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NY Gov. Hochul vows reform, leadership shakeup at Office of Cannabis Management
NEW YORK — New York state’s much-maligned Office of Cannabis Management will get new leadership and streamline its torpid permitting process for retailers, Gov. Hochul said Friday, moving to address failures that have ...Read more
Georgia sees drop in medical resident applicants after Supreme Court abortion ruling
ATLANTA — After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022 allowing states like Georgia to institute abortion bans, states with abortion bans or restrictions started attracting fewer medical residents, the ...Read more
What to know about Gov. Newsom's plan to offset California's $45 billion deficit
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Faced with a $44.9 billion budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom described a plan to shrink the size of state government and slow his progressive policy agenda by eliminating 10,000 vacant state jobs and...Read more
There's a new highly transmissible COVID-19 variant. Could FLiRT lead to a summer uptick?
Two new COVID-19 subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are increasingly edging out the winter's dominant strain ahead of a possible summer uptick in coronavirus infections.
The new FLiRT subvariants, officially known...Read more
Trump response to sex tryst allegations key focus as hush money trial resumes
NEW YORK — A bid by Donald Trump’s lawyers to show he was concerned about how his family would take the news of the Stormy Daniels sex tryst allegations fizzled Friday as testimony in the ex-president’s hush money ...Read more
Inmate located 6 days after escaping from Georgia deputies
ATLANTA — An inmate who escaped from deputies while in custody at a hospital has been located, the Newton County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.
Kendrick Darnell Hurst, 34, ran from deputies Saturday at Piedmont Newton ...Read more
2 Florida men, 1 ticket? A Trump, Rubio pairing brings tricky political, legal questions
ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio once called Donald Trump a “con artist” too “dangerous” and “erratic” to be entrusted with nuclear codes. But in a few months, Rubio could be calling Trump something else...Read more
Maryland Apple store workers will vote Saturday on strike authorization
Apple store workers in Towson, Maryland, who became the first of the tech giant’s U.S. employees to unionize nearly two years ago, will decide Saturday whether to prepare to go on strike.
The union representing about ...Read more
Elon Musk pledges to grow supercharger business he just decimated
Elon Musk touted plans to expand Tesla Inc.’s Supercharger network just over a week after firing almost all of the roughly 500 people who ran the business.
Tesla will spend “well over” $500 million on growing its ...Read more
After shooting, Drake's mansion gets 2nd trespasser in 2 days, police confirm
In the course of a week, Drake's mansion in Toronto has been the site of a shooting and two separate incidents of alleged trespassing.
Toronto police officers reported back to the "God's Plan" rapper's home Thursday ...Read more
I’ve spent decades overseeing relief operations around the world, and here’s what’s going wrong in Gaza
Amid persistent calls from the United States and other countries that Israel needs to make it easier for life-saving aid to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military closed two of the region’s few ...Read more
Tiny pieces of plastic pose one of the biggest threats to Chicago River wildlife and water quality
CHICAGO — Wendella engineer Miguel Chavez climbed down a ladder and over a small dock Wednesday to pull up a trap floating in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. The size of a standard garbage can, the ...Read more
Philly Police have cleared Penn's Pro-Palestinian encampment and arrested 33 protesters
PHILADELPHIA —Police began moving in early Friday morning to dismantle the 16-day old pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia police dressed in riot gear with zip ties and shields ...Read more
FAA initiates environmental impact study for SpaceX Starship launches from KSC
SpaceX’s plans to build a Starship launch complex at Kennedy Space Center are moving closer to reality even as it potentially takes over a launch site from neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Federal ...Read more
Minnesota Supreme Court: Legal Marijuana Now failed to meet requirements to remain a major party
MINNEAPOLIS — The Legal Marijuana Now Party will no longer be recognized as a major political party in Minnesota after the state Supreme Court ruled Friday that they failed to meet legal requirements to maintain that ...Read more
Peter Macon talks starring role in 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes'
ATLANTA — “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” takes the saga 300 years into the future from the last film in 2017, focused around a tribe of apes who nurture eagles and possess no real knowledge about what happened ...Read more
Arcade Fire's only North American show this year will be at Red Rocks
DENVER — Montreal’s Arcade Fire will play its only North American show of 2024 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre to mark the 20th anniversary of landmark album “Funeral.”
The LP, which launched the band’s influential ...Read more
Steve Bannon faces prison for defying Jan. 6 probe after court rejects appeal
Right-wing firebrand Steve Bannon is likely headed to prison after a federal appeals court Friday upheld his conviction for defying the Congressional probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The hardline supporter of ...Read more
Cypress Hill drummer: national pot legalization getting ever closer to reality
Cypress Hill broke the mold in the early 1990s with a unique blend of hip-hop, Latin and rock on top of its unabashedly open embrace of legalizing marijuana.
Three decades later, the core group Sen Dog, B-Real, DJ Muggs ...Read more
Live Nation's bid to avoid US antitrust suit seen as likely to fail
Live Nation Entertainment Inc. is set to meet with senior Justice Department officials in the coming weeks in a bid to stave off a potential antitrust lawsuit to break up the company.
It isn’t likely to work.
The ...Read more
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