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The Palisadian-Post just printed its last issue after nearly a century of covering Pacific Palisades, and the whole thing basically died because the wildfire turned the neighborhood into a ghost town. Owner Alan Smolinisky said the paper lost its entire reader base when thousands of people got...

Washington state got absolutely wrecked by flooding that turned homes into literal islands and forced over 100,000 people to flee their houses. Liz Trujillo from Burlington ended up stuck with her horses and a goat chilling in the front yard while water completely surrounded everything. Trump...

The SEC basically rolled over for every crypto company with Trump connections after he got back into office. The agency dropped or froze over 60 percent of its crypto cases from the Biden era, which is completely unheard of for a single industry. Binance got its fraud case tossed, Coinbase...

Private equity firms are absolutely wrecking volunteer fire departments across the country by buying up all the emergency response software and jacking prices through the roof. ESO Solutions grabbed Emergency Reporting and FIREHOUSE Software, then told customers they were killing those platforms...

This PhD student at Brown was grinding away in an engineering lab when the active shooter alert blasted his phone, and he ended up hiding under a desk in the dark for hours while cops swept the campus. The gunman killed two people and hurt at least nine others in a first-floor classroom at the...

Brown University got hit with a shooting that killed somebody and left eight people hurt, and the gunman just vanished into Providence after walking out onto Hope Street wearing all black. The campus sits on a hill without any fences blocking it off from the rest of the city, which probably made...

Brown University went into full lockdown after shots rang out at the Barus and Holley engineering building, where students were grinding through finals. Owen Fick was out grabbing ice when he spotted cops in tactical gear swarming the area with a ton of ambulances and gurneys. Parents started...

The Ninth Circuit told Trump to pull the remaining California National Guard troops out of Los Angeles by Monday after finding the feds illegally kept them there way past when the immigration protests actually ended. About 100 soldiers are still hanging around, even though the peak deployment...

A United Airlines Boeing 777 heading to Tokyo had to turn around and land back at Dulles after one of its engines lost power right after takeoff. Part of the engine cover fell off and started burning, and debris from the thing sparked a small brush fire near the runway that got put out pretty...

This DoorDash driver in Indiana got busted for allegedly spraying something nasty on a customer's food order, and two people got sick from it. Kourtney Stevenson was caught on doorbell cam hitting the delivery with some aerosol, and the couple who ate it started puking hard with their mouths and...

Maryland's university system wrapped up its plagiarism investigation into President Darryll Pines and basically said he's off the hook. The yearlong probe by Ropes & Gray found a couple of his academic papers had some copied text from other authors, but they decided Pines wasn't the one who...

Jo Ann Allen Boyce passed away from pancreatic cancer at 84 in Los Angeles. She was part of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee back when she was just 14. This all went down before the famous Little Rock situation, and she dealt with angry...

Trump said he's gonna pardon Tina Peters, this 70-year-old former county clerk from Mesa County in Colorado, who got nine years for messing with voting machines after the 2020 election. Colorado Democrats are calling it total BS and saying the president has zero authority to overrule a state...

Biden's presidential library fundraising is basically dead in the water right now. His foundation pulled in zero new donations during his final year as president and is running on $4 million from leftover inauguration cash. The foundation expects to scrape together only $11.3 million by the end...

Twenty states led by California and New York filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a new $100,000 charge for H-1B work visas. The administration claims the visa program gets abused by companies trying to keep worker pay down, but Attorney General Rob Bonta says the massive fee...

The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation lost one of its veteran employees when Lucia Engombe passed away at 53 after getting sick at Oshakati State Hospital. She spent 17 years working her way up from assistant producer in the religious department to running the entire German radio service, and...

Namibia's health ministry teamed up with Germany's Robert Koch Institute to run a workshop in Windhoek for medical staff who need to handle mpox and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever cases better. Martha Josef, who helps coordinate mpox response, said the train-the-trainer setup gets regional...

Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers got killed when a drone slammed into their UN base in Kadugli, which sits in central Sudan's Kordofan region. Antonio Guterres came out swinging and said attacks on UN troops could count as war crimes, while the Sudanese military blamed the hit on the Rapid Support...

A judge in Windhoek told lawyers to chill out and narrow down their massive list of stuff they want the court to decide in a cannabis legalization case. Judge Claudia Claasen looked at the pretrial paperwork showing 78 factual questions and 31 legal ones, and she basically said that's way too...

Opposition politicians and policy wonks are calling out Namibia for letting whistle-blowers twist in the wind while hundreds of millions disappear from government funds. PDM leader McHenry Venaani pointed out that nearly a billion bucks vanished from the pension fund this year, and another 450...