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Polygamist learns fate for ordering husband and four lovers to kidnap, torture other boyfriend
A twisted Ohio polygamist has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for ordering her husband and four of her lovers to torture another one of her boyfriends in a sick revenge plot. Martina Esqueda, 29, was slapped with the hefty sentence on Thursday after trying to claim that the lack of love she received…
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‘Sofia the First: Royal Magic’ brings back a beloved princess, along with new friends and a foe
Eight years after going off the air, “Sofia the First” is getting another opportunity to find out what being royal is all about. Disney’s first preschool princess returns for a new set of adventures in “Sofia the First: Royal Magic” premiering Monday on Disney Jr. The following day, eight episodes will stream on Disney+. The…
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More ‘rough sleepers’ on Hollywood streets as the city removes tents, bringing new challenges
The two women, mother and daughter, sat on a mattress covering half the sidewalk on the shady side of Western Avenue, still shivering in the morning chill. As volunteer Joan Howard approached, her assigned mission was to tally the two women and keep moving. She had a census tract to cover on foot before 9…
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What we see when we look into the eyes of a bird
On a cool April morning at the height of Washington, DC’s always brief spring, the science fiction novelist Ray Nayler and I found ourselves in a staring contest with the world’s heaviest flying bird. We were standing at the fenceline of the Kori bustard exhibit at Washington’s National Zoo when the largest of the already…
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Questions raised as Trump fails to stand in Oval Office address
A “Morning Joe” segment that was supposed to be about Donald Trump appearing to demur from attending the wedding of Don Trump Jr,went briefly off the rails over the 79-year-old president’s tendency to sit during his press availabilities in his second term. Co-host Mika Brzezinski was the first to bring up the “optics” of the…
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‘Kafkaesque’: One man’s struggle to build a hillside home in L.A.
Andri Luescher isn’t complaining. He’s just tired. In 2022, the architect bought a small vacant lot in the hills of Mount Washington with plans to build a modest home for his family of four. He still hasn’t broken ground. For the last few years, he’s been mired in a complex web of mounting fees and…
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Friendly fire hits Trump officials as ‘drama’ forces shutdown of Tulsi Gabbard group
A task force launched by U.S. intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to “end weaponization” has fallen apart after “drama” triggered by a memo it circulated that spread false claims — made by a January 6 rioter — against a CIA employee and a former Capitol Police officer. The group’s collapse was detailed in testimony submitted to…
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Video shows dazed ex-MLB star Trevor Bauer climb out of $600k McLaren after nasty crash: ‘Dude, what the f–k?’
Wild video shows disgraced former MLB Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer looking dazed and confused as he stepped out of his mangled, $600,000 McLaren after a scary T-bone crash this week — and immediately exclaimed, “Dude, what the f–k?” Bauer, who has not played in a Major League baseball game since 2021 after he was…
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Donald Trump’s Paint Jobs
For more than a century, the area around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has served as a staging ground for civic participation. With its grand scale but subdued character, it is a place where much of the meaning is made by the people using it: the millions of visitors who have descended upon “America’s Front…
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The paradox of Trump’s GOP
President Trump is the undisputed king of the Republican Party. Earlier this month, Trump exacted revenge on Indiana state senators who had opposed his call to redistrict the Hoosier State; his endorsees won a majority of races against incumbents. Last weekend, Trump successfully nuked Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) from political life, relegating the incumbent to…