The Supreme Court might be about to do something. Or might not. Neither way would change much in California — but regardless, California’s lawmakers are here to save the day! Ever since a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion leaked signaling the high court could overturn Roe v. Wade and send the question of a legal…
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rallied on Wall Street Friday, but not enough to claw back all the losses the market has taken in this volatile week of trading. The S&P 500 rose 2.2% as of 1:22 p.m. Eastern. The benchmark index is still on track for its 6th straight losing…
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By JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli riot police on Friday pushed and beat pallbearers at the funeral for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, causing them to briefly drop the casket in a shocking start to a procession that turned into perhaps the largest display of Palestinian nationalism in Jerusalem in a generation.…
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By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and DAVID KEYTON KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces suffered heavy losses in a Ukrainian attack that destroyed a pontoon bridge they were using to try to cross a river in the east, Ukrainian and British officials said in another sign of Moscow’s struggle to salvage a war gone awry. Ukrainian authorities,…
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By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER POTOMAC, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden ‘s motorcade sped through the evening rush hour-choked streets of Washington earlier this week bound for Maryland Rep. David Trone’s spacious estate close to the Potomac River. Speaking for 14 minutes near a backyard pool amid the smell of barbeque, Biden told…
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By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is entering the next budget year with a record-smashing surplus of nearly $100 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday. Newsom unveiled a revised budget plan of just over $300 billion for the next fiscal year, the highest in state history and fueled by surging tax revenues. The…
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Ahead of a June deadline to finalize the state budget, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office on Thursday announced that for the first time, California’s high inflation rate has triggered a hike in the minimum wage next year — to $15.50 an hour for all workers. The announcement came as the governor’s office also unveiled an $18.1…
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By FRANK JORDANS WEISSENHAUS, Germany (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister said Friday that his country is willing to engage in diplomatic talks with Russia to unblock grain supplies and to achieve a political solution to the war in Ukraine but won’t accept ultimatums from Moscow. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the Ukrainian government had received…
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Ramona Klein’s voice quivered as she sat before a U.S. House subcommittee in Washington, D.C., recounting horrific childhood memories of Fort Totten Indian boarding school in North Dakota, where she was a student. There, she said, she was starved, beaten, humiliated, and sexually assaulted. Oftentimes, she found herself staring out the frosty window of her…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now San Juan Hills diver Avery Giese delivered when it counted most Thursday to become a state champion. The sophomore scored mostly 8.0s and 7.5s on her 11th and final dive — a back 1 1/2 somersault with 1/2 twist on the 1-meter springboard…
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