By Loren Grush | Bloomberg News For the first time since 1972, the United States is back on the moon. At 6:23 p.m. Eastern time Thursday, Intuitive Machines Inc. landed a robotic spacecraft on the moon, becoming the first private firm to place a vehicle intact on the lunar surface. NASA, which paid nearly $118…
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By Jillian Deutsch, Todd Shields, Jake Bleiberg and Jennifer Jacobs | Bloomberg AT&T Inc. said a widespread outage that took hours to resolve Thursday was caused by “an incorrect process” while expanding the wireless network. The software issue interrupted wireless service for hundreds of thousands of subscribers and prompted the FBI and US Department of…
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By JOHN ANTCZAK LOS ANGELES — Former Hurricane Hilary was actually no longer a tropical storm but essentially had the same impact when its destructive remnants entered California last August, according to a new National Hurricane Center report. Damage from Hilary was estimated at $900 million in the United States. Three deaths were directly related…
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In honor of their accomplishments in their respective fields and their service and support of the university, Cal State Fullerton is recognizing four Distinguished Alumni and two Honorary Alumni on Feb. 24 as the 2024 CSUF Vision & Visionaries Award recipients. Established in 1994, the biennial awards are the highest honors presented by CSUF to…
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Deputy Tim Ott was given this scenario on Thursday, Feb. 22, inside the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s revamped firearms training center: A woman called dispatch and said she saw an unknown man rummaging through her trash cans and she believed he had a handgun. Ott stood 10 yards away from a black partition with a…
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The Huntington Beach City School District on Thursday, Feb. 22, unveiled its new $72 million campus for Isaac L. Sowers Middle School, giving more than 750 students new classrooms with updated technology to learn in. The new campus sits next to the old one on Indianapolis Avenue in southeast Huntington Beach. Gone is the hexagonal…
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Five things to do in the garden this week: 1. Sample citrus fruit from now until they achieve the level of sweetness you desire. The longer citrus fruit stays on the tree, the sweeter it gets; ripening ceases once fruit is picked. Some like their citrus a little on the tart side and some demand…
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There’s a dirty secret about the fast-growth Inland Empire economy – low pay. Consider what my trusty spreadsheet found when looking at employment data for the nation’s 50 largest county job markets contained in a federal quarterly study of workplace filings by bosses. The two counties that comprise the Inland Empire had the lowest average…
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A Verity Scan device at the Orange County Registrar of Voters (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) Officials are notorious for sticking their thumbs on the scales as Election Day approaches. But how much is too much? It’s a question Santa Ana officials might do well to ponder. We’re not talking Venezuelan manipulation of…
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The reaction from politicians to California’s budget deficit – now estimated by the Legislative Analyst to be around $73 billion – breaks down into two camps: the state must either reduce spending or find more revenue. (Euphemism for raising taxes.) In reality, even the most progressive legislators realize that their dream of unending growth in…
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