Saturday, 4 November 2023

North Carolina's voter ID mandate taking effect this fall is likely dress rehearsal for 2024

North Carolina’s photo voter identification law is getting implemented in local elections that wrap up next week

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Minneapolis police investigating another fire at a mosque

Minneapolis police are investigating another fire at a mosque, and faith leaders want them to look closely at the motive if the fire that destroyed three garages is determined to be arson

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Friday, 3 November 2023

Judge gives life in prison for look-out in Florida gang shooting that killed 3

The man who served as look-out in a South Florida shooting that left three dead and 20 others injured has been sentenced to life in prison

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Michigan has fired low-level football staffer Connor Stalions as the NCAA probes in-person scouting, AP source says

Michigan has fired low-level football staffer Connor Stalions as the NCAA probes in-person scouting, AP source says

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Speaker Johnson led House passage of Israel aid. But the hard part comes next in confronting Biden

New House Speaker Mike Johnson is showing what hardball partisan tactics might come next

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Ex-Utah county clerk accused of shredding, mishandling 2020 and 2022 ballots

Utah prosecutors have charged a former county clerk for allegedly shredding and otherwise mishandling ballots from the 2020 and 2022 elections

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Thursday, 2 November 2023

Yellen says the US economic relationship with China must consider human rights and national security

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Washington wants to build an economic relationship with Beijing that takes into account national security and human rights and is fair to both sides

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Amazon used an algorithm to essentially raise prices on other sites, the FTC says

A newly unredacted portion of the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon says the company used a secret algorithm that essentially helped the company raise prices on other online sites

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Man killed after pursuit and shootout with Alaska authorities, troopers say

Authorities say a man was killed during a shootout after leading Alaska State Troopers and other officers on a chase that closed a 7-mile stretch of highway

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Wednesday, 1 November 2023

Pennsylvania court permanently blocks effort to make power plants pay for greenhouse gas emissions

A court says Pennsylvania can't enforce a regulation to make power plant owners pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions

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Florida attorney general, against criticism, seeks to keep abortion rights amendment off 2024 ballot

Florida’s Republican attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court to keep a proposed abortion rights amendment off the ballot

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Toyota recalls nearly 1.9M RAV4s to fix batteries that can move during hard turns and cause a fire

Toyota is recalling nearly 1.9 million RAV4 small SUVs in the U.S. to fix a problem with batteries that can move during forceful turns and potentially cause a fire

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Cleanup is done on a big Kansas oil spill on the Keystone system, the company and EPA say

The operator of the Keystone pipeline system and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency say that the company has finished cleaning up a massive December 2022 oil spill in northeast Kansas

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