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Prep talk: High jumper Dean Guzman of Moorpark clears 7-foot barrier
Dean Guzman of Moorpark has trained for years to surpass the barrier every high jumper dreams of breaking — 7 feet. It happened at the Mt. SAC Relays, where he set a school record and beat the defending state champion, his friend, JJ Harel, of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. His coaches started screaming. “Hands up…
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Bill Maher and David Cross’ interview turns into an argument on trans rights: ‘Looney left’
Bill Maher and the comedian David Cross butted heads as they clashed over transgender politics and the so-called “looney left” – before the podcast host quipped “Good luck with President Vance.” The duo exchanged a war of words on Maher’s podcast “Club Random” Monday over transgender women competing in female sports before Cross casually mentioned…
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First time: Sumatra orangutan seen using a canopy bridge built just for animals
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A Sumatran orangutan has been recorded in what conservationists said is the first documented case of the species using an artificial canopy bridge to cross a public road that had divided its habitat. “This was the moment we had been waiting for,” Erwin Alamsyah Siregar, executive director of Indonesian conservation group Tangguh Hutan Khatulistiwa,…
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MAHA wellness culture is coming for teens. Grown-ups aren’t ready.
For years, the “Make America Healthy Again” movement was driven by moms. Concerned about the safety of childhood vaccines and about chemicals in the food their kids were eating, they helped propel Donald Trump to the White House — and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the role of the nation’s top health influencer — with…
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The Hottest Anti-AI Gadget Is a Cyberdeck
Ube Boobey’s bedroom is slightly messy after a trip to Morocco, but her cyberdeck glistens among the clutter. The homemade computer is located inside a clamshell purse, covered in swirly gold accents and filled with pearls, with some makeup and fake moss tucked beneath the keyboard. The 22-year-old, who’s based in London and has worked…
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Cole Tomas Allen purchased weapons in L.A.’s South Bay, a hot spot for gun sales
At Turner’s Outdoorsman in Torrance, racks of long guns line the back wall under taxidermied deer and antelope heads. On Sunday afternoon, shoppers browsed for fishing poles and sifted through a wide array of camouflage hunting gear. It could have been a scene straight out of a gun store in rural Utah or Alabama, but…
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Renewable energy just broke a 100-year-old streak
For more than a century, the world has run on coal. When Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street electrical station in Lower Manhattan fired up in 1882, it ran on coal. Coal survived the oil era, the nuclear era, the dash for natural gas, and decades of back-and-forth climate policy. From the 1970s through the mid-2010s, coal…
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Trial of Austrian man accused of plotting to attack a Taylor Swift concert set to begin
The trial against a man accused of pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago is set to begin Tuesday in Austria. The plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still canceled Swift’s three performances in August 2024. The singer’s fans, known as Swifties, who…
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This lesson will smash billionaires’ grip on America
The attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday night shouldn’t surprise us. Not only does America have the world’s most active small-arms industry that essentially controls the GOP (the reporters got a taste of what American — and only American — schoolkids experience every few months from their “realistic” active shooter drills),…
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Top Jalisco cartel leader ‘El Jardinero’ arrested in Mexico
Mexican special forces have arrested Audias Flores, known as “El Jardinero” and one of the top commanders of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), in the western state of Nayarit, security minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said on Monday. Flores – a regional commander in control of swathes of CJNG territory along Mexico’s Pacific coast…