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WASHINGTONΒ βΒ As progressives seek to place a new tax on billionaires on Californiaβs November ballot, a Republican congressman is moving in the opposite direction β proposing federal legislation that would block states from taxing the assets of former residents. Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin), who faces a tough re-election challenge under Californiaβs redrawn congressional maps, says he…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questioning in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday about Instagram’s under-13 users and Meta’s efforts to boost engagement, as a trial examines whether the company knowingly offered an addictive and harmful product to children and teens. The landmark trial against Meta and YouTubeΒ kicked offΒ in late January. It centers on allegations…
Lorenzo Hernandez, who was the football coach at Garfield for 24 years until stepping down after the 2024 season, is coming out of retirement to become head coach at Whittier High. He met with his new players Wednesday afternoon. Hernandez helped elevate the Garfield program beyond the annual Garfield vs. Roosevelt rivalry game, with the…
Plans to increase the minimum wage for 18 to 20-year-olds to the same level as for other adults could be delayed, Sky News understands. In its 2024 election manifesto, Labour committed to “remove the discriminatory age bands, so all adults are entitled to the same minimum wage, delivering a pay rise to hundreds of thousands…
After the fake video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting went viral, a surge of AI-generated content from Seedance 2.0 flooded the internet. Some fans were using the new AI video generator, backed by ByteDance, to refashion the finales for shows like βGame of Thronesβ and βStranger Things.β Others created battle scenes between iconic…
Donald Trump has launched a fresh broadside on the UK’s Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius, saying Sir Keir Starmer is “making a big mistake”. In a post on his Truth Social platform, the US president warned against the loss of the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, which the UK is retaining through a 99-year…
Imagine if a candidate for, say, the California Assembly appeared at a political event and delivered the following remarks: βNo to kosher meat. No to yarmulkes. No to celebrating Easter. No, no, no.β He, or she, would be roundly β and rightly β criticized for their bigotry and raw prejudice. Recently, at a candidates forum…
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ItalyΒ βΒ Mikaela Shiffrin, the most successful racer in Alpine skiing history, ended her Olympic medal drought in spectacular fashion Wednesday, winning gold in womenβs slalom at the Milan-Cortina Games. Shiffrin won her third career Olympic gold medal by finishing 1.50 seconds ahead of silver medalist Camille Rast of Switzerland and 1.71 seconds over bronze…
Annual energy bills will fall by Β£117 from April due to government changes, forecasters have predicted. Measures announced in the budget will mean a drop to Β£1,641 a year for a typical dualβfuel household, according to research firm Cornwall Insight. That would represent a 7% fall from the Β£1,758 being paid until the end of…
After the COVID-19 pandemic, Takashi Murakami felt like he was losing his way. His generation of artists, he thought, was increasingly untethered from a concrete movement or theme. βThe art had become more and more about a struggle against the market or within the market,β he says through a translator during a recent interview at…
