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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered a mixed bag Monday for proponents of bills aimed at addressing the state’s legacy of racist and discriminatory policies against Black Americans.He signed a law authorizing $6 million for California State University to study how to confirm an individual’s status as a descendant of an enslaved person. But he vetoed other bills the California Legislative Black Caucus championed as tools to atone for the state’s history. One of them would have authorized public and private colleges to give admissions preference to descendants of enslaved people. Another would have required the state…

David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., during an interview for an episode of “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations” in New York, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024.Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoldman Sachs has agreed to acquire Industry Ventures, a venture capital firm with $7 billion in assets under supervision, according to a release from the investment bank.Goldman is paying $665 million in cash and equity, and up to $300 million more based on the firm’s future performance through 2030, the bank said. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of…

Oct 13, 2025, 04:12 PM ETEngland manager Thomas Tuchel has said Marcus Rashford is not living up to his potential and warned him not to waste his career.Rashford is on loan at Barcelona — where he has scored three goals and produced five assists in 10 games — after several years of indifferent performances at Manchester United.The 27-year-old suggested his struggles — which have been on and off the pitch — were down to the changing surroundings at Old Trafford.In an interview with ITV, posted on social media on Monday and later deleted, Rashford said: “I feel like I’ve been…

WASHINGTON (AP) — On Monday, the fragile ceasefire in Gaza led to freedom for Israeli hostages and the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. It was the culmination of a long and tortuous process — but it may, in the end, have been the easier part.The coming weeks, months and years will require more than just rebuilding from the devastation that has left much of Gaza in ruins. Key details of the peace plan may remain unsettled. Granular details will need to be negotiated to keep the plan moving forward and prevent the resumption of fighting. The path to…

A mass shooting that killed four and left several others injured on Sunday took place on a small island off the coast of South Carolina where a historic Black community has lived for generations. Here is what to know about the community where the bar was located as investigators search for “persons of interest.”Largest Gullah community in AmericaThe shooting early Sunday morning took place on St. Helena Island, an idyllic 140 square mile (363 kilometer) island off the coast of South Carolina that is home to the largest Gullah community in the country.The Gullah, called Geechee in some regions, descend…

The parents of the 29-year-old gunman who opened fire on a Dallas immigration facility in September told police their son was “completely normal” before he moved to Washington state and returned home several years ago believing he had radiation sickness, according to newly released records. Joshua Jahn had begun wearing cotton gloves to avoid contact with plastic and practiced target shooting with a newly purchased rifle in Oklahoma a month before the deadly rooftop attack on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, according to a report written by a Fairview Police Department officer. Jahn killed two detainees and wounded…

Amir receives oil minister, top energy officials • Jazza offshore field discovery hailed KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received on Monday at Bayan Palace Oil Minister and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Chairman Dr Tareq Al-Roumi, KPC Deputy Chairman and CEO Sheikh Nawaf Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah and Kuwait Oil Company CEO Ahmad Jaber Al-Aidan.During the reception, they briefed HH the Amir on the newly discovered Al-Jazza natural gas field, which is considered an accomplishment in the Kuwait maritime area, recording the highest production rate of a vertical well in the Minagish formation in Kuwait’s history, as part of…

No US president has delivered a speech in Egypt since Barack Obama’s now infamous 2009 Cairo speech on “a new beginning between the United States and Muslims”.  It was, in hindsight, no new beginning at all. But Monday’s Gaza summit for peace in Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh might be, if President Donald Trump has his way.  “At long last, we have peace in the Middle East,” Trump declared on stage, flanked by 20 of some 35 world leaders he invited.  A ceasefire in Gaza went into effect on Friday. Hamas said it has been given assurances…

Oct 13, 2025, 03:14 PM ETCape Verde will play in the World Cup for the first time after beating Eswatini 3-0 to win their group in African qualifying for the 2026 World Cup on Monday.The archipelago of volcanic islands off the western coast of Africa secured one of the nine automatic spots for the continent. It will be the second smallest country by population to feature in the tournament after Iceland in 2018.Editor’s PicksDailon Livramento scored in the 48th minute, Willy Semedo in the 54th and Stopira in stoppage time to secure the home victory and first place in Group…

The entrance to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is seen on February 7, 2024. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Jet Propulsion Laboratory unit of NASA said Monday that it will lay off about 550 employees — 11% of JPL’s workforce — as part of a restructuring.The job cuts “are not related to the current government shutdown,” JPL Director Dave Gallagher said in a message to the unit that was posted on the lab’s website.JPL is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the California Institute of…