This week, Congress advanced four separate bills with $95 billion in funding for Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific allies and the domestic submarine industrial base. This funding has been debated for months, with much of it intended for wars that have been going on — and likely will continue — for a while. In other words, it’s…
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California schools may soon need to provide halal and kosher meal options for students. Dubbed the Halal and Kosher School Meals Act, a proposed bill in the California Legislature would require schools to provide kosher or halal meals if more than 5% of their students request such. Both kosher and halal meals follow specific Jewish…
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A beachfront trade show this weekend will bring brands big and small out to Huntington Beach to showcase the latest surf and outdoor products and experiences, a way for the growing number of surfers to test out and check out the latest offerings for their adventures. SURFscape, a free consumer expo now in its second…
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Former Huntington Beach mayor and longtime civic leader Shirley Dettloff, who successfully fought to preserve the Bolsa Chica wetlands and wrote the city’s 1996 statement on human dignity, died on Tuesday at age 88. Her husband, Bob Dettloff, 91, said she died of a heart attack Tuesday morning. Dettloff had been engaged in Huntington Beach…
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By Wyatte Grantham-Philps | The Associated Press The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $5.6 million in refunds to consumers as part of a settlement with Amazon-owned Ring, which was charged with failing to protect private video footage from outside access. In a 2023 complaint, the FTC accused the doorbell camera and home security…
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ANAHEIM — Back in the first week of the season, Jo Adell was at the plate in Miami, with an 0-and-2 count. There was one out, and a runner at third base. Adell punched a fly ball into right field, making a routine out but driving in a run. That snapshot illustrated the progress for…
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By MICHAEL SISAK (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. “We conclude that…
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The Knott’s Berry Farm annual food festival that pays tribute to the little berry that started it all will stick around for a few extra weeks if you haven’t gotten your fill of boysenberry for this year just yet. The final weekend of the 2024 Boysenberry Fest was set to wrap up on Friday, April…
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The hopes of California tenants that a wave of apartment construction might provide more rent relief may be fizzling in early 2024. Construction plans for multifamily housing plunged to a 10-year low, my trusty spreadsheet found after peeking at quarterly California building permit patterns from the Census Bureau complied by the St. Louis Fed. Multifamily…
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A San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy suspected of affiliating with the Mongols and possessing illegal weapons to benefit the outlaw motorcycle gang was ordered Wednesday, April 24, to stand trial. Superior Court Judge Alexander R. Martinez acknowledged, however, that due to the complexity of the case against Christopher Bingham and the legal issues involved, he…
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