A cute trio of little buddy droids who travel as Jedi companions to dangerous locations across the Star Wars universe made a surprise visit to the remote village of Batuu at Disneyland for a bit of exploration and research. Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Research conducted playtests of three BD unit droids on Thursday, Oct.…
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Hamas’s massive surprise attack by land, sea and air has been likened to Israel’s “Pearl Harbor” moment. How could this have happened, anguished Israelis are asking, given the country’s outstanding military strength? The evident failures of military preparedness and intelligence are stunning. But there’s another, overlooked failure that runs deeper — the failure to acknowledge…
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Westminster attorney Jimmy Pham has dropped out of the race for California’s 45th congressional district, saying he’ll instead set his sights on a state Assembly race. Pham, who was one of several candidates in the hunt to unseat Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Seal Beach, said he will enter the race for the 70th Assembly District seat…
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Jackie Fortiér, LAist and Nicole Leonard, WHYY | (TNS) KFF Health News Last month, drugstores and pharmacies nationwide began stocking and selling the country’s first over-the-counter version of naloxone, a medication that can stop a potentially fatal overdose from opioids. It’s sold as a nasal spray under the brand name Narcan. Coming off a year…
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Eleven people were hospitalized Friday morning, Oct. 13, following a hazardous-materials alert at a building in Buena Park. Orange County Fire Authority firefighters responded just before 9:15 a.m. in the 6500 block of Caballero Boulevard, Fire Authority Capt. Thanh Nguyen said. Firefighters got everyone out of the building and decontaminated people, Nguyen said. Related Articles…
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Julie Appleby, KFF Health News | (TNS) KFF Health News Don Smith remembers the moment he awoke in an intensive care unit after 13 days in a medically induced coma. His wife and daughter were at his bedside, and he thought it had been only a day since he arrived at the emergency room with…
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Susan Jaffe | KFF Health News (TNS) Judith Sullivan was recovering from major surgery at a Connecticut nursing home in March when she got surprising news from her Medicare Advantage plan: It would no longer pay for her care because she was well enough to go home. At the time, she could not walk more…
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For the second Saturday in a row, UCLA football will take on a Pac-2 team. Coach Chip Kelly and the Bruins are in Corvallis, Oregon, for the first time since 2015 for a Pac-12 game against the Oregon State Beavers. It’s likely the last time the programs play against one another for the foreseeable future.…
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Though on Thursday, ALT 98.7/FM teased it would be sharing the ALTer Ego lineup next week on social media, “The Woody Show” decided that Christmas would come early and dropped the lineup on Friday morning. The seventh annual event will feature sets by Paramore, The 1975, The Black Keys, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Bush, Sum…
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No. 18 UCLA (4-1 overall, 1-1 Pac-12) at No. 15 Oregon State (5-1, 2-1) When: 5 p.m. Saturday Where: Reser Stadium, Corvallis, Oregon TV/radio: FOX (Ch. 11) / 570 AM Line: Oregon State by 3½ Notable injuries: OREGON STATE: OUT: WR Tastean Reddicks (undisclosed), LB Makiya Tongue (leg); UCLA: QUESTIONABLE: WR Titus Mokiao-Atimalala (undisclosed); DOUBTFUL:…
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