More than a week after the Newport Princess partly submerged off of the Long Beach coast during a storm, another wave of weather battered the 77-year-old boat even more, sending debris to the shoreline, authorities said. The 62-foot-long, Mississippi-style paddleboat began sinking for an unknown reason into the Pacific Ocean, a mile off of the…
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The Los Angeles Police Department has released footage from inside a North Hollywood Burlington clothing store showing the moment last week when an officer armed with a rifle fired multiple rounds at a man wielding a bike lock, killing him and a 14-year-old girl on the other side of the wall behind him. “Hey, she’s…
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By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu | Associated Press WEDOWEE, Alabama — The Rev. Athanasius Chidi Abanulo — using skills honed in his African homeland to minister effectively in rural Alabama— determines just how long he can stretch out his Sunday homilies based on who is sitting in the pews. Seven minutes is the sweet spot for…
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By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden insists that he strongly believes in the rights spelled out in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that are now under the most dire threat in decades. But he barely even uses the word “abortion” and when his administration has been asked…
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10 thoughts after the Chicago Bears rallied with 11 points in the fourth quarter and took the lead on a two-point conversion with 1:01 remaining to defeat the Seattle Seahawks 25-24 Sunday afternoon at Lumen Field — ending a three-game losing streak. 1. Allow your mind to wander and you’ll catch yourself thinking about leads…
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The winning play Sunday at Lumen Field was called “Q-H Swivel.” That’s according to Nick Foles, who began Week 16 as the Chicago Bears’ third-string quarterback and ended it as the team’s hero. In an all-or-nothing situation, with the Bears trailing the Seattle Seahawks by one point with 1 minute, 1 second remaining and lining…
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By TOM KRISHER DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators have stepped up a series of investigations into engine fires that have plagued Hyundai and Kia vehicles for more than six years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says a new engineering analysis investigation covers more than 3 million vehicles from the 2011 through 2016…
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MORRO BAY — A shark that killed a man off the coast of central California on Christmas Eve was likely a great white, an official said. The man was pulled from the waves near Morro Bay on Friday after a surfer saw him face down in the water with a boogie board floating nearby. He…
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By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and ANDREW MELDRUM JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The legacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s activism for equality continues to reverberate among young South Africans, many of whom were not born when the clergyman battled apartheid. South Africa is holding a week of mourning for Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90. Tutu…
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By Samantha Young, Kaiser Health News About 1 in 8 Californians who have died from coronavirus-related causes lived in nursing homes. In total, 9,400 people who have died during the pandemic have lived in nursing homes; there have also been 56,275 confirmed COVID-19 cases among nursing home residents that weren’t fatal. “The number of COVID…
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