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April 18, 2024

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  • Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022.
    Tesla wants shareholders to reinstate $56 billion pay package for Musk rejected by Delaware judge
    Tesla will ask shareholders to reinstate a $56 billion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that was rejected by a judge in Delaware this year and to move the electric car maker’s corporate home from Delaware to Texas.
  • Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, campaigns in Green Bay, Wis., on April 2, 2024. The federal indictment of Donald Trump for plotting to overturn the 2020 election relies in part on the law that the Supreme Court weighed on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, but was built to survive without it.
    Trump’s Jan. 6 case could go on even if court limits use of obstruction Law
    Even though Donald Trump was never mentioned during the Supreme Court’s hearing Tuesday about a federal obstruction statute used against hundreds of his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the former president loomed large over the proceeding.
  • Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, at a campaign rally in Schnecksville, Pa., on Saturday, April 13, 2024. In the last two weeks of March alone, one committee backing Trump raised nearly $18 million.
    Trump, trailing Biden in cash, relies on big donors to try to catch up
    Former President Donald Trump leaned heavily on major Republican donors in March as his campaign and the Republican Party sought to close the financial gap separating him from President Joe Biden, new federal filings showed Monday.
  • The Glen Canyon Dam is seen, Aug. 21, 2019, in Page, Ariz. Plumbing problems at Glen Canyon Dam, the dam holding back the second-largest reservoir in the U.S., are spurring concerns about future water delivery issues to Southwestern states supplied by the Colorado River.
    Plumbing problem at Glen Canyon Dam brings new threat to Colorado River system
    Plumbing problems at the dam holding back the second-largest reservoir in the U.S. are spurring concerns about future water delivery issues to Southwestern states supplied by the Colorado River.
  • The U.S. Postal Service wants to repurpose the Reno Processing and Distribution Center into a local processing center. The conversion is projected to save the Postal Service up to $4.2 million annually but would mean mail destined for Northern Nevada addresses would first go through a USPS processing and distribution center in Sacramento, Calif.
    Sparks fly as Sen. Rosen grills USPS chief on Reno mail plans
    Democratic U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen lambasted Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service in a Senate committee hearing over what Nevada’s junior senator called their misguided ...
  • A battery of Israel's Iron Dome defense missile system, deployed to intercept rockets, sits in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Aug. 7, 2022. Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran, risking further expanding the shadow war between the two foes into a direct conflict after an Iranian attack over the weekend sent hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel.
    History foretells Israeli response to Iran attack
    Israel needs to strike back — hard! Whatever a few countries and the unknowledgeable and gullible left in the United States say about Israel’s right to defend itself against those who would ...
  • One murder changed our view of domestic violence
    Weeks before she was slashed to death outside her Brentwood condo in 1994, O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, had predicted her own death ...
  • How to create a secure supply chain for rare earth elements
    China’s strong hold on the supply chain for rare earth elements is well known. Beyond stating that we need to shift our reliance on China and begin building robust domestic supply chains, what are the tangible, actionable steps that will get us there? ...
  • Readers benefit from dual views
    In the event that the Review-Journal succeeds in severing its relationship with the Sun, I don’t see much reason to continue my subscription ...
  • Con man will keep escalating
    Donald Trump proved himself to be a con artist by suggesting that COVID-19 could be treated with disinfectants like Clorox and Lysol, or with the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which he then went into the business to sell ...
  • Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, from left, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland and cabinet ministers pose for a photo before the tabling of the federal budget on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
    Justin Trudeau's government raises taxes on wealthiest Canadians in federal budget
    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ’s government announced Tuesday it is imposing higher taxes on the wealthiest Canadians as part of the federal budget. The budget proposes to increase the capital gains inclusion rate, which refers to the taxable share of profit made on the sale of assets. The taxable portion of capital gains above $250,000 Canadian (US$181,000) would rise from half to two-thirds, which the federal government says will only affect 0.1% of Canadians and raise nearly $20 billion Canadian (US$14.5 billion) in revenue over five years.
  • A woman smokes on a street, in London, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. A bold plan to ban anyone born after 2008 from ever legally buying cigarettes in Britain faces its first test in Parliament. The bold plan has divided the governing Conservatives, with some hailing its public health benefits and others condemning it as state overreach.
    UK lawmakers back landmark bill to gradually phase out smoking for good
    The British government's plan for a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking cleared its first hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday despite vocal opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party.
  • Sandbags are stacked around a well in anticipation of flooding of the Kings River in the Island District of Lemoore, Calif., April 19, 2023. California officials are considering whether to take over monitoring groundwater use in the fertile San Joaquin Valley under a landmark law aimed at protecting water flow to homes and farms. The Tuesday, April 16, 2024, hearing before the State Water Resources Control Board is the first of its kind since California passed a groundwater management law a decade ago.
    Crop-rich California region will fall under state monitoring to preserve groundwater flow
    California officials voted Tuesday to step in to monitor groundwater use in part of the crop-rich San Joaquin Valley in a first-of-its-kind move that comes a decade after local communities were tasked with managing the precious but strained resource.
  • An airplane flies over a sign on Boeing's 737 delivery center, Oct. 19, 2015, at Boeing Field in Seattle. Boeing will be in the spotlight during back-to-back hearings Wednesday, April 17, 2024, as Congress examines allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer.
    Boeing in the spotlight as Congress calls a whistleblower to testify about defects in planes
    Boeing will be in the spotlight during back-to-back hearings Wednesday, as Congress examines allegations of major safety failures at the embattled aircraft manufacturer.
  • People gather in front of the Idaho Statehouse in opposition to anti-transgender legislation moving through an Idaho Republican congress, Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, in Boise, Idaho. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Monday, April 15, 2024, allows the state to put in place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years in prison if they provide hormones, puberty blockers or other gender-affirming care to people under age 18. A federal judge in Idaho had previously blocked the law in its entirety.
    Idaho's ban on youth gender-affirming care has families desperately scrambling for solutions
    Forced to hide her true self, Joe Horras’ transgender daughter struggled with depression and anxiety until three years ago, when she began to take medication to block the onset of puberty. The gender-affirming treatment helped the now-16-year-old find happiness again, her father said.
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