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The U.S. Open, one of golf's most fearsome tests, is headed into its final round at Los Angeles Country Club.Although the course has sometimes seemed more forgiving than past Open venues, any championship round has the potential to become excruciating especially when the final round starts with a tie atop the leaderboard.

FORT LAUDERDALE - A deal is a deal, right?Not always.In the case of Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beckham United, a snazzy pink and gray stadium now sits on taxpayer-owned land, but residents are still waiting on a long-promised public park.The park, a carrot in the deal the soccer club owners negotiated with the city, was supposed to open a year ago.

On this Bloomsday, it's time to marinate in Mariners hate, as the Sox slump into Seattle licking their wounds like Bloom on the beach.There is nothing Joycean about this season, no epic of the single day, even though each game seems to spread out into a stream-of-consciousness flow of frustration, lingering and unspooling unto loss after loss after loss.

Few teams have historically been run as poorly as the Toronto Maple Leafs.The Toronto Maple Leafs have seen many players come and go through the years.It always stings when someone they had within the organization develops well beyond expectations, only it's with another franchise.This has been the case too many times in the organization's very long history.

Tyler Herro is younger and cheaper than Bradley Beal, but should the Miami Heat trade him to make the most of Jimmy Butler's window anyway?Another summer, another round of trade rumors involving Bradley Beal and Tyler Herro.Both guards have been the subject of trade chatter for the last several years but, this time, it appears a move is likely to happen.

The new PS5 handheld was finally revealed at the latest PlayStation Showcase, and fans aren't happy.For months speculation has mounted and last night Sony shared the design of its handheld, codenamed Project Q, and it was a little underwhelming.Sony has a long history of trying and failing to dominate the handheld sector as it does the home console market.

This week, we chat with Melanie Piana, the mayor of Ferndale, Mich, about her city's Woodward Avenue road diet, its bike plans, and how parking is part of too many urban issues.If you want to read rather than hear, check out the full unedited transcript here.Or you can read the edited transcript below the audio player:
Jeff Wood: Well let's talk about the Woodward in the room.

No, you're not seeing things.Cracker Barrel, a Southern restaurant chain that has come under fire for discrimination and lack of inclusivity in the past, is celebrating Pride this June.Some of the restaurant chain's iconic rocking chairs might be sporting a rainbow, part of a new campaign to bring "the front porch to Pride."
"We are excited to celebrate Pride Month with our employees and guests.

Colin Cowherd, the host of The Herd on Fox Sports 1, proposed a trade involving the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns on his show Thursday afternoon.Cowherd's trade proposal involved the Celtics sending starting point guard Marcus Smart to the Suns for Chris Paul.The proposal is a laughably bad one, and the Cs should not listen to Cowherd under any circumstance.

The guest, Steve Milloy, works for a nonprofit that is funded by the coal industry.In the middle of the afternoon, smoke from Canadian forest fires blankets the skyline of New York City, June 7, 2023, as seen from Brooklyn, New York.Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images As unprecedented, climate change-fueled wildfires in Canada are resulting in record-breaking pollution in cities and towns across the U.S., marking not only a climate event but also a major public health event, a coal-funded lawyer went on Fox News on Wednesday night to spread a particularly dangerous lie: that breathing wildfire smoke doesn't have any negative health effects.

The U.S. soon could witness "the most substantial Pride celebrations in recent memory," one bill tracker said.People chant during a protest at the Texas State Capitol on April 20, 202,3 in Austin, Texas.Community members and activists rallied together in protest against numerous anti-LGBTQIA+ and drag bills being proposed in the legislature.Brandon Bell / Getty Images Several different legislative trackers have noted that, in the first five months of this year leading up to Pride Month, which began on June 1, hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills have been proposed in statehouses across the country, with dozens of them passing.

Environmental advocates said the decision poses an "existential threat" to tens of millions of acres of wetlands.Aerial drone views of snake-like rivers and marshes in low country tidal areas of South Carolina.Visions of America / Joseph Sohm / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Supreme Court issued a ruling on Thursday that severely curtails the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) ability to regulate water pollution in the latest of the far right justices' crusade against environmental regulations.

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio in front of the Versailles Restaurant in Miami, Florida, on September 13, 2022.Pedro Portal / Miami Herald / Tribune News Service via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump famously refused to condemn white supremacists and told members of the neo-fascist Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by" during a 2020 presidential debate.

In the chaotic orbit of the internet, it's hard to predict what will go viral.But when Emily Ziemski, food editor of the culinary lifestyle website , created a dirty martini-inspired salad dressing recipe earlier this year, she and her colleagues suspected it might strike a chord with readers."There's something about this, people are going to glom onto it," she remembers them saying.

If you spend a lot of time in natural wine shopsor with people who frequent themyou've probably heard someone mention co-fermentation.This ancient technique is increasingly popular with winemakers, especially those who favor minimum-intervention approaches.Co-fermentation isn't limited to the natural wine community, nor is it the only tool in all winemakers' arsenals.

It's important for today's lenders to be as agile, efficient and scalable as possible to adapt to consumer preferences and fast-changing market conditions.Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology is the industry's most complete end-to-end solution that provides the flexibility and configurability needed to deliver a next-generation lending experience for every channel, all from a single system of record.

A federal jury in Manhattan on Tuesday found former President Donald J. Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll, who had accused him of rape.In the hours that followed, Mr. Trump continued to criticize the case.This is another scam, Mr. Trump said in a video posted on his Truth Social platform, one of a series of posts that continued into Wednesday morning.

After initially declining to answer if Noah Syndergaard would make his next start, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts confirmed the right-hander will take the mound on Wednesday against the Cincinnati Reds.The Dodgers elected to stick with Syndergaard in the starting rotation after evaluating other candidates and taking into account Julio Urías, Dustin May and Ryan Pepiot remain on the injured list
"Just trying to continue to bet on him and also looking at the guys that we have on the IL, the potential alternatives, I think netting it out, this made the most sense," Roberts said of the decision to give Syndergaard another start.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have taken plenty of fliers on high-upside relief pitchers over the recent seasons, and this year has been no different.Over the past several months they have already brought in J.P. Feyereisen, Alex Reyes, Shelby Miller and Jimmy Nelson to join a pair of injured relievers in Blake Treinen and Daniel Hudson, who were already on the roster.

Several people who attended concerts by the German band Rammstein have come forward describing a system whereby young female fans are recruited to have sex with the shock rockers' lead singer, Till Lindemann, during and after their shows, following one fan's allegation that her drink had been spiked at an afterparty in Vilnius last month.

(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times )

An Orange County man was acquitted Thursday of charges of igniting the massive Holy fire that ripped through Cleveland National Forest in 2018, scorching over 23,000 acres and destroying 24 structures.A jury acquitted Forrest Clark, 56, of three felony counts of arson in connection with the fire, which raged through Orange and Riverside counties.

The UK government should back the establishment of an international anti-corruption court to prosecute corrupt leaders of countries unwilling or unable to enforce their own anti-kleptocracy laws, according to Lord Hain, the former Foreign Office minister.With cross-party support, Hain will propose that the time has come for Britain to throw its weight behind the growing global momentum for an international court, analogous to the international criminal court in The Hague.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has launched an investigation into a memo claiming that the captain overseeing the troubled East L.A. station allegedly schemed to give valued detective bureau positions to Latinos to avoid promoting an "angry Black" sergeant.According to several pages of the January memo reviewed by The Times, Capt.

Stephen Strasburg has thrown just 31⅓ innings since being named the 2019 World Series MVP.(Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) When Stephen Strasburg threw the last of his 104 pitches and Chip Hale - the bench coach filling in for ejected manager Dave Martinez - came to retrieve the ball in the ninth inning of Game 6 of the 2019 World Series, the Washington Nationals were finally and inarguably his.

India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, had been scheduled soon to inaugurate the latest in a series of new high-speed trains highlighting his government's expanded infrastructure investment.Instead, he arrived on Saturday at the devastating scene of the country's deadliest rail disaster in decades.At least 261 people were killed and about 900 others injured on Friday night in what officials in a preliminary government report described as a three-way accident involving two passenger trains and one freight train in the eastern state of Odisha.

SCHOHARIE, N.Y.It was a staggering and seemingly incomprehensible tragedy: a Saturday afternoon limo ride gone terribly wrong, leaving 20 people dead, including a large group of young friends and relatives headed to a birthday party.On Wednesday, the operator of the company that rented out that vehicle a 31-foot-long, five-ton 2001 Ford Excursion stretch limousine was found guilty on 20 counts of second-degree manslaughter in the October 2018 accident.

A Florida fifth-grade teacher is under investigation by the state Board of Education after screening a Disney movie for her students.The film in question, Strange World, is a sci-fi story featuring a diverse cast of animated characters, one of whom happens to be gay.A minor subplot of the film refers to this character having a crush on another character of the same sex.

Russian nationalist commentators said Tuesday that the first mass drone attack to strike Moscow highlights the government's inability to prepare the population for a prolonged conflict that is steadily crossing the nation's borders.The flurry of drones that targeted the Russian capital on Tuesday morning caused minimal damage, shattering some windows in three residential buildings and lightly injuring two residents, according to local officials.

Russian nationalist commentators said Tuesday that the first mass drone attack to strike Moscow highlights the government's inability to prepare the population for a prolonged conflict that is steadily crossing the nation's borders.The flurry of drones that targeted the Russian capital on Tuesday morning caused minimal damage, shattering some windows in three residential buildings and lightly injuring two residents, according to local officials.

A Chinese government envoy will visit Ukraine and Russia next week in an attempt to help negotiate an end to the war, a Chinese government spokesman said on Friday.China had announced its intention to send the official, Li Hui the government's special representative for Eurasian affairs after a phone call last month between its top leader, Xi Jinping, and Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

A new storm forecast to be the strongest to hit Myanmar in more than a decade is expected to make landfall near the Bangladesh border on Sunday, raising the prospect of a major humanitarian disaster.The storm, Cyclone Mocha, formed over the southern Bay of Bengal on Thursday and has already started drenching western Myanmar as it churned northeast on Friday, with heavy rain, strong winds and storm surges forecast to continue through Sunday, according to the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System.

Just eight months after the first-ever combined Trail World Championships and World Mountain Running Championships were held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, athletes are gearing up to go again - as the 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships head to the Tyrolean Alps, and the joint host venues of Innsbruck and Stubai, Austria.

First it was Michael Winger, then it was the clearing of the assistant coaching staff, now it's Travis Schlenk.The Washington Wizards have most definitely been aggressive this offseason as they have been reported to be.This is following the news that Schlenk, the Former President of Basketball Operations for the Atlanta Hawks, has signed with the Wizards to be Vice President of Player Personnel.

1. A federal judge has ruled that border agents must obtain a warrant before searching someone's cell phone or other electronic device.
2. This ruling is an important step towards protecting individuals' privacy rights in the digital age.
3. The decision has the potential to be a landmark ruling in establishing

A 40-year-old Los Angeles man has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault, and police are seeking the public's help in identifying additional victims.Terrance Hawkins was arrested in downtown Los Angeles on April 26 and was booked on multiple counts of forcible rape, intimate partner violence, and stalking, according to an advisory issued by the Los Angeles Police Department.

Nothing pricks up the ears around these parts quite like hearing about a hidden bar opening up in London.If you thought speakeasy joints were reserved for the prohibition era, think again - there are sneaky bars dotted around the city and, for London Craft Week, the secret is being spilled on the latest opening.

Ads for alcohol brand Litty Liquor have been banned for featuring the under-25-year-old rapper ArrDee and encouraging excessive and irresponsible drinking.Two Instagram posts from the Litty Liquor account in December featured photos of ArrDee in a distillery surrounded by bottles of spiced rum.A third post featured a video of ArrDee in an empty nightclub, trying and rejecting two unidentified brands of rum before he was shown in a distillery mixing liquids, making notes, and testing the results until he was happy.

Realtor.com "Cottagecore" isn't just a hot design trend that elevates all things cozy.It will also soon be the reality for one lucky buyer who snags this historic potter's cottage at 299 Great Hollow Rd., listed in late April for $1,595,000.Outfitted with a modern kitchen, four spacious bedrooms, 3.5 baths, and two Juliet balconies, the five-acre property has seen many changes over its 101-year-long history.

Photo by city of Austin Economic Development Department
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 by Nina Hernandez
The Colony Park Sustainable Community planned unit development application process is underway.On Tuesday, City Council's Housing and Planning Committee unanimously recommended the full Council initiate a streamlined application and rezoning process.

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

On the first Memorial Day - in 1868, soon after the Civil War - volunteers decorated the graves of Union soldiers with flowers.The tradition lives on at Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood, where Ruben Rocha for more than a decade has organized a group of volunteers who, on the Sunday before Memorial Day, place red and white carnations at the graves of veterans.

María Sánchez, a 77-year-old Calwa resident, speaks with Rep. Jim Costa after a $7 million improvement to the community's streets and sidewalks was announced on May 8, 2023.jesparza@vidaenelvalle.com
Seven months ago, 77-year-old María Sánchez injured her left shoulder and left hand when she slipped on a discarded banana peel on the street while walking home from a shopping trip to the store.

(Courtesy of Los Angeles Zoo)

Visitors to the Los Angeles Zoo can feast their eyes on one of its newest, cutest babies - a yet-to-be-named koala joey.The cuddly baby koala climbed out of his mother's pouch recently and can be seen by the public, according to the zoo.The zoo announced the koala's emergence this week in honor of Wild Koala Day and said he was born to first-time parents Maya and Burra in August.

The cruelty of teenage girls can often feel like life-or-deathbut in Yellowjackets, Showtime's hit series about a New Jersey girl's soccer team that gets stranded in the wilderness, it really is.Starving, freezing, and with no animals to hunt and little else to lose, the teens have slowly transformed from classmates into cannibals.

Don't blame !There's a Bluey imposter out there, and it's ruining a lot of days for families everywhere.As pointed out by the New York Postand other outlets, there is a series of counterfeit Bluey shows on YouTube, which has tricked plenty of kids and adults.Make no mistake, these disturbing spoofs are the polar opposite of the values of the wholesome Australian show.

The Bowie Baysox will celebrate Josh Harris and his investors' looming purchase of the Washington Commanders.(Matt Rourke/AP) Comment Gift Article The Bowie Baysox will toast the impending sale of their Prince George's County neighbors to a group of investors led by Josh Harris with a Washington Commanders ownership change celebration Thursday during their game against the Altoona Curve.

Honda has a new version of its bestselling CR-V, the sixth to bear the name.Like many waistlines following the pandemic, it's slightly larger than the old CR-V.But don't let size matter-the $32,950 Sport version (or the $34,450 Sport AWD) features a hybrid powertrain capable of up to 40 mpg (5.9 L/100 km), and relative to the competition, it's even capable of being an engaging drive.

Generative AI is taking our industry by storm, and every marketer out there needs to pay close attention.The technology solves one of our major challenges - creating tons of unique and compelling content.Our always-on, digital world has forced us to become publishers of hyper-relevant content to connect with and reach our audiences.

(David Zalubowski / Associated Press)

South Pasadena's police car fleet is expected to go fully electric by the start of next year.The city is leasing 20 Teslas through Enterprise for at least five years for police patrol duties, administration and detective work.Some vehicles are already in use, Deputy City Manager Domenica Megerdichian said, while others used for patrol must still be properly outfitted.

On 31 March, the day of a Hindu religious festival and during Ramadan, an extremist mob set a Muslim school, the Azizia Madrasa, and its library ablaze in the city of Bihar Sharif in eastern India.More than 4,500 printed books and manuscripts of Islamic heritage were lost and damaged in the fire.The throng also threw petrol bombs into a nearby mosque and left explosives outside the madrasa's classrooms.

Were I to write a Mari Sandoz biopic, I'd start with a shadow racing across her desk.I'd start at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1935.I'd start with a 39-year-old hayseed thin as a fence post and prickly as barbed wire assaulting her typewriter on the ninth floor of the Nebraska State Capitol as a local bank teller plunges 135 feet to his death on the stone transept below.

Every year-world-changing catastrophes aside-there's always at least one new comedy festival in Portland.The town is ripe for it.And while the entertainment ecosystem is slowly building back better, one festival that looks particularly promising is Rip City Comedy Fest.The brainchild of local booker Joe Bukowski and stand-up James Bosquez, Rip City unfolds May 4-6 and promises a wealth of interesting comedy names, like Amy Miller, Blair Socci, Curtis Cook, AJ Wilkerson, Pallavi Gunalan, and pro skater turned podcaster Jason Ellis.

Labour MPs have spoken out in the run-up to the coronation against party rule changes that prevent constituency branches from affiliating with an anti-monarchy group.Republic, a pressure group which campaigns for the abolition of the monarchy, was named on a list of 12 organisations sent in February by a party official and seen by the Guardian.

The Marin School, a private high school in San Rafael, is set to close at the end of the school year, officials said.The news, which surprised parents and staff, came last week after what was described by school leaders as a hail Mary pass to a major donor that failed to rescue the college prep school out of an unanticipated financial pit.

Good morning.Trash is one of New York City's persistent problems.We'll get several perspectives on a plan to change the way the city handles its trash.Image Credit...Sebastian Mejias for The New York Times Those giant piles of awful-smelling trash bags on sidewalks in New York City may be on their way out.

As he worked his way through a rice bowl at a Japanese restaurant near Columbus Circle in Manhattan on a recent afternoon, the bassist, composer and arranger Carlos Henriquez reflected on the long history of Latino musicians in the jazz world.In the 1920s, there was a bassist and tuba player called Ralph Escudero who used to play with W.C. Handy and Fletcher Henderson, he said, arching his manicured eyebrows for emphasis.

Some Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that they want to see more transparency around the Supreme Court, though they railed against the Democratic push for Congress to impose a code of conduct on the justices who exempt themselves from many of the ethics rules that lower courts follow.The debate coming after several weeks of reports of alleged ethical lapses by the justices that have dominated headlines was the subject of a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where a law professor, legal advocates and two former judges, including former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, testified on whether Supreme Court ethics reform was warranted.

MIT professor and AI researcher Max Tegmark is pretty stressed out about the potential impact of artificial general intelligence (AGI) on human society.In a new essay for Time, he rings the alarm bells, painting a pretty dire picture of a future determined by an AI that can outsmart us."Sadly, I now feel that we're living the movie 'Don't Look Up' for another existential threat: unaligned superintelligence," Tegmark wrote, comparing what he perceives to be a lackadaisical response to a growing AGI threat to director Adam McKay's popular climate change satire.

Guest post by Camilla A. Hrdy, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at University of Akron School of Law Are NDAs unenforceable when they protect more than trade secrets?The standard answer is no.NDAs can prevent disclosure of contractually-defined "confidential" information that is shared in the course of a confidential relationship, even if it is not technically a trade secret.

NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. (Supreme Court 2023) This case has a low chance of being granted certiorari, but it still has some interesting elements regarding claim construction and procedure.This is a perfect case for the Supreme Court to issue a GVR (Grant-Vacate-Remand) with an order to the Federal Circuit to explain its reasoning.

NST Global, LLC, dba SB Tactical v. Sig Sauer Inc. (Supreme Court 2023) This case has a low chance of being granted certiorari, but it still has some interesting elements regarding claim construction and procedure.This is a perfect case for the Supreme Court to issue a GVR (Grant-Vacate-Remand) with an order to the Federal Circuit to explain its reasoning.

Being "FC Hollywood", Bayern Munich are no stranger to mild controversies, and none have been more consistent over the years than an insider leaking information to the press.As we all know, Julian Nagelsmann's game plan for Bayer Leverkusen was found in public media; so was the news of his sacking after he lost that game.