Craig Melvin’s ‘Today’ salary jump revealed as he prepares to replace Hoda Kotb — here’s how much he’ll make

He’s on the rise.  Craig Melvin, 45, will be taking over for “Today” anchor Hoda Kotb when she steps down.  The move will give him a big salary bump, as Us Weekly reports that he’ll make about $5 million to $6 million in his new role. He allegedly makes $3 million per year now. Melvin became … Read more

Taylor Swift reacts to her six Grammy nominations: ‘It’s truly blown my mind’

“It’s truly blown my mind,” Taylor Swift said about the response to “The Tortured Poets Department.” Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift is still living her wildest dreams with the Grammys. After becoming the first artist to win four Album of the Year gramophones when “Midnights” picked up the top prize in February, … Read more

Health stocks slide as Trump picks vaccine skeptic Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Nixon Library on June 12 in Yorba Linda. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Pharmaceutical stocks slumped as President-elect Donald Trump said he’s tapping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services, potentially elevating a prominent vaccine skeptic and broader industry critic to … Read more

Billionaire LA Times owner doubles down on vow to bring balance to left-leaning paper during Fox News interview: ‘Conflated news and opinion’

The billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times said his paper has “conflated news and opinion” and doubled down on his promise to bring in more conservative voices to balance the left-leaning publication. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong — who sparked an internal revolt over his decision to kill the paper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris … Read more

Jamie Dimon says bankers ‘dancing in the street’ on hopes Trump will loosen regulations

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wall Street bankers, regardless of whom they voted for, are “dancing in the street” over President-elect Donald Trump’s win as they anticipate he will loosen stringent regulations across the industry. “A lot of bankers, they’re like dancing in the street because they’ve had successive years and years of regulations, … Read more

Review: In ‘All We Imagine as Light,’ the big-city blues yield to a sublime sisterhood

Kani Kusruti, left, and Divya Prabha in the movie “All We Imagine as Light.” (Petit Chaos) Life disappoints and, reliably, so do the movies. But then one comes along with the boldness to suggest there’s a connection in simply feeling the ache and disappointments of life with others — somehow that’s enough. The characters will … Read more

Elon Musk expands lawsuit against OpenAI, blasts ‘ill-gotten gains’ with Microsoft

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk expanded his lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, adding federal antitrust and other claims and adding OpenAI’s largest financial backer Microsoft as a defendant. Musk’s amended lawsuit, filed on Thursday night in federal court in Oakland, Calif., said Microsoft and OpenAI illegally sought to monopolize the market for generative artificial intelligence and sideline competitors. Like Musk’s original August … Read more

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