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p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Chargers quarterback Trey Lance passes in the first half of the Hall of Fame Game on Thursday. (David Richard / Associated Press) Lance, the onetime third overall pick of San Francisco, looked sharp and polished. Whether thatβs enough for him to get the upper hand on Taylor Heinicke for the Chargersβ backup job…
This is what the Lakers imagined when they nearly broke the NBA with the trade that brought Luka Doncic to L.A. Doncic and LeBron James scored 30 points apiece during the same game for just the third time as teammates Friday to help the Lakers hold off the Memphis Grizzlies 128-121 at Crypto.com Arena. Doncic…
MP Rupert Lowe alerted the coastguard to potential migrants on a boat – who turned out to be a charity rowing crew. The independent Great Yarmouth MP posted a picture on social media on Thursday night of a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk Coast, saying he had alerted the authorities. He wrote…
Last year, women made up just 13% of directors working on the top 250 films. That level represents a 3-percentage-point decline from 2024, when women led 16% of the top-grossing movies, according to a San Diego State University study released Thursday. The troubling tabulation comes as Hollywood seeks to turn the page from a gut-punching…
A man has been charged after a major fire at an MP’s constituency office. Joshua Oliver, 28, has been charged with arson after a blaze at the office of Labour MP Sharon Hodgson, at Vermont House in Washington, Tyne and Wear. The fire also wrecked a charity base and an NHS mental health service for…
The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery over pro-Russian statements about Ukraine in the European Parliament. Nathan Gill, 52, of Anglesey, North Wales, pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery between 6 December 2018 and 18 July 2019 at the Old Bailey on Friday. The charges relate to when…
Moorpark athletic director Rob Dearborn officially has a new title: president elect of the Southern Section. The Southern Section Council elected him on Thursday. He will serve as president elect under the new president, Alexis Barile, the former principal at Corona Centennial, for 2026-27 and 2027-28 before taking over a two-year term. Dearborn, 62, a…
My name is Jon Halperin. I booked and managed Chain Reaction from 2000 to 2006. It started by accident while I was running a one-person record label. I went to the club to see the band Melee perform and the prior talent buyer for the club had just quit that day. I told owner Tim…
The private equity firm set up by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is to take a stake in OakNorth, the British-based lender which has set its sights on a rapid expansion in the US. Sky News has learnt that Affinity Partners, which has amassed billions of dollars in assets under management, has signed a…
We share our planet with maybe 10 million species of plants, animals, birds, fish, fungi and bugs. And to help identify them, millions of people are using a free phone app. “Currently we have about six million people using the platform every month,” said Scott Loarie, the executive director of iNaturalist, a nonprofit. Has anyone…
