The already highly decorated βSinnersβ was among the top winners at the 78th Writers Guild Awards on Sunday in New York City. The horror film, directed and written by Ryan Coogler, won the award for original screenplay, and its biggest competitor for the best picture Oscar, Paul Thomas Andersonβs βOne Battle After Another,β clinched the…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ The U.S. and Israeli war against Iran entered its ninth day Sunday with no clear path toward de-escalation, as the U.S. announced a seventh American service member had been killed and Iranian state TV reported the selection of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneiβs son as his successor. Meanwhile, the price of oil surpassed $100 a…
“We will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!” The latest late-night broadside from Donald Trump has torn another strip off the tattered remains of the special relationship Sir Keir Starmer has spent the past year trying to cultivate. Politics Live: ‘PM learning lessons from what went wrong in Iraq’…
A look at The Timesβ top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the third week of the season: Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week 1. ST. JOHN BOSCO (2-0): Jack Champlin is back to being the best closer in California; 1 2. CORONA (4-0): Panthers begin league play this week vs….
In βRooster,β a genial comedy premiering Sunday on HBO, Steve Carell, comfortable as an uncomfortable person, plays Greg Russo, the author of a best-selling series of books whose hero is named Rooster. He has come to leafy, fictional Ludlow College to give a reading, but also because itβs where his daughter, Katie (Charly Clive) teaches…
I know a lot of people who suffer from a chronic malady that gets worse each time thereβs news out of Washington. Supporters of the current president of the United States might refer to this condition as a side effect of Trump derangement syndrome, but itβs more like Trump fatigue syndrome. Symptoms can include a…
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called on Sir Keir Starmer to cancel the King’s US state visit over the war in Iran. The King is due to visit the US next month. Politics Live: PM ‘learning lessons from what went wrong in Iraq’ Sir Ed said: “Keir Starmer should advise the King that…
Call it the Mick Cronin Say Something Nice Challenge. Not something nice-ish, not a chocolate-covered diss or an insult teased as affirmation. Just a compliment, no chaser. Itβs not impossible, it turns out. βWe have great guys,β Cronin said about his team, which demolished USC 89-68 at Galen Center on Saturday to finish the season…
They knew he was going to break. And they leaned into it. Thatβs the only explanation for this weekβs Ryan Gosling-hosted episode of βSaturday Night Live,β which at times felt more like an inside cast joke than a typical βSNLβ episode. But maybe itβs the βProject Hail Maryβ actorβs innate charm or that there were…
Twice, the air raid sirens sounded around RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Thursday afternoon. We were rushed inside as soldiers lay on the floor in body armour. It was over quickly. The British defence secretary, visiting the base at the time, was taken into “a windowless room” just before he was due to dial into…