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We begin Monday with some monsoonal clouds and marine layer influence. Clouds will quickly clear and rain chances diminish. Highs rise a few degrees form the weekend and many areas hold into the 70s by the beaches. High temperatures rise into the 80s and 90s inland. A Heat Advisory is still in effect for interior areas through 10am Tuesday. Some areas will reach into the triple digits. A Beach Hazard Statement is in effect for all coastal areas through Wednesday. Surf could reach 7Ft and may cause coastal flooding in some areas. There is a small 10% chance of showers and isolated lightning from monsoonal storms this evening. Stay out of the waters for a few days and be weather aware!

The real heat begins Tuesday. An Extreme Heat Watch is in effect for most of the Central Coast starting in the morning. Some valley areas may reach 85-98 degree temperatures, while the interior could experience 95-105 degree readings! This will be a notable warming trend compared to last weeks heat. Check in on those at risk and utilize cooling shelters when possible. Overnight lows will drop into the 60s and low 70s for some so minimal cooling relief is expected. Abnormally high surf, rip currents and tides remains through the evening, avoid heading into the waters at the beaches and note that minor flooding may be an issue.

Peak Heating for most arrives Wednesday and Thursday. We begin to watch coastal waters calm and better beach conditions throughout the weekend. The heatwave will end Thursday and temperatures fall back to average by the weekend. Winds will be light for most.

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By Leah Dolan, CNN

(CNN) — Sandra*, a 43-year-old media lawyer based in Los Angeles, had been toying with the idea of breast augmentation since her 20s, but was always put off by the pain of the procedure, the long recovery time and the idea of having “this kind of foreign sac in your body.”

So when Sandra, who wanted to protect her identity for privacy reasons, heard about a new injectable body contouring product last summer, she was intrigued. No synthetic fillers, no implanted sacs, no downtime.

“You hit a certain age and you decide, I’m going to do something for myself at this point,” she said. The product she found — alloClae, pronounced allo-clay like the earthy sculpting material — is quick to administer. Nicknamed the lunchtime boob-job, it often takes less than an hour to inject and doesn’t need general anaesthesia or a hospital setting. Plus, the aftercare instructions, Sandra said, were “shockingly easy.” The fact that alloClae uses fat harvested from donated dead bodies, or cadavers as they’re referred to in the scientific community, didn’t really pose an issue. “I was fine with that,” she said.

A growing number of people in the US appear to feel the same. Tiger Aesthetics, the company that manufactures alloClae, said more than 2,000 patients have been injected with it since May 2025. It’s a buzzy topic on Reddit’s popular plastic surgery page, as potential patients ask questions, seek reviews and swap doctor recommendations.

In 2026, it’s clear that what once might have been classed as body modification is now seen simply as body maintenance. It has never been easier, or more mundane, to drastically alter one’s physical form. Rib remodelling. Upper blepharoplasty. Lower blepharoplasty. Mid-facelift. Lower facelift. Deep-plane facelift. As science and surgical technique progress ad nauseam, so does our appetite for new curves, tighter skin, sharper jawlines.

AlloClae — one of the more inventive products in this category— is our latest reminder. But for every plastic surgery clinic calling the injectable a “next-generation” advancement, there’s an equal number of headlines branding it “zombie filler” or “corpse injections .”

If there is a boundary line in the pursuit of the perfect look, are we finally butting up against it? Wh at does it mean if society widely embraces injecting cadaver fat in the service of beauty? Could alloClae become as common as Botox?

In the end, your opinion of alloClae might depend on your opinion of death.

The Ozempic effect

AlloClae was first released in the US in 2024 to board-certified plastic surgeons with a track record of working with fat, and since January to a wider net of doctors including “mid-level providers” like physicians assistants, nurse practitioners and aesthetic nurses. (Tiger Aesthetics said it trains nurse practitioners, who are not permitted to inject into the breast, on special injection technique.)

Dr. Luis Macias, a double-board-certified plastic surgeon in LA who was one of a select few doctors to receive alloClae early, has witnessed the product’s rising popularity first-hand. “I have to buy a lot of syringes at a time, and talk to the rep constantly about it,” he said in a phone interview. “I feel like I’m talking to m

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN

(CNN) — Before he became the namesake of one of the largest predators that ever lived — or made it into the footnotes of an auction catalog — the late Gary “Gus” Licking, a cattle rancher in South Dakota, had always suspected his land was hiding something big.

The Licking ranch sits within the Hell Creek Formation, a legendary geological boneyard that stretches across Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. It’s the most important place in the world for the most famous of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex. One of the first skeletons of T. rex was found there in 1902, and the name T. rex was given to the species based on fossils unearthed in this area.

Stan, an almost-complete T. rex skeleton discovered miles up the road from Licking’s place, sold at auction in 2020 for $31.8 million, a record at the time.

Now, the rancher’s 6,500-acre property in Harding County is writing its own chapter in Hell Creek history, having yielded a fossil near the magnitude of Stan. Named Gus in honor of Licking, the newer skeleton is set to be auctioned Tuesday at Sotheby’s in New York City, when it could become the world’s most expensive fossil.

But Gus’ sale, likely into private hands, is also bound to spark controversy because of what it represents: a paleontological predicament in which experts say ownership and stewardship are increasingly at odds — and science is usually the loser.

In Gus’ case, this conundrum began with a chance encounter. Licking had found dinosaur teeth and bones over the years, only dreaming of a bigger find until he met a stranger who would make it a reality. “I was passing by the ranch randomly one day and Gary was checking a watering trough near the road, so I stopped I and introduced myself,” said Thomas Heitkamp, a commercial paleontologist and founder of Theropoda Expeditions, a Texas-based company that specializes in excavating fossils on private land.

“The Licking ranch had been on my radar because of its location within the Hell Creek formation. Gary had always been interested in fossils and artifacts, and he had quite a good collection of things he had found in his home,” Heitkamp told CNN in an email. “I think he knew how fossil-rich his property was from spending so much of his life there, and he believed if it was hunted thoroughly enough, a specimen might be found someday. I’m happy we were able to give him that experience.”

Heitkamp and his team discovered Gus on Licking’s land in 2021. Licking singled out the skeleton’s approximate location, but he died before the team completed the excavation and never saw the specimen in its full glory.

At 38 feet in length and 12.5 feet tall, with a skull measuring 54 inches, Gus is one of the largest T. rexes ever found, according to Sotheby’s. It includes 183 fossil bone elements, making it about 61% complete by bone count, or 75% to 80% complete by mass.

The auction house said Gus is one of the most complete T. rex fossils ever found, but the specimen is less complete than both Stan, which is about 70% complete by bone count, and

By Brian Todd, CNN

(CNN) — A cartoon depicting a firing squad of bureaucrats and media with rifles aimed at US veterans has prompted a powerful congressman to call for an investigation into one of America’s oldest veterans advocacy groups, stoking a debate over free speech for political satire.

Rep. Mike Bost, the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, has asked VA Secretary Doug Collins to investigate the Veterans of Foreign Wars after the satirical cartoon meant to protest cuts to veterans benefits appeared on T-shirts being sold on behalf of the group, which has about 1.3 million members.

The VFW, which was founded in 1899, says it has used the cartoon in different variations since the 1930s to protest efforts to cut veterans benefits. The most recent version features a pair of men in business suits, labeled “bureaucrats” and “media,” pointing rifles at two veterans in military fatigues, with the the phrase “Honor the Contract” printed below. The phrases “Punishing Service,” “Removing Benefits” and “Waste and Fraud” are included in the image.

The VFW says it rolled the T-shirts on June 30, with the Grunt Style military apparel company handling the sale and proceeds meant to fund veterans mental health and suicide prevention initiatives. The following day, Bost, an Illinois Republican, wrote to Collins and issued a news release criticizing the image.

In the letter, which was obtained by CNN, Bost and Rep. Jack Bergman, a Michigan Republican, wrote: “VFW has repeatedly authorized the use of its name, trademarks, and likeness on commercial merchandise depicting graphic, inflammatory, politically charged imagery surrounding pending veterans’ legislation.”

Bost and Bergman say the imagery “can reasonably be interpreted as glorifying or normalizing political violence,” and that “regardless of intent, such messaging risks inflaming public anger toward public officials” at a time when threats against public officials and journalists “are at an all-time high.”

Bost and Bergman also ask the VA to “review whether VFW’s accreditation, and the good standing of its representatives, remain consistent with the responsibilities imposed upon accredited organizations and their representatives” under federal statutes governing such organizations. The letter asks the VA to obtain information from the VFW about its financial arrangements for selling merchandise.

A VFW spokesperson told CNN that Grunt Style is producing the T-shirt and started taking preorders late last month. The VFW plans to sell the shirt at a pop-up store at the organization’s July 25 national convention in Reno, Nevada, the spokesperson said.

The VFW and other veterans service organizations have recently come out against a bill introduced by Bost and his counterpart on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Chairman Jerry Moran. The “Take Care of America’s Veterans Act” would cut billions of dollars in benefits to veterans suffering from tinnitus and sleep apnea.

The money saved from those cuts would pay for the “Major Richard Star Act,” a bipartisan piece of legislation that would allow veterans to receive both their retirement benefits and combat injury-related benefits. Veterans are currently allowed to receive one, but not both, of those benefits.

A VFW spokesman told CNN that the recent version of the cartoon was not issued specifically to protest the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act. But the VFW is pushing back vigorously against Bost’s letter to the VA.

VFW general counsel John Muckelbauer said in a statement that “The letter identifies no allegation that the VFW or any of our accredited representatives violated VA accreditation standards, acted unethically, or failed a single veteran. Instead, it seeks to question our fitness because we disagreed with pending legislation