SACRAMENTO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will sign a law limiting rent increases for some people over the next decade as the nation's most populous state continues to struggle with a housing crisis.
Newsom is scheduled to sign a bill into law on Tuesday that will cap rent increases at 5% each year plus inflation. The bill...
DANICA KIRKA and TRISTAN LAVALETTE
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of climate change activists camped out in central London on Tuesday during a second day of world protests by the Extinction Rebellion movement to demand more urgent actions to counter global warming.
Determined activists glued themselves to the British government's Department of Transport building as police working to keep streets...
COLLEEN LONG and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of migrants apprehended at the southern U.S. border declined in September for the fourth straight month, Trump administration officials said Tuesday.
Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said border officials encountered about 52,000 migrants at the border last month — down about 65% from the peak in...
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1. TRUMP DEFENDS DECISION TO ABANDON KURDISH ALLIES IN SYRIA
The president casts his decision as fulfilling a campaign promise, but critics say he is sacrificing a U.S. ally and undermining American credibility. Turkey, meanwhile, says it won't bow to Trump's threats on its...
WILDOMAR — The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department reported that one person was killed on Tuesday morning while walking on Bundy Canyon Road.The sheriff's department reported that when arriving at the scene they learned that a pedestrian was walking in the eastbound lane of Bundy Canyon Road and was struck by a tractor-trailer, also traveling east on Bundy Canyon Road. Medical...
CHRISTINA LARSON
AP Science Writer
LOIBOR SIRET, Tanzania (AP) — Saitoti Petro scans a dirt road in northern Tanzania for recent signs of the top predator on the African savannah. "If you see a lion," he warns, "stop and look it straight in the eyes — you must never run."
Petro points to a fresh track in the dirt, a paw...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The software company Adobe says it is cutting off its accounts in Venezuela, the latest repercussions of U.S. financial sanctions targeting President Nicolás Maduro.
The California-based firm on Monday cited sweeping measures by the administration of President Donald Trump announced Aug. 5 banning companies and individuals from doing business with Maduro's socialist government.
Adobe is best known...
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Pharmacists in California will be able to dispense HIV prevention pills to patients without a doctor's prescription after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that supporters say will greatly reduce the spread of infection.
Advocates of Senate Bill 159 say California is the first state to authorize pre-exposure prophylaxis, also called PrEP, and post-exposure prophylaxis, known as...
MARÍA VERZA
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of medallion taxi drivers parked their pink-and-white cabs to block major Mexico City thoroughfares for hours Monday in protest of ride-hailing apps such as Uber, causing long delays for motorists.
Taxi drivers say they have to comply with requirements for licensing, tax, inspection and tests that the ride-hailing apps don't have to...
HOWARD FENDRICH
AP Sports Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Max Scherzer is 35. So is Ryan Zimmerman.
The Washington Nationals would not be headed to a win-or-go-home Game 5 in their NL Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers without them.
"We're a bunch of yahoos. We're old guys," Scherzer joked. "Old guys can still do it."
Sure can. And for a guy whose...