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SAN JOSE – Ryane Clowe’s new job as an assistant general manager with the San Jose Sharks was one he did not necessarily see coming. Perfectly happy with his role inside the New York Rangers front office, Clowe was set to continue working as a senior advisor to general manager Chris Drury. Then, a couple of months ago, Drury got a call from Sharks GM Mike Grier asking if he could speak to Clowe about joining him in San Jose in another capacity. Clowe, who was Sharks teammates with Grier from 2006 to 2009 and worked with him in the Rangers front office, listened and liked what he heard. “I was part of a great organization, a great team that (just finished) making a run in the playoffs, and I just got a call from Chris,” Clowe said. “Once I spoke with Mike, and (we) went through it, it was an opportunity that I couldn’t turn down.” The 41-year-old Clowe, who was drafted by San Jose in 2001 and spent eight NHL seasons with the team from 2005 to 2013, joins Joe Will and Tom

Here are some of Thursday’s top headlines, including testimony continuing in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Alec Baldwin, encouraging news for consumers that shows inflation is cooling, and more than $200,000 worth of stolen LEGO sets seized in Oregon. Elise Preston, Jo Ling Kent and Dave Malkoff report.

By JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Thursday acknowledged a string of errors in its response to the deadly Hamas attacks last Oct. 7, including slow response times and disorganization, as it released the results of its first investigation into failures during the assault that triggered the war in Gaza. The report focused on the border community of Be’eri, where over 100 people were killed and more than 30 others taken hostage by Hamas. It was among the hardest-hit communities in the early morning attack, and it was the scene of one of the highest-profile confrontations of Oct. 7 – a standoff in which terrorists held a group of hostages inside a home. Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, and European Union. “The army failed in its mission to protect the residents of Kibbutz Be’eri,” the military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said in a televised address. “It is painful and difficult for me to say that.” During the standoff, a tank fired at the home, raising concerns that the 13 hostages inside were killed by

In “Teen Torture, Inc.,” the three-part documentary on Max about abuses children and adolescents have survived at various boarding schools, boot camps and religious programs intended to curb rebellious behavior, a phrase comes up again and again: The troubled teen industry. It’s an industry. That’s a chilling reality describing what author Evan Wright calls a “grab bag of all these different programs based on the idea that no matter what it takes, we’re gonna make these kids follow the rules because what they’re doing is so dangerous, it will destroy their lives.” In many cases, the abuse is the treatment. Director Tara Malone talks to a handful of now-adult survivors who recall, in detail, their harrowing experiences. Alas, the seriousness of their stories is continually undermined by Malone’s stylistic choices, from the use of what appear to be grainy dramatic recreations to a score that seems intended to emulate a horror movie. It’s entirely misjudged and suggests the documentary isn’t a Max (HBO) original, but something made for Discovery’s more sensationalist programming, which also (not incidentally) streams on Max. This blurring might be intentional. Either

It may have taken a quarter century to develop a luxury waterfront hotel in Oceanside, California, but it’s apparently paid off.  The Mission Pacific Beach Resort, which made its debut three years ago, has been named the No. 1 resort in the continental U.S. by Travel and Leisure’s readers. The 161-room, seven-story hotel, which boasts a Michelin-starred restaurant on the premises, was also named the top resort in California. It outranked many long acclaimed properties, including Rancho Valencia in Rancho Santa Fe, which frequently garners recognition in national rankings. It came in at No. 11 in this year’s reader survey of best resorts in the U.S., although it was fourth in 2021. “I think everyone was completely surprised,” Tim Obert, area managing director of Mission Pacific Beach Resort, said of Tuesday’s announcement. He also manages the hotel’s sister property, The Seabird Ocean Resort & Spa, which was ranked 14th. “It’s our guests who voted for us, and they’re well traveled and experienced. They know what great is, so it’s flattering that they were kind enough to take the time to vote for us. We had

Ryan Faughnder | Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” has achieved a major box office milestone, going a long way toward easing anxiety (pun intended) surrounding the Disney-owned computer animation studio’s prospects. The summer family blockbuster sequel on Tuesday passed the $1.25 billion mark at the global box office, passing 2018’s “Incredibles 2” to become Pixar’s highest grossing movie to date on a non-inflation-adjusted basis, according to Disney estimates. “Inside Out 2,” the sequel to the beloved 2015 original that personified a young girl’s emotions such as Joy and Anger, has generated $543.5 million in the U.S. and Canada, still shy of Pixar’s non-inflation-adjusted domestic record of nearly $609 million for the “Incredibles” follow-up. In today’s dollars, “Incredibles 2’s” U.S.-Canada total is $758.5 million. Pixar had been having a rough time since the COVID-19 pandemic, which cut the legs off the box office of its largely forgotten 2020 title “Onward.” Related Articles Entertainment | ‘Teen Torture, Inc.’ review: In the troubled teen industry, major profits and major allegations of abuse Entertainment | ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ review: Scarlett Johansson can’t fully rescue this

In “Fly Me to the Moon,” a shiny, tinny hunk of speculative fiction with a lunar dust sprinkling of fact, Channing Tatum plays the NASA launch director in charge of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. But it’s Scarlett Johansson, as the Madison Avenue wizard selling that mission to the American public, who emerges as this movie’s real launch director. She has an ear for this stuff, and this “Mad Man”-adjacent era — the brio and energy, an easy facility with dialects (her character’s a born deceiver) and an instinct for navigating the story’s whiplash transitions from screwball to pathos to patter to angst to aggressively chaste romance. In theory, Tatum is along for the ride to provide the “va” in conjunction with Johansson’s “voom.” But he seems lost here, and in any case is not really your man for quippy, fast-moving banter of any quality. The stars’ chemistry feels tentative to the point of the opposite of lift-off: drift-off. Miraculously, Johansson salvages whole flaming chunks of director Greg Berlanti’s rom-com/political conspiracy/faked-moon-landing hybrid. Going for laughs one minute, solemn heartbreak the next, it’s a movie about

Disney is revealing details about what fans will be able to experience at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event. With less than one month to go, the sold-out event at the Anaheim Convention Center will include a lineup of more than 230 panels and presentations, show floor offerings and Talent Central interactions. RELATED: Take a look at the full schedule for D23 here The multi-day fan experience will showcase storytelling and innovation across The Walt Disney Company with a lineup of panels and presentations featuring behind-the-scenes access, rarely seen treasures, first-look showcases, and highly anticipated reunions. Fan-favorite presentations including D23 Mousequerade: The Ultimate Disney Costume Contest, Disney Princess – The Concert, Disney Character Voices: Inside the Studio, and more will once again return to the convention center. This year’s show floor is the largest in the event’s history and will allow fans to interact with beloved brands, stories and talent including immersive pavilions from Disney Experiences, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Disney+, Hulu, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, National Geographic, and more. For the first time, Avatar will have a full pavilion, ESPN and ABC

FRESNO, Calif. — Dozens of salmonella illnesses have been linked to raw milk from a California farm, a far wider outbreak than previously known, according to newly released state records. As of February, at least 165 people were sickened with salmonella infections tied to products from Raw Farm, of Fresno, California, according to the records. It is the largest reported salmonella outbreak linked to raw milk in the U.S. in the past decade, according to health officials. The disclosure of the outbreak’s size comes as health officials warn the public to avoid unpasteurized milk due to a bird flu virus circulating in U.S. dairy cows. The bird flu, known as Type A H5N1, has been detected in more than 140 U.S. dairy herds, and federal health officials say the virus has been detected in high levels in raw milk. State and local health officials hadn’t updated the public about the full scope of the salmonella outbreak since October, when officials in San Diego reported about a dozen cases. At the time, Raw Farm issued a voluntary recall of milk and heavy cream sold between Oct.

By Jose Mayorquin Thursday, July 11, 2024 7:12PM Extended Reality (XR) products driving the spatial computing revolution take center stage at the AWE (Augmented World Expo) conference. LONG BEACH, Calif. — As technologies continue to advance, the prospect of a fully integrated digital and physical world appears increasingly tangible, promising profound implications for how immersive technologies will help people work, learn, play and connect. “We look at our smart phones 400 times a day. That’s the way we live today. What succeeds the smart phone?” posed Charlie Fink, a professor of advanced technologies at Chapman University and Arizona State University. Fink also co-hosts “This Week in XR” a podcast that discusses spatial computing and artificial intelligence. “The new platform is spatial computing with AR and VR. This will be how we interact with computers in the future,” said Ori Inbar, co-founder and CEO of AWE (Augmented World Expo). Held annually, AWE gathers futurists, tech enthusiasts, and representatives from wide-ranging industries to explore the frontiers of AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality) and Mixed Reality (MR)-collectively known as XR or Spatial Computing. “What we’re seeing in

A bride is speaking out after a video of her wedding dress and veil catching fire during her ceremony went viral on social media. For Lupe Quijano, it was supposed to be a moment of pure bliss after she said “I do” and married Luis Quijano. But as the Quijanos made their way down the aisle after saying their vows, Lupe Quijano’s white wedding dress suddenly started going up in flames. A video clip shared on Instagram by one of the couple’s vendors, artist Shauna Bailey, shows feet-long flames erupting at the foot of Lupe Quijano’s dress and guests rushing toward the bride and groom to douse the flames and keep the fire from spreading. “I didn’t know anything that was going on until we stopped kissing and I looked up and I saw two of my friends running towards me and I turned back to look to see what was going on and that’s when I noticed that my veil and my dress had caught fire,” Lupe Quijano recalled to “Good Morning America.” Albert Rodriguez, Lupe Quijano’s brother-in-law, was the couple’s officiant and said

TAMPA, Fla. — An American Airlines flight out of Tampa aborted takeoff Wednesday morning because of multiple blown tires. The flight was bound for Phoenix. There were 174 passengers on board. They were taken off the plane on the taxiway and bused back to the terminal. No one was hurt. Copyright © 2024 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.

Matteo Messina Denaro’s sister unintentionally helped police locate her fugitive brother, thanks to a scribbled note she had hidden in a chair.

Storms like Hurricane Beryl are leading to double-digit rate hikes for homeowners, while padding insurers’ pockets.

Mexico’s president said the attacks have become brutal and indiscriminate, and blamed lenient or corrupt judges.

By LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As he prepares to accept the Republican nomination for the third time, Donald Trump has promised new efforts to expand his coalition — and, in particular, to win over more of the nonwhite voters who largely rejected him during the 2020 election. But an AP analysis of two consecutive polls conducted in June by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that about 7 in 10 Black Americans have a somewhat or very unfavorable view of Trump, as do about half of Hispanic Americans. While both groups do see Trump a little more favorably than when he left office in 2021, their opinion of him is still more negative than positive. Any gains in support among Black or Hispanic Americans would be helpful for Trump, who won 35% of Hispanic voters and 8% of Black voters in 2020, according to AP VoteCast, and has struggled to grow his appeal beyond his base. He’s hoping, in part, to capitalize on frustration with his opponent, since President Joe Biden’s favorability among Black and Hispanic Americans has also fallen

By JEFFREY COLLINS NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Shalom Koray never knew his real name or his birthday. He was saved from the streets of a burning Warsaw neighborhood while he was a toddler during World War II, when the rest of his family was killed by Nazis in Poland. He grew up and lived in Israel with no idea of his past. He never knew a hug from someone who shared his blood or his DNA — until Wednesday, when Koray walked off an airplane in South Carolina and into the arms of Ann Meddin Hellman. Her grandfather was the brother of Koray’s grandfather, making them second cousins. It’s a story that would have been impossible without modern DNA science and without a genetic test that Koray was given by a psychologist who studies children orphaned in the Holocaust. Hellman’s ancestors came to the U.S. while Koray’s family stayed behind in Poland to run a family business. They would decades later be among the 6 million Jewish men, women and children systematically killed by the Germans in World War II. “I feel like I’ve

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI, ISABELLA VOLMERT, MARC LEVY and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — Considering her choices in this year’s rapidly approaching presidential election, Rochelle Jones thinks both major party candidates should step aside. “They just need to get somebody that’s going to run this country right, that don’t have any health issues, that care about us people,” the 39-year-old culinary worker at Michigan State University said this week. As President Joe Biden struggles to recover from a disastrous debate performance last month, he has argued that desires for him to leave the campaign are limited to his party’s “ elite.” But Jones’ sentiment reflects a more nuanced reality unfolding in some of the most politically competitive states, from here in Michigan to Pennsylvania and Nevada. In interviews this week, many voters said they still support Biden. But they also expressed concern that a lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy could cause a lot of Democratic voters to stay home, handing the race to Republican Donald Trump. Some are concerned as well about the impact Biden’s continued candidacy would have on down-ballot

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and FARNOUSH AMIRI WASHINGTON (AP) — The House rejected a GOP effort Thursday to fine Attorney General Merrick Garland $10,000 a day until he turns over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case as a handful of Republicans resisted taking an aggressive step against a sitting Cabinet official. Even if the resolution — titled inherent contempt — had passed, it was unclear how the fine would be enforced as the dispute over the tape of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur is now playing out in court. The House voted 204-210, with four Republicans joining all Democrats, to halt a Republican resolution that would have imposed the fine, effectively rebuffing the latest effort by GOP lawmakers to assert its enforcement powers — weeks after Biden asserted executive privilege to block the release of the recording. “This is not a decision that we have reached lightly but the actions of the attorney general cannot be ignored,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., the resolution’s lead sponsors, said during debate Wednesday. “No one is above the law.” The House

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press President Joe Biden will hold a news conference Thursday, the key event in a monumental week during which the Democratic incumbent is fending off calls for him to step aside as the party’s presumptive nominee following a shaky debate performance. It’s just the type of event that many political watchers have said Biden needs to pull off successfully to turn back demands — including from within his own party — that he withdraw from his reelection battle against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Biden has argued that he had a singularly bad night in Atlanta and that it wasn’t representative of his mental acuity. A strong performance Thursday could convince members of his party that he still has the ability both to win in November and to serve a second term. A weak effort — or stumbles similar to his debate performances — could make the calls for him to withdraw grow much louder. Here are the details on what White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has referenced as Biden’s “big boy” news conference: When is the news conference? Biden is

Witness testimony resumes in Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial; U.S. to resume shipping 500-pound bombs to Israel, but will hold back on supplying 2,000-pound bombs.