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- Today in History: April 18, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
- Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks ‘coming to a head’ and ‘no one is playing’ him in push to end war
- US seeks to turn deportations into an efficient business ‘like Amazon’
- JD Vance visits Italy for tariff talks and attends Good Friday service at the Vatican
- Federal judge in Baltimore temporarily limits DOGE access to Social Security data
- District 3 Super MAC proposed as liaison between BOS and town councils
- Lakeport city council report on fiscal year 2024/25 achievements, making strides
- Amid deadly measles outbreak, California’s childhood vaccination rates are falling
- California Legislature should drop latest attack on gig workers
- Crews restore power to nearly all customers after island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico
- Firefighting professionals, officials, highlight home hardening program in Kelseyville
- Democrats don’t want Kamala Harris
- Trump’s attacks on Powell threaten the Fed’s independence. Here’s why it matters
- Libraries are priceless and they need our support
- No compromise on literacy bill as hearing deadline looms
- News Briefs
- Thompson speaks to small business owners during town hall
- US intelligence contradicts Trump claims linking gang to Venezuelan government to speed deportations
- Law firms, universities and now civil society groups are in Trump’s sights for punitive action
- Shooting rampage at Florida State that left 2 dead lasted less than 5 minutes, police say
- 10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination are released, on Trump’s order
- Deadly US airstrike on Yemeni oil port appears to escalate Trump’s campaign against the Houthis
- Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump
- The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have
- Idaho police release body camera video of nonverbal and autistic teen’s fatal shooting
- Iran-US talks over Tehran’s nuclear program hinge on a billionaire and a seasoned diplomat
- Judge pauses Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Venice expands its day-tripper tax program in bid to combat overtourism
- A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country
- US lawmakers’ bipartisan Taiwan visit signals support despite harsh words and tariffs from Trump
- Israeli strikes kill at least 25 in Gaza and Huckabee makes first appearance as US ambassador
- Hoping to install solar? You may have a harder time due to Trump tariffs
- Career diplomat becomes the face of Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda at the UN
- ‘Able to happen again’: Local Japanese American historians warn of Trump’s use of 1798 wartime law
- Marijuana legalization hits roadblocks after years of expansion
- The US has a single rare earths mine. Chinese export limits are energizing a push for more
- Thousands of pilgrims trek through New Mexico desert to historic adobe church for Good Friday
- Believers say microdosing psychedelics helps them. Scientists are trying to measure the claims
- Airlines are adding new routes. Here’s how you can save
- Judges warn Congress that more money is needed for security at a time of escalating threats
- Military officials identify 2 Marines killed in crash during border deployment
- Appeals court rejects Trump’s emergency request to stay lower court order in Venezuelans lawsuit
- Abrego Garcia told visiting US senator he was no longer being held at notorious Salvadoran prison
- State lawmakers take aim at ‘black market’ restaurant reservations
- Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer
- IRS whistleblower on Hunter Biden is out as acting commissioner just days after getting the job
- Trump turns a COVID information website into a promotion page for the lab leak theory
- Trump to invoke Schedule F to make it easier to fire some federal workers
- How to catch the shooting stars of spring’s first meteor shower, the Lyrids
- Is he Christ? Is he Moses? Superman’s religious and ethical undertones add to his mystique
- How to enjoy the natural and urban gems of the Pacific Northwest — even when your time is limited
- ACLU claims administration is restarting deportations under 18th century wartime law
- People are melting their old jewelry for cash as gold prices soar
- Lawsuit challenges revocation of visas for international students
- NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
- Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont
- Judge blocks Trump administration from passport changes affecting transgender Americans
- FSU shooting victims include a school employee whose dad was a Cuban exile turned CIA operative
- Tropical drinks by the pool? Not so fast, says senator who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
- EEOC instructs staff to sideline all new transgender discrimination cases, employees say
