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McLaren CEO Zak Brown Still Gets FOMO About Racing Cars
When Zak Brown joined McLaren a decade ago, the future CEO wasn’t exactly signing on to a winning enterprise: Once a Formula One juggernaut, the team had slumped into irrelevance on the race track—with an internal financial crisis to match. Ten years later, the McLaren turnaround story is well known among millions of F1 fans…
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More middle-class Californians cancel health coverage after losing federal aid
Facing higher premiums and the loss of federal subsidies, 374,000 people with health insurance from the state marketplace known as Covered California canceled their coverage in the first three months of the year, according to government statistics. The cancellations amount to 19% of those who had renewed their policies on the state marketplace during open…
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Trump begs for his criminal case to be thrown out in 1AM tantrum: ‘I am an innocent man’
Just after 1 a.m. EST, Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to demand that his civil and criminal case court losses in New York be tossed based on comments made by his former lawyer during a Monday podcast. During an appearance on Michael Smerconish’s podcast, so-called Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen, who was the…
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Bass, Raman or Pratt? Three L.A. residents explain who got their vote for mayor
As the voters deliver their ballots to neighborhood drop-off sites and others wait to vote in person Tuesday, Times reporters fanned out across the city to ask residents whom they planned to support for mayor. Here is a sample of what voters said about their preferred candidate. ‘The other choices were not worth my vote’…
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The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
A right-wing think tank responsible for the emergence of zero-tolerance policing in 1990s New York City and the Trump administration’s scorched-earth campaign against “diversity, equality and inclusion” programs is behind state-level legislative efforts to classify minor protest-related crimes as “civil terrorism.” The Manhattan Institute, cofounded in 1978 by former Central Intelligence Agency director William Casey,…
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Vote count for California governor, L.A. mayor could be painfully slow. Don’t expect ‘instant gratification’
It took three weeks to call a particularly competitive 2022 U.S. House race in California’s Central Valley, the outcome coming down to a couple of hundred votes. Two years later, state Sen. Laura Richardson waited 17 days to be announced victor of a hotly contested race in South Los Angeles. That same year, an unprecedented…
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Americans don’t know how to fight AI. So they’re fighting data centers.
On its surface, the national revolt against data centers seems simple: They are a nuisance, and people do not want them in their proverbial backyards. But I haven’t been able to let go of the idea that there must be something much deeper driving the backlash against them, and few other subjects have confounded me…
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5 hiring tools that level the playing field for small business owners
We recently went through a hiring process here that just dragged on and on, during a very busy time of year. Instead of getting a fully staffed team up and running to handle the volume, we were stuck in an endless back-and-forth while waiting for a completely manual process to run its course. If you…
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How to watch new Mindy Kaling show ‘Not Suitable for Work’ for free: Cast, trailer
First, Mindy Kaling conquered high school with “Never Have I Ever,” before moving to university with “The Sex Lives of College Girls.” Now, the prolific TV screenwriter and producer is back with her take on what comes next. “Not Suitable for Work,” which Kaling created, premieres on Hulu today, June 2. Per Hulu, the comedy…
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The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation
The Trump administration is navigating internal strife as officials try to figure out whether they can resurrect the executive order about AI regulation that President Donald Trump abruptly nixed last month, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The conversations in the weeks since have been widely viewed as chaotic, by both key Silicon…