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One-eyed rescue cat with Long Beach cult following celebrates 15th birthday in style
1 p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text”> Elizabeth Kobliha knows her one-eyed cat Likho has more friends than she does. So much so that on his 15th birthday last Saturday , the sidewalk outside her downtown Long Beach store where he spends most of his time transformed into a makeshift fair. There were vendors selling peach cobbler, watches, hot dogs…
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Ousted GOP lawmaker hits Trump with ‘next level sequel’ to Epstein files bill
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) took to the Breaking Points podcast Thursday to promote what may be his last legislative win as a member of Congress: a follow-up to his Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), something he claimed would take efforts to expose the Trump administration’s knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein and potential co-conspirators “to the next…
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Voters want what the Democrats’ left wing offers
Warren, Mich. — It was 94 degrees outside, the heat index was over 100, and smoke from the Canadian wildfires triggered air quality alerts here in the Detroit suburbs … and yet a hodgepodge of about 20 curious voters continued to stand outside and wait. Senate Democratic primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed, the former public health official turned…
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Fuming senator puts sulky Bari Weiss hire in his place: ‘Push back on these falsehoods!’
CBS News head Bari Weiss’s handpicked evening news anchor Tony Dokoupil got an on-air tongue lashing from Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) last night after his network carried Donald Trump’s fact-challenged election fraud speech. Brought on to comment after the embattled network went ahead with covering the speech while NBC and ABC took a pass, Warner…
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Poisoned tots and other ugly consequences of Albany’s bungled weed legalization
Skyrocketing child ER admissions for marijuana poisonings are the latest sign of how poorly then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature’s leaders thought through pot legalization. The state Department of Health just reported that cannabis-poisoning-related emergency-room visits have doubled, from roughly 1,200 in 2016 to nearly 2,400 in 2024. And the rise in ER admits was…
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Fire survivors were finally ready to rebuild homes. A new barrier is leaving them ‘demoralized’
More than a year after the Eaton fire devastated their community, returning to their beloved Altadena neighborhood finally seemed within reach for Baba Singh and his family. They had secured their insurance payout, gotten rebuilding plans approved and hired a contractor. But then their mortgage company started withholding the couple’s insurance money it held in…
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Don’t give up vegetables because of the diarrhea parasite
Have you been looking at the lettuce aisle at your grocery store with a wary eye since the diarrhea outbreak began? You’re not alone. This is the summer, which should be high time for fresh produce. But the ongoing emergency has even doctors asking themselves unthinkable questions: Should I stop eating salad? Are any fruits…
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‘Right-wing fantasy’: Analyst reveals why MAGA thinks AI hallucinations are worth the risk
Forget slick campaign ads shot on film — the new weapon of choice for MAGA world is glitchy, glossy, and 100% fake, Alice Marwick wrote for The Bulwark on Friday. “By visually conjuring political talking points in an instant, genAI enables the right to bring its inflammatory rhetoric to life,” Marwick wrote. “If you can…
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30 Years Later: The 1996 Olympics Made Atlanta Bigger, But Not More Equitable
—Bongarts—Getty Images I remember watching Michael Johnson sprint around the track in Atlanta, his gold chain swinging with every stride and his gold shoes flashing under the stadium lights. To a young viewer, he seemed almost larger than life, gliding around the oval with a confidence that made the impossible look effortless. Like millions of…
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The San Andreas fault has gone ominously silent. Scientists fear when it finally snaps
It lurks ominously beneath California’s many natural wonders, a reminder that nothing in this landscape is truly permanent. It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,” the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing. But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its…