Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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GREENACRES, Fla. — A Learjet 60 carrying nine people plunged from the sky in a steep, high-speed dive and exploded in a massive fireball on impact in a mobile home park near West Palm Beach on Sunday afternoon. The incident was captured in dramatic dashcam video, and air traffic control audio has circulated widely showing the crew’s final, panicked transmissions. The aircraft, registered N722BD, had departed Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas earlier in the day...
The wind off the Pacific still carried the faint, sweet-rot smell of ash. I parked in the PCH parking lot at Will Rogers State Beach, where the road narrowed and walked the last quarter-mile down the slope to what had been the Palisades Bowl. The mobile-home park featuring wide views of the blue Pacific, sat in a shallow bowl of eucalyptus and ice plant; now the bowl held only concrete pads, blackened trailer frames twisted into question marks, and the occasional scorched...
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected to a fourth non-consecutive term on October 25, 2026, defeating Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil's presidential runoff. With nearly all votes counted, Lula received 51.79% of valid votes (approximately 64.26 million) to Bolsonaro's 48.21% (approximately 59.83 million), a margin of about 4.43 million votes, according to Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE). The result marked a historic comeback. In the first round on O...
October 28, 2026 - A temporary localized ceasefire between Russian and Ukrainian forces took effect early Tuesday in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson region, brokered through the direct efforts of U.S. First Lady Melania Trump. The pause began at 4:00 a.m. Moscow time (3:00 a.m. Kyiv time) on October 27-accelerated by two days from an earlier announced start date-to protect civilians and enable the delivery of critical humanitarian aid. In a post on...
How Come it Took the Left 8 Months to Expel George Santos, But it Took the Right 8 Years to Indict Ilhan Omar? Both lied about their names and origins. WASHINGTON - As federal investigators probe Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) immigration history and identity following a search of her Washington residence earlier this month, some observers and the former congressman George Santos have drawn parallels to Santos's own well-documented fabrications about his background. The cases...
Spirit Halloween’s seasonal stores have become a Los Angeles tradition, transforming empty retail spaces into one-stop destinations for costumes, decorations, and props each fall. A clerk at a local location recently confirmed the typical window: the stores open around September 1 and remain open through the first week of November, with most locations closing on or about November 2. That short season keeps the selection focused and the prices competitive. Complete, t...
SAN FRANCISCO - Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton announced Wednesday that he would abolish tolls on the Golden Gate Bridge and other fully paid-off bridges if elected, funding maintenance instead through the state budget. In a video posted to X from the bridge itself, Hilton said drivers currently pay over $10 to cross, "supposedly to cover its construction costs," but noted that the original $35 million in construction bonds were retired in 1971. "California...
She sounds kinda like Taylor Swift, but she's imaginary. Claude has sung a courtroom speech about why the Doomers are wrong about her and her ilk, comparing it to fears of the Loch Ness monster. An AI-generated music video titled "Nothing Went Foom!" has circulated widely since late September 2026, turning a long-running argument in AI safety circles into a five-minute pop track. Posted by @_brightmirror and credited as made with Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 "from the...
On October 15, 2026, Tesla demonstrated a redesigned second-generation Roadster at SpaceX's rocket development and testing facility in McGregor, Texas. The prototype drove inverted on a purpose-built ramp, performed mid-air flips and jumps over a lineup of Tesla vehicles (including a Semi), and achieved thruster-assisted acceleration from 0-60 mph in 0.81 seconds. Elon Musk and Tesla engineering executives described the capabilities as the result of collaboration between...
The 143-year-old Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall) of Limoges, a listed historic monument in central France, was largely destroyed by fire on the evening of Saturday, October 17, 2026, during nationwide demonstrations over the cost of living and the state of public services. Local officials described the loss as a "catastrophe for heritage." The building, designed by architect Charles-Alfred Leclerc and inaugurated on July 14, 1883, features a Neo-Renaissance and Louis XIII-style...
Outside laboratory tests have allegedly detected E. coli and fecal coliform bacteria on tables and keyboards at the Santa Monica Public Library, according to a report commissioned by the Santa Monica Coalition, prompting critics to renew claims that the facility functions more as a de facto shelter than a traditional library. Fox 11 News reported that the tests found the bacteria on public surfaces. John Alle and the Santa Monica Coalition have linked the alleged results to...
SANTA MONICA - A 1959 Googie-style diner long associated with the western end of Route 66 is the subject of a preliminary redevelopment application and a concurrent bid for historic landmark status, setting up a potential conflict between housing construction and preservation. ValueRock Realty has filed a preliminary application under Senate Bill 330 to replace the building at 1670 Lincoln Boulevard-currently occupied by Mel's Drive-In and formerly known as the Penguin Coffee...
Updated story (based on reporting as of October 13, 2026): Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed a judicially authorized search warrant early Monday, October 12, 2026, at the Washington-area residence of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). The Department of Justice confirmed the action was part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Agents were observed removing boxes, including some labeled "Seized Property Evidence." Federal crime(s) authorities...
Los Angeles, Oct. 13, 2026 - A suspected arson fire broke out on South Hope Street in Downtown Los Angeles early Tuesday, prompting a large response from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), according to a report posted by local resident @Stellaaa on X.com. @Stellaaa first noted smelling smoke and hearing numerous sirens around 3:05 a.m., then followed up minutes later with video of the scene, describing a "massive LAFD response" to what she characterized as another...
Update 2:22 pm PST: LAPD has confirmed the incident at Milken Community School was a hoax.According to ABC7, a call about a supposed active shooter around 1 p.m. at the school on Zeldins Way triggered a lockdown and a large police response. When officers arrived, no threat was found. LAPD described it as an apparent swatting call (a fake emergency report to 911). The school is a private Jewish middle and high school in the Brentwood/Bel Air area. Earlier social media reports...
Los Angeles County home prices remained essentially flat to modestly higher on a year-over-year basis through August and September 2026, even as the market showed clear signs of cooling in listing activity and buyer leverage. California Association of Realtors figures put the median price of an existing single-family home at $946,950 in August, up 1.7 percent from the same month in 2025. Redfin data for the three months ending in August showed a median sale price near...
Federal and local officers carried out a coordinated drug enforcement operation Thursday morning in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, centered on the area around Fifth and Crocker streets. The action, called Operation Save Skid Row, followed a multi-month investigation and resulted in the arrest of 23 of 28 people charged in federal complaints with distributing fentanyl, methamphetamine, PCP, and other drugs. The operation was planned in advance. Officials described an...
As of October 8–9, 2026, Russian authorities say the quarantine and medical observation linked to the death of laboratory technician Darya Shipilova have ended, with no secondary cases and no dangerous pathogens found in nearly 5,000 samples. They still have not published a definitive cause of death. The World Health Organization continues to ask what tests were run and, if the illness was not plague, what killed her. Shipilova, 28, worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague R...
A man suspected of fatally shooting Culver CityBus driver Bruce Rodriguez in Mar Vista has been booked for murder, Los Angeles police said, as family, coworkers and neighbors gathered Saturday night in Culver City to remember the 42-year-old father of two. The shooting happened around 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, on a Culver CityBus near Mitchell and Centinela avenues, in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. Other accounts placed the scene along Centinela near Washington...
Sheriff's deputies are still searching for three masked suspects after a man was shot Thursday evening outside the Fugazi store on Holloway Drive in West Hollywood. Later accounts corrected the early report that he had been shot inside a black Ferrari: he was wounded on the sidewalk, and the Ferrari was struck by the getaway car as the suspects fled. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department units responded around 5:15 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, to the 8700 block of Holloway...
LOS ANGELES - Flea-borne typhus is no longer a rare footnote in Los Angeles County. Public health officials have recorded a multi-year climb in cases, a record 220 infections in 2025, and 109 cases so far in 2026, including two localized outbreaks this year. The latest cluster, announced Sept. 22, involved seven symptomatic cases in the Wilshire Center neighborhood. Six people were hospitalized. All recovered. It was the county's second outbreak of the year after a five-case...
LOS ANGELES - City Councilmember Nithya Raman walked into a packed Jewish Federation mayoral forum at the Skirball Cultural Center on Tuesday night and told a crowd of about 1,000 that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The word landed like a brick. Parts of the hall groaned. Raman said she understood it was "a deeply painful word" with a "historical context" that mattered "for the world, not just for the room." Then she used it anyway. She said she is "not an expert,"...
A RAND study released this week concludes that Santa Monica's economy has declined more sharply since the mid-2010s than the comparison areas examined, even as citywide crime and homelessness trends are more mixed than the downtown experience alone would suggest. The report supplies a quantitative baseline for debates over commercial vacancy, visitor spending, and the spatial distribution of unsheltered homelessness. From 2015 to 2025, clothing and accessories sales fell 75...
The green mermaid has packed up again. The Starbucks at 1030 Wilshire Boulevard, at 11th Street closed permanently over the weekend, joining a growing list of Santa Monica coffeehouses the Seattle chain has abandoned in the last year. The last cups went out Saturday, September 26, after which the store locator, the app, and the usual weekday line of commuters all went quiet. The Wilshire shop was not a novelty kiosk. It had seating, a restroom, and years of regulars who...
The Starbucks on Santa Monica’s Main Street will close permanently on Saturday, ending another chapter in the coffee chain’s uneasy presence along the Ocean Park commercial strip. The shop never offered what customers once expected from the brand: no tables, no couches, and no restroom. It's about, you know, managing the homeless. Store manager Christine said the company had reached the end of the experiment. “We have made the difficult decision to close this location perma...
