Police announced a $50,000 reward Wednesday in its year-and-a-half-long investigation into the brutal killing of a 50-year-old man who was set on fire while he sat inside his vehicle in the Green Meadows neighborhood of Los Angeles. The incident, described as a murder by investigators, occurred around 1:30 a.m. as Clay Buchanan was seated in … Read more
I’m watching The Gorge, a made-for-Apple movie that isn’t very good but will do the job on a lazy weekend morning. The story here is that there’s a gorge. It’s a very deep gorge, and its contents are so potentially dangerous that all of the world’s superpowers have deemed it necessary to entrust 24-hour surveillance … Read more
It’s been a rough couple of years for dollar stores, which have struggled with shifting consumer demand and inflation. Most, if not all, have decided to raise their prices above the one-dollar mark, compromising their competitive advantage. Major chains, including Family Dollar and Dollar Tree, have closed hundreds of locations. Now, you can add another … Read more
Live Reporting Edited by Jacqueline Howard and Malu Cursino, with Brian Wheeler reporting from the House of Commons Spring Statement and welfare top today’s agendapublished at 19:01 That wraps up another week of Prime Minister’s Questions. This iteration mainly revolved around the economy and the government’s reforms to the welfare system. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch … Read more
XRP XRPUSD+10.92% was soaring Wednesday after the CEO of Ripple Labs said that the Securities and Exchange Commission had dropped its long-running case against his company. The token, which is used to facilitate and settle transactions on Ripple’s digital-payments platform, surged 13% to just under $2.56, according to data from the crypto exchange Kraken. XRP was … Read more
Maybe you forgot about the Los Angeles Clippers. It’s cool. It happens to me all the time. I think I did not remember them even once between Christmas and, uh, Sunday. If you’d asked me Tuesday afternoon to place the Clippers in the Western Conference standings without looking, I would’ve said, “Anywhere between third and … Read more
During Wednesday’s Dodgers-Cubs game at the Tokyo Dome, Los Angeles third baseman Max Muncy reached over the netting to try catching a foul ball, but it landed in the glove of a spectator instead. That fan? Former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete. Peete, whose son RJ is a clubhouse attendant for the Dodgers, coolly made the grab … Read more
Kevin Winter; Jarrod Williams/Getty Images Jess Hilarious has never been one to hold back, and now she’s shedding light on the behind-the-scenes tension happening at The Breakfast Club. The comedian and media personality, who officially joined as the show’s third host in 2024, isn’t mincing words — as she revealed she felt blindsided by certain changes upon returning from … Read more
The two-term Democrat and former vice presidential nominee has left the door open to a possible future national run. Eau Claire, Wis. – Standing in front of a crowded theater, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz explained his new mood booster. Every day, he told the western Wisconsin audience, he checks the stock price for Tesla, the … Read more
Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn (R) was arrested for soliciting a teen on Monday, authorities said, hours after he introduced a bill proposing “Trump derangement syndrome” (TDS) as a form of mental illness. Detectives with the Bloomington Police Department had communicated with Eichorn, who was under the assumption he was talking to a 17-year-old female, police said. He arrived Monday … Read more