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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a longtime proponent of legalized marijuana, promised on Thursday that in his first 100 days in the White House he would issue an executive order directing the drug be removed from the list of controlled federal substances.

* Tesla’s stock had its best single day of trading since May 2013. * The electric automaker turned in an unexpectedly profitable third-quarter and better than anticipated progress toward getting its Shanghai factory operational. * “Skeptics had legitimate concerns in the past, but Tesla is now building cash, winning market share, and boosting margins,” Piper Jaffray says. Tesla’s stock popped big when trading began on Thursday, after the electric automaker turned in an unexpectedly profitable third-quarter and better than anticipated progress toward getting its Shanghai factory operational. “Skeptics had legitimate concerns in the past, but Tesla is now building cash,...

Iron Wood Group LLC is gearing up to produce veneer for the plywood industry at a refurbished mill southwest of Dolores. CEO Jeff Bunnell was granted a high-impact permit for the business by Montezuma County commissioners. The sawmill property on Road T was also rezoned from commercial to heavy industrial. Iron Wood will employ 20 to 30 workers and is currently hiring staff, Bunnell said. Applications may be picked up at the Cortez Workforce Center. A logging crew is working in the San Juan National Forest in the Chicken Creek area and near Bayfield. The mill will produce veneer sheets...

HOUSTON — The Houston Astros have fired Brandon Taubman, the assistant general manager who came under fire for inappropriate comments he made during the team’s clubhouse celebration. The Astros announced Taubman’s firing Thursday. Sports Illustrated writer Stephanie Apstein reported during the Astros’ clubhouse celebrating after winning the American League Championship Series, Taubman allegedly shouted, “Thank God we got Osuna! I’m so f------ glad we got Osuna!” during the locker room celebration.

AUDIOKellyanne Conway, US President Donald Trump’s top White House aide and self-described “powerful woman,” berated and threatened a reporter over the phone following a story by the journalist that characterized Conway as “caught in the middle” of a feud between her husband and her boss. On Wednesday, Conway’s assistant, Tom Joannou, placed a phone call to Caitlin Yilek, a breaking news reporter at the Washington Examiner. The day prior, Yilek had authored a piece about Conway potentially becoming the White House’s next chief of staff in which she mentioned that Trump and Conway’s husband, George Conway, have engaged in a...

Hydraulic fracturing could be responsible for an increase in earthquakes in the Permian Basin in West Texas, as oil and gas operations increase during a boom in the region. A study published Tuesday by the University of Texas at Austin suggested the practice, known as fracking, could be linked to earthquakes in the region just across the state border to southeast New Mexico where oil and gas operations also increased dramatically in recent years. Research targeted the Delaware Basin, on the western side of the Permian in Texas and New Mexico which now produces more than 5 million barrels of...

In 2016, Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel “Puiu” Popoviciu, who was accused of orchestrating a corrupt land deal, hired Hunter Biden to “advise” him as he aimed to dodge federal prosecution. At the same time, Hunter’s father Joe Biden was claiming to be pushing Romania to clean up political corruption.

The next Democratic presidential primary debate will be held next month in Georgia with a panel of four female journalists moderating the conversation, MSNBC announced on Wednesday. Rachel Maddow, who moderated the debate in June, will be joined by Andrea Mitchell, host of "Andrea Mitchell Reports" on MSNBC; Kristen Welker, NBC News' White House correspondent; and Ashley Parker, a White House reporter for The Washington Post. The debate, which is scheduled to take place on Nov. 20 from 9 to 11 p.m. ET, will be an hour shorter than the three-hour debate that took place in October. Mitchell, who also...

Many restaurants are catering to online delivery sites likes Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats and not allowing customers to eat in-house NEW YORK (AP) — Frato’s Pizza looks like a typical family restaurant, with its black-and-white checkered floor and red chairs. But in the kitchen, the cooks are whipping up dishes for four other restaurants at the same time. There is, of course, the gourmet pizza that patrons have come to expect from Frato’s when they walk through the door. But there are also spicy chicken gyros for Halal Kitchen, barbecue chicken tenders for Tenderlicious, salmon grilled cheese for Cheesy...

The idea of 2020 hopefuls Joe Biden or Pete Buttigieg facing off against President Trump next November would be a tragedy as the Democratic party continues to forge ahead without a true frontrunner, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said during a Thursday interview with The Intercept’s “Deconstructed” podcast. Omar was asked about the field of 2020 candidates and whether she preferred Biden or Buttigieg. She answered, “None,” before characterizing their hypothetical nominations as “tragic.” Host Mehdi Hasan asked.“But if you had to pick one? If one of them is the candidate for your party, who would you rather it be?” Omar...

Faced with a barrage of damaging headlines for President Donald Trump stemming from impeachment inquiry testimony, congressional Republicans are beginning to coalesce around a strategy aimed at discrediting key witnesses and taking a more confrontational stance against the Democratic-led impeachment process. Republicans on Thursday ramped up their skepticism of the testimony delivered by US diplomat Bill Taylor — which undercut White House claims Ukraine aid wasn't tied to an investigation that could help him politically — and the Senate's No. 2 Republican Sen. John Thune walked back earlier concerns he expressed about Taylor's opening statement. Republicans in the Senate have...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, October 24, 2019 North Carolina Bloods Gang Members Found Guilty of Racketeering Conspiracy Involving Murders A federal jury convicted four North Carolina members of the United Blood Nation (UBN or Bloods) street gang of charges including Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy involving multiple murders.  In May of 2017, 83 UBN gang members were indicted in the Western District of North Carolina for crimes including RICO conspiracy.  This trial resulted in the convictions of the last four defendants in the active case.Dricko Dashon Huskey, aka Drizzy, 27,...

A doctor in Florida burned to death because the battery in his Tesla burst into flames and the car's futuristic door handles wouldn't allow a police officer to rescue him, according to a legal complaint. Dr Omar Awan died in February after his Tesla hit a palm tree. ...part of the design of the Tesla Model S is to retract the door handles into the car and they then "auto-present" and pop out when the car's key fob is detected nearby. However, the handles malfunctioned and people were not able to open the doors Dr Awan had no broken bones...

As the 2020 election approaches and calls to impeach President Trump intensify, conflict and division continue to escalate in the United States. A new poll confirms what many of us have known for quite some time: tension in the US is increasing, and the likely outcome is civil war. Most Americans agree that we are becoming more divided. Before we look at what the poll (which was conducted by the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service) revealed, here is a bit of background: The Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) Battleground Poll is a national bipartisan...

Another freshman Democrat in the House is under investigation for allegedly sleeping with a staffer, among other possible violations of House ethics rules.

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, October 24, 2019 North Carolina Gang Leaders Convicted of RICO Charges Two North Carolina men were found guilty today for conspiracy to participate in a pattern of racketeering (RICO), two counts of murder in aid of racketeering, two counts of murder with a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to commit witness tampering.Evidence presented at trial and other public documents established that Demetrice R. Devine, aka “Respect,” 37, of Garner,...

The man who called 911 to report his marijuana plants were being stolen — a call that led to the shooting death of El Dorado County sheriff’s Deputy Brian Ishmael on Wednesday — has been arrested on a charge of involuntary manslaughter, jail records show.

..Raoul Follereau, the French-born pioneer advocate for people afflicted with leprosy, wrote: “I had a dream – a man came to the judgment seat of God. He said, ‘You see, Lord, I have done nothing evil, dishonest or impious. Lord, my hands are clean’. ‘But,’ says the Lord, ‘They are empty’!” Nowhere is this spelled out more clearly than in Matthew’s account of the Last Judgment. Those who are condemned, the goats who take their place on the judge’s left hand, plead their innocence on the grounds that they simply did not advert to the plight of their brothers and...

New Jersey is seeking to revoke the liquor license of President Donald Trump’s Colts Neck golf club after the facility allegedly served an intoxicated customer who later drove drunk and and got into an accident that killed his father, according to a published report. While the two offenses listed in the notice carry a combined penalty of a 25-day suspension, the state Division of Alcohol Beverage Control said it was seeking revocation of the license “due to the aggregating circumstances in this case.” The letter was obtained by the Washington Post, which reported that the customer in question was Andrew...