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Trump is attacking California’s ability to protect its coastline. The consequences are ‘chilling’
For months, the Trump administration has sought to open the California coast to a radically industrialized future: large-scale desalination plants, floating nuclear reactors, more rocket launches and expanded offshore oil drilling along the state’s most iconic beaches. Holding the line against all this is a little-known but longstanding federal law, the Coastal Zone Management Act,…
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‘Problem of Mr. Trump’s making’: Expert reveals how tariffs torpedoed favorite pet project
President Donald Trump the developer was undermined by his worst enemy — President Donald Trump the trade warrior, according to a new report. Trump’s desire to get the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington renovated before July 4th ran ran headlong into one of his major policy initiatives and led to disaster on the Mall,…
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Scientists debunk long-held myth about the most famous animal extinction — turning Darwin’s theory on its head
They weren’t the bird brain they were billed as. Once seen as synonymous with stupidity, the dodo bird was actually not as dumb as depicted — and could’ve been as smart as a modern pigeon. The flightless bird’s underrated intelligence was detailed in a study published in a zoological journal. “Our findings challenge the longstanding stereotype…
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Burbank is more than Bob’s Big Boy. How the city found a solution to downtown doom
A Burbank landlord trying to land a trendy ice cream shop tenant got a critical assist from the city that helped seal the deal. When a Van Leeuwen Ice Cream representative came to look at his space in the center of downtown Burbank in April, a senior city official was there to help woo the…
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Fast fashion is terrible for the planet. Can wardrobe cataloging apps help?
The influencers have started to promise me that they know how to get me to stop shopping: I just have to enter every garment of clothing I own into an app, one by one. “I digitally cataloged my ENTIRE wardrobe,” they swear on videos, routinely pulling in hundreds of thousands of views. The selling point…
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‘But they’re worse’: GOP midterm playbook revealed to yank spotlight off Trump
Republicans appear to have given up trying to defend President Donald Trump ahead of the midterm elections. Their first-ever midterm convention will shift the spotlight away from Trump in a desperate bid to sell the public on the GOP, according to a new Axios report. “With President Trump’s approval rating in the 30s and his…
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How Kelly Clarkson helped kids navigate ‘incredibly emotional’ loss of Brandon Blackstock one year after his death
Kelly Clarkson has spent the year helping her two young children navigate the death of her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, after a battle with skin cancer. “It’s been an incredibly emotional year for Kelly and the kids,” a source exclusively told Page Six of the singer and her daughter, River, 12, and son, Remington “Remy,” 10.…
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Insurance commissioner candidates split key endorsements
State Sen. Ben Allen and former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim have split key endorsements, setting up a tight race for California’s next insurance commissioner. Allen, (D-Santa Monica), who represents the Pacific Palisades neighborhood severely damaged in the January 2025 firestorm, received the coveted endorsement last weekend of the California Democratic Party. Kim, who led…
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‘Trump took a major hit’: MAGA lawmakers’ defeat called public ‘humiliation’ for president
The stunning defeat of a MAGA incumbent endorsed by President Donald Trump just doubled down on his public humiliation, analysts said Friday. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) lost his reelection bid to Charlie Hatcher, a former dairy farmer backed by establishment Republicans, in the primary for his state’s 5th Congressional District and sent shockwaves through the…
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Iran Goes Looking for Love in Jordan
In late July, Iran struck a U.S. military base in Jordan, killing three American service members. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps followed up with an unusual series of messages to the Jordanian people: “You know well that we have no hostility toward your country,” the IRGC declared in a statement published on Iran’s Fars News…