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Lucas: Vivek juices up GOP

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

Don’t be surprised if Vivek shows up at the next GOP presidential debate wearing a Donald Trump mugshot T-shirt.If the 38-year-old surprise candidate of the year could perform Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” rap song at the Iowa State Fair, then anything is possible.It is safe to say that no other candidate running could rap as well.Vivek Ramaswamy has the political world talking, not only because of his audacity to compete against a stage full of political pros, but to do so while praising Trump, whom he considers a mentor.They all, to one degree of another, are running against Trump. Vivek seems to be running with him.And if the Milwaukee debate hosted by Fox News was intended to be a job interview to be Trump’s 2024 running mate, then Vivek scored well. With Trump a no show, Vivek was able to become his stand in and a center of attention.Trump even raved about his Vivek’s performance.If by some miracle Vivek did become president, one of the first things he would do is pardon Trump, who ...

Meg Ryan returns to rom-coms to show that ‘old people’ are ‘still romantic and sexy’

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

Jonah Valdez | Los Angeles Times (TNS)Meg Ryan is back with her first romantic comedy in nearly 15 years.The “Sleepless in Seattle” actor is both in front of and behind the camera as the director, star and co-writer of upcoming film “What Happens Later,” which dropped its trailer Wednesday. Ryan stars opposite David Duchovny (“The X-Files,” “Californication”) and wants people to know that for people her age, the sexual tension is very much alive and well.“Sometimes there’s a question of: Will they be together? Will they not be together?” the 61-year-old star said in an interview done before the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike, according to Entertainment Weekly. “For that reason, [‘What Happens Later’] sort of evolves the rom-com genre just a little bit. It’s also about old people, and it’s still romantic and sexy.”The trailer kicks off with an awkward glance and wave between ex-partners Willa, played b...

Nexstar Media Group, parent company of FOX 5, closes acquisition of KUSI

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

IRVING, Texas – Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST), Friday announced that it has closed its acquisition of the assets of KUSI-TV in San Diego from McKinnon Broadcasting Company and Channel 51 of San Diego. KUSI-TV is an independent television station, broadcasting more than nine hours of local news each weekday and nearly 60 hours of local news every week.“We are very excited to be bringing KUSI-TV together with KSWB-TV, Nexstar’s other owned-and-operated television station in the market,” said Scott Heath, who will serve as Vice President and General Manager for both TV stations. “Collectively, these stations will offer more local news and information programming in the market than all of the other local stations combined and provide unprecedented coverage of breaking news, weather, and sports. In addition, by working together with KUSI-TV, we will be able to provide our advertisers and marketing clients with even more opportunities to reach consumers across our combined line...

From Ali Wong to Weezer, here's a list of Labor Day weekend events in San Diego

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Still trying to decide how to spend your Labor Day weekend in San Diego?Aside from lazy beach sessions and park hangs, there are a variety sporting events, concerts, comedy shows and more to be enjoyed this long holiday. Here's a list of some live events happening right here at home in America's Finest City between Friday, Sept. 1 and Monday, Sept. 4: San Diego Loyal soccer club to disband after 2023 season Sporting events-- San Diego Loyal SC vs. Birmingham Legion FC: Sunday, Sept. 3 at 3 p.m.-- SDSU Aztecs vs. Idaho State: Sunday, Sept. 3 at 7:30 p.m.-- San Diego Wave FC vs. Houston Dash: Sunday, Sept. 3 at 5 p.m.-- San Diego Padres vs. San Francisco Giants: Friday, Sept. 1 at 6:40 p.m.; Saturday; Sept. 2 at 5:40 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 3 at 1:10 p.m.-- San Diego Padres vs. Philadelphia Phillies: Monday, Sept. 4 at 3:40 p.m.Concerts and music festivals-- The Offspring at North Island Credit Union Amphitheater: Friday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m.-- Marco Antonio Solis at Viej...

S&P/TSX composite gains as investors increasingly bet end of rate hikes is near

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index gained more than one per cent Friday on broad-based strength after the latest GDP report helped bolster hopes that the Bank of Canada could be done hiking interest rates, while U.S. markets were mixed. It’s not every day that Toronto markets diverge so much from the U.S., which tends to set the tone, said Allan Small, senior investment adviser at iA Private Wealth. But usually, it’s because of the way the TSX is weighted compared with U.S. indexes. “It’s one of those days where what is trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange is working,” said Small.The S&P/TSX composite index was up 252.74 points at 20,545.36, a strong start to September after a choppy August. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 115.80 points at 34,837.71. The S&P 500 index was up 8.11 points at 4,515.77, while the Nasdaq composite was down 3.15 points at 14,031.81.Gains in energy stocks were a big part of the market strength north of the border,...

Stock market today: Wall Street edges higher following data that shows the labor market is cooling

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

NEW YORK — A choppy day of trading on Wall Street ended Friday with slight gains for stocks, as the market notched its second straight winning week.The market got a boost early on from a closely watched government report that showed U.S. job growth increased at a healthy, but more moderate pace last month. The report supports investors’ hopes that the Federal Reserve will hold off on raising interest rates again in its bid to lower inflation. After initially rising as much as 0.8% following the release of the jobs report, the major indexes shed most of their gains and spent the day wavering between small gains and losses. The S&P 500 finished 0.2% higher. The benchmark index was coming off its first monthly loss since February. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3% and the Nasdaq composite closed less than 0.1% lower. Still, that slight dip broke its five-day winning streak.The Labor Department reported Friday that employers added a solid 187,000 jobs in August. The job gro...

Mexican president’s state of the union address suggests crime is not a problem

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Friday delivered his second-to-last state of the union, and perhaps what was most striking of his roughly 1 1/2 hour speech was what he didn’t talk about: drugs, crime or drug cartels.Experts and residents agree that wide swaths of Mexico are under the de-facto control of drug cartels, but President Andrés Manuel López Obrador mentioned gangs — and drugs — exactly zero times. Mexico also has over 111,000 missing people, who weren’t mentioned in the speech.Crime in general merited less than one minute of the president’s speech, which focused almost entirely on what the president viewed as successes of his administration.For example, he cited a decline in the poverty rate in Mexico from 49.9% of the population in 2018 to 43.5% in 2022, though that was in some part due to the huge rise in remittances, the money sent home by Mexicans working abroad.The only thing López Obrador had to say about security policy was that his anti-crime s...

Russia-led alliance holds military drills in Belarus

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — More than 2,000 troops from a Russia-led security alliance opened military exercises Friday in parts of Belarus near the borders of NATO countries.The exercises of the Collective Security Treaty Organization include troops from Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Armenia is also a member of the CSTO but did not send any of its forces; in January, Armenia said it would not host CSTO drills this year amid tense relations with Russia.Belarus’ defense ministry said the exercises, which are to last through Wednesday, are to prepare for joint operations, including responses to a nuclear accident. The exercises are taking place in three western Belarus regions that border NATO members Poland and Lithuania. Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said the purpose of the military exercises was to destabilize the region.Belarus late Friday claimed that a Polish military helicopter flew at low altitude about 1200 meters (0.75 miles) into Belarusia...

She said she killed her lover in self-defense. Court says jury properly saw her as the aggressor

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction of a woman who fatally shot her lover in her bedroom, ruling Friday that the trial judge gave appropriate instructions to the jury about the legal limits for deadly force inside a home.Five of the seven justices agreed to overturn a unanimous appellate decision that had ordered a new trial for Wendy Dawn Lamb Hicks, who was convicted in the death of Caleb Adams. Evidence shows he was shot twice in the back in her bedroom doorway.The majority’s primary opinion said it was proper, based on evidence, for the jury to be instructed that Hicks could not cite self-defense and the protection of one’s home to justify deadly force if the jury could infer that she was acting as the aggressor, even if she did not instigate the confrontation.Adams was married to someone else and began a relationship with Hicks after they met at work in 2015.The relationship was tumultuous and strained, marked by the us...

Quebec school districts are improperly handling teacher misconduct cases: report

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:00 GMT

Quebec’s education minister says it’s absurd that a teacher can commit sexual misconduct and then be transferred without consequences to another school district.Bernard Drainville made his comments Friday in reaction to a report that identified numerous shortcomings in how sexual or violentmisconduct cases against teachers and other employees are treated within the school network.“It makes no sense that a teacher, and more broadly, a service centre employee, can commit acts of a sexual nature or violent gestures and move from one service centre to another without consequence,” Drainville told reporters in Quebec City.Drainville requested the report earlier this year after several allegations of sexual misconduct in schools came to light. It was completed earlier this summer and published Friday, looking at 18 cases at different school centres and boards around the province.The report raises several problems with the way personnel files are handled, including a lack...