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Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a tent encampment during a demonstration in front of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on April 22, 2024. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) Pro-Palestinian protests swept across California colleges and universities Tuesday as tensions grew nationwide amid an expanding student-led movement that has pitted administrators and police against young activists and … Read more

AI-powered cameras are being installed on some Metro buses. (Los Angeles Times) Artificial intelligence-powered cameras are being installed on Los Angeles Metro buses to help ticket cars parked in bus lanes. Testing is planned for this summer and the program is expected to go live by the end of 2024, Metro said, after two months … Read more

Angelica Belmont, 35, a CVS shift supervisor, said she benefited from a fair workweek ordinance passed by the city of Los Angeles in 2022. L.A. County has passed a similar policy, requiring employers at big retailers in unincorporated parts of the county to give workers two weeks notice about their schedules. (Genaro Molina / Los … Read more

A Hyundai hydrogen fuel-cell truck at the Port of Oakland. (Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times) 1 OAKLAND — The first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the U.S. is up and running at the Port of Oakland, a baby step toward what hydrogen proponents see as a clean new future for long-haul … Read more

The dramatic rise is in sharp contrast to the first quarter of 2023, when Montreal saw a 14 per cent drop in sales of $1-million-plus homes. “The sweet spot is really in the $1-million to $2-million range,” said Don Kottick, CEO of Sotheby’s International Realty Canada.Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette Montreal’s real estate market … Read more

CCTV footage showed the girl walking off with a man just before 2.30pm (Picture: Getty Images) A man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping after a girl, nine, was ‘snatched’ from outside Harrods in London while her parents shopped. The youngster was found about three hours after she was reported missing at 2.44pm yesterday. CCTV … Read more

This 5-year-old from Gaza is learning to live with one leg and untold loss In a quiet corner of the Qatari capital, Doha, between an Indian restaurant and a hair salon, lies a nondescript housing compound once meant to host World Cup visitors. Instead it’s become a temporary home for about 1,500 Palestinian medical evacuees … Read more

Pet Shop Boys have declared their upcoming new album will be their ‘queer album’ (Picture: Marc Pfitzenreuter/Redferns) Pet Shop Boys are as fundamental to the 1980s as shoulder pads and hairspray – but that doesn’t mean they’re stuck in the neon decade.  The iconic duo, vocalist Neil Tennant, 69, and keyboardist Chris Lowe, 64, are … Read more

This event organized by a small group of fanatically anti-Israel Columbia students was addressed by a senior member of a prohibited terror group and his wife, who said there is “nothing wrong” with being a Hamas fighter. The group massacred hundreds of Israelis on October 7. Instagram/@cu.psm Radical anti-Israel activists told Columbia students, “there is … Read more

A Texas high school cheerleader was snubbed from valedictorian honors and could lose her scholarship all due to a miscalculation while her family booked plane tickets to watch the speech. Maya Veliz, a senior at Blue Ridge High School in the northeast corner of Texas, was officially announced as the school’s top student in March … Read more