MORGAN HILL — A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was felt at about 1:27 p.m. Saturday in Santa Clara County, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake, which had an epicenter about 6.2 miles northeast of Morgan Hill near Henry Coe State Park, had an initial depth just over 2.8 miles, the USGS reported. Authorities did…
WASHINGTON — Democrats are going to hold onto the House after November’s midterm elections. They will pick up as many as four seats in the Senate, expanding their majority and overcoming internal dissent that has helped stifle their agenda. As the challenges confronting President Joe Biden intensify, his predictions of a rosy political future for…
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NEW YORK — U.S. health advisers on Saturday recommended covid-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers and preschoolers — the last group without the shots. The advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unanimously decided that coronavirus vaccines should be made available to children as young as 6 months, offering protection from hospitalizations, deaths and…
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Bay City News Service FREMONT — Paseo Padre Parkway is closed between Thornton Avenue and Isherwood Way in Fremont due to a collision and police are asking the public to avoid the area. All northbound and southbound lanes of Paseo Padre between Thornton and Isherwood are closed and there is no estimate as to when…
With the arrival of a shiny blue lowrider and cheers from the crowd, “The Cheech” opened its doors in downtown Riverside. After five years of planning and fundraising, comedian and actor Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum welcomed its first guests Saturday morning, June 18, with a street celebration to herald a venue that’s expected to…
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma City police are investigating after a body was found in a river Saturday afternoon. A passerby reported seeing a body in the river near 15th and Walker. UPDATE: Oklahoma City standoff suspect in custody An Oklahoma City Police Department official confirmed the body was still in the river as of…
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — President Joe Biden fell when he tried to get off his bike at the end of a ride Saturday at Cape Henlopen State Park near his beach home in Delaware, but said he wasn’t hurt. “I’m good,” he told reporters after U.S. Secret Service Agents quickly helped him up. “I got…
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A couple hiking on the outskirts of Denver was accosted by an armed man who looped a leash around the woman’s neck in an apparent abduction attempt. Sheriff’s deputies, called by another hiker, tased the kidnapper, and only then did the couple realize they knew him. He had been wearing a disguise. The encounter began…
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Politics “Mike did not have the courage to act.” Former President Donald Trump at a rally in Casper, Wyo., May 28, 2022. With no compromise in sight on a new agreement to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that Trump pulled the plug on and with Tehran making steady progress toward nuclear capability, the Biden…
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CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — A mountain lion that was part of a National Park Service study was fatally struck by a vehicle in Southern California’s Santa Monica Mountains along the same road where her mother was similarly killed. The adult female cougar, dubbed P-54, died Friday on Las Virgenes Road, south of Mulholland Highway, the…
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