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Putin's friends are helping Russia upend the US-led world order
Vladimir Putin is wrapping up a trip to China, where his warm ties with President Xi Jinping have led to booming trade and increasing defense coordination. More than two years since his February 2022 invasion of Ukraine ...Read more
Weather like the deadly Houston windstorm is being fueled in part by climate change
The winds that roared out of a supercell thunderstorm Thursday night leaving a deadly trail across Houston are on the rise in a warming climate, though researchers are still teasing out the exact relationship between a ...Read more
Artificial light lures migrating birds into cities, where they face a gauntlet of threats
Light pollution has steadily intensified and expanded from urban areas, and with the advent of LED lighting, it is growing in North America by up to 10% per year, as measured by the visibility of stars in the night sky....Read more
Brass knuckles, body cams and bad behavior: LAPD probe links troubled Valley gang units
LOS ANGELES — As Los Angeles police internal investigators dig deeper into one of the bigger scandals in recent department history, they have uncovered links between two troubled anti-gang units in the San Fernando ...Read more
Sacramento, Northern California tribes seek land back for 'cultural survival'
SACRAMENTO — Along the gentle rolling foothills nearby Nevada City is a village known as Yulića.
Across the 232 acres of this land, there are man-made ponds, two creeks that barely trickle through and, on top of a ...Read more
Mobs of tuna crabs descend on Southern California waters. What's going on?
Little red crustaceans pepper the shallow depths by the San Diego shoreline. The tuna crabs are back.
Tuna crabs, named after their most common predator — the tuna fish — have been seen by the thousands in Southern ...Read more
Southern California parks agency fines visitors who roll through stop signs $100. It has made millions
LOS ANGELES — The citation that Andrew Rice received in the mail looked like a traffic ticket, including a photo of his license plate. But the mail didn’t come from any police or city agency he recognized.
Back in ...Read more
Police make multiple arrests as Penn students attempt to launch a new encampment
PHILADELPHIA — Penn students launched a new, short-lived, pro-Palestinian encampment Friday night, leading to multiple arrests. The encampment inside the school’s Fisher-Bennett Hall came one week after Philadelphia ...Read more
Texas Storms Leave 800,000 Without Power While Flights Grounded
A line of dangerous storms and flooding rains rolled over the US Gulf Coast, killing at least four people and leaving more than 800,000 customers in Texas — about 6% of the total — without power while grounding ...Read more
Croatia seals tilt to right as prime minister's Cabinet approved
ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatian lawmakers approved a coalition government that gives Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic a third term after he made a deal to include a right-wing nationalist party known for anti-immigration ...Read more
Maduro Bets He Can Crush Venezuela's Opposition in an Open Vote
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is convinced he can win July’s presidential elections without resorting to fraud.
But, if he’s wrong, he also has backup plans to cling on to power, according ...Read more
SpaceX booster flies for 21st time in Cape Canaveral launch
SpaceX lined up and knocked out another Starlink launch from the Space Coast on Friday night using a first-stage booster for a fleet-leading 21st time.
A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-59 mission carrying 23 Starlink ...Read more
Donald Trump talks inflation, Biden and bacon to Minnesota GOP donors, leaders and activists
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former President Donald Trump headlined the state Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Friday in St. Paul, repeatedly ripping President Joe Biden and promising to fight to turn Minnesota ...Read more
Colorado voters will decide abortion rights question after constitutional amendment qualifies for ballot
DENVER — Colorado voters in November will decide whether to make abortion a state constitutional right after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced Friday that backers of a ballot initiative had gathered ...Read more
'Kidnapped': Family at center of Bundy-led protests sues St. Luke's Health System, police, Idaho agency
BOISE, Idaho — The parents of the baby at the center of a child welfare case that prompted protests at hospitals led by far-right activist Ammon Bundy have filed a lawsuit naming St. Luke’s Health System, the Idaho ...Read more
Sonoma State president retires after being placed on leave for supporting anti-Israel boycott
LOS ANGELES — The president of Sonoma State University has retired from his role after being placed on leave for issuing a controversial campus-wide message on the Israel-Hamas war.
California State University ...Read more
Auraria Campus closes, CU Denver classes move online amid ongoing pro-Palestine encampment
DENVER — The University of Colorado Denver will move to remote classes and work “until further notice” because of the ongoing anti-war encampment on the Auraria Campus, university officials said in a message Friday ...Read more
Donald Trump's claim in New Jersey that Democrats want to 'execute babies' is one of many GOP abortion falsehoods
Former President Donald Trump recently told a crowd of thousands in Wildwood, New Jersey, the baseless claim that Democrats want to pass an abortion law that enables doctors to “execute” newborns.
“If the radical ...Read more
UCLA academic senate rejects censure and 'no confidence' vote on Chancellor Gene Block
LOS ANGELES — Representatives of the University of California, Los Angeles academic senate have voted against censuring or making a “no confidence” statement against UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, rejecting a call to ...Read more
Econometer: Is raising the tariff on Chinese EVs a good move?
The Biden administration quadrupled tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles this week in order to protect American automakers.
The tariffs are expected to rise to 100 percent from 25 percent for EVs. There are additional ...Read more
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