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In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened. The Dodgers have dropped out of first place. The team that was expected to win 120 games has fallen a game behind the San Diego Padres in the National League West, and who knows how much further baseballβs most expensive collection of players…
Gala Bingo players have been left “angry” and “disgusted” after a technical glitch led them to believe they had won thousands of pounds. Several punters received notifications saying they had won an online bingo game, with some able to withdraw the money. But they were later told there had been a “technical error” and the…
UK economic growth slowed as US President Donald Trump’s tariffs hit and businesses grappled with higher costs, official figures show. A measure of everything produced in the economy, gross domestic product (GDP), expanded just 0.3% in the three months to June, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It’s a slowdown from the first…
The result was historic. The way it happened was all too familiar. Never before, since interleague play began in 1997, had the Dodgers been swept in a six-game season series against the Angels. But plenty of times in recent weeks had they suffered the kind of fate that befell them Wednesday. Entering the eighth inning,…
The entertainment news show βExtraβ is getting a new host in its old age. Derek Hough, best known as a dance pro and now judge on βDancing With the Stars,β will replace Billy Bush as lead anchor of the syndicated series, which is going into its 32nd season in September. In a statement to The…
Comedy Centralβs βSouth Parkβ continues to target President Trump, and viewers appear to be loving it. Ratings for the 27th season of the irreverent and often ribald animated series have surged, according to data from Nielsen and Comedy Central. The second episode, which premiered Aug. 6, scored 6.2 million viewers across the cable network and…
Tech scion David Ellison and his leadership team at Paramount sent a message to Hollywood: A new era is underway. Nearly a week after taking the keys to the battered media company, Ellison and his top executives met with reporters at the Paramount Pictures lot Wednesday to show that they mean business. Ellison and his…
Taylor Swift will enter her latest era in a matter of months. The ubiquitous βShake It Offβ pop star announced her upcoming album, βThe Life of a Showgirl,β would drop Oct. 3 as she made her podcasting debut Wednesday on βNew Heights,β co-hosted by her NFL star boyfriend Travis Kelce and his retired football pro…
Marc Maron is not interested in being just another podcaster in a sea of mediocrity. In a new interview, the comic β who recently announced the end of his popular and long-lived podcast βWTFβ β criticized the current podcast landscape as awash in meh. βThings were better before everyone had a voice,β Maron told the…
Before he arrived at USC, Micah Banuelos was already pretty accustomed to playing through pain. As a standout offensive and defensive lineman at Kennedy Catholic High in Washington, his shoulder would pop out of its socket during almost every game. So Banuelos would check out, have his shoulder popped back in and then reenter the…
