ROBERT BURNS and JONATHAN LEMIRE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insists that Iranian cultural sites are fair game for the U.S. military, dismissing concerns within his own administration that doing so could constitute a war crime under international law. He also warned Iraq that he would levy punishing sanctions if it expelled American troops in retaliation for...
HEMET (CNS) - Sheriff's officials on Sunday said they seized 233 tons of marijuana in 2019 as a result of their yearlong effort to crack down on illegal marijuana grows in and around Hemet.Deputies from the sheriff's Hemet Station served nearly 250 search warrants related to illegal marijuana cultivation last year, leading to the seizure and destruction of about...
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — An operation to kill the mountain goats that have invaded Grand Teton National Park and threaten the existence of the park's struggling bighorn sheep herd is beginning Sunday, officials said.
A large swath of the high Tetons, including the north and west slopes of the iconic Cathedral Group, will be closed to the public as aerial...
RACHEL LERMAN
AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Matt Halprin, the global head of trust and safety for YouTube, has a tough job: He oversees the teams that decide what is allowed and what should be prohibited on YouTube.
The Google-owned site has come under fire recently for allowing videos that feature what many find offensive or violent, and for...
JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The box office in 2020 started off where last year left off: with "Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker" still on top.
After a historic year, the Walt Disney Co. opened the new year approaching one milestone and surpassing another. With $33.7 million over its third weekend in U.S. and Canada theaters according...
NICK PERRY
Associated Press
SYDNEY (AP) — It has been described as Australia's Galapagos Islands and has long been a refuge for some of the country's most endangered creatures. But devastating wildfires over recent days have undone decades of careful conservation work on Kangaroo Island and have threatened to wipe out some of the island's unique fauna altogether.
Experts working on...
MAE ANDERSON
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — What will watching TV be like in the 2020s? Amid new gadgets and glitz, the CES tech show in Las Vegas aims to offer some answers, many of which boil down to more streaming and more efforts to glue you to your phone.
The show's keynote addresses, once dominated by computer and...
Another busy sports year in southwest Riverside County has come to an end, making way for new adventures in 2020. From the PGA Tour to baseball champions, youth sports, skydiving and more, there were plenty of exciting headlines in 2019. As the end of the year comers to fruition, Valley News wanted to look at what we feel were...
SYLVIE CORBET
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — The French general overseeing the reconstruction of fire-devastated Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is not saved yet because there's still a risk its vaulted ceilings might collapse.
Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin told French broadcaster CNews on Sunday that "the cathedral is still in a state of peril" after last year's fire, which destroyed...
MICHAEL R. SISAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — More than two years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that could him put him behind bars for the rest of his life.
Jury selection is scheduled to start this week in New...