By Matt O’Brien and Raf Casert | The Associated Press The European Union has launched an investigation into Microsoft’s planned takeover of video game giant Activision Blizzard, fearing the $69 billion deal would distort fair competition to popular titles like Call of Duty. Microsoft, maker of the Xbox gaming system, first announced the agreement to…
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Whatever the merits of Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness, the move to cancel thousands of dollars in loans per student won’t solve the root cause of the crisis. The price of higher education is still astronomically high, and only getting worse. While there’s no silver bullet to reducing educational costs, one surefire way to reduce…
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LOS ANGELES — The UCLA football team’s running game was a highlight in the 50-36 road victory over Arizona State Saturday, especially without running back Zach Charbonnet. While Charbonnet was practicing and appeared to be a full go during the media viewing period Tuesday, the same could not be said about the other running backs.…
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There appears to be a newly minted billionaire somewhere in Southern California. A single winning ticket for Monday night’s delayed Powerball lottery drawing was sold in Altadena, with the jackpot worth a record-setting $2.04 billion, lottery officials confirmed on Tuesday, Nov. 8. California Lottery officials said the winning ticket was sold at Joe’s Service Center…
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There will be at least one new face on the Aliso Viejo City Council following the close of voting on Tuesday. Tiffany Ackley, an incumbent, is facing four challengers for the two seats open on the council. Hoping to win one of the four-year terms are Payal Avellan, Max Duncan, Arthur Osorio and Tara Ricksen.…
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L.A.-based author Toni Ann Johnson began her creative career with hopes of being an actress. But when she went up for parts, she says she always heard the same thing: “People would say, ‘Well, what are you? You don’t look Black. You don’t look White. We don’t know what to do with you.” For the…
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Shakshuka is an ever-so-popular egg dish in North African and the Middle Eastern cuisines. My pals Benjamin and Kathleen recently returned from a trip to Israel and raved that they had the dish many times on their journey and fell in love with it. They noted that each time they had it the ingredients were…
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Restaurants have had to scramble to ensure that their customers will get a traditional turkey dinner for Thanksgiving. Outbreaks of avian influenza on top of inflation and supply chain issues have complicated this year’s holiday season. “It’s going to be different for us,” said Eric Stenta, vice president of operations for Polly’s Pies Restaurant &…
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The announcement came Monday at 10 a.m. sharp, straight from Pac-12 HQ: One of the conference’s two mega-collisions on Nov. 19 — either Utah at Oregon or USC at UCLA — would receive primetime treatment from Fox (5 p.m.). The other would be relegated to the night window on ESPN. At 10:01 a.m., the criticism…
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Another Saturday has come and gone without a shakeup in the Pac-12 race, but this Tuesday brings a major change in the Hotline’s bowl outlook for the conference. We are projecting Oregon to reach the College Football Playoff and UCLA to fill the vacancy in the Rose Bowl. Allow us to explain in five easy…
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