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This article contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Season 2 of βThe Last of Us.β βGive Sarah my love.β Spoken in a voice inflected with exhaustion and grief, theyβre the only words that Tommy, played by the actor Gabriel Luna, is able to muster to Joel (Pedro Pascal), whose lifeless body lies shrouded on a…
MINNEAPOLISΒ βΒ As the Lakers departed from the court at Target Center with their heads down, white towels were being whirled everywhere around them. The crowd was doing more than celebrating the home teamβs 116-113 victory on Sunday afternoon. The 19,289 fans here could see what was happening. They could feel what was happening. Four games into…
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer drew a huge crowd to USCβs Bovard Theater at the L.A. Times Festival of Books on Sunday, where she addressed her recent photo-op with President Trump and her potential presidential run in 2028. βPeople often ask me, βHow did you get elected in a state like Michigan?ββ Whitmer told an attentive…
When the Sparks acquired Kelsey Plum, they signaled they were ready to leave last season behind, and at the start of training camp, their newest superstar is making that clear. βWith all due respect, we finished last last year, so everything that we did last year was thrown out the window,β Plum said Sunday in…
Jon M. Chu suspects artificial intelligence may have been born wicked. The hit filmmakerβs Silicon Valley upbringing, which he details in his 2024 memoir βViewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen,β made him comfortable with technology from an early age, he said Sunday during an L.A. Times Festival of Books panel. It even gave…
When Tyler Glasnow left the mound last week at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, because of leg cramps, it was a dreary reminder of the injury struggles he has endured with the Dodgers. Glasnow missed the postseason, and consequently the Dodgersβ World Series title run, after an elbow sprain last season. After four starts…
This week’s set of elections across England will be a series of firsts: it will be the first big ballot box test of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership and Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative Party. We will have the first by-election of this parliament in Labour-held Runcorn, the inaugural elections for the mayoralty of Hull…
MINNEAPOLISΒ βΒ Value each possession. Move with purpose and speed over every inch of the court. Make the right pass. Hit the big shot. Do the right thing. Over and over and over. These are the demands that must be met to win in the playoffs, and when youβre on the road in a building pulsating with…
For two decades, Jim Sanfilippo has designed high-wattage, specialized LED lights for stadiums, the U.S. House of Representatives and Hollywood film and television productions, including the James Bond movie βQuantum of Solace.β Now the Pasadena small-business owner is bracing for uncertainty as the U.S. confronts its highest average effective tariff rate in nearly a century….
Typically, Kawhi Leonard said after Game 4 Saturday at Intuit Dome, the four and five seeds in NBA playoff matchups are equal in many ways. That appears to very much be the case in the fifth-seeded Clippersβ first-round series against the fourth-seeded Denver Nuggets. They have each won two games, with Game 5 scheduled for…
