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Indicted man with Giuliani ties has pot licenses probed
California regulators said Wednesday they are reviewing state cannabis licenses granted to Andrey Kukushkin, a Ukrainian-born businessman recently arrested on charges of conspiring with two associates of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to violate federal campaign finance laws.
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Californians strongly back vaccine law in new statewide poll
The UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, conducted for the Los Angeles Times, found that 90% of Democrats, 82% of those with no party preference and 73% of Republicans supported the effort to increase immunization rates at schools and day-care facilities by allowing the California…
Impeachment inquiry: Democrats subpoena Giuliani over Trump call
House Democrats moved dramatically Monday to advance their impeachment inquiry into President Trump by issuing a subpoena to Rudolph W. Giuliani, his personal lawyer and a key figure in the president’s push for Ukraine to investigate his political enemies.
They set a deadline of Oct. 15 …
TV networks vowed to cut back on commercials. Instead, they stuffed in more
Last quarter, commercial time rose 1%, according to Michael Nathanson, an analyst at MoffettNathanson LLC. After declining in 2017, the volume of ads increased every quarter last year and expanded again in the first half of 2019, he said. Fox was the only major cable network group to lower its a…
As was predicted, Uber’s IPO means you’ll be paying higher fares for your rides
It also opened a window on the economic reality of the ride-sharing business. In discussing that reality, Uber executives revealed something that always percolated in the background about its business: Once Uber went public, its subsidized pricing would disappear.
That could create a new…
Disney is in talks with Comcast to buy all of Hulu, CNBC says
Disney emerged as 60% owner of Hulu in March when it acquired the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox Inc. for $71 billion. The Burbank entertainment giant increased its stake last week when Hulu agreed to buy out minority investor AT&T Inc. That deal valued Comcast’s stake in the servi…
The war in Afghanistan isn’t a ‘stalemate.’ The U.S. has lost
The United States is seeking to end the war by coming to terms with the Taliban. That is a de facto admission of failure.
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Pentagon sends reinforcements to remote Syria base after Russia threatens attack
More than 100 U.S. troops were sent to reinforce a remote coalition outpost in southern Syria on Friday.
Mendocino Complex fire now second-largest in California history, officials say
As residents whose homes were threatened by the deadly Carr Fire in Redding begin to return home, the Mendocino Complex Fire in Lake County grew again overnight to become the second-largest wildfire in California's history, officials said.
Federal Reserve chair calls decline in workers' share of profits 'very troubling'
The fall in the percentage of economic growth flowing to workers is "very troubling," a worrisome sign in an otherwise bright American economy, Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell told a Senate panel Tuesday.
Testifying in front of the Senate Banking Committee, Powell expressed concern t…
The world has never seen a Category 6 hurricane. But the day may be coming
One NASA scientist suggests that by the end of the century hurricanes could reach wind speeds of 230 mph if current global warming trends continue.
L.A. sheriff's detectives seize more than 500 firearms from felon's home
A search of a felon’s home in Agua Dulce led Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators to more than 500 firearms, one of the largest seizures from a person forbidden under the law from possessing guns.
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