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By MATTHEW DALY, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.Biden, whose term expires in two weeks, said he is using authority under the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from future oil and natural gas leasing.“My decision reflects what coastal communities, businesses and beachgoers have known for a long…

New England’s Jerod Mayo and Jacksonville’s Doug Pederson are two NFL coaches who are out of a job while New York Giants coach Brian Daboll is among those who look like they will be back next fall.It’s the day after the NFL’s regular season, which usually means a tough day for coaches as underachieving teams move quickly to make changes.Mayo was fired on Sunday after the team’s win over the Buffalo Bills, ending his tenure after just one season and a 4-13 record. The move means the Patriots will embark on another rebuild as the team tries to build an identity following the Bill…

Angela Hart and Christine Mai-Duc | KFF Health NewsSix years after he entered office vowing to be California’s “health care governor,” Democrat Gavin Newsom has steered tens of billions in public funding to safety net services for the state’s neediest residents while engineering rules to make health care more accessible and affordable for all Californians.More than a million California residents living in the U.S. without authorization now qualify for Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid, making California among the first states to cover low-income people regardless of their immigration status. The state is experimenting with Medicaid money to pay for…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the largest prosecution in Justice Department history — with reams of evidence, harrowing videos and hundreds of convictions of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now Donald Trump’s return to power has thrown into question the future of the more than 1,500 federal cases brought over the last four years.Jan. 6 trials, guilty pleas and sentencings have continued chugging along in Washington’s federal court despite Trump’s promise to pardon rioters, whom he has called “political prisoners” and “hostages” he contends were treated too harshly.In a statement Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland…

Dreams deferred and deals denied came to define the Ducks during their absence from the postseason, which began in 2019, but a reshaped roster, renewed commitment to its talent and the NHL’s Second Star of the Week have all provided promise of late.Ahead of Tuesday’s confrontation with the team directly above them in the Pacific Division, the Calgary Flames, Troy Terry garnered recognition from the NHL.His six points and four goals, including an OT winner in Winnipeg, allowed him to join the Kings’ Darcy Kuemper and Marco Rossi of the Minnesota Wild among the league’s three stars. Terry, along with…

By any standard, the late James Earl Carter led a remarkable life. If nothing else, the act of living to 100 makes him demographically interesting. But when you throw in a degree in engineering, captain of a nuclear submarine, governor of Georgia, president of the United States, architect of the Camp David Accords, his work with Habitat for Humanity, establishing The Carter Center in Atlanta, authoring 32 bestselling books, a 77-year marriage, with a Nobel Peace Prize to boot, this humble peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia turns out to be anything but plain.Or humble.Google “Jimmy Carter, humble/humility” and see how…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from their time as teachers, firefighters, police officers and in other public service jobs.Advocates say the Social Security Fairness Act rights a decades-old disparity, though it will also put strain on Social Security Trust Funds, which face a looming insolvency crisis.The bill rescinds two provisions — the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset — that limit Social Security benefits for recipients if…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday is set to preside over the certification of her defeat to Donald Trump four years after he tried to stop the very process that will now return him to the White House.In a video message, Harris described her role as a “sacred obligation” to ensure the peaceful transfer of power.“As we have seen, our democracy can be fragile,” she said. “And it is up to each of us to stand up for our most cherished principles.”Harris will be joining a short list of other vice presidents to…

By Michelle F. Davis, Lucas Shaw and Christopher Palmeri | BloombergWalt Disney Co. and streaming provider FuboTV agreed to combine their online live TV businesses, creating the second-biggest digital pay-TV provider.As part of the transaction, Disney will fold its Hulu + Live TV business into Fubo, creating a new venture that will be 70% owned by Disney and the rest by Fubo, Disney said in a statement on Monday, confirming an earlier Bloomberg report. With a combined 6.2 million subscribers in North America, the new venture will trail only YouTube TV.The deal doesn’t include Hulu’s subscription video business, in which…

By WILL WEISSERTPresident Joe Biden is decrying what he calls an “unrelenting effort” to downplay a mob of Donald Trump supporters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block certification of the 2020 election — seeking to contrast that day’s chaos with what he promises will be an orderly transition returning Trump to power for a second term.In an opinion piece published Sunday in The Washington Post, Biden recalled Jan. 6, 2021, writing that “violent insurrectionists attacked the Capitol.”“We should be proud that our democracy withstood this assault,” Biden wrote. “And we should be glad we will not see…