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High school volleyball: Boys’ playoff results and pairings
CITY SECTION Monday’s Results FIRST ROUND DIVISION I Taft d. LA Roosevelt, 25-17, 25-17, 25-17 East Valley d. Harbor Teacher, 17-25, 25-17, 25-21, 25-19 VAAS d. El Camino Real, 25-19, 25-17, 25-19 North Hollywood d. Van Nuys, 28-30, 25-18, 25-23, 26-24 Vaughn d. Sun Valley Poly, 3-0 Larchmont d. Verdugo Hills, 25-17, 25-17, 25-12 Sylmar…
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‘Significant sign’: Reporter floored as first domino falls in Trump’s bid to upend Indiana
CNN commentators flagged the loss of an established Republican congressman to a Trump-backed contender during primaries on Tuesday as a “significant sign” of who’s the boss in the GOP. The race for an Indiana state senate seat was called in favor of Blake Fiechter on Tuesday. Trump threw his support behind Fiechter, a real estate…
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‘Wall Street Whiz Kid’ pleads to stock scams enabled by projections of Hollywood glitz
David Bloom — a twice-convicted con man known as the “Wall Street Whiz Kid” — pleaded no contest Tuesday to multiple counts of grand theft and securities fraud in Los Angeles. Bloom spent years using a historic Hollywood apartment complex and a near century-old L.A. bar to find new marks on the West Coast, authorities…
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‘It is a debacle’: Mary Trump warns uncle about to set off ‘catastrophic’ crisis
President Donald Trump’s niece on Tuesday flagged a potentially catastrophic consequence of his war with Iran. Mary Trump, a psychologist and author, argued in a new Substack essay that the disruptions to the global fertilizer market caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will have a much more devastating impact on the world…
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Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions Lays Off 3 Staffers
Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions has laid off 3 staffers from the development team, TheWrap has learned. The company will maintain a staff of four. According to the Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the news, “Peele wants to be take a more hands-on involvement in the development of projects.” Since the 2017 release of his breakout…
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FBI Director Kash Patel calls out Nancy Guthrie sheriff over handling of DNA: ‘We would have analyzed it within days’
FBI Director Kash Patel blasted the Arizona sheriff leading the fruitless investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s kidnapping for bungling DNA evidence and shutting the federal agency out of the high-profile probe. Patel called out embattled Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos for sidelining the FBI after the 84-year-old vanished from her Tucson home, claiming he waved off…
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Pope Leo poses huge problem for far-right Christians who ’embraced a moral filth’: expert
Pope Leo XIV poses a huge problem to far-right Christian elements who have fallen in with the MAGA movement, University of Pennsylvania religious studies professor Anthea Butler told MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday — not just because he opposes much of Trump’s war and immigration agenda, but because he sets an example for Christianity…
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Helena Bonham Carter exited ‘The White Lotus’ after this demand from Mike White: report
Helena Bonham Carter and Mike White’s disagreement about her acting performance reportedly had her checking out of “The White Lotus.” The actress, 59, suddenly exited the hit HBO show nine days after production kicked off in France for Season 4. Variety reported Monday that Carter had “creative differences” with White — the creator and director…
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White House will do ‘everything in its power’ to oust two Supreme Court justices: expert
The White House will try to pressure two Supreme Court justices to leave the bench and make way for long-term conservative replacements before the midterms, a legal expert predicted. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alitoshould expect the Trump and the executive branch to “do everything in its power to entice them off the bench,” Sarah…
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Defiant MAGA Republican uncorks vulgar retort as salacious accusations mount
An embattled MAGA Republican on Tuesday uncorked a vulgar response to the mounting misconduct accusations against him, according to a new report. Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) has been accused by multiple female staffers of making unwanted advances and singling some of them out for special attention, despite Edwards being married. The House Ethics Committee is…