Month: November 2019

Nearly eight months after storms tore it apart, California 243, the most direct route to the popular hiking trails of Idyllwild, reopened Friday. The alpine community of Idyllwild, about 105 miles southeast of Los Angeles, was partly cut off because of the damage. The California Department of Transformation, along with Ames Construction company, led the […]

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Click:air fryerHONG KONG —  Images of riot police lobbing tear-gas canisters into angry crowds played on the news. Activists were blasted with water cannons and carted away. Thousands of protesters filled the streets, demanding greater autonomy from China. A proposed bill, since withdrawn, that would have allowed extradition of criminal suspects to mainland China ignited the […]

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —  Saudi Arabia formally started its long-anticipated initial public offering of its state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco on Sunday, which will see a sliver of the company offered on a local stock exchange in hopes of raising billions of dollars for the kingdom. An announcement from the kingdom’s Capital Market Authority serves […]

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A once-popular loan Americans use to finance home renovations and college tuition is slowly dying, slashing a lucrative source of revenue for the nation’s largest banks. Home equity lines of credit, open-ended loans that homeowners tap for cash using their properties as collateral, exploded in the run-up to the housing crash a decade ago, doubling […]

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Sneakertopia, a 15,000-square-foot celebration of sneaker culture, has taken up residence at the HHLA complex in Westchester where it will remain through at least the end of 2019. Getting in the door isn’t inexpensive (timed entrance tickets are $38 for adults, $23 for kids), and actually finding the door can be a bit challenging (it’s […]

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