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“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines, SACRAMENTO, Calif. — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets Continue reading

NEW YORK — Dick Moss, the lawyer who won the arbitration case that created free agency for baseball players and revolutionized pay for professional athletes, has died. Moss died Saturday at an assisted-living residence in Santa Monica, California, the Major League Baseball Players Association said Sunday. Hired by union executive director Marvin Miller as general Continue reading

Go to newsletter preferences Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read preview Tesla is finally being forced to reckon with a slowdown in electric-vehicle demand, and CEO Elon Musk’s tactics are likely to look different than his peers’ in the automotive industry. Continue reading

Mark Robinson is “the antithesis of everything that Dr. [Martin Luther] King represented,” describing him as “white supremacy in blackface.” In an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Warnock blasted Robinson, who was the subject of a CNN report last week that said he once made multiple lewd comments on a pornographic website in Continue reading

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy visits Pennsylvania ammunition plant to thank workers and ask for more SCRANTON, Pa. — Under tight security, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday visited a Pennsylvania ammunition factory to thank the workers who are producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country’s fight to fend off Russian ground forces. Rep. Continue reading

Boy abducted from California in 1951 at age 6 found alive on East Coast more than 70 years later OAKLAND, Calif. — Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland, California park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help Continue reading

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Not two minutes into her playoff debut, Caitlin Clark was on the hardwood clutching her face thanks to an inadvertent poke in the eye. The Indiana Fever star’s first taste of the WNBA postseason was bitter, nothing like her team’s charmed run since the Olympic break, and the blow left her bruised. Continue reading

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy visits Pennsylvania ammunition plant to thank workers and ask for more SCRANTON, Pa. — Under tight security, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday visited a Pennsylvania ammunition factory to thank the workers who are producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country’s fight to fend off Russian ground forces. Rep. Continue reading

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker plastic that purportedly made them Continue reading

As well as Russia and Belarus, they included several former Soviet republics and other Russian allies in Africa and Asia. The highly anticipated vote was seen as a test of Western resolve to maintain pressure on Russia in culture, sport and diplomacy. “It’s a victory for Ukraine,” the Ukrainian Chess Federation’s Viktor Kapustin told the Continue reading