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By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks dipped on Wall Street Wednesday, a day after falling to their worst loss since December, as markets prepare for interest rates to stay higher for longer. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4% after drifting between small gains and losses through the day. The Dow Jones
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — A 31-year-old man who showed up to a California courthouse over the weekend to inquire about an upcoming hearing in a vandalism case broke into a courtroom and started a fire, authorities said. The man arrived at the Santa Maria Court Complex Saturday night and said he had received a
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business For those who have ever felt the urge to whip off a TikTok video from inside their car, Mercedes-Benz owners might be able to do that from inside the 2024 E-class without even having get out their phones. That means dance moves could be possible using both hands, as long
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides announced Wednesday he is seeking the seat held by Republican Rep. Mike Garcia in a district north of Los Angeles that is considered one of the most competitive House battlegrounds in the country. In a narrowly divided House
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides announced Wednesday he is seeking the seat held by Republican Rep. Mike Garcia in a district north of Los Angeles that is considered one of the most competitive House battlegrounds in the country. In a narrowly divided House
Continue ReadingBy Jon Passantino National Public Radio will lay off 10% of its staff after projecting a $30 million budget shortfall, NPR’s chief executive John Lansing wrote in a memo to staff Wednesday. It becomes just the latest media outlet to make painful cuts as a dramatic slowdown in the advertising market continues to send shockwaves
Continue Reading By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday sentenced the man convicted of gunning down Nipsey Hussle to 60 years to life in prison after hearing testaments to the immense cost of the killing of the hip-hop star and neighborhood leader, and of the lifetime of mental
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN The Biden administration announced Wednesday a change that will save an estimated 850,000 home buyers — primarily low- and middle-income and first-time buyers — an average of $800 on home financing costs this year. The move affects mortgage insurance premiums paid by new borrowers who take out loans insured by the
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard and Sandee LaMotte, CNN The plant-based milk you buy may soon have a revised label. The US Food and Drug Administration issued draft guidance Wednesday on how companies should identify plant-based products that are marketed and sold as alternatives to dairy milk, such as almond, oat or soy milk. Any plant-based milk
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Man convicted in 2019 fatal shooting of rapper Nipsey Hussle sentenced to 60 years to life in prison.
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Más de 1.600 vuelos se han cancelados este miércoles en Estados Unidos, a medida que una tormenta invernal se extiende en el país. Para las 8:00 p.m. ET del miércoles, se habían cancelado un total de 1.640 vuelos dentro y fuera de EE.UU., según el sitio de seguimiento de vuelos
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung and Tierney Sneed, CNN After back-to-back oral arguments this week, the Supreme Court appears reluctant to hand down the kind of sweeping ruling about liability for terrorist content on social media that some feared would upend the internet. On Wednesday, the justices struggled with claims that Twitter contributed to a 2017
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Ongoing contract negotiations between the Coachella Valley Teachers Union and Coachella Valley Unified School District are now having a negative impact in local classrooms. We’re taking a closer look at the claims made by the teacher’s union and district officials. Amid ongoing contract negotiations in Coachella Valley Unified School District some teachers are now “Working-to-Rule.”
Continue ReadingBy Alex Cooper Click here for updates on this story NEW HAMPSHIRE (Advocate Channel) — U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, a Democrat from New Hampshire, married his partner over the weekend. Pappas announced on Twitter Monday that he’d married Vann Bentley. The two had announced their engagement back in December 2021. “Vann and I are excited
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all Federal Reserve policymakers agreed earlier this month to slow the pace of their rate increases to a quarter-point, with only “a few” supporting a larger half-point hike. The minutes from the Fed’s Jan. 31-Feb.1 meeting said most of the officials supported the quarter-point increase
Continue Reading By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of a lawsuit trying to hold social media companies responsible for a terrorist attack at a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people. During arguments at the high court several justices underscored that there was no evidence linking Twitter,
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that an energy company employee who earned more than $200,000 a year still qualified for overtime pay under a federal law meant to protect blue-collar workers. By a 6-3 vote Wednesday, the justices sided with Michael Hewitt, who supervised 12 to 14 workers on an offshore oil
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La policía arresto a dos sujetos sospechosos de protagonizar una balacera en la que un hombre resultó herido ayer a las 3 de la madrugada en el área de la Avenida Portola y la calle El Paseo en Palm Desert, cuando las autoridades llegaron transportaron a la víctima al hospital, horas más tarde los investigadores
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Una familia de Coachella está de luto por la muerte de su ser querido quien falleció en un accidente automovilístico en el área del freeway 8 y la Forrester Road cerca de la ciudad de El Centro, California en el Valle Imperial. Según el informe de la policía el auto del hombre de 28 años
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse and David Close, CNN Meyers Leonard is returning to the NBA two years after he last played in the league after the Milwaukee Bucks announced on Wednesday he had signed on a 10-day contract. The 30-year-old center has been out of the league since 2021 after he used an antisemitic slur during
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