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This week, as wildfires erupted across Los Angeles, residents anxious for real-time information about the rapidly-shifting perimeters of the fires passed around a tip: download Watch Duty. The app is run by a nonprofit nominally based in Sonoma County, but is staffed by a dozen employees and hundreds of volunteers …

Thanks to an aggressive dry season and hurricane-force winds, Los Angeles is experiencing the most devastating fires in the city’s history. At least five people have died and over 130,000 residents in Southern California are under evacuation orders, according to the Los Angeles Times. L.A officials have said at least …

As fires fueled by relentless winds continue to burn out of control from the coastal Pacific Palisades to Pasadena in Los Angeles County, thousands of residents have been forced to evacuate their homes with some abandoning their cars in their attempts to flee. At least five people have died in …

Morgan Geyser, who nearly stabbed her classmate Payton Leutner to death when she was 12, will be released from Winnebago Mental Health Institute after seven years. The Wisconsin resident, now 22 years old, was sentenced to 40 years in a mental institution in 2018 after pleading guilty to attempted murder …

For most mere mortals, beating Super Mario 64 takes around 12 hours. Unless you happen to be Twitch streamer Cole “GreenSuigi.” In that same time frame, the 19-year-old player could easily clear the game a dozen times or more, in a handful of different ways. Actually, with half a day …

Tara Roth works in Los Angeles as a philanthropic executive. She lives in the Palisades with her 13-year-old son Dane. This is her account, as told to writer Claire Hoffman, of fleeing the Palisades fires on Jan. 7. The night before, I wasn’t feeling well. A fever and a cold. …

Think of all the average trash a person goes through in one day: Straw wrappers, stickers, receipts, plastic, paper, coffee cups, bags, tags, the whole lot. Now imagine pasting every one of those things in a journal and you’ve got down the basic tenets of junk journaling,TikTok’s newest trend, and …

Jamie Lee Curtis has announced plans to donate $1 million toward fire relief funds amid the ongoing destructive wildfires ravaging Los Angeles. Curtis said the money would come from her “Family Foundation,” which she formed with her husband and children, to “support our great city and state and the great …

Multiple celebrities have lost their homes as several destructive fires raged in Southern California. After fires broke out on Tuesday and Wednesday, propelled by high winds, Paris Hilton, Jhené Aiko, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Billy Crystal were among the 30,000 residents and multiple celebrities forced to evacuate. Many have lost …

Since launching on Dec. 6, Marvel Rivals has quickly become one of the most popular games online. The 6v6 competitive hero shooter that pits players against each other using a variety of Marvel characters has drawn heavy comparisons to Overwatch, although its current popularity dwarfs that of Blizzard’s game with …