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July 22, 2020 Following the example of other cities in the county, the San Luis Obispo City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to place a 1 percent sales tax increase initiative on the November ballot. If approved by the majority of voters, the sales tax rate in San Luis Obispo would …

One of the best Japanese RPG games ever comes to Xbox Series X. Dragon Quest XI will be available on Microsoft’s newest console. This brings the iconic Dragon Quest franchise, which has been around since 1986, to an Xbox platform for the first time. It will be available for X …

Israel has said it is sending military reinforcements to its northern border after the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group threatened retaliation for the murder of one of its members in an attack in Syria earlier this week. The Israeli army said on its Twitter account on Thursday that the move was “according …

Reconstruction of a Neanderthal.Credit: S. Entressangle / E. Daynes / SPL Neanderthals lived difficult lives. Ice age hunter-gatherers made their living in western Eurasia, hunting mammoths, bison, and other dangerous animals. Despite their rough and fallen existence, Neanderthals had a biological predisposition to increased pain sensation, a first published genomic …

According to a new report, one of the Taliban attackers killed by the Afghan teen Qamar Gul, who was later hailed on social media as a hero, was her own husband. Qamar’s husband Mohamed Naeem was fighting on the side of the Taliban and was apparently seeking his forced return …