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Baldoni sues Lively, Reynolds for $400M in ‘It Ends With Us’ fight

LOS ANGELES — “It Ends With Us” actor and director Justin Baldoni has sued his co-star Blake Lively and her husband, “Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds, for defamation and extortion on Thursday in the latest move in a bitter legal battle surrounding the dark romantic drama. The suit filed in federal court in New York by Baldoni and production company Wayfarer Studios seeks at least $400 million for damages that include lost future income. It alleges that Lively and Reynolds hijacked the production and marketing of “It Ends With Us” and manipulated media to smear Baldoni and ...

How TikTok grew into a potential national security threat

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time. What’s now in question is whether it will be around much longer and, if so, in what form? Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged with its competitor Musical.ly, TikTok has grown from a niche teen app into a global trendsetter. While, of course, also emerging as a potential national security threat, according to U.S. officials. The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok ...

GOP leaders are restarting debate on taxing Skill games

HARRISBURG — Top lawmakers in the Pennsylvania Senate have released a memo calling for the regulation and taxation of so-called skill games, signaling that the issue will be high on the agenda for the second session in a row. Skill games are the tens of thousands of slot-like machines that have proliferated in Pennsylvania bars, restaurants, and convenience stores in recent years. They are currently unregulated — and untaxed — and many lawmakers believe the state should change that. However, the issue is convoluted, heavily lobbied, and defies party and ideology. It has ...

Winter time is pruning time

On a mild winter day, get out your loppers, saws, hand pruners, and gardening gloves! Late winter is the best time to prune many woody species of trees and shrubs. Pruning after leaf drop and during dormancy is ideal because pests and diseases are also dormant, so introducing cuts carries less ...

Rapid heart rate persists for over a decade

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 75-year-old woman who, for at least 10 years now, has been experiencing a rapid heart rate. My blood pressure, however, remains normal. In fact, doctors are usually surprised at how good my blood pressure is since I am borderline obese and slightly diabetic. During this past physical, my doctor did mention my rapid heart rate but didn’t recommend treatment or referral to a cardiologist. Should I insist on a referral to a cardiologist, or would this only bring me to more unnecessary testing? –– M.R. ANSWER: I unfortunately hear about people (more commonly ...

AP finds homes were already burning before Pacific Palisades evacuation order

The Associated Press An Associated Press analysis of emergency communications shows that the first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn’t come until about 40 minutes after some of those homes were already burning. The wildfire, which would become one of the most destructive in California history, was spreading rapidly in ornamental plantings and burning homes by 11:27 a.m. on Jan. 7, recordings of scanner traffic reveal. So many people fled on their own as wind-whipped flames raced over the nearby hills that by ...