Posts by Liam Redmond
Ex-Jeopardy host’s ginormous California ranch home sells at jaw-dropping discount
The sprawling California ranch and vineyard once owned by beloved “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek has fetched $16.9 million after hitting the auction block — going for nearly half of staggering $33 million price tag it carried when it hit the market last year. Known as Windfall Farms, the 724-acre mega-estate in the rolling hills of…
Read MoreWho Was Andrew Haden? Assistant US Attorney Found Dead Inside San Diego Federal Building
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Haden was found dead inside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building in downtown San Diego on Wednesday evening, Aug. 19, shortly after he was reported missing. He was 48. San Diego police said investigators found Haden inside an office at 880 Front St., the address of the federal building that houses…
Read MoreHarry who? Meet the hidden royals living like normal U.S. residents
While Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pack up their jam-packed Montecito mansion, their California neighbors are reportedly “thrilled” to see their high-profile neighbors vamoose. But just because the British royals caused some traffic jams due to their Netflix crews and high-demand security needs doesn’t mean that all American-based aristocrats are a pain in…
Read MoreXavier Becerra’s campaign for California governor has a shocking new platform
California gubernatorial frontrunner, Democrat Xavier Becerra, has pitched a slew of policy ideas — from speeding up homebuilding to offering free electricity — but has largely skipped the fine print and sweeping promises embraced by his rivals. Becerra acknowledged his strategy of playing it safe by being silent is done on purpose during recent interview…
Read More“Engineering Magic,” Adhesive Technologies, and Precision: How Paintless Dent Repair Is Changing the Automotive Service Industry
Photo of Vitalii Novitskii For most car owners, repairing a dent still means several days without a vehicle, filler, repainting, and a repair bill running into thousands. Traditional body repair, however, is gradually losing ground. Paintless dent repair (PDR), which is a technology that restores body panels without damaging the factory paint, is becoming one…
Read MoreExclusive | LaVar Arrington declares Cowboys winner of Micah Parsons trade: ‘Addition by subtraction’
As a Penn State legend and a former Washington Commanders star, it pained LaVar Arrington to admit it. But when asked on Thursday who won the trade between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers of fellow Nittany Lions great Micah Parsons, Arrington revealed he was giving the edge to Jerry Jones’ team. Green…
Read MoreAI Accounting Software Grows Up: Xero Bets on Agents
At its US conference in Denver this week, Xero announced embedded payroll and a set of new AI capabilities aimed at small businesses and the accountants who serve them. Payroll now runs inside Xero, powered by Gusto. Expense management arrives through Melio. If you have ever spent a Sunday evening moving numbers between a payroll…
Read MoreJD Vance says open borders created ‘millions of orphans’ during appearance in Ohio hometown
WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance accused Democrats of causing “millions of orphans” and suicides during a Friday stump speech in his Ohio hometown — invoking the late Democratic populist Huey Long as he described the Trump administration’s agenda. Vance, the odds-on favorite for the Republican nomination in 2028, theorized how to consolidate the GOP’s…
Read MoreMedical Device Startup Vexev Raises $6M for FDA Push
Australian medical robotics company Vexev raised $6 million to push its robotic ultrasound platform toward FDA clearance and a US launch. The round brings total funding to $19 million. That is a modest number for a hardware company entering American healthcare. I used to tell founders that regulated markets were a trap, and I was…
Read MoreChilling messages reveal surprisingly simple way bumbling would-be NY Capitol bomber joined ISIS
The wannabe upstate jihadi Jane charged with plotting to bomb the New York State Capitol joined ISIS through social media after a recruiter urged her to take an oath to “obey” the terrorist group’s leader, chilling messages reveal. Jessica Bowie, 35 — who planned to attack the building with a bomb hidden in a DoorDash…
Read MoreFed Interest Rate Decision: What Founders Should Do Now
Traders spent August rewriting their view of the September meeting, and the odds of a rate increase fell hard after a weak July jobs report. As of August 19, futures pricing put roughly 65% odds on no change at all. That leaves about a one-in-three chance the Fed moves rates up. If you run a…
Read MoreOne year-old diagnosed with rare cancer after doctors misdiagnosed it as constipation
A one-year-old girl was diagnosed with cancer after doctors dismissed her symptoms as constipation. Little Florence Wilde was taken to her GP after her stomach began to swell up and she became repeatedly run down and tired. But parents Anna Chattaway and Dom Wilde, both 32, were told it was just constipation and prescribed laxatives,…
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