The Joan Didion many people know is constructed from a few artifacts the real writer left behind when she died in 2021. There’s her much-imitated (and sometimes parodied) 1967 essay “Goodbye to All That,” about leaving New York. There’s the packing list enumerated in her essay “The White Album,” written between 1968 and 1978, which […]
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Those who try to downplay Balaji’s importance in Silicon Valley often portray him as a “clown.” But Donald Trump taught us that clowns can be dangerous, especially those with proximity to influence and power. In the nearly eleven years since his secession speech at Y Combinator, Balaji’s politics have become even more stridently authoritarian and […]
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All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]
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All in all, the indictment charges 18 individuals, some of whose names have been redacted, with orchestrating a scheme to use fake electors to flip Arizona’s 2020 election results over to Trump. It also names Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator. All of the indicted individuals are facing the same slew of charges, which includes counts […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty All current death penalty cases in one northern California county were ordered reviewed after the revelation of a racist and antisemitic scandal that targeted inmates who were Black and Jewish. Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced Monday that her office had been directed by a federal […]
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Tesla is expected to report on Tuesday that it made less money in the first three months of the year because of its tepid car sales, reinforcing concern among investors that the company led by Elon Musk is losing ground in the market for electric vehicles. A slump in earnings was seen as inevitable after […]
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In her three decades of working with elephant seals, Dr. Marcela Uhart had never seen anything like the scene on the beaches of Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula last October. It was peak breeding season; the beach should have been teeming with harems of fertile females and enormous males battling one another for dominance. Instead, it was […]
Read MoreGreedy Toyota Dealers Slap 2024 Land Cruiser With Ridiculous Markups Up To $21,000 | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Californians beware, some dealerships are asking nearly $100,000 for the 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser First Edition 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Excitement for the 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser is high, and dealers are cashing in. Despite […]
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Three years after police officers in Northern California pinned a man face down for about five minutes as he begged for relief, prosecutors announced that the officers would face charges of involuntary manslaughter in the man’s death. The charges against Eric McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy, all with the Alameda Police Department at the […]
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The document filed on Wednesday at Britain’s corporate registrar, Companies House, was just a few lines long. But its purpose was to formally update the country of residency for one “Prince Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex” — otherwise known as Prince Harry. For years, Harry and his American wife, Meghan, have considered California […]
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Consumers have grown accustomed to the prospect that their personal data, such as email addresses, social contacts, browsing history and genetic ancestry, are being collected and often resold by the apps and the digital services they use. With the advent of consumer neurotechnologies, the data being collected is becoming ever more intimate. One headband serves […]
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For years, the women housed at the low-security federal prison in Northern California said they were victims of sexual assault at the hands of staff. There were harrowing accounts of rape, sexual touching and voyeurism at the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin. Some inmates said they were forced to strip naked, while others recounted being made […]
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On Thursday, the world was shocked to hear that decorated NFL star and infamous pop culture figure O.J. Simpson died. Snowfall Season 6 Is Our TV Pick of The Week Off English As previously reported by The Root, Simpson passed away due to cancer at the age of 76. But the news of his death […]
Read MoreCalifornia Mom Sues Tesla After 2-Year-Old Started Model X And Hit Her | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> A two-year-old was allegedly able to start a Model X and run over his pregnant mother. She calls it a design flaw, Tesla blames her for negligence 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Mallory Harcourt alleges that in […]
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The dean of Berkeley’s law school is known as a staunch supporter of free speech, but things became personal for him when pro-Palestinian students disrupted a celebratory dinner party for some 60 students at his home. In a viral video, Erwin Chemerinsky, a noted constitutional scholar, can be seen shouting “Please leave our house! You […]
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It was 1:53 a.m., and Peter Fink was on a barren mountain plateau near Campo, Calif., passing out blankets to people from four continents who had arrived there under the cover of night. This was a nocturnal ritual for the 22-year-old, dressed in a ball cap and a wool overshirt, whose perch — just over […]
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Tesla on Monday settled a lawsuit that blamed the automaker’s driver-assistance software for the death of a California man in 2018, averting a trial that would have focused attention on the company’s technology several months before it plans to unveil a self-driving taxi. The trial stemming from the death of Wei Lun Huang, an Apple […]
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A brutish granite ridge soared above us in the moonlight. The snow that should not have been there in July seemed to go on forever. We were already short of breath, and weirdly, there were almost no other hikers. Even though I had trained for this, I felt stupidly out of my depth. We were […]
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Control of the U.S. House of Representatives, at this point in the election cycle, is anybody’s guess. Right now, the House is divided by just one or two votes, with Republicans clinging to the slimmest of majorities. The Democratic Party is similarly fighting to keep control of the Senate, where it has a one-seat majority. […]
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The weirdness of Kennedy’s base—Reagan Republicans and environmentalists holding hands with anti-vaxxers—makes it difficult to assess precisely what type of spoiler he is. With RFK on the ballot, a March Harvard CAPS-Harris poll found, Trump’s lead increases over Biden by 1 point. Trump scored 44 percent to Biden’s 37 percent, while Kennedy raked in 18 […]
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The weirdness of Kennedy’s base—Reagan Republicans and environmentalists holding hands with anti-vaxxers—makes it difficult to assess precisely what type of spoiler he is. With RFK on the ballot, a March Harvard CAPS-Harris poll found, Trump’s lead increases over Biden by 1 point. Trump scored 44 percent to Biden’s 37 percent, while Kennedy raked in 18 […]
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The Sierra Nevada in California was so bereft of snow in December that skiers and farmers alike worried that a disappointing winter was sure to give way to a drought-ridden spring and summer. Then came a deluge in subsequent months, enough to bring the state back to a normal snowfall level and then some, state […]
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Newly released footage and audio recordings from a vehicle pursuit in September 2022 show that a 15-year-old girl who had been kidnapped by her father was fatally shot by gunfire from deputies as she followed their instructions to exit her father’s truck. The girl, Savannah Graziano, was fatally shot on Sept. 27, 2022, off Interstate […]
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A portion of Highway 1 in the Big Sur area of California collapsed over the weekend, stranding about 2,000 motorists, most of them tourists, overnight. Officials with the California Department of Transportation said on the X platform that a section of the highway, from Lime Creek to the north and Limekiln to the south, would […]
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Shohei Ohtani’s powerful arms and boyish face, looking up from under a Dodger blue helmet, loom 15 stories over Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo neighborhood from the side of the Miyako Hotel. Unveiled late March, it’s one of many tributes to baseball’s two-way supernova that have appeared across Los Angeles since he signed with the Dodgers […]
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But the singular defense only made Clark more combative as the hearing went on. At one point, he accused the hearing’s lead investigator, Hamilton Fox, of attempting to humiliate him, reported Politico. Clark stands accused of attempting to engage in dishonest conduct on behalf of Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. That […]
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