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Staggering amount SF-based Doordash is paying out to delivery drivers as gas prices choke California
DoorDash is preparing to shell out more than $50 million this quarter to help drivers cope with soaring fuel costsas gas prices hammer consumers and businesses alike, with California emerging as a major pressure point in the nationwide crunch. The San Francisco-based delivery giant said Wednesday that the extra spending will fund temporary fuel-price relief…
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‘It still stings’: 18 people reveal how much they paid for LA28 Olympics tickets
1 p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> If you’re hoping to nab tickets to the LA28 Olympics in the second drop coming in August, you might want to brace yourself. Last month, when people logged on to purchase tickets in the first locals presale, many experienced a roller coaster of emotions: excitement, anxiety, surprise, frustration and disappointment by the…
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Help! My friend is replacing me with AI.
In February, the TikTok creator Brittany Panzer posted a video over five minutes detailing the unraveling of her friendship. There was no disagreement, no blowup, not even ghosting. Panzer felt she’d lost her friend to ChatGPT. At first, Panzer’s friend used artificial intelligence for relationship advice and casually mentioned that she’d consulted the technology in…
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LeAnn Rimes sets record straight on ‘RHOBH’ rumors after Brandi Glanville shade
LeAnn Rimes shut down rumors that she was joining “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” after Brandi Glanville shaded the singer. Former “Bachelorette” star Rachel Lindsay discussed “rumors” that the “Blue” songstress is joining the hit Bravo show. “The rumor is Leann Rimes’ name is being floated around to Beverly Hills,” Lindsay, 41, said on…
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The Real Reason Your Partner Says You Don’t Listen
—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: skynesher/Getty Images) Most of us have the same idea about what defines a good listener: She makes warm eye contact. He nods at all the right moments. She reflects your feelings back in a soft, non-judgmental voice; he doesn’t check his phone once. But wait until you hear this: That…
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Sweeping California law on single-use plastic meets with outrage from all sides as it goes live
Within days of California’s long-anticipated single use plastic law going into effect, environmentalists and anti-waste activists announced they plan to sue. They say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration and CalRecycle inserted exemptionsfavoring the plastic industry into the law’s regulations that weaken it and undermine legislative intent. “These new rules create huge loopholes for plastic packaging that…
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10 Meaningful Things to Tell Your Mom While You Still Can
—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: Drazen_/Getty Images) In 2025, a longtime client of Ilana Grines, a therapist in Los Angeles, found out that his mother had terminal cancer. Grines gave him an assignment: Write down everything you want to tell her while you still can. The man took the idea back to his friends, who…
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Denyce Graves’s Second Act
When the curtain of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House rose for the closing matinee of Porgy and Bess in January, the boos that typically accompany the entrance of the show’s villains were a mere murmur. The nearly 4,000 people who packed the space to capacity—175 of them standing-room ticket holders who remained on their feet…
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‘Cálmate, Antonio’: The most fiery moments from the governor’s debate
The top candidates in California’s wide-open race for governor took the stage Wednesday night in a Los Angeles debate that began politely but quickly devolved into another raucous clash. Former Biden Cabinet member Xavier Becerra and billionaire Tom Steyer, both Democratic frontrunners, were primary targets of the political attacks — Becerra for his record as…
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Eerie moment cruise passengers told about first hantavirus death: ‘The ship is safe’
Eerie video shows passengers on the MV Hondius cruise ship being told about the first hantavirus death — with the captain unknowingly telling them the “ship is safe” before realizing the ordeal they would face. “This is my sad duty to inform you that one of our passengers suddenly passed away last night,” the captain,…