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By Justin Papp, CQ-Roll Call (TNS)WASHINGTON — Winston Pingeon is not out for awards or accolades, he said. He does not care about personal recognition.But like others who defended the Capitol that day, he does want some acknowledgment of what transpired on Jan. 6, 2021. In the lead-up to the fourth anniversary of the mob attack, some are again calling for the dedication of an overdue plaque to honor police, though they aren’t holding their breath.“At this point, I have no hope that it will be put up anytime soon. I feel like the GOP has forgotten and failed the…

Brooks Johnson | (TNS) The Minnesota Star TribuneFor the nation’s leading butter brand, consumer demand for all things health-and-wellness has been an unexpected boon for business.“There’s certainly been a trend toward more wholesome, natural foods: I can understand the ingredient label, I can pronounce the items on that ingredient label,” said Heather Anfang, president of dairy foods at Land O’Lakes. “And so when you look at butter, I mean, the ingredients are cream and salt.”Even as Americans drink less milk year after year, demand for dairy is growing — mostly in churned and fermented form.In 2023 Americans ate the most…

By DAVID KOENIG, Associated Press Airlines WriterThe Transportation Department said Friday it will hit JetBlue Airways with a $2 million penalty for chronically late flights along the East Coast, and half the money will go to passengers who were delayed.The agency said it’s the first time it has fined an airline for chronic delays on specific routes, which it blamed on “unrealistic scheduling” by JetBlue.“Illegal chronic flight delays make flying unreliable for travelers. Today’s action puts the entire airline industry on notice that we expect their flight schedules to reflect reality,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. His department has led…

By LINLEY SANDERS and NICHOLAS RICCARDI WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Republicans say they are confident in the 2024 vote count after Donald Trump’s win, according to a new poll that finds a sharp turnaround from GOP voters’ skepticism about U.S. elections after the president-elect spent four years lying about his loss to President Joe Biden. About 6 in 10 Republicans said they have “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence that the votes in last year’s presidential election were counted correctly nationwide, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That’s…

Q: Does your HOA board use a consent calendar as part of its regular meeting procedure? If not, your board is missing a chance to preserve meeting time and energy for agenda items requiring discussion.Board meetings lasting beyond two hours in length will tax the concentration of both directors and audience. By two hours, exhaustion sets in and the quality of deliberation progressively deteriorates, so measures reducing time are important. Reasonable strategies to streamline meetings preserves time and energy resources for the agenda items needing deliberation.Many directors feel that they aren’t doing their job as board members unless they comment…

A small plane crashed through the roof of a large furniture manufacturing building in Fullerton on Thursday, shortly after the pilot radioed a request for an emergency landing at the nearby airport. Two people aboard the plane died and 19 people working inside the building were injured, officials said.Eleven of those injured were hospitalized; eight were treated at the scene, officials said.The identities of the people who died was not yet known, said Kristy Wells, a Fullerton police spokesperson.Shortly after 2 p.m., the Fullerton Fire Department got a call about the crash on Raymer Avenue, Lt. Tim Kandler said. The…

The deadly attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day only underscores the importance lawmakers must place on combatting homegrown extremism, said Sen. Adam Schiff.At least 14 people died after Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran, drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people early in the morning on Jan. 1, the FBI has said.In the wake of the attack, Republicans have called on the Senate to swiftly approve President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for national security jobs, including former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for national intelligence director, Army veteran Pete Hegseth for defense secretary and Kash Patel for FBI director.…

There’s one geopolitical and economic truth about our nation upon which everyone can agree — people around the world want to move to the United States of America.Why not continue to make it easier for the best and the brightest scientists, engineers and medical researchers — professionals from every other nation, a class of people who almost universally want to live and work here — to do so?That’s what the H-1B visa program does.We need the workers. They strengthen our economy when they take positions in Silicon Valley and at universities and other research hubs around the nation.President-elect Donald Trump…

Q: Are these actual new laws? – Kioren Moss, Ventura A: Kioren sent Honk a screenshot of new laws for e-bikes that popped up on Google. The problem is the provided info was via artificial intelligence and in this case simplified the answers to where they weren’t all true. With the help of the California Highway Patrol, Kioren and Honk’s crack research team, which consists of himself, below is a list of new laws for e-bikers and motorists (Unless otherwise noted, the laws took effect on Wednesday, Jan. 1): A new law makes it illegal to sell devices to tweak…

LOS ANGELES — Playing without Anthony Davis hasn’t been a scenario the Lakers have had to face many times over the last couple of years.But when Davis hasn’t been available, it’s usually led to poor results – a script the Lakers flipped for at least one game with their 114-106 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday night, their sixth win in the past eight games.With Davis sidelined, the Lakers needed someone outside of LeBron James (38 points, eight assists) and Austin Reaves (15 points, 11 assists, eight rebounds) to step up offensively.Max Christie was that player, with the…