The Daily Populous

California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker plastic that purportedly made them reusable and recyclable.

“Californians voted to ban plastic grocery bags in our state almost a decade ago, but the law clearly needed a redo.

With the Governor’s signature, California has finally banned plastic bags in grocery checkout lanes once and for all.”. »

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland, California park.

Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings.

She found Albino and reunited him with his California family in June. »

I really enjoyed The Plucky Squire, an action-adventure game in the vein of classic Legend of Zelda titles.

As I played the game, though, I did find myself wishing that The Plucky Squire actually believed in its audience as much as it claims to.

At the end of the day, I get that The Plucky Squire just wants to be inclusive. »

Russia was left badly isolated at a high-profile UN summit in New York when it made a surprise move to derail an ambitious pact designed to revive the UN – and failed.

The Russian move, at the outset of the two-day “summit for the future”, looked diplomatically clumsy, if perhaps designed for domestic consumption.

A major sticking point was western opposition to the UN playing a role in making international financial institutions more representative. »