New York to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate change
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Large fossil fuel companies would have to pay fees to help New York fight the effects of climate change under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law requires...
View ArticleEx-Sen. Bob Menendez, citing ’emotional toll,’ seeks sentencing delay in wake...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez asked a federal judge on Thursday to delay his end-of-January sentencing on bribery charges and acting as an agent of the Egyptian government, saying his...
View ArticleIsraeli troops forcibly remove staff and patients from northern Gaza...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in northern Gaza on Friday, forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather, the...
View ArticleA 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone...
View ArticleAn online debate over foreign workers in tech shows tensions in Trump’s...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public...
View ArticleFather of Raiders star Malcolm Koonce has 1983 conviction tossed after DA...
NEW YORK (AP) — Years before Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Malcolm Koonce was born, his father spent time in prison for an armed robbery conviction that prosecutors now say was tainted by a...
View ArticleMost Americans blame insurance profits and denials alongside the killer in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans believe health insurance profits and coverage denials share responsibility for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO — although not as much as the person who pulled...
View ArticleJanet Yellen tells Congress US could hit debt limit in mid-January
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the...
View ArticleNASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface
NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record-breaking...
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Pushing TikTok deal, Trump opposes ban at SCOTUS
WASHINGTON (CN) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday urged the Supreme Court to delay a TikTok ban so he can negotiate a deal that would avoid a nationwide shutdown of the app. Despite igniting...
View ArticleJudge advances Giuliani’s Palm Beach condo receivership to Georgia election...
MANHATTAN (CN) — A New York federal judge on Friday declined to grant former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani’s bid to toss out his creditors’ claims to collect his Florida lakeview apartment to...
View ArticleAI might start selling your choices before you make them, study warns
(CN) — AI ethicists are cautioning that the rise of artificial intelligence may bring with it the commodification of even one’s motivations. Researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme...
View ArticleNo indemnity for rent-fixer
DALLAS — A Texas federal court ruled in favor of an insurer, finding that it had no duty to indemnify a property management company that is facing 35 putative class action lawsuits for price-fixing and...
View ArticleCalifornia insurers see hope in high-risk area regulations
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California’s insurance commissioner on Monday issued his final major change in a yearlong process to reform industry regulations and expand coverage in high-risk areas....
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