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Analysis: What America’s shoplifting panic is really about

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

Analysis by Nathaniel Meyersohn | CNNNew York — “Shoplifting in Great Department Stores.” “The Shoplifting Profession.” “No Mercy to Shoplifters.”These headlines could be from articles today. But they’re from the early 1900s.While shoplifting has seemingly never been a bigger problem than it is now, shoplifting has long captured the public’s attention. Anxiety over shoplifting is an enduring phenomenon and is often a stand-in for larger concerns of cultural, economic or political changes.“The figure of a shoplifter may provide for a scapegoat for deeper problems that are more complex and intractable,” James Walsh, who directs the University of Ontario Institute of Technology’s graduate program on criminology and justice, told CNN. “It resonates with broader concerns about law and disorder.”In 19th century Victorian Britain, hysteria focused on middle-class women, who were accessing public spaces for the first time. Some were stealing for the thrill. These fears of women stealing con...

Big Sunnyvale apartment complex is bought in $60 million-plus deal

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

SUNNYVALE — A big apartment complex in Sunnyvale has been bought by a veteran group of real estate investors from the Bay Area in a deal that tops $60 million.The residential property, located at 355 East Evelyn Avenue in Sunnyvale, has been bought for slightly under $62.3 million, according to documents filed on Nov. 16 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office.San Mateo-based Acacia Capital, acting through an affiliate, bought the Villa del Sol apartment complex, the county property records show.Pacific Urban Investors, a unit of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap, sold the Villa del Sol apartments to Acacia Capital.Villa del Sol is an apartment property with 124 units in two buildings, according to the Rent Cafe website.The residential complex is at the corner of East Evelyn Avenue and South Sunnyvale Avenue in Sunnyvale.Amenities in the just-bought apartment complex include a 24-hour fitness center, a spa, a hot tub, a pool and courtyards. The apa...

Campbell breaks ground on library renovation project

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

Groundbreaking libraryThe City of Campbell and the Santa Clara County Library District broke ground for the fully renovated Campbell Library on Friday, Nov. 10.The renovated library, located at 77 Harrison Ave., will include collaborative meeting rooms, a fully equipped community room, children’s play spaces and dedicated spaces for children, teens and adults. Construction is expected to be completed by summer 2025.“With the full renovation offering bright, open and welcoming spaces, we look forward to providing Campbell residents a destination to read, relax, attend a program, learn a new skill or get together with others to work, study and socialize,” County Librarian Jennifer Weeks said in a statement.For more information about the Campbell Library renovation project and the new Campbell Police facility, visit campbellca.gov/MeasureO.Cancer support fundraiserIn a tribute to the late Trudy Blechman, founder of Trudys Brides and Special Occasions in The Pruneyard shopping center, S...

Pac-12 basketball power ratings: Arizona on top as USC falls, Utah and WSU rise

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

The Pac-12 power ratings will appear weekly on the Hotline until the conference tournament, although the publication day will change once football season ends.Two weeks into the most important two months of the college basketball season, the Pac-12 owns a 29-6 record in non-conference play. The winning percentage of 82.8 is well above the historical threshold (70 percent) that leads to success on Selection Sunday.But most of the toughest games are ahead. Next week, in fact, the conference has dates lined up with No. 4 Marquette, No. 14 Arkansas, No. 15 Baylor and No. 18 Michigan State.We’ll monitor the situation closely. Results in November (and December) have an enormous impact on what happens in March.To the power ratings …1. Arizona (3-0)Last week: 2Results: beat Duke 78-73, beat Southern 97-59Next up: vs. Belmont (Friday)Comment: Standard policy at Hotline HQ: Beat Duke at Duke and you’re No. 1 in the power ratings, regardless of record, date, weather condition...

Final day of APEC: Here are Biden's plans

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

(KRON) – Friday is the last day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit Cooperation summit.President Joe Biden has collectively met with the other 20 world leaders who make up the APEC summit. Biden plans to meet with Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to discuss migration and fentanyl coming into the United States. Authorities say China has all the ingredients to make the drug, but it is produced in Mexico and then comes into the United States. Poll shows Newsom’s weaknesses on key issues, strength vs. Trump in California President Biden and China's president met Wednesday to work on slowing down the drugs coming into the United States. President Biden wants that same cooperation from Mexico. President Biden plans on leaving San Francisco on Friday afternoon. 

Hillary Clinton Is Lying About the History Between Hamas and Israel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

Hilary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton at the Great Hall in Swansea University Bay Campus, in Wales on Nov. 16, 2023.Photo: Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty ImagesOn Tuesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published an opinion piece in The Atlantic headlined “Hamas Must Go.” Why does she believe this? The subhead explains: “The terror group has proved again and again that it will sabotage any efforts to forge a lasting peace.” The article is the latest chapter of Clinton’s press tour following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks, including an appearance on the daytime talk show “The View.” Both in The Atlantic and on “The View,” Clinton explained why a ceasefire in Israel’s current war on Gaza would be a terrible mistake.Everything Clinton has said is part of a peculiar genre of self-defeating “liberal” propaganda on the topic of Israel–Palestine. Clinton is rational and informed and understands, as she writes in The Atlantic, that “the only way to ensur...

House Democrats Press Biden to Block Military Aid to Pakistan Over Human Rights Abuses, Jailing of Imran Khan

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

Eleven Democrats in the House of Representatives are calling on the State Department to conduct a probe into human rights abuses inside Pakistan, with an eye toward restricting aid based on potential violations of the Leahy Act, according to a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.Led by Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rep. Greg Casar of Texas, the letter expresses “deep concern about the ongoing human rights violations in Pakistan,” which has been in a state of political crisis since the military-engineered removal of former Prime Minister Imran Khan last year. Khan was removed from office following a no-confidence vote organized by the military and his civilian opponents. The Leahy Law, as it’s often called, bars military assistance to government entities engaged in abuse.According to a classified Pakistani intelligence document reported in August by The Intercept, the effort to remove Khan also came partly on the back of pressure from the U.S. government, which had been an...

Correction: Law Professor Killing story

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a story published November 14, 2023, about the arrest of Donna Adelson in the murder of her son-in-law Daniel Markel, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Katie Magbanua and Sigfredo Garcia were once married. While they sometimes identified as married, they were never officially married. Also, Garcia was not a member of the Latin Kings gang, only his co-conspirator, Luis Rivera was.Source

Defeated Virginia candidate whose explicit videos surfaced says she may not be done with politics

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

HENRICO, Va. (AP) — Susanna Gibson lost her Virginia legislative race this month, but she may not be done with politics.Gibson, a Democrat whose House of Delegates campaign and personal life were rocked by news reports that she had livestreamed sex acts with her husband on a pornographic website, isn’t ruling out another run for office someday, she told The Associated Press in her first interview since the controversy erupted in September.While expressing regret about what unfolded, Gibson is unapologetic about her participation in the online sex acts. She maintains that a crime was committed when members of the news media were alerted to the existence of videos documenting what had been livestreamed. Moving forward, she says she wants to find ways to support and encourage other women running for office, particularly those who might find themselves in situations that bear similarities to hers.Gibson, who has faced harassment and death threats since the disclosure of the videos...

Live updates | Israeli troops find body of hostage during search of Gaza hospital complex

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:14:06 GMT

Israel’s military said it found the body of another hostage in a building adjacent to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, the focus of clashing narratives over who is to blame for the widespread suffering of Palestinian civilians during the war between Israel and Hamas. The military identified the dead hostage on Friday as Cpl. Noa Marciano. The body of another hostage, Yehudit Weiss, was found Thursday as Israeli troops searched the hospital complex. Israel accuses Hamas of using Palestinians as human shields, while Palestinians and rights groups say Israel has recklessly endangered civilians as it seeks to eradicate the militant group. Aid agencies said they had to call off deliveries of basic necessities in the Gaza Strip due to a lack of fuel. They warned of possible widespread starvation in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel. They said most people in Gaza were without adequate food and clean water.At least 11,470 Palestinians — two-thirds of them women and minor...