Breaking down how March Madness Selection Sunday will play out

It’s Christmas for college basketball fans. March Madness has officially arrived — Selection Sunday is here. It has been a fascinating and fantastic season that figures to crown a new champion after Connecticut repeated last April. Early Sunday evening, we will have a bracket, 68 teams all vying to be the last one standing in … Read more

Letters to the Editor: With a population close to California’s, annexing Canada would swing the U.S. left

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, seen in Ottawa, shortly before taking office. (Sean Kilpatrick / Associated Press) To the editor: President Trump didn’t think things through regarding the takeover of Canada. With slightly more people than California, Canada would have, by one estimate, 47 Electoral College votes. Bring in liberals with Canada’s national Pharmacare and … Read more

Ousted Donatella Versace a ‘scapegoat’ as owner allegedly wants to sell brand to Prada — and can’t use family name: sources

Donatella Versace (with Jennifer Lopez, left) can’t use her family name – or design clothes – in any new brand, after stepping down from the helm of Versace. Getty Images Partying on the night of the Academy Awards earlier this month, Donatella Versace was as golden and burnished as Oscar himself. The diminutive blonde made … Read more

How the global wind-power industry is losing steam

On Jan. 20, Donald Trump’s first day in office, the president wasted no time delivering a death knell to the offshore wind industry.  He signed an executive order that stopped all new approvals, and renewals, of wind energy projects on federal lands and waters, citing “consequences of which may lead to grave harm — including … Read more

White House preparing for government shutdown as House Republicans lack a viable endgame for funding

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill on Friday. (Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press) The White House was preparing Friday to direct federal agencies to get ready for a shutdown after House Republicans left town for the weekend with no viable plan to keep the government funded and avert a politically … Read more

One year of legal pot sales and California doesn’t have the bustling industry it expected. Here’s why

Leonardo Catalan smells different options of cannabis before making a decision to purchase at Delta-9 THC in Wilmington. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) When Californians voted in 2016 to allow the sale of recreational marijuana, advocates of the move envisioned thousands of pot shops and cannabis farms obtaining state licenses, making the drug easily … Read more

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