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John Seiler: Herb Morgan is running to revamp California’s accounting
8+ hour, 19+ min ago (354+ words) Can a Republican win an election for California's state controller? Herb Morgan is trying. He's the chief investment officer of Efficient Market Advisers of La Jolla, an investment firm, and has served on the board of the San Diego City…...
Russia plans to send second oil tanker to Cuba
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (439+ words) The announcement comes just two days after sanctioned Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin'docked at the Cuban port of Matanzas'laden with 730,000 barrels of oil, marking the first time in three months that an oil tanker reached the island. Experts have said that…...
San Bernardino’s Treasure Ortiz was arrested twice, denied it
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (1101+ words) It was April Fool's Day, perhaps the calendar's perfect slot for a meeting of the San Bernardino City Council. And yet there was little to laugh about Wednesday. In a rare rebuke, council members voted 6-0 to censure Treasure Ortiz for…...
Florida and Mississippi enact voter citizenship checks, sparking a lawsuit in the Sunshine State
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (408+ words) The law signed Wednesday by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was immediately challenged in court by civil rights organizations that said it will make it harder for Floridians to vote. The citizenship provision of the law goes into effect Jan. 1. It…...
Trump administration appeals ruling that blocked Pentagon action against Anthropic over AI dispute
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (409+ words) Department of Justice attorneys filed a notice in San Francisco federal court on Thursday of their intention to appeal'last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Rita Lin. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which will review Lin's order, set an April…...
Attacks persist on Iran and across the Mideast as Trump threatens escalation
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (901+ words) By JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING Trump, who is scheduled to give a televised address Wednesday evening, said Tuesday he'could walk away from the war'in two to three weeks once he felt confident Iran would not be able to build…...
Army investigating after helicopters hovered alongside Kid Rock’s swimming pool as he saluted
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (233+ words) By TRAVIS LOLLER and KRISTIN M. HALL Kid Rock posted two videos on social media on Saturday. Each shows a helicopter hovering alongside his swimming pool while the entertainer claps, salutes and raises his fist in the air. The Nashville skyline…...
Trump mostly cheered while attending opening night of ‘Chicago’ at the Kennedy Center
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (548+ words) By STEVEN SLOAN and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Trump made the short trip from the White House just after'signing an executive order'to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and to restrict mail-in voting, a move that drew swift…...
Citing First Amendment, federal judge blocks Trump order to end funding for NPR and PBS
6+ day, 4+ min ago (547+ words) The operational impact of U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss" decision was not immediately clear " both because it will likely be appealed and because too much damage to the public-broadcasting system has already been done, both by the president and Congress. Moss…...
Agustina Vergara Cid: Killing Section 230 would end our free internet
1+ week, 2+ day ago (292+ words) Most of us spend hours every week scrolling social media platforms, reading the news, and buying stuff online without thinking about the legal framework that makes the internet possible. Famously known as "The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet," Section…...