Former Uvalde school police chief and officer indicted over Robb Elementary...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The former Uvalde schools police chief and another former officer have been indicted over their role in the slow police response to the 2022 massacre at a Texas elementary school...
View ArticleIsrael lets 19 kids leave Gaza who are sick or wounded, first medical...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli authorities say 68 people — 19 sick or wounded children plus their companions — have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists sue feds over oil-and-gas lease renewals in Santa Barbara...
LOS ANGELES (CN) — The Center for Biological Diversity and the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation on Thursday sued the U.S. Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement...
View ArticleCalifornia oil industry group drops referendum against law banning oil wells...
(CN) — An oil industry group said Thursday it will be pulling its referendum challenging a California law that banned new oil wells near homes, schools and businesses from the state’s November ballot....
View ArticleConstant pickleball racket driving suburban Denver neighbors up a sound wall
LONE TREE, Colo. (CN) — No one should be forced to endure the sound of pickup pickleball for hours on end, argue a group of neighbors in a 13-page nuisance complaint filed against the city of Lone...
View ArticleBiden and Trump face off in first 2024 presidential debate
ATLANTA (CN) — CNN hosted the first presidential debate 2024 debate Thursday night between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, where the two presumptive nominees each called the...
View ArticleCalifornia elections chief finalizes initiatives for November ballot
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California voters will have several ballot measures to decide this November, ranging from the elimination of involuntary servitude in prison to a new minimum wage. But one of...
View ArticleSurvivors of Israel music festival massacre unite to build a healing community
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In the months since Hamas’ surprise attack sent them scattering across fields or hiding in desert brush, thousands of survivors of a massacre at a trance festival in Israel...
View ArticleClosing Arguments: Past issues
Closing Arguments — a weekly roundup of stories from courthouses across the U.S. and the world. Find the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and hot cases and rulings that have flown under...
View ArticleHomelessness in LA falls for first time in 6 years
LOS ANGELES (CN) — The number of homeless people living in Los Angeles has fallen by 2% compared to last year, according to results from the metroplex’s annual homeless count released on Friday....
View ArticlePolls close in Iran presidential election held after hard-liner’s death and...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranians voted on Friday in a snap election to replace the late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, with the race’s sole reformist candidate vowing to seek “friendly...
View ArticleEnvironmental group sues Navy and EPA over radioactive waste cleanup at San...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice sued the U.S. Navy and the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday over what they claim is mismanagement of the cleanup of...
View ArticleA decade after the Islamic State group declared a caliphate, it’s defeated...
BAGHDAD (AP) — A decade after the Islamic State militant group declared its caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria, the extremists no longer control any land, have lost many prominent leaders and...
View Article4 Missouri prison guards charged with murder, and a 5th with manslaughter, in...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Four Missouri prison guards were charged Friday with murder, and a fifth with accessory to involuntary manslaughter, in the December death of a Black man who was pepper sprayed,...
View ArticleEagles co-founder sues collectors over ‘Hotel California’ lyrics ownership
(CN) — The Eagles drummer and co-founder Don Henley sued two rock memorabilia collectors in Manhattan federal court Friday, hoping to prove that he is the rightful owner of lyric sheets for the band’s...
View ArticleHawaii governor approves 13 bills for Native Hawaiian housing, cultural...
HONOLULU (CN) — Hawaii Governor Josh Green signed 13 bills Friday targeting key issues facing the Native Hawaiian community and will fund Hawaiian homelands, support Hawaiian language education and...
View ArticleJudge partially ends historic Flores agreement that protects migrant children
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A federal judge on Friday agreed to partially terminate the 1997 Flores agreement that shields underage migrants apprehended at the U.S. border from incarceration and sets strict...
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View ArticleDivided Oakland City Council passes budget relying on $63 million sale of...
OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Oakland’s elected leaders finally approved a $2.2 billion budget amid major revenue problems and discord over how to spend the proceeds from the sale of the city’s share of the...
View ArticleCalifornia voters likely to choose between rival crime bills in November...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — A last-minute ballot measure to reform a controversial crime law continued its march through the California Legislature on Tuesday as it passed out of the Assembly Public...
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