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Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and LA Police Department officers served a search warrant in an investigation of someone suspected of manufacturing and selling illegal firearms, LAPD Officer Jeff Lee said. A man was placed under arrest at the scene for violating Penal Code 30600, California's law regarding assault weapons and .50 BMG (Browning Machine Gun) rifles. It prohibits the manufacture, distribution, transportation, importation and sale of any assault rifle or .50 BMG rifles, except in specific circumstances, according to the California Legislature. Police didn't release any more information about the arrest. Officers inventory the guns outside the home. In aerial footage from the scene, hundreds of guns are seen scattered out on what appears to be blankets in the driveway. The weapons range from handguns to rifles. Police can be seen taking inventory. ATF spokeswoman Ginger Colbrun said in a written statement that authorities were anonymously tipped off that someone was "conducting illegal firearms transaction outside the scope of the federal firearm license that the individual possess." Along with the weapons, firearm manufacturing equipment and tools were also found at the home. LAPD shares this image of ammo they found at the house. In 2015, LAPD seized 1,200 guns, seven tons of ammunition and $230,000 in cash from a home. The owner had died of natural causes and was found in his SUV outside. At that time it was considered one of the largest weapon's seizure from one home, the LAPD said. CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misspelled ATF spokeswoman Ginger Colbrun's surname.

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n 1966, Hans Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher left Mercedes-Benz to begin a new business creating racing engines. Humbly headquartered in a former mill, their departure nevertheless quickly paid off, not least when an AMG-Mercedes 300 SEL 6.8 crossed the line an astonishing second at the 1971 Spa 24 Hours, trouncing far nimbler racing cars from BMW and Alfa Romeo . In the years since, it’s not difficult to imagine Aufrecht and Melcher (the ‘G’ in ‘AMG’ is for Großaspach, the town where Aufrecht was born) witnessing the growth of their tuning outfit with wide-eyed astonishment. Road test editor ‘Panamericana’ grille is new and replaces the more subtle dual-slatted design of the pre-facelifted C63. It’s a hallmark of all AMG models except the 35-badged four-cylinder examples. The Mercedes-AMG F1 team has now secured five world championships, but even if your name isn’t Lewis Hamilton, ownership of an AMG road car has never been more achievable thanks to the introduction of more mainstream models such as the four-cylinder A35 hot hatch. In fact, AMG now builds cars in almost every bodystyle, offering 70 models in total, including an entirely bespoke sports car. AMG has vast commercial clout. Today, most Aston Martin models are AMG-propelled, and Afflaterbach, where AMG has been based since 1976 and where its larger engines are hand-built to the ‘one man, one engine’ philosophy, is now not only crucial to Daimler AG’s bottom line in terms of sale but also a marketing wunderkind for the entire business. One in every 10 Mercedes sold bears those famous initials, making it arguably the most potent ‘halo’ sub-brand in the business.

Two suspects were in custody Tuesday after a school shooting about seven miles from Columbine High School left eight students injured, authorities said. The two were apprehended after the shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch, which covers K-12, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said. About 1,850 students attend the school, according to its website. The suspects are believed to be students at the school, he said. One is an adult male and one is believed to be a juvenile. The incident rattled an area that just marked the 20th anniversary of the deadly shooting on the nearby Columbine High School campus. Douglas County Schools were also closed April 17 as authorities scrambled to find an armed Florida teen they said was infatuated with the Columbine massacre. The woman, authorities said, made threats before she traveled to Colorado, where she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "Tragically, this community and those surrounding it know all too well these hateful and horrible acts of violence," the White House said in a statement. "This is a terrible event," Spurlock said. "This is something that no one wants to have happen in their community." The shooting started in the high school just before 2 p.m., authorities said. The suspects walked into the school, and "got deep inside the school," engaging students in two separate locations, Spurlock said. Almost immediately, the school notified authorities. A community grieves after a mass shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch. "Over the next few minutes, quite a few shots were fired," Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth said. "As officers were arriving at the school they could still hear gunshots," Nicholson-Kluth said. The first sheriff's deputies arrived within two minutes and engaged the suspects, Spurlock said. Spurlock said officers "did struggle with the suspects to take them into custody." "We do know that we do not have any other suspects. We have all the people that are involved," Spurlock said. Authorities had initially said they were looking for a possible third suspect. The suspects' vehicle was found in the parking lot, he said. He did not release additional information on the suspects.

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The top US trade negotiator said Monday that the Trump administration will be moving forward on President Donald Trump's threat to escalate tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods effective Friday. Speaking to reporters in Washington, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said China reneged on previous agreements over the weekend, derailing months of progress toward a detailed trade agreement between the world's two largest economies. As of Friday, penalties on $200 billion of Chinese goods will be lifted to 25% from 10%, as Trump tweeted on Sunday. "We felt like we were on track to get somewhere," Lighthizer told reporters. "We tried to accommodate changes in the text, but these are substantial and substantive changes." He described the changes as "reneging on prior commitments." The news comes ahead of a delegation of Chinese negotiators arriving in Washington later this week. The two men said the move to press ahead with tariffs is not a signal of a breakdown of talks. The Treasury secretary declined to speculate on whether the two countries would be able to close the gap before the end of the week. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will still be leading the delegation and arriving in Washington on Thursday, the US officials said. "It did become particularly clear with some new information they were trying to go back on very clear language that had the potential to change the deal dramatically," said Mnuchin. He added: "This is a big change in direction for the negotiation." After repeatedly promising that the US-China talks were in their final stages, Trump threw the negotiations into question over the weekend with a series of tweets threatening new tariffs. US markets recovered Monday after an initial slide in Asian equity markets in Asia tumbled and US futures slid. Trump continued his warnings on Monday — two days before China's top negotiator was due to arrive in Washington for what many believed would be the completion of a deal. "The United States has been losing, for many years, 600 to 800 Billion Dollars a year on Trade. With China we lose 500 Billion Dollars," Trump tweeted on Monday. "Sorry, we're not going to be doing that anymore!" US officials said they were awaiting word from Beijing on the plans for the Chinese delegation that was supposed to arrive later this week. Earlier Monday, a Chinese government spokesman said they were still planning to move forward with the talks, set to begin Wednesday, but a US official said it was still unclear whether it will be led by Liu He, the vice premier and chief trade negotiator, and whether this round of negotiations will be truncated after Trump's tweets threatening additional tariffs. The Chinese delegation was set to include more than 100 people, one official said, and was viewed by many involved with the talks as a final step before a summit encounter between Trump and his Chinese counterpart. Trump was trying to rattle China with the tweet, according to the official, who said the last round of talks ended with some uncertainty on how much China would be willing to change its economic practices as part of a deal. While the Chinese have agreed to make some changes to their economic practices in principle, they have been reluctant to see them codified in writing as part of the trade agreement, the official said. Trump received word on those developments during a briefing from his top trade negotiators last week, a US official said, describing the news as "disappointing." Trump is being advised by some of his aides that accepting a deal without those changes included would appear weak and politically expedient. And he is growing inpatient with the back-and-forth talks after extending an initial March 1 deadline by months. Trump has hoped to strike a deal that would boost markets and help along a strong US economy, believing his political prospects are closely tied to Wall Street and Americans' economic optimism. Some inside his administration have feared that could result in a President overly thirsty for a deal, even one with unfavorable terms. Yet Trump has consistently said he will only sign an agreement if it is good for the United States and resolves long-standing trade disputes. Such an agreement will only come after a direct meeting between Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, Trump has said, leading to expectations of a summit meeting as early as this month, possibly at the White House. Those plans, along with the larger trade talks, were in question on Monday, though Chinese officials worked to put forward an unbothered air. China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters in a regular press briefing on Monday that the US has threatened China with tariffs "numerous" times in the past, but that positive developments have been made in the ten rounds of trade talks between the two countries. "The President is, I think, issuing a warning here, that, you know, we bent over backwards earlier, we suspended the 25% tariff to 10 and then we've left it there. That may not be forever if the talks don't work out," White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told Fox News on Sunday.

Fake processors being sold online have been an unfortunate circumstance for a long time, and there is no reason to believe that it doesn't still happen. To the contrary, there is evidence to suggest that it remains a problem, to some extent. This came to light a few weeks ago when a user on Twitter posted pictures of what he claims is a Core 2 Duo processor masquerading as a much faster (and decidedly more expensive) Core i9-9900K. Jaime Sanchez, the person who fell for the apparent ruse, warned that "someone is taking and delidding old Core 2 Duo" CPUs and replacing the integrated heatspreader (IHS) with a Core i9 lid. He further claims he purchased the phony CPU on Amazon. A closer examination reveals that it was probably not delidded, which is the delicate practice of ripping the IHS off the CPU die. As pointed out by Twitter user Hector Martin in one of the replies, it instead appears as though someone sanded off the markings of an old Core 2 Duo chip, buffed it out, and etched a Core i9-9900K marking on it. Amazon apologized to Sanchez and asked if he purchased it from a marketplace seller. According to Sanchez, it was "sold and sent by Amazon" as a "brand new" processor. We're sure Amazon will make things right with Sanchez, though if things went down exactly as he claims, it's disturbing that a supposedly new chip could be a fake. The most likely explanation in that scenario is that it was a customer return that had been tampered with. This is not the first time that there have been reports of fake CPUs being sold on Amazon and other retail sites. Last year, there was a thread on Reddit of a user who claims to have purchased a fake Core i7-8700K, also direct from Amazon, which turned out to be a Celeron processor. And the year before that, there were reports of fake Ryzen processors making the rounds. It's not clear how widespread the problem really is. A query on Twitter for "fake CPU" doesn't generate much of interest. However, there is a recent report in China of customs authorities seizing a bunch of counterfeit items, including over 800 Core i7 CPUs that "did not look authentic." Bottom line? As always, buyer beware. Purchasing from reputable vendors is always the safest way to go. It doesn't guarantee that you won't ever receive a fake part, but it's generally easier to deal with a reputable vendor than some back alley Joe on the web.

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Welcome back to Kamurocho. Things are different here now. The Tojo Clan is in disarray after the events of Yakuza Kiwami, Virtua Fighter 2 has been installed in the Sega Arcade, and Majima has started a construction company—tearing down the homeless camp of West Park in preparation for the Kamurocho Hills office complex. But more dramatic than any of these small developments is Yakuza Kiwami 2's big change: the series' new Dragon engine, and the many improvements and changes it brings. Yakuza is an economical series that rarely reinvents the wheel. It often reuses assets and animations, because the focus is always on the same handful of districts, and the small ways they change over the course of decades. Kiwami 2 is still a Yakuza game, which means it's a crime drama interspersed by fights, exploration, minigames and substories full of ridiculous slice-of-life character moments that help humanise protagonist Kiryu—making him more than the hardboiled stereotype he could so easily have been. It's also a remake of 2006's Yakuza 2, which, despite looking significantly better, features mostly shot-fo shot recreations of its cutscenes. Still, the changes Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio bring to the Dragon engine offer a significant shift in style and systems. You can now seamlessly enter buildings, for instance, and brawls that start on the street can even spill into shops. It makes the city feel more cohesive and connected, and the game as a whole feels more modern—up to a point. I slightly prefer Yakuza 0's combat, which felt crisper and more arcadey in a way that made fights more enjoyable. But overall, the enhancements are a success. It looks nicer, too. Kiwami 2 takes place in both Kamurocho and Sotenbori, the two locations from Yakuza 0, and in both the streets feel wider and more detailed. Just standing in them, Kiryu feels smaller, which helps better convey the scale of the city. Once again, Sotenbori—based on Osaka's Dotonbori—is the standout. Its main street is a beautiful explosion of billboards, flags, lanterns and mechanised signs. Kiwami 2 does a particularly good job of highlighting the differences between its two locations. Everything about them has a different flavour, from the type of substories that Kiryu encounters to the music that plays during a fight. Those differences help contextualise the story. When hitmen from Osaka's Omi Alliance assassinate the Tojo Clan's fifth chairman, Kiryu is dragged back into Japan's underworld on a mission to stop the two cities' main gangs from descending into open war. In his way is Ryuji Goda, the Dragon of Kansai. In Ryuji's mind the world isn't wide enough for both Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima, and him. From their first meeting, it's clear the two are on a collision course, and that inevitability adds great tension to the events as they unfold. Kiwami 2 is also about the relationship between Kiryu and detective Kaoru Sayama, who places Kiryu under protective custody in an effort to prevent his showdown with Ryuji. Despite the differences between them—and Sayama's hatred of yakuza generally and the Tojo Clan specifically—the two grow closer over the course of the game. Outside of the main story, Kiryu has an almost childlike naivety about sex and romance. But his growing relationship with Sayama adds depth to the character, and is heartwarming to see. While the story isn't quite as tight as Yakuza 0—suffering from the occasional tangent, lull and contrived twist —it's still one of the strongest of the series. And elsewhere, Kiwami 2 is packed full of interesting diversions. There's a return of Yakuza 0's cabaret club storyline, which picks up some of the same story threads. There's a strange RTS minigame featuring Majima's construction company that is admittedly more functional than enjoyable, but offers lots of fun character moments. There's bouncer missions, gambling, the colosseum, street bosses, golf, men in diapers, and loads more. There's even a couple of minigames about pissing. Where Yakuza Kiwami felt like an expansion to Yakuza 0, Kiwami 2 is larger, fuller and more varied than Yakuza 6, its Dragon engine predecessor (which isn't available on PC—the series seemingly being ported in order of storyline). While I still slightly prefer Yakuza 0, this is well worth your time.

The ‘G20’ new-generation BMW 3 Series for you – maybe. While its UK sales will be dwarfed by those of the 320d (a full road test on which you’ll be reading here in the coming weeks), the 330i M Sport will hold plenty of appeal to those who want a quicker 3 Series than the average – and who can find the budget to pay for it. Better thought of as a sporty mid-range option than a range-topping nearly man, the 330i will, before long, be flanked by BMW’s forthcoming 330e plug-in hybrid version, and outstripped by the M340i xDrive M Performance option. Even for now it’s not the most expensive 3 Series derivative, since it undercuts BMW’s slightly more powerful 330d by just over £2000. In a 330d, of course, you still get a BMW straight-six engine for your money, whereas the 330i was moved to four-cylinder turbo petrol power with the last-generation ‘F30’ 3 Series. BMW normally aspirated petrol straight sixes being as good as they are (or, rather, were), some of us still aren’t over that. It’s worth observing, however, that if Munich hadn’t taken that controversial decision, we wouldn’t now be looking at a 330i that emits only a solitary gram more CO2 than a contemporary 330d, according to the latest EU certification lab tests, and that therefore qualifies for benefit–in-kind company car tax some four percentage points lower than the car once considered the UK’s dream real-world company sport saloon. Find an Autocar car review Driven this week BMW 3 Series 330i 2019 UK review - hero front 6 MAY 2019 FIRST DRIVE BMW 3 Series 330i M Sport 2019 UK review Brilliant handling smarts allied to greater sophistication and completeness... Mercedes-AMG C63 Coupé 2019 road test review - hero front 3 MAY 2019 CAR REVIEW Mercedes-AMG C 63 Coupé AMG refreshes its archetypal model in anticipation of the next-gen BMW M4 BMW 3 Series 320d 2019 UK first drive review - hero front 3 MAY 2019 FIRST DRIVE BMW 3 Series 320d M Sport 2019 UK review Arguably the most important model in the new 3 Series line-up proves diesel,... BMW UK’s pricing menu for the 3 Series makes the 330i available in Sport and M Sport trims, but in automatic form only and without the option of xDrive. The Sport version is cheaper and gets softer, longer-travel suspension as standard – but if you want adaptive damping, ‘variable sport’ steering, a non-run-flat performance tyre or BMW’s torque vectoring electronic rear differential on your 330i, you can only get them on the M Sport version (which also gets uprated brakes into the bargain, as usual). Our test car had adaptive dampers and conventional tyres, but not the clever diff. What's it like? The G20 3 Series has greatly impressed us at every opportunity thus far, and the 330i M Sport, tested on UK roads, continues the trend. Those upgrading from the outgoing BMW will quickly appreciate the strides it makes on cabin richness, perceived quality, technological sophistication and interior space – and in most of those respects, you’d say the car is as good or better than anything else in the compact executive saloon segment. It’s the classy, expensive look and feel about the car’s various cabin fittings that probably most clearly sets the car apart from its predecessors. For the first time in a 3 Series, you feel as if you’re snug in a bubble of widescreen, chrome-garnished, expensively solid modern luxury in the driver’s seat. The digital instrumentation may not be the most conventional or readable you’ve ever seen but, between the digital dials and the head-up display, it certainly furnishes you with every last bit of driving information you’re likely to want in one way or another. This tester particularly liked the layout of the oversized head-up display screen, which usefully prioritises putting a speedometer, selected gear indication, your selected driver assistance and cruise control settings, and navigation directions and mapping into your natural line of sight. BMW’s new 10.3in Operating System 7.0 infotainment system (standard on M Sport cars, optional elsewhere) is, at first acquaintance, a bit less easily navigable than iDrive multimedia set-ups used to be, mostly because there’s now a home screen on it whose content and layout you can configure to your own preference – but, until you do, it simply serves as one more layer of complication. Thanks to BMW’s rotary controller and its surrounding shortcut keys, though, you’re never too far from the menu or function you need – and, meanwhile, BMW’s latest voice control software rarely misses with a navigation destination or music request, even at its first attempt. The 3 Series’ driving experience is tweaked and tailored from a spot on the centre console not far from that iDrive controller. Instead of a toggle switch to jump between drive modes, the G20 has a line of individual mode buttons adjacent to the gear selector: Sport, Comfort and Eco Pro on all cars, plus an additional Adaptive mode for cars with Adaptive M suspension. A double-press of the Sport button allows access to secondary Sport Plus and Sport Individual modes, the latter permitting the mixing of softer settings for one system with firmer/noisier/angrier ones for the next. It’s heartening to report that, even in Sport Plus mode, the 330i M Sport’s four-cylinder engine isn’t made to sound too digitally contrived by the car’s audio system’s engine noise impression routine. Equally, the engine’s audible character isn’t quite left unmolested, so you’re just about aware that there’s a bit of digital remastering going on when you’re delving deep into the car’s accelerator pedal travel. Genuine or otherwise, the engine doesn’t sound like a perfectly balanced straight six, and it doesn’t rev out with quite the silken freedom of one either. It’s something you won’t fail to notice if you’re familiar with older, higher-end 3 Series - but that you do feel unfair complaining about when, in 2019, there is only one sport saloon left on the market that offers multi-cylinder petrol power for 330i M Sport money: the Kia Stinger GT S. Everything else in this niche now uses a high-output four-cylinder engine, just like the BMW. And, for the record, while you’d probably give the 330i’s motor the nod, for its mix of responsiveness, range, outright performance and smoothness, over any direct rival made by Jaguar, Mercedes or Audi, you’d have to admit that an Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce’s turbo four-pot is a little bit more potent- and zesty-feeling. The 330i’s engine can certainly be refined when you want it to be – and pretty frugal too given that 40mpg is easy to hit in mixed, unhurried use. The car’s eight-speed automatic gearbox combines well with it whatever the style you’re adopting, engaging gears smartly and choosing them well in ‘D’; being more eager to downshift and hold revs in ‘S’ without becoming hyperactive; and shifting quickly and with assurance in manual mode. The car’s ride and handling has similar versatility – assuming, that is, you’ve plumped for adaptive dampers. The 330i M Sport comes with passive sport suspension, 18in alloy wheels and run-flat tyres as standard, but if you splurge on BMW’s M Sport Plus option package, you get 19in rims, adaptive dampers, performance tyres (Michelin Pilot Sport 4 S) and BMW’s M Sport active diff at extra cost. We had a chance to compare our 330i M Sport with that option pack (diff notwithstanding) back to back with a 320d M Sport without it – and while the wheel and tyre upgrade doesn’t do much to improve cabin isolation (which is by no means objectionable anyway), the adaptive suspension does calm down and round off the 3 Series’ passively damped M Sport primary ride a bit. It remains more animated and firm than the compact executive saloon class norm, but isn’t a long way from irksome or uncomfortable as a result. What the 3 Series gains as a result of that suspension tuning is handling agility and driver engagement that nothing else like it can equal. An Alfa Giulia Veloce feels slightly narrower, lower and lighter on the road, and is similarly agile – but isn’t as precise or assured when turning in, and its electronic driver aids are much more intrusive. The 330i, by contrast, steers with weight intuitively matched to its pace, and reacts to directional inputs so crisply and proportionately that your control over its front wheels feels utterly immediate and instinctive. It resists body roll very well, but permits just enough of it to help you keep track of how hard the tyres are working. And it has a blend of security of grip level, cornering balance and progressive handling adjustability that puts it in a league of one for driver appeal. Should I buy one? The 330i M Sport is fast, poised and engaging to drive; pleasant, upmarket, refined and practical; advanced and well-equipped – and yet competitively priced and realistically fuel-efficient. It’s a very hard car to find a serious, reasonably held fault with. That the executive set has cheaper, bigger, more laid-back and left-field options is true enough. But this car excels at the traditional job description of a BMW 3 Series in almost all of the important ways, and brings new qualities to the table too. It’s authentic and technologically contemporary-feeling with it; great to drive and more complete than any 3 Series before it. BMW 330i M Sport specification Where Monmouthshire, UK Price £39,165 On sale Now Engine 4 cyls in line, 1998cc, turbocharged, petrol Power 255bhp at 5000-6500rpm Torque 295lb ft at 1550-4400rpm Gearbox 8-spd automatic Kerb weight 1470kg Top speed 155mph 0-62mph 5.8sec Fuel economy 38.7-41.5mpg (WLTP combined) CO2 WLTP figures tbc Rivals Alfa Romeo Giulia Veloce, Jaguar XE P300 R-Dynamic

ask for a macaroon in 2019 and you will almost certainly be handed a macaron, a diminutive double-disc of light, crisp almond meringue in a shade of brilliant pink (raspberry or rose) or chic grey (liquorice or black sesame). They will be held together by the merest whisper of buttercream and arrive in their own fancy box. Camp as Christmas and sweet as a sugar cube, your little cakes will peep from their beribboned eau de nil coffin like a tiny, yappy dog poking its nose from a Chanel bag. They do, I suppose, have a certain charm, especially those flavoured with vanilla or pistachio. But if I’m going to indulge in an almond cookie then I’d rather have a “proper” macaroon. The sort that used to come in a paper bag from the cake shop rather than a gift-wrapped box from a patisserie. Swapping some of the almonds in macaroons for pistachios gives them a faintly Lebanese air Plump, soft and carrying a perky almond nipple, the best have a temptingly cracked crust, are crisp outside and softly chewy within. Generously proportioned and heavy with ground almonds, I can only imagine what a macaroon thinks of its twee pastel-coloured namesake. I made a few batches of my favourites this week, swapping some of the traditional almonds for pistachios, giving them a faintly Lebanese air. We ate some with coffee, then crushed the rest to crumbs and folded them into a white chocolate mousse, to be served in small glasses and eaten with a teaspoon after dinner. They were a doddle to make, too.

ASG launched a survey on Nov. 15 to collect student feedback on software affordability. The data will be used to make recommendations to administrators around institutional provision of softwares that place excessive financial burden on students, ASG Vice President Emily Ash wrote in an email to The Daily. The survey is a part of ASG’s ongoing course affordability effort, which includes not only the purchase of textbooks, but also other financially burdensome materials like online softwares, according to an ASG news release. Platforms such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Pearson MyLab, and WebAssign often result in additional expenses that disproportionately affect students of lower-income backgrounds. Agneska Bloch, ASG VP of academics, said the current effort is a continuation of ASG’s long-term goal to make all courses accessible to everyone. “While several options exist to help students mitigate textbook costs, including programs put in place by Northwestern, there is a lack of institutional support to bring down the cost of software.” Bloch said. A resolution in support of the establishment of an Academic Software Affordability Committee was introduced in Senate on Nov. 14. The committee is responsible for conducting research from students using the data collected to develop a proposal urging the University to allocate more resources to alleviate undue software costs. The survey will be available for students to complete over the next several weeks. The committee will analyze the data and present the results at the first ASG Senate meeting in Winter Quarter and the findings will determine future steps, the release said. The resolution was partially in response to students who were repeatedly overwhelmed by the costs for required softwares in addition to textbooks. Weinberg sophomore Becky Chen said she considered dropping her Spanish class when she learned that the required textbook and the MySpanishLab software amounted to over $300. “I’d already fulfilled my language requirement and I was just taking it because I wanted to learn Spanish,” Chen said, “but that’s just a ridiculous amount of money.” ASG President Sky Patterson and Ash made course affordability a cornerstone of their ASG campaign last spring, and the initiative is “a concrete step in fulfilling those campaign objectives and improving the financial well-being of students on-campus, the release said.

Choosing the best gaming laptop for your budget is sometimes a matter of timing. I bring this up because at the beginning of March, I highlighted a deal on an Aorus gaming laptop with a 144Hz display paired with a GeForce RTX 2070 GPU for $1,879. If that was just out of your grasp, good news—it's on sale again, and this time it's marked down to $1,679. That's $320 below its list price. It comes with a strong assortment of hardware, including a Core i7-8750H processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD + 1TB HDD. It's refreshing to see a 512GB SSD in a gaming laptop, when so many that we come across skimp on storage with a 256GB drive, or worse yet, just a mechanical HDD. This is a sweet deal for a fast gaming laptop. As an added bonus, Newegg is throwing in an Aorus backpack valued at $99. It supports up to a 17.3-inch laptop, so if you go with something larger down the road, you won't need to buy a new bag.

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JAIPUR: A leopard killed a 45-year-old man in Rajasthan's Alwar district when he went to relieve himself in the open, police said today. Ram Swaroop Meena was attacked by the leopard on Saturday night in Kishori village of Thana Gazi tehsil, Pratapgarh police station in-charge Surendra Singh said. The body was found on Sunday after which postmortem was conducted, he said. A case has been registered under section 174 (investigation of unnatural deaths) of the CrPC, Singh added. Forest Department officials confirmed it to be a leopard attack based on the pug marks traced near the spot where the body was found, he said, adding that an enclosure has been placed to trap the animal.