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Dietary guidelines become mired in war over alcohol safety
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and industry players are asking the Department of Health and Human Services to put a stop to a controversial study on alcohol and health that could inform the next round of U.S. nutrition recommendations.
Specifically, they’re taking issue with a committee ...Read more
Mexico's ex-security czar gets 38 years for cartel bribes. Is he the first of many?
NEW YORK — In the history of narco-corruption in Mexico, no higher-ranking official than Genaro García Luna has ever faced justice in the United States.
He's nowhere near as infamous as Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former Sinaloa cartel leader now serving life in prison. He doesn't have a nickname or a Netflix series. But according to ...Read more
California parole board halts early release of serial rapist, heir to cosmetics fortune
LOS ANGELES — The California Board of Parole Hearings reversed a decision made in August to allow the early release of Andrew Stuart Luster, a serial rapist who drugged young women in college bars during the late 1990s and later was captured by a bounty hunter when he fled to Mexico to avoid his trial.
Luster, a great-grandson of cosmetics ...Read more
With donations to NYC Mayor Adams' defense trust slowing, who will pay the lawyers?
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ legal defense trust received less than $100,000 in donations over the past three months, a sharp downturn in fundraising that raises questions about how he’ll be able to afford his high-priced team of lawyers as he faces a federal corruption indictment.
New filings released late Tuesday show Adams’ trust ...Read more
US Rep. Lauren Boebert's son pleads guilty to attempted identity theft in Colorado
DENVER — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son, Tyler Jay Boebert, pleaded guilty to attempted identity theft in Garfield County Court last week and was sentenced to community service and a deferred judgment.
Tyler Boebert, 19, was arrested in February after Rifle police alleged he was involved in a string of car break-ins and stolen credit cards ...Read more
39 additional UC Irvine protesters face misdemeanor charges for pro-Palestinian demonstration
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Orange County prosecutors have filed misdemeanor charges against 39 additional protesters accused of failing to disperse after a May 15 pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California, Irvine was deemed unlawful by Irvine police.
The new charges were announced on Wednesday, hours before the original 10 people ...Read more
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao adamant as recall looms: 'Crime is down'
OAKLAND, Calif. — For what could be the final time, Mayor Sheng Thao took stock of the city she’s led for two years, describing a place that looks markedly different from how her harshest critics describe it.
“I said this last year and I’ll say it again: Oakland, our challenges are great, but our people are greater,” Thao said Tuesday...Read more
FTC adopts 'click to cancel' rule to make it easier to end subscriptions, mirroring California law
The Federal Trade Commission continued its crackdown on businesses that deceptively market and sell subscription services, adopting a rule Wednesday requiring companies to let consumers cancel a gym membership, streaming video service or other subscription as easily as they started it.
The rule expands the FTC's restrictions on "negative option...Read more
Pentagon confirms mysterious drones flew above Langley Air Force Base several times last year
The Pentagon this week confirmed news reports of unidentified drones swarming the airspace at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, last year.
The Hampton base experienced incursions of unauthorized unmanned aerial systems in December, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters Tuesday.
“The number of those UAS incursions did ...Read more
Judge invalidates Georgia's new election certification rules
ATLANTA — A judge invalidated seven new Georgia election rules Wednesday, including requirements for a “reasonable inquiry” before elections are certified, hand counts on election night and additional access for partisan poll watchers.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox Jr. declared the rules, passed by the State Election Board...Read more
Illinois installs supermarket kiosks for license renewals, other DMV transactions
CHICAGO — The Illinois secretary of state’s office this week said it installed more than a dozen kiosks in supermarkets to give residents an opportunity to renew their driver’s licenses or other state IDs and obtain vehicle stickers while grocery shopping or running errands.
The pilot program marks the latest effort by Secretary of State ...Read more
Visiting US delegation to Haiti delivered a strong message to the warring leaders
As Haiti’s leaders in a U.S.-backed transition continue to be divided over the fate of the country’s foreign minister, a visiting U.S. delegation on Wednesday made the administration’s position clear: “country over party.”
“Haiti would really benefit from having all of the current government officials to continue to put country over...Read more
Jack Smith says Trump responsible for actions of Jan. 6 mob in new court filing
Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday accused former President Donald Trump of being responsible for the actions of the mob of his supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 2021.
The prosecutor said Trump showed his criminal colors by openly bullying ex-Vice President Mike Pence and urging his extremist followers to physically prevent ...Read more
Alabama voter roll purge before election is blocked by judge
WASHINGTON — A federal judge blocked Alabama election officials from carrying out a last-minute purge of names from lists of registered voters, finding the state “blew” a 90-day nationwide deadline to maintain the status quo ahead of the November election.
The order Wednesday is a win for the U.S. Department of Justice, which sued after ...Read more
ACLU backs Karen Read's appeal of her murder charge
BOSTON — The ACLU has jumped into the Karen Read Supreme Judicial Court fight on the side of the accused murderer.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed a brief in Read’s appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court to have two of the three charges against her — including second-degree murder — dropped in her second ...Read more
Why Tampa Bay Hispanics turned to Facebook, WhatsApp during Milton
Isaret Jeffers doesn’t have millions of followers. But she has enough to feel like she’s doing something valuable.
Hours before Hurricane Milton hit Florida, Jeffers, a community activist who works with the Hispanic population and farmworkers in Plant City, rushed to post in Spanish on her Facebook account that there was still time to ...Read more
Lawsuit filed to try to remove Florida abortion amendment from ballot
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A group of anti-abortion advocates are trying to force Florida’s abortion amendment off the ballot this November or void any votes cast for it, citing a report from the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis that said there was “widespread” fraud in the petition gathering for the effort.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in the...Read more
LA Catholic Church to pay record settlement over clergy abuse; cumulative payouts top $1.5 billion
LOS ANGELES — In what could be the closing chapter in a landmark legal battle, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades in the largest settlement involving the Catholic Church.
Attorneys for 1,353 people who allege that they suffered horrific abuse at the hands of ...Read more
Robert Telles sentenced for murdering Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German
LAS VEGAS — The brother of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German spoke calmly on Wednesday, before a judge decided how long former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles will spend in prison until he is eligible for parole for killing the journalist.
“We have a lot of anxiety about the future safety of our ...Read more
Israel steps up strikes in Lebanon as the conflict escalates
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Lebanon and said a senior Hezbollah commander in the south of the country had been killed, the latest escalation of its conflict with the Iran-backed militant group.
The Israeli military reported the assassination of Hezbollah’s head of the Qana area on Wednesday. Lebanese officials said Israeli strikes on the ...Read more
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