By Spencer Soper and Matt Day | Bloomberg More than 80 contract drivers and dispatchers who handle deliveries for Amazon.com have joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The drivers work for one of many Amazon Delivery Service Partners, small businesses that rent vans, hire drivers and ferry packages for the e-commerce giant. The workers east…
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By Farnoush Amiri, Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the senior Islamic State group leader behind the August 2021 suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport that left 13 U.S. service members and about 170 Afghans dead, according to the father of a Marine killed in the attack who…
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A Southern California man who photographed himself while helping to trash the Senate Parliamentarian’s office, stole a bottle of alcohol and then smoked marijuana in a Senator’s office during the Jan. 6 riot was sentenced Monday to four years in federal prison. Erik Herrera (Courtesy U.S. Department of Justice) Erik Herrera, a photographer from El…
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I would like to believe that well-intentioned people who see a problem but choose a worse solution can eventually change their minds. Senate Bill 274, authored by Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, would extend a ban on suspensions and expulsions for “willful defiance” in California’s public middle schools and high schools. Current law permanently bans these…
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The sport of equestrian jumping’s most prestigious event is coming to Orange County. The Longines Fédération Equestre International Jumping Nations Cup USA, a qualifying event leading up to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, will be hosted at the Rancho Mission Viejo Riding Park from May 12 to 14, marking the first time the competition…
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An online search for “early retirement” will yield millions of results, many of those about retirees who saved aggressively and exited the workforce before age 40. But most people have a more approachable target in mind: According to a new NerdWallet survey, Americans who aren’t yet retired but plan to retire say they plan to leave…
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For many years, yellow raisins have been a welcome sweet, chewy element in my coleslaw concoctions. I toss them in higgledy-piggledy, without the traditional soak in hot water to make them tender. Thumbing through Chef Geoffrey Zakarian’s cookbook, “Town Country” (Clarkson Potter), his coleslaw recipe caught my eye. His formula uses golden raisins, not just…
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By Tina Burnside and Raja Razek | CNN The governor of Oklahoma is calling on four McCurtain County officials to resign after they allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and talking about killing journalists. The McCurtain Gazette-News over the weekend published the audio it said was…
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TRUCKEE — The winter that wouldn’t quit showed up again in the Sierra Nevada region of California and Nevada on Tuesday. The fast-moving, blustery storm wasn’t expected to last long, but it was enough to require chain controls on some trans-Sierra highways and add to staggering snowfall totals left by an exceptional series of winter…
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KMBC via CNN CASS COUNTY, Missouri (KMBC) — A 78-year-old woman accused of robbing a Missouri bank appeared in court on Monday. Bonnie Gooch was charged earlier this month with one count of stealing or attempting to steal from a financial institution after allegedly holding up a bank in Pleasant Hill, Mo. Gooch was previously…
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