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A Supreme Court decision could come Monday in a case about barring Trump from the 2024 ballot 03/03/2024 02:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court tha Chicago 'mansion' tax to fund homeless services stuck in legal limbo while on the ballot 03/03/2024 12:08am • CHICAGO (AP) — An unusual legal challenge may upend the future of a Chicago ballot measure that would hike a real estate tax on high-end property sales to fund services for homeless people. Such citywide ballot measures are rare in the nation's third-largest city, but other cities, including Los A Today in History: March 3, Rodney King beaten by Los Angeles police 03/03/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Sunday, March 3, the 63rd day of 2024. There are 303 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 3, 1991, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video. On this date: In 1791, Congress pa The CDC has relaxed COVID guidelines. Will schools and day cares follow suit? 03/01/2024 07:30pm • BOSTON (AP) — Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and upended child care, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses. Gone are mandated isolation periods and masking. But will schools and child care centers agree? In case you’ve lost tra COVID-19 no longer means five days in isolation, CDC says 03/01/2024 05:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days, U.S. health officials announced Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its longstanding guidance, saying that people can return to work or regular activities if thei Today in History: March 1, 7 Watergate figures indicted 03/01/2024 12:01am • Today in History Today is Friday, March 1, the 61st day of 2024. There are 305 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 1, 1974, seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and form California governor pushes back against criticism of fast food minimum wage law 02/29/2024 09:36pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration has denied a news report that he pushed for an exception to the state's new fast-food minimum wage law that benefits a wealthy campaign donor. California's minimum wage is $16 per hour. But starting April 1, most fast-food res Georgia sets execution date for man who killed ex-girlfriend 30 years ago 02/29/2024 09:06pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A man who killed his former girlfriend three decades ago is set to be put to death in March in what would be Georgia's first execution in more than four years. A judge on Thursday signed the order for the execution of Willie James Pye, who was convicted of murder and other crimes in Brazil’s finance minister proposes global tax on the super-rich at G20 meeting in Sao Paulo 02/29/2024 06:05pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s finance minister told his peers Thursday at a G20 meeting in Sao Paulo that countries should implement a global tax on the super-rich in an effort to tackle rampant tax evasion. Fernando Haddad said tax evasion can be resolved through international cooperation so t Average Baseball Salary 02/29/2024 05:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Average baseball salary as compiled by the Major League Baseball Players Association and the minimum salary. For 1979-2000, salary deferrals without interest are discounted at 9 percent per year. For 2020, figures listed both for full pay and for reduction based on the shortened 60 Fresh from a deadly cholera outbreak, Zambia declares drought a national emergency 02/29/2024 01:17pm • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema Thursday declared the country’s debilitating drought a national disaster and emergency, saying it has devastated food production and electricity generation as the nation battles to recover from a recent deadly cholera outbreak. Like so Missouri House passes property tax cut aimed at offsetting surge in vehicle values 02/29/2024 12:38pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri residents could see a roughly $138 million tax break under legislation passed Thursday by the House in an attempt to offset a recent surge in local tax collections caused by higher vehicle values. The legislation changing the way Missouri's personal property ta The London police officer who killed Sarah Everard should never have been employed, an inquiry finds 02/29/2024 08:47am • LONDON (AP) — An off-duty police officer who abducted and murdered a 33-year-old woman in south London three years ago should never have been employed in the first place, with three police forces failing to spot clear signals of his unsuitability, an official inquiry revealed Thursday. According t Surge in Wendy's complaints exposes limits to consumer tolerance of unstable prices 02/28/2024 09:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers will pay more for a flight to Florida or for a hotel room during peak vacation times. They fork out more for a rush hour Uber ride, perhaps while grinding their teeth, and rely on apps like ParkWhiz or ParkMobile to book spots for their cars at premium prices. But a socia Climate change, cost and competition for water drive settlement over tribal rights to Colorado River 02/28/2024 08:36pm • FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A Native American tribe with one of the largest outstanding claims to water in the Colorado River basin is closing in on a settlement with more than a dozen parties, putting it on a path to piping water to tens of thousands of tribal members in Arizona who still live withou