Like almost all cities in Orange County, Huntington Beach prohibits the sale of medical and recreational marijuana. Still, in a sort of preemptive strike, a ballot initiative addresses how to tax cannabis shops should they ever become a reality. Huntington Beach’s Measure A would impose a special tax of up to 6% on the gross…
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Newport Beach voters in the June 7 primary election are deciding whether or not they want to elect the city’s top representative, their mayor, directly. Measure B, known as the “Elect Our Mayor” initiative, would amend the city’s charter to have voters directly elect the mayor, which is now a largely ceremonial role that is…
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By Kurt Wagner and Maxwell Adler | Bloomberg Elon Musk formally and forcefully revived his assertion that Twitter Inc. has a serious bot problem, and threatened to walk away from his deal to buy the company if the social network doesn’t do more to prove its users are real people. Legal experts widely speculated that…
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Leila Mottley will turn 20 this month. Like most kids her age, she has her hobbies (swimming laps and pole dancing and hanging with friends in Oakland), she has her passions (she was the city’s Youth Poet Laureate and has marched and protested for social justice) and she has her struggles (she attended Smith College…
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Wells Fargo & Co., the San Francisco-based bank that’s been dealing with a series of scandals and regulatory issues, has temporarily halted the use of diversity guidelines for hiring after a report that staff held fake interviews with minority candidates to satisfy in-house rules. The firm will “pause the use of diverse slate guidelines for…
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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro gives a press conference after meeting with Elon Musk in Porto Feliz, Brazil, Friday, May 20, 2022. Musk, the Telsa and SpaceX chief executive officer, tweeted that he was in Brazil to help bring Internet service to rural schools in the Amazon and to help monitor the Amazon environmentally. (AP Photo/Andre…
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By Ben Fox | Associated Press WASHINGTON — A looming Supreme Court decision on abortion, an increase of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and the midterm elections are potential triggers for extremist violence over the next six months, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. The U.S. was in a “heightened threat environment” already, and…
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When Zahn McClarnon started as an actor in the 1990s, the idea of a Native American protagonist—especially one in a series populated largely by other Indigenous characters—seemed a distant dream. McClarnon, who grew up spending a lot of time on the Blackfeet Indian reservation with his Lakota grandparents, was frequently discouraged by the limited opportunities…
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Absences by some players creates opportunities for youngsters and journeyman to showcase themselves during offseason programs, and it seems Duke Riley has used those snaps to showcase his ability for the Miami Dolphins defense. Riley, who carved out a contributing role for himself late last season as a coverage specialist, has been an active linebacker…
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During the early days of the pandemic lockdowns in 2020, Lit began working on new music. The band — known for rock hits like “My Own Worst Enemy” and “Miserable” off its 1999 sophomore album “A Place in the Sun” — had spent the last few years experimenting with country music. Lit released a more…
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