[aggregation-styles] Fox 11 Los Angeles CHICAGO - A woman stabbed an employee more than two dozen times while another woman held him by the hair after they were told to wear a mask inside a West Side store, according to police. Jessica Hill, 21, and Jayla Hill, 18, each face...
Is Texas on Its Way to Becoming a Dem State?
[aggregation-styles] Financial Times Subscription The first time Sima Ladjevardian experienced a political revolution, she was 12 years old and sitting in a classroom in Tehran in the middle of what felt like an earthquake. “Everything was shaking,” she says, recalling the uprising that engulfed Iran four decades ago and led...
Biden Holds a Big Lead Over Trump, but Race Could Tighten, According to CNBC All America Survey
[aggregation-styles] CNBC Former Vice President Joe Biden holds an 11-point lead over President Donald Trump one week before the election, but the CNBC All-America Economic Survey shows the race could tighten. Biden leads Trump by 51% to 40%, a 2-point increase from the June poll and 6 points better than...
San Francisco’s Iconic Coca-Cola Sign To Be Removed After 83 Years
[aggregation-styles] KTVU Television SAN FRANCISCO - An iconic Coca-Cola billboard that has been part of the San Francisco skyline for more than eight decades is coming down. The electronic billboard has been in place for 83 years but the company has decided now is the time to make the change....
A Tourist Favorite for 37 Years, This Bottlenose Dolphin Has Vanished
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription DINGLE, Ireland — The summer visitors have gone and the winter rains and wind have reclaimed County Kerry, a remote and beautiful region in the southwest of Ireland. But the residents of Dingle, accustomed to all that, have an even bigger worry: Fungie, the...
Even SF Mayor Thinks Building Renaming "Offensive"
[aggregation-styles] San Francisco Chronicle Subscription Mayor London Breed blasted a proposal last week to force 44 San Francisco public schools to change their names, calling it an “offensive” waste of time, energy and resources from a district that still has no date to bring kids back to the classroom. More...
The Front-Runner for Joe Biden’s Treasury Boss Has a Mighty CV
[aggregation-styles] The Economist Subscription In early 2009, faced with an economic crisis and a host of jobs to fill, Barack Obama, the newly inaugurated president, went hunting for talent. For the role of the Treasury department’s top diplomat he chose a capable economist named Lael Brainard, who had also worked...
With Weakness Among Hispanic Voters, Biden Trails in Texas
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription President Trump maintains a narrow lead in Texas, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll on Monday, as he faces a rebellion in the state’s once overwhelmingly Republican suburbs but survives with support from an unlikely ally, Hispanic voters. Over all, Mr. Trump...
Boogaloo Bois, Including Accused Bay Area Cop Killer, Communicated as They Planned Attacks Against Police Across Us, Feds Say
[aggregation-styles] The Mercury News Subscription SAN JOSE, Calif. — For the first time, the U.S. Department of Justice has linked a Texas man accused of shooting up a Minnesota police precinct in May to the U.S. Air Force sergeant who allegedly targeted and murdered a federal officer in Oakland one...
GOP Tactics Resemble Autocratic Parties in Hungary & Turkey, Says Swedish Study
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian The Republican party has become dramatically more illiberal in the past two decades and now more closely resembles ruling parties in autocratic societies than its former centre-right equivalents in Europe, according to a new international study. In a significant shift since 2000, the GOP has taken to...