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Even before Keenan Allen returned to the Chargers last week, he was already having an influence in the receiver room. As a rookie, Ladd McConkey studied Allenโs practice film on his team-issued iPad, trying to absorb lessons from one of the leagueโs best route runners โ the very player whose rookie records for receptions and…
The US State Department has accused the UK of having “significant human rights issues”, including restrictions on free speech. The unflattering assessment comes via a new version of an annual Human Rights Practices report, with its publication coinciding with Vice President JD Vance’s holiday in the Cotswolds. Politics Hub: Follow latest updates and analysis It…
Art Fein, a Los Angeles music-scene renaissance man who worked as a journalist, publicist, manager and television host over a six-decade career, has died. He was 79. Fein died of heart failure on July 30 while recovering from surgery for a broken hip, according to Cliff Burnstein, co-founder of Q Prime Management and a longtime…
Kodak is warning that its future in business is looking very blurry. The iconic 133-year-old business cautioned Monday that there’s “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a going concern because it might not have the financial resources to meet its future debt obligations, according to an Aug. 11ย regulatory filing. A so-called going concern…
Some inside jokes can be funny. Others not so much. John Mateer seems to have fallen into the second category: The Oklahoma Sooners quarterback is now on defense regarding NCAA policy about student-athletes and sports betting. Screenshots of Venmo transactions the QB made in 2022 began circulating Monday on social media. They appear to show…
รngela Aguilar may be an elegant interpreter of mรบsica Mexicana, a genre that her family has dominated for generations. Yet when I sit across from the 21-year-old singer at a dining hall on Olvera Street, she exudes a commanding diva spirit that is all her own. It is a fierceness that surfaces most prominently when…
A mixed martial arts fight card to be held next summer at the White House is โabsolutely going to happen,โ Ultimate Fight Championship Chief Executive Dana White said Tuesday. White said the UFC will stage the event July 4 to celebrate Americaโs 250th birthday. He added that he spoke to President Trump on Monday and…
โBerta, Berta,โ a two-character play by Angelica Chรฉri, was inspired by a prison work song from Parchman Farm, the notorious Mississippi State Penitentiary whose harsh conditions and history of forced labor extended the nightmare of antebellum slave plantations into the 20th century. The play, which is receiving its West Coast premiere in an Echo Theater…
El sueldo es inexistente, pero la ventaja podrรญa ser ver los partidos en Estados Unidos, Mรฉxico y Canadรก de forma gratuita durante la Copa Mundial de la FIFA el prรณximo verano. La FIFA abriรณ el lunes el proceso de solicitud para voluntarios de la Copa Mundial. ยฟCuรกntos se necesitan? La impresionante cifra de 65,000 en…
The Crystal Palace, a music and dining joint in Bakersfield launched by Buck Owens โ which hosted just about every country music star in America over the years โ has abruptly shut its doors. The closure of the temple of country music, an important piece of San Joaquin Valley history, prompted an outpouring of grief…
