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The NBA All-Star Game is returning to the Southland in two weeks and a part of the annual weekend event that has grown in popularity in recent years is the Rising Stars Challenge, which affords fans the opportunity to watch the leagueβs top rookies and second-year players compete in a four-team tournament. Rosters for the…
Peter Mandelson told Jeffrey Epstein he was “trying hard” to change government policy on bankers’ bonuses at his request, months after the convicted sex trafficker had paid thousands of pounds to the then UK business secretary’s husband. Emails released by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday shed new light on the closeness of…
Whatβs the difference between Brett Ratner and Leni Riefenstahl? Riefenstahl, for all her many sins, was technically innovative; Ratner (unless you count an almost fetishistic fascination with first lady footwear), not so much. But in the end, they are both political propagandists, collaborators if you will, with heads of state determined to create a narrative…
Leading Democrats have rolled out a new and unvarnished message β that the U.S. Department of Justice cannot be trusted. βLetβs be really clear: We canβt trust anything the DOJ does. The DOJ is corrupt. Theyβre corrupt on every major issue in front of this country,β Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach), ranking member on the…
π Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π Beth joins the prime minister on his historic trip to China, where he has met the country’s president, Xi Jinping. It’s a trip that has sparked debate back in the UK, amid worries over espionage and security. But has it helped reset…
CIF City Section and Southern Section high school boys’ and girls’ basketball scores for Friday’s games.
Donald Trump has endorsed a spending deal negotiated by US Senate Republicans and Democrats that would stave off a government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security. The move comes as the US reels from the deaths of two protesters at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis. “Republicans and Democrats have come…
It is painful to have to write about Catherine OβHara, so alive and lively a presence, in the past tense. OβHara has lived inside my head β is it too corny to say my heart? β from βSCTVβ to βSchittβs Creekβ to βThe Studio,β on whose second season she was scheduled to start work, when…
Jeffrey Epstein wired thousands of pounds after Lord Peter Mandelson’s husband asked him to pay for his osteopathy course fees, according to emails included in newly released Epstein files. More than three million documents were published by the US Department of Justice on Friday relating to disgraced paedophile financier Epstein. On 7 September 2009, Lord…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ A budget impasse in Congress is poised to halt large swaths of federal operations early Saturday as lawmakers in Capitol Hill turn to the next flashpoint in negotiations to reopen the government: whether to impose new limits on federal immigration authorities carrying out President Trumpβs deportation campaign. Over the next two weeks, Democrats and Republicans…
