After 30 years, the Golden Arches have fallen in Russia. McDonald’s has pulled the plug on all 847 locations inside Russia, making permanent the temporary closure imposed at the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski announced he will sell off all assets and inventory in Russia, enforce McDonald’s trademarks against infringement,…
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If you think Donald Trump colluded with Russia, you have been played. The nation is still in the grip of a deadly news blackout, so you probably haven’t heard that Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation has uncovered the now uncontested fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign invented the entire story of Russian collusion. A law…
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My book “Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Land” (Counterpoint Press) began as a struggle to come to terms with questions that have lingered since my childhood — about my origins, about my place, about what it means to inhabit this land and to be a citizen of this nation. Early on, the mountains,…
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Q. I am in my mid-60s and married to a wonderful, much older man. I hope he lives forever! Being practical, I need to plan for my financial security. How do I go about finding a roommate to share housing expenses if I find myself living alone? I would like to stay in my same…
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A Los Angeles County supervisor is calling for the temporary shuttering of a medical device sterilizing plant and the investigation of other similar facilities elsewhere in Southern California after the region’s air quality agency detected unsafe levels of a cancer-causing gas in Vernon. The South Coast Air Quality Management District began investigating Sterigenics in Vernon…
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It’s no small accomplishment that on my injured daughter’s last night at my house after her nine-week recuperation, we were able to share a dinner table to celebrate that her doctors have cleared her to return home. It’s actually been nine weeks, eight hours and 16 minutes, but why would I be counting? Let me…
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San Bernardino. Poway. El Paso. Atlanta. Buffalo. And on May 15, in the lunch hall of a Presbyterian church favored by older Taiwanese Americans, Laguna Woods. In recent years and days, each of these cities, as well as dozens of others, has been a backdrop for the highest of high-profile hate crimes; with some residents…
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Saturday was about what Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo thinks he is, as well as what he could be. At the morning shootaround at TD Garden, the Adebayo conversation was about failing to break through in the voting for NBA All-Defense, relegated to the second team for the third consecutive season, yet to make the…
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Over ceviche and margaritas at a family lunch last Saturday, the conversation turning, as conversations will, to the rise of authoritarian leaders around the world, and thus to to the rebirth of the Ferdinand Marcos dynasty in the Philippines, my cousin reminded me that Marcos’ lover Dovie Breams Villagran used to live across the street…
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When Chicago Cubs reliever Scott Effross first learned his sidearm delivery, he watched a lot of hitting videos. Because he uses more lower-half load than a conventional pitching delivery, his process more closely resembles a hitter’s. Dissecting those hitting videos became a valuable tool, helping him tap into his lower half more while using his…
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