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The announcement could not have been more unfortunately timed. On the morning after the Dodgers had been swept by the Angels and fallen out of first place in the National League West for the first time in 108 days, the email to media members started this way: βEver wonder how a player like Mookie Betts…
The leader of Britain’s trade unions is to accuse Sir Keir Starmer of failing to deliver the change Labour promised during the election campaign last year. In his keynote speech at the TUC conference in Brighton, general secretary Paul Nowak will claim that for too many people change still feels like a slogan, not a…
The U.S. is the favorite to win the World Baseball Classic championship, but the team is still trying to execute “a complete game” after semifinal win.
Passing the 10,000-point barrier is a largely symbolic milestone for the FTSE 100, but it underlines an upward trend for the index of the UK’s largest companies and offers some cautious optimism for the year ahead. Founded in 1984 with an index value of 1,000, last year was the FTSE’s best since 2009, rising 21.5%…
The Liberal Democrats have vowed to tax banks to raise money that could help people lower their energy bills. Daisy Cooper, the Lib Dems’ deputy leader and Treasury spokesperson, said the party would impose a windfall tax on banks that would fund a new energy security bank that would offer loans to those wishing to…
The day after he saved the Dodgersβ season, Will Klein was hungry. He ordered from Mod Pizza. He drove over to pick up his order. The guy that handed him the pizza told him he looked just like Will Klein. βYou should just look at the name on the order,β Klein told him. Chaos ensued….
A handful of seats are all that keep Republicans in control of the House, giving President Trump untrammeled sway over, well, pretty much everything, from the economy to the jokes on late-night TV to the design of the Cracker Barrel logo. Itβs a number thatβs both tantalizing and fraught, depending on your political perspective. For…
WEDNESDAYβS RESULTS CITY SECTION Annenberg 20, Rise Kohyang 6 Crenshaw 18, Bernstein 13 New Designs University Park 26, Locke 0 Orthopaedic 12, Collins Family 6 South East 34, Maywood Academy 6 South East 33, Marquez 0 South Gate 18, LA Jordan 0 Sotomayor 6, Huntington Park 0 Stern 38, Camino Nuevo 0 Sun Valley Magnet…
Some SoCal residents spent their summer at the beach, or at their local rooftop pool; others spent it indoors, hiding from ICE agents. Itβs why Riverside artist Perry Picasshoe spent his summer documenting the melting of 36 ice blocks on sidewalks across the Inland Empire. He traveled to nine locations, a mix of parks, storefronts…
One question has bothered Martin Ludlow in his decades as a concert and event promoter in Los Angeles. In a city packed with excellent jazz musicians, and a century of history with the genre, why is there no local equivalent of the massive festivals that cities like Montreal, New Orleans or Montreux, Switzerland, have built?…
