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Heat wave sends temperatures into the 90s in California

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With spring still a week away, it was already starting to feel like summer Thursday in Southern California as temperatures topped 90 degrees — an unusual March heat wave that forecasters warned could put people at higher risk for illness. It’s expected to be about 20 degrees warmer than normal for mid-March through Friday, the National Weather Service said. Officials opened cooling centers and urged residents to drink a lot of water and avoid outdoor activities during the daytime. The winter heat wave comes from a combination of high pressure and a lack of ...

Outdated intel likely led U.S. to carry out strike on school

WASHINGTON (AP) — Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.S military investigation into the incident. The bombing of the school and its casualties involving children has become a focal point of the war, and if ultimately confirmed to be at the hands of the U.S., would also stand among the highest civilian casualty events caused ...

Too neighborly for my own good

Dear Annie: My neighbor has taken “borrowing a cup of sugar” to ridiculous levels. In the past six months, she’s borrowed my ladder, my hedge clippers, two baking pans and, most recently, my patio chairs for her daughter’s graduation party. She always promises to return things “tomorrow,” but I usually have to go ask, and sometimes they come back a little worse for wear. She’s perfectly pleasant, and we have to live next to each other, but I’m starting to feel like the neighborhood rental shop. How do I put a stop to this without seeming totally unreasonable ...

Horoscope

We needn’t fear the shadows. They show us where the edges are. Without shadows, the world would be a whiteout. No shapes could appear, nothing distinct, nothing interesting, nothing seen. The Capricorn moon throws shade to Neptune, Saturn and Venus in turn, reminding us that contrast is the mechanism of understanding. Dark gives meaning to everything illuminated. ARIES (March 21-April 19). Because you keep your word, you keep the trust of everyone you deal with. Of course, it’s always easier to do when you don’t offer too much. Make it easy on yourself by underpromising so you ...

Oscars presenters add a former host, three nominees and a famous father-son duo

(AP) — It’ll be big year for Pullmans at the Oscars. The show’s producers said Wednesday that Bill Pullman and his son Lewis Pullman have joined the starry roster of presenters for Sunday’s live broadcast of the 98th annual Academy Awards. Also included in this batch are nominees Rose Byrne, Wagner Moura and Delroy Lindo, former Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel, as well as Pedro Pascal, Channing Tatum and Sigourney Weaver. Oscars producers told The Associated Press that audiences should expect even more stars than have been announced, though. Showrunner and executive producer Raj ...

Hints From Heloise

Caring for African violets Dear Heloise: I kept an African violet on my desk at work that never bloomed, no matter how much I cared for it. An older gentleman at the company who grew African violets at home under grow lights offered to take mine home. He nurtured it carefully and, once buds appeared, returned it to me in full bloom. For several years, whenever the blossoms faded, I gave the violet back to him, and he coaxed it to bloom again. Eventually, he retired. After his retirement, the violet — sitting quietly on my desk — began to bud and bloom on its own for the very ...