By RAF CASERT and FOSTER KLUG BRUSSELS (AP) — BRUSSELS (AP) — The world has made it clear that a military intervention in Ukraine is off the table for now, so most countries on Friday were heaping more punishment on Moscow — from financial to football sanctions. The European Union was closing in on freezing…
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SACRAMENTO – UC Berkeley researchers in 1995 conducted an exhaustive survey of the California Environmental Quality Act and declared that the landmark environmental law “could be improved” by toughening its standards and expanding regulatory oversight. The researchers mainly feared that CEQA doesn’t do enough to protect the environment. One might expect that myopic conclusion from…
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Although she’s been the public face of Orange County’s pandemic response efforts for months, Dr. Regina Chinsio-Kwong will likely get a new title to better reflect her recent role: county health officer. Chinsio-Kwong (known as Dr. C-K) is currently deputy health officer at the OC Health Care Agency, and on March 8 the Board of…
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Q. Dear Mr. Honk: Is a child who is still required to use a booster seat allowed to sit in the front seat of a two-door pickup truck? What about when the child no longer needs the booster? Many times this is the only vehicle available to transport a child. — Linda Scott, Placentia A.…
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Wes Welker showed up at practice 15 minutes before it started every day as a Miami Dolphins player, just to warm up for warmups. Now he inherits a Miami Dolphins receiving corps that had trouble showing up for practice at all. Welker was called too short by scouts, too slow by coaches and ‘’Vince Papale,”…
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By JOSH BOAK, FATIMA HUSSEIN and KEN SWEET WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and European officials are holding one key financial sanction against Russia in reserve, choosing not to boot Russia off SWIFT, the dominant system for global financial transactions. The Russian invasion of Ukraine caused a barrage of new financial sanctions Thursday. The sanctions are…
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Not too long ago, opponents of the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom were calling the effort “undemocratic.” The issue, apparently, was that Newsom could have potentially been replaced by someone with fewer votes than him, even though the recall and replacement were essentially two separate elections. An underwhelming outcome? Maybe. But labeling it undemocratic was…
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Yurii Zhyhanov woke to his mother’s screaming and found himself covered in dust. On the second day of Russia’s invasion, shelling on the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, struck their residential building before dawn. Many civilians, horrified to find their lives at risk, started to flee during the attack’s first hours.…
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — Hank the Tank is actually a three-bear battalion. DNA evidence now shows that the 500-pound black bear the public had nicknamed “Hank the Tank” is, in fact, at least three not-so-little bears who have damaged more than 30 properties around Lake Tahoe in recent months. The state Department of Fish and…
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By YURAS KARMANAU, JIM HEINTZ, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops bore down on Ukraine’s capital Friday, with gunfire and explosions resonating ever closer to the government quarter, in an invasion of a democratic country that has fueled fears of wider war in Europe and triggered worldwide efforts to make…
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