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California farmer and food marketer spar over who can sell white nectarines
Thousands of visitors have flocked to Cesar Mora’s farm in central California this week to gather free nectarines. He’s giving his harvest away rather than watching it rot as he’s locked in a legal battle with a company that claims exclusive rights over the variety of white nectarine he grows. He’s shared more than 100,000…
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Tesla sales surge past expectations even as BYD keeps the global EV crown
Tesla Inc.’s vehicle sales beat Wall Street’s modest expectations by a wide margin, gaining in a slower-growing global market for plug-in cars. The Elon Musk-led company delivered 480,126 vehicles worldwide in the second quarter, a 25% jump from the year-earlier period and trouncing the average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg for fewer than 400,000.…
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale Are in for ‘Heat 2,’ Filming Starts in November | Exclusive
”Heat 2” is heating up. After a year of difficult negotiations, Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio are set to star in Michael Mann’s sequel, which will start shooting in November, four individuals with knowledge of the production told TheWrap. Bale will play Vincent Hanna, the dogged LAPD Robbery Homicide detective played by Al Pacino in…
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Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start
Negotiations between Google DeepMind and its London-based employees over the possibility of unionization stumbled this week, after initial talks left union representatives feeling they had wasted their time, WIRED has learned. In May, DeepMind employees asked Google to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives. The company later denied that…
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Thousands of California driving licenses under threat of cancellation after DMV sends ominous letter out
More than 11,000 California drivers are being forced to retake the state’s dreaded written DMV exam after officials uncovered mysterious “irregularities” tied to their original tests — or risk having their license yanked. The California Department of Motor Vehicles sent an ominous warning out to drivers who had already passed their exams between July 2025…
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Inside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s rehearsal dinner: From pink decor to sentimental moments
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce celebrated their rehearsal dinner with 100 of their closest family and friends in a venue adorned with pink carpeting and chandeliers. “Guests ate, drank and hung out on a pink carpet,” a spy told Page Six of the rehearsal dinner — which took place at the Infosys Theater inside Madison…
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Man Vanishes After Mysterious Experiments With Quantum Physics
The headline practically writes itself. A 78-year-old man, whose friend told law enforcement had been working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on quantum physics experiments related to the question of “matter existing in two places simultaneously,” has mysteriously gone missing. Countless netizens deployed their tinfoil hats after Anthony Chavez, a retired HVAC technician who…
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Everything New on HBO Max in July 2026
HBO Max is a little lighter on TV premieres in July, with megahit “House of the Dragon” holding down the signature HBO Sunday night slot through the month and into early August. However, the streamer has a couple of must-watch recent film releases hitting this month, along with a reliable roster of library titles from…
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How Dodgers’ Max Muncy, vying for his third All-Star selection, continues to evolve
As Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy moved fluidly through a chopper at the edge of Camelback Ranch’s infield grass and made a running throw to first, his offseason work started to snap into place. He wasn’t thinking about the angle he took to the ball, or how to get into the right position to throw…
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Harrowing details emerge after SoCal bouncer fired taser into man’s face at point-blank range
A Carlsbad bar patron is “very lucky” that a bouncer’s stunning point-blank tasershot at his face didn’t “substantially injure” him, prosecutors said Thursday. Both of the taser’s probes hit 21-year-old Robert Pulito’s left eye, leaving him writhing in pain on the ground, according to video of the attack. The bouncer, David Marquez, shot Pulito after…