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Crews battle massive house fire in Echo Park

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

Firefighters battled a massive house fire in Echo Park late Friday night.The single-family home on the 1200 block of West Court Street was seen completely engulfed in flames as fire crews worked to knock down the blaze.Sky5 video showed heavy plumes of dark smoke billowing out into the night sky. Some neighbors were seen attempting to douse the flames with their hose lines before firefighters arrived.A “for sale” sign is posted in front of the home which was unoccupied when the blaze ignited.Los Angeles firefighters battled a massive house fire in Echo Park on May 5, 2023. (KTLA)Los Angeles firefighters battled a massive house fire in Echo Park on May 5, 2023. (KTLA)Los Angeles firefighters battled a massive house fire in Echo Park on May 5, 2023. (KTLA)Los Angeles firefighters battled a massive house fire in Echo Park on May 5, 2023. (KTLA)Los Angeles firefighters battled a massive house fire in Echo Park on May 5, 2023. (KTLA)Los Angeles firefighters battled a massive house fire i...

Así es la fortuna del rey Carlos III y la familia real británica: origen, patrimonio e impuestos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

(CNN) — Cuando la familia real británica organiza un acontecimiento, no lo hace con discreción, está lleno de pompa, esplendor y poder. Y toda esta opulencia a menudo nos hace pensar en dinero. ¿De dónde procede la fortuna?Todo forma parte de un intrincado sistema compuesto a grandes rasgos por tres fuentes.La Subvención SoberanaUtilidades totales del Crown Estate en 2019-2020: 345 millones de librasUtilidades del Crown Estate destinado a la Subvención Soberana de 2021-2022: 86,3 millones de librasLa Subvención Soberana es la fuente de financiación más pública y, a menudo, la más polémica.Esta subvención es una parte de las utilidades generadas por el Patrimonio de la Corona (Crown Estate) una vasta cartera de majestuosas propiedades en todo el Reino Unido que se arrienda a personas y empresas.Todos los activos patrimoniales ascendían a más de US$ 20.000 millones o 16.500 millones de libras en 2022.Aunque se denomina Patrimonio de la Corona, no son propiedad privada del monarc...

La Universidad de California en Santa Cruz condena los recientes actos antisemitas y anti-LGTBQ, incluido un acto para celebrar el cumpleaños de Hitler

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

(CNN) — La Universidad de California en Santa Cruz condenó los recientes incidentes antisemitas y anti-LGBTQ reportados dentro y cerca del campus, que incluyeron a un grupo de estudiantes que supuestamente se reunió para celebrar el cumpleaños de Adolf Hitler.“Cantaron el cumpleaños feliz y comieron pasteles adornados con símbolos de odio y horror”, dijo en un comunicado Akirah Bradley-Armstrong, vicerrectora de Asuntos Estudiantiles y Éxito de la UC Santa Cruz. La fiesta denunciada tuvo lugar en el campus el 20 de abril, según el comunicado.Un segundo incidente reportado involucró a un estudiante que “encontró un volante antisemita y anti-LGBTQIA+” en el parabrisas de su vehículo en el centro de Santa Cruz el 21 de abril. “El panfleto incluía afirmaciones despreciables y degradantes sobre los judíos y las personas LGBTQIA+”, según indica el comunicado.“Condenamos inequívocamente estas — y todas — las acciones antisemitas y anti-LGBTQIA+R...

1 dead among 5 shooting victims at Mississippi restaurant

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — One person is dead after at least five people were shot during a Cinco de Mayo party at a Mississippi restaurant late Friday night, police said.Ocean Springs Police Chief Mark Dunston confirmed the number of victims who were shot at The Scratch Kitchen on Government Street, the Sun Herald reported.Jackson County Deputy Coroner James Prisock shortly after midnight confirmed the death of one of the victims, the Sun Herald reported. It was not immediately clear if any arrests had been made early Saturday morning. Police at the scene were examining the restaurant’s patio area, the newspaper reported.The Scratch Kitchen’s owner told the Sun Herald there were about 200 people at the restaurant when the shooter ran past employees who were doing security checks at the entrance to the patio.“The person who did the shooting wasn’t a customer,” owner Brittany Alexander said. “He didn’t get an arm band or anything to be out here.”Ocean Springs is about 4 miles ...

Botticelli’s Venus is an ‘influencer’ and Italy is not happy

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

ROME (AP) — The Italian tourism ministry thought it had a sure-fire way to bring travelers into the country: turning a 15th century art icon into a 21st century “virtual influencer.” The digital rendition of Venus, goddess of love, based on Sandro Botticelli’s Renaissance masterpiece “Birth of Venus,” can be seen noshing on pizza and snapping selfies for her Instagram page. Unlike the original, this Venus is fully clothed. The influencer claims to be 30, or “maybe just a wee bit (older) than that.”But the new ad campaign is facing significant backlash — with critics calling it a “new Barbie” that trashes Italy’s cultural heritage.The tourist campaign “trivializes our heritage in the most vulgar way, transforming Botticelli’s Venus into yet another stereotyped female beauty,” Livia Garomersini, an art historian and activist with Mi Riconosci, an art and heritage campaign organization, said in a response to the project last month.The yearlong campaign, produced by national tourism age...

Daily horoscope for May 6, 2023

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 10:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EDT today (7:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius.Happy Birthday for Saturday, May 6, 2023:You are intuitive and sensitive to the feelings of those around you. You like to inspire others to live out their dreams. This is the final year of a nine-year cycle, which means it’s time to take inventory and let go of people, places and things from the past that have held you back.ARIES(March 21-April 19) ★★★★This is a fun-loving, playful day. Nevertheless, avoid making important financial decisions, especially about loans, mortgages or shared property. Keep things light. Later in the day, explore new ideas and new places, and travel if possible. Tonight: Serious discussions.TAURUS(April 20-May 20) ★★★Today you have to go along to get along, because cooperation with others is the key. However, agree to nothing important. Don’t volunteer for anything. Enjo...

WHO Declares COVID Is No Longer A Health Emergency

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency.The announcement was made by WHO Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Friday, a day after the WHO emergency committee convened and made the suggestion.“The Emergency Committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern,” Ghebreyesus said Friday. “It is therefore with great hope that I declare COVID-19 over as a global health emergency.”The director general said, however, countries should not view this deceleration as a call to stop its efforts toward fighting the disease. Instead, there should be a “transition” to manage COVID-19 as other infectious diseases are managed.“Last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes – and that’s just the deaths we know about,” Ghebreyesus said. “As we speak, thousands of people around the world are fig...

Dear Abby: The neighbors’ dog has bad manners and so do they

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

DEAR ABBY: We are a group of neighbors with the same breed of dog, and we walk together every Saturday morning.All our dogs are well-behaved, except for one — a young, unneutered male who is very active and humps anything that moves. Its owners are against neutering. This dog especially goes after our spayed female dog, who tries to resist him, to no avail. We often must intervene.The owners try to curb his behavior but are not consistent enough that it sticks. On top of that, when they go away they expect one of the families in the group to provide free dog-sitting and are rarely available to reciprocate. The couple generally are nice, but just have poor dog manners.So far, we dog-sit for them sparingly because of this issue. What else can we do?DOGGONE TIRED OF ITDEAR DOGGONE TIRED: The owners of that animal are irresponsible and misguided. Their unneutered dog has become a nuisance.Related ArticlesAdvice | Dear Abby: This is not how I wanted the bride to react to...

Sudan envoys begin talks amid pressure to end conflict

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

ASWAN, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s warring sides were beginning talks Saturday that aim to firm up a shaky cease-fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed the African country to the brink of collapse, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia said.The negotiations, the first between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since the fighting broke out on April 15, were taking place in Saudi Arabia’s coastal city of Jeddah, according to a joint Saudi-American statement.The talks are part of a diplomatic initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. that aims to stop the fighting, which has turned Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and other urban areas into battlefields and pushed hundreds of thousands from their homes.In their joint statement, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. urged both parties to “actively engage in the talks towards a cease fire and end to the conflict, which will spare the Sudanese people’s suffering.”The statement did not offer a timefram...

Amanda Anisimova announces indefinite break from tennis

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:42 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The WTA Tour says Amanda Anisimova plans to take take an indefinite break from tennis, citing burnout and concerns for her mental health.“I’ve really been struggling with my mental health and burnout since the summer of 2022,” the former world No. 21 American wrote on Instagram on Friday. “It’s become unbearable being at tennis tournaments. At this point, my priority is my mental well-being and taking a break for some time. I’ve worked as hard as I could to push through it.”Anisimova, now 21, reached the French Open semifinals after beating reigning champion Simona Halep to reach the final four at the age of 17 — the youngest woman to get that far at a major since 2006.But later that year, just prior to the U.S. Open, her father and longtime coach Konstantin died at the age of 52 from a heart attack.Anisimova reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon a year ago, upsetting Coco Gauff. She twice reached the fourth round of the Australian Open and beat defending champion N...