California ‘landmark’ seafood restaurant closes abruptly after 98-year-run

They’ve gone fishing. After nearly a century in business, Bay Area seafood restaurant Cook’s Seafood abruptly closed both of their locations last week. The Silicon Valley institution announced the shocking closure with a sign posted outside of their original Menlo Park location, which first started selling shellfish in 1928. Sign up for the California Morning Report newsletter The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now. Thanks for signing up! “As you know, this year has been very difficult for restaurants,” the sign read. “Our Team thanks you for all your years of visiting us, and we’ll miss you.”…

Dow pops 500 points, oil tumbles on hopes of a US-Iran peace deal

Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Monday as oil prices tumbled more than 7% on hopes of a US-Iran peace deal, with investors also bracing for Tuesday’s midterm elections and another busy week of earnings. In midday trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 566 points, or 1.1%, to 52,336.…

Binance sees .7B in customer withdrawals after stunning North Korea hack

Binance has recorded more than $4.7 billion in outflows since it resumed customer withdrawals on Sunday, following a stunning North Korean hack that experts called the largest bank heist in history. It represents just 3% of the massive cryptocurrency exchange’s total assets and withdrawal levels are already stabilizing to normal…

Dario Amodei’s Anthropic reports B Q3 loss in amended IPO filing

Anthropic’s net loss narrowed sharply in the third quarter as revenue jumped, an amended IPO filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed on Monday. The AI company’s net loss fell to $23.29 billion in the three months ended Sept. 30 from $66.3 billion in the second quarter, while revenue…

UCLA’s Mick Cronin may be coach reborn with rugged roster fitting his style

Late this spring, the obituary on the Mick Cronin era at UCLA was flooding message boards. A coach who hadn’t reached the NCAA Tournament’s second weekend since 2023 had missed on too many prime transfer-portal targets, particularly at small forward and center. The roster didn’t have nearly enough offensive firepower…

‘Now you actually have a blood test’: Psychiatry’s bible, the DSM, is getting upgraded to include biological markers. A psychiatrist explains what that means for mental health.

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter For decades, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have used the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” or DSM, to diagnose patients with conditions such as major depression, anorexia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).…

Colts open door to benching Daniel Jones after another ugly start

A quarterback change isn’t out of the question in Indianapolis. Colts head coach Shane Steichen left the door open for Daniel Jones to not start, telling reporters on Sunday that he was “going to evaluate everything” after being asked if Jones would stay as Indy’s starting quarterback. The Colts lost…

Molly Sims reveals the supplements and workouts she swears by to get through perimenopause

[nyp_video player=”SPdDOYds” platform=”jw-player” playlist=”W5xXwQyA” playlisttype=”dynamic” placement=”true” jwpropertyid=”XD   Hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness tend to get top billing when it comes to menopause. But the hormonal rollercoaster can wreak havoc well beyond the physical — messing with a woman’s mental and emotional health, too. Model, actress and entrepreneur…

Hollywood cuts first-ever AI copyright deal with TikTok’s ByteDance

Hollywood’s top copyright cops and TikTok’s parent company have called a truce in their war over artificial intelligence. The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and ByteDance announced a surprise deal Monday to slap tough safety guardrails on the Chinese tech giant’s powerful AI video and image generators, including Seedance and Seedream.…

L3Harris ousts CEO Christopher Kubasik after probe finds he violated code of conduct

L3Harris Technologies said Monday Chairman and CEO Christopher Kubasik had left the company after a board investigation found he had engaged in conduct inconsistent with the defense contractor’s code of conduct, sending its shares down more than 3% in afternoon trading. The Melbourne, Fla.-based defense contractor named executive Sam Mehta as chief executive, effective…

New California law could change how kids consume social media forever

California kids could soon find social media less addictive under a pair of bills targeting features designed to keep them scrolling. The proposals, AB 1709 and AB 2, cleared the State Senate Appropriations Committee this week and could reach Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk before the legislative session ends Aug. 31,…

USC QB Jayden Maiava must defy long odds to win Heisman Trophy

Lining the lobby windows of USC’s sprawling new practice facility are eight versions of the most recognizable award in college football. Upstairs, along a hallway, are massive snapshots of each of the Trojan winners on their big night in New York. Caleb Williams is shown in his plaid Gucci suit…

Frustrated CEO moved company to Texas, says ‘California sucks’ with taxes

“Doing business in the state of California sucks,” Hil Davis, a California businessman, bluntly told Fox News Digital. That frustration ultimately drove Davis, CEO of Digital Brands Group, more than 1,300 miles to Texas. The apparel and e-commerce company relocated its headquarters to Round Rock, just north of Austin, leasing roughly…

1,700-year-old church discovered under a lake in Turkey may be the location of the First Council of Nicaea — but other experts disagree

Archaeologists say they have discovered the site where the First Council of Nicaea was held, an important gathering of Christian bishops in A.D. 325, according to the archaeologist who’s leading the excavations. However, some experts who were not involved in the excavations have questioned this interpretation.Nicaea was an ancient Greek…

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