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Over 4,000 acres of Otay Mountain are on fire; orders and warnings for evacuation have been sent. As the forecast indicates rain, a new wildfire is burning south of San Diego. On a hilltop close to the U.S.-Mexico border, a sizable vegetation fire started to burn Thursday afternoon. The fires gave Otay Mountain a spooky … Read more
Pete Carroll’s momentum with the Raiders increases. The Silver and Black have moved on to a coach whose hair went more silver than black a long time ago after the Raiders failed to acquire Ben Johnson, the player minority owner Tom Brady appeared to be aiming for. In league circles, there is growing support for … Read more
ChatGPT briefly went down until OpenAI fixed it. The wildly popular conversational chatbot ChatGPT is back online after briefly shutting down on Thursday. On Thursday morning, ChatGPT outage complaints increased significantly, according to Downdetector, a platform that monitors internet service interruptions. An extended effort to load the webpage was followed by a “bad gateway” warning … Read more
Oscar Nominations for 2025: “Emilia Pérez” Takes the Lead with 13, In a year when the best picture race was wide open, “The Brutalist” and “Wicked” each received ten nominations. Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Cynthia Erivo, and Demi Moore are among the acting candidates. On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented … Read more
Trump pardons the founder of the Silk Road drug trade. Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for setting up a website to sell heroin, cocaine, and other illegal drugs in a dubious area of the internet. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult figure in the Bitcoin and … Read more
An examination of the first full day of President Trump’s tenure. Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday after taking the Oath of Office. He is just the second man in American history to retake the Oval Office after a break. He has pledged to “act with … Read more
Live updates on the TikTok ban: Trump posts, “SAVE TIKTOK,” as the app shuts down as the US ban begins. Minutes before a countrywide ban went into force, TikTok abruptly closed its doors to U.S. users on Saturday. However, President-elect Donald Trump has hinted that he will permit TikTok to reopen when he takes office … Read more