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AAPI Heritage Month: Interstellar Is The Space Between Two Korean Stars

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

Against all odds, what originally started out as a tiny artisanal coffee shop, Angie and Daniel Kim’s Interstellar in Santa Monica has evolved into an all-day cafe with three diverse menus reflecting the couple’s multicultural backgrounds. Oh yeah, and then there’s the pup menu of handmade dog food for fur babies.The husband and wife team of Korean descent met at a class at Santa Monica College in 2011, while both were trying to navigate who they were in a city they found that finally embraced diversity.“I came to the U.S. when I was about two years old and spent my childhood in Seattle,” Angie tells L.A. Weekly in the cafe that features moody textural green tones, gradient wallpaper and sleek green marble table tops and black oak finishes. ‘It was a little bit of a struggle back then,” says the soft spoken and diminutive culinary school graduate. “It was a time when a lot of Asian immigrants were trying to adapt and create something for themselves. I have memories of watching my pa...

Google moves into San Jose tech campus where it could employ thousands

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

Google tech campus at 175, 225, 255, and 285 West Tasman Drive in north San Jose. Google office buildings at the campus are shown with the search giant’s logo. (Google Maps)SAN JOSE — Google has moved into another big San Jose campus, greatly widening its foothold in the Bay Area’s largest city in a shift that shows how the search giant seeks ways to expand even as it reassesses its priorities.The tech titan now operates in at least three of four buildings on West Tasman Drive near Champion Court in a new office hub that Google calls its Tasman Campus.This expansion represents at least the second major campus in San Jose where Google has quietly moved employees and begun work operations.In April, Google confirmed it had moved into two big office buildings on Brokaw Road between North First Street and Bering Drive in San Jose. The buildings are two of four buildings that total a combined 729,000 square feet that Google leased from Peery Arrillaga in 2019.The le...

More than 60 migrant families found living in dilapidated greenhouse in rural Monterey County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

ROYAL OAKS — A dilapidated greenhouse at a Northern California nursery was home to dozens of farmworkers and their families who were living in tiny and unsafe dwellings without ventilation, authorities said Friday.Officials found 62 makeshift dwellings inside the greenhouse on a property in rural Monterey County that were put together with plywood, sheetrock and other materials, said Nick Pasculli, a county spokesperson.“There are exposed gas lines and wiring, no proper sewer. The conditions are very rough,” Pasculli said.It was not yet clear if the farmworkers were employed at the nursery in the community of Royal Oaks or just lived there, Pasculli said. He added that some residents were paying up to $2,000 per month in rent and one told investigators he had lived there for more than eight months.Nor have investigators determined yet where the migrant families are from, according to Pasculli, though some of them speak indigenous languages native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.Autho...

3 arrested for gun possession, suspected identity theft in Santa Rosa

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

(KRON) -- What started as a traffic stop for running a red light ended with three suspects being arrested for gun possession and identity theft, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department. Around 11:08 p.m. Saturday, officers with SRPD stopped a white Dodge pickup truck for allegedly running a red light at Guerneville Road and Coffey Road, officials said.The driver and two passengers stopped for police. Officers said they saw an open alcohol bottle near the driver and from there conducted an investigation. Police interviewed the driver and passengers and searched the Dodge. San Francisco bike shop closes after multiple break-ins Police said they found two unregistered 9mm guns hidden in the truck with ammunition and extra magazines. They also said they found several credit cards, bank checks and personal identifying information for at least 10 people.The driver and two passengers were arrested and booked into the Santa Rosa County jail.Brandon Rosemont, 26, of Idaho, was on pa...

Police investigating migrant landing in Sunny Isles Beach

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

Authorities gathered just south of 167th Street and Collins Avenue after several migrants landed on Sunny Isles Beach.On Monday morning, sources said a white, unmarked cigarette boat dropped off about 20 migrants. Some ran toward the Newport Beach Resort.Live video footage captured a few of those migrants with police soaked in seawater, while police searched for the remaining migrants that fled on foot.Fire rescue crews were also on the scene to provide aid if needed.It remains unclear how far off the shore the migrants were dropped off.As police investigate the scene, residents are being asked to avoid the area until further notice.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Police investigating after man struck by Brightline train

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

A Brightline train has come to a stop after an adult male was struck in Miami. The incident occurred near the 79th Street and Northeast Fourth Avenue tracks, Monday morning. https://twitter.com/MiamiPD/status/1658120575653494784According to Miami Fire Rescue, a 34-year-old male was struck by the Brightline train and was taken to the hospital in serious condition. The identity of the victim has not been released. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Liz Truss calls for deeds, not words, from West on China ahead of Taiwan visit

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

LONDON — “More action” from the West is needed to combat China, Liz Truss warned Monday ahead of a controversial trip to Taiwan this week.In an interview with POLITICO’s editor-in-chief, Jamil Anderlini, at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, Truss defended her decision to visit Taiwan Tuesday, arguing the self-governing island’s government invited her. Truss, who was U.K. foreign secretary before entering No. 10 Downing Street, is one of the ruling Conservative Party’s most strident China hawks. She will arrive in Taiwan Tuesday as the first former prime minister to visit the territory since Margaret Thatcher in the 1990s.China views self-governing Taiwan as its territory and has said it is committed to reclaiming it — though the U.S. President Joe Biden has promised to arm and defend the island in the event of an invasion. Defending her visit, Truss argued that it is “very important” the West engages with the island.“The reason I’...

How Turkey’s Erdoğan uses social media to cling onto power

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

In his campaign to hold onto Turkey’s presidency, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has a secret weapon: a social media crackdown partly inspired by Europe.As the country heads toward a run-off between Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, his reform-minded rival, the Turkish leader’s increasing control of social media has become another tool to help him extend his 20-year reign. Over the weekend, Erdoğan’s government ordered Twitter to block the accounts of roughly a dozen local opposition public figures over the weekend — a move that triggered a backlash against Elon Musk for complying with the directive. In truth, Erdoğan’s efforts to control social media go back more than a decade.That push culminated in October when Turkey’s ruling party passed wide-ranging social media rules that, in part, mirrored similar legislation recently passed in the European Union. Both the Turkish and European regimes aim to clamp down on harmful online posts, stop the spread of disinf...

EU clears Microsoft deal blocked by the UK

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

BRUSSELS — Microsoft on Monday won European Union approval for a $69 billion gaming deal that the United Kingdom has already vetoed.Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Microsoft’s offer to license Activision Blizzard’s games for cloud gaming for the first time would “kickstart the market.” The European Commission and the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had a “difference in the assessment of what will happen in cloud gaming,” she said, with the U.K. seeing Microsoft’s share of cloud gaming growing far faster.“We don’t see everything the same way as other jurisdictions,” she told reporters at a briefing Monday. “We’ve been working very closely with the CMA and with colleagues” from the U.S. antitrust authorities and “we will sometimes come to diverging conclusions … this will happen once in a while.”The U.K. merger watchdog blocked the deal in April because...

Human DNA can now be pulled from thin air or a footprint on the beach. Here’s what that could mean

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:26:42 GMT

(CNN) — Footprints left on a beach. Air breathed in a busy room. Ocean water.Scientists have been able to collect and analyze detailed genetic data from human DNA from all these places, raising thorny ethical questions about consent, privacy and security when it comes to our biological information.The researchers from the University of Florida, who were using environmental DNA found in sand to study endangered sea turtles, said the DNA was of such high quality that the scientists could identify mutations associated with disease and determine the genetic ancestry of populations living nearby.They could also match genetic information to individual participants who had volunteered to have their DNA recovered as part of the research that published in the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution on Monday.“All this very personal, ancestral and health related data is freely available in the environment and is simply floating around in the air right now,” said Da...