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Here’s what Biden’s budget would do – if it had a chance

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

By Chris Megerian | Associated PressWASHINGTON — With Republicans in control of the House, there’s no chance that President Joe Biden’s new budget plan will become law as it stands. Instead, the financial blueprint that he announced Thursday in Philadelphia will serve as a political talking point for a president preparing to run for reelection.“I just laid out the bulk of my budget,” Biden said during a stop at a union training center. “Republicans in Congress should do the same thing. Then we can sit down and see where we disagree.”Many of the key proposals are designed to draw sharp contrasts with Republicans.Some of the highlights of Biden’s plan:BIDEN EMPHASIZES FISCAL RESPONSIBILITYBiden’s budget covers the next 10 years. Overall, he expects an additional $4.7 trillion in tax revenues and $800 billion in savings from making changes to government programs. Biden also wants $2.6 trillion in new spending. That leaves him with an esti...

Walgreens pushes back on California contract cancellation over abortion pill plans

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

Walgreens said Thursday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is unfairly targeting the pharmacy over plans for dispensing abortion pills in other states that it says are no different than those of its competitors.Newsom this week said California “won’t be doing business with Walgreens — or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women’s lives at risk” after the pharmacy indicated last week it would not dispense abortion pills 21 states where attorneys general warned they would consider it illegal.Newsom’s office Wednesday announced the state won’t renew a contract for “specialty pharmacy prescription drugs” mostly used by the state’s correctional health care system that has paid Walgreens $54 million as part of an ongoing “review of all contracts between the state and Walgreens.” Newsom said California will “will explore other options for furnishing the same services.”Walgreens said in a stat...

Cal fires Mark Fox: Five candidates to revive a program adrift in changing college sports landscape

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

Cal dismissed coach Mark Fox on Thursday in a move surprising only in that it required 19 hours from the conclusion of the worst season in school history to the announcement of Fox’s termination.The writing has been on this wall since the invention of writing.Fox was a questionable hire from the start, as athletic director Jim Knowlton spent just three days looking for a replacement for Wyking Jones in the spring of 2019 and allowed an East Coast-based search firm, Collegiate Sports Associates, to guide the process despite its questionable track record for West Coast hires.The first red flag: Fox was unemployed at the time, having been fired by Georgia a year earlier.The second red flag: Fox had no ties to Cal.Every Bears fan in captivity — at least, those who haven’t been driven away by six dreadful years under Jones and Fox — should hope Knowlton doesn’t retain CSA this time around.Then again, Pete Newell at the peak of his powers would only get the Bears to medi...

North Korea drill simulates an attack on South Korea

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

By Kim Tong-Hyung | Associated PressSEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire artillery drill simulating an attack on a South Korean airfield and called for his troops to be ready to respond to the enemies’ “frantic war preparation moves” — apparently referring to the U.S.’s largest military exercises with the South in years.The North Korean state media report Friday came a day after South Korea’s military detected the North firing at least one short-range ballistic missile toward the sea from a site near the western coastal city of Nampo. The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff was assessing whether more missiles may have been launched from the area simultaneously.South Korea and the United States are preparing this month for their biggest combined military training exercise in years to counter the growing threat of Kim’s nuclear arsenal, which he has aggressively expanded despite the North’s deepening econ...

Big storm barrels toward a Big Sur school shuttered by landslides for months

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

Since early January, Ellen Hall has been teaching in an empty classroom.Hall’s students have been popping in and out of her online lessons since storms rocked Big Sur — and led to massive landslides — on Highway 1 late last year. More than two months later, half of the students at Hall’s school are still blocked from their classes, separated by immense levels of dirt, muck and rock.The situation could get worse this weekend as a new atmospheric river barrels toward Big Sur, with forecasters calling for up to 14 inches of rain. For now, until everyone can get to the classroom, no students are allowed at the school.The landslide at Mill Creek on Feb. 16, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Caltrans District 5). The landslide at Paul's Slide on Feb. 16, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Caltrans District 5). Show Caption of Expand“It’s a very small community as it is, and now we’re completely separated,” said Katie Day, a mother of one of Hall’s students. “It’s looking like it...

Richmond man shot and killed in city’s first homicide of 2023

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

RICHMOND — A 43-year-old man was shot and killed here Wednesday morning by a person who fired more than a dozen shots after spotting him in the front of a residence, police say.The victim, identified by authorities as Richmond resident Danny Barnes, was killed at around 11:20 a.m. Wednesday, while standing outside a residence on the 2400 block of Aberdeen Way, police said. Barnes’ death marks Richmond’s first homicide of 2023.Police say it appears to be a targeted shooting; the suspect was driving by, apparently spotted Barnes, stopped the vehicle, and opened fire. Barnes died before paramedics could get there, authorities say.Police continue to investigate and have not made any arrests.Authorities say anyone with information can call Det. Orlando Guzman at 510-965-4966, email him at [email protected] or they can contact Richmond’s anonymous tip line at (510) 307-T1PS (8177)

Biden proposes $500 million boost to Silicon Valley BART

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

The Biden administration included a major gift to the Bay Area in its Thursday federal budget proposal: $500 million to build BART through San Jose, a vital revenue boost to a project racked by escalating cost projections.The funding would bring the 6-mile extension, which is supposed to be finished by 2034, a major step closer to reality, although the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority still needs to close a multi-billion dollar gap between project costs and available funding.“It’s definitely significant,” said Carolyn Gonot, VTA’s general manager. “There were only a handful of projects that got very large sums in the president’s budget.”The $9.3 billion extension would have BART trains whizzing underneath downtown San Jose and into Santa Clara. But the cost and time estimates have doubled since 2018, and more recently the VTA turned to Washington asking for a historic $4.6 billion federal grant. So far, the Federal Transit Adminis...

Texas executes inmate for killing 4 during drug robbery

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has executed an inmate convicted of the drug-related killings of four people more than 30 years ago, including a woman who was 9-months pregnant.Arthur Brown Jr., 52, insisted he was innocent before receiving a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1992 slayings, which took place in a Houston home during a drug robbery.Authorities said Brown was part of a ring that shuttled drugs from Texas to Alabama and had bought drugs from Jose Tovar and his wife Rachel Tovar.Killed during the drug robbery were 32-year-old Jose Tovar; his wife’s 17-year-old son, Frank Farias; 19-year-old Jessica Quiñones, the pregnant girlfriend of another son of Rachel Tovar; and 21-year-old neighbor Audrey Brown. All four had been tied up and shot in the head. Rachel Tovar and another person were also shot but survived.“I don’t see how anybody could have just killed a pregnant woman and then made her suffer so muc...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had been charged with corruption, money laundering

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Former Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had been charged with corruption, money laundering.Source

Muere Robert Blake, actor de “In Cold Blood” y “Lost Highway”, a los 89 años

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:26:13 GMT

(CNN) –– Robert Blake, destacado actor y ganador de un Emmy, falleció este jueves, según informó su hija, Delinah Blake. Tenía 89 años.Delinah Blake le dijo a CNN en un correo electrónico que su padre murió “en paz” y “rodeado de su familia”.La última participación cinematográfica de Blake fue en 1997 con “Lost Highway”, de David Lynch. Previamente estuvo en producciones como “In Cold Blood” de 1967. Su papel protagónico en la popular serie criminal “Baretta”, de la década de 1970, lo llevó a ganar un premio Emmy.En 2001, la segunda esposa de Blake, Bonny Lee Bakley, fue encontrada muerta en el Valle de San Fernando. En 2005, el actor fue absuelto de los cargos de homicidio relacionados con el caso. Más tarde perdió una demanda civil presentada por los hijos de Bakley.Noticia en desarrollo…The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source