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Former students abused by longtime California high school teacher awarded more than $13 million

LOS ANGELES — Five women who said they were sexually assaulted by their high school teacher in the 1980s won a combined $13.6-million judgment Monday after a jury concluded that…

John McCarthy September 16, 2025

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Trump blames Biden in Nicaraguan worker’s beheading of boss

DALLAS — President Trump has blamed his “incompetent” predecessor, former President Joe Biden, for allowing an “evil” illegal migrant to be in the country when he allegedly beheaded his boss…

John McCarthy September 15, 2025

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Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a…

John McCarthy September 10, 2025

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Dying octopus tends to thousands of eggs that will never hatch at California aquarium

LONG BEACH — A dying octopus will devote the rest of her life to caring for her eggs at a California aquarium. But the eggs will never hatch, according to…

John McCarthy September 9, 2025

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Resort for sale in California has a special extra — an erotic maze. Take a look?

A 40-bedroom, 40-bathroom resort has gone on the market in Palm Springs, California — but it’s really not like, well, other resorts in the popular tourist area. It revolves around…

John McCarthy September 4, 2025

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Cardi B wins case filed by security guard who claimed rapper assaulted her

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury gave Cardi B a quick and absolute victory Tuesday at a trial in the lawsuit of a security guard who alleged the rap star assaulted her…

John McCarthy September 3, 2025

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1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows

It’s tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California’s Central Valley. She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration Control and Enforcement could upend her life more than 23 years…

John McCarthy September 1, 2025

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Victims in Florida Turnpike crash were Haitian immigrants, headed to Indiana: friends

FORT PIERCE — The three victims of a fatal semi-truck crash on the Florida Turnpike near Fort Pierce earlier this month were Haitian immigrants who were traveling back to Indiana,…

John McCarthy August 30, 2025

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Gruesome simulation reveals what ‘the black death’ does to the body – as American patient tests positive for plague

An illuminating video has captured in alarming detail exactly what happens to the body after catching the plague. The medieval illness—one of the most deadly in history—ravaged Europe between 1347…

John McCarthy August 26, 2025

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LA teacher, 44, accused of drugging, raping boy, 14, prosecutors say

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced today that a middle school teacher, Colleen Jo Matarico, is charged with sexually abusing a male student who was…

John McCarthy August 26, 2025