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Ex-Redlands deputy police chief was California’s highest-paid public employee in 2025, data show
A former Redlands deputy police chief topped California’s public payroll in 2025, taking home $1.26 million in total compensation — more than the combined salaries of the mayors of Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, state compensation data show. According to the state controller’s office, the former deputy chief received $1.2 million in total…
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Love Island’s most sexual, least sexy season yet
This weekend marks the season finale of Love Island USA. The show is more popular than ever: Its eighth season generated 2.3 billion viewing minutes in its first two weeks and ranked as the No. 1 streaming series in the United States, according to preliminary Nielsen data. The premise of Love Island is straightforward(-ish): The…
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From Cleveland with love, some advice on losing LeBron
Dear Los Angeles, We heard. We’re so sorry. We’ve been there — twice. I’ve been reading your sentiments online. Half of you are mourning a maestro; the other half are muttering “good riddance.” We never had your ambivalence. In Cleveland, we worship him. You had eight years and a title in a bubble. We had…
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Does Kamala Harris really have a shot in 2028?
Two years after her whirlwind ascension to Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking about…running for president again. Not doing it — yet — but laying the groundwork in case she does. She’s done the book tour through the early states. She’s taken the meeting with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani…
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Sanctions are making Venezuela’s earthquake toll so much worse
More than 3,800 people have died in Venezuela’s June 24 double earthquake, with 16,700 injured, according to current government reports. A medical crisis has emerged for thousands of survivors, and 17,800 are homeless. There are heart-wrenching reports of people trying to dig survivors out of the rubble with their hands, with dozens of children suffering…
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Trump’s colossal week from hell leaves his brags in tatters
In one week, the linchpins of Donald Trump’s shady, shoddy brand collapsed. Epically. I’ve written before about whatever Donald Trump touches failing. This week, a soccer match, a woman’s dignity, a peace deal and a reflecting pool all came back broken, peeling or on fire — all disasters that collided at the same time. “I…
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China evacuates nearly 2M people as Typhoon Bavi barrels towards coast
China evacuated more than 1.8 million people on Saturday as Typhoon Bavi churned toward the major eastern city of Wenzhou after pummelling Japan’s southern Sakishima island chain with heavy rain and violent winds and brushing past northern Taiwan. Even as Bavi continues to slow and weaken on its northwesterly path over cooler seas, the typhoon…
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The World Cup’s Strangest Rituals Reveal How Belonging Really Works
Norway fans cheer in the stands during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group I match between Norway and France at Boston Stadium on June 26, 2026 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. —Steph Chambers—FIFA/Getty Images This World Cup, soccer fans are making a scene—and bringing people together, in the process. At Boston’s South Station in mid-June, a group…
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We Make Lovely Home-Cooked Meals for Ourselves. Why Not Do the Same for Our Dogs?
Home-cooked dog food has a more illustrious history than I could have imagined. In 1966, the ur-food writer M.F.K. Fisher reviewed cookbooks for pets in The New Yorker, and in the late ’90s, Jeffrey Steingarten chronicled the act of cooking chef Daniel Boulud’s “French Country Soup for Dogs and their Owners” for his pooch in…
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Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn’t “Massively Disrupted” Books Yet
A lot of people still seem convinced that AI will replace every job on Earth, despite the fact that the tech still struggle with simple math. As the AI hype wears increasingly thin, that gap between hype and reality is becoming impossible to ignore. The large language models making up the world’s favorite chatbots might…