LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deep in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new budget is a figure that says a lot about California’s shaky legal marijuana market: The state is expecting a lot less cash from cannabis taxes. The Democrat’s proposed spending plan, released Thursday, projects the state will bank $355 million in marijuana excise taxes by the […]
The head of Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan, should lose his job after failing to immediately disclose the death of a migrant child in Border Patrol custody, Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-Texas) said Tuesday. “If I was the head of DHS, I would ask him to step down,” Castro said at a press conference […]
Colin Kroll, the co-founder of the widely popular game HQ Trivia, has been found dead in a New York City apartment, according to police. Kroll, who also co-founded the now defunct video platform Vine, was found by police in his Manhattan apartment’s bedroom early Sunday morning after his girlfriend requested a welfare check, TMZ first […]
A group of teenage girls reading Michelle Obama’s best-selling memoir Becoming got a special surprise this week. The former first lady was in Dallas for her book tour on Monday when she stopped by a young women’s leadership conference at the Winspear Opera House, The Dallas Morning News reported. In video from local station NBC 5 […]
Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for killing Heather Heyer in a vehicular attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year. A jury sentenced Fields to one life term for the murder, along with 419 years for another nine charges, according to NBC Washington. The jury also recommended he be fined […]
Food pantries across the country are working to help federal employees who missed a paycheck on Friday due to the ongoing partial government shutdown, including one in Boston that has helped hundreds of U.S. Coast Guard families so far. This week, the Massachusetts Military Foundation set up a pop-up pantry specifically for families of the Coast Guard, […]
Police in Colorado conducted two more searches and seized potential evidence this week in connection with the disappearance of a mom who has been missing since Thanksgiving Day. Investigators were spotted back at 29-year-old Kelsey Berreth’s Woodland Park home on Wednesday, along with a mobile crime unit. A multi-jurisdictional task force made up of local, […]
A Nevada death-row inmate whose execution was twice delayed over lethal injection concerns has been found dead by an apparent hanging, corrections officials said. Scott Dozier, 48, who was convicted of murder twice, was found dead alone in his cell at Ely State Prison on Friday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections said […]
Queen Elizabeth’s annual Christmas address touched on her growing family and the importance of respect. Her Majesty spoke about celebrating her son Prince Charles’ 70th birthday, as well as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding, Princess Eugenie’s nuptials to Jack Brooksbank, the birth of Prince Louis and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s pregnancy […]
President Donald Trump may hype himself as a master dealmaker. But that’s not how former longtime Trump Organization executive Barbara Res or Trump’s The Art of the Deal co-author Tony Schwartz see it. They told MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Thursday that Trump’s dealmaking skills aren’t what the president brags them to be. “I never thought […]