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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Driver blasts Google Maps for desert road detour on trip to L.A.  KTLA Los Angeles Source link

Athletes come in all shapes and sizes, but not everyone recognizes that, and Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Alek Manoah won’t stand for it. The Toronto Blue Jays hurler, a 2022 AL Cy Young Award finalist, was criticized over his body by MLB Network analyst and former player Anthony Recker Wednesday night. And on top of that, the 25-year-old was also left off the program’s top-10 2023 starting pitchers list despite his dominant 2022 campaign. Recker attacked Manoah’s 6-foot-6, 285-pound frame… Source link

South Korea lawmakers observe that as broadband is essential for society, so is broadband cost … [+] recovery. getty South Korea National Assembly member and Chair of the Committee for Science, Technology, Broadcasting and Communication, Young-Chan Yoon of the Democratic Party of South Korea and more than a dozen lawmakers from leading parties proposed an amendment to the telecom framework on September 8. A series of hearings have bill held around the bill which mandates no fees but… Source link

The Kremlin on Tuesday accused the United Kingdom of “directing and coordinating” the September explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. “Our intelligence services have data indicating that British military specialists were directing and coordinating the attack,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists. “There is evidence that Britain is involved in sabotage, in a terrorist attack on vital energy infrastructure, not Russian, but international.”  Peskov did not… Source link

George Noble, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Noble Capital Advisors, is a must-follow on Twitter. Aside from sharing his views and opinions, the star stock-picker is unafraid when it comes to controversy and confrontation. A recent example is a tweet he shared on June 21 2022, where he laid into investment celebrity Jim Cramer. In his tweet, Noble cites the Belkin Report and shares an excerpt referencing the bullish consensus on energy stocks stating, “In our humble… Source link

Canelo Alvarez barely hid his disdain for rival Gennadiy Golovkin during media tour stops in Los Angeles and New York to promote their Sept. 17 bout for the undisputed super middleweight title at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Alvarez, who got a draw in their first fight in 2017 and won the second in 2018, referred to Golovkin as “an a**hole,” during interviews in Los Angeles. His ire is largely in response to Golovkin’s comments in 2018 about him shortly after Alvarez tested positive for… Source link

Brazen freight train thefts have spiked in Los Angeles, with images of looted packages and abandoned containers capturing headlines and captivating social media — and putting pressure on California Governor Gavin Newsom to address conditions even he likened to “a third world country.” The thefts have sparked a war of words between law enforcement and Union Pacific (UNP), which owns the railroad and has called for stronger deterrence. But the growing problem has become a rallying cry for at… Source link

Workers at one Starbucks (SBUX) Store in Buffalo, New York, won a contentious victory last week by becoming the coffee giant’s first unionized workplace. Yet after votes were counted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a second cafe on Camp Road narrowly rejected the measure, an outcome organizers plan to challenge. Union organizers and their attorney claim there were “voices” that weren’t heard. “I don’t accept that as the full number at the end of the day, it being 12… Source link

Scarlett Johansson and Disney (DIS) locked horns on Thursday over the release of “Black Widow,” with the entertainment behemoth dismissing a high-stakes breach of contract lawsuit as “sad and distressing.” Johansson, who starred in multiple Marvel Cinematic Universe movies as Natasha “Black Widow” Romanov, fired the first salvo in a bombshell filing that alleged Disney broke its contract with her by releasing her solo feature on streaming platform Disney+ on the same day as… Source link

DuckDuckGo is calling out Google over its new privacy labels on iOS which reveal how much data the company is collecting from iPhone users. Google’s main app and the Chrome browser app have both been updated for iOS. As is now required by Apple, Google is providing privacy labels for each of the apps which list the data they collect from users and what the data is used for. The long list of information Google collects from iOS app users is the subject of DuckDuckGo’s latest attack against… Source link