KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's spy agency staged two successive explosions on a railroad line in Siberia that serves as a key conduit for trade between Russia and China, Ukrainian media reported Friday. The attacks underscored Moscow’s vulnerability amid the war in Ukraine Ukrainska Pravda and other news outlets claimed the...
Family of Marine Killed in Afghanistan Fails to Win Lawsuit Against Alec Baldwin
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Alec Baldwin didn't have to pay anything to resolve a $25 million lawsuit filed by family members of a Marine killed in Afghanistan after the actor chastised them on social media over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Baldwin's attorney said. U.S. Southern District...
Tesla Delivers About a Dozen Cybertrucks as It Tries to Fix Production Woes
DETROIT — With manufacturing kinks still to be worked out, Tesla delivered the first dozen or so of its futuristic Cybertruck pickups to customers Thursday, two years behind the original schedule amid uncertainty over when large-scale production will begin. CEO Elon Musk showed off the angular electric trucks with an...
US Prosecutors Say Plots to Assassinate Sikh Leaders Were Part of a Campaign of Planned Killings
NEW YORK — A foiled plot to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader in New York, just days after another activist's killing, was meant to precede a string of other politically motivated murders in the United States and Canada, according to U.S. prosecutors. In electronic communications and audio and video...
Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza Resume After Weeklong Truce With Hamas Ends
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israel's war with Hamas resumed in full force Friday, with airstrikes hitting targets in the Gaza Strip minutes after a weeklong truce expired. Black smoke billowed from the besieged territory, and Israel dropped leaflets over Gaza City and southern parts of the enclave, urging civilians to...
DeSantis and Newsom Lob Insults and Talk Some Policy in a Faceoff Between Two White House Aspirants
WASHINGTON — Two big-state governors with presidential ambitions, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, argued Thursday over the economy, pandemic restrictions and President Joe Biden's leadership in a prime-time showdown filled with fiery clashes over policy and personal insults. “This is a slick, slippery politician...
Reedley College’s Jamel Pink, Humboldt’s Megan Janikowski Earn CalHOPE Courage Awards
SACRAMENTO — Jamel Pink of the Reedley College football team and Megan Janikowski of the Cal Poly Humboldt soccer team have earned the CalHOPE Courage Award for November for overcoming personal adversity. Pink persevered through the death of a brother and then an injury, and Janikowski worked through the loss...
GOP Rep. George Santos Warns His Expulsion from Congress Will ‘Haunt’ Members
WASHINGTON — A defiant Rep. George Santos is refusing to resign and warned on Thursday that his expulsion from Congress before being convicted in a court of law would establish a precedent that “is going to be the undoing of a lot of members of this body.” The first-term Republican congressman from...
The 49ers Keep Quiet Headed into NFC Title Game Rematch Against the Eagles
SANTA CLARA — The San Francisco 49ers had plenty to say after they lost the NFC title game last season to the Philadelphia Eagles while playing much of the game without a functioning quarterback. They are much quieter headed into the highly anticipated rematch on Sunday in Philadelphia, maintaining that the...
Autoworkers Strike Cut Ford Sales by 100,000 Vehicles and Cost Company $1.7 Billion
DETROIT — A six-week United Auto Workers strike at Ford cut sales by about 100,000 vehicles and cost the company $1.7 billion in lost profits this year, the automaker said Thursday. Additional labor costs from the four-year and eight-month agreement will total $8.8 billion by the end of the contract, translating to...