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The holiday season is Hallmarkโs Super Bowl. This year alone, Hallmark has 80 hours of original holiday-themed programming, including two unscripted series, two scripted series, a holiday special and 24 movies with titles such as โThe Snow Must Go Onโ and โChristmas at the Catnip Cafeโ that run from mid-October to Christmas. The company also…
Emmy voters have loved Uzo Aduba, who brings a special immediacy to comedic and dramatic roles alike, since her breakthrough on Netflixโs โOrange Is the New Blackโ in 2013. This year, sheโs vying for lead actress in a comedy for her performance as an eccentric gumshoe on the Netflix whodunit โThe Residence.โ 32 The age…
Dying to Know L.A. literary adventure If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. This summer, I read my way around Los Angeles and highly recommend the experience. There were plenty of freshly published L.A. novels to dive into: My literary journey…
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok faces intense criticism โ accused of allowing users on the Musk-owned social media platform X to generate fake, sexually explicit images of real women and children. Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children, is one of the alleged victims. She said in an interview with “CBS Mornings”…
Todd Meadows, a deckhand on one of the fishing vessels featured on the Emmy-winning reality series โDeadliest Catch,โ died after he fell overboard into the Bering Sea. The official cause of death listed on the crew memberโs death certificate, which was obtained by TMZ, states that Meadows died from drowning with probable hypothermia and submersion…
Over the last decade or so, publishers of American genre fiction have borrowed a page from Hollywoodโs playbook by essentially packaging novels like films, grafting together collaborators from two different A-lists: those that feature bestselling novelists and major celebrities. Large commercial rewards have been reaped from these crossbred literary partnerships. Bill and Hillary Clinton, to…
Investigators with the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department said they were able to recover footage from a Google Nest camera outside the Arizona home ofย Nancy Guthrieย โ the missing mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie โ by extracting “residual data located in backend systems,” raising new questions about how it was possible to retain the…
HAVANAย โย Yenisey Taboadaโs small apartment on the outskirts of Havana is filled with photos of her imprisoned son. Duannis was 22 and watching soccer at a cafe when he spontaneously joined Cubaโs biggest antigovernment street protest in decades. He was beaten by security forces, arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison. His motherโs apartment is…
The Final Four in menโs and womenโs basketball is scheduled for this weekend, and Southern California has two players to root for who were high school graduates from the area. McDonaldโs All-American Brayden Burries, a freshman at Arizona from Eastvale Roosevelt, has been a key player in the Wildcatsโ season, averaging 16.1 points. Gabriela Jaquez…
Four of five starters scored in double digits as the UCLA womenโs basketball team dominated crosstown rival USC 80-46 Saturday at Pauley Pavilion in the first of two meetings between the crosstown rivals. Center Lauren Betts paced the fourth-ranked Bruins (14-1 overall, 3-0 Big Ten) with 18 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks. Gianna Kneepkens…
