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Armed suspect barricades inside Los Angeles home, forcing local school to relocate instruction for the day
CBS Los Angeles - California
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By Austin Turner Austin Turner Web Producer, CBS News Los Angeles Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS...
A new gold rush? How AI is transforming San Francisco
The Columbian - Washington State
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On a sunny day in San Francisco, along the city’s waterfront, families dived into the wacky world of artificial intelligence inside the Exploratorium museum. Visitors made shadow puppets for AI to identify, used AI to generate songs, asked...
California Gov. Newsom Signs Teen Sex Solicitation Bill Into Law
The Political Insider
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August 18, 2025
This article was originally published by The Epoch Times: California Gov. Newsom Signs Teen Sex Solicitation Bill Into Law California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to bolster penalties for adults who solicit minors for sex on July 30. The new...
California Named 6th Least Affordable State for College Grads
KMVU FOX26 - Oregon
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Image Credit: PrasitRodphan / Shutterstock As summer winds down and a new academic year approaches, many young adults across the U.S. are preparing to start college, while others are navigating the transition from campus to career. For the class...
Health care group pushes ballot initiative to cap health care executives' salaries in Arizona
KJZZ - Arizona
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August 18, 2025
Health care workers say they’ll begin gathering signatures this fall for a ballot initiative to cap the pay of health care executives. The effort is backed by a California-based union called SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, whose members argue...
Kathy Griffin is the new Kris Jenner as she shows off wrinkle-free face in Los Angeles
The Mirror US
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August 18, 2025
Kathy Griffin showed off the results of her latest cosmetic transformation on Sunday as she stepped out with a mystery man at a sunny Los Angeles farmer's market - just days after admitting to having her third facelift. The 64-year-old comedian...
California Unemployment Hits 5.5% in July 2025, Highest in US Amid Tech Layoffs
WebProNews
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August 18, 2025
California’s unemployment rate has climbed to 5.5% as of July 2025, marking the highest in the nation and underscoring a deepening crisis in the state’s once-dominant technology sector. This uptick, reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,...
Shooting outside California Closets store in Huntington Beach injures 1
ABC7 - California
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August 18, 2025
Monday, August 18, 2025 5:27PM Stream Southern California's News Leader and Original Shows 24/7 HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A shooting broke out early Monday morning in the parking lot of a California Closets store in Huntington Beach,...
Ryan Paevey Returns to General Hospital After Seven Years
Times News Global
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August 18, 2025
LOS ANGELES, CA — Ryan Paevey is set to return to General Hospital, marking his first appearance on the show since 2018. The announcement came via Deadline, revealing that Paevey will begin filming this week and will be featured on screen starting...
FTC Announces Massive $145M Lead Generation Settlement Relating to FTC Charges of Misleading Consumers Seeking Health Insurance
National Law Review
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August 18, 2025
On August 7, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Assurance IQ, LLC and MediaAlpha, Inc. will pay a total of $145 million to settle FTC charges that they misled millions of consumers seeking to buy comprehensive health insurance. In...
What is AB 495, the California bill prompting backlash from parental rights groups?
Washington Examiner
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August 18, 2025
A new California parental guardianship bill is under attack from parents’ rights groups.On Monday, there will be a California Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Assembly Bill 495, which was written to address short-term guardianship for...
Telehealth medicine is dramatically changing the abortion landscape
The Wisconsin Independent
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In the three years since the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization reversed Roe v. Wade and gave the power to states to decide abortion laws, patients have increasingly turned to telehealth medicine...
Northern California Contractor of the Year: Hensel Phelps Leans on Culture
Engineering News Record
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August 18, 2025
A record revenue year, an enviable repeat-client rate, mastery of collaborative delivery and visible climate leadership headline Hensel Phelps Northern California résumé. It’s a winning combination that stems from the 100% employee-owned company’s...
The summer’s most dangerous heat wave is set to broil SoCal, elevating fire and health risks
Los Angeles Times
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August 18, 2025
The season’s most dangerous heat wave is expected to bake Southern California and much of the American Southwest this week, with triple-digit highs and elevated fire conditions set to begin Wednesday and last for several days. Extreme heat and...
Trump ally Laura Loomer pressures State Department to suspend Gaza medical visas
St. Louis Jewish Light - Missouri
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August 18, 2025
Political activist Laura Loomer stands across from the Women’s March 2019 in New York City on January 19, 2019. (John Lamparski/Getty Images) (JTA) — The Department of State has halted a program meant to allow Gazan children who require medical...
Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims
TechCrunch
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August 18, 2025
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into both Meta AI Studio and Character.AI for “potentially engaging in deceptive trade practices and misleadingly marketing themselves as mental health tools,” according to a press...
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Ryan Paevey is returning to General Hospital after 7 years By Emlyn Travis
Entertainment Weekly
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More than seven years after his departure, Ryan Paevey is returning to General Hospital. The actor, who starred as Detective Nathan West from 2013 until 2018, is set to appear in new episodes of the hit ABC sudser starting this September,...
Ryan Paevey Returning to ‘General Hospital’ — But Not As Nathan West
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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Ryan Paevey is making his way back to Port Charles! The soap star, who notably played Det. Nathan West on General Hospital from 2013 to 2018, is returning to the ABC sudser. You might be thinking: Didn’t Paevey’s character, Nathan West, die? Yes,...
Popular soap star who appeared in more than 1,400 episodes of “General Hospital” has died
SI Live - New York
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August 18, 2025
Actor Tristan Rogers, known to millions for his role as super spy Robert Scorpio on “General Hospital,” has died at the age of 79. Rogers, who also appeared as Hunter Jones on the soap “The Bold and the Beautiful”, had revealed in July that he had...
‘Ozempic for dogs’ may be the next big thing in pet health
The Independent
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August 18, 2025
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