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West Hollywood faces long recovery from massive water main break: ‘It was like whitewater rapids’
Tadeh Ghazalian, owner of Dialog Cafe, a family business of 20 years, is struggling in the wake of the water main breakon Sunset Bouelvard. His entire store is completely closed, facing structural damage, food and product loss and a complete wipeout of their inventory. “The biggest thing is that there is so much water, there’s…
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Speed kills — but a new study reveals that’s not the only downside to driving too fast
Speeding is a waste of time. Minnesota researchers have proved there’s no “need for speed” after finding that driving too fast saves less than 60 seconds, per a rubber-burning study published in the Nature journal Communications Sustainability. “If your goal is to shave one minute off your time, then you’ve got to drive fast,’ snarked…
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Overdose or homicide? LAPD detective claims he was ordered not to investigate girl’s death
A veteran LAPD narcotics detective is suing the city of L.A., claiming he faced retaliation from supervisors and fellow officers after he refused to stop investigating a young woman’s suspicious death. Alexander Tan alleged in his lawsuit, filed July 7 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, that his unwillingness to go along with a “coordinated…
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Hiring a hit man to commit murder is not always ‘a crime of violence,’ 9th Circuit rules
Hiring a hit man is not a crime of violence, even in cases where the killer fulfills his contract and his employer is convicted in the conspiracy, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week. In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel vacated two felony convictions that stemmed from a pair of contract killings…
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Family Horrified When They’re Forced to Sell Their Beloved Home to Make Way for AI Data Centers
Like a tornado descending from the heavens, data centers are tearing through homes across the US, roaring like a jet engine, leaving schools without power, and decimating entire communities unlucky enough to stand in their path. Case in point, one Georgia family has been forced to sell their home, after the state utility concern decided…
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‘Egregious’ Trump pardons blasted as rapper demands refund from MAGA ‘lobbyist goofballs’
Rapper Boosie Badazz’ demand for a $600,000 refund from MAGA operatives he thought could secure him a Trump administration pardon spurred roars of laughter at Talking Points Memo Saturday morning. Writers Allegra Kirkland and Emine Yücel reveled in the news that two “wannabe lobbyist goofballs” — Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman — are now in…
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Egyptian terror group claimed responsibility for downing TWA Flight 800 off Long Island in 1996, new FBI records reveal
A terror group from Egypt told the FBI it was responsible for downing TWA Flight 800 and killing all 230 people aboard, according to newly surfaced FBI records featured in a new documentary marking the 30th anniversary of the tragedy. An explosive claim buried in a trove of newly obtained Freedom of Information Act documents…
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No phone, water bottles or Uggs: Inside the intense sets of Christopher Nolan — and the most epic scenes from ‘The Odyssey’
“The Odyssey” director Christopher Nolan runs a tight warship. And it’s expected to earn his film as much as $100 million this opening weekend, as fans made their own epic journeys — even flying across the country — to see it in IMAX. Bringing Homer’s 8th-century epic poem to the big screen meant actors — including…
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What Lionel Messi Sees
Lionel Messi on the soccer field takes the short, trotty steps of a dachshund in the park. Such diminutive, mincy movements are part of his mystique: He gives opponents absolutely no reason whatsoever to track his runty, 5-foot-7 figure, right up until he bolts away and suddenly tears open the grass in front of him.…
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Huge omissions in Trump’s petty little speech snowball it into his most important ever
We have all become so hypnotized, desensitized, bored, angered, and abused by President Donald Trump that at this point, it’s far more productive to point to what Trump won’t do, won’t say, than all he will. On Thursday evening, Trump meant to bring the country to a standstill with a presidential address, something normally reserved…