California declares rolling blackouts amid electricity crisis
California ordered rolling blackouts affecting hundreds of thousands as state regulators imposed outages to avert utility bankruptcies. Gov. Gray Davis signed an emergency order allowing the state to buy power at a fraction of market rates, aiming to bridge to long term contracts and prevent PG&E and Southern California Edison insolvency. The plan followed ISO guidance noting reduced out‑of‑state supply and several plants offline, with 1,300 megawatts short of demand and pinch points in San Francisco, Sacramento, and the Silicon Valley.
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Fisherman's Wharf
Supreme Court upholds civil confinement for sexual predators
The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that inmates deemed sexually violent predators may be held indefinitely without right to challenge their confinement. The decision rejects double jeopardy and ex post facto objections, barring most lawsuits arguing continued imprisonment despite treatment.
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Supreme Court
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Sandra Day O’connor
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Ued
Andre Young
9Th Circuit
O'Connor
Young
John Paul Stevens
Stevens
Federal plan seeks mandatory biotech product review
The FDA proposes a compulsory review for new biotech crops and posting scientific data online to ease public anxiety. It relies on voluntary industry consultation before release and suggests labeling guidelines allowing statements like we do not use ingredients produced with biotechnology while banning biotech free claims.
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Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Beef petition fall short for beef referendum
The Agriculture Department said opponents failed to submit enough valid petitions to trigger a referendum on the beef promotion program. The group Livestock Marketing Assn. submitted 127,927 petitions but an audit found at most 83,464 valid. The pork program ended last year after a similar vote, both programs run and funded by producer fees.
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Livestock Marketing Assn
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Earthquake Hits New York City Area Rattling City
A magnitude 2.4 quake centered on Manhattan's Upper East Side rattled New York City and as far as Newark New Jersey with no injuries or damage reported. Geology professor Dan Davis of Stony Brook noted the event began at 7 34 a m and lasted seconds and that quakes are not rare in the region noting a 1985 4 0 tremor in Westchester County north of the city.
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