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State's new law involving PSE aspires to set a course for the future
SEATTLE —Over the past couple of years, Washington lawmakers have wrestled with a daunting task.
The problem: The state's largest utility, Puget Sound Energy, sells natural gas to nearly 1 million customers and burns gas and coal to electrify cities. That contributes millions of metric tons of planet-warming gases to the atmosphere.
It makes...Read more
'Self-annihilation?' LA rabbi wants to heal a 'world on fire'
LOS ANGELES — She was a clever girl, a daughter of retailers, who thought she had been born too late. The civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s inspired her. But Sharon Brous grew up in the age of Reagan, hedge funds and indifference. By the time she reached rabbinical school, Brous had many questions. All of them big and centering ...Read more
Chicago's O'Hare rebuild is mired in negotiations and potential changes. Here's how another airport finished construction
CHICAGO -- A few years before Chicago reached an agreement with the city’s airlines to overhaul O’Hare International Airport, New York officials jump-started a rebuild of LaGuardia Airport.
After years of discussion, planning and a design competition for the New York airport, in 2015 a development team got the go-ahead to begin the first ...Read more
Medicare's push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors
Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors’ medical assistant, who asks how she’s doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing with anxiety and her other health issues.
Lester credits the chats for keeping her out of the hospital and reducing the need for clinic visits...Read more
Too many cubicles, too few homes spur incentives to convert offices to housing
HERNDON, Va. — Juan Ramirez, watching his dog play in Chandon Park here in suburban Virginia on a Saturday morning, tries to imagine the massive office buildings next to the park becoming apartments and townhouses.
“I guess it’s inevitable. People don’t use offices as much now. I hope it’s affordable. Maybe it’ll bring more young ...Read more
Inside an Arizona abortion clinic: uncertainty looms and optimism reigns
PHOENIX -- When Anna first read about the Arizona Supreme Court reinstating an 1864 law banning all abortions except when a mother's life is at risk, she sent the article to her partner with an angry text.
"I was like, 'God, this makes me so mad,'" she said.
She also decided to take a pregnancy test, just in case. Her period was a few days ...Read more
Inter-American Court of Human Rights to meet in Barbados to confront climate crisis
The relationship between human rights and the climate crisis will be explored this week, when the Inter-American Court on Human Rights will hear testimony from experts from around the globe and Caribbean nationals in Barbados.
On Monday, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights opened its 166th Regular Session at the University of the West ...Read more
YNW Melly associate waits for verdict in his own murder trial
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Accused killer Terrence Mathis is waiting for a Broward County jury to decide whether he is guilty of killing a liquor store manager in Lighthouse Point nearly seven years ago.
Mathis, 40, is also accused in a separate case of helping rapper Jamell “YNW Melly” Demons tamper with witnesses in the rapper’s highly ...Read more
Russia's North Korea embrace could embolden Kim Jong Un, US says
Russia’s “complete embrace” of North Korea could increase Kim Jong Un’s appetite for risk when it comes to threatening South Korea and exporting weapons abroad, as well as helping Pyongyang ignore Washington’s call to return to nuclear talks, a senior Biden administration official said.
As North Korea ships weapons to help power ...Read more
Sunak's Rwanda deportation bill to become law after long fight
LONDON — Rishi Sunak’s government is preparing to get the first deportation flights to Rwanda off the ground by July after the U.K. prime minister’s flagship law to declare the African nation a “safe” destination for asylum seekers cleared its final hurdle in Parliament.
Following weeks of legislative “ping-pong” between the House...Read more
LA County Sheriff's Department searching for suspect who shot deputy in the back
LOS ANGELES — Authorities continued searching Monday night for a suspect who shot a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in the back at a stoplight near the 10 Freeway in West Covina.
Deputy Samuel Aispuro, 43, was shot once in the back at about 2:45 p.m. while stopped at a red light on a department-issued motorcycle at Barranca Street and ...Read more
Students set up pro-Palestinian encampment, demand University of Michigan to divest from Israel
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Hundreds of pro-Palestinian students rallied near an encampment that sprang up Monday on the University of Michigan Diag, deploying an approach used by students at other college campuses to pressure the university to divest itself from Israeli companies amid Israel's war with Hamas.
Jewish students stood nearby, many of ...Read more
City of Baltimore accuses Dali owners of negligence in Key Bridge collapse
BALTIMORE — The owners of the Dali were negligent in sailing an unseaworthy ship out of the Port of Baltimore and should be held fully liable for the Key Bridge collapse that killed six people, the city said Monday in a court filing.
“None of this should have happened,” a claim filed by the mayor and City Council in Baltimore’s U.S. ...Read more
Wildlife agency: Sturgeon won't go on endangered species list
Fishing for lake sturgeon in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan is not a threat to the ancient species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded in its decision not to list the giant fish under the Endangered Species Act.
Monday's ruling after a yearlong review ends the possibility the largest freshwater fish in North America will be put off...Read more
At charity tournament in his honor, family of Key Bridge collapse victim hopes his body will be found: 'We keep praying'
BALTIMORE — Friends and family members of Miguel Luna, a construction worker who perished in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse last month, gathered Sunday in Baltimore for a charity soccer tournament to benefit his family.
Recovery crews are still searching for Luna, a beloved father and grandfather, amid the wreckage in the Patapsco ...Read more
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy shot; person of interest has been detained
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was shot Monday on the 10 Freeway, authorities said.
The Sheriff’s Department confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that a deputy assigned to a motorcycle unit was shot on the freeway in West Covina but did not provide additional information, saying the investigation is ongoing.
The ...Read more
Minnesotans interviewed to serve on Feeding Our Future trial
The first criminal trial in the sprawling Feeding Our Future case began Monday, questioning more than a dozen potential jurors about whether they could be impartial in the high-profile federal meal fraud case.
In all, 1,000 Minnesotans from across the state had been summoned by mail for the case, more than usual because of the publicity ...Read more
Honda nears deal with Canada to boost electric vehicle capacity
Canada is on the verge of an agreement with Honda Motor Co. that would see the Japanese firm build electric vehicles and their components in the province of Ontario, according to people familiar with the matter.
The deal, expected to be announced within a week, involves a multibillion-dollar commitment by Honda for new facilities to process ...Read more
Philly DA withdraws warrant for state Rep. Kevin Boyle's arrest
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office withdrew the arrest warrant issued last week for State Rep. Kevin Boyle, after officials learned Monday that there is no active protection from abuse order that he could have violated.
Law enforcement officials on Monday did not have a clear explanation as to how a gaffe of this ...Read more
Trump paid hush money to porn star to protect brand, lawyer says
NEW YORK — Prosecutors launched the hush money trial of Donald Trump by revealing new details Monday about how they seek to prove the former president corrupted the 2016 election to bury a sex scandal, while a defense lawyer countered the payment was meant only to protect his reputation.
The trial in lower Manhattan, the first of a former ...Read more
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