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Photo Paramedics in Portland, Me., responded to a call of a heroin overdose last year. Credit Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald, via Getty Images WASHINGTON — The death rate in the United States rose last year for the first time in a decade, preliminary federal data show, a rare increase that was driven in part by…
Peer-to-peer, short-term housing platform Airbnb is probably my favorite consumer web company. A traveling member since 2011, my wife SACM and I have been hosting travelers too for most of the last year. I’m a proud and happy user. Yet I know that some of the loudest news about Airbnb in its last couple years of mainstream…
Photo Travis Kalanick, chief executive of Uber, which views the Middle East as an increasingly important overseas market. Credit Ioulex SAN FRANCISCO — In its quest to build a global empire, Uber has turned to the Middle East for its biggest infusion of cash from a single investor. Uber said on Wednesday that it had…
Photo The police at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Wednesday after two people were shot dead on campus. Credit KABC-7, via Associated Press Two men died in a shooting Wednesday inside a U.C.L.A. engineering building, prompting thousands of frightened students and staff members to hunker down or run for shelter as the police…
The script called for an epic battle. In the movie’s third act, the forces of the Eight Faery Kingdoms defend their aquatic empires from annihilation by the evil Demon Mage and his spectral legions. Five hundred extras would play the opposing armies. But in January 2010, when Jonathan Lawrence, the director of Empires of the…
“I don’t think they had a choice. I mean, probably they didn’t have a choice,” Donald Trump said of the Cincinnati Zoo’s decision to shoot and kill a gorilla. Usually when reporters ask about the gorilla in the room, it’s not an actual gorilla. Not so Tuesday, when between reporter queries about his potential running…
Story highlights The conditions of the two victims are not known Police are trying to clear campus buildings floor by floor Police received reports of an active shooter in or near the engineering building, Los Angeles Police Officer Tony Im said. The conditions of the two victims were not immediately clear. Officials put the campus…
Yesterday brought us a first glimpse of Harry, Ginny and Albus Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Today delivers another Potter-themed treat – this time in the form of Ron, Hermione and their daughter Rose. Pottermore has the first look images of the Granger-Weasley family – with Paul Thornley playing Ron and Noma Dumezweni…
After cleaning up blood, Mike and Jay saw the new X-Men film! Half in the Bag Episode 110: X-Men: Apocalypse – YouTube. Source: Half in the Bag Episode 110: X-Men: Apocalypse – YouTube
Some events are important to take note of. One of them happened on Friday when the Republican nominee for President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, again used a campaign rally to launch into a racist tirade against the federal judge presiding over two of the three fraud lawsuits against Trump’s now defunct “Trump…