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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced that oil refineries could start selling more polluting winter-blend gasoline ahead of schedule to ease soaring fuel prices, directly contradicting his own goals for reducing climate emissions. The average cost of a gallon of gas was $6.30 in California on Friday, far above the national average of $3.80, according to AAA. The Democratic governor also called on state lawmakers to pass a new tax on oil company profits and return the money to California taxpayers. Lawmakers don’t return to the Capitol until January, and Newsom’s office provided few details...

A federal judge delivered a decisive ruling Friday against allies of Democrat Stacey Abrams in their 4-year-old voting rights lawsuit, upholding Georgia election laws on all counts in the case filed by Fair Fight Action days after the 2018 election.

Yet another former ally of Vladimir Putin has been found dead in mysterious circumstances. Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, was the director of communications at Digital Logistics, a subsidiary of Russian Railways which was hacked by Ukrainians earlier this year. Initial reports suggest he was killed by a gunshot wound after he was found dead on the balcony of his Moscow apartment at around 6:30am on Wednesday. Authorities have labelled his death a suicide and refused to say anything further. Local media said the circumstances behind the case ‘remain a mystery’. Mr Pchelnikov boasted about being ‘the most experienced PR manager in...

The man who survived being shot by Kyle Rittenhouse filed a secret petition to change his legal name after his past as a violent career criminal was exposed. Gaige Grosskreutz, 29, has called for an investigation by the Milwaukee County Clerk of Circuit Court on how the sealed petition was leaked to a conservative news outlet this week. Grosskreutz, of West Allis, said he has received death threats in the two years since he was shot in the arm during the protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The August 2020 protests famously left Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum dead at the hands...

The United States will be able to launch counterattacks already on nuclear missiles that can be launched from Russia. Mykola Malomuzh, General of the Army of Ukraine and ex-head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, spoke about this on the air of the FREEDOM TV channel. According to him, any training strike that Russian President Vladimir Putin is now declaring will be monitored by the Americans, the British, the Chinese, the Germans, the French. “This is a whole complex. These are systems for countering missile defense, and anti-missile defense, which we have involved in various countries. Therefore, strikes will be monitored...

Lake - Time BombPerhaps one of the most influential pieces of rock music of the 1970s to a certain band or two, this incredible song exploded on the airwaves on several FM stations in late 1976 and early 1977 on progressive rock stations across America. I associate this song with Kelly's Roast Beef in Revere, MA. It was January 30, 1977. Jimmy Carter had been president for 10 days. Freddie Prinze blew his brains out in an apparent game of Russian Roulette a couple days earlier. A frigid blizzard moved across the Northeast, dumping multiple feet of snow in the...

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Explanation: A planet-wide collaboration resulted in this remarkable array of sunrise photographs taken around the September 2022 equinox. The images were contributed by 24 photographers, one in each of 24 nautical time zones around the world. Unlike more complicated civil time zone boundaries, the 24 nautical time zones are simply 15 degree longitude bands corresponding to 1 hour steps that span the globe. Start at the upper right for the first to experience a sunrise in the nautical time zone corresponding to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) + 12 hours. In that time zone, the photographer was located in Christchurch, New...

A former president can keep whatever presidential records he wants and the government has no authority to seize them. Period.That was the Department of Justice’s legal opinion a decade ago. It was a conclusion shared by both the National Archives and a U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. On that basis, ex-president Bill Clinton was allowed to maintain custody of whatever he wanted, including allegedly classified audio tapes that he stored in his home.Fast forward to August 8, 2022 when Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered a team of FBI agents to raid and forcibly seize presidential records from the home...

On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a piece of legislation that will designate the state as a sanctuary for children and teens seeking medicalized gender transitions. Newsom’s signature on the bill, SB 107, comes nearly a month after the California legislature passed State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill, which was introduced in 2021. The bill allows families or individual minors who traveled to the state for the purpose of these medical procedures to be safe from out-of-state authorities acting on subpoenas, warrants, and child custody issues if the minor was brought into the state for procedures like surgical...

A consortium of four private groups worked with the departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and State to censor massive numbers of social media posts they considered misinformation during the 2020 election, and its members then got rewarded with millions of federal dollars from the Biden administration afterwards, according to interviews and documents obtained by Just the News. The Election Integrity Partnership is back in action again for the 2022 midterm elections, raising concerns among civil libertarians that a chilling new form of public-private partnership to evade the First Amendment's prohibition of government censorship may be expanding. The consortium is comprised...

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police say a man is dead after he was shot while trying to rob a North Side convenience store late Thursday night. The shooting happened around 9:45 p.m. at a Valero gas station in the 9600 block of San Pedro Avenue, not far from Isom Road and Loop 410. According to police, the man walked into the store and began acting like a customer, reaching for his wallet before pulling out a gun on the store clerk. That’s when, police say, the clerk saw the gun and pulled out his own, shooting the man. SAPD...

A COMING WORLDWIDE CIVIL WAR? Between 1861 and 1865, this country fought a bloody largely REGIONAL WAR in which an estimated 1.5 million were injured and 700,000 died. (A “civil war” is one having no limits on violence and geography.) The ostensible cause of that war was slavery. How is “slavery” defined? “Slavery: A condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. There is no consensus on what a slave was or on how the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden told a Democratic women’s group Friday that Republicans underestimated the power of women but that, together, they will “make sure that they never make that mistake again.” The first lady said that when “extremists attack rights that a vast majority of Americans support, like a woman’s right to choose, or when they stand in the way of affordable prescriptions or clean energy, they are letting down all Americans.” She also said “it makes me angry” to see politicians who “treat government like a sport” and “perform political stunts” to score a few more points against...

China has opened dozens of “overseas police service stations” around the globe to monitor its citizens living abroad, including one location in New York City and three in Toronto. “These operations eschew official bilateral police and judicial cooperation and violate the international rule of law, and may violate the territorial integrity in third countries involved in setting up a parallel policing mechanism using illegal methods,” reads a report by Safeguard Defenders, a human rights watchdog, released earlier this month. The report, titled “110 Overseas: Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild,” details China’s extensive efforts to combat “fraud” by its citizens living...

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus passes judgment on townswho have failed to believe in him and his signs: “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.”This Gospel and the verses leading up to it also contain a word for us. What is the first thing that the minister should do upon entering a city? “Cure the sick there.” Christ is Soter, healer of both body and spirit. So many of the saints were...

"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost." "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 1 1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the...

Pennsylvania State Police are now taking over an investigation into a shooting that left a woman dead in Braddock. Donna Thomas, a Braddock resident says, "I'v been here since '79. Everybody is getting killed! Every other week or every month, young and old."

September is traditionally the toughest month for stocks, but this one is shaping up to be the worst since 2008, during the bleak days of the financial crisis. Seasonally inclined investors may wonder what that means for October.Dow Jones Market Data took a look at how equities have done in the wake of past particularly brutal Septembers.