California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill into law aimed at curbing surging gas prices soon after state lawmakers endorsed the legislation in a final vote. The Democrat-backed measure, Assembly Bill X2-1, was introduced in response to the state’s rising gas prices and will require oil refineries to keep a minimum inventory level of fuel in an effort to avoid scarce supply, which leads to price hikes at the pump. The law also allows the state Energy Commission to set new rules around...

North Korea blew up parts of two major roads connected to the southern part of the peninsula on Tuesday, South Korean authorities said, after Pyongyang warned it would take steps to completely cut off its territory from the South. Parts of the Gyeongui line on the West coast and Donghae line on the East coast, two major road and railway links connecting the North and South, were destroyed by explosives at around 12 p.m. Korean local time, according to Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). In...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a ruling against a Texas citizen journalist whom police arrested for asking the government questions, injecting new life into a free speech case that essentially asked if reporters working outside traditional media are entitled to a weaker version of the First Amendment. Journalist Priscilla Villarreal's lawsuit will now go back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The judges there ruled 9–7 earlier this year that it was not clearly...

North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is suing CNN over a story the outlet published last month revealing salacious messages using offensive language that he allegedly posted on a porn website. The suit, filed in North Carolina, alleges the network defamed Robinson and intended to “derail his political career,” with a “reckless disregard for the truth” and seeks $50 million in damages. The CNN digital story was published on Sept. 19 and laid out inflammatory...

Members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua who are as young as 11 years old are wreaking havoc in New York City. The children live in an illegal immigrant shelter.  According to the New York Post, the group of about two dozen kids are pulling off armed robberies in the city and are let off the hook. These children are some of the so-called “asylum seekers” who’ve come into this country illegally.  They call themselves Los Diablos de la 42”, which is Spanish for...

Vice President Kamala Harris said financial reparations for Black Americans need to be studied, while touting her own economic agenda as one which would help build up intergenerational wealth in the community. “On the point of reparations, it has to be studied, there’s no question about that,” Harris said Tuesday in response to a question during an audio town hall with radio host Charlamagne tha God, part of a broad campaign effort to ramp up her outreach to Black male voters.

Three illegal immigrants from Honduras were arrested in Florida on Friday and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor under 12 years of age, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday. The three immigrants allegedly illegally entered the country during the Biden-Harris administration, with two of the men entering the country through the Southern border in 2021, and the third in 2023. The three men have been identified as Selvin Lopez Lopez, Erick Lopez Lopez,...

Former President Trump said the Republican Party is "the party of common sense" Tuesday during a contentious interview with Bloomberg News in Chicago.  Trump sat for an interview with Bloomberg News’ editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago. The two discussed Trump’s plans for the economy in a potential second term during a heated interview that lasted nearly an hour.  Micklethwait spoke about the economy to start, but later got into...

Pity Sandy Brindley, chief executive of Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS). Since October last year, she has been wrestling with the problem of defining “woman” within the context of providing support for survivors of sexual violence. That is despite a tribunal judge ordered Scotland’s national rape crisis service to enforce a clear definition of “woman” across all its centres. This might not seem very difficult. I’m certain, for instance, that the stranger who assaulted me wasn’t a woman...

Harris is pressed on the concerns of Black voters in Charlamagne tha God town hall DETROIT — Vice President Harris tried to address criticism that Democrats too often take Black voters for granted during a town hall on Tuesday with the influential radio host Charlamagne tha God. Harris defended her track record as a prosecutor, promoted her policies aimed at Black voters and said former President Donald Trump was a threat to democracy. When Charlamagne suggested that Trump's vision for the...