By Karli Barnett and Trish Christakis Click here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Twenty-five members of the Miami-Dade police department’s Rapid Deployment Force, who have been assisting first responders on the west coast, returned home on Wednesday as a new group headed out. “I am honored to be around such brave men
Continue ReadingBy Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business General Motors unveiled a new, slightly bigger redesigned version of its cheapest entry-level SUV, the Trax. The new version looks much, much sleeker than the chunky little SUV it replaces and adds new features. But it also drops one major option while retaining what may be the SUV’s most important
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefit recipients will receive a permanent cost of living increase of about 12% starting this month, the Oregon Department of Human Services said Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN As concerns grow over the future of the drought-plagued Colorado River system, the Biden administration has announced how it intends to pay farmers, cities and Native American tribes in the Southwest for significant, voluntary water cuts. The money is coming from $4 billion in drought relief funds in the Inflation Reduction
Continue ReadingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In New Mexico, one of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. has filed its bankruptcy reorganization plan to compensate nearly 400 clergy abuse survivors with more than $121 million. The Albuquerque Journal reports a federal bankruptcy judge will hear the Archdiocese of Santa Fe’s plan in a hearing Wednesday.
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — A Hydro-Quebec subsidiary is buying a company that operates 13 hydropower generating stations in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. HQI US Holding LLC’s $2 billion purchase of Great River Hydro LLC and its dams that produce 589 megawatts of electricity will provide Hydro-Quebec with the largest hydropower operation in New England. Hydro-Quebec
Continue ReadingMONTREAL (AP) — A Hydro-Quebec subsidiary is buying a company that operates 13 hydropower generating stations in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. HQI US Holding LLC’s $2 billion purchase of Great River Hydro LLC and its dams that produce 589 megawatts of electricity will provide Hydro-Quebec with the largest hydropower operation in New England. Hydro-Quebec
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has collected a staggering trove of evidence. Now the question is what to do with it all. The Jan. 6 archive includes transcripts of more than 1,000 interviews and millions of documents that detail an
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says an initial assessment of federal assistance needed to help Floridians recover from Hurricane Ian comes to about $33 billion. Rubio outlined details Wednesday of a disaster spending package he is seeking, saying the federal government has an important role to play in facilitating the state’s recovery. Florida’s
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN MELLEY and DON THOMPSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned from public office Wednesday, three days after a recording surfaced of her making racist remarks in a meeting that is now the subject of a state investigation. Nury Martinez, the first Latina to
Continue ReadingBy Mike Herek Click here for updates on this story FLINT, Michigan (WNEM) — A $2.5 million grant could get hundreds of rape kits off the shelves in Flint and to labs for testing. The money is coming through the Justice Department’s National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, and it will be used for forensic genetic
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting stressed their commitment to taming “unacceptably high’’ inflation before announcing that they were raising their benchmark interest rate by a substantial three-quarters of a point for a third straight time and signaling more large rate hikes ahead. In minutes
Continue ReadingBy PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting stressed their commitment to taming “unacceptably high’’ inflation before announcing that they were raising their benchmark interest rate by a substantial three-quarters of a point for a third straight time and signaling more large rate hikes ahead. In minutes
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Republican candidate for governor in Connecticut has acknowledged for the first time that he has been a consultant for a proposed futuristic city in Saudi Arabia, backed by the powerful Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The confirmation in an article published Wednesday by Hearst
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN HAIGH Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The Republican candidate for governor in Connecticut has acknowledged for the first time that he has been a consultant for a proposed futuristic city in Saudi Arabia, backed by the powerful Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The confirmation, first included in an article published Wednesday
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Deschutes County’s population has grown over 25% since 2010, and county planning staff are inviting residents to a series of “Deschutes County 2040” events to learn about and weigh in on plans for future growth and development in the rural county, outside of city limits.
Continue ReadingBy DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge who refused to allow the state’s abortion ban to take effect while a clinic’s legal challenge is pending has been ordered to take another look at that decision. The state Supreme Court late Tuesday ordered Judge Bruce Romanick to weigh the clinic’s
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW MENTOCK Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Notre Dame has started putting up points and one big reason is its deep pool of tight ends. Preseason All-American Michael Mayer has played a key role. He leads the Fighting Irish in every major receiving category with 33 catches, 351 yards and five touchdown
Continue ReadingBy JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican-led Tennessee will officially take its voters’ temperature on an organized labor issue in November, as unions sprout in Starbucks storefronts and elsewhere nationally. Lawmakers there have offered a ballot amendment asking voters whether Tennessee’s existing ban on workplaces with union shops requiring covered employees to
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is seeking to project confidence in the U.S. financial outlook while pledging vigilance in responding to “risks on the horizon.” She’s offering that message as global finance leaders gather in Washington to discuss the increasingly dismal view of the global economy. Yellen
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