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Warriors: Klay Thompson shows ‘vintage two-way’ performance in Game 4 win

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO – Klay Thompson hopped on one leg and flashed three fingers.Players from both the Warriors and Kings had already started to head toward their benches for the intermission before the fourth quarter. But Thompson was savoring his buzzer-beating corner 3 that gave Golden State a 10-point lead heading into the final quarter.Thompson had longed for moments like the ones he had sprinkled in Sunday’s 126-125 series-tying win as he labored through back-to-back rehabilitation journeys from major leg injuries.Thompson ended the afternoon with 26 points on an efficient 9-of-15 shooting. He also tallied three assists and two rebounds in 39 minutes of action.“Klay was amazing, hit some huge shots, but also his defense, that was vintage two-way Klay,” coach Steve Kerr said. “Just both ends of the floor, making one big play after another, playing 39 minutes that, was really, really something.”KLAY AT THE BUZZER Corner three as Q3 expires… get to ABC for Q4! pic.twitter.com/kAn3...

Here are the hot chefs for 2023’s ‘BBQ Without Borders’ in Oakland

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

Love barbecue or, even better, love eating barbecue while supporting a good cause? Then grab your tickets now for May’s “BBQ Without Borders,” where Bay Area chefs will cook internationally inspired barbecue with proceeds supporting local immigrant communities.Rounak Dumra of Wah Jee Wah, a Hayward restaurant specializing in Indian open-flame cooking, Lilian Duran of Cuban soul-food popup Clandestina Cocina and Tadayuki Furui of San Francisco’s dear, departed Family Cafe will prepare their versions of barbecue – tandoori, lechon and yakitori, with vegan options all around – from 5 to 9 p.m. May 13 at the Oakland Museum of California. Adult-admission tickets are $60 for dinner, dessert and a (boozy or virgin) drink and are available until May 12 at Eventbrite.This iteration of “BBQ Without Borders,” the second in Oakland since one in 2019, is raising $30,000 for microgrants to distribute to Bay Area folks whose immigration status has cut them off f...

How Elon Musk transformed Twitter’s blue check from status symbol into a badge of shame

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

Days after Elon Musk’s Twitter purged blue check marks from VIP users and prominent organizations, the checks reappeared on the accounts of a number of high-profile figures, many of whom promptly stressed they did not ask for or did not want the new verification badge.Those in the latter camp include the rapper Lil Nas X, The New York Times, the scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the journalist Kara Swisher, and even the legendary satirical account @dril, to name a few.Even the accounts of public figures known to be deceased, including Bob Saget, Kirstie Alley and Barbara Walters, have had their verification restored, and it is unclear how many of those badges Twitter may be handing out at no charge.The spectacle only added to mounting chaos at Twitter and highlighted how Musk has helped erode the value of the blue check at precisely the moment he’s betting on it to help drive subscription revenue for his company after a massive drop in its core advertising business.Once a recognizable ...

GOP rivals once again failing to wrest party from Trump’s grip

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

By Gregory KRieg and Eric Bradner | CNNThe question put to South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, hours after he announced plans to run for the Republican presidential nomination, was a simple one: How do you plan to defeat Donald Trump?Scott spoke for nearly a minute, discussing his mother, his belief in the power of prayer and his “faith in God and faith in our future.” When Fox and Friends co-host Steve Doocy lightly pressed for a more direct answer, Scott shook him off again.“As opposed to trying to have a conversation about how to beat a Republican,” he said, “I think we’re better off having a conversation about beating Joe Biden.”Scott, like his fellow GOP presidential contenders, is itching to take on the Democratic president, who is now poised to officially launch his reelection bid. But their first challenge will be getting through the Republican primary — and unseating Trump as the party’s standard bearer.Even with Trump facing...

Jeff Liu picked as new East Palo Alto police chief

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

(KRON) -- East Palo Alto has a new top cop. City officials announced Monday that a veteran member of the East Palo Alto Police Department, Jeff Liu, was picked and appointed as Chief of Police. "Mr. Liu was selected after an extensive recruitment and selection process involving community members, city staff, and the City Council," city leaders wrote. "He is best known for 'leading from the heart,' and is passionate about the East Palo Alto community, which he refers to as his family."Liu has served his entire law enforcement career battling crime in East Palo Alto.Liu began his career more than two decades ago as a rookie EPAPD police officer in 2000. His assignments included patrol and investigations until his promotion to the rank of sergeant in 2009. Over the next six years, Liu supervised patrol teams.In 2015, Liu was promoted to commander, and in January 2021, he was promoted again as Interim Chief of Police. Vice Mayor Antonio Lopez said, "With over 20 years of experience work...

2.8-magnitude earthquake hits Antioch

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

(KRON) -- A 2.8-magnitude earthquake struck in Antioch on Sunday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey. The USGS had initially reported the quake as a magnitude 3.1, and was later revised to 2.8. A 2.5-magnitude earthquake preceded the larger shake and there was a 2.7-magnitude aftershock. Group of students targeted in smash and grab at San Leandro In-N-Out The main quake struck at 1:20 p.m. and was about 17 miles below the survey, according to data shared by USGS.

Monte Schulz pens new book ‘Metropolis,’ sets record straight about his ‘Peanuts’ father, Charles M. Schulz

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

Hear our full chat on my podcast “Beyond the Fame with Jason Fraley.” toggle audio on and off change volume download audio WTOP's Jason Fraley chats with Monte Schulz (Part 1) $(function () { $('.wtop-audio-container .fa-play').on('click', function(){ var audio_filename = $('div.wtop-audio-file').data("mp3-url"); ga('send', 'event', 'Audio', 'play', audio_filename); }); }); Monte Schulz wants to set the record straight about his father, the late “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz.He said that David Michaelis’ 2007 biography “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography” was largely a work of fiction.“...

Blackout-beset South Africa may delay closing coal stations

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa may delay shutting down many of its highly polluting coal-fired power stations, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday, a move that could stem a crisis of daily electricity blackouts but would slow a shift to greener energy sources.South Africa is Africa’s most developed economy but is experiencing rolling nationwide blackouts, sometimes for more than 10 hours a day, because of an electricity shortfall. The blackouts, which have become worse over the past year, have been deeply damaging to the economy and to the popularity of Ramaphosa’s government ahead of national elections next year.Under the new plan, which Ramaphosa outlined only broadly in his weekly letter to the nation, South Africa will consider a delay in the decommissioning of some of its 14 coal plants to help ease the electricity cuts, known as “load-shedding.”About 80% of South Africa’s electricity is provided by coal. The nation is the world’s 16th-largest emitte...

Ada Limón reappointed as US poet laureate

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

Ada Limón has been appointed to a second term as U.S. poet laureate and has numerous projects in the works, including a poem for NASA’s Europa Clipper mission.Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced Monday that Limón will serve an additional two years, instead of the traditional one-year term for poet laureates. “I am beyond honored to serve for another two years as the Poet Laureate of the United States,” Limón said in a statement. “Everywhere I have traveled during my first term, both nationally and internationally, I’ve been reminded that poetry brings people together. I am looking forward to continuing the important work of celebrating what poetry can do.”On June 1, Limón will unveil her NASA poem, to be engraved on the spacecraft scheduled to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. She is also collaborating with the National Park Service and the Poetry Society of America to present poems at national parks.Limón, who began her first term last September, has publ...

Respiratory therapist pleads guilty in deaths of 2 patients

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:58 GMT

CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) — A former respiratory therapist has pleaded guilty in the deaths of two patients at a Missouri hospital two decades ago. Jennifer Hall, 42, initially was charged with two counts of first-degree murder but pleaded guilty instead Friday to reduced first-degree involuntary manslaughter counts in the deaths of 75-year-old Fern Franco and 37-year-old David Wesley Harper, The Kansas City Star reported. She also pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree assault.Franco and Harper were among nine patients who died at Hedrick Medical Center in Chillicothe over several months in 2002 in what charging documents describe as “medically suspicious” events.From December 2001, when Hall started working at the hospital, until she was placed on administrative leave the following May, there also were 18 cardiac arrests or “Code Blue” events, up from an average of one a year before then. The case was revived after an analysis of Franco’s tissue samples found morphine and a powe...