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The much-anticipated construction of the first high-speed passenger train between Los Angeles and Las Vegas got underway Monday — promising to ferry passengers between the two cities in half the the time it now takes to drive through the desert. The $12 billion project is being spearheaded by Brightline West, which will lay 218 miles

SAN FRANCISCO Chinese Hospital, located in the heart of this citys legendary Chinatown, struggles with many of the same financial and demographic challenges that plague small independent hospitals in underserved areas across the country. This story also ran on San Francisco Chronicle. It can be republished for free. Are you covered by Medi-Cal? We want

The House on Saturday voted to ban TikTok —  and even some Americans who make bank on the Chinese-owned app believe its end cant come soon enough, saying it’s become a cesspool of hate and misinformation. Comedian and actor Zach Sage Fox, who earns his living in part by posting clips of his standup to

Tesla on Saturday slashed the price of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver assistant software to $8,000 from $12,000 in the United States, as CEO Elon Musk reaffirms his commitment to self-driving technology. Musk is betting the technology will become a major source of revenue for the world’s most valuable automaker. But he has for years

Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors medical assistant, who asks how shes doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing with anxiety and her other health issues. This story also ran on NPR. It can be republished for free. Lester credits the chats

Loading… Loading… The performance of the U.S. corporate bond market in the first quarter of the year was generally flat, though there were notable distinctions between the high-grade and high-yield sectors. Bonds issued by companies with higher credit ratings (BBB and above) experienced a slight downward trajectory, as showed by the iShares iBoxx $ Investment

Tesla has voluntarily recalled all of the nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks it has sold over faulty accelerator pedals that risk causing fatal accidents, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration confirmed on Friday. According to a safety recall report by the NHTSA, the pad on the accelerator pedals of affected Cybertrucks “may dislodge, which may cause

The following is a Neo-generated summary of the Health Ranger’s Brighteon Broadcast News from March 18, 2024. The full episode is found at this link on Brighteon.com. “Neo” is our in-house AI / LLM generative model currently being trained on reality-based content. Read about it (and sign up to download it for free) at Brighteon.AI.

Food growing expert Marjory Wildcraft and the Health Ranger Mike Adams discussed how growing your own food can help you survive an engineered famine on the “Health Ranger Report.” Over the last two years, more than 150 sabotage incidents of food facilities, distribution hubs, meatpacking plants and others have been recorded. The recent wildfires in

When dealing with emergencies, such as a power grid failure or when communication networks go down, you need a reliable way of communicating with your loved ones. But what are your options if you can’t use your smartphone to call someone and the internet is down? If you’re looking for alternative ways to keep in

The following are important highlights about the current escalation in the Middle East. This is actually the outline I wrote for my emergency podcast, which will be published at the HR Report channel on Brighteon.com. (It is now available at this link on Brighteon.com.) The sources for this information include both western news publishers (Reuters)

The very top of the 1% are waiting until after the presidential election to buy big ticket items like jets in the hopes that Donald Trump’s election could save them millions on taxes, The Post has learned.  Im waiting until after November, one bi-coastal source who is looking to buy both a jet and a

On Capitol Hill, activists disrupted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he spoke at a House Armed Services Committee meeting Wednesday. Among the protesters was Naseebah Hajjaj, a Palestinian American woman who has lost some 20 relatives in Gaza since October 7. She held up her 16-month-old son Hamza during the hearing.

In more protest news, 29 authors and translators have withdrawn from consideration for PEN America’s prestigious literary prizes to protest the organization’s leadership and silencing of Palestinian voices. In a letter, some of the authors wrote, “We refuse to be honored by an organization that acts as a cultural front for American exceptionalism. We refuse

Netflixblew past Wall Street expectations on new customers for the second straight quarter on Thursday but signaled the positive surprises could be over, forecasting revenue growth slightly below analyst targets. Shares of the streaming video pioneer were down 4.2% at $585.41 in after-hours trading. The company said its ad-supported streaming plans helped bring in 9.3

Sony Group and Apollo Global Management are in talks to team up on a bid for Paramount Global, sources told The Post on Thursday. Paramount, controlled by media heiress Shari Redstone, has been conducting exclusive talks with Skydance on a potential deal — which has drawn backlash from investors who fear their shares in the

Planet Fitness — which faced backlash for allowing a trans man to shave in the women’s locker room — hired a new boss who had required employees to undergo “unconscious bias training” and supported “hiring through a DEI lens” at her previous company. Colleen Keating, who served as chief executive at rental service FirstKey Homes