Airport officials have agreed to allow an anti-SeaWorld advertisement to be displayed at Lindbergh Field.
Netflix will no longer report membership numbers starting next year.
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial ordered the media on Thursday not to report on where potential jurors have worked and to be careful about revealing information about those who will sit in judgment of the former president. Judge Juan Merchan acted after one juror was dismissed when she expressed concerns about being “outed” for her role in the case after details about her became publicly known. Despite the setback, 12 jurors were seated by the end of Thursday for the historic trial over a $130,000 hush money payment shortly before the 2016 election to porn actor Stormy Daniels to prevent her from making public her claims of a sexual meeting with Trump years earlier.
Legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. unless it cuts ties with its Chinese parent company is on a path to quickly be signed into law.
Bryan Kohberger’s attorneys filed an affidavit that provided details of their client’s purported whereabouts at the time of the killings.
The University of Texas at Austin sparked controversy last week when it laid off nearly 60 employees to comply with Texas’ new DEI ban earlier this month.
BNP Paribas was ordered by a U.S. judge on Thursday to face a lawsuit accusing the French bank of helping Sudan's government commit genocide between 1997 and 2011 by providing banking services that violated American sanctions. Hellerstein said the bank's admission that its employees recognized its role in giving Sudanese entities access to the U.S. banking system meant it could not now argue differently.
The legislation that has stalled in the Senate for a month is set to be included in a House foreign aid package expected to sail through Congress.
A panel of 12 jurors was sworn in on Thursday to sit in judgment of Donald Trump at the unprecedented criminal trial of a former US president.Seven jurors had been selected for the historic trial as of Tuesday but that number fell to five on Thursday following the release of two jurors who had already been sworn in.
Florida's new law has shocked and angered some who say outdoor workers need more protections, not less.
The dollar pushed higher Thursday behind a series of comments from Federal Reserve officials, dimming hopes for imminent interest rate cuts while US stocks finished mostly lower.Statements over the last day or so from New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams and Fed Governor Michelle Bowman have helped lift US Treasury yields as investors bet that the Fed will cut interest rates fewer times, if at all, in 2024, than was initially expected.
But she isn’t doing much else besides “learning and studying.”
Law enforcement agencies across four states were left scrambling following reports of major 911 outages that saw millions unable to contact authorities late Wednesday.
The European Union's lending arm, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a pledge to speed up the use of over 560 million euros ($595.90 million) it has ready to support Ukraine's rebuild effort this year. The EIB and Ukraine's government said a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) had been signed "to accelerate deployment of financial support and project execution on the ground". Ukraine, which is facing renewed pressure in its more than 2-year war with Russia, has been frustrated that only a fraction of the tens of billions of dollars and euros pledged by Western allies has been utilised so far.
The United States and Britain announced widespread sanctions against Iran's military drone program on Thursday, in response to its weekend attack against Israel. - Britain also sanctions Tehran - In coordination with the US Treasury, the UK government announced its own suite of sanctions against Tehran on Thursday, targeting seven individuals and six companies for enabling Iran to continue its "destabilizing regional activity, including its direct attack on Israel."
A prominent Solomon Islands critic of China, the ousted former governor of Malaita province Daniel Suidani, has been reelected, local media reported on Friday, as counting continues in an election being closely watched by China, the U.S. and Australia. The first results in national and provincial elections held in the Solomon Islands are expected to be announced on Friday, as counting continues over the weekend. The national election is the first since Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare struck a security pact with China in 2022 and drew the Pacific Islands nation closer to Beijing, in moves that concerned the U.S. and Australia because of the potential impact on regional security.
Vulnerable California Rep. Mike Levin said "new leaders" are needed.
Two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner is not running for reelection this year in his GOP-leaning eastern Kansas district so that he can spend more time with his four young children, he announced Thursday. LaTurner is among nearly two dozen Republicans in the U.S. House who are not running again or seeking another office. “The unrepeatable season of life we are in, where our kids are still young and at home, is something I want to be more present for,” LaTurner said.
The Senate advanced legislation Thursday that would reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance tool as lawmakers and the Biden administration rushed to tamp down fresh concerns about the program violating Americans' civil liberties. The bipartisan legislation would reform and extend a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as Section 702, which U.S. officials say is vital to preventing terrorism, catching spies and disrupting cyberattacks. A bill renewing the program passed the House last week after a dramatic showdown on the floor over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data.
The Biden administration is contemplating scrapping the most futuristic aspect of its highly anticipated and impactful power plant pollution rules, two sources familiar with the plan told CNN. The administration may also allow a slower phase-in for a portion of the rules, which are due to be finalized as soon as next week.
A Florida jury on Thursday concluded that Johnson & Johnson's baby powder talc product did not cause the ovarian cancer of a Florida woman who died in 2019. The lawsuit was brought by family members of Patricia Matthey, a Sarasota County resident who used Johnson's baby powder daily from 1965 until August 2016, when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, according to her family's lawsuit. J&J's Worldwide Vice President of Litigation Erik Haas said the company was vindicated by the jury's decision.
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