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The Half Moon Bay shooting was prompted by a $100 repair bill, local prosecutor says
Sunday, January 29, 2023
The man charged with killing seven people in Half Moon Bay this past week reportedly told police he carried out the attack after a supervisor demanded he pay to repair a forklift damaged at work.
Utah's governor has signed a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth
Sunday, January 29, 2023
The ban, signed Saturday by Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, prohibits transgender surgery for youth and disallows hormone treatments for minors who have not yet been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
The UK Prime Minister has fired his party chairman over tax bill allegations
Sunday, January 29, 2023
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired the chairman of his ruling Conservative Party Sunday over a "serious breach" of the ministerial code.
Memphis deactivates the unit that fatally beat Tyre Nichols, as officials urge reform
Sunday, January 29, 2023
The city's police department has disbanded the so-called SCORPION unit whose officers beat Nichols. Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee say they'll introduce new criminal justice legislation.
Israel is moving to 'strengthen' settlements after shooting attacks
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians, including plans to beef up Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Police say at least 3 people are dead, 4 hurt in the latest California mass shooting
Saturday, January 28, 2023
The incident early Saturday in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood was the latest of several mass shootings in California.
GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel wins party leadership vote
Friday, January 27, 2023
The Republican National Committee chair won her bid to lead the GOP for two more years, prevailing in an election that highlighted fierce internal divisions.
A man who killed 8 bicyclists in Manhattan is convicted and may face the death penalty
Friday, January 27, 2023
Sayfullo Saipov was found guilty of running down riders with a rental truck on a Manhattan bike path in 2017. Prosecutors said the Halloween attack was inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State.
Newly released video of the attack on Paul Pelosi shows a struggle for a hammer
Friday, January 27, 2023
Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting for control of a hammer with his assailant during a brutal attack in the couple's home last year.
25 people in Florida are charged with a scheme to get fake nursing diplomas
Friday, January 27, 2023
The defendants allegedly took part in a scam that sold more than 7,600 fraudulent nursing degree diplomas from three Florida-based nursing schools, according to recently unsealed federal indictments.
The winter storms in California will boost water allocations for the state's cities
Friday, January 27, 2023
Weeks of rainfall in California won't end a severe drought, but it will provide public water agencies serving 27 million people with much more water than the suppliers had been previously told.
Egypt unveils tombs and a sarcophagus in a new excavation
Friday, January 27, 2023
The artifacts were found beneath an ancient stone enclosure near the Saqqara pyramids and date back to the fifth and sixth dynasties of the Old Kingdom, spanning from roughly 2500 B.C to 2100 B.C.
A Thai court sentences an activist to 28 years for online posts about the monarchy
Friday, January 27, 2023
A court in Thailand sentenced a 27-year-old political activist to 28 years in prison on for posting messages on Facebook that it said defamed the country's monarchy.
Palestinians say 9 killed in the West Bank, the deadliest Israeli raid there in years
Thursday, January 26, 2023
The Palestinian Authority condemned the raid and said it was cutting off security coordination between Palestinian police and Israeli forces.
Opium farming surges in Myanmar since the military coup, the U.N. says
Thursday, January 26, 2023
The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.
Thousands rally for 'Invasion Day' protests on Australia Day holiday
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Australia Day is known to many Indigenous people as Invasion Day and Survival Day, because of the disastrous impacts on First Nations people of British colonists taking their land without a treaty.
The U.S. reinstates road and logging restrictions on the largest national forest
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
A federal agency said it is reinstating restrictions on road-building and logging on the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. USDA's move repeals a Trump administration-era decision.
India's government scrambles to block a film about Modi's role in anti-Muslim riots
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
The BBC documentary interviews journalists, activists and victims of the 2002 unrest, which left more than 1,000 people dead. They say the prime minister, then a regional leader, looked the other way.
Survey shows a lack of Holocaust awareness in the country that was home to Anne Frank
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
The survey commissioned by a U.S.-based group found that the number of Dutch respondents who believe the Holocaust is a myth was higher than in any of the other five nations previously surveyed.
A judge orders the release of a Hawaii man in the case of a 1991 rape and murder
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
A judge ordered Albert Schweitzer released from prison after his attorneys presented evidence and argued he didn't commit the 1991 murder, kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman visiting Hawaii.