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Only one player in the last 110 years has tried to do what the Dodgersβ Shohei Ohtani is doing this season, which is to pitch and hit successfully at the big-league level. Babe Ruth twice won more than 20 games and led the American League in ERA and starts before the Red Sox, then the…
Donald Trump has announced 100% tariffs on computer chips and semiconductors made outside the US. The move threatens to increase the cost of electronics made outside the US, which covers everything from TVs and video game consoles to kitchen appliances and cars. The announcement came as Apple chief executive Tim Cook said his company would…
Glorya Kaufman, the philanthropist who transformed dance in Los Angeles through the establishment of an eponymous dance school at the University of Southern California as well as a prominent dance series at the Music Center, among many other initiatives, has died. She was 95. Kaufmanβs death was confirmed by a representative for the Music Center,…
Surfer dudes. Football dudes. Thatβs the best way to describe identical twins Liam and Luke Meeker, football players at Mira Costa High. Liam is the quarterback and Luke the receiver. Theyβve been teaming up their whole life. βTwin telepathy,β they joke. Their father, George, who was a member of Edisonβs surf team during his high…
Jane Pitt, a schoolteacher, philanthropist and the mother of film star Brad Pitt, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. The Pitt family shared her obituary with KY3, an NBC-affiliated station in Springfield, Mo., where Jane and her husband, Bill, raised their three children β Brad, Doug Pitt and Julie Neal. The cause of…
Already the home of Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles is now also the home of South Koreaβs Shohei Ohtani. Like Ohtani, Son Heung-min has been the most popular athlete in his home country by a wide margin for close to a decade. Like Ohtani, Son has a pleasant disposition that has endeared him to people from…
The father of a fan who tragically fell to their death on Saturday at an Oasis concert has spoken out. Clive Claydon, 75, told the Guardian that Lee Claydon, was a βhardworking family manβ who βloved to be with his family.β He added that the 45-year-old had attended the show with his brother and his…
Rap star Soulja Boy appeared to be all smiles β and some song β as he celebrated the latest update in his recent weapons possession case in Los Angeles. The 35-year-old βCrank That (Soulja Boy)β hitmaker hinted at his release from police custody on Tuesday, sharing an Instagram story that sees him happily singing the…
A woman will umpire a major league game for the first time Saturday when Jen Pawol works the bases during Saturdayβs doubleheader between the Atlanta Braves and visiting Miami Marlins at Truist Park. For Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, that announcement Wednesday brought one response: Itβs about time. βThatβs great. Iβll be watching,β he said of…
Asylum seekers who work in the UK without permission should be placed “on the next plane home”, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has said. Ms Badenoch and her shadow home secretary Chris Philp criticised the UK as being a “soft touch” and that illegal working acts as a “pull factor” for those making the dangerous journey…
