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Oil prices soar on producer output cuts; Asian shares mixed

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

BANGKOK (AP) — Oil prices soared more than 5% after Saudi Arabia and other major oil producers said they will cut production by 1.15 million barrels per day from May until the end of the year. Shares in Asia were mixed on Monday and the dollar rose against the Japanese yen. U.S. benchmark crude oil rose $4.14 to $79.81 per barrel, or 5.5%, in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It rose $1.30 to $75.67 per barrel on Friday, ahead of the weekend meeting where members of the so-called OPEC+ group of oil exporting countries decided on the cuts, which are in addition to a reduction announced last October that infuriated the Biden administration. The cuts immediately pushed prices higher and were expected to also lead to higher gas prices, adding to strains in many countries where high fuel prices are a heavy burden. Higher oil prices also will complicate the efforts by central banks to rein in inflation. “This will create both political waves across Europe and even hi...

Trump faces setbacks in other probes as NY case proceeds

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump faces the most urgent legal challenge of his life this week in New York, where he’s set to be arraigned Tuesday on charges arising from hush money payments during his 2016 campaign. But as much of the attention will be on the courthouse in lower Manhattan, investigations from Atlanta to Washington will press forward, underscoring the broad range of peril he confronts as he seeks to reclaim the presidency. The vulnerability Trump faces in Washington alone has become clear over the past month, as judges in a succession of sealed rulings have turned aside the Trump team’s efforts to block grand jury testimony — including from his own lawyer and his former vice president — from witnesses who were, or still are, close to him and who could conceivably offer direct insight into key events.The rulings directing advisers and aides to testify don’t suggest that the Justice Department is close to bringing criminal charges, nor do they guara...

Immigration reform stalled decade after Gang of 8’s big push

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Ten years ago this month, Sen. Chuck Schumer declared, “We all know that our immigration system is broken, and it’s time to get to work on fixing it.” Sen. John McCain quoted Winston Churchill. But it was Lindsey Graham who offered the boldest prediction. “I think 2013 is the year of immigration reform,” the South Carolina Republican said.It wasn’t. And neither has any year since those “Gang of Eight” senators from both parties gathered in a Washington auditorium to offer hopeful pronouncements. In fact, today’s political landscape has shifted so dramatically that immigrant advocates and top architects of key policies over the years fear that any hope of am immigration overhaul seems further away than ever.Many Republicans now see calling for zero tolerance on the border as a way to animate their base supporters. Democrats have spent the last decade vacillating between stiffer border restrictions and efforts to soften and humanize immigration policy — exposing deep rift...

Members of Congress on TikTok defend app’s reach to voters

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Jeff Jackson of North Carolina has used it to explain the complex fight over raising the debt limit. Rep. Robert Garcia of California has used it to engage with members of the LGBTQ+ community. And Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania has used it to give an overview of Election Day results. As pressure against TikTok mounts in Washington, the more than two dozen members of Congress — all Democrats — who are active on the social media platform are being pushed by their colleagues to stop using it. Many defend their presence on the platform, saying they have a responsibility as public officials to meet Americans where they are — and more than 150 million are on TikTok.“I’m sensitive to the ban and recognize some of the security implications. But there is no more robust and expeditious way to reach young people in the United States of America than TikTok,” Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota told The Associated Press. Yet the lawmakers active on TikTok remain a ...

Teen victim injured in violent Boyle Heights hit-and-run speaks out 

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

Authorities are searching for a motorcyclist who severed the leg of a teenage boy during a violent hit-and-run Thursday in Boyle Heights.  An eighth grader at Hollenbeck Middle School, Joshua Mora, 13, was attempting to cross the street at the intersection of Whittier Boulevard and Orme Avenue just before 3:30 p.m. on Mar. 30 when the hit-and-run occurred, officials with the Los Angeles Police Department said. The impact severed the teen’s right leg.  The collision caused the motorcyclist, described as a white male, to slide “approximately 80 feet before stopping,” after which, he got back on his bike and sped off, leaving the injured boy lying in the road.   Mora, speaking to KTLA from his hospital bed at County USC Medical Center, said he will eventually need a prosthetic leg to get around. The teen also had this message for the motorcycle driver.  “I would’ve forgave him if he would’ve stopped and checked if I was okay because I know accidents happen if y...

Warriors let game slip away in Denver to lose for 30th time on road

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

DENVER — The Warriors furiously cut a double-figure deficit down to two late in the fourth quarter Sunday but couldn’t get any closer in a 112-110 loss to the Denver Nuggets at Ball Arena.Klay Thompson hit a 3-pointer from the corner to make it a two-point game with 20 seconds left.After the Nuggets inbounded the ball, the Warriors smothered Bruce Brown near half-court, forcing a jump ball. Golden State won the tip with 10 seconds left.After Thompson missed a shot from the top of the key, he got his own rebound and for another attempt at the go-ahead basket. But Jamal Murray got a hand on the ball and time expired, dropping the Warriors’ record away from home to 9-30.Thompson and Stephen Curry led the Warriors with 25 and 21 points, respectively, but only went a combined 7-for-30 from 3-point range.Meanwhile, the Nuggets were without MVP candidate Nikola Jokic for the third straight game as he continues to deal with right calf tightness. But Murray’s 26 point...

Find the Golden Egg: Pittsburg police offer prize in Easter scavenger hunt

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

PITTSBURG, Calif. (KRON) -- Easter is coming up next Sunday, and one police department is joining in the holiday festivities. In the days leading up to Easter, the Pittsburg Police Department is offering a prize every day until Friday, April 7. The department's K9 Jager will post clues daily on its Facebook story.The first Pittsburg resident to locate the Golden Egg will win a gift card to a local Pittsburg business. A photo of the prized Golden Egg can be viewed below. Klay Thomspon pays visit to SF rec center, plays pickup with kids (Pittsburg Police Department)The scavenger hunt is family-friendly and has no age limit, according to Pittsburg PD's Facebook page. Here are the rules when you do find the Golden Egg:You must take a photo of the location and post a picture of yourself with the Golden Egg tag us via social media, so we can repost it.Then bring Golden Egg and its contents to the lobby of the Police Department and collect your gift. KRON On is streaming news live now.e...

Today in History: April 3, Jesse James killed by Robert Ford

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

Today in History Today is Monday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2023. There are 272 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 3, 1973, the first handheld portable telephone was demonstrated for reporters on a New York City street corner as Motorola executive Martin Cooper called Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. On this date: In 1865, Union forces occupied the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. In 1882, outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Missouri, by Robert Ford, a member of James’ gang.In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted in Trenton, New Jersey, for the kidnap-murder of 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr. In 1942, during World War II, Japanese forces began their final assault on Bataan against American and Filipino troops who surrendered six days later; the capitulation was followed by the notorious Bataan Death March. In 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Smith v. Allwright, struck down a Democratic Party of Texas rule that allowed only white vo...

‘We’ll kill you’: Troops film boys’ killings in Burkina Faso

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — It was a walk 16-year-old Adama had done countless times, feeding the cows not far from his grandmother’s house in northern Burkina Faso. But one day in mid-February, the teen who dreamed of becoming an imam didn’t come home.The next time his family saw him, it was in a harrowing cellphone video circulating on social media in the days after his disappearance. Adama lay alongside six other bloodied boys, their hands bound and most stripped to the waist. They were surrounded by about a dozen men, many in military fatigues, walking among the bodies, some taking video.Sprinting through the frame, one man came to a halt over Adama and slammed a rock onto his head. As blood streamed from the jagged wound, the man shooting the video chuckled.“This one … was still alive,” said the man, referring to Adama, whose last name is being withheld by The Associated Press out of concern for the safety of his family. “Good-for-nothing! You don’t have anythi...

Papua New Guinea assesses damage after powerful earthquake

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:08 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Disaster relief workers in Papua New Guinea were assessing the extent of damage in a remote region Monday following a powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake.Some buildings and homes were destroyed near the quake’s epicenter in the northern part of the Pacific nation, said Mathew Moihoi, the acting assistant director of the Port Moresby Geophysical Observatory. He said disaster relief workers were trying to verify whether there were any deaths or serious injuries.He said the region is marked by swamps and people tend to live subsistence lives hunting and fishing. He said that because of the region’s remoteness and patchy communications, it could take several days to figure out the extent of the damage. Moihoi said the quake was big enough to be felt in surrounding regions, including in the nation’s highlands. The quake struck just after 4 a.m. at Chambri Lake and the epicenter was relatively deep at 62 kilometers (38 miles), according to th...