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The drama inside Carl’s Jr.: Crushed by California costs, crime and competition
Carl’s Jr. began in 1941 as a hot dog cart on the corner of Florence and Central in Los Angeles and grew into one of the region’s best-known burger chains. Eight decades later, the now-global chain is struggling in its old neighborhood. The high costs of doing business in California, festering labor issues, fierce competition…
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An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes
Ever stumble across an online “news article” that just doesn’t feel quite right? You may be onto something. A joint investigation by The Florida Trib and the KCRW podcast Question Everything found that a so-called “independent, locally owned digital news publication” dubbed the South Florida Standard was in reality an AI-generated Potemkin village staffed entirely…
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Justin Turner is playing for the Tijuana Toros. Why he ‘wouldn’t trade it for anything’
TIJUANA — Justin Turner did not wear the correct jersey one day, and now he would pay for his sin. His teammates formed two lines, one facing the other. Turner snaked through the gauntlet, as his teammates playfully slapped and shoved him around. Turner is 41, an All-Star and World Series champion, one of the most beloved…
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GOP Supreme Court justices are throwing a ‘lifeline’ to Trump’s ‘MAGA-warrior’ lawyer: CNN
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer has fundamentally transformed the role of the nation’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court, according to a longtime court correspondent, abandoning the traditional norms of the office to embrace a confrontational, MAGA-aligned advocacy style that has proven remarkably effective with the court’s conservative supermajority. Unlike predecessors who balanced partisan…
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Ex-CIA chief, Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicts China won’t invade Taiwan anytime soon: ‘Don’t think they want to go in’
Former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Robert Gates predicted Sunday that the chances of China invading Taiwan were “pretty low, particularly over the next several years,” despite Chinese President Xi Jinping’s bellicose rhetoric toward the self-governing island. “I don’t think they want to go in and attack Taiwan. They don’t want to destroy the very…
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Inside Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump’s romance as they ‘move beyond’ DUI scandal
Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump are reportedly “still very much in love” after the pro golfer’s latest DUI car crash. A source told People on Sunday the couple were “happy to see each other” after Woods returned home to his home in Jupiter, Florida on Wednesday following his six-week inpatient treatment program in Switzerland. “They…
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Everything You Do Is Being Recorded
Anthony “Bingy” Arillotta waited years to become a made man in the Genovese crime family, and when at last the call came in August 2003, he followed directions to the letter. According to sworn testimony, Arillotta was summoned to a steak house in the Bronx, where he was made to hand over his cellphone, beeper,…
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In her Silver Lake ADU, this L.A. artist turns glass and clay into something magical
Just about every corner of Julie Burton’s Silver Lake studio is filled with sparkling glass jewelry — some real, some symbolic — and whimsical ceramic figures inspired by Midcentury Modern design. Elegant hand-blown glass vases sit beside ceramic crater pots on warm cherry shelves. Bright teardrop earrings hang from metal tins filled with Japanese cooling…
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In ‘You’re Killing Me,’ Brooke Shields navigates aging and relevance. She has some experience
Brooke Shields would not consider herself an armchair detective by any means. “I don’t want to really know,” she says on a recent weekday. “I’m not big on gore. I like getting just enough clues to make me feel smart, but not to really get it — at the end, I want to be like,…
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New Trump ‘gimmick’ to escape his current ‘nightmare’ dismantled by CNN expert
President Donald Trump has endorsed the idea of suspending federal taxes on gasoline in an effort to combat skyrocketing gas prices sparked by his unpopular war against Iran, but CNN’s Matt Egan, looking at a new analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, broke down on Monday exactly why the president’s idea was nothing more than…