HONG KONG—Shares of Chinese Estates Holdings, a former major shareholder of embattled developer China Evergrande, jumped as much as 32 percent on Thursday after it announced an offer to be taken private for $245 million. The Hong Kong developer said on Wednesday the family of Chinese Estates’ biggest shareholder, Joseph Lau, had proposed to take…
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Since the Dec. 12, 2012, massacre of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, the state has passed several laws to restrict and make it… [...]
The campaign video Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) released to announce his 2024 Senate campaign became the subject of an ethics complaint within a single day. On Thursday, Schiff announced he… [...]
Five Republican members of Congress from New York sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Wednesday, demanding transparency about his administration’s “secrecy” involving migrant relocation operations and expressing outrage… [...]
The Los Angeles City Council tentatively voted Jan. 27 to provide tenants who are behind on their rent with a one-month grace period prior to their landlord beginning eviction proceedings,… [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—Hundreds of community members gathered in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on the evening of Jan. 26 to commemorate the victims of two recent mass shootings in California and… [...]
SAN DIEGO—A Chula Vista man who blew up two ATMs in an attempt to steal the money inside was sentenced Jan. 27 to more than 11 years in federal prison.… [...]
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday acknowledged his responsibility for classified documents found at his residence in Indiana and pledged to participate in any investigation into the matter. Pence… [...]
A California doctor who treated the mortally wounded Ashli Babbitt after she was shot outside the House of Representatives on Jan. 6, 2021, was arrested by the FBI on four… [...]
The State Bar of California is moving to disbar attorney and former law professor John Eastman for supporting President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election results. In a… [...]
Orange County Sheriff’s officials announced Jan. 26 that “rainbow” fentanyl was found for the first time in the department’s jurisdiction. Deputies confiscated 14,000 multi-colored fentanyl pills along with 2 kilograms… [...]