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‘Not acceptable’: CNN panel shuts down stuttering conservative as he tries to defend ICE
A CNN panel exploded into argument on Friday morning, after conservative Terry Schilling defended the ICE actions under scrutiny regarding the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. Schilling opened with a disparaging response to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who threatened legal action over the shooting. “Game on,” he said. “You want to sue over…
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The Rosenberg Boys
For those old enough to remember, Michael and Robby Meeropol will always be the Rosenberg boys. I never knew them as such, but it’s not hard to imagine what they were like, in part because there are so many pictures. In one, from June 1953, they are sitting outside the White House in shirts and…
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Nail salon owner charged with scheme that bilked fellow Vietnamese immigrants
In the San Fernando Valley’s tight-knit Vietnamese community, Thien “Kim” Nguyen was known as a successful entrepreneur. She ran a nail salon in Canoga Park and spoke of dabbling in lucrative sidelines — a car dealership, an import-export business, real estate investments, according to Hua Ma, a San Fernando Valley resident who went into business…
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Trump blitzed by Wall Street Journal for ‘destroying US jobs and raising prices’
President Donald Trump’s boast on Truth Social that his tariff war spurred Toyota to move its Tacoma truck manufacturing operations to the U.S. was drowned in derision by the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal this week. The conservative WSJ board on Thursday rained on Trump’s parade by pointing out that the manufacturing move…
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Los Angeles hotels saved by last-minute surge in World Cup bookings
After showing worryingly weak early interest, World Cup fans showed up at the last minute to boost Los Angeles hotel occupancy and room rates. As the last tournament game in Los Angeles is on Friday, hotels popular with soccer fans say they are full and charging higher rates. In early May, the American Hotel and…
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‘Beyond a lie’: JD Vance slammed by fact-checker over ‘shameless’ speech
Vice President J.D. Vance has been called out for a speech — the one the White House accidentally dubbed as “dumb” — by a fact-checker who argued it was something much worse. The Daily Beast’s Michael Daly argued Friday morning that Vance’s recent speech about convicted fraudster Markita Barnes was also deeply misleading. “He went…
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Michael Saylor’s recent Bitcoin sales are a worry for crypto investors
You can add another brick to the “wall of worry” facing the $2.27 trillion crypto market – and it has “Michael Saylor” written all over it. Saylor runs a company called Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy. It was a software company that under Saylor’s leadership has been transformed into what crypto types call a major…
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‘Little House on the Prairie’ returns – a look back at all the scandals
Not so wholesome. “Little House on the Prairie” is back with a new Netflix show, now streaming. The original ’70s series had the ultimate family-friendly image — but behind the scenes, the cast of the classic show was embroiled in several scandals. Based on the popular book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder (published in the…
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The Tech Bro-ification of Marketing
—Bakal—Getty Images Scroll through LinkedIn, and you will find a flurry of new job listings with curious titles: “Narrative Engineer”, “UGC Engineer”, “Media Engineer.” At first glance, they sound like entirely new disciplines. Look closer, and they feel suspiciously familiar. As someone who has built a decade-long career in the marketing industry, I wondered: Why…
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Twice the stink! Two rare corpse flowers at the Huntington are set to bloom
Get ready to catch a whiff of stink. Not one, but two rare corpse flowers are set to bloom at the Huntington in the coming days, with one of them making its first-ever public bloom. If both plants unfurl on the same day, it would be just the second time a double bloom has ever…