The shimmering waters of a Chilean lake call to the Dorchaks these days. The American couple — who six years ago retired to Puerto Octay, a village on Lake Llanquihue, the second largest lake in Chile — say that their lives as real-estate appraisers and investors in South Carolina used to involve a…

If you live in Fontana, you wouldn’t be blamed if you felt a case of the jitters. A swarm of earthquakes has shown remarkable staying power in the area around the Southern California city. Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson said the chance that the series of tremors will turn into a large and…

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In television and film, actors often flub small bits of otherwise flawless performances. Other times they leave out a critical word. For editors, the only solution so far is to accept the flaws or fix them with expensive reshoots. Go to the web site to view the video. Video by Ohad Fried et al. A…

In a key finding of the Mueller report , Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik , who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort , is tied to Russian intelligence. But hundreds of pages of government documents — which special counsel Robert Mueller possessed since 2018 — describe Kilimnik…

David Letterman has been interviewing people from all walks of life for decades, but he's noticeably anxious immediately before stepping onstage to perform the first interview of the new season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with subject Kanye West. His anxiety was perhaps justified, given…

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If you’re a Google user, you probably noticed some trouble last night when trying to access Google-owned services. Last night, Google reported several issues with its Cloud Platform , which made several Google sites slow or inoperable. Because of this, many of Google’s sites and services–including…

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This 1985 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ60 was sold new in California and was imported into Canada in 2006. It now shows 58k miles and is powered by a 4.2L inline-six paired with a 4-speed manual transmission and a 2-speed transfer case. Finished in red over a gray interior, the truck is equipped with Aisin…

Game of Thrones, in its eighth and final season, is as big as television gets these days. More than 17 million people watched the season’s opening. Judging by the fan and critic reaction though, it seems that a substantial portion of those millions are loathing the season. Indeed, most of the…

Future Relics is a column about the objects that our society is currently making, and how they may explain our lives to future generations. In each article, we'll focus on one item that could conceivably be discovered by someone 1,000 years from now, and try to explain where this item came from,…

“Godzilla: King of the Monsters” has a sense of wonder. After I left the screening late at night and emerged onto a dark city street at nearly one a.m., I wanted to look up rather than straight ahead, just in case Ghidorah the three-headed dragon or Rodan the giant pterodactyl came screaming down…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is now requiring nearly all applicants for U.S. visas to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers. It’s a vast expansion of the Trump administration’s enhanced screening of potential immigrants and visitors. In a move…

Photographer: Johannes Berg/Bloomberg Photographer: Johannes Berg/Bloomberg The U.S. now wants to know the social-media user names of people applying for visas, part of stepped up screening of foreign visitors and immigrants. The change, first announced last year and taking effect this month,…

A vial of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. Photo: brian snyder/Reuters By Updated May 30, 2019 4:13 p.m. ET The number of measles cases in the U.S. this year has hit the highest level in more than 25 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, warning that the virus…

Landing the first serious, big-name customer account is an elating milestone for any start-up. All of a sudden, the prospect of prominently featuring the name of BigCo on Start-Up’s little website (and its road show materials) is within reach. The CEO wants hourly negotiation updates. The deal is…

The Coming Hyper-verticalization of Labor Marketplaces Jeff Fluhr May 7 Many people have written about the slew of unicorns created over the past decade by savvy entrepreneurs who picked off categories from Craigslist. Airbnb picked off “vacation rentals” and “shared rooms”. Tinder picked off…

5/29/2019 PHOTO/Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor ALTADENA - A hiker in his 30s or 40s is expected to undergo surgery after being stabbed multiple times in the chest and arms after a transient attacked him Wednesday. The transient allegedly stabbed…

H uawei began building its own phone-testing system, xDeviceRobot, in early 2012. The Chinese company hoped to improve the quality of its mobile hardware, which tended to fail far more often than competitors' devices in third-party trials. In May 2012, Huawei China asked T-Mobile if it could license…

Ahh, the pursuit of happiness. So many voices in the chorus telling us how to master it. There are psychology-based tricks to happiness , watch-outs for what kills happiness , even equations for happiness . Despite all the sources of inspiration on the topic, it's hard not to take notice of an…

FDA study gets to the heart of expired medicine and safety Updated: August 13, 2018 Published: November, 2003 The big question is, do pills expire? With a splitting headache, you reach into your medicine cabinet for some aspirin only to find the stamped expiration date on the medicine bottle is more…

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Early in my career, I was lucky enough to work alongside two extraordinary sales leaders: Jim Herbold at Box and Brian Millham at Salesforce. Jim was Box’s first sales hire, employee #7, and took the company from $0 to $100M in ARR. Brian started as Salesforce’s 2nd salesperson and is still there……

In private, Mr. Trump has made fun of his adviser’s militant reputation, suggesting that he was the one restraining Mr. Bolton rather than the other way around. “If it was up to John, we’d be in four wars now,” one senior official has recalled the president saying.

Motivational speaker Tony Robbins officially joined Creative Planning in March 2016 with the goals of training advisers to better manage clients’ emotional needs and raising awareness about broader financial literacy efforts. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News By May 28, 2019 1:48 p.m. ET | WSJ…

President Trump is shown touring the Japanese destroyer JS Kaga, in Yokosuka, Japan, on Tuesday. (Charly Triballeau/AP) James Comey is a former director of the FBI and a former deputy attorney general. It is tempting for normal people to ignore our president when he starts ranting about treason and…

For the past decade, on American campuses, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college. Photograph by George S. Zimbel / Getty Having ignored questions of economic inequality for decades, economists and other scholars have recently…

PARIS (Reuters) - France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday there were signs that chemicals had been used in attacks by Syrian government forces on rebels in northwest Syria, but they still needed to be verified. The United States said on May 23 it had received numerous reports that appeared…

How to watch: Amanpour's exclusive interview with Chancellor Angela Merkel airs tonight on PBS (check your local listings). (CNN) German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said "there is work to be done" in Germany to face up to the dark forces that are finding mainstream support there and in other parts…

A 10% down payment has been made, but buyer has not been named. Source: Salon Digital media company Salon Media Group is for sale, including intellectual property rights and the Salon.com website, according to a May 8 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The sale price is $5…

Laura Elizabeth Loomer enters a diner in Burbank with a designer bag slung over her shoulder, wearing glammed-up eyeshadow, her Fox News-blonde hair dyed Transylvanian-black like her eyebrows. She orders black coffee and crispy bacon. She looks she’s attending her own funeral. Coffee with Laura is a…

(Andrea Ventura) I t can be difficult to read, let alone write about, a posthumous work by a beloved writer. For one thing, such books are often not very good: Consider the lovingly, if haphazardly, collected omnibus of oddments the writer might not have bothered publishing, had they lived; the…

COGwriter Forbes put out the following, written by , that caught my attention: The 2020s Might Be The Worst Decade In U.S. History I recently wrote about a looming credit crisis that’s stemming from high-yield junk bonds. … Rising defaults will force banks to reduce their lending exposure, drying up…

President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war against China has drawn plenty of historical parallels. The Chinese like to invoke the 19th-century Opium Wars and the national humiliation that followed. In the U.S. the comparison is increasingly to the Cold War against the Soviet Union, or the 1980s…

Lance Armstrong admitted to cheating in a January 2013 televised interview with Oprah Winfrey.Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Former cycling champion Lance Armstrong has said he “wouldn’t change a thing” about the doping that led to him being stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles,…

Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that unemployment reached the lowest rate in 50 years, at 3.6 percent. And there are currently 7.5 million job openings in the U.S. The low unemployment rate is significantly impacting businesses across industries – and small businesses are…

Michael Avenatti in New York City. Photograph By Philip Montgomery. Michael Avenatti was looking at his phone, scrolling through his Twitter mentions, when it all came crashing down. Not long before noon on March 25, he was walking toward an escalator in the newly opened 720,000-square-foot shopping…

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