Expansion of San Luis Reservoir set to boost California’s water-storing capacity The Biden administration and eight California water agencies have reached an agreement to share in the costs of raising a dam to expand San Luis Reservoir, a nearly $1-billion project intended to increase the state’s water-storage capacity and benefit a group of urban communities … Read more
USC students attend graduation from Viterbi School of Engineering at the Galen Center in Los Angeles on May 10, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) President-elect Donald Trump’s victory last week should bring some clarity to Americans with student loans, but probably not in the way they’d hoped. A flurry of Biden administration initiatives … Read more
‘He used his vehicle to pin her against rocks so that he could get out and mutilate her,’ cousin of the 16-year-old victim says. ‘He was trying to chop her head off’ Family of 16-year-old Kaylie Smith said she was the victim of an alleged attack by her ex-boyfriend in which he hit her with … Read more
Ilya Lichtenstein hacked into the Bitfinex network in 2016 and stole around 120,000 bitcoin which he laundered with wife Heather Morgan’s help (Picture: Alexandria Sheriff’s Office/Instagram) Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, hacked into the Bitfinex network in 2016 and stole around 120,000 bitcoin. He and his wife Heather Morgan – who used the alias ‘Razzlekhan’ to promote … Read more
The Public Health Agency of Canada had offered the former government $5M, as well as resources and expertise, to help investigate potential causes of the disease New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wants the Public Health Agency of Canada to investigate a mysterious brain illness that’s affected more than 400 people in her province.Photo by Stephen … Read more
The number of people falling ill with norovirus, which can also cause diarrhoea, is running at nearly double the pre-Covid level for this time of year (Picture: Getty Images) ‘winter vomiting bug’ The number of people falling ill with norovirus, which can also cause diarrhoea, is running at nearly double the pre-Covid level for this … Read more
A Big Apple migrant armed with a loaded AR-15 assault rifle and his Mexican cartel pal are both back on the streets — despite allegedly ganging up on NYPD cops at a Bronx subway station. Abraham Sosa, 20, a migrant living above a Bronx daycare center, was hit with assault, gun possession, resisting arrest and … Read more
Nicole Kidman has called out Martin Scorsese (Picture: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images) Nicole Kidman has called out Martin Scorsese for the lack of female perspective in his films with elegant simplicity. The actress, 57, shared which directors she hopes to work with someday, listing Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Jonze, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Michael Haneke as dream … Read more
The stigma and exclusion experienced by people suffering from homelessness and drug addiction are very real. But Montrealers have also expressed valid concerns. The site of an encampment for the unhoused is seen on Notre-Dame St. in the east end of Montreal on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Toula Drimonis writes that she understands the visceral … Read more
Hundreds of flights were grounded on one of UK’s busiest travel days (Picture: Ioannis Alexopoulos/LNP) One engineer’s password problems made it more difficult to resolve the IT fault which paralysed UK air traffic control and grounded hundreds of flights last year. The bank holiday plans of more than 700,000 travellers turned into a nightmare on … Read more
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