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Gas prices soaring, Trump administration sets stage to OK controversial offshore oil plan
As the war in Iran sends global fuel prices soaring, the U.S. Department of Justice has released a legal opinion claiming that President Donald Trump has the authority to override California laws and regulations that have blocked a controversial offshore oil operation by invoking the Defense Production Act.
The 22-page opinion, published this ...Read more
Cuba isn't invited to Trump's Shield of the Americas summit in Doral. But it looms large
Miami Republican lawmaker Carlos Giménez says he believes the communist regime in his native Cuba is near its end, echoing comments by President Donald Trump ahead of Saturday’s gathering of a dozen Latin American leaders in Doral.
“He believes the days are close. I believe the president,” Giménez said as he attended a welcome reception...Read more
Pentagon turns to ex-Uber executive in Anthropic feud over AI
Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. — as it wrangled with governments in pursuit of market domination. Now, Michael has switched sides in a battle involving a different startup — this time taking a leading role in the Pentagon’s dispute with ...Read more
Daylight saving time returns, despite perennial politicking to stop the switch
LOS ANGELES — After enduring months of long, dark — and, in Southern California, rather moderate — winter evenings, some residents will rejoice at the extra hour of daylight arriving Sunday, while others will mourn their lost hour of sleep.
Generally speaking, the twice-a-year daylight saving time clock changes are unpopular. Research ...Read more
Trump urges Latin America to use military against cartels
President Donald Trump told a group of Latin American leaders that they need to work with the U.S. to target drug trafficking cartels as he sought to bolster U.S. leadership in the region.
“Every leader here today is united in the conviction that we cannot and will not tolerate the lawlessness in our hemisphere any longer,” Trump said ...Read more
Trump says US may target new parts of Iran in escalating war
President Donald Trump said the U.S. will consider striking areas and groups of people in Iran that were not previously considered targets, escalating a weeklong war that’s upended energy markets and reverberated worldwide.
“Today Iran will be hit very hard!” Trump said in a social media post in the early hours of Saturday, as the U.S. ...Read more
Russian strike on Kharkiv kills 7 as part of major barrage
A Russian ballistic missile strike leveled much of a residential building in Kharkiv overnight, part of a massive drone and missile attack across Ukraine that shattered days of relative calm.
At least seven people were killed and 10 injured in the northeastern city, which has borne the brunt of Kremlin attacks throughout the conflict now into ...Read more
After week of war and political upheaval, Trump remains defiant as ever
In recent days, tensions over the U.S. war in Iran have steadily mounted.
Polls have shown the campaign is widely unpopular. An entire flank of President Donald Trump's MAGA base has criticized it as a clear departure from the "America First" mantra Trump has long espoused. Leaders within the Trump administration have pushed against claims it ...Read more
Iran's threat to burn ships is choking off Persian Gulf oil flow to world
BEIRUT — When Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned this week that ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz would be "set ablaze," alarm set in with government and industrial leaders all over the world.
They have good reason to be alarmed: Whoever controls the strait controls nothing less than the sole maritime gateway for most of the...Read more
For Israel, Iran war culminates battle begun by Hamas attack
At dawn on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, as rockets and gunmen poured into Israel from Gaza, Hamas military chief Mohammad Deif declared the Jewish state finished: “To our brothers in the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, the day has come.”
The day did come, but not the one Deif imagined.
He’s dead, along with a ...Read more
Trial for South Florida defendants in slaying of Haiti's president gets underway next week
MIAMI — Four men accused of hatching a plot in South Florida that led to the gruesome death of Haiti’s president will finally face trial on Monday, almost five years after Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his bedroom, plunging his nation into gang-ridden chaos.
A fifth defendant charged with them won’t be present at the trial in Miami ...Read more
1 town's day of terror after the killing of Mexican cartel boss 'El Mencho'
ETZATLÁN, Mexico — There are two sides to the town on Jalisco's tequila trail.
One is the charming pueblo in foothills lined with neat rows of agave cactus. In the central plaza you'll see swaths of handwoven fabric draped like canopies over the cobbled streets — splashes of pink, blue, yellow and green offering welcome shade from the ...Read more
A Philly 'wine fight' is playing out in court as 2 schools battle over cyberbullying and a trademark
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s oldest wine school says a competitor is attempting to erase its existence from the internet through a “cyberbullying” campaign and trademark infringement, according to a federal lawsuit.
In the suit, PhillyWine LLC alleges that Keith Wallace and Alana Zerbe, the husband-and-wife duo behind the Wine School ...Read more
LA feds ramp up use of 'doxxing' charges as anti-ICE protesters fear chilling effect
LOS ANGELES — The masked protesters screaming at a federal agent outside his home was the type of scene Trump administration officials had long feared.
Cynthia Raygoza, Ashleigh Brown and Sandra Samane followed a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer from the downtown L.A. Metropolitan Detention Center to his Baldwin Park residence...Read more
4 dead, 12 hurt in suspected tornadoes in southwest Michigan
DETROIT — Four people were killed and 12 others injured when tornadoes ripped through southwest Michigan Friday afternoon, according to the sheriffs in Branch and Cass counties.
Three people were killed when a tornado hit the area around Union Lake west of Union City, the Branch County Sheriff’s Office said Friday night.
Twelve people were...Read more
3 dead, 12 hurt in suspected tornadoes in southwest Michigan
DETROIT — Three people were killed and 12 others injured when a tornado ripped through the Union City area of Michigan on Friday afternoon, WOOD-TV reported.
Of the 12 injured, three required hospitalization, according to the Branch County Sheriff’s Office. The names of the dead were not released.
“Our thoughts are with those who have ...Read more
FDA vaccine chief Vinay Prasad set to leave post next month
WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s division of vaccines and gene therapies is leaving the agency after a tumultuous tenure, sending biotech shares higher in late trading on Friday.
Vinay Prasad will depart the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research next month to return to his previous career in academia. ...Read more
Deadly Tahoe-area avalanche was probably triggered either by the ski party, or by nature, avalanche expert says
SAN JOSE, Calif. — What triggered the avalanche last month near Lake Tahoe that killed nine skiers amid a fierce blizzard may forever remain a mystery, but the weight of accumulating snow or the group of skiers themselves are the likeliest causes, a Sierra Avalanche Center expert said.
“We really don’t know how it happened,” said Sierra...Read more
Trump demands Iran relent while US aims to calm energy markets
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump demanded Iran capitulate in the war’s seventh day, suggesting a longer timeframe for the conflict even amid energy-market tumult and worries about whether the U.S. has the military stockpiles to carry on the fight indefinitely.
Trump called for “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” and noted a plan for the U.S....Read more
Traders warn $100 oil is imminent if Iran war keeps raging
A week into one of the biggest ever disruptions to global energy markets, oil prices still remain far below levels seen in previous crises. But a growing chorus of energy executives and traders is warning that every day that war rages on brings the world closer to a tipping point — with several predicting $100 crude within days.
Ship traffic ...Read more
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