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Thunderstorms and high winds forecast for San Francisco Bay while southern California under flood watchA powerful atmospheric river storm was set to wallop California on Wednesday evening, drenching large swaths of the state with rain and bringing several feet of snow to the mountains – the latest in a wave of intense storms that new research shows are getting worse.Much of northern California was under a winter storm warning because of the gusty winds and heavy snow in the forecast that the National Weather Service (NWS) said would lead to “difficult to impossible travel conditions”. Severe thunderstorms and high winds

Senate minority leader says Democrats will not provide votes for stopgap measure and calls for bipartisan effortSenator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, said on Wednesday that Democrats would not provide the necessary votes to pass a stopgap funding bill, dramatically raising the risk of a partial government shutdown at the end of the week.Announcing the decision in a speech on the Senate floor, Schumer urged Republicans to consider a shorter funding extension that would give congressional negotiators more time to consider a bipartisan path forward. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/schumer-republican-funding-bill-shutdown Author : Lauren Gambino Publish date : 2025-03-12 23:29:00

US president said of Senate minority leader: ‘He’s not Jewish any more. He’s a Palestinian’Donald Trump has been condemned by a leading US Muslim civil rights group for seeking to use the word “Palestinian” as an insult when he attacked the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, as “not Jewish any more”.“President Trump’s use of the term ‘Palestinian’ as a racial slur is offensive and beneath the dignity of his office,” said Nihad Awad, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or Cair. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/trump-chuck-schumer-palestinian-slur Author : Martin Pengelly in Washington Publish date :

The deputy prime minister says the US tariffs are ‘really disappointing’. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJacinta Allan defends new bail lawsThe Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has defended her government’s decision to implement what she says are the “toughest bail laws in the country”.Through the attorney general, there has been contact made with Veronica Nelson’s family.What happened through the circumstances around death was an absolute tragedy.Well it’s a really disappointing. There’s no doubt about that.It’s disappointing because it is an act of self-harm for the US, but it’s also disappointing in the