Columbus, OH

French Parliament reconvenes on Thursday (July 18) and will start by filling the National Assembly speaker job and other key positions. FRANCE 24's Philip Turle tells us more.

France: National Assembly speaker to be elected on July 18

King Charles III outlined Labour's first programme for government in a decade and half on Wednesday (July 17) when the UK parliament formally reopens following the July 4 election. Despite its name, the address is not written by the monarch but by the government, which uses it to detail the laws it proposes to make over the next 12 months.

Replay: UK King's speech at Parliament opening

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

New York City, NY

Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

There have been dozens of deaths and many more arrests in Poland this year linked to synthetic drugs, including mephedrone -- an alternative to cocaine -- as well as fentanyl and nitazenes. Poland's Central Investigation Bureau of Police has dismantled 33 illegal synthetic drug "factories" this year, according to its...

'Unnoticed, catastrophic': Rising opioid fears in Eastern Europe

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Bucks County Beacon

Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025 , a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage Foundation, helpfully lays out how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich.

Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

Virginia State

Some Virginia fans of The Bold and the Beautiful said they were skeptical when Thomas Forrester (Mathew Atkinswon) asked Hope Spencer (Anikka Noelle) to marry him for a third time on Friday.

The Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers: Thomas was not sincere in his proposal to Hope on Friday

Some social media users have been claiming that the gunman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump during a campaign rally on July 13 is an anti-fascist (Antifa) activist. They’ve been circulating a photo that they say shows this person since July 14. The man in the photo is actually...

No, this photo and video do not show the gunman who tried to assassinate Trump

Pennsylvania State

“Who sits there and thinks, with all the needs we have in America, of criminalizing the homeless?” wonders Pastor Robert Brown of Bristol’s Bible Evangelical Methodist Church after learning that the United States Supreme Court approved punishing those experiencing homelessness who have nowhere to sleep.

After SCOTUS OK’s Criminalization of Homelessness, Pennsylvania Democrats Plan Legislative Response to Protect Rights of the Unhoused

Continuing their investigation into Sunday's assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, authorities search for answers as to why Thomas Crooks, 20, the main suspect, carried out the attack.

No motive for Trump assassination identified

Illinois State

Every year, new laws that were passed the prior year go into effect on July 1. In 2024, a number of new laws will begin this Monday. Among them include higher wages for tipped employees, a gas tax increase, and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

New Laws July 1: Driver's Licenses for Undocumented Migrants, Raises for Tipped Workers, and More

The remains of the obscure, five-metre (16.4 foot) long, beaked creature were found near a river mouth in southern Otago province on July 4, government researchers said. It was identified by marine-mammal experts from New Zealand's Department of Conservation and the national museum, Te Papa, as a male spade-toothed whale.

World's rarest whale washes up on New Zealand beach

California State

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The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

The 37-year-old is one of 120 residents of the Huarmey slums in the Ancash department who were found to have high levels of arsenic in their blood when 140 people were tested last year, according to the Ministry of Health. Some 3,000 live in this community of wooden houses facing...

Poisoned by arsenic, and with no way out, Peruvians live in fear

New Jersey State

Paterson, NJ

Morristown Minute

In a landmark case against Horseless Carriage Carrier, Inc., the New Jersey Department of Labor and Attorney General enforce labor laws to protect misclassified drivers. PATTERSON, N.J. - Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo have announced a significant legal settlement with Horseless Carriage Carrier, Inc., based in Paterson, New Jersey. The settlement addresses violations of labor laws involving the misclassification of employee drivers as independent contractors and other unlawful practices.

Paterson Luxury Car Shipping Workers Win $364K in Back Wages

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

South Carolina State

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Manatees are back in Lowcountry waters and residents in the coastal areas of South Carolina should be particularly alert while boating and please report sightings of these gentle giants to SCDNR.

Manatees are back in South Carolina coastal waters

"This is the final straw," Musk said on X a day after California governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill that fired up the already fraught culture wars in a tumultuous US election year. "Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX...

Musk to move companies out of California over transgender law

Brooklyn, NY

CLIFTON, N.J. - Juan De La Cruz Infante Torres, a 52-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, has been sentenced to 57 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges related to a drug trafficking conspiracy. The sentence, delivered by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton federal court, comes after Torres admitted to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl, as well as possession with intent to distribute the drug.

Brooklyn Man Sentenced for Fentanyl Trafficking in New Jersey

Since last summer, the El Niño weather phenomenon has wreaked havoc on harvests in Zimbabwe. Half of the country's population has been left food insecure. The government has declared a state of disaster.

Zimbabwe suffers from drought

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🔴 Live: Turnout reaches 25.9% at 12pm in France’s snap parliamentary elections

French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved parliament on June 9 and called snap legislative elections for June 30 and July 7 after the far-right National Rally trounced...

🔴 Live: Turnout reaches 25.9% at 12pm in France’s snap parliamentary elections

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