PATRICK WHITTLE
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine has decided that eating like a pig could be a good thing, especially for schools looking to cut down on food waste.
A law saying schools can give food scraps away to pig farmers is now on the books in the state.
The practice of feeding human food waste to pigs goes back...
LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
CAMP MACKALL, N.C. (AP) — Deep in the dark North Carolina woods, a small white light flickers in the heavy underbrush. It's after midnight and a soldier is taking a risk by turning on his headlamp to find his way.
The overnight land navigation test is just one hurdle in the grueling, monthslong course to join...
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California's governor has signed into law a bill that guarantees all students a state-funded meal of their choice, even if their parent or guardian has unpaid meal fees.
The measure bans the practice of "lunch shaming," in which students who owe the school money for meals are denied food or given a cheaper alternative meal.
Under the new...
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday signed a law intended to counter Trump administration plans to increase oil and gas production on protected public land.
The measure bars any California leasing authority from allowing pipelines or other oil and gas infrastructure to be built on state property. It makes it difficult for drilling to occur because federally...
FRANK BAJAK AP
Cybersecurity Writer
Alex Stamos served as chief security officer at Facebook for three years before joining Stanford University, where he studies internet security, including systems related to conducting elections.
He warns that there's little the federal government can do now for the 2020 elections. And he laments the arrival of "disinformation as a service," where companies are hired...
ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid growing chaos in Syria, President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the country's north to avoid a bloody conflict between Turkey and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that "gets worse by the hour," Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday.
The pullback suggests a likely full withdrawal from Syria of...
LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first weekend was no fluke: "Joker" is a hit.
The R-rated comic book villain origin story had a phenomenal second weekend at the box office, topping the charts once more over newcomers such as the animated "The Addams Family" and the Will Smith action pic "Gemini Man."
Warner Bros. said Sunday that...
ANAHEIM (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels say they don't know whether a longtime public relations official had been providing drugs to late pitcher Tyler Skaggs, as detailed in a report Saturday on ESPN's "Outside the Lines."
Eric Kay, a 24-year employee of the Angels' PR department, told the Drug Enforcement Agency he had provided opioids to Skaggs and used...
MORENO VALLEY (CNS) - Riverside County firefighters gained full containment Sunday over a 350-acre wildfire just north of Moreno Valley that no longer threatens homes or other structures.
The non-injury Reche Fire was reported at 12:55 p.m. Thursday on Reche Canyon Road, near Reche Vista Drive and started with a trailer fire that jumped into surrounding vegetation, propelled by intense...
CANDICE CHOI
AP Food & Health Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — So is red meat good or bad for you? If the answer were only that simple.
A team of international researchers recently rattled the nutrition world by saying there isn't enough evidence to tell people to cut back on red or processed meat, seemingly contradicting advice from prominent health experts...