HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYOFFSTHURSDAYβS RESULTS GIRLSCITY SECTION OPEN DIVISION Quarterfinals #1 Westchester 43, #8 King/Drew 38#5 Venice 55, #4 Granada Hills 42#3 LA Hamilton 70, #6 Cleveland 65#2 Birmingham 75, #7 Palisades 39 DIVISION I First Round#1 El Camino Real 58, #16 RFK Community 39 #9 Garfield 48, #8 Taft 35#5 Arleta 38, #12 Narbonne…
More than 10 years ago, I filmed my kids for a report on the impact of screens on young minds. My eldest daughter was six at the time, her twin sisters nearly three. They didn’t have their own devices – Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube were beyond their imagination. TikTok hadn’t even been invented. Yet now…
Weβve seen animated animals belt out tunes in the βSingβ movies. Weβve learned about βThe Secret Life of Petsβ (twice). And weβve visited them in βZootopiaβ (also on two occasions). Now we get to see them play basketball. βGoat,β produced by Golden State Warriors prodigy Stephen Curry, is yet another underdog story about following your…
The UK and its European allies are scrambling to get serious about their own defences as Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin shape a new world order. You can expect to hear multiple declarations from European leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer, about their respective plans to ramp up spending on defence and security at…
A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration order slashing $600 million in federal grant funding for HIV programs in California and three other states, finding merit in the statesβ argument that the move was politically motivated by disagreements over unrelated state sanctuary policies. U.S. District Judge Manish Shah, an Obama appointee in Illinois,…
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ItalyΒ βΒ At 54, curler Rich Ruohonen thought his Olympic dream had passed him by. Which was a pretty good bet since no American his age had ever competed in the Winter Games. Until now. Because when Ruohonen replaced lead Aidan Oldenburg for the start of the eighth end in the Americansβ 8-3 loss to…
The planned Β£500m sale of the Telegraph titles to the owner of the Daily Mail is facing an inquiry over competition concerns, the government has announced. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said in a written statement to MPs that she had intervened on public interest grounds, including how the deal could impact the “plurality of views”…
Nicole Curtis, whose home-rehab work in Detroit and Minneapolis has been the backbone of βRehab Addictβ on HGTV, is thanking people for their support and apologizing after a video surfaced in which she used a racial slur. βI could say more, but I shall say less,β she wrote Wednesday in a caption on an Instagram…
Manchester United have said they “pride” themselves “on being an inclusive and welcoming club” hours after their co-owner described the UK as being “colonised” by immigrants. The club released a statement emphasising the club’s inclusiveness and diversity on a day during which politicians continued to criticise Sir Jim Ratcliffe for his comments. The founder of…
Investigators trying to find Nancy Guthrie are posed with a daunting but familiar challenge in law enforcement: how to identify a masked person. Authorities got a huge break on Tuesday with the release of footage of an armed individual wearing a balaclava, gloves and a backpack approaching the front door of Guthrieβs Arizona home and…