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NEW YORK — New York state’s much-maligned Office of Cannabis Management will get new leadership and streamline its torpid permitting process for retailers, Gov. Hochul said Friday, moving to address failures that have ...Read more

ATLANTA — After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022 allowing states like Georgia to institute abortion bans, states with abortion bans or restrictions started attracting fewer medical residents, the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Faced with a $44.9 billion budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom described a plan to shrink the size of state government and slow his progressive policy agenda by eliminating 10,000 vacant state jobs and...Read more

Two new COVID-19 subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are increasingly edging out the winter's dominant strain ahead of a possible summer uptick in coronavirus infections.

The new FLiRT subvariants, officially known...Read more

NEW YORK — A bid by Donald Trump’s lawyers to show he was concerned about how his family would take the news of the Stormy Daniels sex tryst allegations fizzled Friday as testimony in the ex-president’s hush money ...Read more

ATLANTA — An inmate who escaped from deputies while in custody at a hospital has been located, the Newton County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Kendrick Darnell Hurst, 34, ran from deputies Saturday at Piedmont Newton ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio once called Donald Trump a “con artist” too “dangerous” and “erratic” to be entrusted with nuclear codes. But in a few months, Rubio could be calling Trump something else...Read more

Apple store workers in Towson, Maryland, who became the first of the tech giant’s U.S. employees to unionize nearly two years ago, will decide Saturday whether to prepare to go on strike.

The union representing about ...Read more

Elon Musk touted plans to expand Tesla Inc.’s Supercharger network just over a week after firing almost all of the roughly 500 people who ran the business.

Tesla will spend “well over” $500 million on growing its ...Read more

In the course of a week, Drake's mansion in Toronto has been the site of a shooting and two separate incidents of alleged trespassing.

Toronto police officers reported back to the "God's Plan" rapper's home Thursday ...Read more

Amid persistent calls from the United States and other countries that Israel needs to make it easier for life-saving aid to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military closed two of the region’s few ...Read more

CHICAGO — Wendella engineer Miguel Chavez climbed down a ladder and over a small dock Wednesday to pull up a trap floating in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. The size of a standard garbage can, the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —Police began moving in early Friday morning to dismantle the 16-day old pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia police dressed in riot gear with zip ties and shields ...Read more

SpaceX’s plans to build a Starship launch complex at Kennedy Space Center are moving closer to reality even as it potentially takes over a launch site from neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The Federal ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Legal Marijuana Now Party will no longer be recognized as a major political party in Minnesota after the state Supreme Court ruled Friday that they failed to meet legal requirements to maintain that ...Read more

ATLANTA — “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” takes the saga 300 years into the future from the last film in 2017, focused around a tribe of apes who nurture eagles and possess no real knowledge about what happened ...Read more

DENVER — Montreal’s Arcade Fire will play its only North American show of 2024 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre to mark the 20th anniversary of landmark album “Funeral.”

The LP, which launched the band’s influential ...Read more

Right-wing firebrand Steve Bannon is likely headed to prison after a federal appeals court Friday upheld his conviction for defying the Congressional probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The hardline supporter of ...Read more

Cypress Hill broke the mold in the early 1990s with a unique blend of hip-hop, Latin and rock on top of its unabashedly open embrace of legalizing marijuana.

Three decades later, the core group Sen Dog, B-Real, DJ Muggs ...Read more

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. is set to meet with senior Justice Department officials in the coming weeks in a bid to stave off a potential antitrust lawsuit to break up the company.

It isn’t likely to work.

The ...Read more