Growing up in Tijuana, Mexico, in the early ’90s and playing in ska-punk band Tijuana No! at just 15 years old, Ceci Bastida said she and her bandmates knew the music of punk rock bands like The Clash, Ramones and Sex Pistols, but didn’t realize that Latin music and culture had also had an instrumental…
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE Stocks edged higher in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday as a streak of cautious trading continues on world markets. The S&P 500 index rose 0.5% as of 10:20 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 189 points, or 0.6%, to 34,544 and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%. Technology and communications…
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By NEBI QENA and CARA ANNA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Tanks, planes, rockets, air defense systems. Citing a long list of weaponry he said is vital for his country’s survival, the president of Ukraine cranked up pressure on NATO leaders Thursday for “military assistance without limitations,” telling them that Ukrainian forces are “in a gray…
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By LORNE COOK BRUSSELS (AP) — With the threat of wider conflict hanging over Europe, NATO opted for stability on Thursday by extending Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s term in office for an extra year to help steer the 30-nation military alliance through the security crisis sparked by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Stoltenberg tweeted Thursday that he…
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He was the real, live version of Forrest Gump — complete with the White House visit. Or, if you would, you can compare Steve DiTolla to Leonard Zelig, Woody Allen’s fictional character who seemed to be everywhere the action was. But that doesn’t exactly fit either, because the definition of a “Zelig” is “an ordinary,…
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN, LORNE COOK and AAMER MADHANI BRUSSELS (AP) — World leaders heard impassioned pleas Thursday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for more military aid to defend his country and the United States announced new sanctions and humanitarian aid as officials gathered for a trio of summits to discuss next steps in countering Russia’s…
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By TALI ARBEL Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74. His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday in a phone interview that he died of COVID on March 14. Wilhite, who lived in Milford, Ohio, won a Webby lifetime achievement award in 2013 for inventing the GIF, which…
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Not one position was missed, not one box went unchecked. Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa got the fastest receiver in league in Tyreek Hill and the best left tackle on the market in Terron Armstead. He got two running backs, a fullback, another talented receiver and offensive lineman and two re-signed tight ends – all…
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Kyle Lowry did not attempt to sugarcoat, not that it would have been possible in the wake of social media seemingly chronicling every twist and turn of the truly bizarre scene on the Miami Heat bench in the third quarter of Wednesday night’s 118-104 loss to the Golden State Warriors at FTX Arena. “It was…
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Steam train engineer Mark Gonzales thinks about Walt Disney all the time when he’s aboard the Disneyland Railroad and how the Anaheim theme park might not exist today if not for its founder’s life-long locomotive love affair. “I love the history of this place,” said Gonzales, standing on the Disneyland Railroad station platform looking out…
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