Meta will remove all news links from Facebook and Instagram in California if state legislators pass a bill that would tax the tech platform’s advertising profits, a company spokesperson threatened on Wednesday. The California Journalism Preservation Act hopes to tax the advertising profits companies like Meta or Google make from distributing news content. If passed, 70% of the…
Republicans have proposed restarting construction on ex-President Trump’s unfinished wall. Is the wall effective? Here’s everything you need to know: How much wall did Trump build? At a recent CNN town hall, former President Donald Trump claimed that his administration finished building a wall along the 1,954-mile border separating the U.S. and Mexico. But according…
Meta will remove all news links from Facebook and Instagram in California if state legislators pass a bill that would tax the tech platform’s advertising profits, a company spokesperson threatened on Wednesday. The California Journalism Preservation Act hopes to tax the advertising profits companies like Meta or Google make from distributing news content. If passed, 70% of the…
California faced a record level of rain and snowfall this past winter thanks to multiple atmospheric rivers that, per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, transport water vapor later released in the form of rain or snow through the sky. But once the resulting snowpack began to melt, reservoirs in the region began to fill up and…
LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom may soon earn the rare distinction of having selected both of his state’s senators — but he’s not happy about the prospect, according to those close to him. As Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 89, charts an uncertain path in Washington after having returned to work following a health…
California battles a ‘ghost lake’ – and its own political divisions | View caption Hide caption Focus Cooperation Tulare Lake, which didn’t exist mere months ago, could overwhelm a town and two state prisons. To meet the challenge, local, state, and even federal agencies are having to work together. Since Tulare Lake appeared this spring,…
Welcome to The Check-In, our weekend feature focusing on all things travel. To cut carbon emissions, France has banned certain domestic short-haul flights Instead of heading to the airport, some travelers in France will now have to go to the train station. A bill has been signed into law that bans domestic short-haul flights between…
CHICAGO — A Chicago woman says she was beaten and her French bulldog was stolen at gunpoint as she was taking it for a walk in her northwest side neighborhood. Alicja Pierzchala, 64, told reporters that the attack occurred Wednesday evening in Portage Park. “I just walked with my Peppa,” she told NBC Chicago. “She…
1 Ceasefire appears to hold between Israel and Gaza militants A tense ceasefire between Israeli forces and militants from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) appeared to hold Sunday, at least for the most part. The truce comes following a series of rocket attacks from the PIJ-held Gaza Strip late Saturday night, causing Israel to launch a…
The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday that it has pulled the plug on a new campus near its Disney World theme park outside Orlando and will no longer relocate about 2,000 employees to Florida from Southern California. The project in Lake Nona Town Center was projected to cost $864 million when it was announced in…