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Republicans pick Jim Jordan as nominee for House speaker, putting job within the Trump ally's reach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans chose firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan as their new nominee for House speaker during internal voting Friday, putting the gavel within reach of the staunch ally of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump.Electing Jordan, a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, to the powerful position second in line to the presidency would move the GOP’s far right into a central seat of U.S. power. A groundswell of high-profile backers including Fox News’ Sean Hannity publicly pressured lawmakers to vote Jordan into the speaker’s office after the stunning ouster of Kevin McCarthy.Jordan, of Ohio, will now try to unite colleagues from the deeply divided House GOP majority ahead of a public vote on the floor, which could push to next week. Republicans split 124-81 in Friday's private vote. “I think Jordan would do a great job,” McCarthy said ahead of the vote. “We got to get this back on track.”Frustrated House Republicans have been fighting bitterly over whom they should ele...

Netflix plans to open permanent store locations where fans can dine, shop and play in 2025

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

Netflix is planning to open new destinations where guests can dine, shop and be immersed in themed experiences based on the platform's popular movies and T.V. shows in various cities.Josh Simon, the company’s vice president of consumer products, told Bloomberg, who first reported the news, that the streamer plans to open the first two locations in the U.S. by 2025 and then expand to other destinations worldwide.Netflix is looking at cities such as Tokyo, New York and Mexico City as potential hubs for the new destination, known as Netflix House. Netflix quietly ditches a subscriber option “We’ve seen how much fans love to immerse themselves in the world of our movies and TV shows, and we’ve been thinking a lot about how we take that to the next level,” Simon told Bloomberg.Netflix House will be the company’s first permanent site after it has experimented with pop-up locations for the past few years.These experiences include “The Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience,” which has tra...

Large crowd, cars burning rubber take over Rosemead shopping center

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

A shopping center in the San Gabriel Valley was the site of a raucous street takeover involving more than 100 people Thursday night.Sky5 was over the scene around 10:30 p.m. at the Rosemead Place Shopping Center, just north of the 10 Freeway. A crowd gathers outside the Rosemead Place Shopping Center on Oct. 12, 2023. (KTLA)The large crowd of people had gathered around several vehicles that were blocking the walkway and parking lot in front of an Ulta Beauty store. The vehicles were revving engines and shooting flames from their exhausts.Another vehicle was burning rubber in the parking lot, leaving skid marks on the roadway. There was no word on whether any arrests were made or citations given.

L.A. Councilman Price denies corruption allegations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price's arraignment on corruption charges has been delayed until December, but in the meantime, his attorney is pushing back against the allegations.Price's arraignment was set for Friday, but it was delayed until December, the Los Angeles Times reports. Price, 72, faces five counts of grand theft by embezzlement, three counts of perjury and two counts of conflict of interest, according to MyNewsLA.com."Price, a 10-year veteran of the City Council, is accused of having a financial interest in development projects that he voted on, and receiving tens of thousands of dollars in medical benefits from the city for his now wife while he was still married to another woman," the Los Angeles Times reports. Price's wife, Del Richardson Price, allegedly received more than $150,000 from developers of projects that the councilman later voted to approve. L.A. City Councilman Curren Price facing corruption charges, steps down from leadership role In addition, ...

Luis Vitales Killed, Two Injured in Two-Vehicle Collision near 35th Avenue [Phoenix, AZ]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

24-Year-Old Driver Dead and Two Women Hospitalized after Vehicle AccidentPHOENIX, AZ (October 13, 2023) – Early Sunday morning, officers were dispatched to a car accident that claimed the life of Luis Vitales.The incident took place near 35th Avenue and Roosevelt Street just after 2:15 a.m., October 8th.According to the Phoenix police, the collision involved a Didge Charger and a Jeep Liberty. Investigation showed that 24-year-old Vitales ran over a stop red light while approaching 35th Avenue and collided with the other vehicle.Furthermore, Vitales was ejected from his vehicle and he suffered life-threatening injuries. He later succumbed to his injuries and he was pronounced dead.Moreover, two female occupants of the involved vehicle suffered injuries but police did not state the severity. They were expected to survive.No additional information was added by the investigators, and the incident is currently under thorough investigation.Sincere sympathies to the family and frien...

Crossing Guard Hospitalized after Pedestrian Accident on Vineyard Avenue [Pleasanton, CA]

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

One Severely Injured in Pedestrian Collision near Adams WayPLEASANTON, CA (October 13, 2023) – Thursday morning, a crossing guard was hospitalized due to a pedestrian accident that occurred on Vineyard Avenue.The incident took place near Adams Way, close to Valley View Elementary School, prompting a swift response from police. Reports indicate that a crossing guard was struck by the driver of a midsize SUV in the vicinity. The driver of the SUV remained at the scene and fully cooperated with the ongoing investigation.Emergency responders arrived at the scene and transported the injured male pedestrian to a nearby hospital due to the severity of his head injuries. However, the identity of the pedestrian has not been released by authorities at this time.Following preliminary investigations, law enforcement officers ruled out alcohol, drugs, and excessive speed as contributing factors to the incident. During the cleanup and initial investigation, the surrounding area was temporar...

SJSU Spartans tune out negative chatter in pursuit of much-needed win at New Mexico

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

SAN JOSE — The negative chatter from San Jose State football fans is getting louder with every loss, but Tre Jenkins said he hasn’t heard any of it.“I just don’t go on social media,” Jenkins said. “That’s just all bad stuff, there’s really nothing good on social media.”In the days leading up to Saturday afternoon’s crucial game at New Mexico (3 p.m. kickoff), SJSU coach Brent Brennan emphasized the need for his players to “block out the outside noise.”“I think (social media) has made it harder than ever to be a college football player because anyone can get directly to you via direct message,” Brennan said this week.“The truth is, our record is what it is, and looking backward does nothing for us,” said Brennan, whose team is 1-5 overall and winless in its first two Mountain West games. “Letting outside people that we don’t know, don’t respect and don’t care about impact how we feel about ourselves does nothing for us. We have to trust the people you love, tr...

Daycare owners arrested in San Jose child drownings

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

SAN JOSE — The mother-daughter owners of an Almaden-area daycare where two children drowned in a pool earlier this month have been arrested on suspicion of child-endangerment crimes, authorities said Friday.Shahin Gheblehshenas, 64, and Nina Fathizadeh, 41, were booked at the Santa Clara County Main Jail and were released after posting bail, records show. They are expected to be arraigned at a later date.The arrests are the culmination of an investigation closely watched both locally and across the country after the deaths garnered national headlines and looming questions about how two 1-year-old girls — identified as Payton Cobb, of Hollister, and Lillian Hanan, of San Jose — ended up in a pool at the Happy Happy Home Daycare on Fleetwood Drive the morning of Oct. 2.Both children died after being rushed to a hospital. A third child who was found in the water with them survived.In the wake of the drownings, the state Department of Social services suspended the license for the ...

Opinion: End Israel’s colonial occupation and apartheid system

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

Last weekend, Palestinian fighters in Gaza broke through the illegal wall that imprisons them into the ancestral lands from which their families were driven. Some Palestinians who have never experienced a single day of freedom were outside a cage for the first time.For more than 75 years, Israel — purporting to act in the name of all Jews, myself included — has been forcing Palestinians from their homes and killing and kidnapping Palestinians of all ages. I’m 44 years old and on Saturday, for the first time in my lifetime, Palestinians used these same tactics at a large scale against Israelis, killing more than 1,200 people and capturing an estimated 150 others.I know what you’re wondering: Am I writing to celebrate the killing of civilians? No. I am haunted when I see a photo of any civilian killed, my throat involuntarily choking up every time. My question is, if you were more shaken by the Israeli lives lost in one day than 75 years of killing and kidnapping of Palest...

Opinion: Attack on Israel was designed to spread fear and inflict pain

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:10:51 GMT

The terrorist killing and wounding of thousands of Jews in the homeland of the Jewish people — a day after the holiday Sukkot ended — expressed a darker desire.Sukkot celebrates how God protected Jews who wandered the desert for 40 years. Yet, not even under the supposed protection of a modern Jewish state, were these people safe. And that was certainly the point.But it’s a point that has no purpose other than spreading fear and inflicting pain. Mothers and babies were killed, according to witnesses and the Israeli government. In some cases, the babies were killed and then burned.This wasn’t the killing of soldiers on a battlefield, shot from afar. There was no military or political objective. This was wanton and homicidal. The victims saw their killers. Watched them murder loved ones. Locked eyes with their tormentors before dying themselves.While massacres are nothing new in the Middle East, how do we, as supposedly civilized human beings, react to this, how do we handle our desir...