Short-handed Lakers fall short against Western Conference-worst Rockets
The Lakers, without Anthony Davis and LeBron James, could not carry the load and fell shorts 114-110 to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2023-03-15/lakers-at-rockets-nba-recap
Freddie Prinze Jr.’s ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ was an actor’s hell on set
While Freddie Prinze Jr. promotes horror movie podcast “That Was Pretty Scary,” he’s dishing on the drama of filming “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
Newsom gives up call for lawmakers to cap oil industry profits
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s amended proposal would give the California Energy Commission more authority to investigate gasoline price spikes and the option to place a cap on profits and penalize oil companies.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-15/ca-newsom-oil-profits-cap
Newsom gives up call for lawmakers to cap oil industry profits
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s amended proposal would give the California Energy Commission more authority to investigate gasoline price spikes and the option to place a cap on profits and penalize oil companies.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-15/ca-newsom-oil-profits-cap
Gun Owners Of America Aghast At Potential ATF Expansion
Gun Owners Of America Aghast At Potential ATF Expansion
Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A national gun rights organization is decrying the expansion of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in President Joe Biden’s $6.8 trillion budget proposal for 2024.
“GOA is extremely concerned at the massive surge in ATF funding in recent years—doubling the size of the agency since the end of the Obama administration,” Aidan Johnston, Gun Owners of America’s director of federal affairs, wrote in an email to The Epoch Times.
Biden’s budget proposal contains $1.9 billion for the ATF. This is a 13.6 percent increase over 2022 and half a billion dollars more than the agency’s fiscal 2020 budget.
If passed as written, Biden’s budget would expand the ATF by 35.7 percent—an overall growth of more than 50 percent since the Obama administration.
According to Biden’s plan, the $1.9 billion would finance the expansion of multi-jurisdictional gun trafficking strike forces, increase firearms industry regulation, and implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
The proposal also calls for $51 million for the FBI to complete implementing the enhanced background check system that is part of the Act.
In a statement, GOA said the budget items are nothing more than incremental gun control that will make no one safer while denying law-abiding gun owners their constitutional rights.
The organization is especially alarmed at funding for “crisis intervention programs,” so-called “Red Flag Laws.”
GOA and other gun rights groups claim that Red Flag laws set the stage for authorities to confiscate firearms without due process. They say that language in the Act requiring due process is misleading.
Read more here…
Tyler Durden
Wed, 03/15/2023 – 23:00
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gun-owners-america-aghast-potential-atf-expansion
Dear Sophie: How can I return to the United States as a founder?
Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.
“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says Sophie Alcorn, a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. “Whether you’re in people ops, a founder or seeking a job in Silicon Valley, I would love to answer your questions in my next column.”
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Dear Sophie,
I lived and worked in the United States on an L-1B for a year, and then changed to an H-1B for 2.5 years before I moved back to India (where I’m a citizen) and founded a startup.
Now I want to return to the U.S. to raise funds for my startup. What are my options for returning to the U.S. as a founder?
— Fast-Moving Founder
Dear Fast-Moving,
Congratulations on launching your own venture and making the move to jump back to the States to expand your startup and secure investors! I recommend working with an immigration attorney to determine the best options based on your long-term goals, as well as a corporate attorney to discuss the best structure for your startup’s U.S. entity to make it attractive to investors. Most U.S. investors prefer to invest in a parent company based in the U.S. that’s a Delaware C corporation.
Depending on which non-immigrant visa you pursue, you may be able to avoid having to go through an in-person consular interview through the end of this year since you went through the interview process for your L-1B intracompany transferee specialized knowledge worker visa. The U.S. Department of State extended the visa interview waiver program until the end of this year. Consular officers have the discretion to waive the visa interview requirement for certain work visas like the O-1A and H-1B if the beneficiary was previously issued a visa and has never been refused one. Unfortunately, the interview cannot be waived for the L-1 visa.
You have a few visa options to return to the U.S. as a founder, so let’s dive in!
Image Credits: Joanna Buniak / Sophie Alcorn (opens in a new window)
B-1 visa
If you want to set up your startup’s U.S. entity, find office space, or meet with prospective investors, you can do that on a B-1 visitor visa for business. The B-1 will enable you to enter the U.S. and stay for up to six months. However, you cannot do any work while on a B-1. Your immigration attorney can tell you what activities are allowed.
When you arrive in the U.S., be prepared that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at the airport may ask you what business activities you intend to do during your stay.
While you’re in the U.S. on a B-1 you can change your status to one of the visas below without leaving the U.S.
Dear Sophie: How can I return to the United States as a founder? by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/15/dear-sophie-how-can-i-return-to-the-united-states-as-a-founder/
Mayor Karen Bass says the city will house 4,000 homeless people during her first 100 days
L.A.’s mayor said she expects about one-fourth of those people will come from her Inside Safe program, which has gone to 13 locations so far.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-15/mayor-karen-bass-homelessness-first-100-days
DOJ says up to 1,200 people could still face charges related to Capitol riot: report
The estimate could more than double the amount of cases that have already been filed over the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/doj-up-to-1200-people-could-still-face-capitol-riot-charges/
Diminutive FDU plays big in blowout First Four win with No. 1 seed Purdue next
FDU routed Texas Southern in the NCAA Tournament “First Four’’ game, 84-61, Wednesday night to Round of 64 to play No. 1 seed Purdue on Friday.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/fdu-plays-big-in-first-four-win-no-1-seed-purdue-next/
SEAN HANNITY: Putin’s thugs took down a US drone and Biden’s done nothing
Fox News host Sean Hannity blasts the Biden administration’s handling of a Russian fighter plane colliding with a U.S. Reaper drone over the Black Sea on “Hannity.”
RUSSIAN JET COLLIDES WITH US DRONE IN INTERNATIONAL AIRSPACE OVER BLACK SEA, OFFICIAL SAYS
HANNITY: The world has completely turned upside-down under our pathetic excuse for a president who doesn’t know what day of the week it is. None other than America’s hostile enemies now, they have no fear or respect for Joe Biden. Not China, not Iran and definitely not Russia. Now, Putin’s thugs, as we talked about last night, they took down a U.S. Reaper drone over international waters, which, in most cases, most presidents would view as an act of war. There would be some military response. What did Biden do in response? Pretty much nothing, actually worse than nothing. The White House started to make excuses for Putin’s risky behavior. They called it an accident, really? Anyone here believe it’s an accident?
UKRAINE WAS THE 3RD-LARGEST IMPORTER OF ARMS IN 2022, THANKS TO AID FROM US, EUROPE
Now, they said it’s probably unintentional. They said it probably was a result of a profound incompetence of these Russian pilots. Does anybody here believe that their incompetent fighter jet pilots, that not once, but twice dumped jet fuel on top of our drone and then took it out of the sky? I don’t believe that. Anyway, the Biden administration, they are lying to you, the American people, and Putin’s pilots, as I said, dumped multiple times fuel on the drone, and then they ran the propeller by accident, we’re supposed to believe? I don’t think so. Odds are 99.9% that Vladimir himself ordered this to happen.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/sean-hannity-putins-thugs-took-down-us-drone-bidens-done-nothing