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Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, who has been sidelined because of a back issue, will work out for the first time Saturday before the Rams play the Dallas Cowboys at SoFi Stadium, coach Sean McVay said Thursday. Stafford, 37, is dealing with an aggravated disc, and recently received an epidural for the condition, McVay said, confirming…
βFreakier Fridayβ proves that time is its own magical device. Generations of fans of the body-swap series β from the original 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers and Jodie Fosterβs 1976 Disney adaptation to this 21st century update β have had decades to learn firsthand that everyone becomes their parents, no cursed fortune cookie required. In…
Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali has resigned after reportedly hiking the rent on a property she owns by hundreds of pounds. That was just weeks after the previous tenants’ contract ended, the i Paper said. In a letter to the prime minister, Ms Ali said that remaining in the role would be “a distraction from the…
Brandon Blackstock, the talent manager who was married to singer Kelly Clarkson for seven years, has died of an unspecified cancer. He was 48. βIt is with great sadness that we share the news that Brandon Blackstock has passed away,β his family confirmed Thursday in a statement to The Times. βBrandon bravely battled cancer for…
The economy is stagnating and job losses are mounting. Now is the time to cut interest rates again. That was the view of the Bank of England’s nine-member rate setting committee on Thursday. Well, at least five of them. The other four presented us with a different view: Inflation is above target and climbing –…
There are some aspects of comedy you just canβt teach. But for comedian Chinedu Unaka, plenty was learned while giving lessons in a classroom. As a kid growing up in South L.A., it wasnβt planned that he would find his way to comedy by stepping up to the chalkboard to teach mild to moderate special…
A shocking revelation was unearthed by the i Paper on Thursday that homelessness minister Rushanara Ali had evicted her tenants before hiking up the rent on her east London property by Β£700. The Conservatives promptly called on the Bethnal Green and Stepney MP to resign, with their party chair (who is also a landlord) saying:…
A new version of ChatGPT has arrived that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises will have Ph.D-level smarts. OpenAI on Thursday announced the release of GPTβ5, which it calls its “smartest, fastest and most useful model yet.”Β The artificial intelligence company that brought the world ChatGPT says its latest version of the AI-powered chatbot will be…
The one and only pre-millennium building that LACMA director Michael Govan elected to save as part of his campus revamp was the museumβs Japanese Pavilion, designed by the brilliant, undeniably quirky architect Bruce Goff. The edifice is like nothing else near it, or in all of L.A.: a series of rough stone towers and fiberglass…
The road to βDemascusβ β premiering Thursday on Tubi β runs through AMC, which had commissioned the series and then, though a six-episode season was completed, declined to air it. Not being privy to any boardroom discussions or the thoughts of executives and accountants, I wonβt claim to know why that was β most everything…
