Southern California bird smuggler sentenced to time served
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Southern California man who was got red-handed with 30 Chinese Hwamei birds in his luggage at Los Angeles International Airport was sentenced to time served Friday afternoon....
View ArticleIsraeli settlers rampage through a West Bank village, killing 1 Palestinian...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of angry Israeli settlers stormed into a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, shooting and setting houses and cars on fire. The rampage killed a...
View ArticleFaced with possibly paying for news, Google removes links to California media...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Google on Friday began removing California news websites from some people’s search results, a test that acted as a threat should the state Legislature pass a law requiring...
View ArticleHouse passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after days of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Friday to reauthorize and reform a key U.S. government surveillance tool following a dramatic showdown on the floor over whether the FBI should be restricted from...
View ArticleJudge rejects defense efforts to dismiss Hunter Biden’s federal gun case
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Delaware refused Friday to throw out a federal gun case against Hunter Biden, rejecting the president’s son’s claim that he is being prosecuted for political...
View ArticleTrump’s co-defendants ask judge to dismiss classified documents case
(CN) — Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the classified documents case asked a federal judge Friday to toss out their charges in a new volley of attacks on the special counsel’s indictment. Walt Nauta...
View ArticleBelgium launches probe into suspected Russian interference in upcoming EU...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced on Friday an investigation into suspected Russian interference in June’s Europe-wide elections, saying that his country’s...
View ArticleHunter Biden appeals
Hunter Biden filed an interlocutory appeal with the Ninth Circuit on Friday, arguing a federal judge improperly rejected his bid to dismiss tax evasion charges because a plea agreement barred the...
View ArticleFederal judge denies bid to keep Florida HIV clinics open over fraud concerns
WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal judge won’t unfreeze federal funding for two Florida-based pharmacies that provide free HIV treatment to homeless and low-income patients in the state on Friday, citing the...
View ArticleCalifornia certifies March 5 primary election results
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Californians have known the results of the March 5 primary election for weeks, though the Friday certification of that election has made the tally official. In a statement...
View ArticleCourts and churches
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the courts do not have to abstain from deciding a property dispute between the United Methodist Church and a smaller church that seeks to split...
View ArticleIdaho can ban gender-affirming care for trans kids, Supreme Court rules
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court granted on Monday an emergency application from Idaho contesting an injunction blocking the state’s ban on gender-affirming care, allowing for the ban to be...
View Article96 hours of work
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal court in Arkansas denied summary judgment to the city of McGhee, which was sued by a female paramedic it fired after she refused a new schedule that required her to work...
View ArticleUnited Nations says US slacking on combating forever chemicals in North...
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — Not enough is being done to protect the health of residents impacted by contaminated drinking water, advocacy group Clean Cape Fear said Monday, following the United Nations’...
View ArticleCalifornia sues Huntington Beach over voter ID referendum
LOS ANGELES (CN) — California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday his office has sued against the Southern California city of Huntington Beach over a recently passed charter amendment requiring...
View ArticleNASA goes back to drawing board on Mars sample return mission
(CN) — NASA needs to rethink its goal of returning samples from the Martian surface to Earth, the agency’s administrator Bill Nelson said in a press call on Monday. Per analyses of the current...
View ArticleFollowers of polygamist church leader refuse plea offers, will proceed to trial
PHOENIX (CN) — As more wives of the former polygamist church leader Samuel Rappylee Bateman plead guilty to various charges, two of his closest followers continue refusing to cooperate with the...
View ArticleFormer Marine gets nine years in firebombing of Planned Parenthood clinic
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) — A former U.S. Marine who pleaded guilty to firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic in Southern California was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Monday afternoon....
View ArticlePartitioning embryos: Couple battles over microscopic property rights
FAIRFAX, Va. (CN) — In 2018, with their relationship in tatters, Honeyhline and Jason Heidemann ended their marriage but were unable to settle an important issue: What would become of two frozen...
View ArticleTax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax Day reveals a major split in how Joe Biden and Donald Trump would govern: The presidential candidates have conflicting ideas about how much to reveal about their own finances and...
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