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Fruit Is Candy Now
If it is possible, in this fascinating age, to be a celebrity fruit, the Sumo Citrus is definitely a celebrity fruit. The mandarin-satsuma-orange hybrid, originally developed in Japan and brought to American grocery stores in 2011, is by far the most popular new member of the citrus family, accounting for almost a third of the…
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Rolexes, diamonds and broken promises: The rise and fall of an O.C. jeweler who conned the wealthy
In certain circles, Nelson Holdo was the go-to guy for fine jewelry and luxury watches. He ingratiated himself with the wealthy, touting his charitable donations and trips to Geneva, the world’s watchmaking capital. He hosted extravagant poker nights where players smoked cigars and cashed out chips toward pieces worn by roving models. Clients offered glowing…
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‘Every Republican just winced’: DC insider reveals ‘big problem’ Trump created for GOP
This fall’s midterm election is a referendum on President Donald Trump, according to a veteran journalist, and he’s not making things easy for Republicans trying to hold onto their congressional majorities. Polling has made clear that affordability remains the top voter concern, and Punchbowl News co-founder John Bresnahan told “CNN News Central” that Republicans on…
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Locke High’s grand charter school experiment faces shutdown as LAUSD moves to take back campus
A major education experiment lasting a generation is on the brink of a controversial ending as Los Angeles school district officials intend to shut down Alain Leroy Locke College Preparatory Academy and take back the Watts campus from its private operators. Green Dot Public Schools, the charter group that has managed Locke for nearly two…
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Hidden plan to revive Trump’s ‘dead’ slush fund revealed by insiders
The Trump administration was forced to publicly declare the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization” slush fund canceled after widespread and bipartisan outrage from the public and lawmakers over the idea that tax money would be diverted to pay off Trump’s allies. But Justice Department officials have revealed it’s not actually dead — just under wraps. According to…
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Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
End-to-end encryption, in which data is encoded so that only users on either “end” of a conversation can decrypt their communications—and not the server that relays that information or any other interloper—has become the standard for modern privacy on the internet. But its very name suggests a kind of simple pipe with two openings. The…
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What is it with Spielberg and space aliens? We break down his career-long fixation
Obsession is maybe too hard-edged; interest too soft. But from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T” to his new sci-fi thriller “Disclosure Day,” Steven Spielberg has spent nearly the entire length of his career returning to the possibility that we are not alone in the universe. Even “Firelight,” the amateur movie he made…
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Trump ‘completely isolated’ in White House as he loses control: MS NOW
Based upon his own reporting and excerpts from a bombshell new book penned by the New York Times ‘ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, MS NOW host Jonathan Lemire claimed on Thursday morning that Donald Trump has become a man alone inside his own White House. Noting that Vice President JD Vance and White House…
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SFUSD paid ethnic studies consultants $400,000 while reading and math scores cratered
A broke school district shelled out nearly $400,000 to extreme ”ethnic studies” consultants obsessed with defunding the police and tearing down capitalism rather fixing the students’ appalling reading and math scores. The San Francisco Unified School District, which is facing school closures and a catastrophic budget deficit, has inked taxpayer-funded contracts with consultants Liberatory Visionaries…
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For Riz Ahmed, representation is not enough: ‘Does the room change you, or do you change it?’
In this week’s episode of The Envelope podcast, Riz Ahmed talks about drawing on his own experience for “Bait,” his Prime Video series about a British Muslim actor whose life is upended when he’s rumored to be the next James Bond. Kelvin Washington: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the next episode of The Envelope. Kelvin…