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California billionaire tax proposal attracts 1.5 million signatures. Here’s what happens next
California, home to the ultra-rich in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, is embroiled in a heated fight over whether to tax billionaires to fund healthcare. This week, supporters of the proposed billionaire tax began submitting nearly 1.6 million signatures, nearly twice the number needed to qualify for the November ballot. Election officials now need to verify
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GOP governor fears voter wrath for tying himself to Trump: ‘I am concerned’
Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV), one of the only Republican governors in charge of a swing state, hitched his fortunes to President Donald Trump — and now, with the tide of voters aggressively shifting against the president, he seems to be regretting it. According to Politico, “The Republican governor started the year with a sevenfold fundraising
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Lonely China
Earlier this year, one of the most popular apps in China was called Are You Dead?. This was not a game, but a handy way for the many young people who live alone across the country, mostly in cities, to keep tabs on one another. Users needed to check in with the app every 48
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Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead
While it’s seldom been known for making popular decisions that enhance the user experience, Reddit’s latest blunder just might take the cake. Despite having a perfectly functional mobile website, the self-professed “front page of the internet” has now chosen to lock users out of it completely, while pushing them toward its app. Yes, seriously: a
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Long Beach’s hottest new restaurant is an old-school pizza tavern
Families, dates, solo diners and beer nerds are lining up nearly every day to experience Mooney’s Pizza Tavern, a new Long Beach restaurant that’s big on nostalgia and Midwest comfort. The pizzas come large and piping hot, there are vintage arcade games to play in the waiting area, and for dessert, there’s house-made frozen custard.
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$600,000 worth of tools taken from Home Depot stores across SoCal
Two suspects are in custody after California authorities dismantled what investigators describe as a large-scale organized retail theft pipeline moving stolen Home Depot tools across Southern California and into resale channels for profit. The California Highway Patrol’s Southern Division Organized Retail Crime Task Force launched the investigation after tracking stolen merchandise taken from multiple Home
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The Secret Weapon Against AI Dominance
More than 90 lawsuits have been filed by creators against AI companies for copyright infringement. Authors, musicians, visual artists, and news publishers have all accused firms such as OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic of using their copyrighted works to train AI models without permission. (The Atlantic is involved in one such lawsuit, against the AI firm
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After years in comedy, Deon Cole still likes who he sees in the mirror
Deon Cole will tell anyone plainly: Not every comic wants to talk about their audience members. The longtime stand-up comedian will do some crowd work if he must. But he would much rather tell you the jokes he wrote. It’s the nature of a changing audience that is now more likely to stumble upon comedians
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Voters ‘unmoved’ by Trump shooting attempt and still reject ‘frivolous’ ballroom: report
Donald Trump’s attempt to exploit Saturday’s assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to build support for his controversial and unpopular $400 million ballroom addition has failed to move the needle, with the Washington Post reporting that voters remain “unmoved.” Despite a full court press by the president and his allies to use the
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Amanda Batula, West Wilson’s romance fallout will take center stage in ‘Summer House’ spinoff ‘In the City’
The “Summer House” spinoff, “In the City,” picked cameras back up after Amanda Batula and West Wilson’s bombshell relationship announcement. Bravo exec Frances Berwick confirmed to The Ankleron Wednesday that the upcoming series shot “a new scene” to cover the fallout of the shock romance. “’In the City,’ which launches in a couple of weeks