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How effective are California’s homelessness programs? State hasn’t been tracking
By Trân Nguyễn, The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over a five-year period but didn’t consistently track the outcomes or effectiveness of its programs, according to state audit released Tuesday. The report attempts to assess how effective the state and local cities have been spending billions of dollars to address the ongoing homelessness ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!At least 3 dead and 4 missing in an explosion at hydroelectric plant near Bologna
By The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
MILAN (AP) – An explosion Tuesday at a hydroelectric plant in northern Italy killed at least three workers and seriously injured five others, a regional fire chief said. At least four other people were missing. The blast occurred between 30 and 60 meters (between 100 and 200 feet) below the water level at the Bergi ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Venezuelan oil minister is arrested in connection with corruption probe, authorities say
By The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuela’s once powerful oil minister who quit last year has been arrested on allegations of corruption, the government announced Tuesday. The Ministry of Communications released images of Tareck El Aissami being handcuffed and walking down a hallway flanked by officers. The oil minister resigned a few days before senior officials in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How effective is California’s homelessness programs? State hasn’t been tracking
By Trân Nguyễn, The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over a five year period but didn’t consistently track the outcomes or effectiveness of its programs, according to state audit released Tuesday. The report attempts to assess how effective the state and local cities have been spending billions of dollars to address the ongoing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Arizona can enforce an 1864 law criminalizing nearly all abortions, court says
By The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
PHOENIX (AP) – The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state can enforce its long-dormant law criminalizing all abortions except when a mother’s life is at stake. The case examined whether the state is still subject to a law that predates Arizona’s statehood. The 1864 law provides no exceptions for rape or incest, but ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Michigan school shooter’s parents sentenced to at least 10 years in prison
By Ed White, The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) – The parents of a Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to at least 10 years in prison Tuesday for failing to take steps that could have prevented the killing of four students in 2021. Jennifer and James Crumbley are the first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting. They were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Appeals court rejects Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay April 15 hush money criminal trial
By Jennifer Peltz And Michael R. Sisak, The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York appeals court judge Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump’s latest bid to delay his hush money criminal trial while he fights a gag order, clearing the way for jury selection to begin next week. Justice Cynthia Kern’s ruling is yet another loss for Trump, who has tried repeatedly ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Italian media: At least 3 dead and 6 missing in an explosion at hydroelectric plant near Bologna
By The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
MILAN (AP) – At least three people died in an explosion below water level at a hydroelectric plant Tuesday in Italy’s Apennine Mountains south of Bologna that injured another three workers and left at least six missing, the Italian news agency LaPresse reported citing the Bologna prefect. Italian firefighters have rescued three of the injured ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A South African court overturns ban, rules that former leader Jacob Zuma can run in the election
By Mogomotsi Magome, The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
JOHANNESBURG (AP) – South Africa’s Electoral Court on Tuesday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can run for office in the upcoming general election, overturning an earlier decision that had barred him from contesting the polls. The decision paves the way for Zuma to run for president on behalf of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, or ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Peter Higgs, who proposed existence of Higgs boson particle, has died at 94, university says
By The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
LONDON (AP) – Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday. Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle – the so-called Higgs boson – in 1964. But it would be almost 50 years before the particle’s existence ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Italian media report workers injured and missing in explosion at hydroelectric plant near Bologna
By The Associated Press on April 9th, 2024
MILAN (AP) – An explosion at a hydroelectric plant Tuesday in Italy’s Apennine Mountains south of Bologna left at least four workers with burns and another six reported missing, the Italian news agency LaPresse reported. The explosion occurred at the hydroelectric plant at the Suviana Dam, some 70 kilometers ( 40 miles) southwest of Bologna. ... Read More »
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