DraftKings is entering the red-hot prediction markets business, launching technology that lets users trade contracts linked to sporting and financial events.Β DraftKings said event contracts will be available for trading in 38 states and that the company will eventually expand beyond sports and finance into other markets, such as entertainment and culture. The sports betting…
The Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits is closing down this summer in preparation for its first significant overhaul in its 50-year history. The closure comes as its neighbor LACMAβs David Geffen Galleries finally open to the public after a two-decade campus transformation, and L.A. institutions make a concerted effort to bolster the…
Panorama Highβs flag football team won the Valley Mission League last season, and thereβs even more excitement when the season begins this month because the passing duo of quarterback Yadhira Hermenegildo and receiver Livier Andrade returns. Hermenegildo passed for 47 touchdowns as a sophomore. Andrade caught 25 touchdowns. Panorama opens its season Aug. 20 at…
President Trump on Tuesday said he intends to expand his crusade against what he calls βwokeβ ideology from the Smithsonian Institution to museums across the country. βThe Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of βWOKE,ββ Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that the Smithsonian is βout of…
Casey Wassermanβs name has been scrubbed from the agency he founded decades ago, replaced with an amorphous moniker: βThe Team.β Mondayβs move comes amid the lingering controversy over the sports mogulβs decades-old association with Ghislaine Maxwell, accomplice of the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Following revelations of Wassermanβs salacious 2003 emails with Maxwell, several musicians…
A Post Office Capture victim says delays in the justice system have left him fearing he may never live to see his name cleared. Steve Marston was convicted in 1998 of stealing nearly Β£80,000 from his branch, based on faulty computer software called Capture that pre-dated the infamous Horizon scandal. His case has been with…
Some of the world’s leading tech companies are betting big on very small innovations. Last week, Samsung released its Galaxy Z Fold 7 which – when open – has a thickness of just 4.2mm, one of the slimmest folding phones ever to hit the market. And Honor, a spin-off from Chinese smartphone company Huawei, will…
The U.S. menβs soccer team isnβt only trying to win games in this World Cup. It is trying to win hearts and minds as well. βWe want the game to grow,β star midfielder Christian Pulisic said. βWe want to get Americans excited to watch this game, to watch our team. Thatβs obviously a big goal…
Valerie Perrine, the Las Vegas showgirl turned Oscar-nominated actor best known for playing Lenny Bruceβs wayward wife Honey Harlow in βLennyβ and Lex Luthorβs secretary Eve Teschmacher in the 1978 and 1980 βSupermanβ films, died Monday morning. She was 82. Perrineβs death was confirmed by Stacey Souther, her close friend and the director of the…
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