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Dec 17, 2024 | 
laist.com | Emma Bowman
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
laist.com | Emma Bowman
Topline: The soft-serve machines at McDonald's restaurants are so often out of order that their reliable unreliability have long been the butt of jokes, memes — and now even a rallying cry in this year’s presidential race. Why now: A new exemption to a copyright law could pave the way for quicker repairs to the machines, sweetening the McFlurry maker's sour reputation.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
laist.com | Emma Bowman
Topline: Several hundred 7-Eleven stores across North America are closing, the convenience store chain announced.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
laist.com | Emma Bowman
Two astronauts have arrived safely at the International Space Station after Saturday's successful SpaceX launch. The Crew-9 mission, helmed by astronauts NASA’s Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia’s space agency, launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:17 p.m. ET. Hague and Gorbunov were all smiles as they entered the station the following evening, hugging the ISS crew members already onboard.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
laist.com | Emma Bowman
The Biden administration is bringing back free at-home COVID-19 tests by mail. At the end of September, each household will be able to order up to four rapid tests through COVIDtests.gov. The tests, which will detect newer COVID-19 variants, will be good for use until the end of the year. The mailed tests are returning after the Food and Drug Administration this week approved two updated COVID-19 vaccines to provide protection against current strains of the virus.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
ketr.org | Emma Bowman
A wildfire northwest of Los Angeles has burned more than 12,000 acres and forced the evacuation of about 1,200 people, California fire officials said.
The fast-growing blaze, which began around 2p.m. on Saturday in Gorman, in Los Angeles County west of the I-5, was moving southeast toward Pyramid Lake, CalFire said on Sunday.
Fueled by strong winds and low humidity, the so-called Post Fire exploded overnight.
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May 4, 2024 | 
wfae.org | Emma Bowman
The echoes of barking and blubber-slapping have grown louder in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.
An unusually large herd of sea lions hauled out of the bay waters to hang out on the docks at Pier 39, a popular tourist destination. It's the most sea lions the area has seen in 15 years, according to pier officials.
Over 1,000 sea lions were counted this week, Pier 39 harbormaster Sheila Chandor told multiple media outlets.
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May 3, 2024 | 
vpm.org | Emma Bowman
Call it beginner's luck.
On a trip to the Oregon coast in late April, amateur photographer Michael Sanchez took his new camera out to Hug Point State Park to snap pictures of waterfalls.
Sanchez, a 41-year-old middle-school band director from Vancouver, Wash., recently picked up photography and, by his account, is by no means a bird-watcher. But his trip turned into an impromptu photo shoot that made him the envy of birders.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Emma Bowman
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
opb.org | Emma Bowman
The French luxury house Hermès is known for its play-hard-to-get sales tactics — the scarcity of its famed Birkin handbag is what makes the "it" bag a status symbol among the rich. That strategy now lies at the center of a lawsuit filed by shoppers in California.
