The owner of the Los Angeles Times has blocked the paper from endorsing a candidate for president this year. read more
WASHINGTON " The shooting and wounding of former President Donald Trump in an attempted assassination attempt was "preventable," a bipartisan House task force said Monday. The task force headed by Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Jason Crow, D-Colo., echoed many of the findings from previous reviews by an independent Department of Homeland Security panel, a Senate inquiry and a Secret Service internal review. Trump was shot in the ear at a rally July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a spectator was killed before a Secret Service sniper shot the gunman. The task force findings based on 23 interviews with local law enforcement officials and a review of thousands of pages of documents included: read more
Savannah GA - Authorities said at least seven people were killed Saturday when part of a ferry dock collapsed on Georgia's Sapelo Island, where crowds had gathered for a fall celebration by the island's tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants. read more
Boeing and the leaders of its machinists union have reached a tentative deal that could end a damaging strike that has halted most of its production. The company is offering a 35% wage increase over four years in its latest proposal. That is up from its original offer of 25% that was overwhelmingly rejected by a union local representing machinists in the Pacific Northwest that build most of Boeing's jets. The strike, which began on Sept. 13, has halted production of most of the company's airplanes and triggered a large round of layoffs. The union announced the deal Saturday morning, saying, "it warrants presenting to the members and is worthy of your consideration." The union plans to vote on the deal on Wednesday. Nearly 95% of workers voted to reject the last tentative deal, which the union's leaders recommended. read more
San Francisco Californians already pay the highest price for gasoline in the country, and some analysts estimate proposed changes to the state's low-carbon fuel standard could increase prices at the pump by as much as 65 cents a gallon. The California Air Resources Board is slated to vote on policy changes in November that would lower carbon emissions faster, but increase the cost for refineries. Republican lawmakers are urging state regulators to delay the vote, saying prices at the pump would spike. Gas prices in California are on average $1.47 a gallon higher than the national average mainly because of its gas taxes, the highest in the country. Some state lawmakers say new policies to lower carbon emission standards would hurt everyday residents.
So, the answer is no, no lawsuits. And photo ops, when we do it, are not staged. Got it.