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Black Friday sales do not appear to have provided much cheer for retailers amid continued consumer caution, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a 0.1% decline in sales volumes during November, compared to the previous month, when the data is adjusted for seasonal effects due to the pre-Christmas shopping bonanza…
SEATTLEΒ βΒ Puka Nacua promised he would learn from his mistakes, but his pledge was unconvincing. His speech was rushed. What he said barely made any sense. And there was this: On Thursday night, two days after criticizing referees on a livestream, Nacua posted a sarcastic message about the officials following the Ramsβ 38-37 overtime defeat by…
Natalia Bryant has been given a renewal of a restraining order against a man who the daughter of late Lakers legend Kobe Bryant says has been stalking her since she was a minor. Bryantβs civil restraining order against Dwayne Kemp was renewed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court and will expire on Dec. 15,…
The family of pitcher Tyler Skaggs and the Angels reached a settlement Friday, ending a contentious trial as jurors had begun a third day of deliberations regarding Skaggsβ drug-related death on the road with the team. Terms of the agreement, which followed 31 days of testimony and four years of legal wrangling, were not immediately…
Puka Nacuaβs comments about NFL officiating came with a cost β and not just the distraction the controversy caused the Rams before their overtime defeat by the Seattle Seahawks. The NFL fined the Rams receiver $25,000 for public remarks he made about NFL officiating, the league confirmed Friday. Nacua caught 12 passes for a career-best…
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle one of the worldβs leading climate and weather research institutions, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., in a decision experts say will undermine U.S. scientific competitiveness and leave millions vulnerable to worsening climate hazards. Russell Vought, director of the White Houseβs Office of Management and…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ President Trumpβs order of a partial blockade on oil tankers going to and from Venezuela and his claim that Caracas stole βoil, land and other assetsβ from the United States mark a significant escalation of Washingtonβs unrelenting campaign against the government of President NicolΓ‘s Maduro. Asked about Venezuela on Wednesday, Trump said the United…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Jeffrey Rosenberg is still trying to understand why President Trump would free the man who defrauded him out of a quarter of a million dollars. Rosenberg, a retired wholesale produce distributor living in Nevada, has supported Trump since he entered politics, but the presidentβs decision in November to commute the sentence of former private equity…
The Trump administration and House Republicans advanced measures this week to end gender-affirming care for transgender children and some young adults, drawing outrage and resistance from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, families with transgender kids, medical providers and some of Californiaβs liberal leaders. The latest efforts β which seek to ban such care nationwide, strip funding from…
Folks, who was supposed to be watching grandpa last night? Because he got out, got on TV and … It. Was. Not. Good. For 18 long minutes Wednesday evening, we were subjected to a rant by President Trump that predictably careened from immigrants (bad) to jobs (good), rarely slowing down for reality. But jumbled between…
