SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Stung by recent headline-grabbing smash-and-grab robberies, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday said he will seek more than $300 million in state funding over three years to boost law enforcement efforts to combat retail theft.
VIENNA – The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in 89 countries, and COVID-19 cases involving the variant are doubling every 1.5 to 3 days in places with community transmission and not just infections acquired abroad, the World Health Organization said Saturday.
WASHINGTON – In the months since President Joe Biden warned Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he needed to crack down on ransomware gangs in his country, there hasn’t been a massive attack like the one last May that resulted in gasoline shortages. But that’s small comfort to Ken Trzaska.
A white Christmas seems to be slowly morphing from a reliable reality to a dream of snowy holidays past for large swaths of the United States in recent decades. Analysis of 40 years of Dec.
KABUL, Afghanistan – The diesel fuel needed to produce oxygen for coronavirus patients has run out. So have supplies of dozens of essential drugs. The staff, unpaid for months, still shows up for work, but they are struggling to make ends meet at home.
LONDON – Nations across Europe moved to reimpose tougher measures to stem a new wave of COVID-19 infections spurred by the highly transmissible omicron variant, including a new nationwide lockdown introduced by the Dutch government.
WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris got into a testy exchange with media host Charlamagne Tha God Friday, defending President Joe Biden from questions over roadblocks to passage of his social spending package. Harris sat for a taped interview
Kansas officials are set to begin weighing the potential uses of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal infrastructure funding approved last month, although an exact timeframe for firm decisions remains unclear.
After almost dying from a cattle accident, one rancher becomes ingenious. With more than 2 million fulltime production workers in agriculture, there is sure to be a lot of accidents from both machinery and livestock.
Kansas public health officials on Thursday confirmed the first case of the highly contagious omicron coronavirus variant. “Since the Omicron variant was classified as a Variant of Concern, KDHE’s Kansas Health and Environmental Laboratories has been working to identify the variant in the state,” Acting Secretary Janet Stanek said in a statement.