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One of the world's newest, most contested coal-burning power plants began operation in December.By January, it had ground to a halt for a month.Again, in April, it sat idle for 23 days.The reason: It didn't have coal to burn.That meant it couldn't produce any electricity nor make money to recoup the $2 billion it cost to build.

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Travelers heading to Los Angeles International Airport experienced heavy delays Friday night when a terminal was evacuated after someone reported a suspicious item.The item was reported around 9:30 p.m. and located near an official Transportation Security Administration checkpoint, prompting airport police to clear Terminal 1.
Vehicle traffic was temporarily diverted on both the arrival and departure levels, according to Victoria Spilabotte, a public information officer for the airport.

(Orange County Sheriff's Department)

Two Orange County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a hatchet-wielding man they suspected was breaking into a home in Midway City on Wednesday morning, authorities said.Sheriff's officials said deputies were called to the 14000 block of Van Buren Street in a residential area near Westminster Memorial Park and Mortuary a little before 5 a.m.

(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

The historic winter storms that filled California's reservoirs and covered the Sierra Nevada with snow have brought a major boost to water supplies across Central Valley watersheds - an increase that measurements from NASA satellites show is the largest year-over-year gain in more than two decades of records.

(Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

A man accused of overturning a pair of food carts on a busy street outside a concert at SoFi Stadium on Saturday evening has been fired, stadium officials confirmed Tuesday morning."The individual involved was employed by a third-party vendor, and we have been advised that he has since been terminated," read an emailed statement from SoFi Stadium officials, who did not identify the man.

(California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)

After a two-year wind-down, California is in the final weeks of closing its notoriously grim youth prison system, a landmark moment that arrives as juvenile crime hovers at near-record lows and state leaders call for a shift in focus from punishment to rehabilitation.

Businesses owners and a councillor in Oshawa are calling on the city to pump the brakes on an electric scooter pilot project, citing concerns over safety and a lack of proper infrastructure.In April, the City of Oshawa chose e-scooter companies Bird Canada and Neuron Mobility to deliver a two year ride-sharing pilot program at no cost to the city, after opting into the Ministry of Transportation's program that permits e-scooters on roads.

Despite a positive trend in bus and rail ridership recovery, now at 70% of pre-pandemic levels, the remaining 30% deficit presents a formidable obstacle for transit agencies striving to return to previous numbers and higher.According to S&P Global Ratings, reaching 80-85% of pre-COVID-19 ridership levels may not be achievable until 2026.

This afternoon, Nevada governor Joe Lombardo signed the bill proposing $380MM in public funding for the construction of a Las Vegas ballpark.Sean Golonka, Tabitha Mueller and Jacob Solis of the Nevada Independent and Steve Sebelius of the Las Vegas Review-Journal were among those to cover the news.Lombardo's signature was the final governmental hurdle for the A's to clear before they can formally apply to MLB for relocation.

A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that a state law limiting public drag show performances represented an unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of speech.As a matter of text alone, the (Adult Entertainment Act) is a content, and viewpoint-based restriction on speech.The AEA was passed for the impermissible purpose of chilling constitutionally-protected speech, US District Court Judge Thomas Parker, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said in a 70-page late-Friday ruling.

Drag artist Vidalia Anne Gentry speaks during a Feb. 14 news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee legislature.John Amis/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign NASHVILLE, Tenn.Tennessee's first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional, a federal judge says.

Before Kurt Cobain sang "entertain us!" as a kind of threat in 1991, his immortal band Nirvana dropped an album in the last decade of the '80s, without which, grunge as we know it could have never blown up.On June 15, 1989, Nirvana released Bleach, a debut album that attracted little to nothing in the way of mainstream attention or validation upon its release.

At 7 p.m. on a Friday at the original El Cholo location on Western Avenue just south of Olympic Boulevard, East LA natives sit in the lounge next to the busy bar with its massive blue-tinged fish tank.It's date night, so the couple adjusts their chairs and sits shoulder to shoulder while watching the Boston Celtics lose against the Phoenix Suns.

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President Biden and House Republicans' tentative deal to raise the debt ceiling makes cuts in domestic spending that are likely to disproportionately hurt low-income and other vulnerable people.The agreement to avoid defaulting on U.S. debt targets one group, struggling workers in their 50s, for particularly harsh treatment by denying many of them food assistance.

ChatGPT has captured people's attention and made them curious about how the chatbot could change how they search for information and do other online tasks.However, as they start using the internet in new ways, are they overlooking possible safety risks?One of the most-talked-about dangers of ChatGPT is its "hallucination" problem.

Childhood was a long time ago for me, but if I close my eyes and think of my folks' backyard in Omaha, the memories come rushing back in waves so large and powerful they threaten to alter worlds, or at least mine.My dad was a man of few words, and even fewer observable emotions, except during those few hours on a sunny Saturday afternoon each fall when the Nebraska Cornhuskers stepped onto the field and summoned passions and frustrations in him that seemed larger than God.

On Tuesday, as fans of the Athletics began to gather en masse at Oakland Coliseum in a long-planned reverse boycott of the team's ownership and its plans to move the A's to Las Vegas, Nevada's State Senate voted in favor of a bill to provide public funding for a Major League Baseball stadium on the Las Vegas Strip.

Wildfires.The word has struck fear into the hearts of small and midsize rural communities for generations.Now, thanks to smoke blanketing parts of North America, urban America and the corporations headquartered there are beginning to understand themselves as vulnerable, too.Last week, East Coast cities from New York to Toronto and Montreal saw air quality rapidly decline to some of the worst in the world as smoke from wildfires in Canada drifts south.

Q: I'm a woman in a heterosexual relationship, and my partner always seems to fall asleep faster (and stay asleep longer) than me.What's going on?Do men have an easier time sleeping than women?Trouble falling or staying asleep is common, especially as you age.And for women, research suggests, the difficulties can be even greater.

No ACL or DSL games on Sunday, so it was just the four San Francisco Giants Minor League Baseball A-ball affiliates in action.But wow did they put on a show!Let's dive in.Link to the 2023 McCovey Chronicles Community Prospect List (CPL) All listed positions are the positions played in that game.News
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Weather alerts for thunderstorms remain in place for Scotland and Northern Ireland after much of the UK was battered by rain, hail and lightning on Monday.The Met Office has issued yellow thunderstorm warnings to parts of western Scotland and Northern Ireland from 12pm to 9pm, with areas affected expected to see heavy rainfall, hail and thunderstorms.

Teacher vacancies have doubled in the past two years, according to new official data, while more than 40,000 teachers left their jobs in the last year.Figures published by the Government on Thursday also showed the number of teacher vacancies increased from 1,100 in November 2020 to 2,300 in November 2022.

Parts of Westminster were temporarily shut down by police responding to a security incident.Buildings in Whitehall, which houses several government departments, were evacuated as officers investigated a suspicious package on Wednesday afternoon..A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said it had been called at around 12.15pm and closed roads in the area while officers assessed the package.

It wasn't hard to spot J. Harrison Ghee at the official Tony Awards after-party outside the United Palace theater in Washington Heights on Sunday night they towered over much of the crowd in a vibrant blue gown, with a statuette in hand and a trail of well-wishers close behind.After their groundbreaking win for best leading actor in a musical they became the first out nonbinary performer to win in the category the gown color, it seemed, was fortuitous.

It's a nice enough Sunday, the Mets game from Pittsburgh is on, I'm happy to be tuned in even if I'm only sort of paying attention to the Mets trailing the Pirates.I see Luis Guillorme called out on strikes because he was a second or so late in facing the pitcher with the count one-and-two, a ticky-tack rule rigorously enforced by umpires who don't want their asses plopped into jackpots.

Reddit, the "front page of the internet," is making front-page news today, as many of the site's moderators have made their communities private or restricted to protest recent changes to the platform.Many of the platform's largest subreddits, including r/pics, r/gaming and r/music, are preventing users from viewing or posting in an effort to draw attention to announced changes that would charge third-party apps to access Reddit's content a move third-party developers say would put their applications out of business.

Homeowners are being hit with a Tory mortgage penalty of 7,000 a year with interest rates triple what they were two years ago, according to Labour.Pat McFadden, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, blamed what he called the reckless economic gamble taken by the Conservatives during September's mini-budget when Liz Truss was prime minister.

This week I've been on a visit to the US with Rishi Sunak.Like all prime ministerial trips abroad, it wasn't exactly typical.Here are four things that make travelling with the prime minister a unique experience.For years the debate raged.Was it legitimate for the prime minister to have a plane they could call their own?

Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars could potentially play at Daytona International Speedway while TIAA Bank Field undergoes its full-blown renovation process.I have never wanted anything more in my entire life than to see Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars play at Daytona International Speedway.

Along with speculation about Sen. Dianne Feinstein's health and ability to serve, the California Democrat's two-month absence from the Capitol earlier this year exposed the deep partisan distrust that permeates the U.S. Senate and threatens to undercut an essential piece of President Biden's agenda.

Long Beach officials have temporarily closed coastal swimming areas in the city after about 50,000 gallons of sewage spilled into the Alhambra Wash.Long Beach City Health Officer Dr. Anissa Davis issued the closure on Tuesday, which will affect beaches along 5th and 10th places, Granada and Prospect avenues, and the west side of Belmont Pier among other locations, according to city officials.

In a standing room only crowd Wednesday night, Ald.Andre Vasquez, 40th, led a meeting Wednesday evening alongside city officials where he presented a proposal to turn the Diplomat Motel into transitional housing with a variety of on-site services for homeless residents of the ward.Through the new proposal, the Diplomat Motel at 5230 N. Lincoln Ave. would be redeveloped following in the steps of a pilot project in 2020 by which a handful of downtown hotels, including Hotel One Sixty-Six in the Gold Coast, were transformed into supportive housing for 259 individuals.

One of the most anticipated events of the summer comes to town this weekend as Taylor Swift makes a three-night stop in Chicago in the middle of the U.S. leg of her Eras Tour, which spans decades of music and dedicated fandom.The shows at Soldier Field, 1410 S. Museum Campus Drive, are expected to draw crowds of over 55,000 fans - or "Swifties" - each night.

Former President Donald Trump appearing at the Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 15, 2022.Andrew Harnik/AP Read NPR's live blog for the latest on the Trump indictment.--- U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has been assigned, at least for now, to oversee the case stemming from Donald Trump's indictment, a source confirmed to NPR on Friday.

After Oppo and OnePlus stopped sales in Germany last summer, following a lawsuit from Nokia, vivo is now closing down its online store as well.Back in April, the German court ruled in favor of Nokia as vivo has apparently infringed a Nokia patent related to the WLAN connections in vivo's smartphones.

It's a scene that plays out at racetracks more frequently than anyone wants.A horse is pulled up and out of competition as the race continues and those in attendance cheer for their horse, or more realistically, their wager on that horse.Those looking to the spot where the horse pulled up see an outrider arrive first.

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up Two Become One here.Viant may buy MediaMath, knitting together the pair of well-known DSPs, Digiday reports.MediaMath is an OG player that sprang up back in 2007 and was once valued at $1 billion.But it's been on the market for a long time, starting its search for a home in 2020.

Two Sky Sport commentators have been suspended after a series of sexist remarks during an on-air post-race analysis of the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday.During live television, Matteo Bobbi and Davide Valsecchi, both former racing drivers and now Formula One commentators for Sky Sport, an Italian channel, made sexist comments about a woman in the background around the paddock, with Bobbi referring to her as an upgrade package, inviting Valsecchi to look behind him.

Mayor Eric Adams said in a news release late Tuesday that by 10 p.m. air quality in parts of New York City had become very unhealthy, rising to 218 on the Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality Index.New York's air quality rating briefly ranked as the worst of any city in the world on Tuesday, according to the IQAir World Air Quality Index.

Image Faycal Ziraoui next to a rock formation in the Sierra Nevada.Credit...Thomas Fuller Late last year, Faycal Ziraoui, a French-Moroccan business consultant, was at his home in the Paris suburbs scrolling through satellite pictures of the Sierra Nevada when he came across an image that startled him.

Last September, a process server arrived at the home of Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, as part of a lawsuit filed by groups trying to help women get abortions out of state.Mr. Paxton's wife, State Senator Angela Paxton, greeted him at the door and told him her husband was on the phone.Later, Ms. Paxton was seen out in the driveway, firing up a pickup truck and swinging open a rear passenger door.

Although it's named the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the compromise debt ceiling package that President Joe Biden signed into law this past weekend doesn't do much to fix the nation's enormous financial challenges.The deal, which prevented the US from defaulting on its obligations and unleashing economic upheaval, holds non-defense discretionary spending relatively flat for the coming fiscal year after agreed-upon appropriations adjustments and allows an increase of only 1% the following fiscal year.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley entered the Republican primary in February with a call for generational change.But her message has largely been drowned out by former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who are dueling for support from the GOP's right-wing base.On Sunday night, though, at a live CNN town hall in Iowa, Haley will have her clearest opportunity yet to distinguish herself from the growing Republican presidential field and make the case that she is both the best candidate to upend Trump in next year's primaries and then defeat President Joe Biden in the fall.

The Yankees are back at home and welcoming both pairs of Sox this week, starting with the pale hose today.That's secondary to most fans' concerns at the moment, as we all await news on Aaron Judge's status and whether he'll need an IL stint or not.The captain took Sunday off and rested with the rest of the team on Monday, but a potential toe fracture after running into the wall in Dodger Stadium has us all wondering if the superstar's blazing hot streak will be temporarily sidelined.

Mastering transition effects can take your videos to the next level.Whether creating a captivating intro, a smooth slideshow, or adding visual flair to your project, understanding and knowing the most popular transition effects is essential to the video creation process.Transitions are a way to smoothly blend or animate between different elements, layers, or scenes in a video or motion graphics project.

The owners behind Storico Vino closed the Italian wine bar over the weekend after two years at Buckhead Village and are replacing it with a Mexican restaurant called Pachengo's at the end of July.Pietro Gianni and Stephen Peterson, who also own Storico Fresco Alimentari e Ristorante and Forza Storico, posted the closure announcement to Instagram Friday, June 2, stating that Saturday, June 3, was the last day of service for the wine bar.

Momonoki and Brush Sushi owners chef Jason Liang and John Chen are opening a bar at Star Metals this winter offering cocktails and cocktail omakases, pastries and coffee, and an all-day menu to include Taiwanese fried chicken sandwiches.Located beside sushi restaurant Hayakawa at Star Metals, Lucky Star will be divided into two distinct spaces - an all-day cafe and bar in the front, with an evening cocktail spot pouring drinks in back.

The city's Health Department allowed the New York City Housing Authority to cover up test results showing hazardous levels of lead paint in a residential unit and skirt responsibility to remediate the conditions, even after a child was hospitalized with severe lead poisoning, a new lawsuit filed by the child's mother alleges.

Kevin Pelton, ESPN Senior WriterJun 3, 2023, 08:00 AM ET

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Which teams have been the best NBA champions since the "Last Dance" Chicago Bulls?June marks a quarter-century since Michael Jordan's iconic game-winner gave the Bulls their sixth championship in eight years before Jordan (temporarily) retired and Phil Jackson, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Luc Longley, Ron Harper and Steve Kerr scattered throughout the rest of the NBA.

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Brad Pitt's legal team is claiming that his ex-wife Angelina Jolie "vindictively" sold her stake in their Chateau Miraval winery behind his back and says she "sought to inflict harm on Pitt" in new court documents that reveal more details about the unraveling of the former power couple's relationship.

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Well, well, well, how the turntables have... turned.Just shy of three weeks ago, I was preaching patience in this space regarding the organization's consensus number one prospect Diego Cartaya.The 21-year-old Venezuelan had gotten off to a very rough start in the Double-A Texas League, but he was showing signs of adjusting to the new level of competition, and breaking out of his early season malaise.

Entering the 2010 season with five starters and 59 starts gone from the 2009 starting rotation, the Dodgers did not make a substantial move to replace 's 34 starts when he left Los Angeles for Milwaukee during the offseason.A trade of Juan Pierre brought back , and Carlos Monasterios arrived from the Mets via the Phillies and the Rule 5 Draft, but the Dodgers entered 2010 with Clayton Kershaw, Chad Billingsley, Hiroki Kuroda and Vicente Padilla as locks with an opening for the final spot.

1. Manchester City and Manchester United have a long history of intense rivalry, and the upcoming FA Cup Final promises to be one of the best derbies in recent memory.
2. Both sides have enjoyed success in the FA Cup in recent years, with City winning the competition in 2019 and United winning

There was a notable development in the Diamond Sports Group bankruptcy saga this evening.The court ruled in Major League Baseball's favor on yesterday's hearing regarding Diamond's efforts to restructure a number of its local broadcasting deals.The broadcasting conglomerate has temporarily been paying reduced rights fees (75%, according to Alden González of ESPN) to the Twins, Guardians, Diamondbacks, Reds and Rangers since filing for bankruptcy two and a half months ago.

Afghan women are waiting to order food in the Banowan-e-Afghan restaurant in Kabul.The name means "Afghan ladies" (men can order carryout).It's providing jobs for women and a welcoming space to eat although there are concerns about the Taliban's reaction.Nava Jamshidi By the side of a busy road in Northwestern Kabul, the savory smell of bolani, traditional vegetable-stuffed flatbread, wafts out of a cloth-walled, temporary building.

Lionel Messi is expected to decide in the coming hours where he will be playing his football next season - the only thing that seems certain is that it will not be at Barcelona.Messi would have liked nothing more than to return to the place that was his home since he left Argentina as a 12-year-old in pursuit of his footballing dream.