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California sets long-awaited drinking water limit for 'Erin Brockovich' contaminant 04/17/2024 07:36pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� California regulators voted Wednesday to establish a drinking water limit on hexavalent chromium, a toxic chemical compound made infamous by the movie ���Erin Brockovich.��� The rule is the first in the nation to specifically target the heavy metal, known as chromium-6, and is e North Carolina university committee swiftly passes policy change that could cut diversity staff 04/17/2024 07:32pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� The future of diversity, equity and inclusion staff jobs in North Carolina's public university system could be at stake after a five-person committee swiftly voted to repeal a key policy Wednesday. The Committee on University Governance, within the University of North Carolin Donovan Mitchell healthy, ready to make second playoff run with Cavs a year after painful early exit 04/17/2024 06:43pm • INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) ��� Donovan Mitchell understands what's at stake ��� all of it. In the weeks ahead, his reputation, his stature among the NBA's stars, maybe even his future with Cleveland, is on the line. An uneven season filled with twists, turns and injurie s for the Cavs has returned Mitc Virginia lawmakers agree to extend budget talks as they take up Youngkin amendments, vetoes 04/17/2024 06:35pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Democrats who control the Virginia General Assembly reached an 11th-hour compromise with Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin to extend the timeline for negotiations over the state budget, a move that lawmakers said Wednesday would offer a reset for what has so far been a bitter and DC and federal officials say this initiative is helping take violent offenders off the streets 04/17/2024 06:27pm • Two years after the creation of "Project Safe Neighborhoods," an attempt to crack down on gun-related crimes in D.C., authorities say they've sent 127 firearms cases to federal court. "Targets of these cases have an average of six prior felony arrests. More than half of them were previously arres Republican AGs attack Biden's EPA for pursuing environmental discrimination cases 04/17/2024 06:11pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� Republican attorneys general attacked the Biden administration���s stated goal of pursuing environmental justice, calling it a form of ���racial engineering.������ Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 22 other GOP officials asked the EPA Tuesday to stop using civil rights law Southern California city council gives a key approval for Disneyland expansion plan 04/17/2024 06:07pm • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ��� Visitors to Disney's California parks could one day walk through the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from ���Frozen��� or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of ���Zootopia��� under a park expansion plan approved by the Anaheim City Council. Disney would spend at least Georgian police fire tear gas to break up protest against so-called 'Russian law' 04/17/2024 05:58pm • TBILISI, Georgia (AP) ��� Police in the capital of Georgia on Tuesday unleashed tear gas to break up a large demonstration outside the country's parliament to protest a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign influence if they receive Lawmakers vote down bill that would allow some Alabama death row inmates to be resentenced 04/17/2024 05:53pm • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury's recommendation of life imprisonment. The House Judiciary Committee voted 9-4 against the bill that would give life without Movie Review: 'Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' amps up a true-tale WWII heist 04/17/2024 05:46pm • The latest Guy Ritchie flick ���The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare��� has a spine of true story to it, even if it does all it can to amplify a long-declassified World War II tale with enough dead Nazis to make ���Inglourious Basterds��� blush. The result is a jauntily entertaining film but also a Some criminals are using dating app Tinder to purchase guns, ATF says 04/17/2024 05:46pm • Federal officials are learning that guns are being trafficked using social media platforms, including an app where you would more likely find a date than a Glock. A new report on firearms trafficking from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms released earlier this month found that armed off Baltimore Bombers? Mullins' walk-off drive was the latest highlight of the Orioles' power surge 04/17/2024 05:32pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� The first Baltimore batter homered, and so did the final one. The latter was a drive by Cedric Mullins that ended the game ��� and extended an impressive streak of power by the Orioles. Mullins hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Wednesday to beat the Minne Air National Guard changes in Alaska could affect national security, civilian rescues, staffers say 04/17/2024 05:19pm • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� Kristin Paniptchuk���s water broke on Christmas Eve at her home in the western Alaska Inupiat village of Shaktoolik, and then she began to bleed profusely. The local clinic in the tiny village of 200 people on the Bering Sea couldn���t stop the bleeding or the contractions Capitals top prospect Ryan Leonard is returning to Boston College 04/17/2024 05:14pm • ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) ��� Ryan Leonard is not joining the Washington Capitals for the playoffs after all, and will return to Boston College for his sophomore season. General manager Brian MacLellan confirmed that Wednesday, saying the organization's top prospect expressed a desire to play another s Kansas' higher ed board adopts an anti-DEI policy after pressure from GOP legislators 04/17/2024 05:00pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� State universities in Kansas are banned from requiring prospective students, potential hires and staffers seeking promotion to disclose their views on diversity initiatives under a policy change approved Wednesday by the state's higher education board in response to pressure fr