Snap announced plans to give top Snapchat creators more ways to make money on the social media app. Above, a sign adorns the New York Stock Exchange in 2017. (Drew Angerer) Top Snapchat creators will soon have more ways to make money on the social media app. The Santa Monica company introduced an expanded monetization … Read more
Camp crewmembers hike up a steep hillside as they battle the Franklin fire on Tuesday in Malibu. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) A revolution is underway in California’s insurance market that could provide relief to homeowners in high-fire-risk neighborhoods who have found it difficult to find insurers to cover their homes, typically a household’s … Read more
Works by authors Ernest Hemingway, left, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck will become public domain in 2025. (Associated Press) Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on … Read more
“Do you think people can change?” asks the teenaged son of a murdered sicario in “Sujo,” the blistering, yet cautiously hopeful social drama that’s currently Mexico’s Oscar entry for best international feature film. The boy’s earnestly vulnerable query, posed to a university professor who’s taken a genuine interest in him, encapsulates the complicated sentiments of … Read more
Kieran Culkin joked that he once landed a role because of how well he mimed a blow job during an audition. The “Succession” star, 42, recalled the intimate details of the casting on the Dec. 13 episode of “The Graham Norton Show.” Appearing alongside actors Daniel Craig, 56, Nicola Coughlan, 37, and his “A Real … Read more
The New York Stock Exchange is shown behind the statue titled “Fearless Girl” on Dec. 12, 2024. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / Associated Press) U.S. stock indexes drifted amid mixed trading Monday ahead of this week’s meeting by the Federal Reserve that could set Wall Street’s direction into next year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index … Read more
¡Feliz Navidad! The 24 best Christmas songs en Español In some parts of Latin America, Christmas season is synonymous with Tamalada season; in others, it’s Coquito season. But in most of the region, it’s Midnight Mass season, Fashion-Show-in-La-Sala season or Answer-Probing-Questions-From-Your-Tití season. No matter what you call it, every Christmas season deserves a soundtrack that … Read more
Taylor Swift politely scolded one of her team members once again. The Grammy winner stuck up for her fans as they recorded her visit to Children’s Mercy Kansas City hospital on Thursday after one of her team members told them to stop. A video posted on Facebook captured Swift walking through the halls with her … Read more
A 73-year-old Seattle-area grandmother was duped into sending at least $20,000 by a scam artist posing as MSNBC anchor Ari Melber. Patricia Taylor, a former Boeing employee and an avid watcher of the Comcast-owned cable news channel, began a months-long dialogue on Facebook earlier this year with someone pretending to be Melber, the Emmy-winning journalist … Read more
Delivery vans leave Amazon warehouse facility in Hawthorne. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times) For years, Amazon has faced accusations that the pressure the company puts on its warehouse workers to work more quickly has led to higher rates of injuries. Now, an investigation by a U.S. Senate committee led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has found … Read more
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