The Hollywood Hills was burning uncontrollably on Thursday morning as the worst wildfires in the history of Los Angeles raged across the city with a crescent of flame visible from space. The fast-moving blaze broke out in the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday night, threatening the heartland of the United States film industry as firefighters battled to control it amid dry, hurricane-force winds hindering operations and spreading the flames. At least six separate wildfires were burning in Los Angeles County, killing at least five people and putting 130,000 people under evacuation orders as the blaze ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast…
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The Villanova Wildcats put an end to the ninth-ranked UConn Huskies’ eight-game winning streak with a 68-66 win on Wednesday night. Villanova led 46-34 with 15:09 left in the game before a late UConn run gave the Huskies a brief lead. The difference in the game was free-throw shooting. UConn was 2-of-4 with both misses coming from junior forward Alex Karaban with three seconds remaining. Instead of the Huskies taking a 68-67 lead, Villanova senior guard Wooga Poplar made one of his two free throw attempts before Karaban failed to get this heave from beyond half-court to go as time…
It’s September 2026, and the Pentagon is alarmed. Its spy satellites have detected a rapid, large-scale buildup of Chinese naval and amphibious forces across the Taiwan Strait. The Chinese government’s intentions are unclear, but military leaders in Washington hope that a show of American force will maintain deterrence.This is not a far-fetched concern. Chinese invasion preparations would almost certainly be visible to the American military, and there would be an urgent need to try to prevent war.In this scenario, the Pentagon cancels leave, orders ships in Hawaii and San Diego to make ready to sail west, and places Marine units…
After suing real estate software company RealPage in late August, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) expanded its lawsuit on Wednesday to include six major landlords. According to the DOJ, the landlords worked with RealPage to keep rent prices high by sharing sensitive information.The companies now named in the suit are Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC Blackstone’s LivCor LLC; Camden Property Trust; Willow Bridge Property Company; Cortland Management LLC; and Cushman & Wakefield Inc. and Pinnacle Property Management Services LLC. The DOJ states that they collectively own more than 1.3 million rental properties in 43 states.Original story published August 23:…
Doctors, as a whole, are a pretty clever bunch, but they can be resistant to change. The most famous example is probably the 19th-century surgeons who refused to wash their hands when moving from mortuary to labour ward, spreading as-yet-undiscovered microbes and leading to infant deaths. Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis, who collected statistics to make the case that soap and water could save lives, was ridiculed and ostracised. Today, we live in more enlightened times, and medical practice is generally backed by evidence – but are we always getting the right evidence to bring about change? For example, there are…
An Australian student who disappeared while he was hiking last month has been found alive after having survived for almost two weeks on berries and two muesli bars he found.Hadi Nazari, 23, disappeared on Dec. 26 when he split from his two friends in the bushlands of Kosciuszko National Park in the southeastern Australian state of New South Wales.A group of hikers found him Wednesday about 6 miles from a command post that had been set up as part of an extensive search operation involving hundreds of people.“This is an incredible outcome, after 13 long days he has been located,”…
Russia fined TikTok for not removing prohibited content. The results of a presidential election in Romania were thrown out over concerns the app had been used to spread foreign influence. Albania banned TikTok for a year following the stabbing death of a teenager by another one after the two quarreled online.“Either TikTok protects the children of Albania, or Albania will protect its children from TikTok,” the prime minister, Edi Rama, said on X.That was all in just the last month.This week in the United States, where about 150 million people use the app, TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance,…
Central Bankers are trapped; Keynesian Economics remains the only tool in their quiver, and they are running out of arrows. The Fed Watchers are neck-deep in mainstream media propaganda spun by Marxist academics who lack any experience in even trading their own account, no less observing the real world outside of their ivory towers. Most of this dogma has not changed for centuries, and it stems from an era when the monetary system was in its infancy and based entirely upon the metal content of coinage lacking sufficient premiums for economic power. As I have reported many times, the…
Structure fire in Studio City Eco-terrorism? A new fire in Los Angeles erupted late Wednesday night shortly after a fire exploded in the Hollywood Hills. Several structures are on fire in Studio City. A spox for the LAFD told KTLA the Hollywood Hills fire and Studio City fire are not connected. NEW FIRE IN CALIFORNIA Inferno blazing in Studio City, with several structures engulfed pic.twitter.com/6BaEoijpxP — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 9, 2025 KTLA reported: A four-story structure fire in Studio City erupted and quickly spread to nearby hillside homes on Wednesday night. The Los Angeles Fire Department reported the fire on…
A source close to the Australian actress said she was “relieved” to see that her suspicions were spot on, despite being told that the Marvel star and his Broadway co-star weren’t a thing.Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster’s relationship has also reportedly left the “Wolverine” actor’s adopted children with Deborra-Lee Furness in an awkward position.Article continues below advertisementDeborra-Lee Furness ‘Relieved’ To See Hugh Jackman And Sutton Foster Come OutMEGAJackman and his girlfriend Foster recently went public with their romance. On Monday, the couple was pictured hand-in-hand after a dinner date in Santa Monica, California.Although the duo’s relationship reportedly caused Jackman to…