Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A Spanish regional lawmaker has accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government of abandoning Ceuta, colluding with Morocco, enforcing a media blackout, and leaving thousands of remaining migrants-including alleged criminals-in the North African enclave nearly a month after a mass border crossing. Virginia Martínez, a deputy in the Regional Assembly of Murcia, made the claims in an interview with GB News published around 24 August 2026. She described the late-July events a...
A catastrophic flash flood and mudslide tore through the Himalayan border region between Nepal and China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Wednesday morning, August 26, 2026, killing at least 390 people and leaving more than 1,400 missing, including large numbers of foreign tourists and pilgrims bound for Mount Kailash. Nepal Police said hundreds of bodies had been recovered across multiple districts, including Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, Chitwan, Gorkha, Tanahun and Nawalparasi,...
Federal agents hit two high-end Downtown Los Angeles apartment complexes Tuesday morning in a dramatic early-hours operation that had choppers circling and residents wondering what the hell just happened. FBI teams, some in full tactical gear, served search warrants at the Apex and Alina buildings near 9th and Figueroa - literally blocks from Crypto.com Arena - and a second site at 1010 Wilshire. An LAPD helicopter touched down on the Apex helipad as armed agents climbed out...
On Saturday, August 22, 2026, at approximately 12:49 p.m. PST, a Santa Monica police officer fatally shot a man near the 1400 block of Ocean Avenue in Palisades Park. Officers had responded to a reported domestic violence call in the park (an area known for significant homeless presence). While interviewing witnesses, an unrelated man armed with a knife charged toward them. He ignored repeated commands to drop the weapon and continued advancing. One officer fired a single...
LOS ANGELES - Graffiti removal is underway at Oceanwide Plaza, the long-abandoned three-tower complex in downtown Los Angeles long known as the "Graffiti Towers," following a bankruptcy court-approved sale to a joint venture of Southern California developer KPC Group and Lendlease. The site, located at 1101 South Flower Street across from Crypto.com Arena, LA Live, and the Los Angeles Convention Center, has stood unfinished and increasingly covered in spray paint since...
Actress Hayden Panettiere died on Sunday, August 16, 2026, at age 36 in Greenville, South Carolina. As of Friday, August 21, 2026, the official cause and manner of death remain pending further testing, including toxicology results that could take several weeks (or up to about eight weeks or longer). Panettiere was found unresponsive in cardiac arrest at Judson Mill Lofts (an apartment complex where she had been temporarily staying) after a 911 call around 1:51 p.m. local time....
BERKELEY, Calif. — Zvezdelina Stankova, a teaching professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, has described a sharp drop in the mathematical readiness of incoming students, saying some arrive years behind grade level and struggle with concepts typically mastered in middle school. In an opinion piece published in the San Francisco Standard, Stankova wrote that office hours intended for advanced topics such as integrals frequently turn into remedial s...
ASPEN, Colo. - A young black bear cub wandered into a restaurant in Aspen on the evening of August 11, 2026, walking among set tables in the dining room before leaving, according to a video shared online by actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman. In the roughly eight-second clip posted to X (formerly Twitter), the cub can be seen moving through a formal dining area with white tablecloths, polished place settings, and booths. The animal pauses near one table, appearing to lower...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the December 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents, acclaimed actor-director Rob Reiner and photographer-producer Michele Singer Reiner, at their Brentwood home. The indictment, returned July 20 and unsealed today, charges the 32-year-old with two counts of murder. Prosecutors added special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder by means of lying in wait, along with a...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Two people were found dead inside a home early Sunday after firefighters extinguished a fire that engulfed the structure, according to local officials. Helen and Anthony Spaulding, both 92 and married nearly 70 years, died in the house where they raised five children. Both were reported to have mobility limitations and used wheelchairs. The blaze was reported shortly before 3 a.m. (around 2:50–2:54 a.m.) on August 9 in the 500 block of Lincoln B...
LOS ANGELES - Multiple AutoZone stores in East Los Angeles and South Los Angeles were broken into and ransacked over the weekend of August 8–9, 2026, following illegal street takeovers, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and local news reports. No arrests were reported in connection with the primary weekend incidents as of early coverage. In East Los Angeles, the AutoZone at 1131 Atlantic Blvd. (near the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Atlantic A...
Two federal detention officers were stalked and beaten by protesters outside a downtown Los Angeles jail Saturday night - and both ended up in the hospital. The attack went down around 10 p.m. near the Metropolitan Detention Center on Alameda Street, where a crowd of 40 to 50 anti-ICE demonstrators had gathered, LAPD said. The protesters followed the off-duty federal employees to their cars in a nearby parking structure on East Commercial Street. There, the group "suddenly...
A woman riding an electric scooter was killed in a collision with a commercial truck on Friday morning, August 7, 2026, in downtown San Francisco. The incident occurred around 8:18–8:30 a.m. near the intersection of Market and Powell streets (also described as Fifth and Market), close to the cable car turnaround. San Francisco Police Department officers responded to reports of a vehicle collision involving injuries. They found the woman in the street with life-threatening i...
Some people just have a malignant heart. Whether they're straight or gay. A California woman with a deadly track record just confessed to murdering her second spouse - this time a veteran firefighter she stabbed more than 20 times after the woman tried to leave her. Yolanda Marodi, 54, pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the Feb. 17, 2025, killing of her wife, Cal Fire Capt. Rebecca "Becky" Marodi, 49, inside their Ramona home in San Diego County. Prosecutors...
A Russian FPV drone chased a 52-year-old vegetable seller around his market van in southern Ukraine before exploding nearby, in footage released by Ukrainian authorities that officials call the latest example of deliberate "human safari" attacks on civilians. The man, identified as Yurii (also reported as Yuriy), a resident of the Mykolaiv region, was setting up his stall with his wife in the Kherson area when the drone appeared overhead. Video from Ukrainian National Police...
As of August 5, 2026, Spanish authorities in the North African enclave of Ceuta are managing the aftermath of a sudden mass migrant crossing from Morocco that began on July 30–31. Spanish Interior Ministry figures put total arrivals at around 72,000 people—mostly young Moroccan men, along with smaller numbers from sub-Saharan Africa and other countries—into a territory of roughly 84,000 residents. Many swam around coastal barriers or rushed the land border near Tarajal. The s...
Perez Hilton (Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.) livestreamed severe self-harm on TikTok on August 4, 2026, appearing nude and covered in blood while repeatedly cutting himself with a knife and expressing suicidal intent before the stream was removed. Miami-Dade deputies responded to multiple calls, confirmed he was alone inside his home after speaking with family, and used de-escalation tactics by tactically disengaging while monitoring the situation to avoid escalation. News...
Updated story (as of early Tuesday, August 4, 2026): TWIN FALLS, Idaho — A mass shooting at the newly opened In-N-Out Burger on Blue Lakes Boulevard left three people dead and seven others injured on Saturday afternoon, August 1, 2026, authorities said. The suspect, identified as 24-year-old Chad Williams, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Twin Falls City Communications Center began receiving 911 calls reporting shots fired at approximately 2:29 p.m. local time. M...
On July 30, 2026, reality TV personality and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt shared a video on X of a woman appearing to be in labor on a sidewalk in an area consistent with Skid Row. Overlaid text and narration in the video claimed the woman was attempting to use a pipe (described as crack) during contractions, that emergency responders indicated limited ability to intervene until after birth under California rules, and that the infant was later found dead in a...
SANTA MONICA - A 35-year-old man has been charged with murder in the July 25 killing of a 27-year-old woman at The Manor, an adult residential facility at 1905 Pico Boulevard that houses people with mental illness and developmental disabilities. The victim has been identified as Cheyenne Zampino, 27. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office, she died from sharp force injuries to the neck in a bathroom at the facility. Police responded around 5:21 p.m. on...
SANTA MONICA - City officials are trumpeting the latest Point-in-Time Count as proof their approach is working. The 2026 tally found 718 people experiencing homelessness in Santa Monica, down 94 from 812 the year before - an 11.6 percent decline and the lowest total since LAHSA began running the city's count in 2024. Unsheltered numbers fell even more sharply, dropping about 18 percent to 389 people. Vehicle-based homelessness, which had driven last year's increase, reversed...
ANAHEIM - Guests at Disneyland Park and Downtown Disney faced a chaotic evening Tuesday when a city of Anaheim infrastructure problem caused a major drop in water pressure and partial outages, leaving the popular resort without running water. According to reports from visitors on the ground, the outage left restrooms completely unusable across the park and Downtown Disney district. Restaurants and bars were unable to seat guests due to health code requirements that mandate...
CHICAGO - Four teenagers from the northern suburbs died early Sunday when the pickup truck they were in launched off a viaduct on the city's Southwest Side and smashed into a stationary freight train car while fleeing police. The crash occurred around 2:16 a.m. in the 6900 block of South Cicero Avenue. Authorities identified the victims as Cristofer Lopez Montan, 19, and Yuarem Garcia-Pena, 18, both of Woodstock; Yaritza Martinez Villeda, 17, of Crystal Lake; and Vanessa Moral...
West Hollywood, CA - Early risers in the City of Stars got more than their usual dose of drama Thursday morning when a water main older than most Hollywood marriages decided it was time for retirement. Shortly after 3 a.m., a 36-inch trunk line installed in 1916 burst near Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive, sending a raging torrent through the streets like Mother Nature was auditioning for her own action movie. Aerial footage from AIR7 captured the chaos: fast-moving rivers...
It's being called "TootGate,". Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer appeared to break wind while discussing Iran in a speech to the US Senate, broadcast live on C-SPAN. While the incident is under investigation, we do no two things about it: 1. Schumer has said nothing publicly about it. His office has not responded to media requests for comment, and there is no statement, interview, or social media post from him addressing the viral clip as of July 16, 2026. 2. It's...
