Maps show Hurricane Kiko’s path and forecast in Pacific as it moves west toward Hawaii
Hurricane Kiko is swirling in the Pacific Ocean and heading west in a direction toward Hawaii.
Forecasters warned that swells from the storm could reach the Hawaiian Islands by the end of the weekend and cause life-threatening surf and rip currents. On Saturday night, forecasters at the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Kiko has been strengthening over the Central Pacific as it moved west-northwestward.
With a maximum sustained wind near 140 mph, Kiko is a powerful Category 4 storm. As of the NHC’s latest update at 11 p.m. Eastern Time, the hurricane was about 860 miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.
No coastal watches or warnings were in effect.
Maui and the Big Island are expected to see swells generated by the storm by Sunday and last through midweek, according to forecasters. The swells may produce life-threatening surf and rip currents, the hurricane center said.
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Maps show Hurricane Kiko’s forecast path
While Kiko is traveling slowly, Hawaii is becoming more in its line of sight for potential direct impacts such as winds and rainfall starting Monday. The main threats are forecast for Tuesday, according to Nikki Nolan, a meteorologist for CBS News and Stations.
Acting Hawaii Gov. Sylvia Luke on Friday declared a state of emergency due to the possible inclement weather posed by Kiko. “We urge residents and visitors to monitor updates, follow official guidance and prepare accordingly,” Luke said.
The National Weather Service in Honolulu is monitoring Kiko’s possible impacts and anticipating heavy rainfall leading to potential flooding — along with high surf — early next week.
This map details the forecast path of the storm, showing it moving closer to the Hawaiian Islands this weekend:
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Another map, from the National Hurricane Center, shows that tropical-storm-force winds could start affecting Hawaii on Monday.
NOAA 
As the CBS affiliate in Honolulu notes, however, it is too soon to tell where exactly the storm will go in relation to Hawaii, as the forecast track can change.
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Aryna Sabalenka claims 2nd consecutive title – Orange County Register
NEW YORK — Aryna Sabalenka did not make many mistakes – well, until near the end – despite not sacrificing any power, and outplayed Amanda Anisimova for a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory in the U.S. Open final Saturday, making her the first woman to win the tournament in consecutive years since Serena Williams more than a decade ago.
The No. 1-ranked Sabalenka picked up the fourth Grand Slam title of her career, all on hard courts. This was not all smooth sailing, though.
Sabalenka twice led by a break in the second set, and served for the win at 5-4. But at 30-all, so close to the trophy, she had a chance to hit an overhead and get to match point. Instead, while backpedaling, Sabalenka put the ball into the net, giving Anisimova a break chance.
After that excruciating miss, Sabalenka dropped her racket on the blue court and smiled a rueful smile. A moment later, Anisimova – a 24-year-old American – converted the break to get to 5-all and shook her left fist while 24,000 or so of her closest friends in Arthur Ashe Stadium rose to applaud and shout.
Ah, but 15 minutes after the flub, Sabalenka was kneeling on the court and covering her face with both hands, coming through on her third match point – which made perfect sense, because she simply doesn’t lose tiebreakers. This one made her 21-1 in those this year, winning her last 19.
Not since Williams took three straight titles from 2012-14 had a woman repeated as the champ in New York.
The result also meant Sabalenka avoided becoming the first woman to lose three major finals in a single season since Justine Henin in 2006.
“All those tough lessons (were) worth this one,” Sabalenka said. “I’m speechless right now.”
Sabalenka, a 27-year-old from Belarus, was the runner-up to Madison Keys at the Australian Open in January and to Coco Gauff at the French Open. Then, at Wimbledon in July, Sabalenka was eliminated by Anisimova.
That put Anisimova into her first major final, which she lost 6-0, 6-0 to Iga Swiatek. But Anisimova put that shutout behind her immediately, well enough to win a rematch against Swiatek in the U.S. Open quarterfinals.
“Losing in two finals in a row is great, but then it’s also super hard,” said Anisimova, who sat and buried her face in a towel after the match was over. “I think I didn’t fight hard enough for my dreams today.”
Sabalenka told her: “I know how much it hurts losing in the finals, but trust me … you’re going to win (one). … Girl, you’re going to enjoy it even more after these tough losses in the finals.”
When Anisimova trailed Sabalenka 2-0, 30-love as Saturday’s match began, some fans might have wondered: There’s no way there’s going to be a repeat of the final at the All England Club, right?
Right.
Anisimova grabbed the next four points to break back, capping the game with a backhand winner and a forehand winner. That got the partisan fans up on their feet, shouting, and Anisimova exhaled as she walked to the sideline and wiped sweat from her forehead.
Soon, she led 3-2. But Sabalenka took the next four games and that set.
It began pouring before the match, so Ashe’s artificial lights were on, and its retractable roof was shut. That appeared to be a distraction at times to Anisimova, who motioned to her team in the stands that something was bothering her during ball tosses for serves.
The setup also created windless conditions, ideal for two ball-strikers who really can bring the power with good contact. And that’s what they both did from the start, striking speedy serves and deep groundstrokes with so much pace that responding was never simple.
Some exchanges were breathtaking – to them, certainly, and to spectators who gasped at the power during longer points.
Both are aggressive during back-and-forths and rarely are risk-averse. The rewards can be huge, as can the mistakes, and Anisimova was seeking the lines with full cuts off both sides.
Of Sabalenka’s first 13 points, which helped her claim the initial two games, just one came via her own winner. The other dozen arrived thanks to Anisimova’s six unforced errors and six forced errors.
By the end, Anisimova had nearly twice as many winners as Sabalenka, 22-13, and nearly twice as many unforced errors, too, 29-15.
“You are so incredible,” Anisimova told Sabalenka during the trophy ceremony. “I’m in awe of what you’ve accomplished, and you keep on achieving so many incredible things.”
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Rams’ Alaric Jackson and Matthew Stafford return just in time for opener – Press Enterprise
An offseason in which his life changed, when he earned the generational wealth of a three-year, $56.3 million contract, turned in a way that Alaric Jackson could not have predicted.
An ultrasound on June 9 revealed that the Rams’ left tackle had blood clots in his leg. Unlike in 2022 when Jackson dealt with a provoked clot in his lungs, these were categorized as “unprovoked,” meaning that a cause could not be identified and the risk of recurrence was higher.
At first, Jackson wondered when he would be able to play football again. Would a lengthy sabbatical be needed for his health? But he listened to his doctors and the Rams’ medical staff and did what he could this offseason, conditioning and lifting weights even if he couldn’t practice in full while he still received treatment.
“I was kind of shocked honestly, for a while,” Jackson said. “I’m in a good space now about it.”
Jackson will continue to need regular monitoring for the blood clots, but he is cleared for Week 1 action Sunday against the Houston Texans. And with the challenge the Texans present, and the condition of quarterback Matthew Stafford also bearing monitoring, Jackson’s return couldn’t come a minute too soon for the Rams.
Waiting for him at SoFi Stadium will be one of the premier pass rushes in the NFL. Edge rushers Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson Jr. combined for 13 sacks. They are orchestrated by head coach DeMeco Ryans, who called blitzes at a 26.6% rate in 2024.
That kind of combination, particularly in Week 1 when teams are still hiding their offseason adjustments, would draw the Rams’ attention regardless of the circumstances. But the circumstances of this summer make it even more imperative.
While Jackson toiled with the training staff on the sidelines, Stafford was in street clothes for all of July and the first half of August. An aggravated disk in his back was the culprit, and an evolving timeline for when he might return only heightened the suspense around the situation.
Like Jackson, Stafford is cleared for Week 1. Like Jackson, Stafford’s back will require monitoring and attention, likely throughout the season. That’s nothing new for Stafford, who has played through countless injuries in his career. But it doesn’t mean the entire Rams sideline won’t hold its breath when he takes his first hit Sunday.
“I’m going to go play the game. Whatever happens, happens,” Stafford said. “I’m playing like I always play. I have no issues with a physical game. Obviously, I would love to stay as clean as possible, but I’m not thinking twice about that at all. I’m out there ready to go play.”
Stafford has had three full weeks of practice now to get back into the flow of the offense, the rhythm of reading a defense and audibling at the line of scrimmage to counter what he sees.
For Jackson, he’s had only one week of reps, all coming against the scout defense in practice. That’s a far cry from the ones-vs.-ones reps most of the Rams got to enjoy during training camp this year, and from the defense that Jackson will face Sunday.
But three months after wondering if he would play football at all this year, Jackson is ready to play and that’s not something he or his teammates are taking for granted.
“He’s handled it like an unbelievable professional. I’m so proud of him and happy for him,” Stafford said. “I was behind the scenes for a while doing my own stuff, working out and seeing what he’s doing and how he’s been taking care of business. That’s what you want from your guy. He’s done a hell of a job really his whole career. It’s been really cool to watch him grow into the player and the person that he is right now. I’m just happy for him and wish him all the success.”
HOUSTON TEXANS at RAMS
When: 1:25 p.m. Sunday
Where: SoFi Stadum
TV/Radio: CBS/710 AM; 93.1 FM; 1330 AM (Spanish); Sirius 227, 382
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Immigration court rules judges can deny bond to millions of immigrants
A Trump administration policy to deny bond hearings to immigrants who entered the country without authorization was upheld by an immigration appellate board Friday, expanding mandatory detention to thousands of people already behind bars and potentially millions more nationwide.
Although the policy is being challenged in federal court, the ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals is likely to send an immediate chill through immigration courts where judges for decades have released individuals on bond whom they did not deem a flight risk or danger.
Those judges are now bound by the board’s decision. Immigration courts are not part of the judicial branch but fall under the Department of Justice.
Immigrant rights attorneys say holding immigrants throughout their cases — a process that can sometimes take years — is intended to break the spirit of many and force them to sign their own deportation orders.
“This is an effort to increase the number of people in detention significantly,” said Niels W. Frenzen, director of the USC Gould School of Law Immigration Clinic, who is part of a team of attorneys who have filed habeas petitions for dozens of immigrants picked up during the summer raids in Los Angeles.
“Literally millions of people are now subject to being held without bond,” he said.
One of those is Ana Franco Galdamez, a mother of two U.S. citizens who has been in the country for two decades. She was getting treatment for breast cancer when she was arrested in a June 19 raid in Los Angeles County, where nearly 1 million undocumented immigrants reside, according to estimates.
She was denied bond and missed treatment, but she was eventually released after a lawyer filed a habeas case.
“Detention conditions are horrific, and they’ve gotten even worse,” Frenzen said. “The goal of the administration is to make it difficult for people to fight their cases and to give up.”
Federal judges have ruled in several cases that denying bond violated federal statutes and constitutionally protected due process. The group is now seeking to block the no-bond policy in a class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Other lawsuits are also pending.
The Trump administration introduced the no-bond policy nationally in a memo in July — paving the way for the mandatory detention of immigrants.
The move came after Congress authorized expanding immigration detention and enforcement amid a crackdown inside courtrooms and at immigration check-ins.
Immigrants, most of whom had been following the rules to adjust, maintain or gain legal status, were arrested and detained.
For months now, those inside the immigration courts system have been pressed to implement Trump administration policies. Judges have been fired, and the Pentagon has said it is identifying military lawyers and judges to temporarily sit on the bench.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin called the ruling a “big win for our ICE attorneys securing our ability to detain illegal aliens until they are deported.” The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees the immigration courts, did not answer specific questions from The Times — but pointed out that the ruling was a precedent.
“It strips judicial discretion in many cases,” said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a former senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “It basically says, if you entered illegally, only ICE can decide if you get out of detention.”
The Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision stems from the case of a Venezuelan immigrant who crossed the border in November 2022 near El Paso, and was later granted temporary protected status. That status expired on April 2 after the Trump administration terminated the program, a decision that is also tied up in litigation.
The board determined that immigration judges had no authority to issue bonds because immigrants “who are present in the United States without admission … must be detained for the duration of their removal proceedings.”
In other words, the board’s decision treats people who have been in the U.S. for years the same as newly arriving immigrants at the border, who can be quickly deported without bond.
“We’ve had clients that are pregnant, we’ve had clients that are breastfeeding. We’ve had clients who have never been arrested, let alone commit, convicted of any crime ever, who’ve never missed an ICE check-in — they’re all being told, ‘You’re subject to mandatory detention because of this new interpretation by the Trump administration,’ ” said Jordan Wells, an attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. “This now solidifies that as the law of the land, unless and until [the] federal circuit court rules otherwise.”
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Some vulnerable seniors can’t get COVID vaccines amid case spike
Seniors in some parts of the country say they are being denied COVID-19 vaccinations amid an ongoing spike in cases, leading to rising frustration over new Trump administration policies that are making it harder to get the shots.
Matthew D’Amico, 67, of New York City, said a Walgreens declined to administer COVID-19 vaccines to him and his 75-year-old wife on Friday because they didn’t have a prescription. They’re trying to get vaccinated ahead of a trip.
“I can’t believe we can’t get” the vaccine, D’Amico said in an interview. “I’ve been inoculated a number of times and never had to get a prescription. And it’s just very frustrating that this is where we are.”
He’s not alone in his exasperation. Under the leadership of the vaccine skeptic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal agencies have effectively made it more difficult to get vaccinated against COVID-19 this year. The Food and Drug Administration has only “approved” COVID-19 vaccines for those age 65 and up, as well as younger people with underlying health conditions.
That means across the country, people younger than 65 interested in getting the COVID-19 vaccine must now either consult with a healthcare provider or “attest” to a pharmacy that they have an underlying health condition. It’s a potential hurdle that can make getting the vaccine more difficult and, some health experts worry, prompt even more Americans to eschew getting vaccinated.
As D’Amico can attest, though, being part of a group for whom the COVID vaccine is “approved” doesn’t necessarily guarantee easy access.
“For me to go to my primary [healthcare provider] now and get a prescription, it’s just kind of ridiculous,” D’Amico said.
At least some people younger than 65 are encountering pharmacy staff asking probing questions about their medical conditions.
That happened Friday at a CVS in Orange County, according to 34-year-old Alex Benson, who takes medication that can suppress his immune system.
Besides just protecting himself, he wanted to get vaccinated as he has family members who are at high risk should they get COVID — his mother is immunocompromised, and his mother-in-law had open-heart surgery on Thursday night.
Benson said an employee asked why he thought he was eligible for the vaccine.
“They asked me for either a prescription or they wanted to know … why I felt I needed the vaccination,” Benson said. At one point, a staffer offered to call his doctor to get an authorization for the vaccine.
Benson said he was alarmed by the questions, and started to “feel kind of some desperation to plead my case to the pharmacist.” Another CVS staffer later came over and said further answers weren’t necessary and simply attesting he was eligible was good enough. He eventually got the vaccine.
Still, he felt the experience was dismaying.
“I think easy access should be the policy,” Benson said. “I tend not to get too political, but it seems just rather juxtaposed to me that an anti-regulation administration is using regulation in this way. They’re supposed to be removing barriers to healthcare.”
The vaccine chaos comes as COVID-19 is either increasing or starting to hit its late summer peak. According to data released Friday, there are now 14 states with “very high” levels of coronavirus detected in their wastewater — California, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Connecticut, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Hawaii and Alaska, as well as the District of Columbia.
Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, the regional physician chief of infectious diseases for Kaiser Permanente Southern California, said data continue to show an increase in coronavirus cases.
“Over this past week, we’ve seen an increase in the number of outpatient COVID cases, and even a smattering of inpatient cases,” Hudson said. “It appears that we may be nearing the top of the wave, but it may be another two weeks or so until we truly know if we’re there.”
The rate at which coronavirus lab tests are confirming infection also continues to rise statewide and in the Los Angeles area. For the week ending Aug. 30, California’s COVID test positivity rate was 12.83%, up from 7.05% for the week ending Aug. 2. In L.A. County, the positive test rate was 14.83%, up from 9.33%.
Other data, however, suggest some areas may have reached their summer COVID peak.
In Orange County, the COVID positive test rate was 13.1%. That’s below the prior week’s rate of 18%, but still higher than the rate for the week that ended Aug. 2, which was 10.8%.
In San Francisco, the test positivity rate has been hovering around 9% for the last week of reliable data available. It’s up from 7% a month earlier.
In addition, wastewater data in L.A. County show coronavirus levels declined slightly from the prior week.
“It’s too early to know if this decrease in wastewater viral concentrations is the first sign that COVID-19 activity is peaking or is regular variation typical of this data source,” the L.A. County Department of Public Health said.
COVID hospital admissions in California are increasing — with the latest rate of 3.93 admissions per 100,000 residents, up from 2.38.
But they remain relatively low statewide and in L.A. County. The number of L.A. County residents seeking care for COVID-related illness, or who have been hospitalized, “is quite a bit lower than during summer surges in 2023 and 2024,” the public health department said.
A relatively mild summer wave, however, could mean that the annual fall-and-winter COVID wave might be stronger. In July, the state Department of Public Health said that scientists anticipate California would see either a stronger summer COVID wave or a more significant winter wave.
The current confusion over federal COVID vaccine policy has been exacerbated by the chaos at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where Kennedy earlier this year fired everyone on the influential Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and orchestrated the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez just 29 days after she was confirmed to the post by the Senate.
Some of Kennedy’s handpicked replacements on the ACIP have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation, according to the Associated Press. And the new interim CDC director — Jim O’Neill, a Kennedy deputy — is a critic of health regulations and has no training in medicine or healthcare, the AP reported.
The CDC hasn’t issued its own recommendations on who should get vaccinated, and that inaction has resulted in residents of a number of states needing to get prescriptions from a healthcare provider for at least the next couple of weeks. In some cases, that’s true even for seniors, as D’Amico found out.
As of Friday, CVS said people need a prescription to get a COVID-19 vaccine, sometimes depending on their age, in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, as well as the District of Columbia.
CVS couldn’t even offer the COVID-19 at its pharmacies in Nevada as of Friday; they were only available at the company’s MinuteClinic sites, according to spokesperson Amy Thibault.
CVS said it expects to offer COVID-19 vaccines without prescriptions at its pharmacies in New Mexico, Nevada, New York and Pennsylvania “soon,” due to recent regulatory changes in each state.
“Right now, all patients in all states need to attest to being eligible for the vaccine in order to schedule an appointment online,” Thibault said. If an adult says they have no underlying health conditions, but do have a prescription from a healthcare provider for “off-label” use of the vaccine, they can get the shot, Thibault confirmed.
On Thursday, Hawaii joined California, Washington and Oregon in launching the West Coast Health Alliance: an interstate compact meant to provide science-based immunization guidance as an alternative to the CDC.
“Together, these states will provide evidence-based immunization guidance rooted in safety, efficacy, and transparency — ensuring residents receive credible information free from political interference,” according to a statement from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office.
The statement suggested that the Trump administration was essentially “dismantling” the CDC.
“The absence of consistent, science-based federal leadership poses a direct threat to our nation’s health security,” the statement said. “To protect the health of our communities, the West Coast Health Alliance will continue to ensure that our public health strategies are based on best available science.”
It was not immediately clear, however, whether the formation of the West Coast Health Alliance would make it easier for people to get COVID-19 vaccines at the nation’s largest pharmacy retailers, where many people get their shots.
Mainstream medical groups, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, are also offering their own recommendations to advise individuals and families on what vaccines they should get.
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NeueHouse abruptly closes trendy members-only co-working clubs in L.A.
NeueHouse, an upscale members-only co-working club, abruptly closed its three locations in Venice, Hollywood and New York City on Friday, citing severe financial challenges.
The announcement, which was published on the company’s website and social media accounts Thursday, came just two days after the company encouraged people to sign up for memberships in an Instagram post.
Members were ultimately given less than 48 hours to collect their belongings from the clubhouses.
“Although NeueHouse has created an extremely valuable business that is prized by members and event hosts, unfortunately, it has been burdened by legacy liabilities,” according to the post on the company’s website, which was attributed to the NeueHouse board. “Despite our best efforts to find a sustainable path forward — including exploring every possible solution to address these challenges — we have made the very difficult decision to wind down the business.”
All three locations shut down at 2 p.m. Friday. In their statement, board members said they regret the impact the closure will have on employees and members, but noted that they believe this is “the most responsible path for all our stakeholders.”
Jennifer Duguay was caught off guard by the sudden shutdown. She joined the Venice location in mid-August and paid for three months of membership up front.
Moreover, she was upset on behalf of staff members who abruptly lost their jobs.
“In my short time there, I built meaningful connections with the hardworking staff,” she said. “Walking in the day after the announcement was heartbreaking. Despite being left completely in the dark, the staff still showed up with grace and professionalism.”
Lucas Ho, who worked in IT at the Venice location, said employees were only given a day and a half of notice before they lost their jobs — without any severance pay. He said he had seen signs of financial trouble for a while before the closure announcement.
“I felt exactly as anyone would expect someone to after a job loss, but also oddly relieved,” he said. “The ever-increasing level of dishonesty to employees, members and vendors was sickening.”
Ho said he loved his job, though, and will miss both the employees and the members.
Duguay said she never received an email informing her of the closure and knows of members who paid their annual fees just days before the announcement was made.
One Venice woman told Los Angeles Magazine that she was only able to utilize the Venice clubhouse three times after paying for an annual membership up front on Aug. 29.
“It was so cutthroat. They took my money, didn’t say a word. I feel bad for the staff,” Katrina Dargel told the magazine. “Anger doesn’t even cover it.”
Membership costs listed on the NeueHouse website ranged from $3,600 for an individual annually to $8,000 a month for a private office, which is equivalent to $96,000 a year.
The shutdown comes one month after NeueHouse co-founder Joshua Abram died at age 62 from multiple myeloma, according to the New York Times.
NeueHouse’s first clubhouse opened in New York City in 2013 amid the co-working frenzy that birthed the rise of ventures such as WeWork. But many co-working spaces have struggled to keep their doors open in recent years.
NeueHouse sought to pair the convenience and collaboration of shared office space with the trendiness and amenities of other members-only clubs such as Soho House and the San Vicente Clubs — selling members on a place to work, socialize and dine.
“For over a decade, NeueHouse has served as a center of creativity, community, design and innovation where trailblazers have convened to push boundaries and discover new ideas,” said the board in a statement. “Our mission has always been to provide a space for creators, innovators and thought leaders to gather and connect.”
The company opened its Hollywood house at 6121 Sunset Blvd. in 2013. It was housed inside the former West Coast CBS headquarters where classic shows such as “I Love Lucy” were filmed and iconic musicians such as Janis Joplin and the Beach Boys recorded. That location offered a library, co-working space, writers’ rooms, juice bar, restaurant, podcast studios, screening room and a rooftop terrace.
The Venice location opened in December 2022 in a 1922 building owned by “The Sting” producer Tony Bill at 73 Market St., near several upscale restaurants and buzzy bars. It boasted co-working spaces, a broadcast studio, podcast studio, bike and surfboard rentals, an art gallery, private event spaces and a rooftop restaurant and bar overlooking the ocean.
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Sparks’ season on the line Sunday against the Wings – Press Enterprise
LOS ANGELES — It is now or never for the Sparks, who must win their final three games if they want a chance to avoid missing the playoffs for a fifth straight season.
The Sparks, who are in ninth place and two games behind the Seattle Storm for the league’s eighth and final playoff spot, will be eliminated from playoff contention with a loss to Dallas Sunday at home. They must also defeat the Mercury in Phoenix on Sept. 9 and the Las Vegas Aces on Sept. 11 at Crypto.com Arena.
They are 3-0 against the Wings this season, but the last two victories have come by only one point, including an 81-80 win that saw rookie guard Paige Bueckers, the No. 1 pick from UConn in the 2025 draft, drop a career-high 44 points Aug. 20 at Crypto.com Arena.
“It’s never over until it’s over with this group,” said Sparks assistant coach Mike Neighbors, who spoke to reporters after Friday’s 104-85 loss in Atlanta in place of head coach Lynne Roberts after the team disclosed she was having a family emergency.
The Sparks (19-22) are coming off consecutive losses to the Dream. Dearica Hamby had a team-high 26 points Friday – her fourth consecutive games with 20 or more points – and All-Star guard Kelsey Plum scored 20 points. Second-year forward Rickea Jackson had 17.
The trio combined for 43 of the Sparks’ 52 first-half points against Atlanta but they trailed by four at halftime.
“I think we closed the game in the third quarter, we tied it back up (64-64 with 5:14 left in the third quarter) and then they hit two 3’s and a layup within a minute – I want to say a minute – and I think it kind of just took the air out of us,” Hamby said.
The Sparks could not stop Atlanta guard Rhyne Howard, who finished with a game-high 37 points, primarily on 9-of-17 shooting from 3-point range.
With three games left in the regular season, the Sparks must win out and finish 22-22 if they want to keep their playoff hopes alive.
While the Sparks do have head-to-head tiebreakers over Indiana and Seattle, just winning their last three games might not be enough.
The Sparks also need Seattle to lose their regular-season finale at home to Golden State on Tuesday or Indiana to lose their final two games to Washington on Saturday and Minnesota on Tuesday.
A win by Seattle and a win by Indiana would automatically eliminate the Sparks from playoff contention and extend the organization’s longest postseason drought in team history to five seasons.
Neighbors said he believes the Sparks will rally.
“You have a great locker room in there,” Neighbors said. “They’ll rally around each other. They’ve done it repeatedly throughout the year. We’ve battled a lot of adversity from Day One with injuries and we’ve stuck together. There’s never a doubt that this group will find a way.”
If the Sparks do not make the playoffs, the team will not have the benefit of a lottery pick in the 2026 draft. The Sparks sent that first-round pick to Seattle for guard Kia Nurse, who is no longer with the team, and the No. 4 pick in the 2024 draft, which the team used to draft Jackson.
WINGS (9-33) AT SPARKS (19-22)
When: 3 p.m. Sunday
Where: Crypto.com Arena
TV: Spectrum SportsNet
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Tours of the Mission Inn’s catacombs return for spooky Halloween fun – Press Enterprise
The historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa has announced the return of its catacomb tours in time for the Halloween season.
The hotel first opened its subterranean tunnels to the public in fall 2024 after finishing extensive safety improvements.
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Docent Barbara Burns speaks to a tour group during a visit to the catacombs at the Mission Inn in Riverside on Saturday, June 13, 2009. (File photo by Stan Lim, The Press Enterprise/SCNG)
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Docent Barbara Burns speaks to a tour group during a visit to the catacombs at the Mission Inn in Riverside on Saturday, June 13, 2009. (File photo by Stan Lim, The Press Enterprise/SCNG)
Those on the tour can learn more about the tunnels’ true history and bust some widespread rumors about the property.
Spooky, Halloween-themed guided tours are available at 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday-Sunday from Sept. 4 to Nov. 2 at the hotel, 3649 Mission Inn Ave.
Tickets start at $55. The hotel requires tour guests to be 16 years or older.
To purchase tickets or for more information, see missioninn.com.
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Google hit with $3.5B fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust case
LONDON — European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company.
The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive branch and top antitrust enforcer, also ordered the U.S. tech giant to end its “self-preferencing practices” and take steps to stop “conflicts of interest” along the advertising technology supply chain.
EU regulators had previously threatened a breakup of the company but held off on that threat for the time being.
Google said the decision was “wrong” and that it would appeal.
“It imposes an unjustified fine and requires changes that will hurt thousands of European businesses by making it harder for them to make money,” Lee-Anne Mulholland, the company’s global head of regulatory affairs, said in a statement.
The decision was long overdue, coming more than two years after the European Commission announced antitrust charges against Google.
The commission had said at the time that the only way to satisfy antitrust concerns about Google’s lucrative digital ad business was to sell off parts of its business. However, this decision made only a brief mention of possible divestment and comes amid renewed tensions between Brussels and the Trump administration over trade, tariffs and technology regulation.
Top EU officials had said earlier that the commission was seeking a forced sale because past cases that ended with fines and requirements for Google to stop anti-competitive practices have not worked, allowing the company to continue its behavior in a different form.
It’s the second time in a week that Google has avoided a breakup.
Google is also under fire on a separate front in the U.S., where prosecutors want the company to sell off its Chrome browser after a judge found the company had an illegal monopoly in online search.
On Tuesday, a U.S. federal judge found that Google had illegal monopoly in online search and ordered a shake-up of its search engine but rebuffed the government’s attempt to break up the company by forcing a sale of its Chrome browser.
But the EU indicated that breakup option is not totally off the table. Google has 60 days to tell the Commission its proposals to end its conflicts of interest, and if the regulators aren’t satisfied they will propose an “appropriate remedy.”
“The Commission has already signaled its preliminary view that only the divestment by Google of part of its services would address the situation of inherent conflicts of interest, but it first wishes to hear and assess Google’s proposal,” it said in a press release.
The commission’s penalty follows a formal investigation that it opened in June 2021, looking into whether Google violated the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own online display advertising technology services at the expense of rival publishers, advertisers and advertising technology services.
Its investigation found that Google “abused” its dominant positions in the ad-technology ecosystem, the commission said.
Online display ads are banners and text that appear on websites and are personalized based on an internet user’s browsing history.
Mulholland said, “There’s nothing anticompetitive in providing services for ad buyers and sellers, and there are more alternatives to our services than ever before.”
Google is facing pressure on other fronts.
In a separate U.S. case, the Justice Department asked a federal judge in May to force the company to sell off its AdX business and DFP ad platform — tools that are also at the heart of the EU case. They connect advertisers with publishers who have ad space to sell on their sites. The case is scheduled to move to the penalty phase, known as remedy hearings, in late September.
Authorities in Canada and Britain are also targeting the company over its digital ad business.
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How romance and a road trip led to the purchase of the world’s oldest drive-in theater
OREFIELD, Pa. — In a romance and adventure worthy of the big screen, a Pennsylvania couple is preserving the past and forging a future as the owners of the world’s oldest operating drive-in movie theater.
Lauren McChesney got more than admission to a double feature when she handed her ticket to Matt McClanahan at a different drive-in he managed in 2018. They started dating a year later, and, in August, got engaged. In between, they purchased Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theatre, which was Pennsylvania’s first drive-in and only the nation’s second when it opened in 1934.
The couple began brainstorming about drive-ins during a cross-country road trip that included stops at both operational and abandoned theaters. Their original goal was to open a new drive-in, but when they learned Shankweiler’s might get sold to developers, “the light bulb went off,” McClanahan said.
“Why are we spending so much time trying to build one when there’s one literally down the road from our house that’s for sale and is like the most important drive-in?” he said.
The drive-in movie theater industry began in Camden, New Jersey, in 1933 and peaked in the late 1950s, with more than 4,000 drive-ins, according to the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association. The numbers dropped rapidly in the 1970s and 80s as other entertainment options increased, along with land values that made selling for redevelopment attractive. Though popular during the pandemic, by 2024, there were only 283 left, according to the association.
McClanahan, 35, who grew up going to Shankweiler’s, had managed another drive-in and started a mobile movie business during the coronavirus pandemic. In contrast, McChesney, 41, had never been to a drive-in before 2018, and she left a stable corporate job in the health care industry to take on this new venture. Buying Shankweiler’s was a risk for both of them — they pooled their savings and secured a $1 million loan to buy the drive-in in 2022 — but one they say has paid off.
“This was an undertaking that was leaps and bounds bigger than anything I’d ever done in my life, in terms of investment, monthly expenses, and debt,” McClanahan said. “It still feels surreal when I think about it.”
They’ve built a successful business with the help of strong summer attendance, the occasional big-name film like “Wicked,” and special events like Valentine’s Day “date night” screenings of “The Notebook.” The drive-in is open seven days a week from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and Thursdays through Sundays the rest of the year. Tickets are $9 for children and $13 for adults.
Ken Querio, 52, of Kutztown, Pennsylvania, has been going to Shankweiler’s since he was a teenager. He made a point to seek out the owners before a recent viewing of “Jaws.”
“I actually thanked them,” he said. “It’s wonderful to have an old-school, an old venue like this still going.”
Wilson Shankweiler, a prominent hotel owner and movie buff, opened what was then called Shankweiler’s Park-In Theatre on April 15, 1934. McClanahan and McChesney are its fourth owners.
McChesney said the success of the business played a role in the timing of their engagement.
“We knew we’d eventually get married, but we kept doing other things instead, like starting businesses and buying movie theaters,” she said.
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Associated Press writer Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report.
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Winning numbers drawn in Friday’s Mega Millions
The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the “Mega Millions” game were: 06-14-36-58-62, Mega Ball: 24, Megaplier:
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Radioactive metal at Indonesia industrial site may be linked to shrimp recall
Contaminated metal at an industrial site in Indonesia may be the source of radioactive material that led to massive recalls of imported frozen shrimp, international nuclear safety officials say, as efforts are underway to halt more U.S.-bound shipments.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday that officials are in “constant contact” with Indonesian nuclear regulators who have detected Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, at a processing plant that sent millions of pounds of shrimp to the U.S.
“Preliminary information suggests that it may have originated from activities at a metal melting facility at the same industrial site or from the disposal of scrap metal junk to other areas of the site,” IAEA spokesperson Fredrik Dahl said in an email.
No U.S. investigators have been sent to the site in Serang, west of Jakarta, federal officials said.
Meanwhile, the company that exported the shrimp, PT Bahari Makmur Sejati, also known as BMS Foods, has recalled more than 300 shipping containers that were already on their way to the U.S., Dahl said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned last month that Cesium-137 was detected in shipping containers sent to four U.S. ports, and in a sample of imported frozen shrimp. That spurred multiple recalls of shrimp sold at Walmart, Kroger and other stores.
This week, additional recalls were issued by Tampa Maid Foods LLC, of Florida, for breaded butterfly shrimp sold under Admiral of the Fleet, Portico Seafood Classic and other labels.
None of the shrimp that triggered alerts or tested positive for Cesium-137 was released for sale, the FDA said. But other shipments sent to stores may have been manufactured under conditions that allowed the products to become contaminated, the agency said.
The risk appears to be small, but the shrimp could pose a “potential health concern” for people exposed to low levels of Cesium-137 over time, FDA officials said.
The FDA issued an import alert for shrimp from BMS Foods to stop the products from coming into the U.S.
The company sent about 12 million pounds of shrimp to U.S. ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Savannah, Georgia, in July and August, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection records obtained by Import Genius, a trade data analysis company.
CPB officials alerted the FDA to potential radioactive contamination of multiple shipping containers. The National Nuclear Security Administration has sent emergency teams on “multiple deployments” to “isolate and characterize the extent of Cesium-137 contamination,” a U.S. Energy Department spokesperson said.
The level of Cesium-137 detected in the frozen shrimp was about 68 becquerels per kilogram, a measure of radioactivity. That is far below the FDA’s level of 1,200 becquerels per kilogram that could trigger the need for health protections.
Still, it is unusual to see that concentration of Cesium-137 in shrimp, said Steve Biegalski, a nuclear medicine expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
It’s possible that the contamination could have come from recycling old medical equipment that contained Cesium-137, Biegalski said. The material has been used in medical devices to reduce blood contamination and to treat cancer, for instance.
When such equipment is no longer useful, it can be recycled. But if the Cesium-137 isn’t properly removed, radioactive material can be released into the environment.
“If they get broken up in some sort of crushing mechanism, then all of a sudden, it’s basically a salt,” Biegalski said. “It would be like you taking a giant salt shaker and spreading it all over the kitchen floor.”
Containing the contamination is key, and it requires experts who have the training and expertise to respond, he said.
“It needs to be tracked down, isolated and cleaned up,” Biegalski said.
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Hawaii under state of emergency ahead of Hurricane Kiko
A state of emergency has been issued in Hawaii ahead of possible inclement weather posed by Hurricane Kiko, officials said.
Hawaii’s acting governor, Sylvia Luke, issued the emergency proclamation on Friday afternoon, declaring a state of emergency across the entire state.
“The proclamation activates emergency measures and resources to protect public health, safety and welfare. Tropical storm-force winds, heavy rainfall and high surf associated with Hurricane Kiko could begin affecting portions of the state as early as Monday, September 8, 2025,” the governor’s office said in a press release.
As of Friday, Hurricane Kiko remains a major hurricane located approximately 1,200 miles east-southeast of Hawaii and is forecast to approach the islands as a tropical storm early next week, officials said.
This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows Hurricane Kiko, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025.
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“To ensure the safety and preparedness of our communities, the state and counties will stand ready to mobilize resources to clear debris, secure infrastructure, and respond quickly to any possible damage caused by the storm,” said Luke. “We urge residents and visitors to monitor updates, follow official guidance and prepare accordingly.”
The emergency proclamation authorizes the Hawaii National Guard to assist civilian authorities and directs all state agencies to cooperate in response efforts. It also activates the Major Disaster Fund to provide financial resources for emergency actions, the governor’s office said.
“The disaster emergency relief period will commence immediately and continue through Friday, September 19, 2025, unless extended or terminated earlier,” said Luke. “Several state laws are temporarily suspended to facilitate expedited emergency response and recovery activities, including provisions related to procurement, public works and environmental regulations.”
Hawaii says it is encouraging all residents to monitor official updates, follow preparedness instructions and ensure they have emergency supplies on hand.
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The August jobs report has economists alarmed. Here are their 3 top takeaways.
Many economists say Friday’s disappointing jobs report is sending warning signals about the pace of hiring across the U.S. and the broader health of the economy.
Employers added only 22,000 nonfarm jobs in August, far short of Wall Street analyst forecasts of 80,000, while the nation’s unemployment rate rose to 4.3% — the highest level since October of 2021, when the economy was still reeling from the effects of the pandemic. In 2024, the economy added an average of 168,000 per month, labor data shows.
The job market is faltering partly because of the Trump administration’s tariffs, which are heightening economic uncertainty, boosting costs for importers and complicating business planning.. Some economists also think that rapid employer adoption of artificial intelligence is hurting demand for recent college graduates and other entry-level workers, although there is ongoing debate among researchers about how much AI is affecting job growth.
“Uncertainty makes it very, very difficult for people in companies to make decisions,” Laura Ullrich, director of economic research for North America at job-search firm Indeed and a former official at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, told CBS MoneyWatch. “My former boss says that when you are driving through fog, you slow down — but if it gets thick enough, you pull over.”
The Trump administration defended its trade and other economic policies, expressing confidence they will eventually drive growth.
“President Trump’s trade deals have unlocked unprecedented market access for American exports to economies that in total are worth over $32 trillion with 1.2 billion people,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement to CBS MoneyWatch. “As these unprecedented trade deals and the administration’s pro-growth domestic agenda of deregulation and historic working-class tax cuts take effect, American businesses and families alike have the certainty that the best is yet to come.”
In response to the jobs report, President Trump on Friday posted on social media that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should have moved sooner to cut interest rates. Lower borrowing costs can stimulate job growth by driving consumer spending and making it cheaper for businesses to expand their operations.
“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell should have lowered rates long ago. As usual, he’s ‘Too Late!’,” the president wrote.
Here are three key takeaways from economists about the latest employment figures.
The job market is stalling
Overall hiring in August was far weaker than economists expected. More troubling, the numbers look considerably worse after stripping out the two sectors that showed some of the strongest growth in August — health care and social assistance. Health care companies created 31,000 new jobs last month, while social assistance — employers such as food banks and those providing services for disabled people, children and low-income families — added 16,000 new jobs.
But many other sectors had stagnant or even declining job growth, such as manufacturing, which shed 12,000 jobs in August, and professional and business services, which lost 17,000.
“Absent the secular gains in health care and social assistance, the cyclical categories of the private service sector (excluding health care and social assistance) have collectively turned negative on average in the past four months,” Nationwide chief economist Kathy Bostjancic said in a report Friday.
Hiring this summer was also weaker than previously thought. The Labor Department’s latest data shows employers cut 13,000 jobs in June, rather than adding 14,000 new hires as the agency had reported in its first estimate for that month. The June drop marks the first decline in monthly jobs since late 2020.
Although July payroll gains were revised up slightly, total job growth for June and July was 21,000 lower than previously reported, according to the Labor Department.
Job growth is at its lowest level in 15 years
The average monthly job gains since January represent the fewest jobs added over the first eight months of the year in 15 years, excluding the pandemic-triggered crisis period of 2020, Indeed’s Ullrich noted.
“We haven’t added this few jobs since 2010, and we have 17 million more people in the labor market than we did then,” she said. “That, to me, is a staggering headline.”
That loss of momentum in creating new jobs is raising concerns about the overall strength of the economy. The nation’s gross domestic product — the total value of goods and services — is expanding more slowly than in 2024, while inflation remains above the Federal Reserve’s annual growth target of 2%.
That combination has caused some economists to warn about the risk of the U.S. entering a period of “stagflation,” a toxic mix of high prices and weak growth. Forecasters expect Consumer Price Index data for August, which is set to be released next week, to show inflation rising at an annual rate of 2.9%, according to financial data firm FactSet.
“Concerns about the health of the economy are starting to creep in,” Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management, said in an email. “Equally, a strong inflation print next week could strike new fears about a stagflationary mix.”
The Fed is highly likely to cut interest rates this month
Across the board, economists on Friday said the subpar August jobs report virtually locks in a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut when policymakers meet on Sept. 17. The question is by how much.
August hiring was so anemic that some economists now think the Fed could opt for a 0.5 percentage point cut — double the typical rate cut — in a bid to keep the job market on track. Traders now see a 10% chance of a jumbo cut and a 90% likelihood of a 0.25 percentage point reduction, according to CME FedWatch. Prior to Friday’s jobs report, the market was completely discounting a jumbo cut, the tool shows.
Some economists also think the Fed will continue trimming rates later in 2025 to counter the weak job market.
“With the weak job growth, the Fed is cleared to cut rates in September. The question is whether we get [0.25 or 0.50 percentage points],” Scott Helfstein, Global X’s head of investment strategy, said in an email. “We continue to believe the Fed will ease into the cutting cycle here with one rather than two, but there is some latitude here.”
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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors’ copyright lawsuit
Anthropic, which operates the Claude artificial intelligence app, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who alleged the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
The company has agreed to pay authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement. A trio of authors — thriller novelist Andrea Bartz and nonfiction writers Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson — sued last year, and now represent a broader group of writers and publishers whose books Anthropic downloaded to train its chatbot Claude.
The landmark settlement could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI companies and the writers, visual artists and other creative professionals who accuse them of copyright infringement. A judge could approve the settlement as soon as Monday.
“As best as we can tell, it’s the largest copyright recovery ever,” said Justin Nelson, a lawyer for the authors. “It is the first of its kind in the AI era.”
In a statement to CBS News, Anthropic Aparna Sridhar deputy general counsel said the settlement “will resolve the plaintiffs’ remaining legacy claims.”
Sridhar added that the settlement comes after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in June ruled that Anthropic’s use of legally purchased books to train Claude did not violate U.S. copyright law.
“We remain committed to developing safe AI systems that help people and organizations extend their capabilities, advance scientific discovery and solve complex problems,” Sridhar said.
Anthropic, which was founded by former executives with ChatGPT developer OpenAI, introduced Claude in 2023. Like other generative AI bots, the tool lets users ask natural language questions and then provides summarized answers using AI trained on millions of books, articles and other material.
Settlement terms
If Anthropic had not settled, experts say losing the case after a scheduled December trial could have cost the San Francisco-based company even more money.
“We were looking at a strong possibility of multiple billions of dollars, enough to potentially cripple or even put Anthropic out of business,” said William Long, a legal analyst for Wolters Kluwer.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco has scheduled a Monday hearing to review the settlement terms.
Books are known to be important sources of data — in essence, billions of words carefully strung together — that are needed to build the AI large language models behind chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and its chief rival, OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Alsup’s June ruling found that Anthropic had downloaded more than 7 million digitized books that it “knew had been pirated.” It started with nearly 200,000 from an online library called Books3, assembled by AI researchers outside of OpenAI to match the vast collections on which ChatGPT was trained.
Debut thriller novel “The Lost Night” by Bartz, a lead plaintiff in the case, was among those found in the Books3 dataset.
Anthropic later took at least 5 million copies from the pirate website Library Genesis, or LibGen, and at least 2 million copies from the Pirate Library Mirror, Alsup wrote.
The Authors Guild told its thousands of members last month that it expected “damages will be minimally $750 per work and could be much higher” if Anthropic was found at trial to have willfully infringed their copyrights. The settlement’s higher award — approximately $3,000 per work — likely reflects a smaller pool of affected books, after taking out duplicates and those without copyright.
On Friday, Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Authors Guild, called the settlement “an excellent result for authors, publishers, and rightsholders generally, sending a strong message to the AI industry that there are serious consequences when they pirate authors’ works to train their AI, robbing those least able to afford it.”
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9/5: The Daily Report
Nancy Chen reports on a weaker-than-expected August jobs report, rising tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela, and more.
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The Light Committee is First L.A.-based Headshot Photography Studio to Earn 500 Five-Star Reviews
The Headshot Photography Studio Achieved This Milestone in the Los Angeles Area on the Map Platform for the World’s Largest Online Search Engine
LOS ANGELES, Calif. /California Newswire/ — The Light Committee, a headshot photography studio known for providing amongst the best headshots in greater Los Angeles, has become the first such studio to achieve 500 five-star reviews on the map platform of world’s largest online search engine. It also means the studio has more five-star reviews than any other headshot photography studio in greater Los Angeles.
The milestone was achieved at the end of August 2025. The studio verified its achievement by reviewing approximately 120 listed services on the search engine’s map platform where star-rating reviews are publicly provided. To find these service providers, a search for “headshots Los Angeles” was done. It further qualified participants using only service providers that offered a headshot service where people could physically visit a studio location for a real headshot photography session experience – not virtual or AI. Only four other studios had more than 200 five-star reviews and no others had 400 or more.
According to StatCounter, the search engine platform where The Light Committee has earned these five-star reviews has nearly 90 percent market share of the global search engine market. Furthermore, according to Search Engine Land, the search engine processes 14 billion searches daily, 417 billion monthly, and more than five trillion searches annually.
The studio has also earned many other awards and recognitions. They include “People Love Us on Yelp” and the Expertise.com Award for Best Portrait Photographers in Los Angeles and Glendale from 2019 to 2024.
In January 2025, The Light Committee moved to its current location in Glendale, Calif., in Los Angeles County. At this location, there is a large central room serving as the main studio space, a dedicated hair and makeup dressing room, a photographer’s office, and a storage room. Being located in the north downtown Glendale business district, and on the main downtown street of Brand Blvd, the location is also prime for natural light headshot sessions. The studio is a member of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the Glendale Chamber of Commerce.
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The Light Committee prides itself in offering some of the best actor headshots in Los Angeles, whether studio-lit or with natural light. Rates are amongst the most affordable in the area too, currently starting at just $150. There are also add-on options like for more looks, including a hair and make-up stylist, or adding a slate video.
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The photography studio offers studio-lit and natural light corporate headshots in Los Angeles. Delivering some of the most premium image quality in LA and some of the best prices, The Light Committee is providing amongst the best value in the area. All types of professionals get headshots at the studio. This includes accountants, attorneys, authors, chefs, doctors (including for headshots for medical residency applications), engineers, entrepreneurs, film directors, finance executives, psychiatrists, psychologists, real estate agents, software developers, and many more.
MODELING DIGITALS IN LOS ANGELES
The photographer also works with aspiring models to provide modeling digitals in Los Angeles. Most modeling agencies ask models to submit digitals for consideration to be represented by them. This typically includes a headshot, full body shot, profile shots of the face and body, and also some other shots like half body shots. Because most agencies have different requirements, getting a lot of shots created is usually a good idea so there are options to submit to as many agencies as possible.
ABOUT THE LIGHT COMMITTEE
The Light Committee is an award-winning headshot photography studio located at 335 N Brand Blvd, Ste 250, Glendale, CA, 91203, within the greater Los Angeles area, around 10 miles north of downtown LA. Rafael, the headshot photographer, aims to deliver value by providing affordable headshots with some of the highest quality results in LA or beyond. This includes actor headshots, corporate headshots, and modeling digitals. He also works with teams by providing mobile headshots at their offices. Learn more at https://thelightcommittee.com/.
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Angels’ José Soriano allows 8 runs in loss to A’s – Orange County Register
ANAHEIM — José Soriano came into Friday night’s game riding the momentum of back-to-back scoreless outings, including arguably the best game of his career.
That came to a crashing end quickly.
Soriano walked the bases loaded in the first inning on his way to giving up eight runs in the Angels’ 10-4 loss to the Athletics.
“It seemed like he was just a little bit off,” interim manager Ray Montgomery said. “A lot off, excuse me.”
Soriano’s season has been an inexplicable rollercoaster, in which he’s looked either dominant or awful, with few games in between.
“This is baseball,” Soriano said through an interpreter. “These things happen. You can have your best outing, and then things happen like today. The only thing I have to do is keep working and stay positive.”
Last week Soriano pitched twice on the Angels’ 10-game trip, shutting out the Texas Rangers over 5⅔ innings and then blanking the Houston Astros on just one hit over seven innings.
Soriano walked only four hitters in those two games, and he equaled that seven batters into Friday’s game. He finished with five walks.
He was fortunate to get out of the first allowing only two runs, even though he threw 28 pitches and 10 were strikes. And then the Angels came right back in the bottom of the inning with four runs against Athletics right-hander Mason Barnett, who was making the second start of his career.
Still leading 4-2 in the third, Soriano absolutely fell apart.
Soriano retired only one of the seven hitters he faced in the inning, including JJ Bleday’s three-run homer on a sinker over the middle of the plate.
It was the eighth time this season that Soriano has allowed at least five runs, including four times when he’s allowed at least seven runs.
His ERA for the season is still only 4.07 because of how good he’s been in the other games.
Montgomery said Soriano needs to learn how to minimize the damage on the days that his stuff isn’t sharp.
“The guys that are going to take that next step to the level we want him to be, and think he can be, find ways to do it,” Montgomery said. “Whether it’s efficiency, whether it’s pitch mix, whether it’s staying a little bit more unpredictable based on how you’re feeling — because only you know how the ball feels coming out of your hand more than anybody. Obviously, he’s still got some growth to do there.”
The Angels (66-75) have tried to unlock whatever happens mentally with Soriano to keep him from getting out of trouble when things go sideways, including having him talk to Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez.
It’s also fair to wonder if Soriano is getting worn down after throwing 163⅔ innings. In 2023, he was a reliever and pitched 65⅓ innings in the minors and majors. Last season, his first as a full-time starter, he pitched 113 innings.
After Soriano was done, the Angels got their first look at right-hander José Ureña, who is with his fifth team this season. Ureña pitched five scoreless innings, allowing just two hits.
Ureña gave the Angels’ hitters a chance to get back in the game, which didn’t seem unrealistic considering Barnett’s first inning. But the Angels only had one hit against Barnett over the next four innings.
“Not good,” Montgomery said. “A little lackluster in that regard.”
Mike Trout struck out twice, walked and was hit by a pitch, which extended his home run drought to 23 games. That equals the second-longest drought of his career, and it is the second-longest within a single season. He went 27 games without a homer in 2015.
Trout has been struck on 398 career homers since Aug. 6.
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Check out Friday night’s Week 2 high school football action – Press Enterprise
Take a look at some of the Southern California News Group’s top photos from the Week 2 games on Friday, Sept. 5.
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Los Alamitos receiver Beckham Hofland (84) celebrates TD catch with teammate Lenny Ibarra in football game against Serra Friday Sept. 5, 2025 at LA Southwest College (Photo by Robert Casillas, Contributing Photographer)
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Los Alamitos receiver Beckham Hofland (84) celebrates TD catch with teammate Lenny Ibarra in football game against Serra Friday Sept. 5, 2025 at LA Southwest College (Photo by Robert Casillas, Contributing Photographer)
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In a week of stumbles, Trump faces setbacks in court and abroad
WASHINGTON — Facing viral rumors of his imminent death, President Trump emerged in the Oval Office on Tuesday alive and scowling. Core tenets of his economic policies were under strain. Flashy diplomatic overtures to Moscow appeared to be backfiring. And a scandal over a notorious sexual abuser that has fixated his base was roaring back to life in Washington.
It was a challenging week for the president, whose aggressive approach to his second term has begun to hit significant roadblocks with the public and the courts, and overseas, with longstanding U.S. adversaries Trump once hoped to coax to his will.
The president called for an expedited Supreme Court review of an appellate court ruling that he had exceeded his authority by issuing sweeping global tariffs last spring — a decision that, if left standing, could upend the foundation of his economic agenda. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued jobs numbers showing a contraction of the labor market in July, a first since the depths of the pandemic in 2020.
New art lining a hallway in the West Wing features photographs of Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, where Trump said the Russian president had agreed to meet with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to discuss an end to the war. Yet, three weeks on, Russia had launched its most intense bombardment of Kyiv in years, and Putin traveled to Beijing for a military parade hosted by Xi Jinping, which Russian state media used to mock the U.S. president.
During an appearance in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon, Trump said reaching a deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine has turned out to be “a little bit more difficult” than he initially thought.
And a rare spree of bipartisanship broke out on Capitol Hill — in opposition to Trump’s causes.
A tense hearing at the Senate Finance Committee with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. laid bare concern over the direction of federal vaccination policy and public health recommendations under his leadership across party lines.
Trump declined to stand behind him wholeheartedly after the hearing. “He’s got some little different ideas,” Trump told reporters, adding: “It’s not your standard talk.”
On Wednesday, moments after a group of more than 100 women pleaded for Trump’s help from the steps of the Capitol seeking transparency over the investigation of their alleged abuser, Jeffrey Epstein, Trump dismissed the matter as a “hoax” perpetrated by Democrats.
“The Department of Justice has done its job, they have given everything requested of them,” Trump repeated on Truth Social on Friday. “It’s time to end the Democrat Epstein Hoax.”
Trump was close friends with Epstein for more than a decade. But his base has repeatedly called for the release of thousands of files in his case — and some of Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress are set to vote against his wishes for a discharge petition directing the Justice Department to do so in the coming days.
A far-right political activist released hidden camera footage this week of a Justice Department official claiming the agency would redact the names of Republicans, but not Democrats, identified in the files. In the video, the DOJ official also suggested that Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell was recently moved to a lower-security prison as part of a deal to keep her quiet.
Public support for Trump has appeared stable since July, with roughly 42% of Americans approving of his job performance across a series of high quality polls. But the end of the August recess in Washington — and the oncoming flu and COVID-19 season — could return public attention to subjects that have proved politically perilous for the president this week.
Polls show that a majority of the president’s Republican voters support vaccines. They oppose Putin and increasingly support Ukraine. And across the political spectrum, Americans want the Epstein files released, unredacted and in full.
A string of court losses
The president’s agenda suffered several setbacks this week, as federal judges across the country ruled his administration had broken the law in various instances.
In San Francisco, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s deployment of military troops in Los Angeles was illegal and barred soldiers from aiding immigration arrests in California in an order set to take effect next week.
In Boston, a federal judge said the Trump administration broke the law when it froze billions of dollars in research funds awarded to Harvard University. In another court ruling, a judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of unaccompanied migrant children to Guatemala.
And on Friday afternoon, a federal judge stopped the Trump administration from taking away the deportation protections under Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians living in the United States.
While the court decisions represent a snag for key portions of the administration’s agenda, the cases continue to play out in court — and could ultimately turn in favor of Trump.
Legal experts are closely watching those decisions. In the case of the military troop deployments, for instance, some fear a reversal on appeal could ultimately hand the president broader power to send troops to American cities.
Trump has floated additional federal deployments — to Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans — in recent days.
Trump reacts to a bad week
Trump greeted the waves of bad news with a characteristic mix of deflection, finger-pointing and anger.
He warned that losing his appeal on tariff policy at the Supreme Court would render the United States a “third world country,” telling reporters, “if we don’t win that case, our country is going to suffer so greatly.” And he said he was “very disappointed” in Putin.
After the parade in Beijing — which was also attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, a longstanding U.S. ally now ostracized by Trump’s tariffs — drew widespread media attention, Trump wrote on social media that the countries were conspiring together against the United States.
“We’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China,” he wrote.
In another lengthy social media post on Friday, Trump accused Democrats of fueling the Epstein “hoax” as a means to “distract from the great success of a Republican President.”
Days earlier, survivors of Epstein’s sexual abuse publicly pressured lawmakers to back a legislative measure to force the release of the sex trafficking investigation into the late financier.
“This is about ending secrecy wherever abuse of power takes root,” said Anouska De Georgiou, who was among the Epstein victims who held a news conference on Capitol Hill.
A few high-profile Republicans also broke with Trump on the Epstein issue, calling for more transparency on the investigation. Trump ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said she is willing to expose those who are tied to Epstein’s sex trafficking case.
On a phone call with Trump on Wednesday morning, Greene suggested he meet with Epstein’s victims at the White House while they were gathered in town. He was noncommittal, the congresswoman told reporters.
The survivors left town without a meeting. At the direction of the White House, Republican leadership continues to press Republican members to oppose efforts to release the files.
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