Miller Sanford With TikTok’s help, influencers are hosting marathon 12-hour shopping livestreams and making big money It is just past 10 p.m. and Aaliyah Arnold, the 20-year-old founder of BossUp Cosmetics, is selling to the TikTok universe. As she livestreams from a Culver City filming location, about 750 people around the world watch her announce a flash … Read more
Come January, California will lose the distinction of being home to the richest man in Congress. More than a third of the lawmakers in the state’s congressional delegation are millionaires, and Rep. Darrell Issa’s wealth dwarfs them all. Issa, a Vista Republican who won’t run for reelection this fall, claimed a minimum net worth of … Read more
Body bags holding victims of a deadly semitrailer truck crash are lined up by the roadside in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas state, in southern Mexico, three years ago. (Associated Press) Six Guatemalans have been arrested in Guatemala and Texas on human smuggling charges linked to a 2021 semitrailer truck crash in Mexico that killed more than … Read more
A stunning Brutalist concrete home in L.A. rivals its neighbor, the Hollywood sign Rising steeply above a ravine in the Hollywood Hills, Nina and Andreas Grueter’s concrete home conjures a villain’s lair in a James Bond thriller — John Lautner’s Brutalist Elrod House in “Diamonds Are Forever” comes to mind — with the nearby Hollywood … Read more
Israeli soldiers take up positions next to an entrance of a tunnel that the military says was used by Hamas militants in the southern Gaza Strip. (Leo Correa / Associated Press) Their views of the world, and how to handle its troubles and challenges, paint a sharp contrast between Vice President Kamala Harris and former … Read more
Eddie Van Halen, left, and brother Alex perform as Van Halen rocks at Staples Center on June 1, 2012. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) If rock music history has taught musicians anything, it is this: Don’t start a band with your sibling. Just ask Oasis co-founders Liam and Noel Gallagher, whose well-documented mutual enmity … Read more
Election worker Sean Vander Waal prepares to open a polling place in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday. (Charlie Neibergall / Associated Press) Voters for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump who cast their ballots for Tuesday’s presidential election had vastly different motivations — reflecting a broader national divide on the problems the United States faces. AP VoteCast, … Read more
As she writes in her new memoir, the battle for control is one that has followed Joanna “JoJo” Levesque throughout her personal life and career. (David Urbanke / For The Times) For a long time, Joanna “JoJo” Levesque resented “Leave (Get Out),” her best-known, breakout track released in 2004 when she was just 13. “This … Read more
Mexico cracks down on drugs and migrants. Will it be enough to stop Trump tariffs? In recent days, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has touted her country’s largest-ever seizure of fentanyl and highlighted multiple crackdowns on migrants headed toward the United States. She was speaking to the press, but her most important audience is U.S. President-elect … Read more
Before it made her a breakout star, ‘The Fire Inside’ put Ryan Destiny through the wringer In the latest episode of The Envelope video podcast, Ryan Destiny describes the challenges of making boxing movie “The Fire Inside” and Sean Baker and Mikey Madison explain how they fine-tuned the action, comedy and drama of “Anora.” Kelvin … Read more
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