Новости за 01.02.2024

This luxe, 19-acre horse ranch in Calabasas, CA, is about half an hour from Hollywood and 10 minutes from the Malibu business district.

One anonymous citizen has begun shaming dog owners in a hilarious way.

Okta is laying off 400 workers just under a year after the SF company cut 300.

KC Chiefs fans and Swifties can enjoy the Super Bowl by themselves at this SF bar.

Terry Killens, a former 49ers player, will be a Super Bowl official.

The failed campaign and expansive political operation to make Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the Republican nominee for the White House cost $168 million. The sum has been reported in filings to the Federal Election Commission. The pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down is reporting payments of more than $130.6 million in 2023 while a newer super PAC Fight Right is saying it spent $9.6 million between mid November and December. His own campaign spent $28.2 million from May to December. DeSantis ended... Читать дальше...

Valenictus sheperdi provides a unique window into California's lost landscape. 

Here's the best time to drive to drive to Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada in coming days.

A former Atlantic City councilman who went to prison for bribery and a sex blackmail case is facing charges again. Craig Callaway, a former city council president and sought-after political operative, was charged Thursday with election fraud involving the misuse of absentee ballots. Prosecutors say Callaway paid people to apply for mail-in ballots that were supposed to be given to voters, but were instead cast in the names of people who say they never voted in the 2022 general election. Callaway... Читать дальше...

Kelce immediately got nostalgic about Jerry Rice after breaking his record.

The SF bar is a popular spot to watch 49ers, Giants and Warriors games.

The liquor store owner said the business has been burglarized several times.

A woman who didn't know she was talking to Newsom blamed him for theft, he says.

Oakland's Mosswood Meltdown announces headliner with massive hits (and massive hair).

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Seven Connecticut state police officers “may have” intentionally falsified traffic stop data, far fewer than the dozens of troopers identified in an audit last year as possibly having submitted bogus or inaccurate information on thousands of stops that never happened that skewed racial profiling data, according to a report released Thursday.

President Joe Biden’s is expected to issue an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who've been attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory.

When two Native American boys from Nebraska died after being taken to a notorious boarding school hundreds of miles away, they were buried there without notice. Nearly 130 years later, the Winnebago Tribe wants the boys back home. So far, the Army has refused to return the remains of Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley. A federal lawsuit says the Army is ignoring a 1990 law aimed at expediting the return of the deceased to Native American lands. Samuel had been at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School... Читать дальше...

A second contractor says it has reached a $25 million settlement over its role in Flint, Michigan’s lead-contaminated water scandal. Boston-based Veolia North America said Thursday that the class-action litigation agreement includes payments of $1,500 for individual minors. It says the agreement will resolve claims made on behalf of more than 45,000 Flint residents. In July, the engineering firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newman said a confidential deal was reached with residents in federal court. Flint used the Flint River for water in 2014-15... Читать дальше...

Media outlets say two gunmen have taken seven hostages at a factory owned by Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Turkish media Thursday published an image of one of the purported suspects inside the factory, a man wearing what appeared to be a rudimentary explosives belt and holding a handgun. Private news agency DHA said the suspects entered the main building of the facility in Gebze in the province of Kocaeli, at around 3 p.m. local time... Читать дальше...

Lawmakers in Indiana have promised to take steps to make child care more available and affordable this legislative session. In a similar move to what other states have proposed, Indiana lawmakers are looking to expand voucher assistance to child care workers whose own children need care. Other legislative pieces seek to lower the minimum age of child care workers, make for-profit centers tax exempt and ease licensing requirements. While the first deadline for bills to reach an initial vote comes early next week... Читать дальше...

The number of men that a former suburban St. Louis police officer is charged with sexually assaulting has grown to 19. Grand jurors returned a 36-count superseding indictment Wednesday against 34-year-old Marcellis Blackwell naming additional victims. Blackwell had worked for the North County Police Cooperative, which polices eight small municipalities, for just over a year when allegations began emerging. He was initially charged last year in St. Louis County with arresting and sexually assaulting a handcuffed man. Читать дальше...

The signage upgrade is a condition of Levi’s extending its naming rights agreement.

Stocks that are trading heavily or have substantial price changes on Thursday: Eaton, Trane rise; Peloton Interactive, Aflac fall.

TikTok may look (or sound) a little different when you scroll through the app going forward.

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate eased this week, welcome news for prospective homebuyers as the spring homebuying season approaches. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell to 6.63% from 6.69% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.09%. The average rate has mostly come down from its most recent peak in late October, but remains sharply higher than just two years ago, when it was 3.55%. Still, the decline in rates helps lower monthly mortgage payments... Читать дальше...