UNLV (0-3, 0-0 Mountain West) at No. 22 Fresno State (3-1, 0-0), Friday at 7 p.m. PDT (CBS Sports Network). Line: Fresno State by 30 1/2, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Series record: Fresno State leads 16-7. What's at Stake? The Bulldogs moved into the AP poll for the first time...
Ancient Tablet Acquired by Hobby Lobby Going Back to Iraq
WASHINGTON — A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, is finally headed back to Iraq. The $1.7 million cuneiform clay tablet was found in 1853 as part of a 12-tablet collection in...
Fed: On Track to Slow Support for Economy Later This Year
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled Wednesday that the Fed plans to announce as early as November that it will start withdrawing the extraordinary support it unleashed after the coronavirus paralyzed the economy 18 months ago. Powell said that if the job market maintained its steady improvement, the...
California 1st to Limit Quotas on Warehouse Workers by Amazon, Other Retailers
California on Wednesday became the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that grew from Amazon's drive to speed goods to consumers more quickly. The measure also bars Amazon,...
Taliban Official: Strict Punishment, Executions Will Return
KABUL, Afghanistan — One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public. In an interview with The...
CDC Panel Tackles Who Needs Booster Shot of COVID Vaccine
An influential panel of advisers to the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention convened on Wednesday to debate which Americans should get COVID-19 booster shots and when — a question that has proved more contentious than the Biden administration apparently expected. The meeting came days after a different advisory...
Officials: Many Migrants From Border Camp Staying in US
DEL RIO, Texas — Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two U.S. officials said, undercutting the Biden administration's public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion. Haitians are Not Being Forced to Leave the U.S. Haitians...
California Struggles to Conserve Water Amid Historic Drought
Californians failed to significantly cut back their water consumption in July, state officials announced Tuesday, foreshadowing some difficult decisions for Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration as an historic drought lingers into the fall. Newsom had asked people in July to voluntarily cut back their water consumption by 15% to help address...
Father and Son to Stand Trial in 1996 Kristin Smart Disappearance
The man last seen with Kristin Smart before she vanished from a college campus 25 years ago on the Central California coast will stand trial on a murder charge in her suspected death and his father will face a charge as an accomplice for allegedly helping bury her body, a...
California Now Has Nation’s Lowest Virus Transmission Rate
California has the lowest coronavirus transmission rate of any state following a sharp decline in cases and hospitalizations after a summer surge. The nation's most populous state is the only one experiencing “substantial" coronavirus transmission, the second-highest level on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's color-coded map. So...