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President Trump on Monday continued to flirt with the idea of mobilizing National Guard troops to combat crime in Chicago, just a day after he had to clarify that he has no intent to βgo to warβ with the American city. The push to militarize local law enforcement operations has been an ongoing fixation for…
βEverybodyβs very happy, βcause the sun is shining all the time.Looks like another perfect day. I love L.A.β β Randy Newman Ever since its founding in 1781, Los Angeles has been labeled as the City of Angels. But the future president of the United States has a far less heavenly opinion, predicting in a fiery…
PITTSBURGHΒ βΒ Daniel Jeremiah traces his rise as an NFL draft analyst to two seemingly unrelated events: a prominent football reporter showing up in his living room to visit a televangelist, and randomly bumping into a college roommate of his brother in a press box. First, understand that Jeremiah is not just one in a sea of…
Book Review The Land of Sweet Forever By Harper LeeHarper: 224 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.Book Review Fortunately for avid bibliophiles, Harper Lee was an inveterate pack rat. Born in rural Monroeville, Ala., in 1926, the author…
The leaders of seven states announced Friday, one day before a Trump administration deadline, that there is still no deal to share the diminishing waters of the Colorado River. That leaves the Southwest in a quagmire with uncertain repercussions while the riverβs depleted reservoirs continue to decline. Former U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said in…
Dozens of California National Guard troops under President Trumpβs command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of an appellate courtβs order to be gone by noon Monday. Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped. But video taken outside the Roybal Federal Building downtown…
βStrip Law,β a new cartoon premiering Friday, finds Netflix in an Adult Swim state of mind, which is to say there was no thought of it being made for everybody. (Possibly including some of the people it was made for.) Itβs rude, lewd, surreal in a banal sort of way, at times ridiculously violent β…
In the late 1990s, Paula Deen was an independent restaurateur whose family-operated restaurant had just received a glowing review from USA Today. Her life and career were permanently changed. Now, over 25 years later, the Georgia native has announced the closing of the Lady and Sons β the iconic restaurant that made her a star…
A double murderer has been awarded Β£7,500 compensation by the High Court over breaches of his human rights. Fuad Awale, who is serving a life sentence for shooting two teenagers in the head in 2011, was moved to a close supervision centre (CSC) – a special unit for dangerous prisoners – after helping to take…
The chairman of Ocado Group has been recruited to the board of Visma, the European software company which is preparing one of the London stock market’s biggest debuts for years. Sky News has learnt that Adam Warby will become a non-executive director of Visma, with an announcement likely as early as Friday, according to banking…
