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MIAMI (AP) — A former Green Beret who has claimed responsibility for an ill-fated military incursion into Venezuela is under federal investigation for arms trafficking. That's according to current and former U.S. law enforcement officials. The investigation into Jordan Goudreau is in its initial stages. It stems from a frenzy of contradictory comments Goudreau has made since a small cadre of volunteer combatants he was advising on Sunday launched an raid aimed at overthrowing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Goudreau’s possible involvement in weapons smuggling stems from the March seizure by police in Colombia of a stockpile of weapons being transported in a truck.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California restaurants have drafted a plan they hope will guide the mostly idled industry's reopening. The recommendations obtained by The Associated Press envision a changed world within dining rooms, as an industry built on face-to-face contact looks for ways to safely conduct business and avoid spreading the coronavirus. The plan from the California Restaurant Association will be submitted to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday. It suggests servers wear masks, recommends eliminating buffets and salad bars, and calls for far more cleaning. The association hopes to avoid a requirement that customers have their temperature taken and the number of tables be dramatically limited.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will get a $247 million refund because of delayed delivery of protective masks it ordered under a deal with a Chinese manufacturer. A state spokesman said Wednesday that the N95 respirator masks failed to meet an April 30 deadline for U.S. federal certification. The state disclosed the refund when it released the nearly $1 billion contract with BYD, a Chinese-based electric vehicle company now making masks. Tens of millions of masks were set to arrive in California this month. The company now has until May 31 to get certification and must refund the rest of the state's up-front payment if it fails to meet that deadline.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is glad to be home after being discharged Wednesday from a Baltimore hospital. Ginsburg, 87, spent one night at the Johns Hopkins Hospital to receive nonsurgical treatment for an infection caused by a gallstone. She participated in court arguments by telephone from her hospital room Wednesday. The court says she will return to the hospital for outpatient visits over the next few weeks and will eventually have the gallstone removed. The procedure does not involve surgery.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has finished its first week of arguments by phone, with live audio available also for the first time. The three days of hearings were remarkably smooth, even as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participated from her Baltimore hospital room, Justice Stephen Breyer was briefly kicked off the line and there was a strange noise during arguments that sounded a lot like a toilet flush. Ginsburg is being treated for an infection caused by a gallstone. Breyer says he got cut off during arguments in a case about robocalls when someone tried calling him. And it's not clear what the toilet flushing-like sound was.
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