A long-duration storm has the potential to unload a month's worth of rain in a few days and deliver blockbuster snow to the mountains of the West Coast from this weekend to next week, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. Heavy rain and snow will be beneficial for drought relief, but it could lead...
New Poll Finds Major Warning Signs for Biden and Fellow Democrats
Americans don't feel the direct payments or expanded child tax credits doled out earlier this year helped them much, according to the latest NPR/Marist poll, and they don't see Democrats' signature legislation as addressing their top economic concern — inflation. Americans do mostly endorse the new infrastructure law but are less supportive of Democrats' Build...
Thieves in BMWs Take 40 Guns in Late-Night Smash-and-Grab in L.A.
Burglars smashed the glass front door of a Los Angeles area gun shop early Thursday morning and made off with approximately 40 firearms, police said. The owner of the business reported the burglary after he saw at least one thief inside the business on live surveillance video, Garden Grove Police...
Megachurch Pastor and Former Fresno Pacific Teacher Accused of Sexual Misconduct
A pastor at one of Canada’s largest churches has been accused of sexual misconduct and has been placed on leave while the church undertakes an external investigation. Bruxy Cavey, who grew The Meeting House into a megachurch with some 5,000 people attending 19 campuses in the larger Toronto metropolitan area, was...
Favorite Internet Apps Broken Right Now? Here’s Why
Do a bunch of your apps seem like they decided to call in sick today? That's because they did. From Venmo to Disney+ to the McDonald's app, outages are currently plaguing multiple services across the internet. The Downdetector home page is a sea of red spikes, all indicating service disruptions occurring around...
Modesto Man Held for Kidnap, Torture of Girlfriend Allegedly Kept Captive for a Month
Sheriff's deputies arrested 29-year-old Saul Ortega at his Modesto home Saturday for allegedly holding his girlfriend captive for a month as he tortured and raped her. The victim was found with extensive injuries to her body, including bruises and burns, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post....
Zakaria: Rich Countries are to Blame for Omicron
The saddest thing about the emergence of the omicron variant is its utter predictability, Fareed Zakaria says. For months, even longer, public health officials have been warning that as long as the coronavirus can circulate freely and widely, it would change its form, and that those mutations could be more...
US Doubles Tariffs on Canadian Softwood Lumber and Contractors Expect Higher Prices
The Biden administration's Commerce Dept. on Nov. 24 followed through with expected anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber producers, placing tariffs of 17.99% on their imports, more than twice the rate of 8.99% during the Trump administration. "They are ... a tax on U.S. consumers, raising the costs...
Pope Francis Calls On Europe to Welcome Migrants During Refugee Camp Visit
Pope Francis visited a refugee camp in Greece on the frontier of Europe’s migration routes and called on the continent to welcome people seeking asylum from war and other humanitarian disasters. “I ask every man and woman, all of us, to overcome the paralysis of fear, the indifference that kills,...
Murder and Mandates in Chicago
The smartest thing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot did with her lawsuit against the Fraternal Order of Police over its opposition to her COVID vaccine mandate was to drop it. The mayor said last week she is dropping the suit because she’s now satisfied with the number of police getting vaccinated....