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<title><![CDATA[Extreme Heat Warning Blankets Santa Monica as Humidity Turns Coastal Day Into a Steamer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[SANTA MONICA - An Extreme Heat Warning is in effect through 8 p.m. Thursday for Los Angeles County beaches, including Santa Monica, as a heat dome and leftover tropical moisture collide over Southern California. The heat warning will last until 8 PM PST, on September 11th. ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee posted Wednesday that she was &quot;perspiring in the middle of the night in...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2026 14:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Illegal Migrant from India stalked Sacramento Waitress for months - then Executed her outside a Panera]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Update: LAPD confirms fatal pedestrian crash on Lincoln Blvd near 90 Freeway; police say victim was not homeless]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[MARINA DEL REY — A pedestrian was killed Tuesday night on Lincoln Boulevard at the eastbound 90 (Marina) Freeway entrance, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has identified the victim as Rance Turner, 58. . Police said the collision happened about 9:58 p.m. Tuesday. A vehicle traveling south on Lincoln Boulevard struck the pedestrian, who was walking in...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nigerian Prince Billed Biden's Medicaid $36 million - then built a palace with a golden statue of himself]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Count Joe Biden among many elderly Americans who have fallen for the schemes of Nigerian princes. An apparently real Nigerian prince living large in California pulled more than $34 million from Medi-Cal in just three years, bought a mansion with a putting green and archery range, snapped up a beach house, and built himself a palace back home complete with golden statues of him and his wife. Chief...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AI 'whistleblower' lasted weeks at Anthropic. Many Say the Viral Doomsday Thread Looks like a Coordinated Political Operation by the Left.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[10: A 27-year-old researcher just told America the robots are coming for us. Dave Rubin&apos;s argument is simpler: the warning may be real enough to debate, but the rollout looks staged. Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic this week and posted that OpenAI and Anthropic are &quot;racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.&quot; The people building the systems, he...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:14:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Exactly What Happened That 3 Different AI CEOs are Calling for a Slowdown of Advanced General Intelligence (AGI).]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled &quot;We Must Pace the Frontier,&quot; 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...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Santa Monica City Council Plans to Wreck 14th Street For Traffic, The Same Way They Wrecked 17th Street]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On September 8, 2026, the City Council unanimously approved a design contract for a two-way concrete-protected bikeway on 14th Street. The council awarded RFP SP2805 to Kimley-Horn for up to $1,999,205 over five years to design the conversion of existing painted bike lanes between Pico Boulevard and Washington Avenue into a concrete-separated two-way facility, including raised crossings, signal...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2026 20:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sydney Sweeney Shares Additional Nude Campaign Photos on Instagram]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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 &quot;it&apos;s gamedayyy @novig #novigpartner.&quot; Downside of 2026 is that Artificial General Intelligence will likely kill all of us. The upside is, we did get to see Sydney...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:46:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sinkhole Cuts Off Services, Access to 31 Coastal Homes Tuesday, as Hurricane Marie Whips up Malibu Waves]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A large sinkhole opened under a Malibu beachfront driveway this week, collapsing pavement, damaging utilities, and prompting a local emergency. Officials say coastal erosion and leftover storm swell from former Hurricane Marie washed out the ground beneath Sea Level Drive. No injuries have been reported. The City of Malibu issued an evacuation order for 31 homes on Sea Level Drive Los Angeles...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2026 12:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese Gaming Tycoon's 100-Kid Surrogacy Empire: Nanny Houses in California, Group Photos in China]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Greek Goddess of the Long Jump Sofia Tsarsitalidou Still Has Eyes on Her After Missing Eugene]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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 be...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Trump Declares AI Risks "Just another Leftist Hoax," Setting GOP Course Against New Federal Rules]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump&apos;s recent Truth Social posts have set a clear direction for Republican AI policy: development should proceed without additional federal regulation. In a series of statements on September 14, Trump argued that existing criminal and regulatory authority is already sufficient, that the only necessary &quot;guardrail&quot; is &quot;a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!)...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:31:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Allison Stokke, Yelena Isinbayeva: Princesses of the Pole Vault Draw Notice, Fans]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Women&apos;s pole vault has long combined extreme athleticism with a visual spectacle that cameras love. Over two decades, a handful of vaulters have drawn extra attention for how they look in photos and videos as well as how high they clear the bar. The most durable example is Allison Stokke. Others-Yelena Isinbayeva, Clara Fernández, Alysha Newman, Molly Caudery, and Polina Knoroz-have also beco...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2026 20:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Getty Fire prompts evacuation warnings as brush blaze burns near 405 and Getty Center]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Win-Dow Restaurant Has Opened on Montana Avenue, and Santa Monica is lining up To Go Through It]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[At 930 Montana Ave, the latest outpost of the Venice-born smash-burger favorite opened with the kind of energy that turns a sidewalk into a social event. The line snakes out the door most days. It is the living punchline to Yogi Berra&apos;s old line: nobody goes there anymore, it&apos;s too crowded. People go anyway. They wait. Then they eat. Then they talk about coming back. This is the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Republican National Convention: Fetterman's RNC Video Is Factional Signaling, Not a Party Switch]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PA Sen. John Fetterman&apos;s RNC video is best read as a strategic signal in a fragmented two-party system, not as a conversion event. It is an attempt to re-position a senator whose electoral coalition and intra-party standing have diverged. The incentive structure. Fetterman still votes with Senate Democrats on the large majority of roll calls. That is the cheap talk constraint: switching...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:28:00 +0100</pubDate>
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