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Xi says China is ready to work with Trump to boost relations
Chinese leader Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden that he’s ready to work with Donald Trump to improve the relationship between the world’s biggest economies.
Speaking at the start of what’s expected to be ...Read more
Retired diesel-powered Caltrain fleet to be transferred to Peru to address transportation issues
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Since Caltrain has switched to electric all-electric trains, their retired diesel fleet will be sent to Lima, Peru, to serve passenger rail service there, according to a Caltrain news release.
After ...Read more
Trump's friends in Europe welcome return of a kindred spirit
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban drank vodka to celebrate. Lawmakers from Poland’s biggest opposition party stood up in parliament and chanted his name. The Bosnian Serb leader, sanctioned by the U.S. for corruption...Read more
Male model Dynus Saxon officially charged with murder, held without bail in Bronx fatal stabbing
NEW YORK — Three months ago, male model Dynus Saxon confidently strutted down the red carpet at the premiere of the superhero smash “Deadpool & Wolverine.” It was one of several red carpet rides the steely eyed, ...Read more
Boston Mayor Wu to seek reelection … after her baby arrives
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu reaffirmed her decision to seek reelection in 2025 this week, saying that she plans to formally announce after her baby is born in January, as two potential challengers are still weighing whether ...Read more
'I'll never stop missing you': Dozens mourn teen who died swimming off Miami Beach
MIAMI — A somber crowd amassed on the sandy beaches of South Pointe in Miami Beach Saturday afternoon, carrying flowers and holding back tears as they mourned the loss of 19-year-old Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr.
Wearing...Read more
King tides have returned to the San Diego coast. But are they really as royal as their name implies?
SAN DIEGO — King tides will sweep across San Diego beaches this weekend and a few others over the next few months, sending powerful waves surging against seawalls and making for unusually low tides — prime ...Read more
Aide to top NYPD chief raked in $400,000 as administrators cash in on overtime bonanza
NEW YORK — Meet the highest paid member of the NYPD — and it’s not the Police Commissioner.
Quathisha Epps, a lieutenant special assignment who works in Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey’s office, made $406,515 ...Read more
Bessent, Lutnick in final push for Trump Treasury secretary pick
Billionaire Elon Musk voiced support for Howard Lutnick in the race to be President-elect Donald Trump’s next Treasury secretary as warring camps make final pushes for the coveted Cabinet post.
The infighting has ...Read more
NHC continues tracking Tropical Storm Sara
ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Sara is forecast to slog its way over Central America this weekend but lose organization before remnants make their way into the Gulf of Mexico and get sucked back to the east toward ...Read more
First US case of mpox variant reported in California
LOS ANGELES — The first case in the U.S. of a more severe mpox variant has been confirmed in a person who had recently traveled to East Africa and was treated in San Mateo County, the California Department of Public ...Read more
Crypto 'godfather' of Bel-Air: Probe widens into LA deputies' alleged links to mogul
LOS ANGELES — Adam Iza grew up a world away from the Bel-Air mansion he inhabited before his arrest in September.
As his lawyer Josef Sadat tells it, Iza was poor during his childhood in Iraq, borrowing a computer from ...Read more
Putin cracks down on corrupt officials to buttress war machine
Russia, ranked the most corrupt of the world’s biggest economies, is intensifying a crack down on graft among officials that has risked undermining the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and further straining state coffers....Read more
California regulators propose plan that could close Aliso Canyon. Or is it just 'kicking the can'?
LOS ANGELES — The California Public Utilities Commission this week unveiled a proposal that could potentially close the Aliso Canyon gas storage field in the coming years, but local activists and politicians say it doesn...Read more
Staten Island officials accuse Whoopi Goldberg of defaming Holtermann's Bakery
NEW YORK — Whoopi Goldberg was publicly accused of defamation on Friday, two days after “The View” co-host suggested a bakery didn’t want to make her birthday desserts due to her left-leaning political views.
...Read more
Missourian who wanted to be a cop gets prison time for assaulting officer in Jan. 6 case
WASHINGTON — A southwest Missouri man who wanted to someday be a cop was sentenced Friday to one year in prison for assaulting an officer and several other offenses committed during the Capitol riot.
Kyler Joseph Bard, ...Read more
Walking pneumonia, whooping cough surge in San Diego County
SAN DIEGO — San Diego County’s public health department warned local doctors Friday that the region is in the midst of a significant increase in walking pneumonia cases, especially among children ages 2 to 4, echoing a...Read more
Chicago mayor to skip slain officer's funeral after all
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson reversed course Saturday and announced he will not attend a slain cop’s funeral after the officer’s family told him to stay away.
Johnson’s office had said Friday he would go to the...Read more
Trump chooses oil fracking boss Wright as energy secretary
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Chris Wright, who runs a Colorado-based oil and natural gas fracking services company, to lead the Energy Department.
Wright, the chief executive officer of Liberty Energy Inc., has ...Read more
Musk throws support to Lutnick over Bessent in Treasury race
Billionaire Elon Musk voiced support for Howard Lutnick in the race to be President-elect Donald Trump’s next Treasury secretary as warring camps make final pushes for the coveted Cabinet post.
The infighting has ...Read more
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