Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie won’t be at the royal family’s Christmas celebration this year. The siblings made the rare decision to skip the annual holiday gathering hosted by King Charles III at his Sandringham estate, according to multipleoutlets. Instead, Beatrice, 36, and Eugenie, 34, will both spend Christmas with their respective in-laws. 7Princess Beatrice … Read more
(Los Angeles Times) Hardcover fiction 1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Grove Press: $20) During the 1985 Christmas season, a coal merchant in an Irish village makes a troubling discovery. 3. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Farrar, Straus … Read more
‘Tis the damn season for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to spend Christmas together. The Kansas City Chiefs player revealed his holiday plans on Wednesday’s “New Heights” podcast episode. The athlete, 35, will play the Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium. 9Travis Kelce revealed his Christmas plans on “New Heights” Wednesday. AP 9His team, the Kansas … Read more
The US government is weighing a ban on a popular brand of Chinese-made home-internet routers over fears that their links to cyberattacks pose a national security risk, according to a report. TP-Link, the manufacturer of high-speed cable modems, routers, range extenders and smart home devices that has grabbed a 65% market share in the United … Read more
After 89-year-old mom is pushed out of apartment, daughter adds accessible ADU About 10 years ago, Julie Zemel started worrying about her mother, Mimi, who lived alone in an apartment in Chicago and often was stuck indoors for months due to the weather. “It was clear she was becoming increasingly fragile, physically and socially isolated, … Read more
Looking back at the absolutely unexpected and totally wild origin of 420 What do the Point Reyes lighthouse, French chemist Louis Pasteur and the Grateful Dead all have in common? Well, they’re all part of the origin story of how 420 methodically worked its way from a secret code to mainstream weed lingo. In 1971, … Read more
The Chesterfield Square Animal Services Center in Los Angeles has not been able to place animals in new homes at a sufficient rate. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Life in an animal shelter for dogs and cats and other creatures that have the misfortune to end up there is never great. They can languish … Read more
An airplane approaches LAX above a view of the Hollywood sign in 2020. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) As an L.A. native and a professional traveler, I know getting a ride to LAX is rarely fun. But even I was tested in summer 2023 after an Uber and then a Lyft canceled on … Read more
Kyle Richards defended not rushing to discuss divorce with estranged husband Mauricio Umansky. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star told “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” viewers Tuesday why a conversation about legally ending their union has yet to “come up.” Andy Cohen expressed his doubts that the subject “hasn’t come up yet” … Read more
Megan Thee Stallion asked a court on Tuesday to issue a restraining order against Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from prison through surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for shooting her in the feet. The petition filed by the hip-hop star in Los Angeles Superior Court asks the judge to prevent … Read more
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