The long-running criminal case against a Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019 is on the verge of coming to a close. Patrick Crusius, 26, is expected to plead guilty Monday to capital murder and receive a sentence of life in … Read more
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan S. Greenspan disclosed Wednesday he had “objected quite strongly” to a recent attempt by a Reagan Administration official to prod the Fed into reducing interest rates. He warned that further pressure could provoke the Fed into the opposite course. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Greenspan said he had … Read more
“We built an eyeball bridge for her to walk across. The smoke was filmed in a tank, and the shot was put back together as a composite,” says Shona Heath. (Searchlight Pictures) 1 Yorgos Lanthimos had a deceptively simple directive for the production design team on “Poor Things”: to make the world look like nothing … Read more
Dr. Gerald F. Jacobson, founding director of the Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center and a psychiatrist considered a pioneer in the use of crisis intervention therapy, has died at a nursing home in Los Angeles. Jacobson, who in 1962 also founded the Benjamin Rush Center in West Los Angeles–the first hospital-based walk-in clinic in … Read more
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy prepares to unlock a security door at the L.A. County Men’s Central Jail. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) A landmark law to abolish California’s money bail system has been put on hold until voters decide its fate in November 2020 after elections officials on Wednesday certified a … Read more
Model-actress Cara Delevingne in the arms of Balmain’s creative director Olivier Rousteing at the Los Angeles launch event for the Puma X Balmain collection on Thursday. (Charley Gallay / Getty Images for Puma) An army descended on Hollywood this week. However, in lieu of camo and fatigues, they sported strong-shouldered blazers, striped sweaters and slouchy … Read more
There has been little in musical history comparable to the Glenn Miller mystique. Almost 47 years after his death–he disappeared over the English Channel in December, 1944, while flying to Paris to meet his Army Air Force Orchestra–Miller remains a hero to many. A band bearing his name, its members born years after he died, … Read more
Denis Bouanga holds up his shirt while celebrating with teammates after scoring on a penalty kick and tying the Timbers at Providence Park in Portland, Ore., on Saturday. Bouanga’s undershirt reads “RIP Aaron Boupendza” in honor of the former FC Cincinnati player who died last week. (Soobum Im / Getty Images) Denis Bouanga converted a … Read more
Actress Darryl Hannah claimed that the first Trump administration pulled out tricks to “mess up” her Canadian-born husband Neil Young as the legendary musician applied for US citizenship, a new interview revealed. The “Splash” actress told the BBC that Young, now a dual Canadian-American citizen, went through a bureaucratic ordeal during the first Trump administration … Read more
Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, billed as the man with the keys to the Iran- contra scandal, weathered his first day before congressional panels Tuesday after surrendering almost no new answers to the affair. North’s testimony came as no surprise to Sen. Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.), co-chairman of the Senate Iran-contra panel. “It proves what … Read more
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