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By SARAH RANKIN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed a rewrite of a bill that aimed to ban the recreational sales of intoxicating hemp-derived products. He’s seeking changes intended to ensure the availability of certain therapeutic CBD products that don’t give users a high. Youngkin made the proposed amendments
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two guards who fled a fire that killed 40 migrants in a locked cell at a Mexican detention center did not have keys to the cell door. Mexico’s president said Tuesday that the person who had the keys to cells at the detention center was not present when the fire occurred.
Continue Reading By DYLAN LOVAN, REBECCA REYNOLDS and CLAIRE GALOFARO Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police body camera video released Tuesday showed the chaotic moments when police arrived at the scene of a mass shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, as the shooter they couldn’t see from the street rained bullets down on them. The
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices Tuesday, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago. The new devices, which also include a GPS tracker for stolen cars and a cone-shaped security
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Social media companies are once again in the spotlight after a bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, killed five people in a mass shooting and livestreamed the attack on Instagram. Tech companies have gotten better in recent years at cooperating to tamp down the
Continue Reading By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A prominent civil rights group has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new North Carolina law that will increase punishments for violent protests. The law was passed in response to the 2020 protests against racial injustice. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina
Continue ReadingBy WTVR Staff Click here for updates on this story CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — A Cumberland man was arrested Tuesday after hundreds of gallons of fuel were stolen from a construction site off of Genito Road. Chesterfield Police said English Construction has been reporting larcenies of fuel from their site in the 2600 block
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By DYLAN LOVAN and REBECCA REYNOLDS LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police body camera video released Tuesday that shows Louisville officers being fired upon as they arrive at the bank where a shooter killed five people a day earlier. Two patrol officers who responded to the shooting were wounded, one of them struck in the head by a
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The city will host a party next week to celebrate and unveil a multi-story immersive art installation and mural in the downtown area of Desert Hot Springs. The festivities will be held at 11 a.m. April 22 at 11940 Palm Drive, according to the city. The mural, covering an entire building at the corner of
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez, CNN US asylum officers are frustrated by policy whiplash under President Joe Biden, and some are considering leaving their posts, as administration officials contemplate restarting controversial Trump-era border policies that would largely limit who could seek refuge in the United States. “At this point, I can’t tell the difference between Biden immigration
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Cathedral City High School student Priscilla Marquez was awarded a $50,000 scholarship from Edison International to pursue STEM. Marquez was surprised with the scholarship at her school. Marquez calls her mom to let her know the good news It’s all part of the Edison Scholars Program, which awards scholarships to 30 high school seniors in
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The Associated Press Wall Street drifted through a muted day of trading, with stocks and bonds making modest moves ahead of an anticipated update on consumer inflation and other reports later in the week. The S&P 500 had its smallest one-day move in more than a year and dipped by less than 0.1%. The Dow
Continue Reading By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A lawsuit over a deadly explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory says the candy-maker ignored warnings of a natural gas leak. The lawsuit was filed by the family of one of seven workers killed last month. It alleges that R.M. Palmer Co. bears responsibility for the explosion. The family of
Continue ReadingCNN By Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent One day after China simulated “joint precision strikes” on Taiwan during military exercises around the island, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu condemned Beijing’s actions in an exclusive interview with CNN and warned that “they seem to be trying to get ready to launch a war against Taiwan.”
Continue ReadingBy Dan Heching, CNN The team behind “Succession” took absolutely no chances when they started planning this season’s major plot twist. Georgia Pritchett, one of the writers and co-executive producers for the hit HBO series, tweeted on Tuesday that they “decided” on their “tough secret” in January, and to make sure “nobody found out,” they
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Tuesday: Moderna, Inc., down $4.90 to $155.25. The COVID-19 vaccine developer said its potential flu vaccine needs more study in a late-stage clinical trial. CarMax, Inc., up $6.35 to $72.21. The used car dealer more than doubled Wall Street’s fourth-quarter profit targets
Continue Reading By STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street drifted through a muted day of trading Tuesday, with stocks and bonds making modest moves ahead of reports later in the week with the potential to move markets. The S&P 500 had its smallest one-day move in more than a year, slipping 0.17
Continue Reading By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices Tuesday, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when it first joined the police pack 2 1/2 years ago. The new devices, which also include a GPS tracker for stolen cars and a cone-shaped security
Continue Reading By HALELUYA HADERO and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Social media companies are once again in the spotlight after a bank employee in Louisville, Kentucky, killed five people in a mass shooting and livestreamed the attack on Instagram. Tech companies have gotten better in recent years at cooperating to tamp down the
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN The banking crisis could help the Federal Reserve’s fight to bring down inflation, but the central bank needs to be “cautious” in its actions moving forward, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday. Goolsbee, the newest Fed appointee, spoke before the Economic Club of Chicago and addressed the “new, big, hairy
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