By ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass billions of dollars in additional funding to fight the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, as he received a second booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine a day after federal regulators approved a fourth shot for those aged 50 and older. Biden spoke…
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By AAMER MADHANI and NOMAAN MERCHANT WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about his nation’s forces’ poor performance in Ukraine. A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss recently declassified intelligence, said Wednesday the intel finding indicates that…
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The Pac-12 on Tuesday announced it’s leaving downtown San Francisco next year when its lease expires. Where’s the new headquarters? Nowhere. There will be no conference office in the traditional sense, only a facility for content production. Most employees will be allowed to work in fully remote fashion, a move that will save millions in…
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith | Bloomberg When the coronavirus pandemic began in the midst of the 2020 presidential campaign season, elections officials across the U.S. faced the massive expense of buying everything from face masks for poll workers to ballot counting machines to handle a surge in vote by mail. Congress provided only a fraction…
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As leisure and business travel continues to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic and hotel rates rise to meet the demand, a local hotel management company is preparing to expand its footprint with six new hotel openings this year. Twenty Four Seven Hotels took a heavy hit in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when…
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There’s music, comedy and more in store for Southern California casinos in April. Test your knowledge on facts about the the performers coming to the region. Q: What stand-up comedian and actor created a show based on his life as a kid? A: Chris Rock debuted “Everybody Hates Chris” in 2005. The show was loosely…
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When Royal Caribbean announced it was building yet another world’s largest cruise ship back in 2016, some cynics wondered about the need for a vessel so gigantic that it flirts with the mind-blowing 10,000 milestone in total passengers and crew. Then, when travel-thwarting COVID-19 surfaced during construction of the future record breaker, even more skeptics…
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California is a deep blue state, markedly and proudly hewing to the left of the nation’s political centerline. California’s Legislature, utterly dominated by Democrats, leans a little further to the port side of the political scale. That said, there are ideological fault lines within the Democrats legislative supermajorities, some fairly obvious, others faint. Their existence…
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Newly implemented artificial intelligence software is helping conservation efforts in Orange County by better processing images captured on wildlife cameras, letting researchers focus instead on the information the photos of animals in their natural habitat can reveal. The software can more quickly sort images coming from the almost 100 heat- or motion-triggered cameras monitored by…
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By MARCIA DUNN A NASA astronaut caught a Russian ride back to Earth on Wednesday after a U.S. record 355 days at the International Space Station, returning with two cosmonauts to a world torn apart by war. Mark Vande Hei landed in a Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan alongside the Russian Space Agency’s Pyotr Dubrov, who…
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