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☆ Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter pleads guilty to gambling-related theft charges
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( David K. Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani, leaves federal court in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 14, 2024. The former translator for Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges stemming from his multi-million-dollar thefts from the baseball icon. But federal prosecutors have made it clear that they purely view Ohtani as a victim of Mizuhara, who took advantage of the trust the player had in him. His first six seasons in North America were spent with the nearby Los Angeles Angels. The two-way star Ohtani is still recovering from an elbow injury that's keeping him off the mound in 2024 and limiting his action to the batter's box.

Persons: Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei, Shohei Ohtani, John Holcomb, Mizuhara, Ohtani, Babe Ruth, — Linda Takahashi Organizations: Los Angeles Dodgers, U.S, MLB, Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, Boston Red Sox Locations: Los Angeles , California, U.S, Santa Ana, North America

☆ Ippei Mizuhara pleads guilty to fraud; MLB clears Shohei Ohtani after probe
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Alex Andrejev | Dennis Lin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementShortly after Mizuhara entered his plea Tuesday, MLB said it cleared Ohtani and closed its investigation into the matter. Ohtani accused Mizuhara of “massive theft,” alleging that Mizuhara had taken the money without his knowledge. Mizuhara had worked for Ohtani since the player’s arrival in the United States in 2018, when Ohtani hired Mizuhara as his de facto manager and interpreter, according to court documents. The investigation unearthed no evidence that Ohtani teamed with Mizuhara to place bets, nor that Mizuhara had placed any bets on baseball, prosecutors said. Mizuhara pleaded not guilty to bank and tax fraud charges on May 14, a formality ahead of the plea deal negotiated with federal prosecutors, Mizuhara’s attorney, Michael Freedman, said.

Persons: — Ippei, Shohei, Mizuhara, ”, “, Mathew Bowyer, Ohtani, Martin Estrada, Michael Freedman, Frederic J . Brown Organizations: SANTA ANA, Calif, MLB, Los Angeles Dodgers, DOJ, Dodgers, Ohtani, Nippon, Ham Fighters, NPB Locations: SANTA, Japan, U.S, Ohtani, United States

☆ How a peak boomer lives 'perfectly comfortably' on less than $30,000 a year after moving from Texas to tiny homes in New York and Florida
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewSam Mitchell, 64, has a yearly income of below $30,000 a year from Social Security. It's a very different way of life from the corporate real estate job he had 15 years ago in Austin making six figures and owning five homes. "I am making a fourth of the money I was making in 2008, but nobody is going to do it." AdvertisementMoving to New York and FloridaTo start life anew, he bought a farm in Peru and built a small house. AdvertisementOnce Social Security payments kicked in, he relied on the $900 a month to get by.

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☆ Wildfire East of San Francisco Prompts Evacuations and Highway Shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Ali Watkins | More About Ali Watkins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A fast-spreading wildfire east of San Francisco has burned through more than 12,000 acres, shut down major highways and prompted evacuation orders for nearby residents, according to public safety alerts and Cal Fire, California’s firefighting agency. The blaze, named the Corral Fire, began Saturday afternoon outside Tracy, Calif., and was only 13 percent contained early Sunday, Cal Fire said. The fire is the largest so far in this year’s California wildfire season, which typically runs from April to October. After an unusually wet winter that included heavy snowfall and significant rainfall, experts expect the spring and summer seasons to stay relatively mild. Still, California fire officials warned last week that an abundance of dry grass in the San Francisco and Modesto areas was creating a greater fire hazard as summer neared.

Organizations: Cal Fire, Residents Locations: San Francisco, Tracy, Calif, California, Modesto, Santa Clara

☆ A growing California wildfire spanning 14,000 acres is forcing residents to evacuate
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Jillian Sykes | Dalia Faheid | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A growing grass fire that began Saturday afternoon in San Joaquin County, California, has consumed 14,000 acres, forcing residents in its path to evacuate the area, officials say. The Corral Fire began in the City of Tracy around 2:30 p.m., according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “Areas west of the California Aqueduct, South of Corral Hollow Creek, West to Alameda County and South to Stanislaus County should leave now,” the county said Saturday. A resident evacuates his horse as the Corral Fire bears down on ranches west of Tracy, California, on June 1, 2024. A section of I-580 is closed in both directions due to the “major grass fire, smoke, and zero visibility,” according to the California Department of Transportation.

Persons: Tracy, Kent Porter, Josh Silveira, Silveira, Kevin J Lincoln, CAL FIRE Santa Clara Unit’s, Baraka Carter Organizations: CNN, California Department of Forestry, Clover Community Center, The Press Democrat, AP, Alameda, Cal Fire Battalion, California Department of Transportation, National Weather Service, The California Department of Forestry, Fire Protection, Firefighters, CAL FIRE Santa Clara, Santa Clara Unit Locations: San Joaquin County , California, City, Tracy, California, South, West, Alameda County, Stanislaus County, San Joaquin, Tracy , California, Stockton, Sacramento, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, Stanislaus

Rent costs across U.S. continue to fluctuate, but there are some major areas where prices are trending up year-over-year. California is the only state with two metro areas in the top five. The rise in rent for one-bedroom apartments in California's Stockton metro area was similar, going from $1,161 in 2023 to $1,175 in 2024 — a 1.2% increase. It is important to note that the Census Bureau defines the Albuquerque, New Mexico metro area to be part of the core-based statistical area of Albuquerque-Santa-Fe-Las Vegas, New Mexico combined statistical area, falling under the southwest and western regions of the United States. Despite the nationwide median rent trending down year-over-year, the following metro areas in the western U.S. have seen the highest increases in rent for 1-bedroom apartments, similar to several areas in the Northeast.

Organizations: U.S, CNBC, Census, Thousand, Venture, Stockton , California metros, Thousand Oaks Locations: California, Oxnard, Stockton , California, Ventura, Los Angeles, California's Stockton, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Santa, Las Vegas , New Mexico, United States, U.S

☆ Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Plans an Upgrade
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Robin Pogrebin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In a statement of its commitment to artists and to downtown, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is planning to buy the East Seventh Street building it occupies and improve it with a cafe, outdoor space and studios for a new artists-in-residence program. “I want to make sure that this institution is here for generations to come,” Anne Ellegood, the museum’s director, said in a recent interview, “making sure it’s sustainable.”Since the institution moved from the west side — where it was called the Santa Monica Museum of Art — and rebranded itself with a new name in the downtown Arts District in 2017, Ellegood said, its location has become integral to its identity. “It’s literally a neighborhood named for artists, which is increasingly a neighborhood where artists are not present and can’t afford to be here,” she said.

Persons: ” Anne Ellegood, “, Santa Monica Museum of Art —, Ellegood, “ It’s, ” Organizations: Institute of Contemporary Art, Seventh, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Arts District Locations: Los Angeles, —

☆ These are the world’s 20 best cities for foodies, according to Time Out
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Some travelers pick a city break based on the destination’s cultural offerings – shortlisting the best museums and galleries to visit. It’s these gourmand travelers Time Out had in mind when the global media organization put together a new ranking of the world’s best foodie cities. “Food is everything when traveling,” Grace Beard, Time Out’s travel editor told CNN Travel. The city’s Central restaurant, recently named as number one in the 2023 World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, naturally gets a mention too. Alexandr Milodan/iStockphoto/Getty ImagesOther cities on the list include Ho Chi Minh City (number four), Beijing (number five) and Bangkok (number six).

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☆ Placebos can improve mental health symptoms, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —When you’re trying to address mental health symptoms, simply the belief that you can be helped may be an important factor. Symptoms of nine mental health disorders substantially improved under placebo treatment, according to a new review of 90 randomized controlled trials — known as a meta-analysis — totaling 9,985 adult participants largely in their 30s and 40s. “This is the most comprehensive study of placebo effects in psychiatry.”The results are also important for patient treatment, Bschor said. But for disorders that didn’t see as much improvement with placebos — such as OCD or schizophrenia, which is a psychotic disorder — medication may be more necessary. Improvement in absence of medicationThat mental health symptoms improved with placebo treatment may be due to a few potential influences, experts said.

Persons: Tom Bschor, Jonathan Alpert, Dorothy, Marty Silverman, Alpert, wasn’t, Bschor, ” Bschor, ”, Richard Keefe, Keefe, Felipe Barreto Schuch, ” Schuch wasn’t, “, ” Alpert, you’ve Organizations: CNN, Psychiatry, University Hospital Dresden, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Brazil’s Federal University of Santa Locations: Germany, New York City, North Carolina, Brazil’s Federal University of Santa Maria

☆ 10-year-old’s before-school side hustle brings in thousands of dollars: How he works around his 8 p.m. bedtime
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

If so, he pulls up the design someone ordered — his favorite is a rainbow plastic skull — and puts his 3D printer to work. Most prints take at least two hours to create, so the machine works while Heitmann heads to his fourth-grade classes, the 10-year-old from Indiana says. Many of his toys sell for less than $20 apiece. He works roughly three hours per day on his side hustle, he says. Equipped with his printer, Heitmann watched YouTube videos, took lessons on Outschool.com and asked his parents for a second device, a Bambu Lab P1S multi-color printer that currently retails for $949.

Persons: Jacob Heitmann, —, Heitmann, Ender, Heitmann's, Chris Organizations: CNBC Locations: Indiana

☆ Bill Walton, basketball Hall of Famer and colorful commentator, dies of cancer at 71
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Kevin Dotson | Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Bill Walton, the basketball Hall of Fame center who won two national titles at UCLA, two NBA championships in Portland and Boston and later put the “color” in color commentator, died Monday following a prolonged battle with cancer, the National Basketball Association announced. “Bill Walton was truly one of a kind,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. He was named the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player in that playoffs, and the next season he was named the NBA’s regular season MVP. Boston Celtics Bill Walton battles Los Angeles Lakers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during the 1985 NBA Finals. I am the luckiest guy on earth.”NBC basketball announcers Bill Walton and Marv Albert pose before the start of Game 4 of the NBA Finals in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on June 12, 2002.

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☆ How I negotiated to lower my monthly rent in a tight housing market
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-25 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. Conventional wisdom says you're more likely to be able to negotiate lower rent if there are plenty of local vacancies or when your rental is going for an above-market rate. As rental unit owners ourselves, we know how challenging it an be to find reliable tenants who will care for your property the way you would yourself. We'd like to continue being those renants for you, and respectfully request that you consider a renewable 6-month lease term at the current rate of $3,550 per month, or a 1-year lease term at a rate of $3,450. AdvertisementBe creative with your asks — and flexible with your expectationsPart of our initial ask included a variation on the lease term (6 months instead of a year), showing our landlords we were open to options other than a standard 1-year lease.

Persons: Zillow, it'd, we'll, We've Organizations: Service Locations: Santa Barbara , California, Airbnb

☆ NASA's Webb Space Telescope discovered 3 rare galaxies that can help astronomers study the cosmic dark ages
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Lloyd Lee | Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewNASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected three galaxies as they were likely forming during the universe's infancy, the space agency said Thursday. And it's all thanks to the tremendous observing power of the James Webb Telescope. AdvertisementThe James Webb Space Telescope helps astronomers study the very early universe. The Cosmic Dark AgesJames Webb Space Telescope has revealed 45,000 galaxies in this image, hundreds of which have never been seen until now. Astronomers study the Era of Reionization to understand the very early moments in our universe when galaxies and stars first formed and how.

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☆ TikTok Is About to Become Even More Powerful Thanks to Millennials
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Emilie Friedlander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

"I have friends that say that TikTok Shop has ruined the app," Casey Lewis, a trends researcher, said. "It can be good — especially as TikTok moves to TikTok Shop — if they're able to capitalize on this shift and sell products more effectively to older users." Just because something is going viral on TikTok doesn't necessarily mean Gen Z is behind it. The same could be said of Gen Z, which would explain the generations' shared fascination with a time before smartphones and round-the-clock news. The Gen Z users I spoke with didn't seem particularly concerned about an influx of olds.

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☆ RFK Jr. says he invested $24,000 in GameStop after brief meme stock revival
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hikes in the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles on March 18, 2024. "My administration will support the Ape retail rebellion and enact aggressive Wall Street reforms," Kennedy Jr. wrote in a social media post. The apes were motivated in part by a desire to buck bearish Wall Street analysts' grim assessments of the companies' long-term prospects. Kennedy Jr. is actively courting undecided voters with a fringe political brand that could appeal to some anti-establishment meme stock investors. Kennedy Jr. has made obscure statements about his investment record.

Persons: Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Kennedy, Trump's, Trump Organizations: Independent U.S, GameStop, AMC Locations: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, bitcoin

☆ Buying a dream home in Italy can be a nightmare. This couple says they have the answer
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Silvia Marchetti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The couple has set up a flourishing business buying properties, restyling and reselling them, ready-to-occupy, helping foreign buyers every step of the way. They hunt for old houses in historical villages in need of a makeover, which once renovated make the perfect summer getaway. The BEFORE picture: The couple find old houses in need of a makeover. The old properties the pair handles are located in small towns where centuries-old traditions survive. I really like old houses and the idea of giving them a second chance: especially when they are abandoned buildings rich with history.

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☆ What Walmart's RTO mandate is really about
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Dominick Reuter | Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Walmart's chief people officer, Donna Morris, commented similarly in a memo announcing the layoffs and relocations earlier that week. She wrote that working in an office would help workers collaborate, innovate, and "move even faster." Still, some employees continued working remotely, and several satellite offices remained open in cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Toronto, and Seattle. He also said he doesn't think the company is using this RTO mandate as a cover for achieving cost savings through workforce reductions, commonly referred to as "quiet firing," but that it's more part of Walmart's ethos. For the remote worker BI spoke with, the next few weeks will be filled with uncertainty.

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☆ Kevin Costner put $38 million of his own cash behind 'Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1.' Critics say it sucks.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Kevin Costner's new movie "Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Costner left "Yellowstone" and spent $38 million of his own money to make the movie. AdvertisementKevin Costner's upcoming western movie, "Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1," which he mortgaged a house to fund, was battered by critics after its premiere at the Cannes film festival. Costner has invested a lot in "Horizon," a four-part movie the actor-director has been trying to make since 1988. Costner told GQ that he spent $38 million of his own money and mortgaged his seaside estate in Santa Barbara, California, to fund the movie.

Persons: Kevin Costner's, Costner, — Organizations: Cannes Film, Service, Business Locations: Cannes, Santa Barbara , California

☆ Palo Alto Networks tumbles on earnings once again. It's another chance to buy the cyber stock
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Another earnings report, another sell-off in extended trading for Palo Alto Networks . Palo Alto Networks Why we own it: We believe cybersecurity is a secular growth market as bad actors are relentless and companies simply cannot afford to not invest in defense. We believe Palo Alto Networks, in particular, is uniquely positioned to win due to its best-in-class tools and broad product portfolio that allows it to provide an all-encompassing "platform" solution to cybersecurity. This transaction was the largest in the history of Palo Alto Networks at nearly $150 million" of total contract value. Signage outside Palo Alto Networks headquarters in Santa Clara, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 13, 2021.

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We'll show you everything you need to know about where to watch Giro d'Italia live streams, including free options that will also work for this summer's Tour de France. ET / 11:20 a.m. BST / 6:20 p.m. AWSTWhere to watch Giro d'Italia in the USMax is the US streaming home of Giro d'Italia races in 2024. Shop at MaxWhere to watch Giro d'Italia in the UKDiscovery+ will show the 2024 Giro d'Italia races in the UK. Where to watch Giro d'Italia in ItalyRai Sport will carry live streams for every stage of this year's Giro d'Italia for fans in Italy. Where to watch Giro d'Italia in AustraliaGiro d'Italia will stream on SBS in Australia.

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☆ U.C. Santa Cruz Workers to Strike Over Protest Crackdowns
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Jacey Fortin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Academic workers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will go on strike starting on Monday to protest the university system’s handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, the workers’ union announced on Friday. The union, U.A.W. 4811, which is part of the United Auto Workers, represents about 48,000 graduate students and other academic workers at 10 University of California system campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. According to the union, about 2,000 members work at Santa Cruz as teaching assistants, tutors and researchers. academic workers are standing up to go on strike in response to the university’s crackdown on our fundamental rights to free speech and protest on campus,” Mr. Jaime said on Friday.

Persons: Lawrence, Rafael Jaime, “ U.A.W, ” Mr, Jaime, “, ” Organizations: University of California, U.A.W, United Auto Workers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Santa Cruz Locations: Santa Cruz, Santa

☆ Dabney Coleman, Actor Audiences Loved to Hate, Is Dead at 92
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Mike Flaherty | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dabney Coleman, an award-winning television and movie actor best known for his over-the-top portrayals of garrulous, egomaniacal characters, died on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. His daughter Quincy Coleman confirmed the death to The New York Times but did not cite the cause. At a time when antiheroic leads, with the outsize exception of Carroll O’Connor’s Archie Bunker, were a rarity on television comedies, Mr. Coleman’s distinctly unlikable Bill Bittinger on “Buffalo Bill” was an exception. A profile of Mr. Coleman in Rolling Stone called Bill “a rapscallion for our times, a playfully wicked combination of G. Gordon Liddy and Groucho Marx.” (“He has to do something terrible,” Bill’s station manager said of him in one episode. “It’s in his blood.”)

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Video footage shows the young man in a white hoodie, identified as Edan On, striking at the barrier around the pro-Palestinian encampment. From Social MediaOn, a local high school senior, was captured on video striking a pro-Palestinian protester with a pole. A pro-Palestinian demonstrator is beaten by counterprotesters attacking a pro-Palestinian encampment set up at UCLA's campus. Etienne Laurent/AFP/Getty ImagesA counterprotester, identified by CNN as Malachi Marlan-Librett, pushes a pro-Palestinian protester in the barrier of the UCLA encampment. Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesMarlan-Librett is seen throwing the bottom of a broom at a pro-Palestinian protester.

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☆ Showcasing Authentically American Style
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Simbarashe Cha | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Share full articleFor four days in early May, Indigenous fashion designers, models and artisans from across North America came to Santa Fe, N.M., for Native Fashion Week.The event, new this year, included runway shows, panel discussions, pop-up shops and, of course, parties. It was put on by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, the longtime organizer of the Indian Market, a popular showcase of Indigenous-made goods in Santa Fe.The style outside and inside the city’s Community Convention Center, where much of Native Fashion Week took place, reflected the diversity of its participants — a group with a growing presence in the American fashion industry.

Organizations: Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Convention Locations: North America, Santa Fe, Santa Fe.The, city’s

☆ After Outlawing Public Zoos, Costa Rica Relocates Hundreds of Animals
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Costa Rica announced last week that it would close its two remaining state zoos, more than a decade after it passed a law to ban keeping wild animals in government-sponsored captivity but was met with legal blowback. Costa Rica’s Ministry of Environment and Energy said in a statement on Saturday that it would not renew its contract with Fundazoo, a foundation that had run the zoos. The move will close the country’s last two state zoos: the Simón Bolívar Zoo and the Santa Ana Conservation Center. Some of the animals have been in captivity for more than 30 years, the ministry said. Franz Tattenbach, the minister of environment and energy, said on Saturday that Costa Rica would move toward running sanctuaries for animals that cannot return to to the wild.

Persons: Costa Rica, Franz Tattenbach Organizations: Rica’s Ministry of Environment, Energy, Fundazoo, Santa Ana Conservation Center Locations: Costa, Rica’s, Costa Rica

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