More than two and a half years after she took office, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has fulfilled a nagging campaign promise to film industry advocates. She is appointing Board of Public Works president Steve Kang to serve as a liaison between city bureaucracy and the film industry, she said Wednesday. The mayor made the…
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech as he stands in front of the VC-25B aircraft gifted by Qatar that will be used as Air Force One, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on June 19, 2026. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned…
BEIRUTΒ βΒ The ad was straightforward: Sign up for one year to fight on Russiaβs side in βthe special military operation zoneβ β i.e. the war in Ukraine β and get citizenship, free healthcare, money and land. It was one of many promotions cropping up on the messaging platform Telegram beginning in 2024, shortly after Russian President…
Mickey Rourke is doubling down on his disgust over a fundraiser that quickly raised more than $100,000 on his behalf, calling it an embarrassing βscamβ and a βvicious cruel lieβ and promising βsevere repercussions to [the] individual who did this very bad thingβ to him. At the same time, the fundraiser β aimed at keeping…
DENVERΒ βΒ LeBron James is king of another NBA record once held by Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. James entered Thursdayβs game against the Denver Nuggets needing to make three field goals to pass Abdul-Jabbar for the most made field goals in league history. James tied Adbul-Jabbarβs mark for most regular-season field goals when he dunked off a…
The Angels celebrated their 2026 home opener on Friday, and the fans booed the ceremonial first pitch. Magic Johnson, the Dodgersβ co-owner and the foremost winner in Los Angeles sports history, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Dodgersβ opener. Jeff Kent, just elected to the Hall of Fame, did the honors for the…
The Lakers hired former New Orleans Pelicans executive Rohan Ramadas to fill one of two new assistant general manager roles, The Times confirmed Monday. Ramadas previously worked as the vice president of basketball operations and strategy for the Pelicans and will be involved in managing the salary cap, analytics and data for the Lakers, who…
Haru Urara, the mare who won over horse racing enthusiasts in Japan and abroad with her perpetual losing streak, has died. She was 29. Yuko Miyahara, a representative for Uraraβs longtime care facility Matha Farm in the southeast Chiba prefecture of Japan, confirmed to Japanese outlet Friday Digital that the animal athlete died early Tuesday…
By early 1963, the Station Hotel in London had become an epicenter of the burgeoning British blues scene. On a blustery, snowy night that February, the Rolling Stonesβ classic early lineup took the stage for one of the first times, dazzling the audience with ferocious renditions of blues standards like Muddy Watersβ βI Want to…
Football and the royals are two subjects which have always attracted very outspoken fans. Now, aged 90, Lord Norman Foster is attempting to please both. One of the one of the world’s most important living architects, he is known for being the vision behind some of the world’s most iconic designs – including London’s “Gherkin”…