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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | John Phillips
Publicly, Kensington Palace sought to downplay Kate Middleton's last-minute decision Wednesday to pull out of making an appearance at the Royal Ascot horse-racing festival. But behind the scenes, palace insiders revealed to the Daily Beast that the sudden decision by Catherine, the Princess of Wales, to withdraw from such a high-profile event set off "a real sense of panic" and concern about a possible downturn in her health.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | John Phillips
While it didn't appear until after World War II, the Land Rover Series SUVs and their Defender successors have cultivated a very similar reputation …
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1 week ago | 
ca.finance.yahoo.com | John Phillips
The front seats would be occupied by 33-year-old Tim Hensley, a contractor from Oregon, and 29-year-old Mike Hussey, a geologist from Vermont. No matter what happened, they were in command. In the back seats, sniveling about lack of driving time, heat rash, and soggy toilet paper, were 29-year-old photographer Peter MacGillivray, from Los Angeles, and me, who, at age 40, was this year's eldest participant and the man voted most likely to become a bloody burden.
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1 month ago | 
ocregister.com | John Phillips
Now that we are a half a year removed from the November presidential election, bookstore shelves are full of missives explaining just exactly why President Donald Trump was selected by voters for another term in the White House, and why the Democratic ticket came up short.
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1 month ago | 
whittierdailynews.com | John Phillips
Kamala Harris is perfectly prepared to make all of the same mistakes
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1 month ago | 
caranddriver.com | John Phillips
From the May/June 2025 issue of Car and Driver. In the late '80s, David E. Davis Jr. and I drove a Range Rover through the Anza-Borrego Desert, hoping Anza might be the name of a Spanish beauty. As we crested a dune capable of swallowing Larry Bird, the A/C disgorged its refrigerant into the arid air. "I wouldn't drive this thing out here without a chase car," I commented. But Davis adored all things British, including the tweed hunting cape and Turnbull & Asser shirts he'd packed for the trip.
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2 months ago | 
mondaq.com | Jesse Coleman |John Phillips
The healthcare industry continues to have greaterunion representation than the private-sector as a whole. And unionshave taken advantage of their stronger position in the healthcaresector to push for increased wages and benefits, as well as lesssubcontracting of work in recent months.
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2 months ago | 
dailybreeze.com | John Phillips
California Assemblyman Matt Haney wants to bring life back to downtowns across the state of California…by allowing bars and nightclubs to serve alcohol until 4 am, two hours past the current cutoff at 2 am. Don’t look now, but I think the assemblyman may have been over-served. The extended times would apply only to venues within locally-defined “hospitality zones” on Fridays, Saturdays, and official state holidays.
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2 months ago | 
dailynews.com | John Phillips
FILE — In this May 10, 2018 file photo a homeless man sits at his street side tent along the Interstate 110 freeway along downtown Los Angeles’ skyline. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, file) UPDATED: April 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM PDTCalifornia Assemblyman Matt Haney wants to bring life back to downtowns across the state of California…by allowing bars and nightclubs to serve alcohol until 4 am, two hours past the current cutoff at 2 am.
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Mar 30, 2025 | 
caranddriver.com | John Phillips
From the March/April 2025 issue of Car and Driver. To our chaotic shores the Big Three have randomly imported Euro-spec cars. Apart from tear gas, little has more reliably induced regret and schadenfreude. Examples abound: (1) an Opel Astra sold here as a Saturn Astra, (2) an Opel Omega as a Cadillac Catera, (3) a Teutonic Ford Sierra as a 1985 Merkur XR4Ti.Importing the Ford required more balls than are weekly bounced by the Harlem Globetrotters.
