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California governor signs fur sale, circus animal bans
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California will be the first state to ban the sale and manufacture of new fur products and the third to bar...
California Democrats pay $800,000 in sex-misconduct cases
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Democratic Party has spent more than $800,000 in legal costs tied to three lawsuits alleging discrimination and sexual...
Agency eyes big revamp of Wall Street whistleblower program
MARCY GORDON
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal agency is moving with little fanfare to revamp one of the most successful whistleblower programs...
1 dead, 3 missing after hotel collapse in New Orleans
CHEVEL JOHNSON
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Hard Rock Hotel under construction at the edge of New Orleans' historic French Quarter collapsed Saturday...
Former envoy defies Trump, testifies he pushed to oust her
MARY CLARE JALONICK, MATTHEW LEE and ADAM GELLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Testifying in defiance of President Donald Trump's ban, former U.S. Ambassador to...
California to end its use of private, for-profit prisons
DON THOMPSON and AMY TAXIN
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those under contract to the...
US suspends plans to hike tariffs Tuesday on Chinese imports
PAUL WISEMAN and KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is suspending a tariff hike on $250 billion in Chinese imports that...
California adopts broadest US rules for seizing guns
SACRAMENTO — California will become the first U.S. state to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against other people.
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Iran says missiles strike its oil tanker off Saudi Arabia
NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Friday two missiles struck one of its oil tankers traveling through the...
Authorities order 100,000 evacuated in Los Angeles wildfire
STEFANIE DAZIO and JOHN ANTCZAK
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A wildfire raged out of control along the northern edge of Los Angeles early...