By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former model tearfully testified Thursday that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old, calling it the most “horrifying thing I ever experienced” to that point. Kaja (KEYE’-ah) Sokola, an aspiring actor at the time, told jurors at…
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Jason Mraz is a musical seeker. What else do you call a pop artist who goes from hitting the Broadway stage to recording a reggae album before setting his sights on cutting a bluegrass project? The multifaceted star played a major role during a 10-week run in “Waitress” in 2017, then dropped his reggae album…
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YUCAIPA — Momentum. It was in Yucaipa’s corner for a set and a half in Wednesday night’s CIF Southern Section Division 6 boys volleyball quarterfinal match against No. 2-seeded El Toro. Then, behind a late second-set rally, momentum swung to El Toro and never left as the Chargers rallied for an 18-25, 32-30, 25-16, 25-17…
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By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from imposing new conditions on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mass transit grants for the Seattle area or homelessness services grants for Boston, New York, San Francisco and other local governments. The new conditions were…
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Two Santa Ana High School students, both boys ages 15 and 17, turned themselves in to Santa Ana police following a stabbing just outside the campus on Wednesday, May 7, that left one boy dead and two others injured, authorities said. The boys, who were not identified by police, turned themselves in at Santa Ana…
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Today marks the birthday of the great economist Friedrich Hayek. Born on this date in 1899 in Vienna, Hayek devoted his life to economic education. Perhaps his best known work is “The Road to Serfdom,” published in 1944. As well-summarized by Gerald O’Driscoll for the Cato Institute, Hayek’s core thesis “is that one intervention inevitably…
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There’s an easy and unfortunate recent economic parallel to President Donald Trump’s absurd proposal to slap a 100% tariff on “foreign” films coming into the United States as some supposed protectionism for the American movie industry. It’s the Trump administration’s various high tariffs on foreign wines and spirits, levied in order to supposedly protect domestic…
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Eighty pro-Palestinian protesters were taken into custody at Columbia University after more than 100 demonstrators took over Butler Library as final exams were scheduled to begin, cops said Thursday. Federal authorities are reviewing the visa status of all those taken into custody, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on X. Acting President Claire Shipman authorized…
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By MARC LEVY HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved. Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever…
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For the first time since the news broke nearly three weeks ago that 2025 would be Steve Cherundolo’s fourth and final season as head coach of the Los Angeles Football Club, the 46-year-old American answered questions about his pending departure in the fall. A day after FIFA announced that LAFC would play Club América for the…
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