By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Seventeen major food manufacturers earned an average grade of F for their lack of progress in reducing pesticides in the products they sell, according to a new analysis by As You Sow, a nonprofit specializing in shareholder advocacy. “Many companies set pesticide reduction goals of 2025 and 2030 that
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The office of Gov. Janet Mills says Maine’s government is going to cover the cost of funerals for families who lost loved ones in the deadliest mass shooting in the state’s history. An Army reservist opened fire inside a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston,
Continue ReadingBy ELYSSA KAUFMAN Click here for updates on this story CHICAGO (WBBM) — Another break-in was reported at the Louis Vuitton store on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Crews were working to repair the shattered front window early Wednesday morning after a smash-and-grab burglary. CBS 2 has reached out to police for more details. The same store
Continue ReadingRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican David Owen defeated Democrat Susanna Gibson in a Virginia House of Delegates race that drew attention after revelations that Gibson engaged in sex acts with her husband on a pornographic website. Gibson ran against Owen in one of the state’s most competitive districts after all 100 seats in the House
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE and CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters threw their support behind abortion rights in Ohio, Virginia and elsewhere as Democrats look to springboard off those wins by using the issue to drive turnout and shape next year’s races for the White House, Congress and other elections. Ohio offered the
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez and Lauren Fox, CNN Multiple Senate Republicans pressed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday to attach policy changes to the White House border supplemental request. The exchanges during the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing underscored the uphill battle the Biden administration faces in getting its supplemental funding request passed as the Department of Homeland Security grapples with
Continue ReadingBy ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — About 3,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti have blocked traffic on one of Mexico’s main southern highways to demand transit or exit visas to reach the U.S. border. The caravan of migrants set out walking from the city of Tapachula, near the
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Arriving more than four years after the original, “The Marvels” can’t overcome apprehensions about representing the Disney+-ification of a Marvel movie. Clocking in at a welcomely brisk 105 minutes, it’s Marvel’s shortest film, but a lighter tone that occasionally borders on a sort of cosmic “Freaky Friday” doesn’t
Continue ReadingCNN Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Arriving more than four years after the original, “The Marvels” can’t overcome apprehensions about representing the Disney+-ification of a Marvel movie. Clocking in at a welcomely brisk 105 minutes, it’s Marvel’s shortest film, but a lighter tone that occasionally borders on a sort of cosmic “Freaky Friday”
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Scarlett Johansson has teamed with Feeding America to address food insecurity, an issue she has personal experience with. “My family relied on public assistance to help provide meals for us,” Johansson states in a new public service announcement for the organization. “These meals fueled my involvement in theater
Continue ReadingBy KRISTINE LAZAR Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — Trash, human waste and rodents have infested one Los Angeles County neighborhood after RVs moved in and took over streets in Florence-Firestone. While the county finally came out and forcibly removed the vehicles a month ago, the RVs came rolling back
Continue ReadingAir travel is getting worse, judging from the number of consumer complaints. Consumer complaints about airlines nearly doubled in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year and kept soaring in April and May, the U.S. Transportation Department said Wednesday. Those are the latest figures from the government. The
Continue ReadingBy DEAN FIORESI Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — One retired employee and three current members of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were found dead by suicide within a 24-hour period starting Monday. The first death was reported at around 10:30 a.m. on Monday in Valencia, according to a statement
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Three individuals have been arrested on charges of operating a “high-end brothel network” in Massachusetts and Virginia with a clientele that included elected officials, military officers and government contractors with security clearances, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. “Pick a profession,” Joshua Levy, acting US attorney for Massachusetts, said of
Continue ReadingBy KEN MACLEOD Click here for updates on this story NORWELL, Massachusetts (WBZ) — The next time you pull into Sullivan Tire, you’ll talk to the boss. You’ll have no choice. That’s because Sullivan Tire will soon be one of the largest employee-owned firms in New England. The lug nuts seem to tighten a little
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer A new version of the popular diabetes treatment Mounjaro can be sold as a weight-loss drug, U.S. regulators announced Wednesday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s drug, named Zepbound. The drug, also known as tirzepatide, helped dieters lose as much as 40 to 60 pounds in
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN and MARY KATHERINE WILDEMAN Associated Press Close to 400 people connected to fossil fuel industries in some way or another attended last year’s United Nations climate talks in Egypt. That’s a grouping larger than all but two national delegations, according to a data analysis of the more than 24,000 participants by The
Continue ReadingBy ED KOMENDA The Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The 13 largest U.S. tire manufacturers are facing a lawsuit from a pair of California commercial fishing organizations that could force the companies to stop using a chemical added to almost every tire because it kills migrating salmon. Also found in footwear, synthetic turf and
Continue Reading
By ED KOMENDA The Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The 13 largest U.S. tire manufacturers are facing a lawsuit from a pair of California commercial fishing organizations that could force the companies to stop using a chemical added to almost every tire because it kills migrating salmon. Also found in footwear, synthetic turf and
Continue ReadingBy Cole Johnson Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WTVF) — Listening to the constant evolving news cycle can be tough, but when tragedy happens it is important to find the good. We want to showcase those who run toward it to help. Andy Garmezy and his dog Cooper work with the
Continue Reading