHILLIP and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press PASADENA, Texas (AP) — A powerful storm system took aim at the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, spawning a tornado that caused damage east of Houston. The National Weather Service said that a “large, extremely dangerous and potentially deadly tornado” was on the ground near Baytown, about 25
Continue Reading By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Mississippi are advancing a bill that would transfer ownership of Jackson’s troubled water system to a new public entity overseen by a nine-member board. The majority of the board would be appointed by state leaders. The new entity would assume ownership
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