Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Sick and dead sea lions have continued to appear on beaches in Half Moon Bay and surrounding San Mateo County waters throughout October, even as response calls declined elsewhere along the California coast. The area has remained a primary hotspot for strandings linked to a record-setting outbreak of domoic acid poisoning. The Marine Mammal Center, which operates a roughly 600-mile response range, reported more than 300 cases of domoic acid poisoning in...
The New York City Council voted on October 22, 2026, to ban horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park, approving legislation known as Romanch's Law that will end the industry by June 1, 2028. The measure passed 40-7, with two abstentions, and is supported by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is expected to sign it. The ban follows years of debate over animal welfare and public safety and gained momentum after a fatal accident earlier this year. Romanch's Law is named for 18-year-old...
SAN ANTONIO — Technical Sergeant Ian Patterson, a decorated 15-year U.S. Air Force veteran, died October 17, 2026, from injuries sustained when he fell during a military rappelling demonstration at the Alamodome ahead of a University of Texas at San Antonio football game against the U.S. Naval Academy. Patterson, a Tactical Air Control Party instructor assigned to the 6th Combat Training Squadron, Detachment 2, at Joint Base San Antonio, was one of four Air Force members s...
Does Ilhan Omar have a clitoris? The genitalia of public figures are not usually available. But on a statistical basis, the answer is probably not. She has supported national legislation, passed by Congress twice, to ban the practice, which has a 98% prevalence in Somalia. Which doesn't answer the question one way or the other; but it shows the gal who's heart is in Mogadishu, still condemns a cultural practice almost universal in her home country. Prevalence data (Somalia)...
STOCKHOLM - A short social media video circulating in October 2026 has drawn attention and humorous commentary online after users observed a blonde woman in a blue off-shoulder dress appearing to struggle through an energetic stage performance whose gestures closely resembled those of a Swedish Sign Language interpreter working alongside the explicit American rap song "Throat Baby (Go Baby)." The track, by Atlanta rapper BRS Kash (real name Kenneth Duncan), was originally...
SANTA MONICA, 10.14.26 - The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for the Santa Monica mountain areas as strong Santa Ana winds and very low humidity create elevated wildfire conditions, with Southern California Edison warning of possible power shutoffs in parts of nearby Malibu. Forecasters said gusts could reach 70 mph with single-digit humidity levels, conditions expected to support extreme fire behavior. The warning applies to mountain and foothill zones...
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel brought powerful surf and elevated water levels to the Long Beach Peninsula this weekend, damaging oceanfront homes, destroying sections of the historic boardwalk, and prompting emergency evacuations and structural red-tags along Seaside Walk. The Peninsula, a narrow sandspit at the southeast end of Long Beach that separates Alamitos Bay from the Pacific Ocean, has been particularly vulnerable. Waves overtopped and damaged...
A 46-year-old Maryland woman allegedly removed her pants and masturbated during an American Airlines flight from Baltimore to Miami, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office incident report and passenger statements. The incident occurred on September 11 aboard Flight 1779. About 20 minutes after takeoff, passenger Alexander Pichardo told flight attendant Gabriel Barrero that the woman in seat 9D had removed her pants and "began to actively masturbate while making...
Sydney Sweeney has met with two rabbis while considering conversion to Judaism as her relationship with music executive Scooter Braun moves toward discussions of marriage and children, according to reports published this week. Page Six, citing sources familiar with the couple, said the 29-year-old actress is exploring the process amid talks about starting a family, a matter on which Braun, 45, "feels strongly." The reports follow the pair's attendance at Rosh Hashanah...
Los Angeles County prosecutors say a couple and their nanny subjected at least 14 surrogate-born children to repeated physical abuse inside an Arcadia mansion. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced Tuesday that Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, both of Arcadia, were charged with conspiracy to commit child abuse and related offenses involving children as young as 2 months old who lived in their home. A nanny, Chunmei Li, 57, was previously...
SANTA MONICA - The Victorian is closing permanently at the end of October, after 20 years as a restaurant, event space, and nightlife venue in the historic house at 2640 Main Street. The business announced the decision on Instagram on October 5, writing, "After 20 incredible years, The Victorian is closing its doors, but not before we say thank you." Its final weekend will be the annual Halloween party, leaving four weekends of service before the doors close for good. In the...
A week after a, err, business trip to Beijing; Elon no longer follows Shivon, mother of 4 of his kids. She took that as proof that, well, he met someone else. Perhaps even in Beijing. Who hasn't Been there, done that, right? I mean, not with Elon necessarily, but with some other guy women find attractive..... Chads, right? A week after Elon texted Shivon Zilis that he would've invited her to a dinner with Xi if he'd known partners were coming, he unfollowed her on X. She...
The Congresswoman utters words never spoken before by a member of Congress: "I'm not a lesbian or a bisexual." Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has rejected a sworn House ethics complaint accusing her of sexual relationships with three staffers she supervised, saying she is not a lesbian or bisexual and has never been sexually involved with any staff. The complaint, filed September 17, 2026, by David B. Wheeler of the political action committee American Muckrakers, alleges Boebert h...
Modern womanhood is sold as an upgrade. Better products, better language, better lighting. The work itself is less advertised. What follows is not a manifesto. It is a field guide to the problems that arrived with the century and the older ones that simply learned new branding. The quiet-luxury hangover For a few years the uniform was obvious: cream coats, quiet handbags, the performance of not needing to perform. Then the look leaked into every feed and lost the thing that...
A reclusive Chinese video-game billionaire has built one of the most extreme family operations on record - using American surrogates to produce U.S.-citizen children who are then raised by nannies on two continents. Xu Bo, founder of Guangzhou gaming firm Duoyi Network, is the man at the center of the story. A December 2025 Wall Street Journal investigation and a fresh CBS News report this month laid out the scale: Xu's company has acknowledged "a little over 100" children...
On Saturday, September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing that leading labs should deliberately slow the rate at which they improve the most capable models so safety work can catch up. Anthropic, he said, would unilaterally give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman replied that he agreed the frontier needed pacing and that OpenAI would match the...
Sydney Sweeney posted a new carousel of images to her Instagram account on Sunday, September 13, 2026, featuring outtakes from her recent advertising campaign for the sports trading app Novig. The post was captioned "it's gamedayyy @novig #novigpartner." Downside of 2026 is that Artificial General Intelligence will likely kill all of us. The upside is, we did get to see Sydney Sweeney's butt. The photographs show the 28-year-old actress nude or topless, using sports equipment...
Sofia Tsarsitalidou remains one of the most watched young long jumpers in Greece, but the 2026 World U20 Championships came and went without her in the pit. The 19-year-old from Ptolemaida, born 17 August 2007 and competing for Aiolos Ptolemaidas, still has a personal best of 6.25 metres from the Alexandrinó meeting in Alexandria, Imathia, on 24 May. That jump remains her listed World Athletics best and was the mark that first put her over the World U20 qualifying standard....
A 22-year-old Indian national who crossed the southern border illegally in 2023 chased down a Sacramento waitress in a shopping-center parking lot, shot her multiple times, then finished her off with a close-range shot to the head - before killing himself on Highway 50 minutes later. Shalini Thakur, 38, was dropped off near her car outside the Panera Bread at Howe and Northrup avenues in Arden Arcade just before 3 p.m. Tuesday when Rohit Rohit confronted her. She ran. He...
Update (Thursday afternoon, Sept. 10): Evacuation warnings have been lifted. Forward progress of the Getty Fire is stopped. The Getty Center remains closed today for fire-crew access.LAFD lifted warnings for zones LFD-0895 and LFD-0967 Wednesday night (about 8:38 p.m.). CAL FIRE also reported all evacuations lifted. The warning box that included the south side of the Getty Center, the 405, and Tigertail is no longer in effect. The fire burned about 25 acres on the hillside...
A pedestrian struck by a car at Ocean Avenue and San Vicente Boulevard on the morning of Saturday, August 29, remains at the center of a grim neighborhood vigil this week, after friends posted that she was being taken off life support today. The collision closed the intersection while Santa Monica police investigated. The city issued an alert telling motorists to stay away from Ocean and San Vicente while officers worked the scene. That official traffic notice is consistent...
Sofia Tsarsitalidou, a rising star in Greek track and field, has rapidly emerged as one of the most compelling young talents in women's track and field. Born on August 17, 2007, the 19-year-old from Western Macedonia competes for the Aiolos Ptolemaidas club and has shown steady, impressive progress over the past couple of seasons. What began as consistent junior-level performances has blossomed into senior-level breakthroughs, with her combination of speed, technique, and...
A sprawling homeless encampment near UC Berkeley student housing has drawn renewed attention after a viral video highlighted piles of tents, debris, and belongings along the streets. In mid-August 2026, ABC7 reporter Lyanne Melendez posted footage of the long-standing camp along the Harrison Street corridor near Eighth Street in West Berkeley while dropping her son off at university housing. The images showed densely packed tents, tarps, shopping carts, furniture, bicycles,...
In a stunning reversal of their 2020 "Megxit," Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are packing up their life in Montecito and relocating to the United Kingdom later this month with their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5. The couple, who have made the exclusive Santa Barbara County community their primary home for the past six years, will establish a private, non-royal residence outside London while keeping their California property,...
SANTA MONICA - A rare hammerhead shark was filmed swimming near Malibu Pier on Thursday afternoon, August 13, 2026, just a short drive up the coast from Santa Monica, drawing attention from local anglers and marine experts. Video captured by a Los Angeles County fisherman and posted under the account @PIERMACKEREL shows the shark swimming roughly a football field from shore at Surfrider Beach. In the footage, the angler briefly hooks the animal before it spits the bait and...
