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It Starts With a Fatal Car Accident. What Follows Is So Much Worse.
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (390+ words) Like its predecessor, Stedman's second novel, "A Far-Flung Life," is also about a child of mysterious parentage; and it too is a book in which a lot of awful things happen. Think of it as "A Little Life," but with…...
A warmer March ahead for D.C., though winter isn’t done
2+ hour ago (868+ words) Washingtonians can finally begin to thaw out " at least somewhat. After three straight colder-than-normal months, March is likely to tilt milder overall. The month will start on the chilly side, but temperatures are poised to surge by the middle of…...
An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human.
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (833+ words) The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's largest newspaper, has begun to feature a new byline. On recent articles about an ice carving festival, a medical research discovery and a roaming pack of chicken-slaying dogs, a reporter's name is paired with the words…...
Surveillance company Flock generates controversy — and a roster of L.A. clients
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (1314+ words) Santa Cruz tried out the surveillance company Flock Safety for a little over a year before deciding it was time to move on. Cambridge, Mass., also had enough and tore up its contract in December. Now, some officials in San…...
A charismatic educator, a connected consultant and an AI deal that failed L.A. schools
3+ hour, 8+ min ago (1463+ words) Alberto Carvalho and Debra Kerr's roots date back to their days together in the Florida education community. Carvalho was the charismatic leader of Miami-Dade County schools, and Kerr was a well-known figure in the private sector, working for firms doing…...
Fear that herbicides are poisoning Orange County creeks blows up on social media
4+ hour, 40+ min ago (920+ words) Residents concerned about the possible poisoning of Orange County waterways with herbicides have been making their voices heard on Instagram and pressured the county into holding a meeting on the issue Monday night. Their effort has exposed tensions between people…...
From Kid Rock to Roc Nation: See the entertainers and industry bosses who could testify at the Live Nation-Ticketmaster antitrus
4+ hour, 48+ min ago (1241+ words) Two years after the Biden administration's Department of Justice sued to split Ticketmaster from parent company Live Nation, Trump's DOJ is taking the massive antitrust case to trial. Jury selection is set for Monday in a federal courtroom in Manhattan,…...
Christina Applegate Planned to Burn Her Journals. She Made a Memoir From Them Instead.
5+ hour, 1+ min ago (956+ words) Before we started talking about her memoir, "You With the Sad Eyes," Applegate set the scene in her bedroom in Laurel Canyon, where she reclined against a tall headboard wearing a black T-shirt, a crescent moon necklace and a floppy…...
Researchers probe unmarked graves at Virginia site where slaves once toiled
6+ hour, 14+ min ago (1110+ words) It started with an email. Lindsay Alukonis, a diocesan archivist at the Diocese of Arlington, reached out to an anthropology professor at Catholic University for help in October 2022. A large, rectangular-shaped anomaly had appeared during a radar survey of a…...
A Startlingly Vivid Portrait of El Paso, and of America
6+ hour, 31+ min ago (373+ words) El Paso," Ulloa writes, is alive. It breathes and heaves with human life. Your poor and huddled masses. Your staunch conservatives. Your rebels and living saints. Your Border Patrol officers and your paisanos. And you and me." Of course, before…...