While San Diego State’s administration fiddled around with possibly leaving the Mountain West, Coach Brady Hoke did his best to keep his team focused on preparing for the season. Hoke said he and his staff “pumped the brakes” a few months ago on realignment talk that consumed SDSU’s fan base ever since UCLA and Southern […]
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Underdog Aztecs looking for a second straight victory against UCLA
UCLA (1-0) at San Diego State (2-0), Saturday, 4:30 p.m. (CBS) Line: UCLA by 14 ½, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Series record: UCLA 21-1-1 WHAT’S AT STAKE? The San Diego State Aztecs would love to make it two wins in a row against the UCLA Bruins just four years after getting their first win in a […]
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‘Dune: Part Two’ release postponed to 2024 as actors strike lingers
NEW YORK (AP) — The release of “Dune: Part Two,” one of the fall’s most anticipated films, has been postponed from November until next year, Warner Bros. confirmed Thursday. Denis Villeneuve’s science-fiction sequel had been set to open Nov. 3, but will instead land in theaters March 15 next year. With the actors strike entering its second […]
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A combat jet has crashed near a Marine Corps air station in San Diego and a search is underway
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A military jet crashed near a San Diego base and a search-and-rescue operation was underway, the U.S. Marine Corps said in a statement early Friday. The F/A-18 went down at 11:54 p.m. Thursday in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, a base press release said. “The crash site is […]
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Tropical Storm Hilary menaces Mexico’s Baja coast, carrying a deluge toward Coronado
ENSENADA, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Hilary was accelerating northward off Mexico’s Baja coast on Sunday, no longer a hurricane but still packing what forecasters called “life-threatening” rain likely to unleash flooding across a broad region of the western U.S. As of 8 a.m. Pacific time, Hilary was located about 220 miles (350 kilometers) south-southeast of […]
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Hurricane Hilary grows rapidly off Mexico. Rare tropical storm watch issued for California
No tropical storm has made landfall in Southern California since Sept. 25, 1939, according to the National Weather Service. The watch warned of numerous potential threats to life and property including extreme flooding, mudslides and tornados.
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‘Blue Beetle’ actors may be sidelined by the strike, but their director is keeping focus on them
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a normal summer, the arrival of “Blue Beetle,” the first DC superhero movie to feature a Latino lead, would be a splashy, triumphant moment for its filmmakers and stars. But with actors and screenwriters on strike, the film’s promotional campaign has been without its lead cast. That’s left director Ángel Manuel […]
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Taylor Swift announces ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Swift closed the 2023 U.S. leg of her landmark Eras Tour Wednesday night in Los Angeles in a big way, announcing the fourth edition of her re-recording project: “1989 (Taylor’s Version).” After playing a few tracks from her “1989” era live, including an abridged take on “Bad Blood,” the pop superstar approached the center […]
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Celebrity hair, makeup and nail stylists: How the Hollywood strikes have affected glam squads
NEW YORK (AP) — Film, television, fashion: You name it and Kim Kimble has done it in her 30-plus years as a hair stylist in Hollywood — but even through the good times, she never gave up her backup plan. Until the pandemic. “I had a salon where I could work if I had to, and I […]
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Taylor Swift and SZA lead 2023 MTV Video Music Award nominations
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Swift may soon become the most awarded artist in MTV Video Music Awards history. She leads the 2023 nominations with eight — seven for her “Anti-Hero” music video and a nod in the artist of the year category — followed by SZA, who has six, MTV announced on Tuesday. Swift currently has 14 VMAs to her name, […]
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Big waves becoming more common off California as Earth warms, new research finds
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Waves are getting bigger and surf at least 13 feet (about 4 meters) tall is becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years. Oceanographer Peter Bromirski at Scripps Institution of […]
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2 US Navy sailors charged with providing sensitive military information to China
Two U.S. Navy sailors were charged Thursday with providing sensitive military information to China — including details on wartime exercises, naval operations and critical technical material.
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‘Barbie’ takes the box office crown and ‘Oppenheimer’ soars in a historic weekend
“ Barbenheimer ” didn’t just work – it spun box office gold. The social media-fueled fusion of Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie ” and Christopher Nolan’s “ Oppenheimer ” brought moviegoers back to the theaters in record numbers this weekend, vastly outperforming projections and giving a glimmer of hope to the lagging exhibition business, amid the […]
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Covered California health insurance premiums will go up next year, but many consumers won’t feel it
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Monthly health insurance premiums for roughly 1.7 million people in California will go up an average of 9.6% next year — the largest increase in five years — but state officials said many consumers won’t feel those hikes because taxpayers will pay for them. The federal Affordable Care Act lets people […]
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How does MLB take over a local TV broadcast?
MLB’s takeover ended blackout restrictions tied to San Diego’s deal with Diamond, and the league says Padres games are now accessible to 3.26 million homes, up from 1.13 million under Diamond’s Bally Sports San Diego.
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California’s Death Valley sizzles as brutal heat wave continues
Long the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley put a sizzling exclamation point Sunday on a record warm summer that is baking nearly the entire globe by flirting with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded, meteorologists said. Temperatures in Death Valley, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, were forecast to reach 128 […]