President George W. Bush shakes hands with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson after the passage of the $700-billion financial crisis bailout bill in 2008. (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press) Whatever Trump and his advisors say, I know he won’t be able to remake Washington easily and swiftly. President-elect Donald Trump is returning to the most powerful … Read more
Donald Trump participates in a Security Council briefing on counterproliferation at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2018 at U.N. headquarters in New York. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) Donald Trump was hardly a steward of responsible global governance in his first term. His withdrawal from multilateral agreements, including the Iran nuclear deal and … Read more
1/11 A long line forms in front of the Kogi Korean BBQ taco truck in Little Tokyo. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times) 2/11 The menu posted outside the Kogi Korean BBQ taco truck. Tacos are $2. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times) 3/11 Kogi was Choi’s first breakthrough success and it arguably is still … Read more
Louis Vuitton X Murakami (Louis Vuitton) If you were there, you were there. Louis Vuitton’s multicolor collaboration with Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami was everything in the mid-2000s, — iconic before iconic — and now, two decades later, it’s back. The collab’s “re-edition” includes 170 items from the house, including City Bags, Speedy Bags, eyewear, … Read more
Get your back scratched and hair brushed at this cozy ASMR massage studio in L.A. I’ve never felt weird about paying strangers to touch me. Massages, facials, martial arts — it’s all just bodywork to me. That is, until I booked my first professional back scratch with Julie Luther, the founder of Soft Touch ASMR … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, appears at the computer graphics and interactives conference SIGGRAPH 2024 in Denver. He announced major changes to Meta’s content moderation on Tuesday. (David Zalubowski / Associated Press) The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will dramatically overhaul its approach to content … Read more
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively in “It Ends With Us.” (Nicole Rivelli / Sony Pictures Entertainment) A conflict between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, the stars of the movie “It Ends With Us,” has turned into a jobs program for attorneys and flacks. Lively last month filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint with the … Read more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s healthcare nominee. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) For more than 50 years, as the economics of American healthcare and health insurance have evolved, one theory has persisted, unchanged: To promote better and more efficient medical treatment, patients must have “skin in the game.” The idea is that … Read more
Baby food for sale inside Walmart. (Jeff Greenberg / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week set maximum levels for lead in baby foods such as jarred fruits and vegetables, yogurts and dry cereal, part of an effort to cut young kids’ exposure to the toxic metal that … Read more
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday named billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett to be his senior economics advisor, in an apparent bid to add substance to a gubernatorial campaign that has been criticized for being all flash. The surprise move will give the Republican Schwarzenegger the counsel of the world’s second-richest man, a Democrat from Omaha who … Read more
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