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California billionaire tax proposal is slated to qualify for the November ballot
US tells states to deal with unemployment fraud - or face penalties
Officials identify all 8 victims of fiery B-52 crash at California Air Force base
Obamas open presidential museum in Chicago
US-Iran talks begin Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran closes the strait over Lebanon fighting
Today in History: June 17, O.J. Simpson charged with murder following highway chase
Author Amy Griffin sues woman who alleged she stole her stories
Luke's 'Empire' lightsaber, 'Wizard of Oz' witch hat going up for auction
Trump unveils new Air Force One, says ships are 'pouring out' Strait of Hormuz
Two children, one aged four, killed in Israeli attack on central Gaza
California billionaire tax proposal is slated to qualify for the November ballot
US tells states to deal with unemployment fraud - or face penalties
Officials identify all 8 victims of fiery B-52 crash at California Air Force base
Obamas open presidential museum in Chicago
US-Iran talks begin Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran closes the strait over Lebanon fighting
Today is Wednesday, June 17, the 168th day of 2026. There are 197 days left in the year. On June 17, 1994, after leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Author Amy Griffin sued a former classmate for defamation on Monday, saying the woman’s statements in a New York Times story and a subsequent lawsuit alleging Griffin appropriated her stories of sexual abuse for her bestselling 2025 memoir “The Tell” are false in “every element.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A lightsaber with Luke Skywalker’s severed hand from “The Empire Strikes Back” that is expected to sell for seven figures headlines an upcoming auction of valuables from movies, music and other corners of pop culture.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it makes decisions and what it thinks about the economy.
HAVANA (AP) – Observers on Friday called Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul of the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution, as the grandson of former President Raúl Castro said in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward.
TORONTO (AP) – Austrian-Canadian billionaire and automotive business founder Frank Stronach was found guilty Friday of sexual assault and indecent assault of two woman decades ago.
TYRE, Lebanon (AP) – Iran on Saturday said it had closed the Strait of Hormuz because of Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon and warned that while negotiators were going to Switzerland for talks with the United States on their interim agreement, not much likely will happen if the fighting doesn’t stop.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insisting that she asked “over and over” for a photo with him at the recent Group of Seven summit and criticizing what he said was Italy’s lack of cooperation during the Iran war.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian bombs struck an apartment building on Saturday in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing at least one person and wounding nine, including a 6-year-old child, authorities said. A body was pulled from the rubble hours after the attack, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram.
Senior Hezbollah legislator says memorandum with US ‘a real victory for Iran’
Sunday is the longest day of the year for half the planet
NASA unveils Artemis III astronauts to test technology for future moon landing
32,000 people displaced by the Philippine earthquake that killed at least 37
Hawaii's Kilauea sets record for lava fountaining episodes in any 1 eruption
Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and key launch pad parts
Radio scans find no alien tech from latest interstellar comet
Taipei Zoo welcomes a pair of red pandas from China, first in over a decade
US to hold latest oil and gas lease sale for Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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Obama Presidential Library opens to the public this week
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