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Does a retiree without dependents need life insurance?
Dear Liz: I am a retired, debt-free veteran who is 68. I am grappling with whether I should continue to pay premiums of $25,000 annually for the next seven years on an indexed universal life policy. I bought it based on advice from a local financial advisor who is not a certified financial planner but…
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What’s in your weed now? Search our database and find out
Two years after we published our Dirty Weed series, we wanted to know if the cannabis products sold at licensed dispensaries in California have gotten any cleaner. We bought 49 inhalable products from dispensaries and delivery services across the state and had them tested at three state-licensed labs: Anresco Laboratories, Infinite Chemical Analysis Labs and…
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Flurry of calls from deep-pocketed donors imperils JD Vance’s potential 2028 bid: WSJ
Some of the Republican Party’s wealthiest donors are already turning away from Vice President JD Vance after Tuesday’s midterm massacre, according to a new report from a known conservative outlet. Within 24 hours of the election, a veteran New York fundraiser began fielding calls from deep-pocketed donors who all had the same complaint: “we can’t…
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Fears for hero Polish cop who took down Krakow mass shooter and then collapsed
Heart-pounding footage captured the moment a hero Polish cop took down a mass shooter who killed six people in Krakowâs historic market square Saturday in what officials are calling a terror attack, according to reports. Harrowing video shows two officers confront the 24-year-old gunman â who also allegedly murdered his parents and sister at their…
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Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl stylist warns against her participating in Justin Timberlake doc
Just say no to Justin Timberlake. Janet Jackson’s former stylist, Wayne Scot Lukas, is warning against her appearing in the former *NSYNC singer’s upcoming Apple TV docuseries. “I’m disappointed because she’s cooler, and she’s smarter, and knows better, so I don’t know if she is going to be in it,” he told Page Six in…
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New deadline for phaseout of gas water heaters gives Bay Area homeowners one more year
Bay Area air regulators voted 16-1 Wednesday to delay the state’s first phaseout of gas water heaters by a year and let up to half of property owners who replace one skip the switch to electric heat pumps. The rule, adopted in 2023, does not require anyone to replace a working water heater. But starting…
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Senator threatens new Trump probe after Chinese spy bombshell: ‘Congress will get answers’
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) is promising that Congress will dig into the Trump administration’s ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, after a New York Times report that a Chinese businesswoman close to Huang was an asset of Beijing’s top spy agency. “The more I learn about the insane relationship between the Trump Administration, Chinese spies,…
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Inside Nithya Raman’s improbable campaign for L.A. mayor
The first volunteers gathered in the back house of Nithya Raman’s Silver Lake home with little besides a whiteboard counting down the number of days until the June 2 primary election. Raman had jumped into the Los Angeles mayor’s race the day before, right at the Feb. 7 filing deadline. Her campaign didn’t have an…
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Trump ‘would leer and snicker’ as his dad showed half-naked photo to young child: report
Mary Trump says her grandfather, Fred Trump Sr., used to show her a picture of a half-naked young woman when she was a child, and that her uncle Donald sometimes joined in. Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and longtime critic of the president, shared the story in the latest installment of her “Trump Family Horror”…
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Small plane hits truck during heart-pounding emergency landing on busy Florida highway, wild video shows
Wild video shows the moment a small plane clipped a truck as it made an emergency landing on a Florida highway.Wild video shows the moment a small plane clipped a truck as it made an emergency landing on a Florida highway. Two pilots were in onboard aircraft when they experienced a mechanical issue and made…