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Dua Lipa’s “Radical Optimism” has a hilarious album cover, two songs about illusionists and what may end up the year’s most succulent bass playing. What it doesn’t have is the kind of detailed celebrity meta-narrative that’s come to define — and to propel — the superstar pop LP in music’s parasocial age. The 28-year-old London-born singer might disagree: On the cusp of her Saturn return, Lipa has been talking up her third studio album as a meditation on hard-won emotional maturity à la Ariana Grande’s “Eternal Sunshine” or Kacey Musgraves’ “Deeper Well.” “Radical optimism in the way that I see it,” she told Zane Lowe, “is this idea of rolling with the punches.” The LP’s cover shows her bobbing in the sea dangerously close to a shark’s fin, and I guess the shark represents the punches? Yet because Lipa’s lyrics are very bad — “If these walls could talk, they’d tell us to break up,” she sings at one point — this concept doesn’t really come together. And, besides, a quest for emotional maturity really misses the whole point of Dua Lipa, which is being

A woman in her 80s was struck and killed Thursday in South Los Angeles by a vehicle whose driver fled while a woman in her 90s was critically injured. Officers responded near the intersection of Adams Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue around 1:20 p.m. Thursday to reports of a fatal crash. It was unclear what may have led up to the crash. The suspect was last seen fleeing eastbound on West 25th Street as the person driver out of a driveway on private property before hitting the two victims, KTLA reported, citing information from the Los Angeles Police Department. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to the location and took the woman in her 90s to a hospital.

May is officially Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the state of California, following a proclamation by Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday. “With more than six million Californians of Asian or Pacific Islander descent, California is home to dynamic AAPI communities that are an invaluable part of our state and nation,” Newsom said in the proclamation. He added, “Since our state’s founding, AAPIs have been instrumental in writing the California story and building our state as we know it.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are nearly 6.1 million people of Asian descent in California and nearly 160,000 people who identify as Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. Newsom also mentioned a rise in anti-Asian hate, saying it echoes “dark history” seen throughout the nation’s history. An analysis reported to the California Department of Justice from 2016 through 2020 showed the number of anti-Asian hate crime events in the state increased within those five years. It said the highest number of anti-Asian hate crime events occurred in March and April of 2020, when California declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19

A suspect remains on the loose after a young father was murdered outside his Los Angeles County home. The victim was identified as Fidel Padilla, 32, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. On Oct. 16, 2023, authorities responded to a home on the 1000 block of Kellwil Way in Duarte at around 1:40 a.m. Arriving deputies found Padilla injured with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Family members said Padilla had walked outside to the driveway when he was suddenly shot. The suspect fled the scene before deputies could arrive. A surveillance image of the suspect’s vehicle was released by LASD. The victim, Fidel Padilla, 32, seen in photos from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The suspect’s vehicle was captured on surveillance video on Oct. 16, 2023. (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department) Authorities investigate a fatal shooting in Duarte on Oct. 16, 2023. (KTLA) Authorities investigate a fatal shooting in Duarte on Oct. 16, 2023. (KTLA) As of May 2024, no suspect description is known. No weapon was found at the scene and the motive behind the shooting

A suspect remains on the loose after a young father was murdered outside his Los Angeles County home. The victim was identified as Fidel Padilla, 32, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. On Oct. 16, 2023, authorities responded to a home on the 1000 block of Kellwil Way in Duarte at around 1:40 a.m. Arriving deputies found Padilla injured with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Family members said Padilla had walked outside to the driveway when he was suddenly shot. The suspect fled the scene before deputies could arrive. A surveillance image of the suspect’s vehicle was released by LASD. No suspect description is known at this time. The victim, Fidel Padilla, 32, seen in photos from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The suspect’s vehicle was captured on surveillance video on Oct. 16, 2023. (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department) Authorities investigate a fatal shooting in Duarte on Oct. 16, 2023. (KTLA) Authorities investigate a fatal shooting in Duarte on Oct. 16, 2023. (KTLA) No weapon was found at the scene and the motive behind the shooting remains

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have arrested more than 2,100 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, sometimes using riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang devices to clear tent encampments and occupied buildings. One officer accidentally discharged his gun inside a Columbia University administration building while clearing out protesters camped inside, authorities disclosed Thursday. No one was injured by the officer’s mistake late Tuesday inside Hamilton Hall on the Columbia campus, the NYPD said Thursday. He was trying to use the flashlight attached to his gun at the time and instead fired a single round that struck a frame on the wall. There were other officers but no students in the immediate vicinity, officials said. Body camera footage shows when the officer’s gun went off, but the district attorney’s office is conducting a review, a standard practice. More than 100 people were taken into custody during the Columbia crackdown, just a fraction of the total arrests stemming from recent campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. A tally by The Associated Press on Thursday found at least 50 incidents

By Katie Houlis Updated on: May 2, 2024 / 10:47 PM EDT / CBS New York Video shows aftermath of apparent house explosion in New Jersey Video shows aftermath of apparent house explosion in New Jersey 06:18 SOUTH RIVER, N.J. — At least one person was killed and another was injured in a house explosion in New Jersey on Thursday evening. It happened just after 7 p.m. at a home on Continental Court in South River, Middlesex County. Officials say when emergency responders arrived on the scene, they found two victims suffering from serious injuries. The Middlesex County prosecutor’s office says 62-year-old Kevin Gilbert succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene. Another victim was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for treatment. CBS New York was initially told two people had been killed. The cause of the explosion is unknown at this time. Video from over the scene shows the house has been leveled with debris blown in all directions. Pieces of the house could also be seen in the backyards of neighboring homes. It’s not clear if any of

The first thing you notice about left-hander Boston Bateman is his size. He’s 6 feet 8 with lots of hair sticking out from the back of his Camarillo High hat. There’s high expectations whenever he pitches because he rarely gives up hits. Four times this baseball season, he has combined on no-hitters while giving up six hits in 48 innings with 102 strikeouts. So there he was Thursday afternoon with the wind blowing in and not a cloud in the sky, pitching in an opening game of the Southern Section Division 4 playoffs against visiting Dos Pueblos, which joked about turning up the pitching machine to 92 mph in practice. “Not hard enough,” a player said before the game. Boston Bateman gets fired up. After two walks and hit batter loads bases, he gets strikeout. B4, Camarillo 2, Dos Pueblos 0. pic.twitter.com/IoLkQfCdkm — eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) May 2, 2024 It turned out that player knows what he’s talking about. Bateman, who committed to LSU but is expected to be a high draft pick, gave up two hits in 5 1/3 innings, striking out eight, walking

A Hesperia pastor is in police custody following an investigation into allegations he sexually abused two minors under his care as a foster parent. Jose Manuel Lozano is awaiting trial at the High Desert Detention Center in Adelanto, where he is being held in lieu of $5-million bail. Investigators described his alleged victims as girls ages 16 and 10. Jose Manuel Lozano (Hesperia Police Department) The 54-year-old Hesperia resident led bilingual services for a predominately Latino and Spanish-speaking congregation at Zion Assembly Church of God Hesperia, an affiliate of Zion Assembly Church of God International, headquartered in Tennessee. A representative from the latter said in an interview that the organization condemns Lozano’s “ungodliness” and that he was removed from office March 15, when the allegations came to light. He was arrested last week. Pastors at neighboring churches said they were shocked and dismayed upon hearing of Lozano’s arrest. “It just reminds us of all the ways we have systems to protect children,” said Tom Beasley, pastor at Hesperia Community Church. He said he did not know Lozano personally, nor did any of his congregants. “We