When COVID hit in March 2020, I was living in Los Angeles. What I saw there changed the course of my life. It became clear almost immediately that local officials in California weren't following the science. They were following the politics. Every decision, every mandate, every shutdown got filtered through one lens: how do we use this crisis to fight back against Trump and Republicans? Californians paid for that calculation. Businesses shuttered. Kids lost years of school. Families lost everyth
Wildfire thought to be largest in Belgium’s history creeps closer to German border prompting evacuations Belgium’s King Philippe will visit the area affected by what is believed to be the largest wildfire in the country’s history this morning, after a weekend of intense firefighting in the Hautes Fagnes nature reserve. The fire has been raging since Friday afternoon, burning more than 3,000 hectares of land, provisional figures show. Continue reading...
Actress Hayden Panettiere remembered as 'amazing talent' after death at 36 Actress Hayden Panettiere was remembered on Monday as "amazing talent." The actress, who launched a career as a child actor, including a appearance in "Remember the Titans," and who later TV star, with leading roles in "Heroes" and "Nashville," died at 36, according to her representatives. "What an amazing talent you were....so gifted," said Viola Davis, the Oscar-winning actress who co-started with her in the 2016 film "
A prominent Russian state economist was fired after publicly warning that Moscow is losing an economic "war of attrition" with the West and could eventually face a social crisis, as the European Union prepares a major expansion of sanctions targeting Russia’s military-industrial base. The episode goes beyond an internal Kremlin personnel shake-up. For Washington and its European allies, the central question is whether years of economic pressure are beginning to constrain Moscow’s ability to sust
A new study tracked more than 500 teens showing that relationships between them and their pet dogs helped with stress and anxiety.
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NFL defensive back Sam Webb appeared to hang up his cleats after playing one preseason game with the New York Giants this season. The Giants placed Webb on the Reserve/Retired List on Sunday, one day after New York lost to the Minnesota Vikings . The Giants signed Webb on Thursday, and he only had one practice with the team going into the preseason affair. ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON'T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW! Webb, 28, was a standout at Missouri Western State before he tur
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Industrial output and retail sales slump in July after one of the country’s weakest quarterly growth rates ever China’s economy is showing signs of extending a slowdown with a slump in industrial output and retail sales in July, adding to pressure on Beijing to intervene with measures to support activity. After the world’s second largest economy posted one of its lowest quarterly growth readings on record in the three months to June, the latest figures suggest it continued to falter in July. Con
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The Arizona Cardinals are in rebuild mode (again), with a new head coach and a quiver of promising draft picks, but their roster reconstruction has gone sideways mere weeks into the start of training camp because their top four rookies are all injured. Arizona's first round pick is injured. The second round pick is out for the season. The third round pick is injured. The fourth round pick is out for the season. The Cardinals had seven selections in the April NFL draft . A majority are injured. T
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Many in the crowd watching on screen outside minster have stories of meeting or knowing singer, who died in July Bonnie Tyler’s songs have echoed through her home town of Swansea in recent days in memory of the late singer, but on Monday the church bells stopped and wellwishers lining the streets fell silent as her coffin arrived for a service celebrating her life. As the white coffin, covered in bouquets of white roses, was carried into the minster, shouts of “God bless you Bonnie” and “bye Bon
