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The Los Angeles Lakers stunned the sports world last month when Jeanie Buss sold a majority stake at a $10 billion valuation.Mark Walter, the chairman and controlling owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, made the purchase after being a minority stakeholder in the organization in 2021.And while it's been assumed LeBron James has had his fingerprints on many of the Lakers' moves since he joined the team — and plenty […]

Recovered cockpit voice recordings from last month’s deadly Air India crash reveal a moment of confusion between the pilots after the aircraft’s engines abruptly lost fuel just seconds after takeoff.The engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner - which crashed and caused the world's deadliest aviation accident in a decade - were starved of fuel when the engine cutoff switches suddenly flipped mid-flight, according to a preliminary report released Saturday by India's Aircraft Accident […]

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that his administration will impose a 30% tariff on goods from Mexico and members of the European Union (EU) starting August 1, citing trade deficits and national security concerns.In separate letters posted on Truth Social, Trump said the new tariffs—targeting two of the United States’ largest trading partners—were "separate from all Secular Tariffs" that are already in place.In his letter to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum […]

Property taxes are one of the most significant ongoing expenses homeowners face. The taxes are meant to fund local government services such as infrastructure, schools, and other essential systems.The specific fee is calculated based on a home’s value and its location, though the amount can vary annually based on local tax laws and the home’s value. Typically, if someone's home is more valuable, they will owe more in property taxes. […]

Millions of people travel every year and most of them have to navigate through airports to reach their destination. The experience that a person has as they catch flights can vary from airport to airport.A new report from AirHelp sheds light on how airports in the U.S. performed, giving 250 airports from around the world a ranking in its 2025 AirHelp Score.The organization said it looked at on-time performance during a one-year […]

Tom Petty's former Malibu home has hit the market for just over $15 million.The listing, which is held by Nourmand & Associates, says the property spans 2.6 acres in a four-home Malibu enclave above Escondido Beach and Paradise Cove.The primary residence, which Petty lived in prior to his death in 2017, has seven bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and spans nearly 8,000 square feet.Petty's former music studio, which was created from a […]

Voters are expressing more optimism about artificial intelligence than they did two years ago, but many are still skeptical. However, tech companies are pushing forward with the latest artificial intelligence technology.OpenAI's ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users. According to the platform, large language models or LLMs are used for a wide variety of tasks like business, education, software development and content creation.Before many of the chatbots we […]

It wasn’t the Hamburglar this time.On July 6, several unidentified suspects entered a McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania and brazenly walked out with the fast-food eatery’s iconic Ronald McDonald bench statue."RONALD MCDONALD IS MISSING!" the Nesquehoning Police Department announced in a Facebook post featuring the suspects caught on camera apparently kidnapping the beloved clown. "We’re not clowning around. This was a full-blown McNapping."MCDONALD'S SNACK WRAP RETURNS TO MIXED REVIEWS AFTER 9-YEAR […]

The wife of Lufthansa airlines CEO Carsten Spohr is accused of running down a babysitter while on vacation on an Italian island before flying home to Germany while under investigation for vehicular homicide, according to reports.Vivian Alexandra Spohr, 51, was driving a BMW X5 Tuesday when she struck Gaia Costa, 24, at a crosswalk in the upscale Italian resort town of Porto Cervo in Sardinia, according to Corriere News.Spohr allegedly […]