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LAUSD’s first day of school: coffee cake, new algebra books, chess and looming layoffs
Teacher Raquel Chacon put out copies of Algebra 1 workbooks for each of her seventh-graders. Justin Cole inspected school uniforms set aside for unhoused students. Florian Ospina, in the school library, made sure no chess pieces were missing. Scott Mandel steeled himself to fundraise $60,000 for a student trip to Washington, D.C. Pacoima Middle School…
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Hopeless sailors try to hurl themselves overboard amid deployment without end: report
Sailors have reportedly attempted to go overboard from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during an open-ended deployment that is now nearing nine months at sea. Annabelle Loma has spoken with her husband only a few times since he attempted to jump overboard, reported Military Times, and he’s now on medical hold and consumed by…
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Senator ‘deeply troubled’ by utility threats
The chair of the California Senate’s utilities committee said Tuesday that he was “deeply troubled” by electric company executives’ recent threats to take action to protect their shareholders if they don’t get legislation in Sacramento to limit their wildfire liabilities. In a letter to Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric, Sen. Benjamin Allen…
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‘The Masked Singer,’ ‘Traitors’ Among Emmy Winners in Juried Categories
“The Masked Singer,” “The Traitors,” “Eyes of Wakanda” and “Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal” were among the Emmy winners in the juried categories announced on Wednesday. The Television Academy’s juried categories have no nominees. Entrants are evaluated by a panel of professionals in the peer groups that pertain to each award: Animation, Costume Design, Emerging Media Programming,…
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The week’s bestselling books, August 9
Hardcover fiction 1. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf: $30) A “tradwife” influencer suddenly wakes up in the brutal world of 1855. 2. Whistler by Ann Patchett (Harper: $30) A woman reconnects with her former stepfather at the Metropolitan Museum of Art decades after a traumatic event separated them. 3. The Calamity Club by Kathryn…
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‘Real danger’: Security expert warns Trump’s of ‘scary’ handout to embattled agency
President Donald Trump’s administration is handing federal agents a “scary” new weapon to use against Americans, CNN’s Juliette Kayyem warned Wednesday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and officers could soon be outfitted with gloves capable of delivering electric shocks, which the manufacturer claims would be used to de-escalate encounters, but Kayyem told “CNN News Central”…
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Here’s how to watch ‘Reacher’ Season 4 for free: Release date, episodes
Jack Reacher is back. The first three episodes of Prime Video’s original series “Reacher” Season 4 are now available to stream, with new episodes dropping weekly through mid-September. “Reacher”s newest season is inspired by the 13th novel in Lee Child’s “Reacher” series, “Gone Tomorrow.” In the new series, the former Army Military police officer witnesses…
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Harry Jowsey actually gets married during ‘Let’s Marry Harry’ finale: This is ‘something real’
From heartbreaker to husband. Harry Jowsey married contestant Amber Mozo during the finale of his dating competition show, “Let’s Marry Harry.” Viewers watched the notorious reality star get teary eyed as his bride walked down the aisle. Jowsey and the Hawaii-based travel photographer also said emotional vows during the nuptials. Harry Jowsey got married during the…
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin spending more than $100 million fighting California wealth tax
The fight over a proposal to tax the assets of California billionaires to fund healthcare is getting more expensive. Google co-founder Sergey Brin has poured $102 million this year into Building a Better California, a group that’s funding two ballot measures that could block a billionaire tax, data from the California Secretary of State show.…
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‘Tortious injury’: Trump bid to save IRS audit deal goes off the rails in new court filing
President Donald Trump’s lawyers told a federal appeals court Tuesday the president faces “tortious injury” without a stay of a sanctions order voiding his IRS audit deal. The motion, filed Tuesday in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asks the court to pause U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’s July 13 sanctions order while Trump…