California is facing criticism for paying $180 million to a private investment firm for water from a farm. Environmental advocates say the deal is far too costly for taxpayers. The Newsom administration defends the purchase.
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The premise of “The Traitors” is a gleeful ripoff of the parlor game known as Mafia, in which unwitting players must suss out the secret designated killers among them. The U.S. adaptation of the series, with its gravestone and haunted-doll ambience, was seemingly lifted wholesale from the U.K. version of the show. But there is one major difference: the U.S. version has pivoted to only casting celebrities. “What we have had in America, for the most part, is a social experiment conducted on a very particular population: reality-TV alumni,” Doreen St. Félix writes. Now about 40 international adaptations are either airing or have been greenlit, and “The Traitors” “is evolving,” St. Félix writes. Read more about the iterations of the series: https://t.co/8YgJcBMalB