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The game maker bought the land as part of a 2017 stunt to impede then-President Donald Trump’s border wall. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been using it, the suit says.

"Wheel of Fortune" legend Vanna White knows the wheel would continue to spin without her, but believes there's a reason the acclaimed game show still needs her.

Kamala Harris is very clearly lying and obfuscating in order to win and no-one in the media cares.

The fires burning around L.A. were sadly predictable. As the next mega heat wave arrives, close government-managed forests.

Ilya Tsaruk and Sophia Tsaruk from Snohomish, Washington, were believed to have been swimming or snorkeling in Maui when they drowned, according to officials.

Harris-Dawson, an ally of Mayor Karen Bass, said homelessness and housing affordability will be his top issues.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "squandering of his family's good name is hard to watch, let alone fathom," says a reader.

Samples taken in the pandemic's early weeks reinforce hypothesis that coronavirus emerged from live animal market, not a laboratory, new study says.

With Gov. Gavin Newsom pushing emergency regulations on hemp products that contain intoxicating levels of THC, some worry a zero-tolerance approach will have far-reaching consequences.

Readers praise The Times for its special section Our Climate Change Challenge and offer suggestions for saving the imperiled Earth.

At the Homeboy Art Academy, Fabian Debora and other mentors provide guidance to the youth who are either actively involved in the gang life, recently released from incarceration or are seeking a refuge from the gang life.

A settlement reached Friday appears to herald the end of the Bay Boys surf gang's six-decade reign over Lunada Bay's premier waves.

Harris has gained significant ground since becoming the Democratic candidate this summer. But she hasn’t closed the sale.

A guidance counselor at a West L.A. high school has been charged with having an unlawful sexual relationship with a 16-year-old male student, authorities said.

California has placed the Tule groundwater subbasin on probationary status, a step that brings additional state oversight, new fees and reporting requirements.

“I want to be part of this team,” Vrana said Thursday. “I always love this team, and it’s great to be back here for a camp and try my best to earn the spot.”

Dozens of juveniles on bikes ransacked a 7-Eleven in Pico-Robertson on Friday evening, the latest in a string of recent robberies targeting the convenience chain.

L.A.'s latest openings include a Mexican steakhouse from Ka'teen chef Wes Avila, a bricks-and-mortar location in Beverly Grove for a viral sandwich shop pop-up and more.

Two new books, 'The Gangs of Zion' and 'The Highest Law in the Land,' take very different approaches to convey the hazards of unchecked law enforcement.

A novel program launched last month at seven Central Valley community colleges aims to ensure that farmworkers don't get displaced as California's powerhouse agricultural industry transitions to a more mechanized future.

Bears are growing bolder and seeking their own slice of the California dream.

Andoni Iraola has turned Bournemouth into a fashionable, dangerous side in just over a year.

When the Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania was decommissioned in 2019, it heralded the symbolic end of America’s nuclear industry. In 1979, the facility was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in the nation’s history: a partial reactor meltdown that didn’t release enough radiation to cause detectable harm to people nearby, but still turned Americans against nuclear power and prompted a host of regulations that functionally killed most nuclear build-out for decades. Many existing plants stayed online, but 40 years later, Three Mile Island joined a wave of facilities that shut down because of financial hurdles and competition from cheap natural gas, closures that cast doubt over the future of nuclear power in the United States.Now Three Mile Island is coming back, this time as part of efforts to meet the enormous electricity demands of generative AI. This morning, the plant’s owner, Constellation Energy, announced that it is reopening the facility. Microsoft, which is seeking clean energy to power its data centers, has agreed to buy power from the reopened plant for 20 years. “This was the site of the industry’s greatest failure, and now it can be a place of rebirth,” Joseph Dominguez, the CEO of Constellation, told The New York Times. Three Mile Island plans to officially reopen in 2028, after some $1.6 billion worth of refurbishing and under a new name, the Crane Clean Energy Center.Nuclear power and chatbots might be a perfect match. The technology underlying ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot is extraordinarily power-hungry. These programs feed on more data, are more complex, and use more electricity-intensive hardware than traditional web algorithms. An AI-powered web search, for instance, could require five to 10 times more electricity than a traditional query.The world is already struggling to generate enough electricity to meet the internet’s growing power demand, which AI is rapidly accelerating. Large grids and electric utilities across the U.S. are warning that AI is straining their capacity, and some of the world’s biggest data-center hubs—including Sweden, Singapore, Amsterdam, and exurban Washington, D.C.—are struggling to find power to run new constructions. The exact amount of power that AI will demand within a few years’ time is hard to predict, but it will likely be enormous: Estimates range from the equivalent of Argentina’s annual power usage to that of India.That’s a big problem for the tech companies building these data centers, many of which have made substantial commitments to cut their emissions. Microsoft, for instance, has pledged to be “carbon negative,” or to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits, by 2030. The Three Mile Island deal is part of that accounting. Instead of directly drawing power from the reopened plant, Microsoft will buy enough carbon-free nuclear energy from the facility to match the power that several of its data centers draw from the grid, a company spokesperson told me over email.Such electricity-matching schemes, known as “power purchase agreements,” are necessary because the construction of solar, wind, and geothermal plants is not keeping pace with the demands of AI. Even if it was, these clean electricity sources might pose a more fundamental problem for tech companies: Data centers’ new, massive power demands need to be met at all hours of the day, not just when the sun shines or the wind blows.To fill the gap, many tech companies are turning to a readily available source of abundant, reliable electricity: burning fossil fuels. In the U.S., plans to wind down coal-fired power plants are being delayed in West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri, and elsewhere to power data centers. That Microsoft will use the refurbished Three Mile Island to offset, rather than supply, its data centers’ electricity consumption suggests that the facilities will likely continue to rely on fossil fuels for some time, too. Burning fossil fuels to power AI means the new tech boom might even threaten to delay the green-energy transition.Still, investing in nuclear energy to match data centers’ power usage also brings new sources of clean, reliable electricity to the power grid. Splitting apart atoms provides a carbon-free way to generate tremendous amounts of electricity day and night. Bobby Hollis, Microsoft’s vice president for energy, told Bloomberg that this is a key upside to the Three Mile Island revival: “We run around the clock. They run around the clock.” Microsoft is working to build a carbon-free grid to power all of its operations, data centers included. Nuclear plants will be an important component that provides what the company has elsewhere called “firm electricity” to fill in the gaps for less steady sources of clean energy, including solar and wind.It’s not just Microsoft that is turning to nuclear. Earlier this year, Amazon purchased a Pennsylvania data center that is entirely nuclear-powered, and the company is reportedly in talks to secure nuclear power along the East Coast from another Constellation nuclear plant. Google, Microsoft, and several other companies have invested or agreed to buy electricity in start-ups promising nuclear fusion—an even more powerful and cleaner form of nuclear power that remains highly experimental—as have billionaires including Sam Altman, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos.Nuclear energy might not just be a good option for powering the AI boom. It might be the only clean option able to meet demand until there is a substantial build-out of solar and wind energy. A handful of other, retired reactors could come back online, and new ones may be built as well. Just yesterday, Jennifer Granholm, the secretary of energy, told my colleague Vann R. Newkirk II that building small nuclear reactors could become an important way to supply nonstop clean energy to data centers. Whether such construction will be fast and plentiful enough to satisfy the growing power demand is unclear. But it must be, for the generative-AI revolution to really take off. Before chatbots can finish remaking the internet, they might need to first reshape America’s physical infrastructure.

On Friday, North Carolina executed Freddie Owens, even after serious doubts about his guilt emerged. When we kill the conceivably innocent, we become a mockery of ourselves and our supposed allegiance to justice.

A grandmother and daughter struggle to reclaim a loved one, but it's as if fentanyl has taken her prisoner, and they can't convince her to make a run for it.

From Sundance to Toronto, a veteran film critic illuminates the festival experience and what keeps him coming back.

The Israeli Defense Forces said Saturday that it has killed a Hamas operative and other Hamas terrorists as the war between Israel and Hamas continues.

She’s sending a message. Just not the one conspiracy theorists think.

Let’s consider the potential impact of the North Carolina porn man.

Shohei Ohtani hit his 52nd home run and stole his 52nd base on Friday, breaking the major league record for going deep and stealing in the same game.

Good tidings for inflation.

After posting historically bad penalty kill numbers a year ago, the Islanders went back to the drawing board this offseason.

Delaware, Indiana, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont are making absentee ballots available for some or all voters Saturday.

Some downpours are possible this evening and tonight; mainly cloudy skies persist into next week with more rain chances coming.

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital he retired from the Army National Guard due to a trend in woke policies.

Has John Roberts joined the MAGA wing of the Supreme Court?

How a four-year-old Reddit mystery involving a curtain, celebrities and artificial intelligence was solved this month.

Elizabeth Strout’s new book, Tell Me Everything brings back old characters to weave a new tale of interconnected stories.

Barry FeinsteinIn retrospect, Bob Dylan likened his 1974 reunion tour with The Band to Elvis Presley’s “Fat Elvis” period. It was powerful, sure, but it was nostalgia; creatively unsatisfying. And a cash grab. Ultimately, it showed him the way he didn’t want to go forward, as he recalled in 2004 in Chronicles, Vol.1.Still, 1974 was a landmark year in rock ’n’ roll, and it was Bob Dylan and the Band who kicked it off in January, playing 40 shows during their six-week trek together—a groundbreaking feat in and of itself—often putting on matinee and evening arena shows to satisfy demand.If, during his Thin Wild Mercury music period in the mid-1960s, Dylan had given songwriting and new vocabulary, and had created the look and attitude of the modern rock star, in 1974 he updated all of that for a new era, for good measure adding a tour that presaged the bloated, arena-filling tours that would become, and remain, a staple of the music business.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Starring Kathy Bates in the role made famous by Andy Griffith, CBS’s “Matlock” reboot explores ageism and misogyny in addition to solving the case of the week.

Kodai Senga will squeeze in one outing before the minor league season concludes this weekend and then be evaluated for a potential return to the Mets.

Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.

A Canadian woman was arrested after pretending to be interested in a Porsche and stealing the car, running over the owner as she pulled out of his driveway to drive away.

Young hostages who were once held captive by Hamas after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks face unique mental health and psychological challenges, say experts who have treated them.

NATO troops, vessels and aircraft took to the frigid North Atlantic Ocean last month to sharpen their skills for a potential future war at sea.

The polls all agree - the economy remains the top issue on the minds of American voters. But Trump's edge over Harris on the key issue differs depending on the survey

After Sean "Diddy" Combs' arrest Tuesday, some of Hollywood's top stars have spoken out, while others have remained silent. Experts weigh in.