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Hindu group, aiming to build temple, alleges discrimination in Nevada
LAS VEGAS — After it says it is being blocked by a Henderson ordinance from building a Hindu temple on a 5-acre patch of land in a rural neighborhood, a local Hindu group accuses the city of discrimination.
The association is now appealing to the federal government to intervene on its behalf.
The American Hindu Association says a city ...Read more
Inside LA's greatest family feud: Warring brothers. Blood betrayal. Billions at stake
Four brothers gathered in silence in the Los Angeles courtroom to hear the jury’s verdict. The decision came after 20 years of legal maneuvering by the brothers — bitter decades filled with accusations of fraud, intimidation and betrayal.
At issue was whether two of the brothers had struck an oral agreement nearly 30 years ago. Such a ...Read more
Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish
Bill Thompson’s wife had never seen him smile with confidence. For the first 20 years of their relationship, an infection in his mouth robbed him of teeth, one by one.
“I didn’t have any teeth to smile with,” the 53-year-old of Independence, Missouri, said.
Thompson said he dealt with throbbing toothaches and painful swelling in his ...Read more
LA Unified School District parents and teachers in uproar over timed academic testing for 4-year-olds
LOS ANGELES — This month in her transitional kindergarten class at L.A. Unified, student Maria Arriaga will be timed to see how many uppercase and lowercase letters she can name in a minute. She'll be tested to see if she can sound out nonsense words like vot, pag and lem, and asked to read sight words like young, speak and known.
It's a test...Read more
At 'LA Progressive Shooters,' a gun space for people sick of American gun culture
At least two hours have gone by in the Pistol 101 class, and no student has fired a bullet or even picked up a gun.
This isn't a lesson for anyone eager to pull the trigger. Tom Nguyen's teaching style is patient, aimed at demystifying an object many of his students have spent their lives fearing, even hating.
Something of a leftist firearms ...Read more
How much of Nevada's land is owned by the feds? More than you might think
LAS VEGAS — Once your tires vibrate passing over your first cattle guard out of the Las Vegas Valley, chances are you are about to stumble into what makes much of Nevada one of the last untouched Western frontiers — public land.
More than 80 percent of the Silver State belongs to a federal government agency, the highest percentage of any ...Read more
Black patients in St. Louis move up kidney transplant waitlist as racially biased test ends
Jerome Massey doesn't know all that was done behind-the-scenes to help him get a new kidney by removing an unfair barrier based on his race. But he's thankful it allowed him to get back to normal life, with long days at work and busy weekends with his children and grandkids stopping by for his barbecue.
"The law changed or something where it ...Read more
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate inside CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan
NEW YORK — Pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the lobby of the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday night, about two weeks after big NYPD crackdowns at City College of New York and other campuses.
About two dozen students demonstrated inside the lobby on Fifth Ave. near E. 34th St., hanging banners and dubbing the Center’s ...Read more
Venezuela moves substantial troops to Guyana border, report says
Venezuela’s armed forces have moved “substantial quantities” of personnel and equipment near the disputed Essequibo region that’s controlled by Guyana, a Washington-based think tank reports, potentially escalating tensions ahead of presidential elections.
The report published Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies...Read more
Putin visits Xi as US threatens China sanctions over ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin is heading to China for the first foreign visit of his new term, underlining the vital importance of the relationship as Beijing faces growing U.S. pressure to curtail support that’s helping Moscow continue its war in Ukraine.
Putin, 71, who extended his nearly quarter-century rule in tightly controlled March ...Read more
Warren, Markey, Pressley follow Boston Police review by pressing for federal probe of ShotSpotter
BOSTON — Three federal lawmakers from Massachusetts signed onto a letter urging a national probe into how ShotSpotter is being funded amid concerns that the technology Boston Police says is critical to saving lives is ineffective and racially biased.
In the Tuesday letter, U.S. Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley ...Read more
Shuttered section of Highway 1 near Big Sur to reopen Friday
BIG SUR, Calif. — A section of Highway 1 near Big Sur that fell into the Pacific Ocean in late March is slated to reopen Friday – eight days ahead of schedule, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday.
A temporary 24/7 signal will provide unrestricted public access with one-way alternating traffic in both directions of the highway, the governor�...Read more
Minnesota GOP leaders won't pass infrastructure bill if opposition party moves on ERA, gun control, other measures
With just a few days left for the Minnesota Legislature to pass bills, it’s still unclear whether there will be action on some of the biggest items at the state Capitol.
There’s still no sign of success in persuading Uber and Lyft to stay in the state, and a deal still needs to be made on close to a billion dollars in infrastructure ...Read more
Summer of 2023 was hottest in 2,000 years, study finds
An extreme summer marked by deadly heat waves, explosive wildfires and record-warm ocean temperatures will go down as among the hottest in the last 2,000 years, new research has found.
The summer of 2023 saw the temperature in the Northern Hemisphere soar 3.72 degrees above the average from 1850 to 1900, when modern instrumental recordkeeping ...Read more
Woman pleads guilty in neo-Nazi plot to attack Baltimore power grid
A Maryland woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a plot to attack the Baltimore power grid with a Florida neo-Nazi leader.
Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 36, and co-conspirator Brandon Russell, the founder of the group Atomwaffen Division, conspired to shoot up five electrical substations in the greater Baltimore area in order to “break down society,”...Read more
NYC shutters 75 illicit weed shops in first week of crackdown, with hundreds and hundreds to go
NEW YORK — Seventy-five illegal weed shops were shuttered in the first week of the Adams administration’s “Operation Padlock” crackdown on illicit marijuana sales in the city, officials announced Tuesday.
The first batch of closures marks a drop in the bucket as there are believed to be some 3,000 illegal pot shops operating in the Big ...Read more
Rollback of reforms? Advocates express concerns with new NC juvenile justice proposal
A proposal that would require some 16- and 17-year-olds to be tried initially as adults in North Carolina’s courts took a step forward on Tuesday, despite concerns by some that it would roll back protections for youths.
Currently, juveniles under 18 are tried in the state’s juvenile court after a petition is filed.
If a 16- or 17-year-old ...Read more
Couple hauling $3M in cocaine killed in shootout with Texas police after tractor-trailer chase
A Tennessee couple hauling $3 million worth of cocaine was killed in a shootout with police after a dangerous tractor-trailer chase in west Texas, authorities said Monday.
Edward and Elizabeth Stevenson, of Cookeville, Tenn., were driving the truck on Texas State Highway 70 in Donley County when law enforcement tried to pull them over, Amarillo...Read more
Rebecca Grossman's lawyers file motion for new trial, seek to overturn murder conviction
LOS ANGELES — Rebecca Grossman's new attorneys are seeking a new trial that would overturn her second-degree murder conviction in the killing of two young brothers in a Westlake Village crosswalk, arguing that prosecutors failed to prove she acted with implied malice and that erroneous evidence was admitted.
Attorneys James Spertus and Lara J...Read more
Venezuela moves substantial troops to Guyana Border, report says
Venezuela’s armed forces have moved “substantial quantities” of personnel and equipment near the disputed Essequibo region that’s controlled by Guyana, a Washington-based think tank reports, potentially escalating tensions ahead of presidential elections.
The report published Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies...Read more
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