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White House: GOP has all the control over potential shutdown

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

By MJ Lee | CNNThe White House continues to argue that it is entirely up to House Republicans to avert a government shutdown: “The ball is completely in their court,” a White House official told CNN on Wednesday, just three days out from the end-of-month funding deadline. White House aides have been tightly monitoring movements on Capitol Hill and in close contact with congressional leaders in recent days, with government funding set to expire on October 1. The White House has called on House Republicans to support the Senate’s bipartisan stopgap bill to avert a shutdown.Asked whether a shutdown was unavoidable, President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday afternoon: “I don’t think anything’s inevitable in politics.”But as CNN has reported, even after a deal was reached in the Senate, White House officials were reticent to make predictions. Meanwhile, officials are actively preparing for a shutdown and in the process of drawing up operational plans, including on which White House pe...

Feds charge four with trafficking guns from Texas to East Bay; one firearm was seized in quintuple shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

OAKLAND — Four people are facing federal charges of conspiring to illegally sell firearms in the Bay Area, including one gun that was seized in a homicide investigation, court records show.Glen Phason, Dung Dinh, George Abston, and Aaron Harrison have been charged with conspiracy and dealing firearms without a license, crimes that carry up to five and 10 years in federal prison respectively, court records show. The case was filed in late August after an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.In a criminal complaint, the ATF describes Abston and Harrison as straw purchasers who would buy guns in Texas — where firearm sales restrictions are looser — and ship them back to California, where Phason and Dinh allegedly sold them to others.The ATF used confidential informants to buy guns from Phason and Dinh, including on instance in February where Dinh allegedly sold an informant an AR-style rifle for $1,200, authorities said.One of the ...

Four-bedroom home in Hayward sells for $1.6 million

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

3484 Pinewood Drive – Google Street ViewA spacious house located in the 3400 block of Pinewood Drive in Hayward has a new owner. The 2,678-square-foot property, built in 1972, was sold on Aug. 3, 2023, for $1,600,000, or $597 per square foot. This two-story home offers a roomy layout with four bedrooms and three baths. On the exterior, the house is characterized by the use of wood shake roofing / shingles. Inside, there is a fireplace. The property is equipped with forced air heating and central A/C. In addition, the house includes a two-car garage. The property’s backyard is further enhanced by a pool.Additional houses have recently been sold nearby:In August 2022, a 2,599-square-foot home on Sandpiper Court in Hayward sold for $1,400,000, a price per square foot of $539. The home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.On El Portal Drive, Hayward, in July 2022, a 2,552-square-foot home was sold for $1,350,000, a price per square foot of $529. The home has 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.A 1,878...

Sophie Turner is staying at Taylor Swift’s NYC home amid custody battle with Joe Jonas

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

It’s been quite a few weeks for the friends — and possible new romantic partner — of Taylor Swift.The pop singer hasn’t just offered her public support to Sophie Turner amid the British actor’s nasty, transatlantic custody fight with her estranged husband Joe Jonas. Swift’s generosity to Turner has extended to allowing the “Game of Thrones” star to stay in her New York City home as one part of the legal battle unfolds in a New York City federal court, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday. Meanwhile, Swift gave a major lift to the already substantial public profile of Kansas City chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, the New York Times reported. She helped to fuel the narrative that they could be romantically involved by cheering him on at his game Sunday and by being seen leaving Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium with him in a convertible.KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – SEPTEMBER 24: Taylor Swift reacts during the first half of a game between ...

Concord seniors, advocates battle for rent stabilization as prices rise

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

(BCN) -- When the Concord City Council discussed a rent stabilization ordinance for nearly five hours at a meeting earlier this month, the emotionally charged conversation attracted 67 public speakers, by one count. Rent is obviously a hot button issue in a community where, between 2011 and 2021, median gross rents increased 62 percent, according to the city. Higher rents affect nearly everyone who doesn't own homes. But tenant advocates say high rents likely impact seniors in Concord harder than other groups, as 58 percent of area seniors -- according to the Association of Bay Area Governments -- are very low-income. VIDEO: People with batons smash car windows of Oakland armed robbers That means about 2,000 households in Concord are vulnerable to displacement, according to the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, a tenants rights advocacy group. The group says about 29 percent of unhoused people in Contra Costa County are over 55. When public comment closed from the Sep...

Mets owner Steve Cohen apologizes to Marlins for soggy field that forced doubleheader

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The sloppy field that caused a costly postponement for the Miami Marlins left the New York Mets all wet.Mets owner Steven Cohen apologized to the Marlins on Wednesday for the circumstances that led to Tuesday night’s series opener between the teams getting washed out. The game was rescheduled as part of a doubleheader Wednesday, affecting Miami’s pitching plans in the final days of a heated playoff race and angering team officials, according to a report by The Athletic.“Our sincere apologies to the Marlins and their fans for having to postpone last night’s game,” Cohen posted Wednesday on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. “We know how important this series is to the Marlins and every effort was made to get the field playable.”The infield at Citi Field wasn’t covered with a tarp for at least some portion of last weekend, when rain from Tropical Storm Ophelia began pelting New York City for four straight days. The tarp was on the fie...

AC Milan takes 1st formal step to moving away from iconic San Siro and into new stadium

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

MILAN (AP) — AC Milan took the first formal step Wednesday to moving away from the iconic San Siro, which it shares with Inter Milan, and building a new stadium in the southern part of the city.The Rossoneri announced they had filed a proposal to the council in San Donato to build a 70,000-seater stadium in the city suburb.The move makes it even more likely that both Milan clubs — which play their home games at San Siro in the north-west of the city — will completely abandon their initial plans to build a new stadium on the same site. “For over four years, we have embarked with conviction on a journey aimed at giving our club one of the best stadiums of the world, which is able to accompany us into a victorious and sustainable future,” Milan president Paolo Scaroni said. “This represents a preliminary step in the evolution of this process but, at the same time, it is further proof of our ownership’s commitment to guaranteeing continuous growth for AC Milan both on and off the pitch....

6 bodies and 1 survivor found in Mexico, in the search for 7 kidnapped youths

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A search for seven kidnapped youths in the north-central Mexico state of Zacatecas appeared to come to a tragic end Wednesday when searchers found six bodies and one survivor in a remote area.State prosecutors said the surviving young man was found with serious head wounds. His condition was listed as stable. They said the bodies of six young men were found nearby, but that investigators had not yet confirmed they were the youths abducted from a farm Sunday. The bodies will have to be removed from the roadless site and brought to the state capital for identification. Their relatives had carried out protests earlier this week in the violence-plagued state to demand authorities find them. It was the latest tragic outcome to mass abductions of young people this year.In August, a gruesome video circulated on social media recorded the last moments of five young men kidnapped in the neighboring state of Jalisco.In the video, a pair of bound, inert bodies are seen lying ...

Michael Bonallack, amateur great and R&A secretary, dies at 88

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

Michael Bonallack once said he never considered turning pro because he didn’t realize he was good enough until he was too old. No matter. His influence on the game was enormous, from his standing as Britain’s greatest amateur to his running the Royal & Ancient Golf Club.Bonallack died on Tuesday at age 88, a month after he made one last appearance at St. Andrews for the opening ceremony of the Walker Cup.Jack Nicklaus said Bonallack always embraced the game’s traditions and that his friend of 65 years was “important voice through golf’s growth, evolution and global expansion.”“He was an influential ambassador, and someone always dedicated to properly shaping the future of the next generations of golfers,” Nicklaus said in a statement.Bonallack was a five-time British Amateur and five-time English Amateur champion, part of nine Walker Cup teams and the playing captain when Great Britain & Ireland won for the first time after World War II.Bonallack late...

Man City out of the League Cup after 1-0 loss at Newcastle. Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea advance

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:32:21 GMT

NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Manchester City seems to win every competition it enters these days except the English League Cup.Newcastle beat Man City 1-0 on Wednesday in the third round of the League Cup which also eluded Pep Guardiola’s team during its storied treble last season. Guardiola’s agitation at his team’s first defeat of the season showed by getting a yellow card in the closing minutes for dissent to the match officials.Leaving star starters Erling Haaland, Kyle Walker and Phil Foden on the bench, Man City still dominated the first half without making its possession count with a goal.Alexander Isak struck in the 53rd for Newcastle which also made sweeping lineup changes to rest key players for another midweek fixture sandwiched between two Champions League challenges.The goal was created by Joelinton’s dribble into and across the penalty area past four City defenders before squaring a pass that found Isak alone at the far post.Foden and Jeremy Doku came on in the seco...