By SDCN Editor A federal judge in the Southern District of Georgia Monday sentenced three men for committing federal hate crimes and other offenses in connection with the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man, who was jogging on the public streets of a Brunswick neighborhood when he was chased down and shot to […]

By SDCN Editor  San Francisco, CA–The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Thursday made California the first state in the nation to allow electric vehicle owners to measure an electric vehicle’s energy use independently from the owner’s main utility meter through a technology known as submetering.  The groundbreaking decision will accelerate the growth of electric vehicles […]

By SDCN Editor A Texas man was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on hate crime charges for attacking an Asian family he believed was Chinese, and therefore responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, the Justice Department said. Jose Gomez III, 21, of Midland had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate […]

By SDCN Editor Northern CA–A Russian citizen accused of an alleged operation of the illicit cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e was extradited Friday from Greece to the United States to face charges in the Northern District of California. Alexander Vinnik, 42, was charged in a 21-count superseding indictment in January 2017. He was taken into custody in […]

The Justice Department Tuesday filed a lawsuit to protect the rights of patients to access emergency medical care guaranteed by federal law.  The suit challenges Idaho Code 18-622, which is set to go into effect on Aug. 25 and imposes a near-total ban on abortion. The complaint seeks a declaratory judgment that Code 18-622 conflicts […]

By SDCN Editor Calexico, CA–The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the Imperial County Transportation Commission (ICTC) announced reaching a critical construction milestone for the bridge expansion project at the Calexico East Land Port of Entry. The $32.5 million project, largely funded through state and federal grants, will expand the existing northbound bridge, over the […]

By SDCN Editor Imperial, CA–El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a United States citizen and two undocumented individuals, in two separate events, accused of smuggling narcotics for further travel into the United States on Thursday.  The first incident occurred at approximately 11 a.m., when a 2018 Nissan Rouge approached the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint. […]

By Newswise While many U.S. policymakers are calling for reshoring and nearshoring to combat trade disruptions caused by COVID-19, new University of California San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy research suggests retrenchment of global supply chains is unlikely to happen in the post-pandemic context. A study from economist Caroline Freund, dean of the School of Global Policy and […]