California voters to weigh $11.25 billion affordable housing bond
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California voters will decide this November whether to approve an $11.25 billion housing affordability bond, Democratic leaders announced Monday. Governor Gavin Newsom and top lawmakers in both legislative chambers touted the Veterans and...
World Cup concessions: $75 caviar-topped tots in Miami, a day’s pay worth of beer in Mexico City
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — World Cup tickets are expensive. Flights to North America are expensive. Hotel rooms in many places are expensive. Then there’s the price of beer. There are some fun — and yes, sometimes pricey — food and drink offerings at...
Trump-endorsed outsider wins Colombia presidency after razor-thin runoff
BOGOTÁ (CN) — Far-right populist Abelardo de la Espriella claimed victory in Colombia’s presidential runoff on Sunday night, according to preliminary vote counts, capping a meteoric rise that has reshaped the country’s political landscape and ended four...
Google says its shopping search is fixed. Rivals beg to differ
(CN) — Nine years after European regulators found Google unfairly steered shoppers toward its own services, a London tribunal heard Monday that the company’s fix may have changed the packaging but not the practice. At the opening of a major damages trial before the...
SCOTUS won’t review role of race in police stops
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court turned down an opportunity to consider the role of race in policing, refusing on Monday to review whether D.C. officers recovered a federal agent’s stolen gun through an unlawful police stop. A lower court found that officers...
Top Justice Department officials can remain part of prosecution of press gala attack, judge rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday denied a request to disqualify top Justice Department officials from supervising the prosecution of the man charged with trying to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner....
Australia and Canada sign a $1.75B deal to build long-range radar in Canada
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia and Canada signed a $1.75 billion export agreement on Monday to build an Australian-designed long-range radar system in Canada. Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles and Canadian Secretary of State (Defense...
Voters will decide on Massachusetts ‘jungle primaries’ after court OKs ballot measure
(CN) — Massachusetts’ high court on Monday greenlit a ballot proposal that, if passed by the state’s voters, could radically shake up its primary elections. In a 26-page order, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court approved a ballot proposal from the state...
SCOTUS refuses to hear Texas man’s intellectual disability defense in death penalty case
WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a Texas man’s bid to stave off his looming execution related to a murder conviction based on his argument that he is intellectually disabled. Victor Saldaño was previously successful in challenging a 1994...