Subpoenas were sent to the chief executives of the five largest tech companies on Wednesday as congressional Republicans moved to investigate what they assert is widespread corporate censorship of conservative voices. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the subpoenas as the latest in a...
Oakland A’s Owner Focusing on Move to Las Vegas, Says Baseball Commish
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher has focused on Las Vegas of late as a new home for the franchise. Manfred, speaking Wednesday at baseball's Cactus League media day, isn't closing the door on the team remaining in Oakland. “I think Mr. Fisher wants to make...
Rep. Barbara Lee Files to Seek Feinstein’s Senate Seat
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee filed federal paperwork Wednesday to enter the race for the California seat held by long-serving Sen. Dianne Feinstein, potentially adding another Democrat and a nationally recognized Black woman to a growing field that already includes two other House members. Though Lee has not made a formal...
California and Nevada May Ban Forced Prison Labor, Servitude
Lawmakers in Nevada and California are advancing legislation to remove “involuntary servitude” from their states' constitutions, a move that follows four states' bans on forced labor that passed in ballot measures last fall. The goal of these proposals is to remove exceptions from the states' constitutions that allow forced labor...
Turkey Quake Revives Debate Over Nuclear Plant Being Built
A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline. The plant’s site in Akkuyu, located some 210 miles to the west of the...
Ford Stops Production of Electric F-150 After Battery Fire
Ford Motor Co. has suspended production and halted shipments of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup after a battery caught fire during a pre-delivery quality check. Production at Ford's Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, has been stopped until at least the end of next week. The automaker said in...
1 Killed, 3 Hurt in Shooting at Texas Shopping Mall
One person was killed and three more were wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, adding to the dozens of people already killed this year in mass shootings across the United States. El Paso police said hours after the gunfire that two people had...
Israel Demolishes West Bank Home of Palestinian Attacker
Israeli forces demolished the home on Thursday of a Palestinian behind a deadly shooting in the occupied West Bank, as tensions and unrest surge in the region. The military said the demolition was carried out after an Israeli court rejected appeals to spare the residence. The home, in the flashpoint...
Hollywood Sex Symbol Raquel Welch Dies at 82
Raquel Welch, whose emergence from the sea in a skimpy, furry bikini in the film “One Million Years B.C.” would propel her to international sex symbol status throughout the 1960s and '70s, has died. She was 82. Welch died early Wednesday after a brief illness, according to her agent, Stephen...
Fresno’s Juan Felipe Herrera Wins Lifetime Achievement Medal for Poetry
Former poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera is this year's winner of the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement, with judges praising him for a “a poetic voice that is both deeply embedded and wholly original.” Herrera, 74, is known for such collections as “Half the World in Light” and “187 Reasons...