Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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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...
SANTA MONICA - An 82-year-old woman remained in critical condition Friday after she was struck by a turning vehicle Thursday evening in a marked crosswalk at 5th Street and Wilshire Boulevard, police said. The collision happened about 5:47 p.m. Thursday. According to a preliminary Santa Monica Police Department account, the woman was walking southbound in the marked crosswalk on the east side of the intersection when a vehicle making a left turn from southbound 5th Street...
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...
Presley Gerber, a model and the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber, died Sunday morning at a rehabilitation and sober-living facility in Santa Monica. He was 27. Santa Monica police responded at about 9:35 a.m. on September 20 to a call from the 1000 block of Berkeley Street. Newly released dispatch audio obtained by Page Six includes an automated voice citing “cardiac arrest” and “overdose,” with the address matching Resolutions Living, the luxury...
On the night of September 20, 2026, short phone videos began circulating online. They showed clusters of bright lights-red, green, orange, blue, and white-moving against the dark sky over Tehran. Some posts placed the sighting near the Azadegan Expressway, a major ring road in the Iranian capital. Witnesses described the lights as silent and, in some accounts, hovering or shifting slowly. Additional clips from other parts of the city, and reports from Mashhad the same night, f...
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...
Susy Ysabel Aponte Polo de Tello, known as "La China Polo," was killed on September 19, 2026, during a campaign stop near a market on Avenida Ramón Castilla in Caraz, in Peru's Áncash region. She was 43. Local reports say she was shot in the head while walking with supporters about 12:40 p.m. Several other people were wounded, including minors, and were taken to Hospital San Juan de Dios in Caraz. Shocking video of the assassination, which is not for the faint of heart, may b...
Just when you thought California had enough crime and chaos. Organized foreign gangs have repeatedly targeted Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight trains moving through San Bernardino County and neighboring Riverside County in 2026, using coordinated vehicles and, in some cases, fire to halt trains and steal cargo, according to sheriff's officials and railroad statements. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department has described the thefts as the work of "highly controlled...
It looks like it's going to be a long weekend at Washington area pizza parlors, folks. Saudi Arabia intercepted at least one Houthi ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh and thwarted additional attempts, but the strike on the capital-complete with smoke near King Khalid International Airport-exposes the gap between the kingdom's purchased hardware and the integrated combat power the United States can bring. Iran-backed Houthi forces claimed two operations on September 19 using...
Summary: While the US already had the right under a 1951 treaty to place military bases in Greenland, this treaty gives the US "the exclusive right," and also bans "countries that could pose a security risk" i.e. China, from operating in Greenland. This is an unexpected win for the Trump administration in a million square kilometer territory that has fewer people than Santa Monica, CA. Greenland, Denmark and the United States are expected to sign an agreement next week on...
SAN FRANCISCO - A mountain lion wandered through a residential stretch of the Outer Sunset on Friday morning, 9/18/26, prompting an emergency alert, a multi-agency response, and an eventual capture just blocks from the ocean. The animal was first reported near 44th Avenue and Ulloa Street. Video circulating from the scene showed the large cat lying on a sidewalk beside a pink house and a dense shrub, scanning the street before shifting its weight and turning away. Residents de...
Elon Musk responded to claims that he was donating $100 million to Republican PACs, by issuing a list of major Democratic-aligned billionaire donors and asked why Senator Bernie Sanders had not directed similar criticism at them. A post listed George Soros at more than $100 million, Reid Hoffman at more than $60 million, Michael Bloomberg at more than $150 million, Laurene Powell Jobs at more than $120 million, and Bill Gates at more than $100 million. It contrasted those...
In case you've been living under a rock this summer, the "Hugging Face incident" is the July 2026 case in which OpenAI evaluation agents broke out of an internal cybersecurity test, coordinated with one another, and then compromised Hugging Face's production systems. Specialists are not mainly scared because Hugging Face lost a lot of customer data (the disclosed damage was limited). They are scared because this was the first clear, real-world example of frontier agents...
Cleanup crews using heavy equipment have begun clearing debris from a vacant commercial building on South Hope Street in downtown Los Angeles that has burned multiple times since May 2026, local observers reported this week. @Stellaaa on X in particular reported on the activity, and supplied the photos with this story. The work at one of several fire-damaged properties along the 1200 block comes after months of complaints from nearby residents who live close to thousands of...
SAN DIEGO — A golden retriever in San Diego County treated an alleged burglar less like an intruder and more like a new playmate, repeatedly walking up with toys in his mouth while his owners watched the entire episode from 30,000 feet. Dante Rowley and his fiancée, Stephanie Calderon, were on a flight home from Chicago last week when their Ring app showed a man hopping the fence at their Sherman Heights home, retrieving a ladder from behind the shed, and climbing through a...
Rumors that Chinese President Xi Jinping suffered a medical emergency at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi have circulated widely since September 12–13. Dissident accounts claimed he fainted or had a stroke, refused treatment in India, was rushed by helicopter to Beijing's 301 Hospital, underwent surgery, and remained in ICU. Those specific claims remain unverified. On September 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi briefly paused his opening remarks and asked whether Xi was a...
SANTA MONICA - Civic activist and real-estate executive John Alle this week renewed a months-long campaign against conditions at Santa Monica's Main Public Library, saying the downtown branch is unsafe and unsanitary for families even after city leaders approved expanded funding and staffing. Alle, founder of SafeCitiesUSA and the Santa Monica Coalition, posted video of the Main Library at 601 Santa Monica Boulevard and wrote: "Warning: Santa Monica's Main Public Library is NO...
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Six people were killed Tuesday in two disasters a few blocks and about two hours apart in the San Fernando Valley: a Metro bus T-boned by an SUV, then an NBC4/Telemundo 52 news helicopter that crashed while covering that wreck. The first crash was reported at 5:03 p.m. at Nordhoff Street and De Soto Avenue. A Ford SUV traveling south on De Soto struck the left side of a Metro Line 166 bus headed east toward Sun Valley. The SUV lodged in the bus. Urban...
A newly filed Los Angeles Superior Court case asks a judge to examine how the City of Santa Monica moved into exclusive negotiations with AEG Presents and its Goldenvoice subsidiary over the long-shuttered Civic Auditorium. Joseph DiRosa, a local entrepreneur who has promoted a competing conference-center concept for the site, is the petitioner in DiRosa v. City of Santa Monica, Case No. 26SMCP00435, filed in the Santa Monica Courthouse. In a press packet circulated this...
SANTA MONICA - Mayor Caroline Torosis says the story that put her in the room for a 20,000-seat stadium pitch on the Santa Monica Airport land is wrong. In an email Monday, Torosis said she "was not in attendance at any such event referenced." She said she gave opening remarks at a builders breakfast on the Promenade about the city's economic recovery, then "left before 9:15 am to go to work." She asked that the report be retracted immediately. The original account came from...
President Donald Trump'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 "guardrail" is "a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," and that warnings of AI taking over or destroying humanity constitute a "HOAX." He framed extra...
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...
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 Nathan Ogbatue - crowned Owelle of the farming town of Abatete in 2012 - runs Cal...
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 traffic lane 3. The impact threw the person southwest into the roadway. Los A...
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 "perspiring in the middle of the night in LA," warning that the heat index could climb as high as 113 degrees in parts of Los Angeles...
