By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it is delaying planned rules for existing natural gas plants that emit harmful air pollutants and contribute to global warming. The agency said it is still on track to finalize rules for coal-fired power plants and new gas plants that have
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden and his political opponent Donald Trump both agree: The situation along the US-Mexico border needs to change. But their extraordinary dual visits to Texas showed that the likely 2024 general election rivals could not be further apart on how to obtain that goal. In a
Continue ReadingBy ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has denied a news report that he pushed for an exception to the state’s new fast-food minimum wage law that benefits a wealthy campaign donor. California’s minimum wage is $16 per hour. But starting April 1, most fast-food restaurants in the
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By John Towfighi, CNN New York (CNN) — One brand of hydrogen peroxide mouthwash is being recalled nationwide for posing a potential poisoning risk for children. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced February 29 that Heritage Store Hydrogen Peroxide Mouthwash is being recalled for a lack of child-resistant packaging required for products containing a certain
Continue ReadingBy Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump delivered back-to-back Thursday speeches at different Texas locations near the border with Mexico. Biden’s speech, largely delivered from a prepared text, was highly factual. Biden devoted much of the address to an accurate description of various provisions of the bipartisan border
Continue ReadingWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Tour booking agents and managers of a New Zealand island where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people in 2019 were ordered Friday to pay nearly $13 million (US$7.8 million) in fines and reparations. The holding company of the island’s owners, a boat tour operator and three companies that operated helicopter
Continue ReadingBy KCTV Staff Click here for updates on this story INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (KCTV) — An Independence police officer and a Jackson County court employee were shot and killed Thursday afternoon while responding to a residence in northeast Independence. The 16th Judicial District Circuit Court stated the shooting took place during an eviction. A Missouri State
Continue ReadingBy Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Former “Vanderpump Rules” cast member Rachel Leviss filed a lawsuit against two of the reality show’s stars, Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix, over matters stemming from a 2023 scandal. Filed Thursday with the Los Angeles County Superior Court and obtained by CNN, the complaint alleges revenge porn, invasion of
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN Washington (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith and attorneys for Donald Trump proposed moving the trial in the classified documents case against the former president later into the summer. Smith said in court filings Thursday that he believes that Trump and his two co-defendants, political aide Walt
Continue ReadingMILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police say a third person has died from injuries sustained in a shooting earlier this week that claimed four victims. Police said that a 39-year-old person died Thursday in a hospital from the shooting Sunday in which several people opened fire on each other. The person’s name and gender haven’t been
Continue ReadingJosé Álvarez (CNN Español) –– El Tribunal Supremo Electoral de El Salvador entregó este jueves las credenciales de triunfo como presidente y vicepresidente electos a Nayib Bukele y Félix Ulloa para el periodo 2024-2029. Con la certificación de los resultados de las elecciones presidenciales, Bukele y Ulloa están listos para asumir los cargos para el nuevo
Continue ReadingDHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A fire at a six-story shopping mall in the Bangladeshi capital overnight killed at least 43 people and injured dozens of others, with several people escaping to the building’s roof, officials said Friday. The fire started late Thursday at a restaurant on the first floor of the Green Cozy Cottage Shopping
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Each spring, as reliably as the changing of the seasons, Japan releases grim new population data that prompts handwringing in the press and vows by politicians to address the country’s demographic crisis. It’s “now or never” to tackle declining births and the shrinking population, the country’s leader warned last
Continue Reading By Christian Edwards, Anna Chernova, Sebastian Shukla and Katya Krebs, CNN (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West of the risk of nuclear war if they send their own troops to fight for Ukraine, saying Moscow had the weapons to strike Western targets. In his annual state of the nation address on Thursday,
Continue ReadingBy Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson, Morgan Rimmer, Sam Fossum and Ted Barrett, CNN The House and Senate both passed a stopgap bill on Thursday to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week. To provide additional time for full-year funding bills to be finalized and passed, the stopgap measure will extend funding on
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A young man accused in last year’s fatal shooting of a teenager who had received his high school diploma minutes earlier in Richmond, Virginia, has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and a firearm-related charge. News outlets report that 20-year-old Amari Pollard entered the plea on Thursday during the fourth day of
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A Desert Hot Springs man pleaded guilty today to fatally shooting his brother’s ex-girlfriend in 2015 and was immediately sentenced to 15 Years to life in prison. Jesus Garza Jr., 31, of Desert Hot Springs pleaded guilty Thursday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio to one felony count of murder and was immediately sentenced.
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress passed another short-term spending measure Thursday that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22, avoiding a shutdown for parts of the federal government that would otherwise kick in Saturday. The bill now goes to President Joe
Continue ReadingMauricio Torres (CNN) — La Policía Federal de Brasil informó que este jueves detuvo a tres personas acusadas de financiar y fomentar la insurrección del 8 de enero de 2023, cuando partidarios del entonces presidente Jair Bolsonaro realizaron actos de violencia en las sedes de los tres poderes federales. Dos de los acusados fueron detenidos
Continue ReadingBy KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys for Donald Trump and other defendants in the Georgia election interference case hoped that lawyer Terrence Bradley would provide key testimony in support of their effort to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — and they had good reason for their optimism. Over several months,
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