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Month: October 2024

Californians can now add their driver’s license to their phone through DMV program

The California Department of Motor Vehicles is allowing California residents to enroll in its pilot program for mobile driver’s licenses. This program, called mDL, lets Californians add their Driver’s License, or other government-issued identification, onto their Apple or Google Wallets. mDL is currently authorized for limited usages. Several airports are enrolled in the program, though Palm

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El Condado de Riverside aprobó el incremento de los costos de los servicios del Departamento de Control Animal a tres ciudades de la región

El Condado de Riverside aprobó un incremento en el costo de los servicios que ofrece el departamento de control animal a tres ciudades para que alberguen las mascotas, así como a la seguridad para los animales domésticos. Con el incremento del 5% en el contrato que vence el 30 de julio del 2025 Cathedral City

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Minnesota Supreme Court weighs whether a woman going topless violates an indecent exposure law

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The attorney for a Minnesota woman has told the state Supreme Court that the woman’s misdemeanor conviction for going topless in public should be overturned because female breasts are not defined as “private parts” by the state’s indecent exposure statute. Eloisa Plancarte was convicted for exposing her breasts at a

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Inside the White House’s desperate scramble to swat down hurricane misinformation

By Priscilla Alvarez, Sean Lyngaas, Kayla Tausche and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, senior Biden administration officials raced to engage in a round-the-clock effort to respond to what appeared to be an unprecedented amount of misinformation circling about the storm and the federal response to it. Meetings were quickly convened across government to

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Supreme Court’s conservatives wrestle with case of death row inmate Richard Glossip, who prosecutors want spared

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court grappled Wednesday with an appeal from an Oklahoma death row inmate who even the state’s conservative attorney general believes should not be executed, with some justices signaling a willingness to let state courts further review allegations that prosecutors withheld evidence in the case.

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UN appoints former British diplomat Tom Fletcher as new humanitarian chief

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed former British diplomat Tom Fletcher as the U.N.’s new humanitarian chief. Fletcher, who is currently principal of Hertford College, Oxford and vice chair of Oxford University’s Conference of Colleges, succeeds fellow Briton Martin Griffiths who stepped down for health reasons as undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs at

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Plane crashes on Catalina Island, killing 5 on board

KCBS By Matthew Rodriguez and Julie Sharp Click here for updates on this story     CATALINA ISLAND, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A twin-engine Beechcraft 95 airplane crashed on Catalina Island around 8 p.m. Tuesday, killing all five people on board. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the plane crashed shortly after it departed from the Catalina

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