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<title><![CDATA[Temple of the Arts marks Yom Kippur with survivors, artists, and a call for unity]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year. It falls at the end of the High Holy Days and is observed with fasting, prayer, and reflection. The day is devoted to atonement, seeking forgiveness, and resolving to begin the new year with a cleaner moral slate. Services begin the evening before and end at sundown the next day, traditionally marked by the sounding of the shofar. High Holiday Yom...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Santa Monica Police Investigate Traffic Collision at 22nd and Wilshire]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Santa Monica police are investigating a traffic collision at 22nd Street and Wilshire Blvd. Wilshire Blvd is closed to through traffic for the investigation. A Tesla S Car with it&apos;s airbags deployed seen at intersection; Police were interviewing people from the Tower Medical Center. This is a breaking news...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2026 09:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sunset Boulevard Partially Closed Near Allenford for Multi-Day LADWP Water Main Repair; Councilmember Park Urges Drivers to Avoid Area]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sunset Boulevard is partially closed west of Allenford Avenue after a water main leak forced Los Angeles Department of Water and Power crews to set up a multi-day repair zone in the Brentwood area. The leak, located at approximately 13316 West Sunset Boulevard on the Westgate Trunkline, was first reported Friday afternoon. By Saturday evening, all eastbound lanes and one westbound lane between...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Russia lifts Irkutsk quarantine after lab worker's death; cause still unnamed]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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 pla...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2026 10:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Cornell Rape Case: What Did Jane Doe Actually Tell the Tompkins County Prosecutor, About That Day?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The following is an excerpt from the Tompkins County DA&apos;s office, addressing a civil lawsuit that resulted from &quot;a series of heinous and despicable acts committed by members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University against a fellow Cornell student on October 19, 2024.&quot; &quot;The following are facts from Jane Doe&apos;s statement that were relevant and determinative to the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2026 18:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Did She Really Marry Her Brother? Federal Agents Search Ilhan Omar's Washington Home in Immigration Fraud Probe]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Federal agents executed a court-authorized search warrant early Monday at the Washington-area residence of Representative Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat whose district includes one of the nation&apos;s largest Somali communities and who has faced years of questions about both her immigration history and her proximity to large-scale government benefit fraud. Homeland Security...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Federal agents and LAPD arrest 23 in planned Skid Row drug raids targeting fentanyl dealers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Federal and local officers carried out a coordinated drug enforcement operation Thursday morning in downtown Los Angeles&apos; 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,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2026 10:42:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Victorian to Close After Halloween, Ending 20 Years on Main Street]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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, &quot;After 20 incredible years, The Victorian is closing its doors, but not before we say thank you.&quot; Its final weekend will be the annual...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2026 19:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Resident accuses Torosis and Chi of clearing the way for city land deals; sale rules dropped, airport limits weaker than voters were told]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Santa Monica resident is accusing Mayor Caroline Torosis and City Manager Oliver Chi of assembling a closed process for city land, including the airport after it closes. The accusation is not that a new agency already controls every sale. It is that several public actions, taken together, remove the old checks and point the city toward a much larger role as landowner, landlord, and developer....]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2026 10:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Culver City Bus driver Bruce Rodriguez killed in Mar Vista; Jose Zayas, 55, Arrested]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2026 18:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Actress Sydney Sweeney has met with 2 Rabbis, is Considering Converting to Judaism]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2026 18:32:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Talarico Campaign calls Ohio Mental Facility Audio a Lie, as Flu Explanation faces new scrutiny]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[James Talarico&apos;s nearly two-week absence from the Texas campaign trail has escalated from a disputed flu recovery into a direct conflict between the campaign&apos;s account and a recorded phone call to an Ohio mental-health facility. The Democratic nominee&apos;s campaign continues to say he was diagnosed with influenza at a Dallas urgent care around September 29–30 and spent the subsequent p...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:05:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High tides and Tropical Storm Rachel swells flood Newport Beach's Balboa Peninsula]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ocean water flooded streets and properties on Newport Beach&apos;s Balboa Peninsula on Friday as elevated tides and powerful swells driven by Tropical Storm Rachel inundated low-lying coastal areas. City officials urged residents and visitors to avoid the peninsula while crews responded to the flooding. Aerial footage showed seawater covering residential streets, with vehicles partially submerged...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:27:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[14 Mexican Nationals Taken into Custody After Boat Intercepted Off Newport Beach]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations intercepted the boat around 1:30 p.m. south of Newport Beach using a Coastal Interceptor Vessel from the Long Beach Marine Unit, according to the Department of Homeland Security and a statement from CBP. The vessel, described as resembling a recreational fishing boat, carried 11 adult men, two adult women, and one accompanied juvenile...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2026 15:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Man Dies After Climbing Into Tiger Enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in the UK. Darwin Award 2026]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A man in his twenties died after climbing from a raised visitor walkway into the tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster on Saturday afternoon, South Yorkshire Police have confirmed. Emergency services were called at approximately 1.35pm after reports that the man had entered the enclosure housing Amur tigers. Despite the attendance of two ambulances, Yorkshire Air Ambulance and...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:58:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Three Chinese Nationals Charged in Arcadia Surrogate Children Abuse Case]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2026 15:27:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Maryland Bartender Allegedly Joins Mile High Club Solo on American Airlines Flight]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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&apos;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...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2026 10:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Los Angeles County Home Prices Hold Flat to Modestly Higher as Inventory Tightens Slightly]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Rachel Damages Homes and Boardwalk on Long Beach Peninsula]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:54:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Nothing Went Foom": Claude Sings the Anti-Doomer Case. "No One Counts The Cost of Slowing Down"]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[She sounds kinda like Taylor Swift, but she&apos;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 &quot;Nothing Went Foom!&quot; has circulated widely since late September 2026, turning a long-running argument in AI safety circles into a five-minute pop track....]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
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