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By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Legislature is weighing a proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom to set aside $300 million for low-income schools, but some education advocates say it won’t do enough to improve educational outcomes for Black students. Assemblymember Akilah Weber, a Democrat from San Diego, introduced
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fed up by an enormous pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood, Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up a shovel and filled it himself. The actor and former California governor tweeted a video Tuesday of him and a helper using packaged concrete to repair the road in the Brentwood area. “Today, after the whole
Continue ReadingCNN By Em Steck, Olivia Alafriz and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN After the Michigan Republican Party faced intense backlash for using Holocaust imagery on its social media to oppose what it says are Democrats’ restrictive gun proposals, the new chair of the state GOP party did not apologize — in fact, she doubled down on the
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Alexandra Ferguson Nueva York (CNN) — La inmensa tienda Whole Foods del centro de San Francisco, inaugurada el año pasado, cerrará temporalmente. La empresa dijo que la delincuencia desmedida en la zona los forzó al cierre. El local de casi 6.000 metros cuadrados situado en Trinity Place, en el barrio Mid-Market de la ciudad, cerró
Continue ReadingBy Josh Einiger Click here for updates on this story RIVERDALE, Bronx (WABC) — Police are searching for a crew of con artists crisscrossing New York City, targeting unsuspecting seniors at cash machines. They are wanted for stealing debit cards and pin numbers and have struck at least 15 times, getting away with nearly $77,000.
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The NHL is going down under for the first time, with the Los Angeles Kings and Arizona Coyotes set to play in Australia in September. The trip announced Tuesday is the league’s first foray into the Southern Hemisphere. The Kings and Coyotes will face off in two exhibition games
Continue Reading By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer The NHL is going down under for the first time, with the Los Angeles Kings and Arizona Coyotes set to play in Australia in September. The trip announced Tuesday is the league’s first foray into the Southern Hemisphere. The Kings and Coyotes will face off in two exhibition games
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By TARA COPP and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been less than a week since news of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war surfaced, sending the Pentagon into full-speed damage control to assure allies and assess the scope of the leak. The information on scores of slides has publicized potential
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The Coroner’s Office has identified the man whose body was recovered from Tahquitz Canyon in Palm Springs on Tuesday. According to the report, the victim has been identified as 66-year-old John Forsyth, from the city of Beaumont. Emergency crews, made up of Palm Springs Fire, Palm Springs Police and Tribal officials, were called out to
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Local non-profit, The Bridges2Hope, is helping empower the homeless community through building trusting relationships. Off the corner of Washington St. and Country Club Drive in Palm Desert, volunteers meet every Tuesday night from 6 to 8pm. They transform the parking lot into a place where homeless individuals can get food, water, medical help and so
Continue Reading RICHMOND, Ind. (AP) — People have been urged to evacuate if they live near a large industrial fire in Richmond, Indiana, near the Ohio border. The order went out Tuesday after a major fire at a site where plastics are stockpiled. Thick black smoke darkened the sky. Richmond Mayor Dave Snow described it as a
Continue Reading By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The paintings ultimately wound up at the Orlando Museum of Art in
Continue Reading OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A key housing bill that would legalize duplexes and fourplexes in most neighborhoods in nearly every Washington city has been approved by the state Senate. House Bill 1110 passed on a 35-14 vote on Tuesday with about a half-dozen Republicans joining Democrats to pass it, The Seattle Times reported. The bill
Continue ReadingCNN By Devan Cole and Kara Scannell, CNN Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, over what the lawsuit filed Tuesday describes as a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” his office’s case against former President Donald Trump. The suit injects more legal drama into Bragg’s investigation of Trump, which
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday that outlined two ways that seven Western states and tribes reliant on the overtapped Colorado River could cut their use, but declined to publicly take a side on the best option. One option would
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday that outlined two ways that seven Western states and tribes reliant on the overtapped Colorado River could cut their use, but declined to publicly take a side on the best option. One option would
Continue Reading By KEN RITTER and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Biden administration released an environmental analysis Tuesday that outlined two ways that seven Western states and tribes reliant on the overtapped Colorado River could cut their use, but declined to publicly take a side on the best option. One option would
Continue Reading By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press/Report for America North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum has signed two transgender athlete bans into law. Transgender girls and women are now prohibited from joining female sports teams in K-12 and college. The House and Senate passed the bills with veto-proof majorities this year. At least 19 other states have
Continue ReadingBy Mia Alberti and Elizabeth Plaza Colombian police are investigating an acid attack perpetrated against a human rights activist, Lilia Patricia Cardozo, in the country’s northwestern Boyaca region, according to the city’s council. Cardozo is the director of a womens’ rights NGO called Plataforma Feminista Boyacense (Boyacense Feminist Platform), which works to end domestic abuse,
Continue Reading Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Las autoridades de Texas dicen que un pescador encontró la semana pasada un automóvil sumergido en un lago, en el que fue encontrada viva una mujer que había sido reportada como desaparecida. El despachador de la oficina del sheriff del condado Marion recibió una llamada de un pescador este viernes por
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