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DraftKings is entering the red-hot prediction markets business, launching technology that lets users trade contracts linked to sporting and financial events.Β DraftKings said event contracts will be available for trading in 38 states and that the company will eventually expand beyond sports and finance into other markets, such as entertainment and culture. The sports betting…
Decked out in a resplendent orange-and-blue-striped zoot suit symbolizing the colors of his beloved New York Knicks, Spike Lee hit the Cannes Film Festivalβs red carpet in May in full boogie mode. As Lee and his wife, producer Tonya Lewis Lee, huddled under an umbrella and made their way through a throng of photographers, he…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Directly outside the Washington Hilton ballroom, as the yearly White House Correspondentsβ Assn. dinner got underway Saturday, a Times reporter had just entered the menβs room when he heard a handful of loud pops ring out. βShooter!β someone shouted. βGet down! Shots fired!β Inside the ballroom, thousands of journalists and politicians began to duck for…
SAN DIEGOΒ βΒ When he was finished rounding the bases at Petco Park on Sunday, Shohei Ohtani made a detour on his return to the Dodgersβ bench. Seated by the visiting dugout was a fan in a San Diego Padres cap and brown Fernando Tatis Jr. jersey. The spectator had spent most of the afternoon reminding Ohtani…
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New YorkΒ βΒ It was a quiet, while not quite silent, morning for the βTable of Silence Projectβ Thursday, on the plaza of Lincoln Center and in front of David Geffen Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic. Commemorating the 24th anniversary of 9/11, white-robed members of the Buglisi Dance Theatre circled the plaza, a few with…
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL, SOFTBALL SCORES Wednesdayβs Results BASEBALL CITY SECTION Arleta 7, VAAS 1Bell 12, Huntington Park 0Birmingham 9, Chatsworth 3Bravo 18, King/Drew 0Canoga Park 7, AMIT 5Carson 3, San Pedro 1Cleveland 10, Granada Hills 4El Camino Real 5, Taft 0Fremont 13, Stella 0Fulton 17, Panorama 6Garfield 6, LA Roosevelt 1Monroe 11, Van Nuys 1Northridge…
Marks and Spencer’s retail boss has warned crime is getting “more brazen, more organised and more aggressive” after a week plagued by antisocial behaviour. Retail director Thinus Keeve hit out at the government and London mayor Sadiq Khan in a letter posted to the supermarket’s website. “Without a government seriously cracking down on crime and…
βWhat were they thinking?β This is the question on everyoneβs mind of βThe Bacheloretteβsβ producers, ABC, Hulu and the Disney legal team. On Thursday, ABC announced that the heavily promoted new season of βThe Bachelorette,β scheduled to premiere Sunday, would not be moving forward βat this time.β Why not? Well, the Bachelorette in question, βThe…
One battle is in the rearview for Teyana Taylor. The multihyphenate entertainer has secured the Golden Globe for supporting actress in a motion picture for her performance as revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills in Paul Thomas Andersonβs black comedy βOne Battle After Another.β Taylor beat out Ariana Grande (βWicked: For Goodβ), Amy Madigan (βWeaponsβ), Emily Blunt…
