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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL PAIRINGS FIRST ROUND TUESDAY (Games at 5 p.m. unless noted) BOYS DIVISION I #8 Santa Monica at #1 Mater Dei #5 Placentia Valencia at #4 El Camino Real #6 JSerra at #3 Del Norte #7 St. Augustine at #2 Orange Lutheran DIVISION II #8 Sultana at #1 Torrey Pines #5 Anaheim Canyon…
Global oil prices have risen sharply after Iran’s response to US and Israeli airstrikes disrupted shipping, raising the prospect of a new energy-led surge in inflation. Early trading in Asia, the first main financial market activity since Saturday morning’s airstrikes on Iran, saw the international benchmark Brent crude climb 13% to $82 a barrel –…
Michael B. Jordanβs awards are stacking up. The βSinnersβ star won the Actor Award for lead actor for portraying the filmβs twin ex-mob enforcers turned juke joint owners, Smoke and Stack. βI wasnβt expecting this at all,β Jordan said as he accepted his award Sunday evening. βIβm so honored and privileged to be nominated in…
In his announcement unveiling U.S. attacks on Iran, President Trump assailed the Islamic Republicβs βproxiesβ in the region. βFrom Lebanon to Yemen and Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias that have soaked the earth with blood and guts,β Trump declared Saturday. The United States, Trump vowed, was determined to…
Critics will accuse him of yet another U-turn, but Sir Keir Starmer insists circumstances have changed and British lives are now at risk from attacks by Iran. The prime minister’s announcement that two British airbases – Fairford in Gloucestershire and the hotly disputed Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands – can be used by the…
“It’s about the principle of standing up for what’s right,” said Dario Amodei, CEO of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, who has found himself at the center of a new kind of firestorm. What’s wrong, in his view, is why the AI company he co-founded has been banned from the federal government. “It feels very…
No school had swept the boys and girls Southern Section Open Division basketball championships in the same season. Sierra Canyon pulled it off on Saturday night, and both teams received No. 1 seeds for the Southern California regional playoffs that begin on Tuesday leading up to the state championships March 13-14 at Golden 1 Center…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> It starts with the exclamation point, right there in the title. βThe Bride!β is a wild, willfully over-the-top double-barreled reinvigoration of 1935βs βBride of Frankensteinβ that is always doing something a little extra in telling its unpredictable story of identity and the reclamation of the self. βI probably canβt definitively explain it,β says…
The UK’s terror threat level is “absolutely” under review following US and Israel strikes on Iran, the defence secretary told Sky News. Since the strikes on Saturday, Iran has carried out retaliatory attacks on Israel, US military installations around the Gulf, and Gulf Arab states, including the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, and the global business…
βAmerica firstβ was Donald Trumpβs promise on the 2024 campaign trail, but his administration broke that oath late Friday when it launched a joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. Now the presidentβs staunchest supporters are echoing the anti-war cries of lefties. Itβs an odd turn of events when MAGA mouthpiece Tucker Carlson and lefty icon Jane…
