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At least five game show contestants were “shamelessly exploited” and subjected to “unreasonable, unsafe” working conditions on Amazon Prime’s “Beast Games,” a California civil action said this week. The Los Angeles County Superior Court class action lawsuit, filed on Monday, names Amazon and a production company linked to YouTube creator Jimmy Donaldson, best known for … Read more

ESPN’s star NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski is retiring from the company, according to a post from his X account Wednesday morning. The longtime sports reporter will take a job at St. Bonaventure, his alma mater, and become the general manager of its men’s basketball program, the university said. Wojnarowski often broke big news in the … Read more

But vehicle data from Read’s SUV showed that at 12:45 a.m., while outside Albert’s home, the Lexus traveled backward for 60 feet at 24 mph, Lally said. The SUV’s tail light was broken, Lally said, and pieces of the light were later found outside Albert’s home.  Forensic testing showed that O’Keefe’s hair was found on … Read more

The Summary A nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton sold for a record $44.6 million at auction Wednesday. Sotheby’s, which handled the sale, described the fossil as the best-preserved Stegosaurus specimen of its size ever found. The buyer’s identity was not publicly disclosed. A 150-million-year-old, nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton sold for a record $44.6 million at auction … Read more

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The body of award-winning Portland chef Naomi Pomeroy, who drowned in a tragic tubing accident over the weekend, was recovered Wednesday after a multi-day search, officials said. Pomeroy, 49, was tubing Saturday with two others in the Willamette River near Corvallis, when she was suddenly pulled under the water after getting caught on a snag. … Read more

A man who was arrested near a Republican National Convention security zone Monday was concealing a firearm in a “tactical” backpack, police said. The arrest took place about 1 p.m. on the 1200 block of North 11th Street, the Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement. Police determined the 21-year-old man did not have a … Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Mirage is about to vanish from the Las Vegas Strip. Gambling ends and the doors close Wednesday at the iconic tropical island-themed hotel-casino that opened in 1989 with a fire-spewing volcano outside, and Siegfried & Roy’s lions and dolphins inside. Frenzied final days have seen standing-room crowds wagering to win $1.6 … Read more

A foreign policy specialist who once worked for the CIA and on the White House National Security Council (NSC) has been indicted on U.S. charges she worked as an unregistered agent of South Korea’s government in exchange for luxury goods and other gifts. Sue Mi Terry advocated South Korean policy positions, disclosed nonpublic U.S. government … Read more

Archaeologists recently discovered five musket balls at Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts and traced them back to the event marked in history as “the Shot Heard ’Round the World,” which precipitated the American Revolutionary War in 1775, park officials said. The 249-year-old musket balls were discovered by archaeologists doing “compliance activities” in preparation … Read more