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I loved Uber as a passenger. Then I starting working as a driver

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

Since debuting in 2012, rideshare services Uber and Lyft have nearly obliterated demand for Los Angeles taxis. Cab drivers who once took home $800 a week are now making half that amount. Still, there's little sympathy. Taxis are too expensive, their drivers too rude, their cars too smelly, their...

Pershing Square's new design is flat and simple – and that's a good thing

Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

On Thursday, Los Angeles got some good news. Pershing Square, the park at the heart of a revivifying downtown, has been handed over to Agence Ter, a French landscape architecture firm, for its next big makeover. The plan, which was chosen from among four finalists in the Pershing Square Renew design...

ANZ Championship netball, 2016: Karyn Bailey and Caitlin Thwaites' still-sizeable rivalry

Sydney Morning Herald 

Karyn Bailey and Caitlin Thwaites were both tall, once. By most standards the 193cm Vixen and 188cm Swift still are. But one of the ways in which netball has grown is in the size of those who populate its court extremities, and the nomadic Victorian-born pair who will be the starting goal shooters on Sunday have had to adjust and adapt to a changing game.



Nurse accused of chainsaw rampage

News Herald Sun 

A STUDENT nurse has been charged over a terrifying attack involving a pitchfork and chainsaw after she accused an associate of stealing from her.

George Clooney: 'There is not going to be a President Donald Trump'

BusinessInsider.com 

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It didn’t take long for the politically astute George Clooney to fire away at Donald Trump as he seems to lock up the Republican presidential nomination.

While doing press for his latest movie “Money Monster” (opening Friday) at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, where the film screened out of competition, Clooney didn’t hold back on his thoughts about the presumptive nominee, according to Deadline. 

"There is not gonna be a President Donald Trump,” Clooney said. Читать дальше...

Nick Jonas Jets Out of Madrid After 'Chainsaw' Vid Drops

«Just Jared» 

Nick Jonas wears his album’s initial ball cap while arriving at the airport on Friday (May 13) in Madrid, Spain. The 23-year-old singer and his team performed at the Palma de Mallorca for Germany’s Next Top Model just the night before for the big finale event. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Nick Jonas [...]

Nigeria’s Giwa barracks ‘place of death,’ rights group says

GantDaily.com 

Men, women and children living and dying in overcrowded unsanitary detention cells, stricken by disease and malnutrition — that is how a new Amnesty International report describes the conditions at Nigeria’s notorious Giwa barracks as it calls for the facility’s immediate closure. The UK-based watchdog says evidence shows that between January and April this year, […]

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Grower recalls orange habanero peppers from Texas, Indiana

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — A South Texas grower has recalled shipments of orange habanero peppers shipped to Indianapolis and McAllen, Texas, since April 28 because of a potential salmonella risk.

Bizarre fakery scandal hurts Trump character

MSNBC 

Rachel Maddow takes a look at Donald Trump's weird history of pretending to be someone else while speaking to the media about himself or on his own behalf, and the return of an embarrassing scandal with the publication of previously unheard audio tapes.

Sanders vows to continue fight for 'every remaining vote'

McClatchy DC Bureau 

U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders told hundreds of supporters in North Dakota's capital city that he would "continue to fight for every remaining vote and every remaining delegate." … Click to Continue »

Beierle keeps fighting preservation battle

«Gazette Times» (gazettetimes.com) 

Two years into her time in Corvallis BA Beierle decided “that there seemed to be a need for a local organization” to address historic preservation. So she founded PreservationWORKS.


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