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Electric vehicles owners and solar rooftops find mutual attraction 12/16/2023 09:03am • When Jim Selgo moved to his home in Goodyear, Arizona in 2019, he quickly had rooftop solar installed, having had a positive experience with solar at his previous home. Less than a year later, motivated to take more action to address climate change, he said, Selgo bought his first electric vehicle, Today in History: December 16, World War II's Battle of the Bulge begins 12/16/2023 12:05am • Today in History Today is Saturday, Dec. 16, the 350th day of 2023. There are 15 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Dec. 16, 1944, the World War II Battle of the Bulge began as German forces launched a surprise attack against Allied forces through the Ardennes Forest in Belgiu Sacramento councilman charged with illegally hiring workers, wire fraud and blocking federal probe 12/15/2023 08:58pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� A Sacramento City Council member pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges that he hired undocumented workers at his local grocery stores, underpaid them and cheated the government on COVID-19 relief funds. Council member Sean Loloee and Karla Montoya, the general mana Michael Wacha gets $32M, 2-year deal with Royals, Hunter Renfroe $13M contract, AP sources say 12/15/2023 07:38pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Royals general manager J.J. Picollo knew he needed to upgrade his rotation and fill a corner outfield spot this offseason. He took care of both tasks Friday. In the latest moves in what has become a busy offseason in Kansas City, the Royals agreed to a $32 million, two-year Hawaii governor wants 3,000 vacation rentals converted to housing for Maui wildfire survivors 12/15/2023 06:27pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Hawaii Gov. Josh Green on Friday said he wants 3,000 condos and homes that are normally rented to Maui tourists converted to long-term housing for displaced wildfire survivors who are now living in hotels. Green said he���s prepared to use the ���hammer��� of post-fire emergency or After 40 witnesses and 43 days of testimony, here's what we learned at Trump���s civil fraud trial 12/15/2023 05:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� After hearing from 40 witnesses over 2�� months, Judge Arthur Engoron sounded almost wistful as he presided over the last day of testimony in former President Donald Trump���s civil business fraud trial. ���In a strange way, I���m gonna miss this trial,��� he said Wednesday. Thing Chile arrests 55 people in a $275 million tax fraud case that officials call the country's biggest 12/15/2023 04:54pm • SANTIAGO (AP) ��� Chile's police on Friday arrested at least 55 people in a fiscal fraud case that could be one of the biggest in the country's history, amounting to about $275 million and implicating small and mid-sized companies in different parts of the country. Marcelo Freyhoffer, a high officer US Treasury Department issues guidelines around a new tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel 12/15/2023 03:39pm • The Biden administration released long-awaited guidance on Friday around tax credits for aviation fuel that reduces emissions of greenhouse gases compared with fuel made from crude oil. Some environmentalists expressed concern that the Treasury Department guidelines could allow credits for fuel made Shohei Ohtani's contract with the Dodgers could come with bonus of mostly avoiding California taxes 12/15/2023 01:57pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� If $700 million wasn't enough, Shohei Ohtani's record-setting contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers could also include a bonus: skipping most of California's famously high income taxes. Not even the mighty Dodgers have the power to exempt Ohtani from paying his taxes. But The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends 12/15/2023 01:22pm • TOMPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� Rep. James Comer, a multimillionaire farmer, boasts of being one of the largest landholders near his rural Kentucky hometown, and he has meticulously documented nearly all of his landholdings on congressional financial disclosure documents ��� roughly 1,600 acres (645 hec Vermont, ranked as one of the safest states, sees dramatic spike in gun violence 12/15/2023 12:31pm • BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) ��� The recent shootings of three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont���s largest city come as the small rural state, often ranked as one of the nation's safest, is grappling with a spike in gun violence. Two days after the students were shot and seriously wounded After surviving corruption crises, Olympics and soccer move to let presidents stay longer in power 12/15/2023 11:52am • GENEVA (AP) ��� When the Olympic movement and international soccer lived through very public corruption crises, both agreed to limit the terms of their presidents in an effort to protect them in the future. All are on track now to roll back the policy. Limiting their presidents to 12 years in office The $10 billion charity no one has heard of 12/15/2023 11:35am • A donor-advised fund devoted to supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has leapt from being a relatively minor charity to one with an asset size comparable to behemoths like the Andrew W. Mellon and David and Lucile Packard foundations. The SDG Impact Fund, based in Cartersville Airbnb agrees to pay $621 million to settle a tax dispute in Italy 12/15/2023 06:56am • ROME (AP) ��� Short-term rental platform Airbnb has agreed to pay 576 million euros ($621 million) to settle a years-long dispute over unpaid taxes in Italy but said it won���t try to recover the money from its hosts. In November, Italian prosecutors said AirBnb owed about 779 million euros ($840 mi The Vatican's 'trial of the century,' a Pandora's box of unintended revelations, explained 12/15/2023 12:10am • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� Verdicts are expected Saturday for a cardinal and nine other defendants in the most complicated financial trial in the Vatican's modern history: a case featuring a Hollywood-worthy cast of characters, unseemly revelations about the Holy See and questions about Pope Francis ���