Author: Artificial Intelligence

You’re at the grocery store, reaching on your tiptoes to pick up the milk on the top shelf with the most recent date on it. You think it’s worth it to have milk that stays fresh longer. Of course, you won’t be able to finish drinking the milk by that day, so you dutifully pour the rest down the drain the next day.But that “sell by” label doesn’t indicate when milk goes bad, it’s meant to help grocery stores rotate inventory. Your milk was fine. Now, you go back to the store and pay the extra fee.With the exception of…

The old man told his neighbors that he was a member of the Rothschild family, a prominent European family whose combined assets were worth billions of dollars. He certainly seemed to have some of the trappings of a respected banker’s descendant, including a collection of classic cars featuring Ferraris and Jaguars. But questions about his identity emerged last week, days after William de Rothschild, 87, was found dead in his fire-damaged Laurel Canyon home. He was not born with that name and does not appear in the official family tree kept in the Rothschild family archives. Court filings may explain…

A Southern California school janitor has been jailed for almost five years for lewd sex crimes against young boys. Pedro Martinez, who has now been acquitted, is accused of a botched investigation, that his accuser had made nearly a dozen similar claims in the past, and that a child was coaxed into confessing and rewarded with candy. He is suing over an incident he says was rife with lies and dirty tactics.Last December, Martinez was released from prison after a jury acquitted him of sexually assaulting a child at Hesperia Elementary School. But Martinez doesn’t just want her freedom, she…

Two East Side elected officials are asking the city of Los Angeles to block approval of a planned Lincoln Heights warehouse, saying it would be a dangerous source of truck traffic and diesel exhaust.Standing in front of City Hall on Tuesday, City Councilman Unis Hernandez and Education Commissioner Rocio Rivas said the 62,000-square-foot facility is located across Pasadena Street from nearby Hillside Elementary School. It warned that it could pose a serious health threat.Hernandez said Lincoln Heights, a working-class neighborhood northeast of downtown, is already affected by “serious environmental injustices” such as freight train pollution, industrial site pollution and the…

In a key moment in the 2024 World Series, a ball fired from Freddie Freeman’s bat into the right field stands at Dodger Stadium hit the auction block Wednesday. Bids for the walk-off grand slam ball that gave the Dodgers a 6-3 victory in Game 1, propelling the team to their eighth World Series championship and Freeman as series MVP, will be accepted through Dec. 14 at SCP Auctions. David Kohler said he believes Ball is “easily worth seven figures.” Bidding will begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Suffering from an ankle injury, Freeman hit Nestor Cortez’s first pitch…

It’s the season to unpack Spotify Wrapped. And it’s no surprise that Taylor Swift has been named the most streamed artist for the second year in a row. On Wednesday, the streaming giant released its annual summary of individual viewing trends and trends around the world. Users can now not only access top artists, songs, genres, albums, and podcasts, but also find out which artists had the biggest years on the platform. Swift ranks as the world’s most streamed artist in 2024 with over 26.6 billion streams. Following her are The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, Drake and Billie Eilish. In the…

After a Southern California store became the target of a shoplifter, the owners decided to feature the thief as the star of their latest clothing collection. On December 28, 2023, a male shoplifter was caught on surveillance camera breaking into Valdagen on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice in broad daylight. He quickly snatched a sweatshirt and another item from a display shelf near the store’s entrance and quietly left. Store owner Jared Ingold decides to use the crime to his advantage by creating a new clothing collection called “Wanted,” featuring caricatures of the suspects front and center. “As small business…

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in a planned targeted attack outside a Manhattan hotel early Wednesday morning, the New York Police Department said. Police said Thompson, 50, was shot in the back and chest outside New York’s Hilton Midtown hotel as UnitedHealth Group prepared to hold an investor meeting. Law enforcement officials said they were investigating the shooting as a targeted attack on the insurance giant’s CEO. Thompson was initially unconscious and unresponsive and was taken to Mount Sinai West Hospital in critical condition, where he later died from his injuries, the NYPD said. UnitedHealth Group was…

Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealth Group’s insurance division, died Wednesday morning after being shot in what appeared to be a targeted attack outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC. told. UnitedHealth Group canceled investors the day after reports of the shooting emerged. Mr. Thompson led United Healthcare, the largest private health insurance company in the United States. Officials said the suspect is a white male wearing a black hoodie, black pants, black sneakers with white trim, and was carrying a gray backpack. The suspect is also said to have used a gun…

Trump transition officials are considering the possibility of building a migrant detention facility on land along the Rio Grande that Texas recently purchased, according to people familiar with the discussions. Last week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s next “border czar,” agreed to discuss using military resources and building facilities to transport migrants there, according to people familiar with the discussions. We talked about construction. To use this land, the incoming Trump administration could declare a national emergency, which would divert funds to military funding earmarked for infrastructure construction and border missions. The work could be…