By JANIE HAR Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says it submitted enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election. If Solano County elections officials agree, voters in the San Francisco Bay Area county will decide whether
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — Portland State University announced Tuesday morning that it has closed its campus downtown after pro-Palestinian protesters broke into the Millar Library Monday evening, KGW reported. Just after 6 a.m., the university said on social media that campus is closed “due to (the) ongoing incident at the library.” PSU did not say how long
Continue ReadingBy TERRY SPENCER Associated Press Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz will be challenged by a former U.S. Navy pilot in the upcoming Republican primary. Former Navy Capt. Aaron Dimmock filed paperwork last week to challenge Gaetz in the August primary. The Florida Panhandle district is the home of the Pensacola Naval Air Station. Dimmock now works
Continue ReadingBy Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Fox News on Tuesday removed a six-part Hunter Biden miniseries from its streaming platform, after his attorneys threatened to sue the right-wing network over the incendiary and at-times sexually explicit program about his legal troubles. The removal is a swift response from the conservative media juggernaut, whose spokespeople were defending the
Continue ReadingBy Amy Maetzold Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — Los Angeles County firefighters rescued a driver after their vehicle plunged 400 feet down a cliff in the Angeles National Forest Tuesday morning. SkyCAL flew over the scene and could see firefighters working to get the person out the vehicle and
Continue ReadingBetiana Fernández Martino (CNN) — Lejos quedaron las sesiones extraordinarias que había convocado el Gobierno entre enero y febrero para tratar la “Ley de Bases y Puntos de Partida para la Libertad de los argentinos” que el oficialismo había presentado en los primeros días de gestión. Lejos también quedaron aquellos 664 artículos originales. Este martes,
Continue ReadingBy Erin Hassanzadeh Click here for updates on this story BECKER, Minnesota (WCCO) — In a new rule, the EPA says coal plants need to start capturing their smokestack emissions or shut down. It’s a move to curb planet-warming emissions — something Minnesota wants to do by going carbon-free with our electricity by 2040. Utilities
Continue ReadingCNN By Jeremy Herb, Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Judge Juan Merchan handed down his first punishment to Donald Trump for violating the judge’s gag order in the New York hush money trial Tuesday, fining Trump $9,000 for nine violations. The judge also warned the former president in his written order
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Swanson Click here for updates on this story DODGE CENTER, Minnesota (WCCO) — A 63-year-old man was crushed to death Monday morning at a southeastern Minnesota manufacturing company. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says it happened just after 10 a.m. in Dodge Center at Con-Tech Manufacturing, which makes concrete mixers. The victim, from
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is determined to launch a ground offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a plan that has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there. Even as the U.S., Egypt and Qatar pushed for a cease-fire
Continue ReadingBy Sydney Bishop, CNN (CNN) — The Amazon returns employee wasn’t at work the day one of her colleagues at a California warehouse found a small, furry stowaway in a box mailed six days earlier from Utah. But Brandy Hunter got the call anyway. “Everyone knows I love cats,” she recalled. “I was not on shift
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump wouldn’t dismiss the potential for political violence from his supporters if he isn’t elected in November, suggesting it would depend on the outcome of the presidential race. “I don’t think we’re going to have that,” the presumptive GOP nominee told Time magazine. “I
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump wouldn’t dismiss the potential for political violence from his supporters if he isn’t elected in November, suggesting it would depend on the outcome of the presidential race. “I don’t think we’re going to have that,” the presumptive GOP nominee told Time magazine.
Continue ReadingBy KEN MILLER Associated Press Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell says “our heart aches for the loss of life” in tornadoes that left four dead and about 100 injured in Oklahoma. Criswell joined Gov. Kevin Stitt and Sen. James Lankford on Tuesday to survey the damage in Marietta, where an EF4 tornado killed
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A group of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots. The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and other papers filed the lawsuit Tuesday
Continue ReadingBy Julia Falcon Click here for updates on this story ARLINGTON, Texas (KTVT) — The July 20 boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson is now classified as a sanctioned, professional fight by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations. This means that rules of the fight between the YouTuber-turned-fighter and the former heavyweight
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Walmart is closing its health centers and virtual care service after struggling to find success with the offerings. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer said Tuesday that after managing the clinics it launched in 2019 and expanding its telehealth program, it concluded “there is not a sustainable business model for us
Continue ReadingBy Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — An Oregon man who says he’s been battling cancer for eight years and received chemotherapy just last week is among three winners of this month’s $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot. Cheng “Charlie” Saephan said he is sharing the prize with his wife, Duanpen Saephan, and friend Laiza Chao. The trio chose the
Continue ReadingBy Caroline Vandergriff Click here for updates on this story COPPELL, Texas (KTVT) — A North Texas little boy who’s battling a rare brain tumor got to live out one of his biggest dreams Monday, thanks to Coppell police and firefighters. The Coppell Police Department made three-year-old Benedict “Benny” Schiefelbein the honorary police chief for
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By ZEKE MILLER, JOSHUA GOODMAN, JIM MUSTIAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. The proposal,
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