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A man trying to save his neighbor from a violent attack at a Westminster apartment complex was stabbed to death early Saturday morning, authorities said.Alvaro Martin Perez, 48, was trying to intervene in a dispute between roommates when he was fatally stabbed, according to Westminster Police Sgt. Gerrad Kent.“Mr. Perez’s actions were nothing short of heroic,” Westminster Police Chief Darren Linney said in a statement. “Tragically, his efforts to protect his neighbor cost him his life.”The suspect was arrested after other neighbors detained him.”I'm sure there are a lot of sad families in those apartments today,” Kent said.At approximately 1…

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DETROIT — The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a fatal crash in San Antonio involving a Ford electric vehicle that may have been using a partially automated driving system.The agency said in a statement Friday that a team of investigators from its Office of Highway Safety will travel to Texas and work with police on the Feb. 24 crash on Interstate 10.The NTSB said preliminary information shows a Ford Mustang Mach-E SUV equipped with the company's partially automated driving system collided with a Honda CR-V that was stopped in one lane of the highway.The driver of the Mach-E told…

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Pedestrians walk past a Tesla store in Shanghai, China, on March 14, 2024. Coast Photo | norphoto | Getty ImagesTeslaThe automaker said on its website on Friday that it will increase prices for all Model Y vehicles in the United States by $1,000 on April 1.“Prices will increase by $1,000 for all Model Y models on April 1,” Tesla said on its website.On March 1, the company also raised prices for rear-wheel-drive Model Y and long-range vehicles by $1,000 to $43,990 and $48,990, respectively.Tesla did not explicitly clarify whether the April increase would come on top of the March increase…

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Rudy Giuliani, former personal attorney to former US President Donald Trump, arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman US District Court in Washington, DC, on December 15, 2023.Anna Money Maker | Getty ImagesCreditors want to force Rudy Giuliani to sell his $3.5 million Florida condo to help pay off his significant debts, according to a court document filed Friday.The former New York City mayor filed for bankruptcy protection in December, citing a myriad of unpaid debts, including a $148 million payment to two Georgia poll workers who he falsely claimed tampered with 2020 election votes while he was a lawyer. For…

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LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform, has made a name for itself primarily as a platform for people looking to connect and gain knowledge for professional and employment purposes — a company that now has over a billion users. Now, to boost the time people spend on the platform, the company is breaking into a whole new area: gaming. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that LinkedIn is working on a new gaming experience. This will be done by tapping into the same wave of puzzle craze that helped simple games like Wordle achieve viral success and millions of players. Three early…

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Washington – Republicans and Israeli officials were quick to express their anger after Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer strongly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza and called on Israel to hold new elections. They accused the Democratic leader of violating the unwritten rule against interfering in his close ally's electoral politics. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell responded to Schumer by saying, “It is hypocritical for Americans who go too far to interfere in our democracy to call for the removal of a democratically elected leader.” House Speaker Mike Johnson said Schumer's call for new elections…

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SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a secret contract with a US intelligence agency, five sources familiar with the program said, demonstrating deepening ties between the space company owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and national security agencies.The network is being built by SpaceX's Starshield business unit under a $1.8 billion contract signed in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an intelligence agency that operates spy satellites, the sources said.The plans show the extent of SpaceX's involvement in US intelligence and military projects and demonstrate the Pentagon's deeper investment in expansive low-Earth orbit satellite…

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The box began life It was nearly 20 years ago in a dorm room at the University of Southern California when Aaron Levy conceived of a system for storing and sharing files over the Internet. A few years later, Levy's original idea became commoditized, and he shifted gears to managing enterprise content in the cloud. It was a radical idea at the time in an industry that was dominated by homegrown giants like Microsoft, EMC, IBM, and OpenText. Traditional enterprise content management, whether on-premises or in the cloud, involves storing, managing, securing, and managing unstructured content. This has always been…

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Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our newsletter about the comings and goings of city government. It's David Wharton, with the help of City Hall reporter David Zahniser, bringing you last week's big-ticket information. the news Get the lowdown on Los Angeles politics Sign up for the LA City Hall newsletter for weekly insights, scoops and analysis. Enter your email address Involve me You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Looking ahead to the 2028 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles might learn a thing or two from Paris.The French capital, which will host…

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Bitcoin may start to lose its reputation as a volatile asset.According to Matt Hogan of Bitwise Asset Management, wild swings in cryptocurrency prices have declined significantly over the past decade.“What's driving the bitcoin market right now is a little bit of an imbalance between supply and demand,” the company's chief investment officer told CNBC's “ETF Edge” on Monday. “We have a huge new source of demand from these ETFs, and we have inelastic supply.”On January 11, the first Bitcoin exchange-traded funds began trading. Since then, the asset's price has risen by more than 50%. Bitcoin It reached an all-time high…

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