LeBron James had the basketball and the Lakers’ play-in game against the Minnesota Timberwolves in his capable hands as the final seconds of the fourth quarter ticked down Tuesday. Everyone watching inside Crypto.com Arena and on TNT knew what would happen next. James would drive and score the tie-breaking basket and the Lakers would complete…
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With a recession approaching, now is a good time to reassess expensive government programs, cutting where possible. A good place to begin is letting expire the California Dream for All Shared Appreciation Loan program. According to its website, it is a down payment assistance program of up to 20% of a home’s purchasing price…
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In an interview with former White House spokesperson and now MSNBC host Jen Psaki, Gov. Gavin Newsom offered some political advice to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. “I’d tell him to pack up and wait a few years,” he said. “And actually do some of the hard work, which actually includes governing, not identity and…
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LOS ANGELES — Maybe it was fate that pushed the Lakers into their triumphant moment Tuesday night. Maybe the frenzied ending and the explosions of noise from the faithful had to happen the way they did, after the home team had trailed by 15 against a Minnesota club that entered the night shorthanded and a…
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Over the past three years, we reporters learned there were certain things that we weren’t allowed to say. Not long ago, in fact, my new video may have been censored. One dangerous idea, we were told, was that COVID might have been created in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That seems very possible,…
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UCLA gymnasts will wince if you ask them about the intrasquad meet that occurred in the first practice after the Pac-12 championships. Coach Janelle McDonald decided to hold an intrasquad to replicate the feeling of competing two days in a row. So after a Pac-12 championship in which UCLA worked their way from fourth to…
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Earth Day is a global environmental movement where we’re all asked to think about and maybe even actually do something to better our world on Saturday, April 22. Typically, inhabitants of Earth participate on this day by volunteering and taking part in events that help the planet and all of the creatures living on it.…
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Somewhere in the faraway Mozambique Channel, on Madagascar’s tiny, roadless, volcanic “Lemur Island,” a tawny-colored, wet-nosed, white-maned, utterly adorable lemur suddenly pounced from a tree in the tropical rainforest — and landed on my shoulder. She leaned over, wrapped her eerily human-like hand around my wrist and, with a silky tongue, licked a squished piece…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER | AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer inflation eased in March, with less expensive gas and food providing some relief to households that have struggled under the weight of surging prices. Yet prices are still rising fast enough to keep the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates at least…
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LONDON — Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been “quite painful” but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year. In an interview also streamed live late Tuesday on Twitter Spaces, Musk discussed his ownership of the online platform, including layoffs,…
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