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Hot Homes reporter of the Southern California News Group.

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Video: Is Trump Taking Over D.C.’s Public Golf Courses? The Trump administration has moved to take control of three public golf courses in Washington, D.C. The Athletic’s Gabby Herzig reports on what it could mean for the courses’ future.

Is Trump Taking Over D.C.’s Public Golf Courses? www.nytimes.com/video/the-at...

12.01.2026 04:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Revisiting Jane Austen's Cultural Impact for Her 250th Birthday (Gift Article) To capture the writer’s brief life and enormous impact, we assembled a sampling of the wealth, wonder and weirdness she has brought to our lives.

250 Years of Jane Austen, in 25 Things www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

16.12.2025 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault

Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault

NYT writes: The jury determined that the launching of the 12-inch deli sandwich from what the government described as “point-blank range” was not an attempt to cause injury.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

06.11.2025 20:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Says He’s Cutting Off Trade Negotiations With Canada

Trump Says He’s Cutting Off Trade Negotiations With Canada www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

24.10.2025 03:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Pardons Binance Founder With Ties to First Family’s Crypto Venture

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Pardons Binance Founder With Ties to First Family’s Crypto Venture www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

23.10.2025 16:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing

The hell?!

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

22.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A devastating landslide wipes out a village in Sudan's Darfur, killing more than 1,000 people A devastating landslide has wiped out a village in Sudan's Darfur region, killing at least 1,000 people.

BREAKING: At least 1,000 people killed in Sudan after a landslide wipes out a village in Darfur, rebel group controlling the area says.

02.09.2025 05:27 — 👍 106    🔁 56    💬 7    📌 6
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Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings at Federal Agencies

Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings at Federal Agencies www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u...

08.07.2025 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Rejects Democratic Measure to Limit Trump’s Ability to Strike Iran Again

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Rejects Democratic Measure to Limit Trump’s Ability to Strike Iran Again www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

27.06.2025 23:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Live Updates: Trump Says Cease-Fire Is Imminent; No Word From Iran or Israel

Live Updates: Trump Says Cease-Fire Is Imminent; No Word From Iran or Israel www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

23.06.2025 23:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Reagan-Appointed Judge Fast-Tracking Trump to Trial

After 40 years on the federal bench, Judge William G. Young recently experienced what he viewed as a career first, and it didn’t sit well with him.

“I have never seen government racial discrimination like this,” Judge Young said.

19.06.2025 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Southern Baptists Adopt Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.

Southern Baptists Endorse Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

10.06.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump annoyed the Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas New executive order slams museum for recognizing “race is not a biological reality.”…
28.03.2025 15:54 — 👍 101    🔁 49    💬 11    📌 8
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The Trump-Musk Doctrine: Death Is OK! From climate change to nuclear weapons to lethal disease, the Trump administration seems to have decided that preventing mass death isn’t really government’s business anymore.

Trump/Musk cuts have abruptly ended life-saving research supported by the Defense Health Research Consortium on pancreatic, kidney and lung cancers and left much other cancer research—and cancer care centers—in the lurch.

28.03.2025 15:56 — 👍 116    🔁 65    💬 19    📌 9
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Julius Shulman photographed this $2.6M Glendale home during construction The 3,247-square-foot residence, designed by Buff and Hensman, sits on a quarter-acre lot in Glendale.

✨ This stunning 3,247 sq. ft. home boasts a main house + a permitted accessory dwelling unit with a private entrance. Designed by the renowned Buff and Hensman, it's nestled on a quarter-acre in Bellehurst Hillslopes near the historic Rossmoyne District! 🏡

www.pasadenastarnews.com/2025/03/27/j...

27.03.2025 22:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Where in California do renters stay the longest? Only 5.1% of apartments were empty statewide as 2025 started, compared to 6.7% vacancies nationally.

www.ocregister.com/2025/03/26/w...

27.03.2025 20:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A year after Key Bridge collapse: Ways to remember and reflect A year after the collapse of the Key Bridge in Baltimore, ripple effects are still being felt.

Almost a year ago, while most of the city was sleeping, a deadly tragedy unfolded in Baltimore when the Dali cargo ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

A year after Key Bridge collapse: Ways to remember and reflect

26.03.2025 14:21 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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‘It is highly classified’: Hegseth leaked sensitive attack details, former officials say Hegseth and the White House have denied sharing classified information or war plans.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s texts to a Signal group chat about military operations against the Houthis almost certainly contained classified information, according to former Pentagon officials.

26.03.2025 14:21 — 👍 418    🔁 113    💬 45    📌 10
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Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit? Biden threw billions at rural broadband, but the process was slow as molasses. Trump may speed it up—while lining the pockets of his co-president.

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington.”

26.03.2025 14:22 — 👍 133    🔁 41    💬 4    📌 3
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Private Equity Is Coming for America’s $12 Trillion in Retirement Savings Inside the push to change how every American’s nest egg is invested and make private assets mainstream.

With Republicans in control of the White House and Congress, the private equity industry sees an opportunity to fuel its next golden era: the some $12 trillion in Americans' retirement savings

26.03.2025 14:22 — 👍 96    🔁 40    💬 14    📌 5
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Democrats Just Flipped a Massively Pro-Trump District Democrats scored key victories in Pennsylvania.

BREAKING: In a major upset, Democrat James Malone snagged a seat in Pennsylvania’s state Senate in a special election, flipping a district that voted for Trump by more than 15 votes mere months ago.

26.03.2025 14:25 — 👍 501    🔁 102    💬 13    📌 13
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Judge who ruled against Trump deportation flights will oversee Signal lawsuit Trump attacked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in a Truth Social post earlier this month.

The federal judge Republicans want to impeach for blocking deportation flights to El Salvador will handle a new lawsuit alleging Trump officials violated federal law by discussing an attack on Yemen in a Signal chat.

26.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 462    🔁 78    💬 18    📌 9
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is secretly allowing investment from China ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Elon Musk’s aerospace giant SpaceX allows invest...
26.03.2025 14:42 — 👍 86    🔁 60    💬 10    📌 5

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AP’s Back-Channel Press News outlets have united behind the AP, signing a WHCA-circulated letter urging the White House to reverse its press ban, a copy of which Status has obtained.

News outlets across the political spectrum have united behind the Associated Press, signing a WHCA-backed letter urging the White House to reverse its ban on the wire service, a copy of which Status has obtained.

Details in Status: www.status.news/p/associated...

20.02.2025 04:11 — 👍 201    🔁 52    💬 14    📌 8
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Trump Says He Will Install Himself as Kennedy Center Chairman The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

08.02.2025 00:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Behind Closed Doors, Trudeau Says Trump Threat to Take Over Canada Is Real Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a talk with business leaders, said Canada’s wealth of critical minerals are behind Mr. Trump’s comments about making its northern neighbor a U.S. state.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/w...

08.02.2025 00:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Immigrants built this country. They built LA County.

They're part of our communities. They're helping rebuild our communities.

Deporting construction workers will produce heartbreak for their families, and delays and increased costs for everyone else.

07.02.2025 15:00 — 👍 947    🔁 172    💬 60    📌 7
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Trump administration orders states to halt EV charging programs Trump officials are targeting a $5 billion program to build EV chargers along highways.

In a memo released Thursday, the Federal Highway Administration ordered states to halt a $5 billion program to build fast EV chargers on highways nationwide — an initiative that President Donald Trump cited as an example of the “Green New Deal.”

07.02.2025 15:45 — 👍 157    🔁 105    💬 59    📌 26
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Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don't have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years

Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders azmirror.com/2025/01/24/r...

25.01.2025 09:02 — 👍 704    🔁 245    💬 56    📌 26

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