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Investigan a dos funcionarios de la Patrulla Fronteriza tras fiesta con empresario del tequila 05/09/2024 07:55pm • Dos altos funcionarios de la Patrulla Fronteriza est��n bajo investigaci��n despu��s de que estuvieron de fiesta y fueron invitados por un rico fabricante de tequila mexicano que esperaba hacer un tequila con la marca de la Patrulla Fronteriza, dijeron a NBC News tres fuentes familiarizadas con la i 1 lawmaker stops South Carolina health care consolidation bill that had overwhelming support 05/09/2024 07:17pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� A bill that would have consolidated six South Carolina heath care agencies and was overwhelmingly passed by both chambers of the General Assembly died on the session's final day Thursday in a procedural move by a member angry he was mocked by his colleagues. Republican Rep. J Harris congratulates HBCU graduates in video message for graduation season 05/09/2024 06:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Graduating students at historically Black colleges and universities across the country are receiving well wishes via a video greeting from a prominent fellow alumna: Vice President Kamala Harris. ���As a proud HBCU graduate, I know firsthand the value of attending an institution As electricity demand increases, California regulators OK change to how power bills are calculated 05/09/2024 06:17pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California regulators on Thursday voted to make it cheaper for people to charge electric cars and cool their homes in the summer, a decision heralded as part of the state's transition to clean energy but derided by others who warn it will raise prices for people who don't Argentina labor unions' 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life 05/09/2024 06:06pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Argentina���s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway line 'No tax increase' included in Va. budget deal, avoiding state government shutdown 05/09/2024 05:39pm • Budget negotiators in the Virginia General Assembly have reached a bipartisan deal, ending a lengthy standoff over the spending plan and avoiding a highly unusual state government shutdown. Lawmakers will be back in Richmond on Monday to vote on the deal during a special legislative session. " Catholic church is stonewalling sex abuse investigation, Washington attorney general says 05/09/2024 05:37pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� The Catholic church is refusing to cooperate with a Washington state investigation into whether it unlawfully used charitable trust funds to cover up sexual abuse by priests, Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Thursday, asking a court to force the Seattle Archdiocese to turn over de Average long-term US mortgage rate snaps five-week string of increases, but remains above 7% 05/09/2024 05:26pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell for the first time in four weeks, a slight relief for home shoppers already facing the challenges of rising housing prices and a shortage of homes for sale. The rate fell to 7.09% from 7.22% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said T As special session approaches, are skill games in Virginia dead or alive? 05/09/2024 05:21pm • At a meeting of Virginia���s advisory council on gambling addiction late last month, Del. Paul Krizek, D-Fairfax, made a bold prediction. The battle over whether the state should legalize the slots-like gambling machines known as skill games reached a standstill in April due to policy disagreemen Union push pits the United Farm Workers against a major California agricultural business 05/09/2024 05:20pm • In a meeting room at a hotel in California's crop-rich Central Valley, a fight is taking place that could help shape the future of farm labor in fields that grow a chunk of the country's food. The battle between a unit of the Wonderful Co. ��� one of the state's most well-known farm companies that g Md. US Senate race causing division among Prince George���s Co. leaders 05/09/2024 04:53pm • The increasingly negative U.S. Senate primary race between David Trone and Angela Alsobrooks is leading to greater division and hard feelings in Prince George���s County, Maryland. Most of the elected leaders at the county and state level have endorsed Alsobrooks, but those who haven���t are incr Failure to oust Speaker 'MAGA Mike' Johnson shows strength and weakness of his alliance with Trump 05/09/2024 04:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� It was Donald Trump who bestowed the ���MAGA Mike Johnson��� nickname on the House speaker the day he won the gavel. It is the Republican speaker himself who is proving whether it sticks. Johnson survived an ouster vote this week by one of Trump���s biggest supporters in Congres Biden administration will seek partial end to special court oversight of child migrants 05/09/2024 03:48pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� The Biden administration will seek to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants traveling alone, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment, an attorney involved in the case says. The Justice Men behind the doomsday seed vault in the Arctic win World Food Prize 05/09/2024 02:52pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� As Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin began thinking about ways to prevent starvation and protect the world's food supply, they came up with what Fowler called ���the craziest idea anybody ever had��� ��� a global seed vault built into the side of an Arctic mountain. About 20 Tent camps razed and activists arrested as Tunisia clamps down on migrants 05/09/2024 02:12pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ��� Tensions in Tunisia ratcheted up as demonstrators seeking better rights for migrants staged a sit-in before European Union headquarters on Thursday, capping a week in which Tunisian authorities targeted migrant communities from the coast to the capital with arrests and the de