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Hotel rooms in Los Angeles and other FIFA World Cup host cities could sit empty, despite high expectations that the global sporting event would be a boon to the city. The soccer tournament, which has sold more than 5 million tickets so far, has historically triggered a surge of international and domestic tourism and infused…
The Lakers hired former New Orleans Pelicans executive Rohan Ramadas to fill one of two new assistant general manager roles, The Times confirmed Monday. Ramadas previously worked as the vice president of basketball operations and strategy for the Pelicans and will be involved in managing the salary cap, analytics and data for the Lakers, who…
Rome βΒ Pope Leo XIV issued a major document Monday focused largely on the implications of the rise of artificial intelligence for humanity, warning the technology could make civilization itself “less human.” Pope Leo, who has repeatedly clashed with the Trump administration over the Iran war and some U.S. officials’ religious justification for it, also appeared…
France’s utility giant EDF is poised to start dismantling the Fessenheim nuclear power plant on the border with Germany, a β¬1.4 billion project slated to take 22 years.Β Built in 1971, the two reactors are the oldest in France and have been permanently shut down since 2020 after 43 years in operation following a string…
The endlessly exploitable Spider-Man is back in βSpider-Noir,β a retro tale set in a recognizable New York in an inconsistent 1933 (to judge by a preponderance of cultural referents). There is a comic-book precedent for this version of the character, called simply the Spider, though research tells me that, costume and superpowers aside, he is…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he asked Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan to join the Abraham Accords en masse to normalize relations with Israel as he tries to negotiate an agreement to end the war with Iran. Pakistan rejected the proposal. None of the other countries has so far…
Iran is moving its World Cup training base from Tucson to Tijuana, the president of the countryβs soccer federation said Saturday, removing one of the final hurdles to its participation in this summerβs tournament. Iran is scheduled to open World Cup play at SoFi Stadium, facing New Zealand on June 15. It will play Belgium…
Good as advertised. Thatβs all you can say about Dos Pueblos freshman outfielder Mattias Di Maggio, whose first year of high school baseball came to an end with a 13-6 playoff loss to Mira Costa. But what a season he had. He struck out once in 84 at-bats (it came against a Santa Barbara left-handed…
Oil futures slid on Monday as traders assessed US President Donald Trump’s announcement over the weekend that a deal with Iran had been “largely negotiated”. The benchmark Brent crude still remains much higher than when the war started on February 28. Also in this edition: some commercial vessels are managing to cross the Strait of…
Book Review Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe By Gail Crowther Gallery Books: 304 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In 1951, not long after her breakthrough appearances in βAll About Eveβ and βThe…
