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Las Vegas’ most exciting new opening is a seafood restaurant from Mexico City
“I didn’t want to put a Contramar here,” said Gabriela Cámara, seated in the dining room of her new restaurant at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. “I didn’t believe a restaurant like Contramar can actually have a replica.” Then she proved herself wrong. Cantina Contramar, a spinoff of Contramar, the seafood-centric Mexico City restaurant she founded…
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Trump’s latest ceasefire claim implodes as Iran snubs White House
President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring about a temporary pause to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran were harshly rebuked Monday by a top Iranian official, and in spite of the president’s recent claim that Iran has “asked the United States for a ceasefire.” Al Jazeera reported Monday that Iran had outright rejected the Trump administration’s…
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Popcorn saved movie theaters a century ago. Now the industry is betting on collectible popcorn buckets
Standing in her kitchen, Nicole Fontanez let out a gasp as she cut open a cardboard box, revealing a plastic figure of Yoshi, Mario’s dinosaur-like friend. The bulky toy was holding a hollow, polka-dotted egg. Fontanez, 31, and her husband, Brian Fontanez, 36, were filming their reactions as they unveiled the newest addition to their…
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Trump just handed California Dems an overnight gift with surprise endorsement: report
Donald Trump has done the one thing California Republicans begged him not to do — and in doing so, may have handed the governor’s race to Democrats, Politico is reporting. Late Sunday night, Trump endorsed Fox News personality Steve Hilton for California governor on Truth Social, potentially delivering a fatal blow to GOP rival Chad…
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A Pro-Wrestling Show Where ICE Is the Bad Guy
If you attend a pro-wrestling show, the first thing you’ll notice is that most of the fans are wearing a T-shirt of their favorite wrestler. On March 25, the hallways of the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota, resembled an informal straw poll about All Elite Wrestling (AEW), one of the largest wrestling companies…
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In L.A. mayor’s race, everyone is campaigning on change — even the incumbent
Mayor Karen Bass has had a lengthy political career, spending six years in the state Legislature, 12 years in Congress and the last three in the top elected office at Los Angeles City Hall. Now, facing the toughest reelection battle of her career, Bass is marketing herself in a way that might surprise some Angelenos:…
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Trump hands GOP ‘political mess’ – and some Republicans nearing ‘breaking point’: report
President Donald Trump’s shifting messaging around the U.S. war against Iran has grown increasingly “difficult” to understand, Punchbowl News reported Monday in its morning newsletter, and to such a degree that it’s pushed some Republicans near a “breaking point.” “Tracking and understanding Trump right now is very difficult, especially on the Iran war,” Punchbowl News’…
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Iran vows ‘devastating and widespread’ retaliations if Trump follows through with fresh strikes
Iran on Monday vowed “much more devastating and widespread” retaliation if President Trump follows through with his threat to ramp up strikes on civilian targets. “If attacks on civilian targets are repeated, the next stages of our offensive and retaliatory operations will be much more devastating and widespread,” Iran’s central military command said in a…
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Meet the MAGA Intellectual on Hungary’s Payroll
One evening last fall, J. D. Vance threw open the doors of his home, a Queen Anne–style mansion on the campus of the U.S. Naval Observatory, to Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary. Over drinks in Vance’s study, the vice president asked Orbán for an update on life in Europe. Specifically, he wanted to…
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Coachella from the archives: A visual journey from desert experiment to global spectacle
Before the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival became a world-famous event, it started as a much more modest music festival in Southern California’s desert in 1999. During the festival, the Empire Polo Club in Indio has been the site of some of the biggest music and pop culture moments of the century, from Daft…