California is on the brink of bringing in an Amsterdam-style law which will allow cannabis cafes and coffee shops to open across the state. Campaigners say it will reduce black market sales and boost legitimate business. Recreational cannabis has been legal in California since 2016 and purchases are made through dispensaries, with products generally smoked
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterSep 25, 2023, 02:21 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office will not pursue criminal charges against former UFC star Nate Diaz related to his involvement in a street brawl earlier this year on Bourbon
Police are relaunching an appeal for information about the murder of university graduate Melanie Hall, who disappeared nearly 30 years ago. Ms Hall was last seen at Cadillacs nightclub in Bath in the early hours of 9 June 1996 following a night out with friends. Her remains were found by workmen on the M5 motorway
Amid several reports that Volkswagen is cutting EV production at two German plants, the automaker revealed the reason – slowing demand. Volkswagen suspends EV production in Germany Last week, a report from the German newspaper Automobilwoche claimed Volkswagen was pausing EV production at its Dresden facility in Germany. Volkswagen’s Dresden facility has built over 150,000
Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House, a court has ruled. Judge Arthur Engoron found that the former president and his company deceived banks and insurers by massively overvaluing assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple senior vice president for services Eddy Cue arrives at the Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 26, 2023. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, testified on Tuesday that the company chose to make Google the
Associated Press Sep 26, 2023, 12:38 PM ET New legislation set to be introduced in Congress would dismantle the year-old national authority in charge of regulating safety and medication in horse racing and replace it with an organization backers say would allow for the safe treatment of horses and address concerns about doping. The Racehorse
England will oppose playing matches against Russian football teams after UEFA lifted its blanket ban on the country taking part in its competitions to allow under-17s fixtures. European football’s governing body took the decision at a meeting of its executive committee, 18 months after prohibiting all Russian teams from its competitions following the full-scale invasion
Tesla is reportedly ramping up its partnership with chip giant TSMC to produce the Dojo supercomputer chip. Dojo is Tesla’s own custom supercomputer platform built from the ground up for AI machine learning and, more specifically, for video training using the video data coming from its fleet of vehicles. The automaker already has several large NVIDIA
In an “EV Sale Fiesta,” Hyundai and Kia plan to cut prices on several electric vehicles amid an ongoing price war in Korea. The planned EV price cuts will run until the end of the year. “We plan to prepare various discount programs to revitalize the domestic electric vehicle market in the future,” A Hyundai
Honda has partnered up with its local dealer associations to start production of the Honda Shogo, an electric ride-on vehicle that will transport young patients at children’s hospitals across the US. The new program will see 60 of the little electric cars for kids produced and distributed among children’s hospitals nationwide. They are based on the original
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has lost his appeal against a 19-year sentence added to his existing jail term. It was imposed in August after he was convicted on six charges related to alleged extremist activity – which he denied. The appeal was rejected by a judge in Moscow, with Mr Navalny – wearing a
Foundry’s Kevin Zhang with Jihan Wu, the founder and chairman of Bitdeer and a co-founder of Bitmain. Kevin Zhang Crypto winters don’t scare Kevin Zhang, who has been in the business of mining bitcoin for ten years. He’s lived through a few bear markets in the last decade, but no matter where he has set
Bottles of what experts say is “the world’s oldest scotch whisky” are going up for sale at auction after being found hidden in a Scottish castle. The Scotch is thought to have been distilled nearly 200 years ago and was discovered behind a cellar door at 750-year-old Blair Castle in Perthshire. Distilled in 1834, each
Brown bear cubs are starving to death in a remote part of northern Japan because pink salmon numbers are down. Rising sea temperatures linked to the climate crisis are thought to be behind the dwindling salmon population. A tour boat operator in Shiretoko, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, spotted a starving brown bear scrounging
Zoleka Mandela, the granddaughter of the first president of South Africa Nelson Mandela, has died aged 43, the family has said. A message on her Instagram page said Mandela went into hospital on 18 September for treatment for metastatic cancer, which was on her hip, liver, lung, pelvis, brain and spinal cord. “Recent scans revealed
A hospital trust has admitted it failed to send out 24,000 letters to GPs since 2018 and is checking to see if patients were affected. The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust has apologised for any “anxiety or inconvenience” caused after confirming documents, including discharge summaries and clinic letters, may not have been sent out over
Hopes of a mini heatwave in October are still alive with forecasters predicting warmer temperatures are on the way. The weather is expected to be warmer than usual next month, with one meteorologist predicting an “Indian summer”. A heatwave is defined by the Met Office as “an extended period of hot weather relative to the
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Eddy Cue, senior vice president of services at Apple Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple senior vice president of services Eddy Cue is expected to testify all day Tuesday in federal court where the U.S. Department of Justice is accusing Google
In this article BABA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Alibaba Group sign is seen at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 6, 2023. Aly Song | Reuters Alibaba plans to list its logistics unit Cainiao on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Chinese e-commerce giant said in a regulatory filing on