California’s budget deficit swells to record $68B as tax revenue falls (www.politico.com)
The shortfall threatens to force the state’s deepest spending cuts in a decade....
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The shortfall threatens to force the state’s deepest spending cuts in a decade....
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Friday’s pause in the fighting comes after several weeks of tough negotiations between Israel, Hamas, the U.S., Egypt and Qatar. It is the first significant break in combat since the Hamas infiltration attack into southern Israel on October 7, which killed some 1,200 people and saw around 240 taken back into the Gaza Strip as...
After nearly seven weeks in captivity, 24 hostages seized by Hamas in its deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel are now free after crossing into Egypt. In exchange, Israel released 39 Palestinians hours later at the city of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Just a week after Texas voters approved billions of dollars to build new gas-fired power plants, the state’s education board will decide if it wants schools using science textbooks that acknowledge that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as next Tuesday on whether it will...