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Atty. Gen. Bonta says evidence reveals how Amazon pressured Levi’s, other retailers to hike prices
Amazon wanted to sell Levi’s Easy Khaki Classic pants for $29.99, but Walmart had lowered the price, and the giant online retailer had matched it at $25.47 to $26.99. So Amazon contacted Levi Strauss about two “styles of concern,” asking the San Francisco apparel company to convince Walmart to raise its price, according to a…
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Nearly a dozen senators issue Hegseth short deadline to answer for ‘troubling allegations’
Nearly a dozen Democratic senators issued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a two-week deadline to provide answers for a series of “troubling allegations,” including that cuts to civilian harm prevention programs under his leadership may have contributed to at least 1,700 civilian deaths. The demand was issued in the form of a letter, signed off on…
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Tom Hooper to Direct Millie Bobby Brown in Netflix’s ‘Nineteen Steps’ Adaptation
Millie Bobby Brown, despite recently leaving the biopic “Perfect” for the streamer, is still very much in the Netflix business. Tom Hooper, director of the Oscar-winning “The King’s Speech” and “Les Misérables,” is set to helm an adaptation of “Nineteen Steps” (based on a bestselling novel she wrote with Kathleen McGurl), which is set to…
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Smartphone pickpockets can easily block access lost device location tools — here’s the hack to stop them
Keep this tip in your back pocket instead of your phone. Getting your phone stolen can feel especially daunting since we now use our phones for everything — plane tickets, hotel room keys, credit cards and so on. Pickpockets snagging your phone can throw your whole trip off, not to mention the risk of dropping…
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The Advent of Fare-Gate Society
Vandals have done some senseless stuff on Bay Area Rapid Transit. They have removed the fire extinguishers from the station walls and sprayed them all over the place, for example. But what particularly vexed Alicia Trost, the chief communications officer for the train system that connects San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, was their destruction…
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NASA Shuts Down Voyager 1 Instrument as Its Life Force Fades
NASA’s Voyager 1 has survived nearly 50 years and a light-day of travel from Earth — but in the end, there’s no question that a deadly combination of entropy and 1970s technology will eventually spell its doom. With the intrepid little space probe running low on power, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory made the…
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Man kills 8 children and shoots his wife and another woman in Louisiana
SHREVEPORT, La. — A Louisiana man who fatally shot seven of his children and another child in an attack against his family was in the middle of separating from his wife, who also was shot and wounded, a relative said. The violence that unfolded early Sunday across two houses in Shreveport, La., was one of the nation’s…
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Trump ‘barely seems to understand what’s going on’ with war he launched: columnist
President Donald Trump seems strangely checked out of the war he started against Iran, according to a new column. The ceasefire appears likely to collapse ahead of Wednesday’s deadline amid ongoing tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, but The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger argued the 79-year-old president seemingly lacks even the most basic understanding of the…
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D4vd charged with murder in slaying of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez
Los Angeles County prosecutors formally charged David Anthony Burke — the 21-year-old music star better known as D4vd — with murder on Monday in the killing of a 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose badly decomposed body was found in the trunk of a car in Hollywood last Summer. Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said D4vd repeatedly…
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GOP warns Trump might be acting out of humiliation, following embarrassing WSJ report
GOP analyst Sarah Longwell issued a dark warning on a Bulwark podcast episode after the Wall Street Journal published details about President Donald Trump’s response to Iran shooting down an American fighter jet on Good Friday. According to the report, Trump’s aides kept him out of the room during critical moments of the airman rescue…