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Threat lingers from Southern California wildfires, officials say

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After days of multiple wildfires across Southern California in extreme heat, a drop in temperatures has finally given crews a chance to gain the upper hand, though lingering risks remain, officials said.

On Thursday, fire officials cautioned that several communities in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties are still under ...Read more

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Trump, GOP, sue Nevada over allegations of 'non-citizen voting'

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A lawsuit from Republicans, including the campaign of former President Donald Trump, alleges that up to 4,000 noncitizens in Nevada might have voted in the 2020 general election, and that nearly as many such people will cast a ballot in November.

The complaint, which was filed in Carson City on Wednesday, lists Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar ...Read more

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School threats continue 8 days after Georgia school shooting

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Metro Atlanta school districts continue to deal with violent threats more than a week after a 14-year-old student allegedly gunned down two fellow classmates and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.

More than three dozen arrests have been made in several Georgia counties, and students have been charged with making ...Read more

Upstate NY teen arrested for threatening kindergarten shooting, loaded gun recovered

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A 15-year-old suspect in Buffalo, N.Y., has been taken into custody after he allegedly made online threats to carry out a kindergarten classroom shooting, local law enforcement said Thursday.

Buffalo Police joined the FBI in executing a search warrant at a home on Sycamore Street on Wednesday, after being alerted to a social media post ...Read more

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Could a deal with Massachusetts return Connecticut to latest offshore wind energy auction?

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A week after Connecticut was a no-show at an offshore wind auction it helped organize, a proposed energy swap with Massachusetts could lead to its return to the multi-state collaboration that was created to reduce the costs of wind power for southern New England.

Massachusetts has signaled it is receptive to an agreement, proposed by ...Read more

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Convicted ex-US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. pushing for presidential pardon with help from suburban mayors

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Convicted former Democratic U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is ramping up an effort to get politicians to encourage President Joe Biden to pardon the former congressman before the Democratic president leaves office early next year.

Jackson, who served about 17 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2013 to conspiring to defraud his ...Read more

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LA earthquakes have been unusually frequent this year, as Malibu temblor shows

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LOS ANGELES —The magnitude 4.7 earthquake just north of Malibu on Thursday morning adds to what scientists say is an unusually active year for moderate earthquakes in Southern California.

The Malibu earthquake was the 14th seismic sequence so far this year in Southern California with at least one magnitude 4 or higher earthquake, said ...Read more

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Biden alludes to Trump case while hailing Violence Against Women Act, survivors

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At a White House event Thursday celebrating a 30-year-old law aimed at preventing violence against women, President Joe Biden alluded to a jury’s decision that Donald Trump was liable for sexual abuse.

Biden touted the 1994 Violence Against Women Act as 1,000 victims of violence — women the president in a Thursday op-ed dubbed “heroic ...Read more

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New records shed light on Adams adviser Tim Pearson's involvement with NYPD

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NEW YORK — Tim Pearson, one of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ most powerful advisers, has since 2022 held dozens of meetings directly related to NYPD promotions and other internal department matters, according to schedule entries obtained by The New York Daily News that shed new light on his unusual role in police operations — an issue he...Read more

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GOP sues NC elections board for allowing use of UNC digital IDs for voting

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The North Carolina Republican Party and the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit Thursday against the State Board of Elections for allowing students at UNC-Chapel Hill to use digital IDs to vote.

On Aug. 20, the State Board of Elections approved the use of the university’s “One Card.” The “One Card” is a form of student ...Read more

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Steward Health CEO defies Congressional subpoena, expected to be held in contempt

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Lawmakers vowed to file a contempt charge against embattled Steward Health CEO Ralph de la Torre after he skipped a subpoena to appear before a U.S. Senate committee hearing into the chain’s bankruptcy.

“Workers have lost their jobs,” Sen. Ed Markey said following the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) hearing Thursday. �...Read more

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laura Loomer accuse each other of racism in social media war

NEW YORK — Feuding MAGA conspiracy theorists Laura Loomer and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused each other of racism in a social media war of words that began on Wednesday, which Loomer spent with Donald Trump.

Days earlier, Loomer posted a message on...Read more

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Idaho Supreme Court issues decision on venue change for Bryan Kohberger murder trial

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The Idaho Supreme Court issued its decision Thursday on where the murder trial of Bryan Kohberger will be held, and also assigned a new judge to the case.

Kohberger’s trial, and all further proceedings, will be held at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise and presided over by 4th District Judge Steven Hippler, the justices said. The trial is ...Read more

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US, UK discuss lifting missile data restrictions for Ukraine

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The U.S. and U.K. governments are discussing allowing Ukraine to deploy British cruise missiles backed by U.S. navigational data to conduct long-range strikes inside Russian territory, according to people familiar with the matter.

The issue is part of conversations that have taken place over the past few days as U.S. Secretary of State Antony ...Read more

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Nessel charges 11 people for alleged UM protest crimes. Tlaib calls it 'shameful'

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DETROIT — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday she is charging 11 people with crimes in connection with alleged incidents involving protests against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza at the University of Michigan, most of them involving the clearing of an encampment in May.

Nessel's office said in a release that most of ...Read more

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NC has fewer teacher vacancies this school year. But why are so many not licensed?

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North Carolina’s public schools have fewer vacant teaching positions this school year, but more students are being taught by people who don’t have teaching degrees.

New figures released Thursday by the N.C. School Superintendents’ Association shows school districts opened the school year with 3,142 teaching vacancies. That’s 12% less ...Read more

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Fulton judge strikes three more counts in Trump indictment

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Fulton Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee struck three additional counts from the year-old indictment that alleged former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others were involved in a felony conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.

McAfee said the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause mandated the removal of the counts...Read more

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Illinois court rules Trump Tower endangered Chicago River, killed fish for nearly 20 years

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While there’s no evidence that migrants in Ohio are eating domesticated cats and dogs, Trump Tower may have been illegally killing fish in the Chicago River for nearly 20 years.

A Cook County judge issued a summary judgment against downtown Chicago’s Trump International Hotel & Tower for violating federal environment laws that protect ...Read more

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Russia, Iran and China seen 'ramping up' effort to divide US voters

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Russia, Iran and China are “ramping up” attempts to stoke divisions within the U.S. ahead of November’s presidential election, according to a top Department of Justice official.

The trio is seeking to “warp the views” of U.S. voters, Matthew Olsen, assistant attorney general for national security, said at an event at Columbia Law ...Read more

Son of ex-Ecuadorian official convicted of money laundering indicted; Florida home involved

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When a former Ecuadorian official faced trial this year on charges of moving millions in cash bribes from Odebrecht contractors into Miami, there was one person conspicuously missing as a co-defendant: his son.

But now, four months after Ecuador’s ex-comptroller Carlos Ramon Polit was convicted of money laundering, prosecutors have followed ...Read more