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Tell us: How much did you spend on Olympics tickets?
When tickets for the 2028 L.A. Olympics dropped earlier this month for locals, emotions around town quickly moved from pure excitement to shock and confusion. Prices have been all over the place. A seat at the opening ceremony ranges from $329 to $5,519, The Times reported. Tickets for sessions similarly run the gamut. Some prices
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House defies Trump on immigration policy as GOP ranks splinter
A small group of defectors in the House Republican caucus broke ranks and joined Democrats to advance a rebuke of President Donald Trump on a key immigration policy this week, handing the president a humiliation and a danger sign for his coalition’s strength. According to The Daily Beast, “The bill, co-introduced by Democrat Rep. Laura
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This Long Beach startup says it has a patch for California’s power problems
Many companies in California struggle to get enough electricity to power their growing businesses. One Long Beach startup just raised $26 million for what it says is a quick fix for that problem. There are limits on how much power each company can draw from the public power grid so fast-growing industries can’t just crank
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Hegseth uses fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction in Pentagon prayer service: report
Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth has delivered a falsified Bible verse to a Pentagon congregation. Hegseth had previously been accused of alienating military chaplains by weaponizing Christianity to justify the Iran war and creating an atmosphere of fear for those who refused to comply with his ideological demands. At a previous Pentagon prayer service,
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Be as Self-Righteous as Thoreau
One afternoon in the summer of 1846, Henry David Thoreau left his hut near Walden Pond and walked into town to pick up a shoe he was having mended. He was stopped by the local tax collector, who nudged him for the umpteenth time about paying his poll tax—the dollar and a half that every
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S.A. Cosby is the king of Southern noir — and he’s coming to town
When the king of Southern noir, S.A. Cosby, sent out his debut novel, “My Darkest Prayer,” it was rejected again and again. “One of the editors said, ‘I just don’t believe this level of violence and intensity exists in rural areas,’” Cosby tells me with a laugh. “I was like, I grew up here. If
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‘Bleeding’ Trump walking into buzzsaw as he heads to city harmed by his policies: Politico
President Donald Trump will travel to Nevada on Thursday to highlight his “no tax on tips” policy, one of his signature economic initiatives aimed at supporting the state’s working-class voters ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The event in downtown Las Vegas represents an attempt to reset the affordability narrative following the Iran conflict and
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Paying for a funeral would force more than half of Americans into debt: study
A funeral is one of the few costs in life that’s guaranteed – but more than half of Americans admitted they would be forced to borrow money to afford a burial service, according to a new survey. Some 58% of US adults said they would need to take on debt to pay for a single
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‘Bullied’ Meghan Markle dubs herself ‘the most trolled person in the entire world’
Meghan Markle referred to herself as “the most trolled person in the entire world” on day three of her and Prince Harry’s Australia tour. The Sussexes visited Batyr, an Australian youth mental health organization, at Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Melbourne, on Thursday and spoke to students about relentless online bullying. “Every day for
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Man arrested near Trump golf course with ‘Joker’ rifle and bulletproof vest
A man armed with a rifle that bore phrases from the Batman villain “The Joker” is facing felony firearms charges after he was seen running in traffic near the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, sheriff’s officials said. Sean Steiner, 36, of Glendale, Ariz., was charged this month with possession of an assault