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Small spaces surprise and shine at the 2026 Pasadena Showcase House of Design
Designers Jeanine Hattas Wilson and Julie Hattas Kennedy’s magical transformation of a 4-foot-by-4-foot storage closet at this year’s Pasadena Showcase House of Design almost feels like a metaphor for design showcases themselves: not quite real, but pure fantasy. “It was inspired by our dad, who used to read to us in Woodstock, Ill.,” Wilson says
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‘This is going to fail’: Legal expert shoots down DOJ’s ‘surefire loser’ revenge case
CNN’s Elie Honig poured cold water all over the latest federal indictment of former FBI Director Jim Comey. The Department of Justice secured a second indictment against Comey, a longtime political foe of President Donald Trump, for a social media post that prosecutors allege amounted to an assassination threat, but Honig told “CNN News Central”
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OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre
Seven families — the first wave of dozens, lawyers say — are suing OpenAI, alleging that the company failed to provide Canadian authorities with information that could’ve prevented a horrific school shooting in the rural mining town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, despite having advance knowledge of the shooter’s disturbing conversations with the chatbot. The lawsuits also
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James Conlon begins his final L.A. Opera stretch as music director with a mission
James Conlon has begun his long goodbye as music director of Los Angeles Opera, and he does so by boasting big numbers. Twenty seasons with the company (half its history). More than 500 performances of 70 different operas at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and occasional neighboring venues, such as the Cathedral of Our Lady of
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House Republicans in freefall as infighting make major priority ‘destined to fail’: report
Amid a convergence of challenges this week, House Republicans have become “the epitome of discord and dysfunction” as a major priority appears “destined to fail,” Punchbowl News reported Wednesday, making the House GOP “look like amateurs” and putting them in a particularly difficult spot. “There’s constant grumbling inside House Republican leadership circles as people snipe
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Sicko walks through quiet Rhode Island town in KKK robes: ‘That’s a whole different level of racism’
Disturbing video shows someone dressed in hateful Ku Klux Klan robes sauntering through the center of a quiet Rhode Island town in the middle of the night. The hooded figure was filmed slowly walking alone around 2 a.m. Monday night down Main Street in West Warwick, where police now say they are investigating, according to
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Trump Claims King ‘Agrees’ Iran Shouldn’t Have Nuclear Weapon. Here’s Buckingham Palace’s Response
King Charles III speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a state dinner in the East Room of the White House on April 28, 2026. —Andrew Harnik—Getty Images President Donald Trump claimed King Charles III “agrees” that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon during a state banquet at the White House. “We’re
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Embattled homeless services agency faces greater control from city of Los Angeles
For more than a decade, Los Angeles County’s response to the exploding humanitarian crisis on its streets has been guided by a 33-year-old joint powers authority that collects millions from the county, city and federal and state governments and uses the funds to administer homeless programs such as shelters, permanent housing and outreach. But after
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Why famous people want to be death doulas
Nicole Kidman is getting a new job. The actress already dominates TV and film, pulling in tens of millions of dollars a year for roles in hits like Nine Perfect Strangers and Babygirl. Her new gig is less glamorous, way less lucrative, and maybe more necessary: She’s training to be a death doula. Death doulas,
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‘The government has a real problem’ in prosecuting would-be Trump assassin: ex-US Attorney
The case against the man who burst through security at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner to attack Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet may not be as cut and dried as the Justice Department is making it out to be. Appearing on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” former US Attorney Joyce Vance claimed that