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Cannabis legalization may hit a ‘red wall’ at the ballot box
Cannabis legalization is on the ballot again this November.
Voters in Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota will decide whether to allow adults 21 and up in their states to use cannabis recreationally.
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Biden's AI national security memo calls for heavy lift
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s directive to all U.S. national security agencies to embed artificial intelligence technologies in their systems sets ambitious targets amid a volatile political environment.
That’s...Read more
Boeing raises $21 Billion in capital to repair balance sheet
Boeing Co. raised around $21 billion in an expanded share sale, one of the largest ever by a public company, shoring up its balance sheet as it seeks to stave off a potential credit rating downgrade to junk.
The U.S. ...Read more
Landlords pile 'junk fees' on Colorado renters, sometimes adding hundreds to advertised prices
Franklin Ramirez felt duped.
When he moved to Denver a little more than a year ago, he was told monthly rent at his two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in the downtown Civic Lofts building cost $2,355.
Then came the ...Read more
Target, Walmart lower prices this year with competing Thanksgiving meal deals
With a month until Turkey Day arrives, Walmart, Target and grocery chains are already putting Thanksgiving meal food and supplies on sale.
Earlier this month, Walmart boasted its “inflation-free” turkey and sides will...Read more
Can Ameren's newly shuttered coal plant in Missouri find new life? Other coal sites have
Ameren’s second-largest coal plant has put its last electricity onto the grid and emitted its final plumes of air pollution, which has fueled a years-long court battle — a conflict that is still unresolved, as parties ...Read more
List of DVD release dates for Oct. 29 and beyond
Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:
OCTOBER
29: Dìdi
29: Crackcoon
29: Holiday Hotline
29: My Life is Murder: Series 4
29: Round and Round
29: The Perfect ...Read more
'What We Do in the Shadows' is approaching the end, but 'life goes on' in the vampire comedy
When Harvey Guillén first learned that his "What We Do in the Shadows" character, Guillermo, would finally be turning into a vampire, he thought the show was ending.
"They didn't tell us that Guillermo was going to ...Read more
Nina Metz: Where have all the TV theme songs gone?
A couple of months ahead of the premiere of “Matlock” on CBS, I went back and revisited episodes of the original legal drama starring Andy Griffith. It ran from 1986 to 1995 and its case-of-the-week structure still ...Read more
Bouncy '80s pop takes root in 'New Wave,' a film about Vietnamese Americans' glam glory days
LOS ANGELES — Violent, traumatizing scenes flash on the screen — battles, bullets, children being cradled, people fleeing from Vietnam to refuge in America — as "New Wave," the documentary, opens. These are the ...Read more
Ryan Cameron helms new Atlanta-based Fox Soul/YouTube talk show 'Truth Talks'
ATLANTA — Before the taping of the very first episode of Fox Soul’s new daily “Truth Talks” panel talk show in downtown Atlanta on a recent Sunday night, executive producer Jodi Gomes gathered the cast and crew to ...Read more
This 'Scream' parody went viral and saved a Las Vegas theater group
LAS VEGAS — Troy Heard knew he was onto something when his brain somehow connected Natalie Imbruglia’s biggest song with the murder of Tatum Riley, Rose McGowan’s character, in “Scream.”
Each night in Majestic ...Read more
Who is Taylor Polidore Williams, lead of Tyler Perry's 'Beauty in Black'?
ATLANTA — Atlanta actress Taylor Polidore Williams last year landed a solid secondary role in Tyler Perry’s Amazon drama “Divorce in the Black.”
She impressed Perry so much that he hired Williams to lead his very ...Read more
What to know about controversial changes to Maryland's juvenile justice laws taking effect Friday
BALTIMORE – Come Friday, Marylanders between the ages of 10 and 12 can face consequences in court for some firearms offenses and aggravated animal cruelty.
At the same time, if children on electronic monitoring violate ...Read more
Editorial: Trump's threat to the Fed's independence is no joke
A second Donald Trump presidency poses grave dangers for the U.S. Weighed against the chances of exploding public debt, the collapse of global trade and the erosion of democratic norms, the risk that he’d attack the ...Read more
Commentary: Christian nationalism's legacy of hate
For three years, from the ages of 13 to 15, I attended an evangelical Christian summer camp in Wears Valley, Tennessee. Billed as an adventure camp (it included activities such as archery and river tubing), this was the ...Read more
The polls say the presidential election is a dead heat. But online bettors are leaning to Trump. Who's right?
According to the prediction market PredictIt, online bettors on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election now seem to feel a Trump victory is more likely.
In the countdown to the 2024 American presidential election, ...Read more
In northern Ohio, a veteran lawmaker faces a more skeptical landscape
DEFIANCE, Ohio — With just a week to go before the 2024 election, Marcy Kaptur wanted help.
She wasn’t looking for donations or requesting canvassing support in the election’s waning days. Instead, at a Saturday ...Read more
Commentary: Felons are barred from many jobs; president should be one of them
What can a felon do? Become president of the United States.
What can’t a felon do? That’s quite the list.
Ever since Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records back in May — something that hasn’...Read more
Kansas and Missouri attorneys general could help Trump try to overturn an election loss. Here's how
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, possessed no power this spring to stop a New York jury from finding Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of ...Read more
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