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Only a few years ago, Keith Lee was a professional MMA fighter, doing food delivery and making social media videos to ease his social anxiety. On Thursday night, however, Lee found himself under the glare of bright lights and walking the red carpet outside the historic Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Boulevard about to be recognized…
Sir Keir Starmer and other ministers will hold regular news conferences in a radical shakeup of government communications. The announcement on Thursday, shortly before parliament broke up for Christmas, was criticised by “furious” political journalists who raised concerns about transparency from a government that promised to raise standards. Former Tony Blair adviser Tim Allan, who…
ChatGPT is already among the internet’s 40 most popular destinations, highlighting the explosive growth of generative artificial intelligence among online users, according to a new report from Cloudflare that ranked the most widely used websites. “Google, Facebook and Instagram remained dominant in our overall rankings, but the year’s defining story was generative AI’s rapid maturation,”…
Dozens of California National Guard troops under President Trumpβs command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of an appellate courtβs order to be gone by noon Monday. Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped. But video taken outside the Roybal Federal Building downtown…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations. A leader of a citrus growers association is kidnapped and killed after refusing mob demands for a cut of profits. Enraged peasant farmers fed up with paying graft turn on cartel thugs in a bloody showdown. In…
When word came of Rob Reinerβs senseless death, America fell into familiar rites of mourning and remembrance. A waterfall of tributes poured in from the twin worlds β Hollywood and politics β that the actor, director and liberal activist inhabited. Through the shock and haze, before all but the sketchiest details were known, President Trump…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ President Trumpβs chief of staff is defending herself after granting an extraordinarily candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair in which she offers stinging judgments of the president and blunt assessments about his administrationβs shortcomings. The profile of Susie Wiles, Trumpβs reserved, influential top aide since he resumed office, caused a scandal in Washington and…
During the first days of the January firestorms, Los Angeles became a case study in what can go wrong with emergency alerts and evacuations. In Pacific Palisades there was chaos Jan. 7 as people in the foothills tried to flee, only to hit traffic gridlock. Then when the Eaton fire erupted in Altadena, evacuation orders…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Four House Republicans broke with party leadership on Wednesday to join Democrats in overriding the GOP majority and forcing a vote on extending healthcare tax credits β a defection that underscores the partyβs growing vulnerability on economic issues ahead of next yearβs midterm elections. The healthcare tax credits, which were central to the fight that…
Christian Turner is a mandarin’s mandarin. His appointment to the most glamorous posting in the UK diplomatic service is a victory for the Sir Humphreys over the politicians. After the disaster and humiliation of Peter Mandelson‘s demise over his links to Jeffrey Epstein, it always made sense to appoint a scandal-free career diplomat as his…
