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• Allstate says it will insure California homes…
• Business Office Staff
• Australia's prime minister calls domestic violence a ‘national crisis' after nationwide protests
• HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Investigation with Phoenix Healthcare
• Healey Knocks Transpo Chief's "Poor Choice Of Words"
• The Rundown: Wednesday April 24, 2024

As its leaders wrestle with restoring some semblance of reliable service, the MBTA continues to face financial uncertainty. Agency budget-writers project they will have an operating budget deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars in the next few years, and the T newly estimates it would cost $24.5 billion to achieve a state of good repair for all of its assets. Healey pointed out that these immigrants are in the state lawfully, but many are prohibited from working due to federal immigration policy.

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She continued, "People have worked really, really hard, and I think, you know — I just want to express my gratitude to so many in Massachusetts and the partnerships that we've had to keep people housed and work through what really is an unprecedented occurrence that we're seeing here in Massachusetts and in this country." With only a bit more than three months left for major business this term, Mariano said health care and housing legislation are close to the top of his near-term agenda. The Republican leadership in the House voted for the fiscal 2025 budget, and the four minority party votes against the budget were cast by Reps. Nicholas Boldyga, David DeCoste, Marc Lombardo and Alyson Sullivan-Almeida.

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As Business Insider previously reported, there would be major logistical hurdles to overcome if Trump were to be incarcerated. By law, former presidents and their spouses are entitled to lifetime protection unless they decline to accept the security. In 1947, she formally turned over ownership of the New Service to Paul Ryan, her longtime reporter and editor.

Australia's prime minister calls domestic violence a ‘national crisis' after nationwide protests

And government organizations are one of the many credible inputs that go into compiling the Human Rights Reports. This report, one of the things that it’s known for is compiling credible actions that governments take. But the inclusion of any entry in the Human Rights Report does not denote any kind of fact-finding or assessment by the United States Government as it relates to these specific entries. When it comes to this video, Hersh should be home with his family, and we and Secretary Blinken are not going to rest a single minute until that happens, including the President, of course. And we’ll continue to be very direct about those efforts, and we’ll continue to apply the tenets of our – of these factors consistently across the board with all countries. Simultaneously, we have a number of measures and efforts in place when it comes to ensuring that there is compliance with international humanitarian law.

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Other buildings on the campus in Arcata are at risk of being occupied, and protesters “have shown a willingness” to lock themselves in facilities and steal equipment, the officials said. Negotiations between protesters and Columbia University officials about clearing the encampment on its lawn that had been extended for 48 hours have been “unstable," said Esha Karam, managing director of Columbia Daily Spectator, citing student organizers. The coming storm was also affecting the recreational activities available to Southern California residents this weekend.

Evacuation orders were issued in parts of Los Angeles County, bringing "life-threatening" flood risks and dangerously high winds to the area. One person died in a house fire in South Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. Target, looking for ways to add sales, is relaunching its Target Circle loyalty program including a new paid membership with unlimited free same-day delivery in as little as an hour for orders over $35. Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York called two new witnesses to the stand on Friday, rounding out the first week of testimony.

The Rundown: Wednesday April 24, 2024

The university closed its campus Wednesday evening as LAPD began arresting demonstrators. At one point during the demonstrations, tensions escalated as protesters refused to relocate and remove their tents and other prohibited items, a university official said. Under Thompson's bill, any Secret Service protectee would have their security stripped if convicted of a state or federal offense that is punishable by at least a year in prison.

The Massachusetts State House was evacuated on Tuesday afternoon, lawmakers, employees and the public all rushed out by sounding alarms, when an electrical fire broke out in the basement. A POLITICO Magazine profile of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer offhandedly referred to Healey as one of a few new governors who might have eyes on a national post in 2028. When Healey recently took over a position helping to elect more women governors, NBC News described the role as "a national platform for one of the party's rising stars in state office." Democrats who control the House and Senate notched a few major accomplishments, including a tax relief law that lawmakers were unable to complete under former Gov. Charlie Baker and policy reforms in the state budget like funding free school meals for all students. Pressed on whether she would like to see something like the Common Start bill specifically emerge for a vote this session, Healey said only that she and lawmakers agree on the importance of addressing child care costs.

The company will offer coverage “in nearly every corner” of California, Zimmerman said. The testimony marks the first time a large property insurer has publicly promised a return to the market in the disaster-prone state if the new regulations are implemented. “I’m here because I am my beloved mother’s daughter and on the day she died, which will be the two-year anniversary in one week, the disease of mental illness was lying to her and with great terror convinced her that it would never get better,” Judd continued. Aispuro, who has been with the department for 19½ years, put out an emergency broadcast that included a description of the Camry, Luna said.

We’ve talked about a number of those levers from this briefing room, and we apply the tenets laid out in those measures consistently across the board with countries across the board. There is no such thing as special or preferential treatment when it comes to the implementation and enforcement of what we believe to be U.S. law. The wet weather pattern will continue into Tuesday evening, with periods of rain anticipated to continue. Drier conditions are expected by Wednesday, but a chance of showers will still linger. Snow levels could fall as low as 3,500 feet by Thursday, forecasters said.One person died Thursday when a vehicle crashed down an embankment in the Malibu area. The weather service also predicted a threat of thunderstorms to most areas Sunday through Monday, with the threat lingering over Los Angeles County through Tuesday.

We put fentanyl test strips to the test, and what we found could save someone you know. Representatives continued work on the House's fiscal year 2025 state budget for a second straight day Thursday, when they also finalized an emergency shelter funding and policy bill without any Republican support. The Final Rule strengthens privacy protections for medical records and health information for women, their family members, and doctors who are seeking, obtaining, providing, or facilitating lawful reproductive health care. A photographer was among those arrested during clashes between protesters and law enforcement on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Wednesday.

Asked how long the current allocation will support the system, and if she was planning to file another supplemental request for shelter funds before fiscal 2024 ends, Healey responded, "I think this is a fluid situation." Lawmakers directed another $250 million toward the shelter system in a supplemental budget, though there is some uncertainty about just how far that money will go. "We're going to get people working, we're housing people now. The shelter system, of course, exists around the state, right? There's shelters and housing, through the emergency shelter system, around the state. So that's the existing infrastructure," Healey said. "We have tried to stand up, particularly from March forward, sites that would accommodate the numbers that we were seeing." "We're seeing numbers that we have never seen before in our shelter system. And let's look at what happened. I mean, we have a situation geopolitically that's resulted in so many people coming into this country who are fleeing abuse and persecution and hardship." The Senate usually debates its annual budget bill the week before Memorial Day weekend.

New York prosecutors allege that the former president falsified business records related to hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. On paper, Trump could face over 600 years in prison based on the combined charges of the four cases pending against him. "Unfortunately, current law doesn't anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentence of a protectee — even a former President," Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, said in a statement released by his office. "It is regrettable that it has come to this, but this previously unthought-of scenario could become our reality."

Video from the scene showed protestors not resisting arrest as LAPD handcuffed them with zip ties and escorted them away from the ongoing protest. The Los Angeles Police Department arrested approximately 50 protestors at the University of Southern California after campus police gave a dispersal order to demonstrators, according to a CNN crew at the scene. CT, 34 arrests have been made by law enforcement on the UT Austin campus, according to an X post from the Texas Department of Public Safety.