DETROIT — With a deadline looming just before midnight Thursday, the United Auto Workers union and Detroit's three automakers remain far apart in contract talks and the union is preparing to strike. The union is demanding a 36% boost in pay and the automakers, General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, formerly...
PG&E Customers Brace for ‘Painful Increases’ to Bills After Rate Decision
SACRAMENTO — Power bills for about 16 million PG&E customers will likely increase after state regulators released two rate proposals for one of the nation's largest utilities Wednesday. The California Public Utilities Commission is finishing up its once-every-four-years review of the utility that provides electric and gas service to a...
Court Opens Way to Block California Law Against Marketing Guns to Children
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Wednesday opened the way to block a California law that bans gun ads aimed at children, saying it went too far in restricting lawful speech. Sporting and gun rights groups and the publisher of a youth shooting magazine had sought an injunction...
Federal Judge Again Declares That DACA Is Illegal With Issue Likely to Be Decided by Supreme Court
HOUSTON — While a federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, he declined to order an immediate end to the program and the protections it offers to recipients. U.S....
Biden White House Strategy for Impeachment Inquiry: Dismiss. Compartmentalize. Scold. Fundraise.
WASHINGTON — On Capitol Hill, House Republicans were all-in Wednesday on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's announcement of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Down Pennsylvania Avenue, the president was holding forth at the White House on the importance of bipartisanship in fighting cancer — and ignoring shouted questions about impeachment. It was...
Libyan City Buries Thousands in Mass Graves After Flood, While Mayor Says Death Toll Could Triple
DERNA, Libya — The city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves, Libyan officials said Thursday, as search teams scoured ruins left by devastating floods and the city’s mayor said that the death toll could triple. The deluge swept away entire families on Sunday night and exposed vulnerabilities in...
El Chapo’s Wife Released From US Custody After Completing 3-Year Prison Sentence
The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was released from federal custody on Wednesday after completing a three-year sentence for helping him run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire, the federal Bureau of Prisons said. Emma Coronel Aispuro's Release Emma Coronel Aispuro, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to three...
Escaped Murderer Danelo Cavalcante Arrested After 2 Weeks on the Run in Pennsylvania
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — A murderer who brazenly escaped from a Pennsylvania jail was captured Wednesday in the woods by a team of tactical officers, bringing an end to an intense search that terrified residents as the fugitive broke into homes for food, changed his appearance, and stole a van and rifle during...
Former Cop Turned Serial Killer Dies on San Quentin’s Death Row
SAN QUENTIN — A former California police officer turned serial killer who was on death row after being convicted of murdering six people in the 1980s has died of natural causes, authorities said Monday. Anthony Sully, 79, died Friday at a medical facility outside the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, where...
CA Lawmakers Want Voters to Decide How Mental Health Care Funds Are Used
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers voted Tuesday to put a proposal before voters next March that would overhaul how counties pay for mental and behavioral health programs in an effort to address the state's worsening homelessness crisis. SB 326, a bill authored by Democratic state Sen. Susan Eggman (D-Stockton), was passed...