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For someone who played a tough-talking executive on TV β βYouβre fired!β β Donald Trump sure goes out of his way to avoid such confrontations. The real-life Donald, as president, typically had a hireling do the deed, sent a letter to the media or simply tweeted the news. But with FBI Director Christopher A. Wray,…
Quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo last started an NFL game in October 2023. On Sunday, the 11th-year pro will start in place of Matthew Stafford for the playoff-bound Rams in the season finale against the Seattle Seahawks at SoFi Stadium, coach Sean McVay said Wednesday. The Rams last weekend clinched the NFC West title and the NFLβs…
Buddy the Elf was in no mood to spread holiday cheer Sunday night at Crypto.com Arena. Actor and comedian Will Ferrell broke out the pointed hat and green coat favored by his lead character in the 2003 classic film βElfβ as he attended the Kingsβ game against the Philadelphia Flyers. βBUDDY THE ELF IS OFFICIALLY…
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that rapper Lil Durk, who is accused of commissioning a murder two years ago in Los Angeles, may be linked to another killing in Chicago β allegations that helped convince a judge to order the Grammy Award winner to remain jailed as his case proceeds. During a detention hearing, U.S. Magistrate…
They were hired less than two weeks apart last spring, each tasked with building Big Ten programs that were torn down to the studs. Eric Musselman and Dusty May had each taken wildly different paths in that process β Musselman stocking his USC roster with athletic wings, while May, at Michigan, built around two towering…
After Jimmy Carter was defeated in the 1980 presidential election a reporter asked if heβd write a memoir. The reply was certain, βYes … I intend to write more than one book, as a matter of fact.β Carter β who died Sunday at the age of 100 β was, as always, a man of his…
After a half century of Assad family dictatorial rule, Bashar Assad has fled and Syrians can finally celebrate the end of a horrific regime that gassed, starved and murdered its own people. Syrians have suffered terribly for many years, especially those tortured or disappeared by Assadβs henchmen, and the nationβs people need and deserve American…
Ontario Christian girls basketball avenged its only defeat Saturday, knocking off previously unbeaten San JosΓ© Archbishop Mitty 61-44 at Carondelet High in Concord. Sophomore Kaleena Smith scored 23 points, Tati Griffin had 14 points and Sydney Douglas had 11 points and 17 rebounds. Ontario Christian (20-1) lost to Archbishop Mitty 59-34 on Dec. 21. The…
It was an ordinary day at his Los Angeles law office when John Nadolenco opened a letter from Brazil enlisting his help in a mission to retrieve a stolen, and quite possibly cursed, 836-pound emerald. The year was 2014, the heyday of the Nigerian prince email scam, and the up-and-coming attorney was no fool. βI…
When Riot Games first decided to make a TV show inspired by its hit game βLeague of Legends,β the video game publisher took the unusual step of developing and financing the project on its own. While most of its peers license titles to Hollywood studios that have experience making TV, Riot wanted to maintain full…
