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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…
The Rams will play the Chicago Bears in an NFC divisional round game at Soldier Field in Chicago next weekend. The NFL is expected to announce the day and time of the game Sunday night. Itβll be the first playoff meeting between the teams since the NFC title game at the end of the 1985…
James Arthur McDonald Jr., an investor and financial analyst who frequently appeared on CNBC, was sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding investors in a multimillion-dollar scheme, the United States Attorneyβs Office said on Monday. McDonald, 53, a former San Gabriel Valley resident, was the CEO and chief investment officer of two Los Angeles-based…
πListen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast appπ As Conservatives prepare to travel to Manchester for conference (and their opponents are joking that they hope the party enjoys its last conference), Anne’s got an interview with Kemi Badenoch. The Tory leader tells members to “hold their nerve” with her β and comes…
There have been nearly 1.5 million reports of fraud so far this year, which is up from 1.3 million for the same period last year. Ash-har Quraishi got a behind-the-scenes look at VISA’s high-tech cyber fusion center in Virginia to see how it’s fighting fraud.
Eric Swalwellβs campaign for governor is over, whether he admits it or not. For weeks, salacious talk swirled in campaign circles, ricocheted through email chains and was served up, like a buzzy side dish, over gossipy lunches from Sacramento to San Diego. The talk revolved around the 45-year-old East Bay congressman, one of the top…
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…
Long Beach Poly, a 12-time Southern Section football champion, announced on Friday it will not participate in this seasonβs playoffs despite finishing second in the Moore League. The school earlier this season had six transfer students declared ineligible for providing false information on paperwork to the Southern Section, a violation of CIF bylaw 202. Hereβs…
Customers of five water firms are facing higher than expected rises to their inflation-busting bills after the companies disputed limits imposed by the industry regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was called in to review Ofwat’s determinations on what Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, South East Water, Southern Water, and Wessex Water could charge customers…
This is what the Lakers imagined when they nearly broke the NBA with the trade that brought Luka Doncic to L.A. Doncic and LeBron James scored 30 points apiece during the same game for just the third time as teammates Friday to help the Lakers hold off the Memphis Grizzlies 128-121 at Crypto.com Arena. Doncic…
