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While the swirl of chatter around Travis Kelce on Christmas Day was on whether he plans to retire at the end of the season, the 11-time Pro Bowl tight end quietly moved up to No. 9 on the NFL all-time receiving list. Kelceβs fifth and last catch in the Kansas City Chiefsβ 20-13 loss to…
Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, has died. He was 65. The band announced on its website on Dec. 26 that Bamonte died βafter a short illness at home over Christmas.β βQuiet, intense, intuitive constant and hugely creative, βTeddyβ was a warm hearted and vital part of the Cure story,β the band said….
Shopify services were temporarily interrupted as an outage at the e-commerce platform disrupted retailers on Cyber Monday, one of the busiestΒ online shopping days of the entire year. Thousands of Shopify users reported problems with the platform, hindering their ability to do business. Outage reports peaked at 11 a.m. EDT at around 4,000 before tapering off,…
Hours after Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their home in what is shaping up to be a heartbreaking family tragedy, our president blamed Reiner for his own death. βA very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Lakers coach JJ Redick points and direct his team during the fourth quarter of a loss to the Rockets on Thursday at Crypto.com Arena. (Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Images) When the Lakers were climbing up the Western Conference standings, improbably winning games with LeBron James and Luka Doncic injured and celebrating Austin Reavesβ…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> We might rarely get to see snowfall in Los Angeles, but logging onto social media in December means the arrival of a different kind of flurry. The one where our friends, both close and parasocial, excitedly share the year-end music-listening data dumps of their Spotify Wrapped. Spotify Wrapped only represents the culmination of…
New Delhi βΒ India’s government revoked an order on Wednesday that had directed smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung to install a state-developed and owned security app on all new devices. The move came after two days of criticism from opposition politicians and privacy organizations that the “Sanchar Saathi” app was an effort to snoop…
John and Theresa Anderson meandered through the sprawling Ralph Lauren clothing store on Rodeo Drive, shopping for holiday gifts. They emerged carrying boxy blue bags. John scored quarter-zip sweaters for himself and his father-in-law, and his wife splurged on a tweed jacket for Christmas Day. βIβm going for quality over quantity this year,β said John,…
The Lakers felt good about their starting lineup Thursday when Luka Doncic and Rui Hachimura returned from injury to restore their normal starting unit for only the seventh time this season. But that good feeling didnβt last long. Coming out of halftime down 10 points to the Houston Rockets, Austin Reaves missed the entire second…
Jimmy Kimmel swapped his suit and late-night desk for a cardigan and Christmas living room scene as he shared with British viewers an important holiday message: βTyranny is booming over here.β Kimmel appeared on public broadcaster Channel 4 Thursday to deliver an βalternative Christmas message,β counter programming to the British monarchβs annual televised address. Kimmelβs…
