Dodgers Dugout: Where’s Howie Mandel? Dodgers spend offseason playing “Deal or No Deal”
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell. We’re back! Thanks for your patience while I took some time…
2024 was brutal for Los Angeles restaurant closures
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Sunday. I’m your host, Andrew J. Campa. Here’s what you need to know to start…
Yes, Biden is governing as a progressive. Are you surprised?
President Biden’s Republican critics charge that he has foisted a “bait and switch” on voters — that he campaigned as a moderate but veered abruptly…
‘Moral imperative’: WHO presses China to share COVID origins data | Coronavirus pandemic News
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on China to share information on how COVID-19 emerged five years ago. The coronavirus killed millions of people, locked…
Have some down time? Check out the revamped L.A. Times games
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Sunday. I’m your host, Andrew J. Campa. Here’s what you need to know to start…
Flu surge ‘will peak in 10 days’ as UK hospitals bring back face masks to protect against ‘quad-demic’
A FLU surge - reportedly set to peak in 10 days - has brought back Covid-style restrictions to several major UK hospitals.A decision to reintroduce…
Box office bombs. Cable’s collapse. What went wrong for Hollywood in 2024
Note: The Wide Shot newsletter will be off next week.When chronicling what went wrong in Hollywood in 2024, it’s hard to narrow down the list…
Tortoises are bouncing back thanks to Marine base conservation effort
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Hollywood year in review: Who won in 2024?
There were plenty of things that went wrong for Hollywood in the year 2024. There were box office flops (sorry, “Joker: Folie à Deux” and…
Disneyland OKs state’s largest wage theft settlement with workers
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Newsom to roll out $100-billion ‘California Comeback Plan’
This is the May 10, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three…
Trump taps immigration hard-liner Kari Lake as head of Voice of America
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s picking Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist who ran unsuccessfully for…
How YouTube and Netflix are changing the business of kids’ shows
It’s 7 a.m. Do you know what your kids are streaming?Although the splashiest shows of the direct-to-consumer video era tend to target grownups, children —…
U.S. TikTok ban is nearing after another court defeat
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Biden’s relief plan: Major victory gets mixed one-year reviews
WASHINGTON — It’s not often that a president gets everything he asks for, but that’s what happened.President Biden wanted $1.9 trillion to help the country climb…
COVID-19 likely came from a lab, US committee finds | Coronavirus pandemic News
A committee of the United States Congress has backed the theory that a lab leak caused the COVID-19 pandemic. In a report released on Monday,…
The casual moviegoer is a thing of the past. That’s a problem for Hollywood
It was on a spontaneous trip to the movie theater that James Young took a chance on “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the…
Yoga in a pill? Research might bring about prescription calmness
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Have you got flu, RSV, bronchiolitis, Covid or just a cold? Symptoms of all the nasty bugs rife right now
FEELINGS sniffly?It's that time of year again when everyone appears to be riddled with hacking coughs and sore throats. 4What winter bug has got you…
Punches fly at Rep. Katie Porter’s town hall
A melee broke out at Rep. Katie Porter’s district town hall meeting Sunday, with her backers scuffling with supporters of former President Trump who were…