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The sharp rise in price gains for cannabis shares is in jeopardy. Justice minister Jeff Sessions will drastically limit the distribution, trade and regulations.

A subsidiary of Rabobank in California is taking a provision of 310 million euros in the run-up to a settlement with the American authorities in a years-long investigation into possible money laundering.

In the US state of California, the sale of marijuana for recreational use has been permitted since Monday. Dozens of stores that sell marijuana are opened in the state, which has 39.5 million inhabitants.

She wrote a whole series of detective novels with titles that always started with a next letter from the alphabet. But, her daughter writes dramatically on Facebook: 'For us, the alphabet ends with Y from now on.' Writer Sue Grafton died last night at the age of 77 in California, in the midst of her family.

Five American friends go back every five years to the place where they took a photo in 1982. The quintet now owns eight photographs. It shows how the close-knit group has changed over time.

The spiritual father of Bugs Bunny has passed away. Artist Bob Givens died at the age of 99 in his hometown Burbank in California. He coined the carrot gnawing rabbit around 1938.

The forest fires that still cause devastation in California have become the largest in the history of the state. 'The Thomas Fire' has now covered more than 273,000 hectares and is therefore larger than the 2003 fire at San Diego.

The thousands of firefighters who are trying to control the sizeable conflagration to the northwest of Los Angeles have received some help from the weather. Their work has become somewhat easier because the wind in the area has been somewhat reduced and the humidity has increased.

Police in Citrus Heights, California, had to say Wednesday to a criminal who had studied the tactics of Santa Claus too much. The 32-year-old burglar wanted to break into a company by descending into a chimney. The burglar got stuck and he had to call emergency number 911.

Due to the ongoing forest fires in California, part of the city of Santa Barbara is now also under threat. The California authorities ordered Saturday for new evacuations of this area, writes the LA Times. Residents of the hilly region around Montecito and Summerland, where many rich people live, are advised to seek a safe haven as soon as possible.

For the time being, the end of the fires that plague California is not yet in sight. Strong wind stirred the fire on Saturday in many places. It is now about the third fire in the history of the American state.

The vast nature fire in California has demanded a second life. Fire brigade commander Ken Pimlott announced Thursday that one of his employees died during work. He did not make any statements about the circumstances.

The fifth largest natural fire in California's history has grown in size on Tuesday due to the persistently strong wind and the dry weather. The thousands of firemen who fight against the flames could not prevent the expansion.

California pulls out all the stops to fight the relentless fires in the state. In the meantime, more than 5,800 firefighters from several states are active. They suffer a lot from the strong wind.

Because of the fierce fires that ravage California, more than 100,000 people have already been evacuated. Also hundreds of schools have been closed as a precaution. As far as we know, no victims have been killed so far.

The American state of California is deploying more than a thousand firefighters to fight the wildfires that flared up a few days ago. The fire threatens more than 12,000 houses.

Forest fires in California draw north of Los Angeles a trail of devastation. The fire so far destroyed about 150 buildings, including a large apartment complex. A resident of Ventura, fleeing from the flames, saw her own house being destroyed by the fire live on television.

The American state of California has once again been startled by a large wildfire. Some 27,000 people were forced to seek refuge, the Los Angeles Times reported. There are also 260,000 connections without electricity.

A Canadian of Russian origin has admitted that he was involved in hacking thousands of e-mail accounts for the Russian secret service. Against payment he cracked the passwords of people in whom Russian spies were interested.

A study from 1965 with a link between sugar and cancer has mysteriously withdrawn. The research was sponsored by the Sugar Research Foundation, which published a year later a study in which the same heart diseases were linked to fat.

Charles Manson, the American sect leader who incited his followers in the sixties to gruesome murders in California, died on Sunday. He was 83 years old. The sister of actress Sharon Tate, one of the victims of Manson, was the first to report the death. She had been informed by the prison.

Charles Manson, the American sect leader who incited his followers to gruesome murders in California in the 1960s, is hospitalized, reports the Los Angeles Times. What the 83-year-old Manson is wrong with, the authorities do not want to say on the basis of privacy rules.

The man who shot four people on Tuesday in northern California had killed his wife the night before. The police of the place Rancho Tehama told the newspaper Los Angeles Times this Wednesday.

In the days around the British Brexite Reference, Russian accounts have posted massive messages on Twitter. In 48 hours, they have put about 45,000 tweets online. Most of the people called the British to leave the European Union.

Certainly three deaths have fallen at a shooting school at a primary school in the north of the US state of California. Also, a six-year-old pupil was injured, police chief told Rancho Tehama to NBC news channel.

Former US Vice President Al Gore emphasized at the Bonn summit on climate change that many of his countrymen will continue to work for the climate. 'We will do that,' said the 69-year-old Nobel Prize winner Friday evening in the German pavilion. 'I'm optimistic.'

For everybody who believes it is a hard laugh: according to scientist Sean Carroll, there is no 'life after death' because it is simply impossible, according to the laws of nature. Carroll says that your consciousness must then become completely separate from your body. And that's not possible.

The public prosecutor in Switzerland has discontinued the investigation into a alleged rape by German actress Renate Langer by film director Roman Polanski. The investigation is terminated for procedural reasons because the case is banned according to the Swiss law.

The American Apollo astronaut Richard Gordon, 88, died in California in his homeland on Monday. He was one of the few astronauts on the moon mission. He was the pilot of the Apollo 12 mission that flew to the moon in 1969. During his missions he made two space walks.

The woman who, as an oldest woman, ever went out of marathon, died at the age of 94. American media reported that Harriette Thompson succumbed to the injuries she suffered from a fall when she handed presents to neighbors.