Expect mild and sunny conditions today, with changes arriving for the weekend as a strong Pacific storm looms. The storm will drop up to ten FEET of snow in the Sierra, with Winter Storm Warnings and Blizzard Warnings in place in the mountains of NorCal. In advance of that storm, a High Wind Watch will
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Voters in Northern California’s rural Shasta County have twice voted for Donald Trump by wide margins while electing staunch conservatives to the local county board. They’ve even booted out some who weren’t deemed conservative enough. But that string of victories at the ballot box has not
Continue ReadingBy HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Sally Rooney will have a new novel out this fall, “Intermezzo,” a story of love, family and grief centered around two brothers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced Thursday that the novel, the Irish author’s fourth, will be published Sept. 24. Rooney, 33, has been a
Continue ReadingBy MATT OTT AP Business Writer More Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, but layoffs remain historically low even as more high-profile companies have announced job cuts this year. Applications for unemployment benefits rose by 13,000 to 215,000 for the week ending Feb. 24, the Labor Department reported Thursday. In total, 1.9 million Americans
Continue ReadingBy Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson and Haley Talbot Congressional leaders have struck a deal on some of the appropriations bills funding the federal government, as well as a short-term stopgap measure that would extend government funding and prevent a partial shutdown ahead of a Friday night deadline. In a joint statement on Wednesday, House Speaker Mike
Continue ReadingBy Jacob Lev and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark has surpassed Lynette Woodard for the most points scored in major women’s college basketball history, days before she could potentially beat an additional record – for both men’s and women’s basketball. The 22-year-old broke Woodard’s record Wednesday when she scored 33 points in the Hawkeyes 108-60
Continue ReadingBy PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — An official U.K. inquiry has concluded that an off-duty London police officer who abducted and murdered a 33-year-old woman three years ago should never have been employed in the first place. The inquiry revealed Thursday that three police forces failed to spot clear signs of Wayne Couzens’
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Today marks the end of Black History Month, with a final block party scheduled outside the Palm Springs Art Museum. The block party will commemorate Black History and 50 years of Hip Hop. Hip Hop was shaped by Black Americans for decades, and is now one of the most popular genres in the United States.
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge favored by the Federal Reserve increased in January, the latest sign that the slowdown in U.S. consumer price increases is occurring unevenly from month to month. Prices rose 0.3% from December to January, up from 0.1% in the previous month. But in a
Continue ReadingBy LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The leaders of Western Balkan countries have agreed to speed up regional cooperation to benefit more from a new European Union plan of financial aid that will help provide a faster road to membership. Brussels’ plan calls for 6 billion euros to be sent to the
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — On Oct. 7, when Hamas militants attacked numerous targets in Israel, killing hundreds and abducting others, Marina Degtiar felt she had traveled back in time, to July 18, 1994. What happened in Buenos Aires 30 years ago broke her apart. A bomb-laden van exploded
Continue ReadingBy John King, CNN Easton, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Darrell Ann Murphy teaches Mahjong at the local library with a dual purpose: to create new fans of the game she loves while also helping keep fellow seniors mentally sharp. She begins class with a rule that has nothing to do with how to play the colorful
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — On July 18, 1994, an explosion destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association, a Jewish community center. The worst such attack in the history of Argentina left 85 dead and more than 300 injured. Official reports established that the attack on
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street is poised to open with modest losses Thursday but still on track for a winning February despite a down week at the finish. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were 0.3% lower before the bell Thursday. Though earnings season
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government has spent more than 166 million euros ($180 million) dealing with the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, from repatriating victims’ bodies to investigating and prosecuting some of those involved in the downing, according
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Owners of Ford electric vehicles can now use much of Tesla’s charging network in the U.S. and Canada, but there’s a hitch. They’ll need to get an adapter that Ford will provide for free, although the company won’t start shipping those until the end of March. Last May, Ford became the first
Continue ReadingDETROIT (AP) — Owners of Ford electric vehicles can now use much of Tesla’s charging network in the U.S. and Canada, but there’s a hitch. They’ll need to get an adapter that Ford will provide for free, although the company won’t start shipping those until the end of March. Last May, Ford became the first
Continue ReadingCNN By John King, CNN Easton, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Darrell Ann Murphy teaches Mahjong at the local library with a dual purpose: to create new fans of the game she loves while also helping keep fellow seniors mentally sharp. She begins class with a rule that has nothing to do with how to play the
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — For Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi drama “Dune: Part Two,” Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya are joined by pivotal new characters played by Christopher Walken, Florence Pugh, Léa Seydoux, Anya Taylor-Joy and Austin Butler, who plays the villainous, “psychotic” (as Pugh’s character calls him in the film) Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. To get
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