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California's Democratic leaders clash with businesses over curbing retail theft. Here's what to know 06/15/2024 12:05am • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With retail theft increasing, California Democratic leadership is clashing with a coalition of law enforcement and business groups in a fierce political fight over how to crack down on the problem. State lawmakers are trying to preserve progressive policies and stay away Montgomery County weighs changes to zoning in single family neighborhoods to open housing opportunities 06/14/2024 07:55pm • The Montgomery County Planning Board has approved an initiative that would allow owners of single-family homes to replace them with duplexes, triplexes and, in some areas, even quadplexes — all as a way to increase housing opportunities in the county. Montgomery County Planning Director Jason S Hannah Einbinder uses comedy as a coping mechanism in debut standup special 06/14/2024 06:09pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — To rising comic Hannah Einbinder, her bits are for more than just laughs. She says her jokes are a coping mechanism she uses to process the tough topics she tackles in her material. Einbinder, known for matching Jean Smart’s quick wit and comedic timing in “Hacks,” releas RH, MSC Industrial fall; Adobe, Progressive rise, Friday, 6/14/2024 06/14/2024 04:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Friday: Adobe Inc., up $66.57 to $525.31. The design software company raised its earnings forecast for its fiscal year. RH, down $47.32 to $229.73. The furniture and housewares retailer reported a much bigger first-quar The Latest | Group of Seven summit turns to migration after promising tens of billions to Ukraine 06/14/2024 03:55pm • BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (AP) — A summit meeting of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations focused on migration on Friday, the second and final day of the gathering in southern Italy, seeking ways to combat trafficking and increase investment in countries from where migrants start out on of G7 leaders agree to lend Ukraine billions backed by Russia's frozen assets. Here's how it will work 06/14/2024 03:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed to engineer a $50 billion loan to help Ukraine in its fight for survival. Interest earned on profits from Russia’s frozen central bank assets would be used as collateral. Details of the deal were being hashed out by Kansas governor and GOP leaders say they have a deal on tax cuts to end 2 years of stalemate 06/14/2024 02:51pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor and top Republican lawmakers say they have an agreement on a package of broad tax cuts, potentially ending a two-year political standoff that has prevented their state from following others in making big reductions. The deal announced late Thursday Elon Musk gets 77% approval from shareholders to get back his big, $44.9 billion Tesla pay package 06/14/2024 09:13am • DETROIT (AP) — Tesla shareholders voted Thursday to restore CEO Elon Musk's record $44.9 billion pay package that was thrown out by a Delaware judge earlier this year, sending a strong vote of confidence in his leadership of the world's largest electric vehicle maker. The favorable vote doesn’t Bidding war breaks out for DC's Vanda Pharmaceuticals 06/14/2024 07:54am • Just days after D.C.-based Vanda Pharmaceuticals said it had received an unsolicited buyout offer from a U.K. drug company, a suitor Vanda had previously rejected has returned with a sweetened offer. Future Pak, a Michigan-based contract manufacturing and packaging company in the pharmaceuticals Stock market today: Asian shares mixed after AI hopes nudge Wall St to records. BOJ stands pat 06/14/2024 12:23am • TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed in muted trading Friday after Wall Street’s continued frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology nudged indexes on Wall Street to more records. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 0.7% to 38,998.04 after the Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy inta Future of Elon Musk and Tesla are on the line this week as shareholders vote on massive pay package 06/13/2024 09:19pm • DETROIT (AP) — If Tesla shareholders vote against restoring Elon Musk's $44.9 billion pay package Thursday, the CEO could deliver on threats to take artificial intelligence research to one of his other companies. Or he could even could walk away. If they approve the all-stock compensation package Does Medicare Cover the Cost of Medical Alert Systems? 06/13/2024 08:00pm • More than 27% of U.S. adults over age 60 live alone, according to research by the Pew Research Center. That estimate is expected to rise as more baby boomers reach retirement age. "Many older adults are aging in place as technological innovations offer more vulnerable seniors the opportunity to live Zoo in Tennessee blames squeezable food pouch for beloved antelope's death 06/13/2024 07:03pm • LIMESTONE, Tenn. (AP) — An antelope choked on a squeezable food pouch and died over the weekend at a northeastern Tennessee zoo, officials said. Lief, a 7-year-old male sitatunga, died Saturday at Brights Zoo, the family-owned zoo in rural Limestone said in a social media post mourning the loss o Biden and Zelenskyy sign security deal as Ukraine's leader questions how long the unity will last 06/13/2024 05:38pm • FASANO, Italy (AP) — President Joe Biden and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a 10-year security agreement Thursday that they hailed as a milestone in relations between their countries, but that alone was not enough to stop Zelenskyy from wondering how much longer he could count on Amer Toxic garlic should have prompted EPA to warn against gardening near Ohio derailment, watchdog says 06/13/2024 05:33pm • The Environmental Protection Agency should conduct additional soil studies near the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio and warn people it might not be safe to garden there after independent testing showed high levels of chemicals in locally grown garlic, a watchdog group said Thursday. In a p