Three members of the arson and explosives unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were killed Friday in a blast at the department’s training facility. It was not immediately clear what they were doing when the explosion happened in a parking lot at the Biscailuz Training Facility or what caused it. However an early line […]
A federal judge in New York on Friday dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward regarding the ownership of interviews with the president published by the leading reporter. In the last year of his first term in the Oval Office, Trump sat for over two dozen interviews with Woodward as the journalist wrote […]
ATOP LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Maine (AP) — The founder of Burt’s Bees envisioned a tribute to Henry David Thoreau when she began buying thousands of acres of logging company land to donate for what would become the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. But there was a major pivot: The monument’s new welcome center tells its […]
(The Center Square) – The State Bar of Wisconsin will remove diversity, equity and inclusion language from its programs in a shift that is expected to reshape how the organization structures trainings and educational requirements in the future. In the federal lawsuit settlement with Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, the Bar also agreed to […]
(The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Patty Murray warned Friday that 14 hospitals in her home state of Washington may close due to Medicaid cuts in the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. President Donald Trump signed the roughly 900-page bill, which fulfills much of his agenda, into law on July 4. The budget reconciliation […]
(The Center Square) — Areas in California remain in flames as the state undergoes the peak of wildfire season. The Green Fire in Shasta County has burned 17,606 acres and is 27% contained as of Friday afternoon, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The fire started July 1 and continues to progress southward along […]
(The Center Square) – The California Senate and now a key Assembly committee have passed a bill that would allow cities to charge businesses up to $650 for returning shopping carts stolen from them. The measure, Senate Bill 753, was introduced at the urging of the city of San Jose, which faces major homelessness and […]
(The Center Square) – Sentencing is scheduled Monday for former ComEd Chief Executive Officer Anne Pramaggiore, who was convicted of corruption in a scheme to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. In May of 2023, a federal jury convicted Pramaggiore and three others of conspiracy, bribery and falsifying records. Last Monday, U.S. District Court […]
Jeffrey Epstein’s brother on Friday called on Steve Bannon, a former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, to release hours of video footage shot years ago with the now-dead sex offender. “Let me see the videotapes,” Mark Epstein told NBC News. “He’s my brother.” Bannon spent 15 hours interviewing Epstein in 2019 for what he […]
(The Center Square) — U.S. senators from Arizona and Nevada have introduced legislation declaring extreme heat a major disaster. The Extreme Heat Emergency Act from Sens. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, and Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, would “explicitly authorize extreme heat as eligible for a Major Disaster Declaration” by the president of the United States under the Stafford Act, […]
