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A fence might deter MacArthur Park crime and homelessness, but is it enough?
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My first reaction, when I heard about the proposed $2.3-million fence around MacArthur Park, was skepticism. Yeah, the park and the immediate neighborhood have long dealt with a nasty web of urban nightmares, including homelessness, crime and a rather astonishing open-air drug scene, all of which I spent a few months looking into not long ago. But what would a fence accomplish? Well, after looking into it, maybe it’s not the worst idea. Skepticism, I should note, is generally a fallback position for me. It’s something of an occupational duty, and how can you not be cynical about promises and plans in Los Angeles, where each time you open the newspaper, you have to scratch your head? I’m still having trouble understanding how county supervisors approved another $828 million in child sexual abuse payments, on top of an earlier settlement this year of $4 billion, even after Times reporter Rebecca Ellis found nine cases in which people said they were told to fabricate abuse allegations. The same supes, while wrestling with a budget crisis, agreed to pay $2 million to appease the county’s chief executive officer because she felt wronged by a ballot measure proposing that the job be an elected rather than appointed post. Scratching your head doesn’t help in this case; you’re tempted instead to bang it into a wall. Or maybe a $2.3-million fence. The city of L.A. is primarily responsible for taking on the problems of MacArthur Park, although the county has a role too in the areas of housing, public health and addiction services. I made two visits to the area in the last week, and while there are signs of progress and slightly less of a sense of chaos — the children’s playground hit last year by an arsonist has been fully rebuilt — there’s a long way to go. In a story about the fence by my colleague Nathan Solis, one service provider said it would further criminalize homelessness and another said the money “could be better used by funding ... services to the people in the park, rather than just moving them out.” The vast majority of people who spoke at the Oct. 16 meeting of the Recreation and Parks Commission, which voted unanimously to move forward with the fence, were adamantly opposed despite claims that enclosing the space would be a step toward upgrading and making the park more welcoming. “Nothing is more unwelcoming than a fence around a public space,” one critic said. “A fence can not solve homelessness,” another said. Others argued that locking up the park, which is surrounded by a predominantly immigrant community, recalls the ridiculous stunt that played out in June, when President Trump's uniformed posse showed up in armored vehicles and on horseback in what looked like an all-out invasion of Westlake. But another speaker, Raul Claros — who is running against Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez in the 1st District — said he’d spoken to residents and merchants who support the fence, as long as it’s part of a greater effort to address the community’s needs. Claros said he has three questions: “What’s the plan? What’s the timeline? Who’s in charge?” Hernandez, by the way, is not opposed to the fence. A staffer told me there’s a fence around nearby Lafayette Park. Other fenced parks in Los Angeles include Robert Burns Park, adjacent to Hancock Park, and the L.A. State Historic Park on the edge of Chinatown, which is locked at sunset. As for the long-range plan, the Hernandez staffer said the councilwoman has secured and is investing millions of dollars in what she calls a care-first approach that aims to address drug addiction and homelessness in and around the park. Eduardo Aguirre, who lives a couple of blocks from the park and serves on the West Pico Neighborhood Council, told me he’s OK with the fence but worried about the possible consequences. If the people who use the park at night or sleep there are forced out, he said, where will they go? “To the streets? To the alleys? You know what’s going to happen. It’s a game,” Aguirre said. Last fall I walked with Aguirre and his wife as they led their daughter to her elementary school. They often have to step around homeless people and past areas where dealing and drug use, along with violence, are anything but infrequent. Families and others should be able to feel safe in the park and the neighborhood, said Norm Langer, owner of the iconic Langer’s deli on the edge of the park. “I completely understand why you’re skeptical,” Langer told me, but he said he’s seen improvements in the last year, particularly after fences were installed along Alvarado Street and vendors were shut down. Police say some of the vendors were involved in the drug trade and the resale of stolen merchandise. “The point isn’t to limit access,” Langer said. “The fence is intended to improve safety and quality of life for the people who live, work, and spend time here. It gives park staff a fighting chance to maintain and restore the place, especially at night, when they can finally clean and repair without the constant chaos that made upkeep nearly impossible before.” LAPD Capt. Ben Fernandes of the Rampart division told me police are “trying to make it not OK” to buy and use drugs along the Alvarado corridor. Drug users often gather in the northeast corner of the park, Fernandes said, and he thinks putting up a fence and keeping the park off limits at night will help “deflect” some of “the open-air usage.” The park has a nice soccer field and a lovely bandstand, among other popular attractions, but many parents told me they’re reluctant to visit with their children because of safety concerns. If a fence helps bring back families, many of whom live in apartments and have no yards, that’s a good thing. But as the city goes to work on design issues, questions about enforcement, opening and closing times and other details, it needs to keep in mind that all of that is the easy part. It took an unforgivably long time for L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and other elected officials to acknowledge a social, economic and humanitarian crisis in a place that’s home to thousands of low-income working people. The neighborhood needs much more than a fence. [email protected]
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Views are mixed about installing a fence around L.A.'s MacArthur Park, which has been the scene of violence, drug use and homelessness.
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Oronde Gadsden II one of the NFL’s biggest surprises? Not to those who know him best
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Tre’ Harris watched as Oronde Gadsden II burst by him, the 6-foot-5 tight end chugging over the turf at Golden West College’s football field. Months before Harris and Gadsden suited up as Chargers rookies, the duo were catching passes from Jaxson Dart — now the starting quarterback for the New York Giants — during pre-NFL Scouting Combine training sessions at the Huntington Beach community college as the trio took advantage of sunny weather in Southern California. “I saw his talents immediately,” Dart said of Gadsden. “Skill set-wise, I thought he was a very unique athlete, being, you know, the stature that he is. I thought his footwork was some of the best that I've seen.” Over the past two weeks, the footwork that Harris said separates Gadsden from the rest of the NFL, has been on display. Gadsden, 22, ranks fifth in NFL tight end receiving yards this season (385) despite not playing in the first two games. Two weeks ago, against the Colts, the son of former NFL wide receiver Oronde Gadsden emerged for 164 receiving yards and a touchdown. Against the Vikings last week, the former Syracuse standout, who set the program record for receptions in a season with 73 catches, recorded another 77 receiving yards and a touchdown. Those accomplishments — which he credits to studying the likes of Chargers teammates Keenan Allen and Will Dissly — earned Gadsden earned NFL Rookie of the Week honors in Week 7, the first Charger to claim the award since Asante Samuel Jr. did it twice in 2021. “It's been good, getting in passes with Justin [Herbert], whether it's a practice, and then following up in the game,” Gadsden said. “It feels good to see all the hard work that I've been doing, all the hard work that the whole team has been doing, come forward and translate into the game.” Jim Harbaugh can’t help but smile when talking about Gadsden. Asked about the Chargers' rookies — and the efforts they've put in to keep the team afloat amid a rash of injuries — the usually stoic Chargers coach remarked about how wide his grin was before slamming his hands down onto the podium in front of him. “I mean, Oronde Gadsden,” he said, “of course, has been great.” Herbert added: “It was only a matter of time until he put together two games like he has back-to-back, and he's gonna make a ton of plays for us. He's gonna have a super long career.” Gadsden had his first opportunity to relax during the mini bye week in the 10-day gap between the Chargers' win over the Vikings and their game against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. He said it’s been non-stop football for him since the beginning of his senior year at Syracuse; from the college season to pre-draft training, rookie mini camp, and now the NFL season. For the first time since those training sessions at Golden West, Gadsden decided to visit Disneyland. It was a rare break for Gadsden since his daily pre-draft days working alongside trainer T.J. Houshmandzadeh, the former Pro Bowl wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. What makes Gadsden a special player, Harris said, is his never-stop attitude. During minicamp, Gadsden would arrive at the facility at 5 a.m. — using his East Coast-wired clock to his advantage to get extra work in. “I'm not gonna say I knew he was gonna do this,” Harris said of Gadsden’s recent success, before pausing. “There's not a lot of tight ends that can move like he does. And, you know, I've seen it firsthand.”
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Prep talk: Quarterback Luke Fahey passes for school-record 569 yards
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The senior season being put together by quarterback Luke Fahey of Mission Viejo High can be described as nothing less than sensational. In his latest performance on Thursday night against Los Alamitos, the Ohio State commit passed for a school-record 570 yards in a 76-49 victory. According to Mission Viejo's official statistics, he completed 24 of 31 passes for 569 yards and five touchdowns with one interception. He has led Mission Viejo (9-1) to wins over six teams that have been ranked in the state's top 25 going into the release of Sunday's Southern Section playoff pairings. Mission Viejo will be part of the Division 1 playoffs that are expected to have an eight-team field. Receiver Jack Junker was Fahey's favorite target on Thursday, catching 10 passes for 299 yards and three touchdowns. On the season after 10 games, Fahey has completed 75% of his passes for 3,108 yards and 25 touchdowns with just two interceptions. He has turned in MVP performances for much of the 2025 season. This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email [email protected].
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Luke Fahey of Mission Viejo High set a school record on Thursday night with 569 yards passing in a 76-49 victory over Los Alamitos.
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Warning to rest of NFL: Davante Adams-Matthew Stafford attack heating up for Rams
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As a 12th-year pro, Davante Adams knows the value of rest during a bye week. So before the Rams played the Jacksonville Jaguars in London on Oct. 19, Adams looked forward to days off that awaited. Then Adams, flashing his three-time All-Pro form, caught three touchdown passes. Was there any part of him that did not want a break? “Oh, hell yeah,” Adams said this week, noting that he told coach Sean McVay, “‘I wish we could keep rolling at this point.’” So did McVay. “He’s like, ‘Man, I don’t want to have a week off,’” McVay recalled. “I said, ‘Hey, just enjoy it.’” Adams, rested and ready after spending part of last week in Mexico with family, intends to pick up where he left off two weeks ago when the Rams play host to the New Orleans Saints at SoFi Stadium. The game will mark the return of fellow star receiver Puka Nacua, who sat out against the Jaguars because of an ankle injury suffered Oct. 12 against the Baltimore Ravens. But the Rams will be without speedy receiver Tutu Atwell, who will be sidelined for at least four games on injured reserve because of a hamstring injury. McVay and quarterback Matthew Stafford showed against the Jaguars that the Rams' weapons go beyond Nacua and Adams. Four tight ends — Tyler Higbee, Colby Parkinson, Davis Allen and rookie Terrance Ferguson — were among the 10 players who caught passes in the 35-7 victory that improved the Rams record to 5-2. “The more people we can get involved in the game, the better we are,” said Stafford, who has passed for 17 touchdowns, with only two interceptions. “We have a couple of extremely talented players, quite a few that are difference-makers in this league. When we can spread the ball around and make everybody defend all the guys, all the eligibles, every blade of grass, that's when we're at our best.” The Rams signed Adams aiming to capitalize on his experience and playmaking, his elite separation skills and the threat he poses near the goal line. Stafford, 37, and Adams, 32, combined for a few highlight-reel plays in the first six games. But they acknowledged in the week leading up to the game against the Jaguars that they were still working to get completely in sync. They found their rhythm against the Jaguars. Adams made dynamic catches from inside the two-yard line for all of his touchdowns. Offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur said the Rams “absolutely” envisioned those kinds of plays when they pursued Adams, who has 109 career touchdown catches, the most among active players. “There’s a reason he has over a hundred touchdowns,” LaFleur said, adding, “It’s not shocking.” Did the Rams find something they can build on? “Yeah, we'll see what the red-zone targets look like this week and then we'll be able to fully tell you,” Adams said, chuckling. “But definitely it's not a secret that I've been able to make plays in the red zone. “I think a lot of it was just getting on the same page, us feeling each other out and coming up with a good plan. The coaches did that and we were able to connect. “I think the more you make plays, the more you build that confidence and then you stop straining and pressing to make plays and you just be yourself and go out there and be natural.” Adams has 31 catches for 431 yards and six touchdowns. With Stafford and Adams continuing to solidify their connection, the offense is poised to remain productive as the Rams drive toward a playoff spot. “Me being who I am and Matthew being who he is and just having the team that we do, my expectations are really high and standards are really high for what I should bring and what this team should be able to do,” Adams said. “I’m definitely not satisfied with what we've done, but happy with where we are.”
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As the Rams prepare to face the Saints, Davante Adams and Matthew Stafford seem to be on the cusp of achieving great things in the passing offense.
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How UCLA’s Mick Cronin lured Donovan Dent in pursuit of a banner season
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Here he was, the top point guard in the transfer portal, and Donovan Dent was being told what he couldn’t do. Pleasantries weren’t the point of the conference call with Mick Cronin. The UCLA basketball coach asked the player who could help his team contend for a national title about his plans after college. That was easy enough. Dent told Cronin that he wanted to play in the NBA. OK, Cronin responded, let’s say you’re playing the Lakers tomorrow. Who would you guard? It couldn’t be their primary ballhandlers, Luka Doncic and LeBron James, because they’re 6 feet 6 and 6-9, respectively, while Dent is only 6-2. So who do you guard next? Continuing down the roster, Cronin got to Austin Reaves, the 6-5 dynamo. “Cronin’s like, well, you're not a good enough defender to guard him,” said Josh Giles, who was on the call last spring as an advisor to Dent after having coached him at Corona Centennial High. “And so he's like, that's your biggest issue is you’ve got to be a better defender.” Cronin went on to tell Dent that if he hollered at him about defense in practice, he would be doing his job to help him play in the NBA. This was a different approach than that of most coaches pursuing the honorable mention All-American from New Mexico. They were known for being positive and taking it easy on their star players, rarely challenging them. Having already coached five high-level prospects who went on to play for Cronin, Giles was something of an expert on his UCLA counterpart. Giles cursed and yelled but was probably closer in temperament to the agreeable coaches than he was to Cronin. Making sure Dent understood what he would be signing up for if he transferred to UCLA, Giles reiterated after the call ended that he would be held accountable, that he would be called out if he faltered. “Well,” Dent responded, having been sold, “maybe that’s exactly what I need.” His talent reveals itself in so many ways. During UCLA’s first exhibition game, with a large lead having uncomfortably dwindled, Dent used a burst of speed to get to the rim on multiple late possessions. He made a layup or drew a foul each time, sinking every free throw to help his team prevail. During the Bruins’ second exhibition game, playing only the first half of a 30-point blowout, Dent made an array of floating jumpers and logged eight assists to go with one turnover and one steal. Exceeding his statistics were the raves he drew from teammates afterward. Said forward Tyler Bilodeau: “He can break down any defense.” Said guard Skyy Clark: “He makes life a lot easier, for sure.” Perhaps most pleased was the coach who told Dent that he wanted to retain the offensive brilliance he had shown at New Mexico while cutting down on turnovers and tightening up on defense. “I mean, I love that he kept it real,” Dent said of Cronin’s conference call. “Like, he didn't sugarcoat, he didn't try to kiss my you-know-what for me to come here. He just kept it real. He’s like, ‘I'm gonna coach you. We gotta work on your defense if you wanna get to the next step that you wanna go. You can't have no more silly one-hand pass turnovers.’” Growing up in Riverside, Dent developed a deep appreciation for the UCLA point guards who preceded him. He admired Russell Westbrook, Jaylen Hands, Jrue Holiday and Tyger Campbell but modeled his game most after the free-and-fast style of Lonzo Ball. “That’s kind of how I like to play,” Dent said. “I like to get to the rim and play a lot at a fast pace and just move around a little bit and get my teammates involved.” There was another lure to putting on a UCLA jersey besides tradition and tough coaching. A close family member is battling a serious illness, giving Dent additional reason to battle traffic for weekend commutes home to the Inland Empire. “I'm not gonna smoke too much of it out there because, like, that’s my inner circle stuff,” Dent said of the situation, “but that was the only reason I didn’t go to Big Ten media day. I had to be around my family for an important moment. We’re still kind of going through it, so still trying to figure it out. “We're praying right now. It's been great for us and it’s definitely trending more in the upward direction, so we’re just hoping it stays that way.” Dent’s former high school teammate knew where the conversation was headed when a reporter inquired about “the pass.” “The one-handed pass?” asked Eric Freeny, now Dent’s college teammate. That’s right. That one. During a high school championship game against Harvard-Westlake, Dent’s teammate grabbed a rebound and threw him an outlet pass near the left sideline above the three-point line in the backcourt. The pass was behind Dent, so he had to reach back with his right hand, his back turned toward the basket on the far end of the court. In one motion, Dent spun around and hurled a bounce pass between two defenders as if throwing a baseball, hitting Freeny in stride for a layup. Standing in front of the Centennial bench, Giles turned toward his assistant coaches. “That’s the best pass I’ve ever seen,” the veteran coach told them. Nearly four years later, in a nod to Dent’s passing wizardry, Freeny conceded only that the pass was among Dent’s top five. “I just know that’s not the No. 1,” Freeny said with a chuckle. “He’s just a great point guard. He sees everything. He’s got eyes behind his head, he knows where all the spots are.” In another playoff game, against Sierra Canyon, Giles asked his point guard to be more of a scorer than a facilitator. Known for extraordinary speed with the ball in his hands, Dent was given a mandate whenever a certain defender tried to stop him. “It was like, ‘Donny, just go by him,’” Giles said of a plan that led to Dent scoring 18 points during an unexpected blowout. Dent won a state championship but might have suffered from having too much talent on his team. With recruiters fixated on fellow guards Jared McCain and Kylan Boswell, Dent was largely overlooked. Cronin admired Dent’s talent but didn’t need another point guard with Dylan Andrews set to arrive in Westwood, so he encouraged close friend Richard Pitino, the coach at New Mexico, to recruit him. “Everybody was looking at certain guys,” Giles said of the college coaches, “and I'm like, ‘Hey, this guy right here, I'm not so sure he can't be the best of everybody. Don't sleep on this guy right here.’ ” Cronin’s recruiting tip proved to be a good one. Dent became a star by the end of his three years at New Mexico. In his final season with the Lobos, Dent showed the Bruins what they were missing. Continually getting to the rim and finding his teammates with passes for easy baskets, Dent helped New Mexico beat UCLA last November. He went on to become the first NCAA player with 600 points and 200 assists in the same season since Ja Morant at Murray State in 2018-19. Yet Dent’s heavy usage came with a downside. His turnovers ticked upward — he had nine alone in the victory over the Bruins — and his defense slipped from where it had been in high school. “It's funny, all these guys, once they start learning how to score a little bit,” Giles said, “that defense kind of drops sometimes, and now that Donnie can score it a little bit, he's not necessarily the same defender.” Thus the conference call from Cronin, who needed a new point guard last spring after Andrews transferred to Boise State. The coach didn’t want to change everything about Dent. Like his new top player, Cronin was suddenly feeling the need for speed as part of a stylistic makeover. “We’re getting up the court really fast right now,” said Clark, Dent’s new backcourt sidekick. “I love the way we’re playing.” Playing alongside a strong supporting cast that includes Clark, Bilodeau and Eric Dailey Jr. — who averaged a combined 33.4 points last season — should reduce the burden on Dent to make every play. “What I tell him, on this team, he does not need to be Superman,” Cronin said. “I think there’s times because he had to do it at times last year for his team, he had to kind of try to put the cape on, and there will be times maybe he has to do that here.” If all goes well, those opportunities will extend into early April. Just as Cronin told Dent on that conference call that he wouldn’t bring him to UCLA to lose in the second round of the NCAA tournament — as both of their teams had last spring — Dent told his new coach that he wanted a chance to play in the Final Four. They ended the call in lockstep. The point guard was coming home after what felt more like an affirmation than a recruitment. “It was more, like, ‘Hold on a second,’” Cronin said. “ ‘Let me tell you how this is gonna go before you say yes.’”
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Man serving life in prison admits to three cold case murders, police say
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Almost two decades after a series of slayings in Long Beach, authorities say they have identified a suspect: A man already serving multiple life sentences for murder and attempted murder. The suspect, Glenn Cox, 39, is incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in the San Joaquin Valley, the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement. He was booked on three additional counts of murder and attempted murder, as well as two lesser offenses related to alleged weapons possession, the statement said. Authorities say Cox confessed his involvement in the murders to staff at Avenal in December 2023, prompting Long Beach police to investigate. The department claimed to have found corroborating evidence, but did not elaborate. Cox was allegedly the gunman in a December 2004 shooting that left two dead and hospitalized two others, according to authorities, as well as a shooting in February 2007 that killed one. Authorities say Cox also confessed to being involved in an August 2007 shooting that wounded one man, the police statement said. Long Beach police said the shootings are thought to be gang-related. Officials from the department have presented the cases to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office for filing consideration.
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The suspect, Glenn Cox, 39, is incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in the San Joaquin Valley, the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement.
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9 Antimicrobial Sheets to Upgrade Your Bedroom and Help You Sleep Better
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LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links. You’ve got your nightly routine down: wash your face, apply your products, brush your teeth, maybe sip some magnesium. But what about your sheets? Let's be honest, most of us wait too long between washes. This means we're sleeping on a whole ecosystem of bacteria, sweat, and shed skin cells. Studies now show that sheets can harbor up to 17,000 times more bacteria than a toilet seat in just a few days. And after just one week, pillowcases are said to have 3 to 5 million colony-forming units (CFUs) of bacteria per square inch. Wait a month? That number can jump to nearly 12 million. "Even if your bed looks clean, microscopic buildup can occur surprisingly quickly," says the team behind Bearaby’s Second Skin Sheets. "Your bedding is in contact with your skin for hours every night… it can either support your rest or silently disrupt it." RELATED: How to Create a Cozy Fall Reading Nook That Feels Like an Escape This is where the new wave of antimicrobial sheets comes in. They’re designed to slow down bacterial growth and help regulate temperature. Basically, they keep your skin calmer. Cozy Earth’s bamboo sheets wick away moisture and also resist dust mites and odor. Because they're naturally antimicrobial, they’re a great fit for anyone who overheats or just wakes up sticky. Best for: Hot sleepers Material: 100% premium bamboo viscose Set Price: $288 Bearby Second Skin sheets are naturally antimicrobial sheets seem to be everywhere in the wellness world right now. Instead of using silver or other coatings, these sheets weave botanicals directly into the fibers, which supposedly helps protect against bacterial growth and keeps skin clearer. Best for: Sensitive skin and shared beds Material: Eucalyptus lyocell infused with marine botanicals and peppermint extract Set Price: $269 Quince bamboo viscose sheets are naturally antimicrobial, thermoregulating, and OEKO-TEX certified — meaning they’re free from harsh chemicals that can irritate skin or trap heat. Best for: Affordable luxury and effortless freshness Material: 100% organic bamboo viscose Set Price: Originally $209, now $99 RELATED: Your Rental Can Look Luxe With These Temporary Decor Upgrades Ettitude’s eco-friendly sheets feel silky but are also thermoregulating. They have a hypoallergenic finish that’s gentle on sensitive skin. And the brand’s CleanBamboo™ fabric is designed to naturally resist bacteria and odor. Best for: Sustainable wellness purists Material: 100% organic bamboo lyocell Set Price: Originally $359, now $269.25 Miracle Made sheets use silver ions (they call them NASA-inspired) to prevent up to 99.9% of bacterial growth. The whole point is keeping sheets cleaner between washes. Reviewers seem to agree, saying they stay odor-free for twice as long as standard cotton. Best for: Easy-care freshness Material: Cotton with silver-infused fibers Set Price: $204 Parachute’s brushed cotton is naturally breathable and hypoallergenic. It's a solid upgrade for someone who just wants clean materials without extra coatings. The texture is cozy and matte (not shiny sateen), which makes a minimalist bedroom feel more elevated. Best for: Everyday luxury Material: 100% cotton with OEKO-TEX certification RELATED: Why Designing by Mood Is the Secret to a Cozy, Wellness-Driven Home Brooklinen’s luxe weave is very soft and breathable. It's also designed to hold up to frequent washing, which is key to keeping it fresh with just regular care. Pair with the brand’s Laundress collaboration if you want the full 'clean sleep' experience. Best for: Stylish sleepers Material: 100% long-staple cotton Set Price: Originally $209, now $177.65 Boll & Branch signature hemmed sheets are Fair Trade–certified and woven without toxins or synthetics. That means they're less likely to trap heat or irritate skin. They are naturally breathable and gentle, which makes them a go-to for eczema-prone or sensitive sleepers. Best for: Chemical-free comfort Material: 100% organic cotton Set Price: $229 RELATED: 12 Essential Smart Home Innovations Redefining Luxury Living Originally developed for athletes, these performance sheets are moisture-wicking and quick-drying. They're also antimicrobial. A good pick for those who want freshness and a little tech in their bedding. Best for: Performance Material: Microfiber with advanced cooling technology Set Price: Originally $249, now $174.30 Think about it...every night, your body sheds skin cells, sweat, and oils. This creates a perfect feeding ground for microbes and allergens. We're talking about bacteria like gram-negative rods, which are linked to pneumonia, and bacilli, which are often involved in food poisoning. And it's not just the sheets. That buildup seeps into your mattress, too. A mattress that's over seven years old can have more than 16 million CFUs of bacteria. So, antimicrobial bedding isn’t just a hygiene hack. It seems to be part of the bigger 'clean sleep' movement, which is all about prioritizing the body’s recovery. Not just comfort. Click here to learn more about Amerisleep
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2025-11-01T10:39:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T10:39:00.526Z
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https://www.latimes.com/spaces/room/bedroom/story/best-antimicrobial-sheets
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What’s at stake for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers in a World Series Game 7?
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Once again, the planets have aligned for Shohei Ohtani. The elements are in place for another climactic finish to the latest chapter of this real-life manga, and baseball might never be the same after this. World Series. Game 7. Ohtani will be the Dodgers’ starting pitcher and designated hitter. This is his moment. He dominates the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday night at Rogers Center, and he’s to baseball what Michael Jordan is to basketball, what Tom Brady is to football, what Wayne Gretzky is to hockey. With eight home runs, he’s already tied Corey Seager’s record for the most home runs by a Dodgers player in a single postseason. Ohtani will now have a chance to pick up his third win of these playoffs, in a game to clinch the World Series. From denying the Dodgers to sign with the Nippon-Ham Fighters out of high school to denying the Dodgers again to sign with the Angels when he moved to the major leagues, everything Ohtani has done over the last 12 years have set him up for this game. Now, if he can just win it and maybe homer once or twice. The Dodgers are planning to deploy Ohtani as a so-called opener not because they’re determined to build his legacy but because doing so represents their most likely route to victory. Ohtani will be pitching on three days’ rest, but pitching him in relief would present logistical problems. Under baseball’s current rules, if he pitches in relief and is removed from the game as a pitcher, he would also have to be removed as the designated hitter. That would force him to play in the outfield or be taken out of the game entirely. Ohtani could close, but, say, his turn to bat comes up while he’s warming up to pitch. A league official said the pitch-clock rules would still apply, meaning Ohtani would have to sprint from the bullpen to the batter’s box in 15 or 18 seconds, depending on whether there are men on base. Only as a starter could Ohtani remain in the game as a designated hitter after he is taken out as a pitcher. Considering Ohtani pitched on Tuesday in Game 4 and considering he’s never pitched on three days’ rest for the Dodgers, manager Dave Roberts downplayed what should be expected of him. “With Shohei, it could be two innings,” Roberts said. “But it could be four innings.” What about five? In that scenario, Tyler Glasnow and Blake Snell could probably combine to pitch the final four innings by themselves. Roberts would be spared from having to turn back to Sasaki, a converted starter who was extremely shaky in Game 6. The incentive for Ohtani to pitch more innings was greater after Friday night when Sasaki failed to complete the ninth inning and forced Glasnow into the game. The three-pitch appearance, and the warm-up that preceded it, probably ruled out Glasnow from pitching, say, four innings. Sasaki said he would be ready for Game 7. “I think it will be a total war tomorrow, so I’ll do my best to hold the opposition in the spots entrusted to me,” Sasaki said in Japanese. Roberts said only one pitcher would be unavailable: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who pitched six innings in Game 6. Then again, Walker Buehler wasn’t part of the Dodgers’ plans for their World Series clincher last year. Buehler registered the final three outs. Yamamoto also wasn’t part of the team’s plans for their 18-inning victory in Game 3. Yamamoto was only two days removed from pitching a complete game, but he nonetheless volunteered to warm up. He joked that he would rather not do something like that again. “If I’m told, ‘Go,’ I’ll go, but if possible, I’d like to do my best cheering,” Yamamoto said with a mischievous smile. Later, when speaking of the intense pressure the teams would face in Game 7, Yamamoto again smiled and cracked, “It will be difficult for the players who play.” Ohtani will play, and he will have the most to gain. The universe has conspired to make him a hero again, just as it did in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Ohtani closed for Japan in the championship game, which was against the United States. The final batter was Mike Trout, whom he struck out. The at-bat stands as the signature moment of Ohtani’s career. That could change on Saturday night.
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Shohei Ohtani dominates the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, and he’s to baseball what Michael Jordan is to basketball, what Tom Brady is to football, what Wayne Gretzky is to hockey.
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Dodgers
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2025-11-01T10:30:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T10:30:00.000Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-11-01/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-world-series-game-7-legacy
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Chargers vs. Titans: How to watch, start time and prediction
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Good teams win the games they should win — and the Chargers are out to prove they’re a good team. They travel to Tennessee on Sunday to face rookie quarterback Cam Ward, the No. 1 overall pick, who has shown flashes of promise but isn’t yet where he wants to be in his career. The Chargers are riding high after an Oct. 23 win over Minnesota that marked the return of outstanding left tackle Joe Alt. That makes a big difference both in the protection of Justin Herbert and paving the way for the running game. Tennessee has one win, and that came a month ago to Arizona, and the Titans were rolled by the Rams in Week 2. How the Chargers can win: Control the tempo with the run; the Titans just gave up 164 yards rushing in a loss to Indianapolis. Attack a depleted secondary; one starter is hurt and two more were traded, which should help open the passing lanes for Herbert. Limit the damage returner Chimere Dike does, as he’s capable of breaking a big one. How the Titans can win: Create turnovers. This offense has struggled to move the ball and score points, so short fields will be critical for Tennessee. Do a better job of running with Tony Pollard and Tyjae Spears to take the heat off Ward. Continue to get edge-rushing productivity from Dre’Mont Jones, who has recorded sacks in three consecutive games. Chargers: G Mekhi Becton (knee, questionable); TE Will Dissly (illness, questionable), LS Josh Harris (chest, questionable); RB Hassan Haskins (hamstring, out); S Tony Jefferson (hamstring, out); DB Deane Leonard (knee, questionable); CB Tarheeb Still (knee, out). Titans: OLB Arden Key (quadricep, out); WR Bryce Oliver (knee, questionable); WR Calvin Ridley (hamstring, out); DT Jeffrey Simmons (hamstring, out); FS Xavier Woods (hamstring, out). The Chargers and the Minnesota Vikings will play Sunday at 10 a.m. PDT at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. The game will be available on CBS and Paramount+ in the Los Angeles area and will be available nationally via a subscription to NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. In Southern California, fans can listen to the game on 640 AM or 105.5 FM (Español). Sam Farmer’s pick: The Titans are bad in the red zone, have a depleted secondary, won’t have Calvin Ridley or Jeffrey Simmons and are leaning on a bunch of rookies. The Chargers are rested and should be able to string together wins. Chargers 31, Titans 17
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Everything you need to know about the Chargers vs. the Tennessee Titans on Sunday, including how to watch, betting odds and a prediction on who will win.
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Chargers
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2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T10:00:15.191Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/chargers/story/2025-11-01/chargers-titans-watch-score-prediction-odds-start-time
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Refugees will be among the first to lose food stamps under federal changes
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After fleeing the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Antoinette landed in the Atlanta area last November and began to find her footing with federal help. Separated from her adult children and grieving her husband’s death in the war, she started a job packing boxes in a warehouse, making just enough to cover rent for her own apartment and bills. Antoinette has been relying on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, for her weekly grocery trips. But now, just as life is starting to stabilize, she will have to deal with a new setback. President Donald Trump’s massive budget law, which Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, slashes $187 billion — or nearly 20% — from the federal budget for SNAP through 2034. And separate from any temporary SNAP stoppages due to the federal shutdown, the law cuts off access completely for refugees and other immigrant groups in the country lawfully. The change was slated to take effect immediately when the law was signed in July, but states are still awaiting federal guidance on when to stop or phase it out. For Antoinette, 51, who did not want her last name used for fear of deportation and likely persecution in her native country, the loss of food aid is dire. “I would not have the means to buy food,” she said in French through a translator. “How am I going to manage?” Throughout its history, the U.S. has admitted into the country refugees like Antoinette, people who have been persecuted, or fear persecution, in their homelands due to race, religion, nationality, political opinions, or membership in a particular social group. These legal immigrants typically face an in-depth vetting process that can start years before they set foot on U.S. soil. Once they arrive — often with little or no means — the federal government provides resources such as financial assistance, Medicaid, and SNAP, outreach that has typically garnered bipartisan support. Now the Trump administration has pulled back the country’s decades-long support for refugee communities. The budget law, which funds several of the president’s priorities, including tax cuts to wealthy Americans and border security, revokes refugees’ access to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities, starting in October 2026. But one of the first provisions to take effect under the law removes SNAP eligibility for most refugees, asylum seekers, trafficking and domestic violence victims, and other legal immigrants. About 90,000 people will lose SNAP in an average month as a result of the new restrictions narrowing which noncitizens can access the program, according to the Congressional Budget Office. “It doesn’t get much more basic than food,” said Matthew Soerens, vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief, a Christian humanitarian organization that supports U.S. refugees. “Our government invited these people to rebuild their lives in this country with minimum support,” Soerens said. “Taking food away from them is wrong.” The White House and officials at the United States Department of Agriculture did not respond to emails about support for the provision that ends SNAP for refugees in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for reduced levels of immigration to the U.S., said cuts to SNAP eligibility are reasonable because foreign-born people and their young children disproportionately use public benefits. Still, Camarota said, the refugee population is different from other immigrant groups. “I don’t know that this would be the population I would start with,” Camarota said. “It’s a relatively small population of people that we generally accept have a lot of need.” Federal, state, and local spending on refugees and asylum seekers, including food, healthcare, education, and other expenses, totaled $457.2 billion from 2005 to 2019, according to a February 2024 report from the Department of Health and Human Services. During that time, 21% of refugees and asylum seekers received SNAP benefits, compared with 15% of all U.S. residents. In addition to the budget law’s SNAP changes, financial assistance given to people entering the U.S. by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a part of HHS, has been cut from one year to four months. The HHS report also found that despite the initial costs of caring for refugees and asylees, this community contributed $123.8 billion more to federal, state, and local governments through taxes than they received in public benefits over the 15 years. It’s in the country’s best interest to continue to support them, said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge, a nonprofit refugee resettlement agency. “This is not what we should think about as a handout,” she said. “We know that when we support them initially, they go on to not just survive but thrive.” Food insecurity can have lifelong physical and mental health consequences for people who have already faced years of instability before coming to the U.S., said Andrew Kim, co-founder of Ethnē Health, a community health clinic in Clarkston, an Atlanta suburb that is home to thousands of refugees. Noncitizens affected by the new law would have received, on average, $210 a month within the next decade, according to the CBO. Without SNAP funds, many refugees and their families might skip meals and switch to lower-quality, inexpensive options, leading to chronic health concerns such as obesity and insulin resistance, and potentially worsening already serious mental health conditions, he said. After her husband was killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Antoinette said, she became separated from all seven of her children. The youngest is 19. She still isn’t sure where they are. She misses them but is determined to build a new life for herself. For her, resources like SNAP are critical. From the conference room of New American Pathways, the nonprofit that helped her enroll in benefits, Antoinette stared straight ahead, stone-faced, when asked about how the cuts would affect her. Will she shop less? Will she eat fewer fruits and vegetables, and less meat? Will she skip meals? “Oui,” she replied to each question, using the French for “yes.” Since arriving in the U.S. last year from Ethiopia with his wife and two teen daughters, Lukas, 61, has been addressing diabetes-related complications, such as blurry vision, headaches, and trouble sleeping. SNAP benefits allow him and his family to afford fresh vegetables like spinach and broccoli, according to Lilly Tenaw, the nurse practitioner who treats Lukas and helped translate his interview. His blood sugar is now at a safer level, he said proudly after a class at Mosaic Health Center, a community clinic in Clarkston, where he learned to make lentil soup and balance his diet. “The assistance gives us hope and encourages us to see life in a positive way,” he said in Amharic through a translator. Lukas wanted to use only his family name because he had been jailed and faced persecution in Ethiopia, and now worries about jeopardizing his ability to get permanent residency in the U.S. Hunger and poor nutrition can lower productivity and make it hard for people to find and keep jobs, said Valerie Lacarte, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. “It could affect the labor market,” she said. “It’s bleak.” While the Trump administration ended SNAP for refugees effective immediately, the change has created uncertainty for those who provide assistance. State officials in Texas and California, which receive the most refugees among states, and in Georgia told KFF Health News that the USDA, which runs the program, has yet to issue guidance on whether they should stop providing SNAP on a specific date or phase it out. And it’s not just refugees who are affected. Nearly 42 million people receive SNAP benefits, according to the USDA. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that, within the next decade, more than 3 million people will lose monthly food dollars because of planned changes — such as an extension of work requirements to more people and a shift in costs from the federal government to the states. In September, the administration ended a key report that regularly measured food insecurity among all U.S. households, making it harder to assess the toll of the SNAP cuts. The USDA also posted on its website that no benefits would be issued for anyone starting Nov. 1 because of the federal shutdown, blaming Senate Democrats. The Trump administration has refused to release emergency funding — as past administrations have done during shutdowns — so that states can continue issuing benefits while congressional leaders work out a budget deal. A coalition of attorneys general and governors from 25 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Oct. 28 contesting the administration’s decision. Cuts to SNAP will ripple through local grocery stores and farms, stretching the resources of charity organizations and local governments, said Ted Terry, a DeKalb County commissioner and former mayor of Clarkston. “It’s just the whole ecosystem that has been in place for 40 years completely being disrupted,” he said. Muzhda Oriakhil, senior community engagement manager at Friends of Refugees, an Atlanta-area nonprofit that helps refugees resettle, said her group and others are scrambling to provide temporary food assistance for refugee families. But charity organizations, food banks, and other nonprofit groups cannot make up for the loss of billions of federal dollars that help families pay for food. “A lot of families, they may starve,” she said. Rayasam writes for KFF.
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Under the budget law that Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, food assistance for refugees will be sliced. The change is sowing fear, uncertainty, and a struggle for survival — a sign of what’s to come for millions of Americans.
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Science & Medicine
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2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T10:00:08.739Z
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https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-11-01/refugees-will-be-among-the-first-to-lose-food-stamps-under-federal-changes
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News Analysis: Trump channels past Latin American aggressions in new crusade: ‘We’re just gonna kill people’
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They’re blowing up boats in the high seas, threatening tariffs from Brazil to Mexico and punishing anyone deemed hostile — while lavishing aid and praise on allies all aboard with the White House program. Welcome to the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, the Trump administration’s bellicose, you’re-with-us-or-against-us approach to Latin America. Not yet a year into his term, President Trump seems intent on putting his footprint in “America’s backyard” more than any recent predecessor. He came to office threatening to take back the Panama Canal, and now seems poised to launch a military attack on Venezuela and perhaps even drone strikes on cartel targets in Mexico. He vowed to withhold aid from Argentina if this week's legislative elections didn't go the way he wanted. They did. “Every president comes in promising a new focus on Latin America, but the Trump administration is actually doing it,” said James Bosworth, whose firm provides regional risk analysis. "There is no country in the region that is not questioning how the U.S. is playing Latin America right now.” Fearing a return to an era when U.S. intervention was the norm — from outright invasions to covert CIA operations to economic meddling — many Latin American leaders are trying to craft please-Trump strategies, with mixed success. But Trump’s transactional proclivities, mercurial outbursts and bullying nature make him a volatile negotiating partner. “It’s all put Latin America on edge,” said Michael Shifter, past president of Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based research group. “It’s bewildering and dizzying and, I think, disorienting for everyone. People don’t know what’s coming next.” In this super-charged update of U.S. gunboat diplomacy, critics say laws are being ignored, norms sidestepped and protocol set aside. The combative approach draws from some old standards: War on Drugs tactics, War on Terrorism rationales and Cold War saber-rattling. Facilitating it all is the Trump administration’s formal designation of cartels as terrorist groups, a first. The shift has provided oratorical firepower, along with a questionable legal rationale, for the deadly “narco-terrorist” boat strikes, now numbering 14, in both the Caribbean and Pacific. “The Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere,” is how Pete Hegseth, Trump's defense secretary, has labeled cartels, as he posts video game-esque footage of boats and their crews being blown to bits. Lost is an essential distinction: Cartels, while homicidal, are driven by profits. Al Qaeda and other terror groups typically proclaim ideological motives. Another aberration: Trump doesn't see the need to seek congressional approval for military action in Venezuela. “I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war,” Trump said. "I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead.” Trump's unpredictability has cowed many in the region. One of the few leaders pushing back is Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who, like Trump, has a habit of incendiary, off-the-cuff comments and social media posts. The former leftist guerrilla — who already accused Trump of abetting genocide in Gaza — said Washington’s boat-bombing spree killed at least one Colombian fisherman. Petro called the operation part of a scheme to topple the leftist government in neighboring Venezuela. Trump quickly sought to make an example of Petro, labeling him “an illegal drug leader” and threatening to slash aid to Colombia, while his administration imposed sanctions on Petro, his wife, son and a top deputy. Like the recent deployment of thousands of U.S. troops, battleships and fighter jets in the Caribbean, Trump's response was a calculated display of power — a show of force designed to brow-beat doubters into submission. Amid the whirlwind turns in U.S.-Latin American relations, the rapid unraveling of U.S.-Colombia relations has been especially startling. For decades Colombia has been the linchpin of Washington’s anti-drug efforts in South America as well as a major trade partner. Unlike Colombia and Mexico, Venezuela is a relatively minor player in the U.S.-bound narcotics trade, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. And yet the White House has cast Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, as an all-powerful kingpin "poisoning" American streets with crime and drugs. It put a $50-million bounty on Maduro's head and massed an armada off the coast of Venezuela, home to the world’s largest petroleum reserves. An exuberant cheerleader for the shoot-first-and-ask-no-questions-later posture is Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has for years advocated for the ouster of left-wing governments in Havana and Caracas. In a recent swing through the region, Rubio argued for a more muscular interdiction strategy. “What will stop them is when you blow them up,” Rubio told reporters in Mexico City. “You get rid of them.” That mindset is "chillingly familiar for many people in Latin America,” said David Adler, of the think tank Progressive International. “Again, you’re doing extrajudicial killings in the name of a war on drugs.” U.S. intervention in Latin America dates back more than 200 years, when President James Monroe declared that the United States would reign as the hemispheric hegemon. In ensuing centuries, the U.S. invaded Mexico and annexed half its territory, dispatched Marines to Nicaragua and Haiti and abetted coups from Chile to Brazil to Guatemala. It enforced a decades-long embargo against communist Cuba — while also launching a botched invasion of the island and trying to assassinate its leader —and imposed economic sanctions on left-wing adversaries in Nicaragua and Venezuela. Motivations for these interventions varied from fighting communism to protecting U.S. business interests to waging a war on drugs. The most recent full-on U.S. assault against a Latin American nation — the 1989 invasion of Panama — also was framed as an anti-drug crusade. President George H.W. Bush described the country's authoritarian leader, Gen. Manuel Noriega, as a "drug-running dictator," language that is nearly identical to current White House descriptions of Maduro. But a U.S. military invasion of Venezuela presents a challenge of a different magnitude. Venezuela is 10 times larger than Panama, and its population of 28 million is also more than tenfold that of Panama's in 1989. Many predict that a potential U.S. attack would face stiff resistance. And if curtailing drug use is really the aim of Trump's policy, leaders from Venezuela to Colombia to Mexico say, perhaps Trump should focus on curtailing addiction in the U.S., which is the world's largest consumer of drugs. To many, the buildup to a potential intervention in Venezuela mirrors the era preceding the 2003 Iraq war, when the White House touted not drug trafficking but weapons of mass destruction — which turned out to be nonexistent — as a casus belli. “Somehow, the United States of America has found a way to combine two of its greatest foreign policy failures — the Iraq War and the War on Drugs — into a single regime change narrative,” Adler said. Further confounding U.S.-Latin American relations is Trump's personality-driven style: his unabashed affection for certain leaders and disdain for others. While Venezuela’s Maduro and Colombia's Petro sit atop the bad-hombre list, Argentine President Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele — the latter the self-described “world’s coolest dictator" — are the darlings of the moment. Trump has given billions of dollars in aid to bail out the right-wing Milei, a die-hard Trump loyalist and free-market ideologue. The administration has paid Bukele’s administration millions to house deportees, while maintaining the protected status of more than 170,000 Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S. “It’s a carrot-and-stick approach,” said Sergio Berensztein, an Argentina political analyst. “It’s fortunate for Argentina that it gets the carrot. But Venezuela and Colombia get the stick.” Trump has given mixed signals on Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The two leftists lead the region’s largest nations. Trump has wielded the tariff cudgel against both countries: Mexico ostensibly because of drug trafficking; Brazil because of what Trump calls a "witch hunt" against former president Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing Trump favorite convicted of attempting a coup after he, like Trump, lost a bid for reelection. Paradoxically, Trump has expressed affection for both Lula and Sheinbaum, calling Lula on his 80th birthday “a very vigorous guy” (Trump is 79) and hailing Sheinbaum as a “lovely woman,” but adding: “She’s so afraid of the cartels that she can’t even think straight.” Sheinbaum, caught in the crosswinds of shifting policy dictates from Washington, has so far been able to fight off Trump's most drastic tariff threats. Mexico's reliance on the U.S. market highlights a fundamental truth: Even with China expanding its influence, the U.S. still reigns as the region's economic and military superpower. Sheinbaum has avoided the kind of barbed ripostes that tend to trigger Trump's rage, even as U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats creep closer to Mexico's shores. Publicly at least, she seldom shows frustration or exasperation, once musing: “President Trump has his own, very special way of communicating." Special correspondents Cecilia Sánchez Vidal in Mexico City and Andrés D'Alessandro in Buenos Aires contributed to this report.
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U.S. gunboat diplomacy returns as President Trump threatens Venezuela invasion and sanctions Colombia. He also has worked to support right-wing admirers in Brazil and Argentina.
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2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T10:00:00.799Z
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-11-01/latin-america-trump-venezuela-mexico
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Daylight saving time ends Sunday. What to know about ‘falling back’
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Halloween weekend partygoers will get an extra hour of fun Saturday night — technically, Sunday morning — as clocks across the West Coast fall back an hour. Daylight saving time ends Sunday at 2 a.m., bringing earlier sunrises, sunsets, and an hour more of darkness for Californians. However, even though the 1 a.m. hour will repeat Sunday, California bars and clubs are still required to stop serving alcohol from that moment until 6 a.m., so the party might have to continue elsewhere. The nonprofit National Sleep Foundation recommends people gradually adjust their sleep schedule to acclimate to the reconfigured clock, including by napping, and use relaxation techniques such as meditation and breathing exercises to calm themselves. Daylight saving time began on March 9 this year, when clocks sprung forward an hour. The current iteration of daylight saving time, extending from the second Sunday in March to the first in November, was established in 2005. The debate over its efficacy and future has raged ever since. In 2018, California voters approved Proposition 7, which would allow the state Legislature to approve either permanent daylight saving time or permanent standard time — eliminating the annual time shifts — with a two-thirds vote. However, permanent daylight saving time would require congressional approval. States such as Arizona and Hawaii have foregone daily saving time entirely, choosing to stay on standard time year-round and never switch their clocks. For now, Californians are encouraged to set back their clocks before bed Saturday night, or risk losing track of time. Times staff writer Ruben Vives contributed to this report.
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Daylight saving time will end Sunday at 2 a.m. as clocks fall back by one hour. Sunrise and sunset will both be an hour earlier.
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California
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2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T10:00:08.056Z
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/daylight-saving-time-ends-sunday-what-to-know
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Democrats may be finding themselves, but voters know what they want
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Tuesday is election day, and it appears Democrats in California are ready, in the words of Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), to “fight fire with fire.” As many as 60% of voters plan to vote yes on Proposition50, according to two recent statewide polls. If it passes, five Democrats could be added to the House of Representatives. Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed the legislation to balance the effects of an effort in Texas to redraw the state’s congressional districts and add five Republicans. Gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa told me he supported Newsom’s decision and plans on voting yes because it is the best way to defend against the Trump administration. “I think we’ve seen very clearly: We have a man in the White House that wants to rig an election,” Villaraigosa said. “That’s what they’re doing in Texas. The legislature has voted. What’s different about California is that the people get to decide.” It’s no secret the party has been trying to find itself since last November. As unpopular as President Trump’s economic policies are; as much as video of ICE raids unnerve people; as uncomfortable as the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files has been … the reality is that Americans don’t like Democrats that much either. So while it’s helpful to have Prop. 50 provide some defense for the political power the party still has, without a plan for offense the midterm election isn’t going to provide the blue wave progressives are hoping for. Earlier this week, Politico published a 2024 autopsy conducted by the party titled “Deciding to Win.” Supposedly “it aims to provide the most comprehensive account to date of why Democrats lost and what our party needs to do to win again.” I say supposedly because the words “race” and “gender” were missing in the executive summary. According to the study, “thousands of election results, hundreds of public polls and academic papers, dozens of case studies, and surveys of more than 500,000 voters” were conducted since the 2024 election. And according to “Deciding to Win,” the problem began in 2012, when the party went too far left. I don’t question the findings, just the characterization of what the authors found. In the past three presidential elections — 2016, 2020, 2024 — the candidates campaigned on policy but the elections were shaped by identity both in the media and on the trail. And yet this Democratic strategy document suggests that talking about gender and race was part of the party’s problem in those cycles. But prejudice is not a subplot in American politics; it’s a major factor regardless of whether Democrats bring it up. The Republican nominee those three years was endorsed by the newspaper of the KKK. So sure, the party needs to continue talking about kitchen table issues, but we can’t pretend the socioeconomic divisions of America are by happenstance and not socially engineered. There are more than 300 counties in this country that have been perpetually poor since 1990. Some are majority white and historically have voted Republican, others are majority minority and vote for Democrats. Either way, they’ve been poor for decades because of policy failure. They don’t vote differently because of identity. Being clear eyed about that reality isn’t being “too woke,” as the report is cowardly trying to suggest; it’s having a holistic understanding of the issues. Democrats didn’t forget about working-class people, as the report suggests. It’s just that “working class” is the progressive’s euphemism for “straight white people.” They use it the way conservatives and people inside the Beltway say “evangelical Christians.” The idea that immigration rights or policies that help Black people are somehow detached from the working class in this country is ridiculous. They are one and the same. The Democrats have struggled to communicate that over the past three elections. Even in victory, under President Biden, voters saw his universally good economic policies as not helping the “working class” because of messaging. It’s not a lack of ideas that hurt Dems. It’s a lack of nerve, as demonstrated by the establishment’s unwillingness to endorse the transformative candidate in New York City’s mayoral election next week. However history shows us Trump supporters were not handcuffed by tradition, transformed by data or motivated by reports. After President Obama’s election in 2008, Republicans did their own “autopsy.” It was well researched and reasoned … and ignored by voters in 2010, when they had their own ideas. That’s when the tea party rose to power, and by 2014, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was ousted — the first time a sitting majority leader had lost a primary. The party’s base didn’t wait or play defense. The people moved and dragged elected officials with them. And sometimes, some officials get left behind. That’s what election day is really about anyway — not what was or is, but what could be. YouTube: @LZGrandersonShow
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It’s not a lack of ideas that hurt Democrats in recent elections. It’s a lack of nerve.
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Proposition 50 could disenfranchise Republican California voters. Will it survive a legal challenge?
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Six years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld highly partisan state election maps in North Carolina and Maryland — ruling that federal courts cannot block states from drawing up maps that favor one party over the other — one of the court’s liberal justices issued a warning. “If left unchecked, gerrymanders like the ones here may irreparably damage our system of government,” Associate Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissent. Kagan argued that Republicans in North Carolina and Democrats in Maryland — the two examples before the court — had rigged elections in a way that “deprived citizens of the most fundamental of their constitutional rights,” “debased and dishonored our democracy” and turned “upside-down the core American idea that all governmental power derives from the people.” “Ask yourself,” Kagan said as she recounted what had happened in each state: “Is this how American democracy is supposed to work?” That's the question Californians are now weighing as they decide how, or whether, to vote on Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to scrap congressional maps drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission and replace them with maps drawn by legislators to favor Democrats through 2030. Democrats don’t deny that the measure is a deliberate attempt to dilute GOP voting power. From the start, they’ve argued that the point of redistricting is to weaken Republicans’ voting power in California — a move they justify on the grounds that it is a temporary fix to offset similar partisan gerrymandering by Texas Republicans. This summer, President Trump upped the ante, pressing Texas to rejigger maps to shore up the GOP’s narrow House majority ahead of the 2026 election. Experts say opponents of Proposition 50 have no viable federal legal challenge against the new maps on the basis that they disenfranchise a large chunk of California Republicans. Even since the 2019 U.S. Supreme Court decision Rucho vs. Common Cause, complaints of partisan gerrymandering have no path in federal court. Already, Proposition 50 has survived challenges in state court and is unlikely to be successfully challenged if passed, said Richard L. Hasen, professor of law and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law. “If you're a Republican in California, or you're a Democrat in Texas, you're about to get a lot less representation in Congress,” Hasen said. “I don't think there's anything you can do about that.” If Californians vote in favor of the measure on Tuesday, the number of Republicans in the state's House — nine of 52 total members — would likely be reduced by five. That could mean Republicans have less than 10% of California's congressional representation even though Trump won 38% of the 2024 vote. “All of this is unconstitutional, but the federal courts aren't available to help,” said Justin Levitt, a law professor at Loyola Law School. “Every time you redraw a district specifically to protect some candidates and punish others," Levitt said, "what you're basically saying is it shouldn't be up to the voters to weigh in on whether they think the candidates are doing a good job or not." Possible legal avenues But even if the issue of partisan gerrymandering is blocked in federal courts, there are other potential legal avenues to challenge California’s new legislative maps. One route would be to claim that Proposition 50 violates the California Constitution. David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law, said that if Proposition 50 passes, he expects a barrage of “see what sticks” lawsuits raising California constitutional claims. They stand little chance of success, he said. “Voters created the redistricting commission,” he said. “What the voters created they can change or abolish.” Attorneys might also bring racial discrimination claims in federal court alleging California lawmakers used partisan affiliation as a pretext for race in drawing the maps to disenfranchise one racial group or another, Carrillo said. Under current law, he said, such claims are very fact-dependent. Attorneys are already poised to file complaints if the referendum passes. Mark Meuser, a conservative attorney who filed a state complaint this summer seeking to block Proposition 50, said he is ready to file a federal lawsuit on the grounds that the new maps violate the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “We're saying that race was a predominant factor in drawing the lines,” Meuser said. “When race is a predominant factor in drawing the lines without a compelling interest, strict scrutiny will mandate the maps be stricken.” Some legal experts believe that would be a tricky case to prove. “It sure seems like the new map was oriented predominantly around politics, not race,” Levitt argued. “And though they’d be saying that race was a predominant factor in drawing the lines, that’s very, very, very different from proving it. That’s an uphill mountain to climb on these facts.” Some experts think the new maps are unlikely to raise strong Voting Rights Act challenges. Eric McGhee, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California who specializes in elections, said the new districts appeared to have been carefully carved to preserve Latino- or Black-majority districts. A successful challenge is possible, McGhee said, noting there are always novel legal arguments. “It’s just the big ones that you would think about that are the most obvious and the most traditional are pretty closed,” he said. Supreme Court looms large Ultimately, legal experts agree the fate of California maps — and other maps in Texas and across the nation — would depend on the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on a redistricting case from Louisiana. Last month, conservative Supreme Court justices suggested in a hearing that they were considering reining in a key part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in a language minority group. “Whatever happens with Proposition 50 — pass or fail — almost doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things,” Carrillo said, noting that the Supreme Court could use the Louisiana case to strike Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. "There's a big litigation storm coming in almost any scenario.” Levitt agreed that the Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, which could come any time between now and June, could change current law. But he stressed it is impossible to predict how broad the ruling could be. “Whether that leaves any of California’s districts vulnerable — either in the current map or in the map if Prop. 50 passes — depends entirely on what Scotus says,” Levitt argued. “There are only nine people who know what they’ll actually say, and there are a lot of possibilities, some of which might affect California’s map pretty substantially, and some of which are unlikely to affect California’s map at all.” Will Congress intervene? As the redistricting battle spreads across the country and Democratic and Republican states look to follow Texas and California, Democrats could ultimately end up at a disadvantage. If the overall tilt favors Republicans, Democrats would have to win more than 50% of the vote to get a majority of seats. Congress has the power to block partisan gerrymandering in congressional map drawing. But attempts so far to pass redistricting reform have been unsuccessful. In 2022, the House passed the Freedom to Vote Act, which would have prohibited mid-decade redistricting and blocked partisan gerrymandering of congressional maps. But Republicans were able to block the bill in the Senate, even though it had majority support, due to that chamber’s filibuster rules. Another option is a narrower bill proposed this summer by Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley, who represents parts of the Sacramento suburbs and Lake Tahoe and could lose his seat if Proposition 50 passes. Kiley’s bill, along with similar legislation introduced by California Democratic representatives, would ban mid-decade redistricting. “That would be the cleanest way of addressing this particular scenario we're in right now, because all of these new plans that have been drawn would become null and void,” McGhee said. But in a heavily deadlocked Congress, Kiley’s bill has little prospect of moving. “It may have to get worse before it gets better," Hasen said. If the redistricting war doesn't get resolved, Hasen said, there will be a continued race to the bottom, particularly if the Supreme Court weakens or strikes down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Another scenario, Hasen argued, is Democrats regain control of Congress and the presidency, overcome the filibuster rule and pass redistricting reform. If that doesn't happen, Levitt said, the ultimate power rests with the people. “If we want to tell our representatives that we're sick of this, we can,” Levitt said. “There's a lot that's competing for voters’ attention. But that doesn't mean that we don't have agency here.”
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If Californians vote in favor of the measure on Nov. 4, the number of Republicans in California’s House — nine of 52 total members — would likely be cut in half.
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Rams vs. Saints: How to watch, start time and prediction
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It was December 2020, and the Rams were in the midst of their third run to the playoffs in four seasons under coach Sean McVay. Their opponent: the 0-13 New York Jets. There was seemingly no way the hapless Jets could beat a 9-4 Rams team at SoFi Stadium. But the Rams came out flat and lost, 23-20. On Sunday, the Rams welcome the seemingly hapless New Orleans Saints, who arrive with a 1-7 record. “I don’t care what the record says,” McVay said. “The tape tells you a very different story. ... If we’re not ready to go we’ll certainly be humbled.” Don’t expect a repeat of 2020. The Saints, under first-year coach Kellen Moore, will send rookie quarterback Tyler Shough into his first start against a Chris Shula-coordinated Rams defense that features edge rushers Jared Verse and Byron Young and linemen Kobie Turner, Braden Fiske and Poona Ford. Young ranks third in the NFL with nine sacks. Verse has four. Sunday’s game marks the Rams debut of cornerback Roger McCreary, who was acquired in a trade with the Tennessee Titans. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford has passed for 17 touchdowns, with only two interceptions. He has not had a pass intercepted in four games. Star receiver Puka Nacua is back after sitting out an Oct. 19 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in London because of an ankle injury. Right tackle Rob Havenstein also will return after being sidelined for three games because of an ankle injury. Saints defensive coordinator Brandon Staley was the Rams’ defensive coordinator in 2020 before the Chargers hired him as their head coach. Rams: WR Puka Nacua (ankle, will play); OL Rob Havenstein (ankle, will play); S Kam Kinchens (toe, will play); CB Darious Williams (shoulder, doubtful). Saints: RB Alvin Kamara (ankle, questionable); WR Rashid Shaheed (hip, questionable); CB Alontae Taylor (shoulder, questionable). The Rams and New Orleans Saints will play at 1:05 p.m. PDT Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. The game will be shown on Fox in Southern California and will be available nationally via a subscription to NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. In Southern California, fans can listen to the game on 710 AM, 93.1 FM and 1330 AM (Español). Gary Klein’s pick: The Saints might not be as bad as their record indicates but the Rams have too much firepower — including the return of Nacua — to be knocked off track from winning their third game in a row. Rams 30, Saints 13
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Homeless service provider’s CEO placed on leave, law firm to probe property valuations
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Two top officials at the Weingart Center Assn., one of Los Angeles' most prominent homeless services providers, have been placed on leave while the nonprofit conducts an internal review into its housing projects. Weingart has retained an outside law firm to probe "certain" homeless housing projects "in light of recent reporting raising questions concerning the valuation" of the projects, a spokesperson said in a statement Friday. The two officials — Kevin Murray, a former state senator who serves as president and CEO, and Ben Rosen, director of real estate development — could not immediately be reached for comment. "During this time, the Board has assigned Chief Operating Officer Tonja Boykin to lead and ensure the continuity of Weingart’s mission to empower and transform lives by delivering innovative solutions to combat homelessness in Los Angeles," the spokesperson, Stefan Friedman, said in the statement. The statement did not specify which housing projects, but the move comes after The Times raised questions about two projects. One is at the center of an ongoing criminal case in which federal prosecutors have accused a real estate executive of using fake documentation to buy a nursing home in Cheviot Hills for $11.2 million, then quickly selling it to Weingart for $27.3 million. A second project would have converted a Torrance hotel into apartment units for homeless people. Weingart planned to purchase the hotel for $30 million — a price that was probably significantly higher than the hotel's actual value, The Times found. In both cases, Weingart used, or planned to use, state and local funds designated for housing homeless people. Weingart was awarded up to $20.5 million from the city of Los Angeles and $26.6 million in state Homekey funds to acquire and convert the Cheviot Hills nursing home into homeless housing, with a $1.4-million developer fee going to Weingart. Earlier this month, the real estate executive was charged with nine felonies over allegations that he used fake bank statements to get loans and lines of credit to buy the property for $11.2 million before flipping it to Weingart for more than double the price. The project has yet to open. Prosecutors have said they are investigating what the city of Los Angeles and Weingart knew about the executive's actions. In Torrance, Weingart planned to use Homekey+ funds to purchase a 122-room Extended Stay America hotel for $30 million and convert it into permanent supportive housing for people who are homeless or at risk of being so. Several independent experts interviewed by The Times criticized the appraisal that Weingart used to justify the $30-million price of the Torrance hotel, with one expert valuing the hotel at $21.5 million and another at $22.7 million, depending on what the buyer would eventually do with the property. “I cannot imagine a world in which this is worth $30 million,” said Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. Torrance officials, who opposed the project, commissioned an appraisal that determined the hotel was only worth $10.2 million. Weingart had sought $37.7 million in state Homekey+ funds, and L.A. County committed $12 million for the project. Weingart would have pocketed a developer’s fee of more than $2 million and also would have received a subsidy to run the facility. In the face of community opposition, Weingart ultimately decided not to pursue the project. The state Homekey+ program is an offshoot of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Homekey initiative to quickly shelter homeless people by buying buildings such as hotels and motels and converting them into apartments. Homekey+ projects — funded by Proposition 1, which was approved by voters last year to increase treatment and housing beds — are required to serve veterans and individuals with mental illness or substance use disorders. California has poured $3.6 billion into three rounds of Homekey proposals since the start of the pandemic, according to the Department of Housing and Community Development, which has helped cities, counties and homeless services providers fund more than 250 projects to create more than 15,800 units of housing. The state has awarded additional funds from Proposition 1 for Homekey+ projects. Headquartered in Skid Row, Weingart is one of the area’s most prominent homeless services providers, operating or developing more than a dozen housing projects across L.A. County. Friedman said Weingart serves nearly 2,000 people daily through its network of interim and permanent supportive housing sites. Mike Mauno, a former Torrance city council member, said that after he complained to the FBI about what he suspected was the Extended Stay America hotel's overvaluation, an FBI agent asked him for a copy of Weingart’s appraisal. “It’s overvalued dramatically compared to the market,” he told The Times. “They’re overpaying for these projects — the question is why?” Weingart pulled out of the Torrance project in August, with Murray blaming the city’s resistance. “It is a shame that the City of Torrance is leaving approximately $50 Million of State and County Funding on the table which could have gone to permanently and supportively house their most vulnerable residents,” Murray said at the time. He added that developer fees “are used to cover the overhead and risk of developing and managing a complicated Real Estate Project.” Murray had argued that the project cost, which is equivalent to $414,000 per unit, including a manager’s unit, was a good deal. He said it was significantly less than building new apartments, which could run more than $700,000 a unit, making the proposal “extremely viable and cost effective.”
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Weingart Center Assn. has retained an outside law firm to probe “certain” homeless housing projects “in light of recent reporting raising questions concerning the valuation” of the projects, a spokesperson said in a statement.
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10 books to read in November, from Margaret Atwood’s new memoir to John Irving’s latest
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Great writing, even when an author sets a story in early 20th century Maine or during ancient uprisings, often sheds light on our own era. From a novel starring a sentient gale-force wind, on to a memoir from a leading African American writer, this month’s titles provide illumination as we lose daylight. Helm: A Novel By Sarah Hall Mariner Books: 368 pages, $30 (Nov. 4) U.K. inhabitants of Hall’s native Cumbria region have grappled for centuries with a wind known as “The Helm.” Different eras have deemed it a measure of divine anger or human sin, and more recently, as one of earth’s vital signs. Helm’s narration alternates with chapters from perspectives including an astrologer, an astronomer, a Crusader, an herbalist and a climatologist, each adding to the strength of the immortal force. Palaver: A Novel By Bryan Washington Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 336 pages, $28 (Nov. 4) As in his first two novels “Memorial” and “Family Meal,” Houston-based Washington weaves scenes of Americans at home and in Japan with exquisite attention both to queer culture and to emotions. “The mother” and “the son” are never named; her Jamaican origins affect his upbringing, as well as his identity. When she makes an unannounced visit to see him in Japan, the title’s gentle irony becomes apparent. Queen Esther: A Novel By John Irving Simon & Schuster: 432 pages, $30 (Nov. 4) Readers will recall Dr. Wilbur Larch from “The Cider House Rules.” Here he is the 1919 go-between for Esther Nacht, a 14-year-old Jewish refugee whom he places with the Winslow family as an au pair. Like so many women through the ages, that role results in a different kind of labor for her, one that turns this most Irving-esque (wrestling! sex!) book into writer Jimmy Winslow’s origin story. The Silver Book: A Novel By Olivia Laing Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 256 pages, $27 (Nov. 11) The 1975 murder of Italian subversive film director Pier Paolo Pasolini forms the tortured heart of Laing’s first historical novel. In 1974 protagonist Nicholas Wade leaves England and lands in Venice, where he meets Danilo Donati, costume designer for Pasolini as well as Fellini and others. Their relationship reflects those auteurs’ themes, especially those of fascism’s rebirth in Pasolini’s “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.” The White Hot: A Novel By Quiara Alegría Hudes One World: 176 pages, $26 (Nov. 11) Noted playwright Hudes pens a stunning debut novel that rends conventional notions of motherhood. Years after disappearing from her child’s life, April Soto writes her daughter Noelle a letter to read on her 18th birthday. Less apology than explanation, and less explanation than soul-searching screed, this novel has a huge voice, a woman’s attempt to create meaning from the depths of family trauma. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts By Margaret Atwood Doubleday: 624 pages, $35 (Nov. 4) Only Margaret Atwood could write a debut memoir at age 85 and make it significantly different from her previous work while at the same time infusing it with her droll wit and many passions, literary, environmental and familial. While she has always combined public and private in her acclaimed and groundbreaking novels, essays, and poetry, this volume beautifully fuses Atwood the person, and Atwood the writer. Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia By Brian Barth Astra House: 304 pages, $29 (Nov. 11) Barth, a freelance journalist, spent time in three different Bay Area encampments of unhoused people, including Oakland’s Wood Street Commons, and, as Gov. Gavin Newsom moves forward on a new task force targeting these areas for removal, he argues that solutions to homelessness should come from the ground up, with the involvement of those most affected. Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime By Sarah Weinman Ecco: 320 pages, $32 (Nov. 11) Until the 1970s in most states, a married woman could not legally refuse to have sex with her husband. The 1978 Oregon trial of John Rideout for marital rape of his wife Greta — despite his then-acquittal — raised awareness of this legislation and led to Rideout’s conviction for rape and sodomy nearly four decades later in a case involving two other partners. Weinman (“The Real Lolita”) writes with energy about a case with present-day ramifications. Revolutions: A New History By Donald Sassoon Verso: 432 pages, $40 (Nov. 18) You say you want a revolution — and historian Sassoon says: Consider your predecessors. Although we focus on hot-button moments, the long tale of these uprisings can lead to long-term instability and injustice (e.g., the young United States choosing to persist with enslavement). What is the real price of transformation? Is it worth considering when people unite against tyranny and oppression? Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975–2025 By John Edgar Wideman Scribner: 400 pages, $29 (Nov. 18) Wideman’s 1985 essay “The Language of Home” was about the power of words to capture our foundations, so it’s fitting that his new collection covering 50 years of his powerful prose mimics that essay’s title. The new title’s plural refers to the author’s constant themes, which aren’t surprising. What does surprise is his prescience about still-relevant concerns, from a disappearing middle class to police brutality.
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Our 10 recommended books for November include a memoir from Margaret Atwood and a new novel from John Irving that revisits a ‘Cider House Rules’ character.
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The power of August Wilson’s best play, ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,’ lives on at A Noise Within
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“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” arguably the finest work in August Wilson’s 10-play series chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century, is set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911. The Great Migration is underway, with millions of Black Americans moving from the rural South to the industrial North and Midwest in search of opportunity and freedom. Gregg T. Daniel, who has been making his way through Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle at A Noise Within, has infused his revival of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” with a sense of momentous transit. The characters who stop for a time at the boarding house owned and operated by Seth (Alex Morris) and his wife, Bertha (Veralyn Jones), understand that this is a way station, a place to collect oneself before continuing on the fraught journey to an unknown future. Slavery didn’t end with the Civil War, as Herald Loomis (Kai A. Ealy) knows only too well. He has arrived at the boarding house with his young daughter, Zonia (Jessica Williams), in tow. For seven years, Loomis was held captive in Joe Turner’s chain gang, abducted for being Black, forced into hard labor and separated from his wife, whom he has been searching for since his release. Loomis has a turbulent presence that casts an anxious pall over the boarding house, re-created with a background view of Pittsburgh’s bridges by scenic designer Tesshi Nakagawa. Bynum (Gerald C. Rivers), a conjure man who serves as a spiritual guide for the other residents, understands right away that Loomis is a man who has lost his song, the imprint of his soul. But Seth sees nothing but trouble from his new guest and tells Loomis he must leave by Saturday. The timing works out because Saturday is when Rutherford Selig (Bert Emmett), a peddler and touted people finder, is expected to return with news of the whereabouts of Loomis’ missing wife, Martha (Tori Danner). Before he can press on as a free man, Loomis needs to know what happened to his wife. Life keeps racing ahead whether the characters are ready or not. Jeremy (Brandon Gill), a new resident who’s part of the construction team of a new bridge but would rather be exercising his considerable skill on the guitar, is being harassed by the police when off duty and exploited by a white man when on the job. He romantically takes up first with Mattie Campbell (Briana James), who comes to Bynum to see if he can mystically bring back the man that left her. But after Molly Cunningham (Nija Okoro) flirtatiously moves in and Jeremy loses his job, his amorous attention turns to her, leaving Mattie once again in the lurch, though Loomis has already noticed what a fine “full” woman she is. Daniel’s production, put into sharper focus by Kate Bergh's costumes and Karyn Lawrence's lighting, is at its best in capturing the rhythms and rituals of daily life. The ensemble (full of A Noise Within Wilson alums) melds miraculously as the characters share meals, stories, musical ecstasy and fits of laughter. Wilson had a genius for depicting how people do and don’t get along when they haven't much choice about the company they keep. Jones, who was so brilliant in Daniel’s production of “King Hedley II” at A Noise Within is just as luminous here as the calming force at the boardinghouse. Her Bertha is the kindly, nurturing counterweight to Seth’s badgering boisterousness, a quality Morris infuses with just enough avuncular affection. The more time we spend with Gill’s Jeremy, Okoro’s Molly and James’ Mattie, the more we can appreciate the fine-drawn nature of their portraits. The revival has some acoustical static and moments of mumbling, but “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” grows more lifelike and absorbing with each scene. The spiritual standoff in the play is between Ealy’s Loomis and Rivers’ Bynum, and both actors bring a muscular reality to a reckoning that can no longer be postponed. Daniel’s staging loses its grip during the more hallucinatory scenes between the characters. The natural is a good deal more theatrically convincing than the supernatural in this production. But Ealy intensely conveys the threat of Loomis’ angry-somber brooding and Rivers lets us see that the source of Bynum's otherworldly power is his humane vision. Bynum is a seeker as well as a seer, inseparable from the struggles of his people. He shares that living sense of heritage that Wilson, who died in 2005, made the principal subject of his art. This production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” seems like a gift from the other side, that mysterious, creative realm where history is spiritualized.
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Gregg T. Daniel directs a fine production of August Wilson's 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at A Noise Within, as part of an ongoing reexamination of the playwright's 10-play cycle.
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2025-11-01T10:00:04.181Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-11-01/joe-turners-come-and-gone-noise-within-august-wilson-review
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Tyler Glasnow and Justin Wrobleski shine with Dodgers’ title hopes on the line
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Tyler Glasnow threw seven, maybe eight, pitches in the bullpen. There was no more time to wait. The red emergency light was flashing. For 14 years, Glasnow has made a nice living as a pitcher. He has thrown hard, if not always durably or effectively. There is one thing he had not done. In 320 games, from the minors to the majors, from the Arizona Fall League to the World Series, he never had earned a save. Until Friday, that is, and only after the Dodgers presented him with this opportunity out of equal parts confidence and desperation: Please save us. The winning run is at the plate with no one out. If you fail, we lose the World Series. No pressure, kid. He is not one of the more intense personalities on the roster, which makes him a good fit in a situation in which someone else might think twice, or more, at the magnitude of the moment. “I honestly didn’t have time to think about it,” Glasnow said. In Game 6 on Friday, the Dodgers in order used a starter to start, a reliever to relieve, the closer of the moment, and then Glasnow to close. In Game 7 on Saturday, the Dodgers plan to start Shohei Ohtani, likely followed by a parade of starters. Glasnow, who said he could not recall ever pitching on back-to-back days, could be one of them. “I threw three pitches,” he said. “I’m ready to go.” The Dodgers had asked him to be ready to go in relief on Friday, so he moseyed on down to the bullpen in the second inning. He didn’t really believe he would pitch. After all, Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto had thrown consecutive complete games. If Yamamoto could not throw another, Glasnow did not believe he would be the first guy called. He was not. Justin Wrobleski was, protecting a 3-1 lead, and he delivered a scoreless seventh inning. Closer Roki Sasaki was next, and the Dodgers planned for him to work the eighth and ninth. Glasnow said bullpen coach Josh Bard warned him to be on alert. Sasaki walked two in the eighth but escaped. He hit a batter and gave up a double to lead off the ninth, and the Dodgers rushed in Glasnow. “I warmed up very little, got out there,” Glasnow said. “It was like no thinking at all.” The Dodgers’ scouting reports gave Glasnow and catcher Will Smith reason to believe Ernie Clement would try to jump on the first pitch, so Glasnow said he threw a two-seam fastball that he seldom throws to right-handed batters. Clement popped up. The next batter, Andrés Giménez, hit a sinking fly ball to left fielder Kiké Hernández. Off the bat, Glasnow said he feared a hit. If the ball falls in, Giménez has a single and the Dodgers’ lead shrinks to one run. If the ball skips past Hernández, the Blue Jays tie the score. Glasnow said he had three brief thoughts, in order: 1: “Please don’t be a hit.” Hernández charged hard and made the running catch. 2: “Sweet, it’s not a hit.” Hernández threw to second base for the game-ending double play. 3: “Nice, a double play.” Wrobleski tipped his cap to his new bullpen mate. “He’s a beast, man,” Wrobleski said. “To be able to come in in that spot, it takes a lot of mental strength and toughness. He did it. I didn’t expect anything less out of him, but it was awesome.” Wrobleski was pretty good himself. The Dodgers optioned him the maximum five times last year and four times this year. He did not pitch in the first three rounds of the playoffs, and his previous two World Series appearances came in a mop-up role and during an 18-inning game. On Friday, they entrusted him with helping to keep their season alive. They got three critical outs from Wrobleski, who is not even making $1 million this season, and three more from Glasnow, who is making $30 million. “We got a lot of guys that aren’t making what everybody thinks they’re making, especially down in that bullpen,” Wrobleski said. ”We were talking about it the other day. There’s a spot for everybody. If you keep grinding, you can wedge yourself in.” He did. He was recruited by Clemson out of high school, then basically cut from the team. “They told me to leave,” he said. Did a new coach come in? “No, I was just bad,” he said. “I had like a 10.3 ERA.” Glasnow signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates out of Hart High in Santa Clarita. In the majors, the Pirates tried him in relief without offering him a chance to close. Did they fail to recognize a budding bullpen star? “I never threw strikes,” he said. "I just wasn’t that good.” We’ve all heard stories about the kid who goes into his backyard with a wiffle ball, taking a swing and pretending to be the batter who hits the home run in the World Series. Glasnow doesn’t hit. “I’ve had all sorts of daydreams about every pitching thing possible as a kid — relieving, closing out a game, starting in the World Series,” he said. “I thought about it all the time. So it’s pretty wild. I haven’t really processed it, either. I think going out to be able to get a save in the World Series is pretty wild.” The game-ending double play was reviewed by instant replay, so Glasnow missed out on the trademark closer experience: the last out, immediately followed by the handshake line. Instead, everyone looked to the giant video board and waited. Eventually, an informal line formed. “I got some dap-ups,” he said. He smiled broadly, then walked out into the Toronto night, the proud owner of his first professional save. For his team, and for Los Angeles, he had kept the hope of a parade alive.
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Tyler Glasnow comes out the bullpen and gets the final three outs for the Dodgers and Justin Wrobleski provides solid relief in World Series Game 6 win.
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Dodgers
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2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T10:00:14.361Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-11-01/dodgers-tyler-glasnow-justin-wrobleski-world-series
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Firefighters urged mass Altadena evacuations. It took three hours for command center to act
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The Eaton fire was cutting a destructive path into Altadena and parts of northern Pasadena just before midnight Jan. 8 when some fire officials urged more widespread evacuations. With home after home going up in flames, several Los Angeles County firefighters on the ground suggested to incident commanders that the rest of the nearby foothill communities, from Altadena west into La Cañada Flintridge, be evacuated. Most of east Altadena had been evacuated, but residents on the west side had not yet been told to flee. They were not even under an evacuation warning. For unknown reasons, it took another three hours — and in some cases even longer — for officials to issue west Altadena mandatory evacuation orders. By then, homes in the area were on fire and residents were in danger, as embers rained down on streets and smoke filled bedrooms and obscured sight lines. In the end, all but one of the 19 people who died in the Eaton fire were found in this section of Altadena. The evacuation recommendation, revealed in county documents released last month, raises new questions about the L.A. County Fire Department's handling of the Eaton Fire. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who represents Altadena, conceded this week that the county fire department was responsible for what she called "a gap" between when evacuation alerts were needed and actually ordered. "That was where the breakdown was," Barger told The Times. "There was a gap there." West Altadena received its first evacuation order at 3:25 a.m., four hours after 911 callers started reporting smoke and flames in the area. Some parts of west Altadena weren't evacuated until just before 6 a.m. The Times first reported in January the disparity between when the fire threatened west Altadena and when residents were ordered to leave. Barger pointed specifically to the period from 1:12 a.m. to 3 a.m., when the Office of Emergency Management received no direction to send out evacuation alerts, a finding from the after-action report on evacuations. That report, conducted by the McChyrstal Group at the request of county supervisors, found that during that time period "ember cast from the main fire and from downed power lines caused spot fires west of Lake Avenue after midnight on Jan. 8 and accelerated in the following hours." Lake Avenue is the unofficial divider between east and west Altadena. It's historically significant since the avenue served as a discriminatory redlining boundary for home loans in the early 20th century and confined Black homebuyers to western neighborhoods. The population of east Altadena, which received evacuation orders within an hour of the Eaton fire's ignition, remains much whiter than that of unincorporated neighborhoods to the west. L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone declined to be interviewed for this story. But agency spokesperson Heidi Oliva said Marrone "is committed to ensuring the Department continues to improve for future fires." In response to questions about whether the department should be considered at fault for the delayed evacuation alerts, Oliva only said that the department "agrees with Supervisor Barger that Unified Command makes and executes evacuation decisions." A unified command structure is typically how California officials respond to major fires, with several agencies joining forces. During the first hours of the Eaton fire, L.A. County Fire was one of the main agencies responding, but formed a unified command with other local fire agencies, including from Pasadena and the Angeles National Forest, as well as other first responder agencies, including the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and Office of Emergency Management. Oliva did not directly answer questions about why the pre-midnight evacuation recommendation from staff in the field wasn't acted upon. Instead she pointed to the "massive, unprecedented natural disaster" that county fire officials faced that night, with the Eaton, Palisades and Hurst fires all igniting the same day during severe winds that grounded aircraft for hours and limited situational awareness. "Unified command did their very best to identify evacuation zones to be alerted based on the information available to them at that time," Oliva said in a statement. "When unified command learned that the fire was seen north of Lake and moving west, it validated and acted to issue the orders that were sent out by OEM." Oliva did not explain why it took hours for officials to realize the fire was threatening west Altadena, despite evidence from 911 calls, radio traffic and the recommendation from firefighters in the field. She did, however, say that the county fire department "is committed to continuing to learn and improve." The agency has now made it a "best practice" to surround evacuation orders with evacuation warnings, something the McChrystal report recommended. McChrystal investigators found out about the suggestion to enact more widespread evacuations just before midnight "during the interview process," according to the report. But the only other mention of this communication in the report says that "Unified Command staff did not recall this occurring and reported that the fire front of the Eaton Fire was not moving west into those areas at that time." The Times requested more information about the evacuation recommendation, but the McChrystal Group declined to share anything beyond what was in the report. A request for related records to the county has not yet been filled. Shawn Tyrie, a McChrystal Group partner who worked on the report, said in an interview that his team was unable to uncover any evidence about what happened to that pre-midnight recommendation. While he didn't want to speculate, he said there were many potential reasons that a call to evacuate may not not have been acted upon, noting findings in the report of poor internet access, spotty cell service, short-staffing and overall chaos during the unprecedented conflagration fueled by hurricane-force winds. “It could have been a technical issue," Tyrie said. "It could have been somebody got busy and didn’t push the right button. Who knows?” Part of the reason it has been so hard to pin down exactly what happened is the structure of that unified command. While the command structure is designed to encourage collaboration, it also divides responsibility and accountability, Tyrie said. “It does leave responsibility and actual command authority as this kind of ambiguous thing," Tyrie said, noting that this is a common practice across the country. “There tends to be someone that's running the incident command post. But there is really not even any room in the guidance in the county code to say that, definitively, Person X is in charge.” While the report was not intended to assign blame for the delayed evacuation alerts, he said that task could be challenging if officials decide to go that route. He said the "vast majority" of communication the night of the fire was through radio calls, text messages or shared in person, with little notetaking. “It’s difficult to go back and do a forensic audit of how was the decision-making actually made," Tyrie said. Though the report didn't make clear why west Altadena got such late alerts, it detailed a process that put L.A. County Fire at the helm of the delayed evacuation alerts. "For the Eaton Fire, the evacuation zones receiving evacuation warnings and orders were identified by LACoFD staff as part of Unified Command," the report said. "They were then communicated to OEM ... who then selected the zones in the Genasys EVAC system and thereafter send evacuation messages out via the Genasys ALERT system." L.A. County has a contract with Genasys to send out its wireless emergency alerts, which ping cellphones within a designated geographical area. The L.A. Sheriff's Department was a part of unified command, but the report found that LASD officials were not "always initially aware in real time of what zones were designated for evacuation." There are other ongoing reviews of the fire response, including a probe initiated by the governor which should have access to more data from a wider array of agencies, Barger said. Only county agencies participated in the McChrystal after-action review, which was requested by L.A. County supervisors at a price tag of almost $2 million. "There are still a lot of things that the community wants to better understand as it related to what went wrong," Barger said. She hopes the independent review ordered by the state can provide more answers. That review, which looks at the entire 2025 Los Angeles firestorm, is being conducted by UL Research Institutes' fire safety research arm, according to the institutes' spokesperson, Natalie Haack. She said there wasn't yet a release date for the findings, but Barger thought it could come in the next few weeks. Still, Barger said she believes the county is better prepared to respond to wildfires, given all that has been learned since January. "I am,100%, confident that we are ready," Barger said. "I do believe that the lessons learned have definitely ... [helped] to restructure from within an emergency management department that actually is going to meet the needs of the 10 million residents of L.A. County."
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County Supervisor Kathryn Barger conceded this week that county fire department was responsible for "a gap" between when evacuation alerts were needed and actually ordered.
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California
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2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T10:00:07.172Z
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/firefighters-urged-evacuations-three-hour-delay
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5-Acre Estate in Pasadena
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The finest work of renowned architect Reginald D. Johnson, this majestic 1928 Monterey Colonial estate is set on five acres in the heart of Pasadena. The Bauer/Cannell Estate & Gardens represents the union of architectural and horticultural artistry. Owned by only two families over its 96-year history, the estate was designated in the City of Pasadena survey of Historic Gardens and is recognized as a contributing property in the proposed National Register Historic District. Most recently, the property was selected as the 2025 Pasadena Showcase House of Design, in which 30 top designers remodeled and redesigned the estate for a month-long celebration of philanthropic events. Location: 1220 Hillcrest Avenue, Pasadena 91106 Asking Price: $22,000,000 Year Built: 1928 Living Area: 15,533 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms Features: Renowned architect Reginald D. Johnson; owned by only 2 families over the 96 years; 2025 Pasadena Showcase House of Design; guest house; tennis court; pool house; circular drive leads to a motor court with a 10-car garage; 18 grandly scaled rooms; 10 rooms with wood-burning fireplaces Contact: Compass Ted Clark, DRE#: 01074290 626.817.2123 [email protected] www.tedandheather.com Heather Lillard, DRE#: 01892752 323.363.3610 [email protected] www.tedandheather.com
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Own the historic $22M Bauer/Cannell Estate, a 1928 Reginald D. Johnson-designed Monterey Colonial on 5 acres in Pasadena, featuring 15,533 sq ft, a guest house, and pool, and recently selected as the 2025 Pasadena Showcase House.
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LA County Homes
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2025-11-01T07:00:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T07:00:00.318Z
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https://www.latimes.com/brandpublishing/hotproperty/los-angeles-county/story/1220-hillcrest-avenue-pasadena-ca-91106
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Timeless Design and Contemporary Living Converge
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At 1300 Monaco Drive, timeless design and contemporary living converge on the coveted east end of the Riviera. The residence unfolds with great scale and volume, where sunlight and proportion create interiors that are as inviting as they are refined. An approximately 800-square-foot guest house (not included in the property’s square footage) extends the home’s versatility, while an oversized sports court introduces a dynamic dimension to the estate’s program. Beyond the privacy gates, the grounds are defined by lush landscaping and an expansive grassy yard, establishing a resort-like atmosphere. Location: 1300 Monaco Drive, Pacific Palisades 90272 Asking Price: $7,995,000 Living Area: 5,087 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms Features: A sparkling pool anchors the outdoors, framed by terraces for al fresco dining, thoughtfully placed BBQ and sitting areas, and entertaining. An exceptional estate that checks all the boxes in a prime Riviera location. Contact: Carolwood Estates Richard Ehrlich 310.968.8881 [email protected] www.Carolwoodre.com DRE#: 01267136
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Discover 1300 Monaco Drive, a $7.995M estate on the Riviera's east end with 5,087 sq ft, a separate guest house, pool, expansive grounds, and a sports court, blending timeless design with contemporary resort living.
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LA County Homes
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2025-11-01T07:00:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T07:00:00.888Z
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https://www.latimes.com/brandpublishing/hotproperty/los-angeles-county/story/1300-monaco-drive-pacific-palisades-ca-90272
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Hamptons-style Home in Prestigious Upper Riviera
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Brand-new Hamptons-style home in prestigious Upper Riviera, one of the Westside’s most coveted addresses. Spanning approx. 7,850+ sq ft, it offers 6 bedrooms, including a main floor attached ADU. Designed with timeless elegance and modern convenience, highlights include a floating staircase, grand living and dining rooms, walnut office cabinetry, gourmet kitchen with a full suite of Sub-Zero/Wolf appliances, white oak floors, smart wiring, theater, gym, wine room, elevator, saltwater pool, spa and built-in cover. A rare blend of privacy, craftsmanship and luxury in one of L.A.’s most exclusive neighborhoods. Location: 1675 San Remo Drive, Pacific Palisades 90272 Asking Price: $17,250,000 Year Built: 2025 Living Area: 7,841 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms Features: Main floor junior primary suite with sitting room, large bedroom, kitchenette and luxurious bathroom. Theater; gym; family room; game room; wine room; pool and spa. Contact: Sotheby’s International Realty Steven Moritz 310.871.3636 [email protected] www.stevenmoritz.com DRE#: 00928961
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Discover a brand-new $17.25M Hamptons-style luxury estate in Pacific Palisades' Upper Riviera, featuring 7,841 sq ft, a main-floor ADU, elevator, theater, gym, wine room, and a saltwater pool/spa.
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LA County Homes
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2025-11-01T07:00:00.000Z
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2025-11-01T07:00:01.443Z
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https://www.latimes.com/brandpublishing/hotproperty/los-angeles-county/story/1675-san-remo-drive-pacific-palisades-ca-90272
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Mater Dei rallies from 21 points down to upset St. John Bosco
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Mater Dei trailed 24-3. The Trinity League title appeared destined to belong to St. John Bosco, another win to cap an undefeated for the consensus No. 1 team in the nation. Until Chris Henry Jr. emerged for two touchdowns and 214 yards on five receptions. “He could be a track star,” said Mater Dei coach Raul Lara, referencing Henry’s 70-yard touchdown catch near the end of the second quarter. Until Kayden Dixon-Wyatt took over alongside his teammate — both Ohio State commits — and turned on the burners for three second-half scores. “I wish I could be the quarterback,” Lara joked about his senior wide receivers. Testing the wide receiver corps of Mater Dei — who outpowered the Braves’ impressive trio of Division I-committed receivers — left St. John Bosco hapless on Friday night in Bellflower. Mater Dei (7-2, 4-1) finished on a 33-7 run, Ryan Hopkins tossing five touchdowns in that span to help the Monarchs defeat St. John Bosco 36-31 in comeback fashion. Hopkins finished 13-of-21 passing for 295 yards and the five touchdowns. All of the doubts over the Monarchs’ regular-season campaign could be close to washed away as the second-half domination confirmed another year when Mater Dei at least owns a share of the Trinity League title. Since Santa Margarita (7-3, 4-1) also won Friday — defeating JSerra 41-14 — the Eagles, along with Mater Dei and St. John Bosco (9-1, 4-1) earned a share of the Trinity League crown. Defensive stands set up plays such as Henry’s 70-yard touchdown grab to cut the Braves’ lead to seven with 4:12 remaining in the third quarter. Mater Dei defensive back CJ Lavender Jr. forced and recovered a fumble in the first quarter to set up the Monarchs’ first points: a field goal. Lavender then intercepted St. John Bosco sophomore quarterback Koa Malau'ulu twice more. One pick created a silver-platter touchdown for Dixon-Wyatt, who finished with four receptions for 46 yards and three touchdowns, while the other turnover allowed Mater Dei to seal the game on fourth and 10 from its own 10-yard line. “Anything he threw, I was going to go get it,” said Lavender, who now has a team-high seven interceptions on the season. Before the final interception — which came with 1:34 remaining in the game — St. John Bosco was driving. An unsportsmanlike penalty even provided the Braves at first and inches from the goal line. But a bad snap to Malau'ulu pushed the Braves backward to the seven-yard line. A run for a loss brought St. John Bosco to the 10-yard line that then led to an interception. Henry, who hadn’t played since Oct. 10 against Orange Lutheran, said he was itching to get back out on the field to play St. John Bosco. “It was really difficult,” Henry said of his time off the field. “But I was ready for a game like this.” Henry will have plenty more opportunities upcoming in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs, starting next week. The trio of Trinity League teams likely will see Sierra Canyon (10-0) — which finished its Mission League-winning campaign with a 52-3 victory over Loyola — among the teams they could face off against in the playoffs.
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The Monarchs dominate in the second half to earn a share of the Trinity League title with Santa Margarita and the Braves.
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High School Sports
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2025-11-01T06:52:26.569Z
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2025-11-01T06:52:26.569Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2025-10-31/mater-dei-st-john-bosco-football-game-recap
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Jueces ordenan usar fondos de contingencia para el programa de alimentos SNAP durante el cierre
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Dos jueces federales fallaron casi simultáneamente el viernes que la administración del presidente Donald Trump debe seguir financiando el SNAP, el programa de ayuda alimentaria más grande del país, utilizando fondos de contingencia durante el cierre del gobierno. Los jueces en Massachusetts y Rhode Island dieron a la administración la opción de financiar el programa parcial o completamente para noviembre. Eso también trae incertidumbre sobre lo que sucederá a continuación y retrasará los pagos para muchos beneficiarios, cuyas tarjetas por lo general se recargan a principios de mes. El Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos (USDA) planeaba congelar los pagos al Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria a partir del 1 de noviembre, argumentando que ya no podía seguir financiándolo debido al cierre. El programa ayuda a uno de cada ocho estadounidenses, es una pieza clave de la red de seguridad social del país y cuesta alrededor de 8.000 millones de dólares mensuales a nivel nacional. La senadora Amy Klobuchar, demócrata de Minnesota e integrante de la Comisión de Agricultura del Senado que supervisa el programa de ayuda alimentaria, dijo que los fallos del viernes de jueces nominados al tribunal por el expresidente Barack Obama confirman lo que los demócratas han estado diciendo: "La administración está eligiendo no alimentar a los estadounidenses necesitados, a pesar de saber que está legalmente obligada a hacerlo". Fiscales estatales o gobernadores demócratas de 25 estados, así como el Distrito de Columbia, desafiaron el plan de pausar el programa, argumentando que la administración tiene la obligación legal de mantenerlo en funcionamiento en sus jurisdicciones. La administración federal dice que no tiene permitido utilizar un fondo de contingencia con alrededor de 5.000 millones de dólares para el programa, y revirtió un plan del Departamento de Agricultura de antes del cierre que decía que se utilizaría dinero para mantener funcionando el SNAP. Los funcionarios demócratas dicen que no solo se puede, sino que se debe de usar ese dinero. También dijeron que hay otro fondo por separado con alrededor de 23.000 millones de dólares disponibles para la causa. En un caso presentado por ciudades y organizaciones sin fines de lucro, el juez federal John J. McConnell falló en Providence, Rhode Island, que el programa debe ser financiado utilizando al menos los fondos de contingencia, y pidió una actualización sobre el avance para el lunes. Además de ordenar al gobierno federal que use reservas de emergencia para respaldar los beneficios del SNAP, McConnell dictaminó que todas las exenciones de requisitos laborales anteriores deben respetarse. Durante el cierre, el Departamento de Agricultura ha terminado con las exenciones que eximían de requisitos laborales a adultos mayores, veteranos y otros. Hubo elementos similares en el caso de Boston, donde la jueza federal Indira Talwani dictaminó en una opinión escrita que el USDA tiene que pagar por el SNAP, y calificó la suspensión de “ilegal”. Ordenó al gobierno federal que informe al tribunal para el lunes si usarán los fondos de contingencia para proporcionar beneficios reducidos del SNAP en noviembre o financiarán completamente el programa “utilizando tanto los fondos de contingencia como fondos adicionales disponibles”. “La suspensión de los pagos del SNAP por parte de los demandados se basó en la conclusión errónea de que los Fondos de Contingencia no podían usarse para asegurar la continuación de los pagos de SNAP”, escribió la jueza. “Este tribunal ha aclarado ahora que los demandados están obligados a usar esos Fondos de Contingencia según sea necesario para el programa SNAP”. Después del fallo, no estaba claro qué tan rápido podrían recargarse las tarjetas de débito que los beneficiarios usan para comprar alimentos. Ese proceso a menudo toma de una a dos semanas. La administración no dijo de momento si apelará los fallos. Los estados, bancos de alimentos y beneficiarios del SNAP se han estado preparando para un cambio abrupto en cómo las personas de bajos ingresos pueden obtener alimentos. Defensores y beneficiarios dicen que detener la ayuda alimentaria obligaría a las personas a elegir entre comprar alimentos y pagar otras facturas. La mayoría de los estados han anunciado más financiamiento, o más rápido, para bancos de alimentos o formas novedosas de cargar al menos algunos beneficios en las tarjetas de débito utilizadas en el programa. A lo largo de Estados Unidos, defensores que llevaban semanas alertando sobre el corte inminente de beneficios del SNAP dejaron escapar un pequeño suspiro de alivio el viernes cuando se emitieron los fallos, aunque reconocieron que la victoria es temporal y posiblemente incompleta. "Miles de bancos de alimentos sin fines de lucro, despensas y otras organizaciones en todo el país pueden evitar la carga imposible que habría resultado si los beneficios del SNAP se hubieran detenido", dijo Diane Yentel, presidenta y directora general del Consejo Nacional de Organizaciones Sin Fines de Lucro, uno de los demandantes en el caso de Rhode Island. Cynthia Kirkhart, directora general del Banco de Alimentos Facing Hunger, en Huntington, Virginia Occidental, dijo que su organización y las despensas a las que sirve en Kentucky, Ohio y Virginia Occidental mantendrán sus horas extra este fin de semana, sabiendo que las personas cuyos subsidios suelen llegar al inicio del mes no los verán. “Lo que sabemos, a menos que la administración sea mágica, es que nada va a suceder mañana”, sentenció. Kristle Johnson, una estudiante de enfermería a tiempo completo de 32 años y madre de tres en Florida, está preocupada por la posibilidad de que llegue menos ayuda. A pesar de comprar carne al por mayor, planificar cuidadosamente las comidas y no comprar comida chatarra, dijo que la ayuda de 994 dólares mensuales no cubre los alimentos de todo el mes. "Ahora tengo que lidiar con alguien que quiere deshacerse de todo lo que tengo para mantener a mi familia a flote hasta que yo pueda mejorar", dijo Johnson sobre Trump. En una conferencia de prensa en Washington el viernes, la secretaria de Agricultura, Brooke Rollins, cuyo departamento administra al SNAP, dijo que los fondos de contingencia en cuestión no cubrirán por mucho tiempo el costo del programa de apoyo alimenticio. Hablando en una conferencia de prensa junto con el presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Mike Johnson, en el Capitolio, la funcionaria culpó a los demócratas por negarse a poner fin a su obstrucción en el Senado y llegar a un acuerdo presupuestal con los republicanos. Un esfuerzo esta semana para mantener la financiación del SNAP durante el cierre del gobierno fracasó en el Congreso. Para calificar al SNAP en 2025, el ingreso neto de una familia de cuatro después de ciertos gastos no puede exceder la línea de pobreza federal, que es de aproximadamente 31.000 dólares al año. El año pasado, el programa proporcionó asistencia a 41 millones de personas, casi dos tercios de las cuales eran familias con niños. “La decisión del tribunal protege a millones de familias, personas mayores y veteranos de ser utilizados como palanca en una lucha política y sostiene el principio de que nadie en Estados Unidos debería pasar hambre”, dijo Skye Perryman, presidenta y directora general de Democracy Forward, sobre la decisión de Rhode Island.
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El programa ayuda a uno de cada ocho estadounidenses
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"Vida y Estilo"
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EEUU
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2025-11-01T06:44:33.514Z
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2025-11-01T06:44:33.514Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/jueces-ordenan-usar-fondos-de-contingencia-para-el-programa-de-alimentos-snap-durante-el-cierre
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Troy Terry scores twice in Ducks’ victory over Detroit Red Wings
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Troy Terry scored two goals and added an assist to lead the Ducks to a 5-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night. Leo Carlsson had a goal and three assists and Mason McTavish and Chris Kreider also scored for the Ducks. Lukas Dostal had 28 saves. Alex DeBrincat and Lucas Raymond had a goal and an assist each for the Red Wings, who came into the game on a three-game winning streak. John Gibson had 27 saves for Detroit. DeBrincat's goal came on the power play. Terry opened his scoring for the Ducks in the first period with a short-handed wrist shot 4:53 into the period, assisted by Drew Helleson and Carlsson. He added an empty-net goal with 2:32 remaining. Kreider's fifth of the season came just 55 seconds into the third period and gave the Ducks a 4-2 lead. Up next for Ducks: vs. New Jersey Devils at Honda Center on Sunday night.
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Troy Terry scored two goals and added an assist to lead the Anaheim Ducks to a 5-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings.
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"Hockey"
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Ducks
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2025-11-01T06:33:31.207Z
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2025-11-01T06:33:31.207Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/hockey/ducks/story/2025-10-31/ducks-vs-detroit-red-wings-troy-terry
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Miguel Rojas’ ‘energy infusion’ is what Dodgers needed in World Series Game 6 win
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Miguel Rojas knows his role. “A utility guy who can play different positions, who can really play defense,” he said. Turns out that was exactly what the Dodgers needed Friday in Game 6 of the World Series. And Rojas was up to the task, making four splendid plays in the field to preserve a 3-1 win that sent the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays to a deciding Game 7 on Saturday. “Miggy played the heck out of second base and made some huge plays,” manager Dave Roberts said. “We were hoping for that kind of energy infusion. We got that from Miggy.” The biggest play was the last one. With one out in the ninth and Toronto’s Addison Barger at second base, representing the tying run, Andrés Giménez sliced a broken-ball liner to left field. The Dodgers’ Kiké Hernández got a great jump on the ball and made a running catch, followed by a poor throw to second in an attempt to double off Barger. The ball took a tricky hop but Rojas stuck with it, catching the ball behind his left knee and hanging on as the retreating Barger knocked him to the ground. Rojas rolled on his back and pumped him right arm three times in celebration. “I was coming in full speed so I didn't want to really throw hard, because I was probably going to throw it over his head,” Hernández said. “Unbelievable pick by Miggy. I didn't give him the best of throws.” “Yeah, pretty epic ending there,” Rojas added with a smile. Without that play, the Dodgers’ season could have come to an end Friday — and with it, Rojas’ time in Dodger uniform. He’ll be a free agent after the World Series and, at 37 next season, there’s no guarantee he’ll be back in L.A. So he said he went into Game 6 determined to extend his time as a Dodger one more day. “I started my career here. This is special because they gave me an opportunity when nobody really did in back in 2013 when I was a minor league free agent,” he said. “I will never forget that.” Since then, Rojas has gone from the Dodgers to the Miami Marlins and back again. He’s gone from being a utility player to being an everyday shortstop and back again. But what hasn’t changed is the preparation and grit he brings to the game when he does play. Friday’s start was his first since Game 2 of the National League Division Series and just his second appearance in 23 days. Yet with the season on the line, Roberts wrote Rojas’ name in the lineup in the most important game of the year. “I just really wanted Miggy in there,” he said. “He's been a really glue guy for our club this year, and I just feel that having him in the lineup infuses some extra intensity. On the defensive side, too. “I wanted him to be in the lineup.” Rojas didn’t disappoint. In the third, he saved a run when he slid to his right to backhand a Giménez shot up the middle. An inning later he made a quick turn on a chopper from Daulton Varsho to start one of three double plays he was involved with. And then in the seventh he took a hit away from Barger when he bare-handed a high hopper and threw to first, beating the runner by half a step. That also saved a run since Ernie Clement followed with a double to the wall. “In these kinds of games, you always have to do your part,” he said. “It doesn't matter what you do. It can be on the defensive side. Can be on the offensive side. It can be on the bases. “Play the game one pitch at a time and don't take any pitches off. That's the reason why we were able to make really good plays, big plays when we needed to.” That’s also the reason Rojas and the Dodgers will get to do it one more time on Saturday. “Game 7. Amazing,” Hernández said. “This is what we dream of ever since we were little kids. We always put ourselves in the backyard in Game 7 of the World Series. “Baseball deserves a Game 7. This has been a great, great World Series. Both teams have played their butts off. Tomorrow is just going to be a one-game series and see who plays better tomorrow to win a World Series.”
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Second baseman Miguel Rojas made four splendid plays in the field to preserve a 3-1 win that sent the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays to a deciding Game 7.
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Dodgers
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2025-11-01T06:25:03.170Z
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2025-11-01T06:25:03.170Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-10-31/dodgers-miguel-rojas-world-series-game-6-double-play
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Shohei Ohtani expected to start World Series Game 7 for Dodgers
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The Dodgers have forced a Game 7 in the World Series. And Shohei Ohtani is expected to be their starting pitcher. In what will be just four days removed from his six-plus-inning, 93-pitch start in Game 4 of this World Series, Ohtani will likely serve as the team’s opener in Saturday’s winner-take-all contest, according to a person with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak publicly. While Ohtani almost certainly won’t make a full-length start, he should be able to get through at least two or three innings (depending on how laborious his outing is). Four or five innings might not be out of the question, either, even in what will be only his second career MLB outing pitching on three days’ rest. The only time Ohtani did so was in 2023, when he followed a rain-shortened two-inning start at Fenway Park against the Red Sox with a seven-inning outing four days later. Saturday, of course, will come under entirely different circumstances, in what will be the first seventh game in a World Series since 2019. By starting Ohtani, the Dodgers would ensure they wouldn’t lose his bat for the rest of the game, thanks to MLB’s two-way rules. If he were to enter in relief during the game, the only way he could stay in afterward is if he shifted to the outfield (since MLB’s rules stipulate that a team would lose the DH spot under such circumstances). Starting him also eliminates any complications that would come with trying to find him time to warm up if his spot in the batting order arose the inning prior — something that would have made it potentially more difficult for him to be able to close out the game. Ohtani has completed six innings in each of his three previous pitching appearances this postseason, with a 3.50 ERA and 25 strikeouts in 18 innings. The Dodgers should have options behind Ohtani. Tyler Glasnow will likely be available after needing just three pitches to get the save in Friday’s wild finish. Blake Snell also said he would be available after his Game 5 start back on Wednesday. In the bullpen, Roki Sasaki figures to be at manager Dave Roberts’ disposal, as well, despite throwing 33 pitches in one-plus inning of work on Friday. Roberts said everyone short of Game 6 starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto would be available.
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Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani is expected to start Game 7 of the World Series against Toronto just four days removed from his 93-pitch effort in Game 4.
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Dodgers
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2025-11-01T05:36:02.401Z
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2025-11-01T05:36:02.401Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-10-31/shohei-ohtani-expected-to-start-world-series-game-7-dodgers-blue-jays
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Clippers beat Pelicans on Kawhi Leonard’s last-second shot
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Kawhi Leonard made a buzzer-beater and finished with 34 points to give the Clippers a 126-124 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night in the first game of the NBA Cup group stage for both teams. Leonard pump-faked to get Jeremiah Fears up in the air and then rose up for a long two-point shot to win it after Zion Williamson had tied the score with 9.6 seconds remaining by making two free throws. James Harden had 24 points and 14 assists, and the Clippers have won all three home games to start the season. Derrick Jones Jr. scored 16 points, and Ivica Zubac had 14 points and 11 rebounds. Jordan Poole had 30 points and made seven three-pointers, Williamson finished with 29 points, but the Pelicans remained winless through five games. It is their worst start since dropping eight in a row to begin the 2016-17 season. The Clippers had led by as many as 17 in the second half but their struggles to defend the Pelicans’ shooting from three-point range made things harder than they had to be. New Orleans ended up 18 of 37 (48.6%) from three, but it wasn’t enough to overcome a dynamic showing by the Clippers, led by Harden as both a scorer and distributor. Harden had 14 points and five assists in the second quarter alone, including a four-point play when Yves Missi didn’t give him room to land on a long three. Clippers: Host the Miami Heat on Monday. Pelicans: Visit the Thunder in Oklahoma City on Sunday.
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Leonard finishes with 34 points to help the Clippers win their third consecutive home game to start the season. James Harden contributes 24 points and 14 assists.
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Clippers
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2025-11-01T05:26:00.370Z
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2025-11-01T06:04:03.597Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2025-10-31/los-angeles-clippers-new-orleans-pelicans-game-recap
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Luka Doncic returns and Lakers get a road win at Memphis
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Luka Doncic didn’t celebrate when he sank his first half-court heave during warmups. He didn’t gloat when coaches dutifully dropped to the court to pay the pushup price. The Lakers superstar just makes greatness feel expected. Doncic’s 44 points, 12 rebounds and six assists led the Lakers to a 117-112 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday at FedEx Forum as he returned from a three-game absence. The 26-year-old guard has scored 40 points in each of his three games this season. The only thing that’s slowed him down is injuries: a left finger sprain and a left leg contusion suffered in the second game of the season in which he still put up 49 points. Doncic scored 16 points in the third quarter to lead the Lakers (4-2) back from a 16-point halftime deficit. Austin Reaves, who has starred in Doncic’s absence, finished with 20 points. After missing the Lakers’ thrilling win in Minnesota on Wednesday, Doncic rejoined the team Thursday in Memphis and promptly went to the gym with coaches and staff members. He and guard Marcus Smart (left quad contusion) participated in shoot-around Friday and went directly into the starting lineup. Doncic returned like he never left. He was hitting step-back threes and hopping on one leg as he admired the arc on his shot. He pivoted around and through a double team and faded away deep in the shot clock, ready to sink Memphis’ hopes with his signature jump shot. But instead of shooting, he dumped off a pass to a wide-open Deandre Ayton, who scored on a wide-open layup. Doncic split a double team with a slick behind-the-back dribble that drew oohs and ahhs from the Memphis crowd. The crafty finish at the rim put the Lakers up by four. Hometown fans wondered how the Grizzlies were staying so close when it felt like Doncic had the game on a string. While Doncic was carrying the Lakers, the Grizzlies (3-3) fought back as a unit. Memphis answered with 19 consecutive points. Six different players scored during the run as the Grizzlies led by 16 at halftime. Doncic had no trouble responding. He opened the third quarter with a three-pointer. Reaves followed with another. The Lakers flipped the halftime deficit to a two-point lead going into the fourth quarter despite playing the entire second half without Ayton. When Ayton returned to the sideline with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter, trainers continued to work on his back. The team didn’t provide an immediate update on the starting center who finished with 12 points, three rebounds and four assists.
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After a three-game absence, the superstar guard finishes with 44 points, 12 rebounds and six assists to help the Lakers improve to 4-2.
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Lakers
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2025-11-01T04:19:39.051Z
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2025-11-01T04:19:39.051Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2025-10-31/los-angeles-lakers-memphis-grizzlies-game-recap
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Now that’s more like it! Dodgers recapture mojo, survive scary World Series Game 6
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The Dodgers, it turns out, chose the perfect costume in which to parade on this scariest of Halloween nights. They came dressed as the Dodgers. The Yoshinobu-Yamamoto-firing Dodgers. The Mookie-Betts-blasting Dodgers. The energetic-and-inspired Dodgers. The listless team of the previous two games was gone. The passionate team of the previous month was back. Earlier this week fans were asking, who are those guys? On Friday they emphatically answered that question by finally, forcefully, being themselves. Faced with elimination in Game 6 of the World Series, the Dodgers rose from the presumed dead to haunt the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre with a 3-1 victory to knot the duel at three games apiece. And they did with the most unlikely of saves, a game-ending double play on a lineout that Kiké Hernández caught in left field and, while sprinting toward the infield, threw to Miguel Rojas at second base, where he made a scooped catch to double up Addison Barger. The Blue Jays began the inning with runners on second and third and none out. They ended it watching the Dodgers celebrate around Rojas on second base, their golden opportunity to clinch their first title in more than three decades having disappeared under a welcome wave of Dodger savvy. How on earth does Toronto come back from something like that? “Wild way to finish it, for sure… baseball happens sometimes,” said Toronto Manager John Schneider. How on earth can the Dodgers not gain insurmountable momentum from something like that? “I feel great,” said Dodger Manager Dave Roberts. “I feel great.” The Dodgers' quest to become the first team in 25 years to win consecutive World Series championships lives. Game 7, Saturday night in Toronto, awaits. And Shohei Ohtani The Starting Pitcher appears. “We're going to leave it out there,” said Roberts. “I don't think that the pressure, the moment's going to be too big for us. We got to go out there and win one baseball game. We've done that all year. Everyone's bought in.” The stage is indeed set for all sorts of dramatics after a night when the Dodgers took an early three-run lead on the back of slump-busting Betts and then cruised to victory on the back of another brilliant pitching performance by Yamamoto and a surprising three-inning shutdown from the Dodger bullpen. It didn’t end smoothly, but it ended splendidly, after reliever Roki Sasaki began the ninth by hitting Alejandro Kirk in the hand with a two-strike pitch, then Barger hit a ball to center field that lodged under the outfield padding for a ground-rule double. With runners on second and third and no out, Tyler Glasnow made an emergency appearance and recorded that memorable save, retiring Ernie Clement on a first pitch popout and ending the game by inducing Andrés Giménez into a lineout that Hernandez perfectly threw to Rojas. “He's one of the headiest baseball players I've ever been around,” said Roberts of Hernández. “And even just getting off on the ball, the awareness to get to his arm, get the ball into second base. He's just a heck of a baseball player.” The Dodgers have been here before. It was just last year, in fact, when they needed consecutive wins against the San Diego Padres in the division series to save their season. They calmly won both and rolled to a championship. A similar path could end in a similar destination this weekend after the Dodgers rebounded from two lifeless losses at Dodger Stadium to weather the loud Game 6 storm with calm and cohesion. “Yeah, I mean, we all know that everything has to go perfect for us to be able to pull this off,” said Teoscar Hernández before the game. So far, so good, beginning Friday with the much-maligned Betts, who was the biggest villain of the Dodgers hitting drought with a .130 World Series average while stranding 25 consecutive baserunners. He had been dropped to third in the batting order in Game 5, and then dropped again to fourth for Game 6, and it finally worked, as he knocked a two-strike fastball into left field to drive in two runs and give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead. “He’s one of our guys,” said Roberts of Betts. “I'm going to, as they say, ride or die with him.” Next up, Yamamoto, who followed consecutive complete games by giving up one run on five hits in six innings. “We can’t afford to lose,” said Yamamoto through an interpreter. Enter the bullpen, which had given up nine runs in the Dodgers three losses in this series. But Glasnow, Sasaki and Justin Wrobleski combined to pitch three scoreless innings, and when that happens, anything can happen. “I'm excited, it's going to be fun,” said Will Smith, who doubled in the Dodgers’ first run. “We work all year long to be in this situation to win a ball game and win a World Series. So it should be a fun one tomorrow.” That fun actually began a day earlier when Roberts did his best Tommy Lasorda imitation by literally leaving it all on the field during Thursday’s day off. He challenged speedster Hyeseong Kim to a race around the bases, and gave himself a generous head start, but as Kim was passing him up around second base, Roberts tripped and fell flat on his face. The moment was caught on a video that quickly spread over social media and actually led the FOX broadcast before Friday’s game. Roberts looked silly. But Roberts also looked brilliant, as his pratfall injected some necessary lightness into the darkening team mood. He lost, but he won. “Of course it makes you smile and it makes you have a good time,” said Rojas. “When the head of the group is…loose like that, and he's willing to do anything, that's what it tells everybody, that he will do anything for the team.” Now it’s down to one game, and one team that will once again do anything for each other. The Dodgers are back. Advantage Dodgers.
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Earlier this week fans were asking, who are those guys? On Friday they emphatically answered that question by finally, forcefully, being themselves.
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Dodgers
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2025-11-01T03:49:36.976Z
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2025-11-01T04:46:00.000Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-10-31/dodgers-blue-jays-world-series-game-6-kike-hernandez
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Facing elimination, Dodgers force Game 7 with dramatic World Series victory over Blue Jays
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The play that saved the Dodgers’ season started with a sound, and a feeling. There was a faint crack of a broken bat. A ball that was momentarily lost in the lights. And a player with more postseason experience than anyone else in Dodgers history, making the right read, and the perfect play, at the most critical juncture of the entire year. In the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 6 of the World Series on Friday night, the Dodgers were in danger of succumbing to disaster. The two-run lead they’d held for much of the evening was suddenly under threat. The Toronto Blue Jays had the tying runs in scoring position with nobody out. The Dodgers had removed closer Roki Sasaki to call on potential Game 7 starter Tyler Glasnow in emergency relief. And inside a sold-out Rogers Centre, the hopes of an entire nation had turned the scene deafening. On each pitch, however, the raucous crowd of 44,710 would briefly quiet down, and collectively hold its breath. What happened next could be the defining moment of this World Series. At the very least, it helped seal the Dodgers’ 3-1 win and force a Game 7 back here on Saturday night. Andrés Giménez hit a one-out line drive to left that was just a little too far off the end of his bat, cracking the lumber as the ball made impact. In the outfield, Kiké Hernández heard the sound, and let instinct take over as he ran to field it. “For a split second, as Glasnow threw the ball, the crowd got quiet,” Hernández said afterward. “I was able to hear that the bat broke, so I just got a really good jump on the ball. And I came in.” By breaking in toward the infield, Hernández was in perfect position to make the highlight reel play that followed: He caught the ball on the run, despite losing it in the lights ever so briefly; contorted his body to quickly throw to second, having peripherally “felt” baserunner Addison Barger drift too far off the bag; then delivered a one-hop strike that was cleanly picked off the dirt by teammate Miguel Rojas. Double play. Game over. See you tomorrow night. "Pretty epic ending there,” Rojas said. “That was just wild,” Mookie Betts added. “He caught it, threw him out, it was kind of crazy,” Glasnow echoed. “Like, there wasn't enough time to think.” Entering Friday night, the Dodgers had nothing but time to think about the position they had put themselves in, coming to Toronto facing elimination after lackluster performances in Games 4 and 5. That latter contest had been one of the longest nights of the Dodgers’ season. And it grew even longer when their flight back to Canada was delayed. First, a faulty engine pump light in the cockpit forced the plane to return to the gate. Then, there was a long wait on the aircraft to be refueled after the initial gas truck broke down. At one point, the players — who fly separately from the coaching staff and the rest of the organization’s traveling party — contemplated staying the night in Los Angeles, and trying to fly out again in the morning. But by then, they had already stewed on their Game 5 clunker long enough. They wanted to get to Toronto, prepare for an off-day workout Thursday, and begin the daunting task of trying to win consecutive games and preserve their repeat-title dreams. “I gave our players an option to not work out today, because of the long series and 18 innings [in Game 3] and the travel and all that stuff,” manager Dave Roberts said the next afternoon. “And not one guy took the option. So that was pretty exciting for me. It just speaks to where these guys are at. ... We’re gonna keep going, and keep fighting.” Friday’s fight started with a shift of approach from the Dodgers’ recently scuffling and overly passive offense: Be aggressive, swing often, and don’t live in fear of striking out or making mistakes. “When you want to do so good, you press, and you start being really careful about your move and about your pitch selection and all that,” Rojas said. “Yeah, we have a plan, and we got to execute the plan. But … I feel like all we have to do is free ourselves up when we go to the plate.” It didn’t lead to pretty results early. In the first two innings, the Dodgers struck out five times in six straight outs, swung at 22 of Kevin Gausman’s first 32 pitches and whiffed on 12 while fouling off several fastballs he left in the zone. Undeterred, the Dodgers kept hacking. And in the top of the third, they finally came to life. Tommy Edman and Will Smith ambushed Gausman for doubles, leading to the night’s opening run. Then, with the bases loaded later in the inning, Betts came up and snapped his three-for-24 slump to start the series. After a strong day of work in batting practice Thursday, which Roberts said had Betts’ swing looking as good as it had at any point in this series, the shortstop squared up a fastball from Gausman and sent it screaming through the left side of the infield for a two-run single. As he pulled into first base, Betts clapped toward the dugout, then slapped his hands against his thighs in an outburst of relief. It marked the first time the Dodgers had scored more than two runs in an inning since Game 4 of the NL Championship Series, and it gave pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto an early lead to protect. “It felt great to come through for the boys,” Betts said. “I was able to pull the ball. ... Get some pace, some athletic swings.” The rest of the night was tense. The Dodgers wouldn’t score again against Gausman, who completed his six-inning start by retiring the final 10 batters he faced. Yamamoto, coming off complete games in his previous two starts, gave one run back in the bottom of the third but also limited the damage in his own six-inning outing, finishing with a sixth and final strikeout that stranded two runners on base. Roberts rolled the dice in the seventh, turning to rookie left-hander Justin Wrobleski to face the bottom of the Blue Jays’ order. He gave up a two-out double to Ernie Clement, but bounced back by striking out Giménez to retire the side — and let out a fired-up yell as he walked off the mound. Then, as the Dodgers squandered a bases-loaded opportunity in the eighth, Sasaki got ready for a potential six-out save. The first three did not come easy, with the right-hander — pitching for only the second time this series — having to wiggle out of a two-on jam. Then, in the ninth, he invited more danger, hitting Alejandro Kirk with a two-strike splitter before giving up a scorching line drive that Barger laced to left-center. That play would be the first big break of the inning for the Dodgers. The ball was hit so hard, it got wedged in the base of the wall for an automatic double. Defensive replacement Justin Dean was closest to it in center field, but (along with Hernández) wisely threw his hands up before trying to field it. That helped ensure the umpires recognized the situation. There were still no outs in the inning, but the Blue Jays' runners were forced to return to second and third. “That’s probably the first time [in my life I’ve been the one] getting the ball” on such a play, Dean said afterward. “It’s just something you’re taught from an early age. Like, ‘Hey, if you see this, throw your hands up.’ ... Literally just instincts.” Two batters later, instincts took over again for Hernández. After Glasnow entered and got one quick out, he heard Giménez’s bat break on the line drive to left. The sound helped Hernández come in on the ball immediately, but he did have to contend with the lights. Asked if he went into panic mode then, he answered with a laugh: “When the World Series is on the line, I was willing to get hit in the face.” Eventually, of course, the ball came back into sight. And as soon as Hernández fielded it, he said he could subconsciously “feel” that his best play was to second — where Barger, who had broken toward third on contact in hopes the ball would drop, was frantically trying to scramble back. “It's just, the play's in front of you, and you feel the play,” said Hernández, the veteran utilityman who passed Justin Turner earlier in this Fall Classic for the most postseason games played ever by a Dodger (Friday was his 91st with the team, and 102nd of his career). “I guess maybe that comes with playing everywhere. But like, you don't have to look to get an idea where the runners are. You feel it.” The instinct was indeed correct. And with the help of Rojas’ clutch scoop, the out call was confirmed on a video review. “One of the headiest baseball players I've ever been around,” Roberts said of Hernández. “When he hit the ball,” Rojas added. “I thought there wasn't a chance.” Instead, the Dodgers poured out of the dugout as Betts leapt into Hernández's arms. The noise inside Rogers Centre vanished, and this time for more than a breath. Now, the Dodgers will go to Game 7, when Ohtani is expected to start on the mound and Glasnow and Blake Snell could help in relief. They will live to see one final day, ensuring (this time, thankfully) that their return flight home was once again delayed. “This is what we dream of,” Hernández said. “I think baseball deserves a Game 7,” Even if it took a sound, and a feeling, to help make it happen.
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Mookie Betts busts out of his slump and Kiké Hernández executes an incredible game-ending double play as the Dodgers prevail in Game 6 of the World Series.
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"Dodgers",
"Sports"
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Dodgers
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2025-11-01T03:39:59.243Z
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2025-11-01T07:51:00.000Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-10-31/dodgers-defeat-toronto-blue-jays-world-series-game-6
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Yamamoto y Dodgers fuerzan a 7mo juego de la Serie Mundial, con victoria sobre Azulejos
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto venció a Toronto por segunda vez en una semana, Mookie Betts se desperezó con un sencillo de dos carreras en una tercera entrada de tres anotaciones y los Dodgers de Los Ángeles, campeones defensores, se impusieron el viernes 3-1 sobre los Azulejos para llevar la Serie Mundial a un séptimo y decisivo encuentro. Yamamoto no estuvo tan afinado como en su juego completo de cuatro hits en el segundo compromiso de esta serie, el primer juego completo de la Serie Mundial en una década. De cualquier modo, duró seis entradas y permitió apenas un sencillo impulsor en la tercera por parte de George Springer, quien regresó después de perderse dos juegos por una lesión en el costado derecho. Los relevistas novatos Justin Wrobleski y Roki Sasaki se combinaron para conseguir seis outs antes de que el abridor Tyler Glasnow saliera del bullpen para escapar de un aprieto en la novena entrada y rescatar a los Dodgers. Glasnow necesitó sólo tres lanzamientos para lograrlo. Con corredores en segunda y tercera y sin outs , hizo que Ernie Clement elevara su primer pitcheo hacia el cuadro para un out fácil . Luego, el venezolano Andrés Giménez conectó una línea al jardín izquierdo, que el puertorriqueño Kiké Hernández convirtió en una doble matanza para terminar el juego. Hernández atrapó la bola corriendo entre el bosque izquierdo y el central y lanzó a la segunda base, donde el venezolano Miguel Rojas hizo una difícil jugada, recogiendo la bola de un bote para retirar a Addison Barger. “Estaba jugando un poco más adelante de lo que se me requería. Pero dada la situación, con un tipo realmente rápido en segunda base, pensé, ‘¿sabes qué? Voy a jugar realmente, realmente adelante. Si la golpea sobre mi cabeza, bien por él’. Siento que su poder es más hacia el lado de halar", dijo Hernández. “De alguna manera pude escuchar que el bate se rompió incluso con esa multitud. Lo loco es que no tenía idea de dónde estaba la bola porque estaba en las luces todo el tiempo. Pero dada la situación en el juego, la Serie Mundial en riesgo y lo bien que estaba bateando esta noche, pensé, ‘me va a golpear en la cara, pero no voy a detenerme. No voy a frenar’. Y al final, la bola salió de las luces y fue a mi guante.” Fue la primera doble matanza 7-4 para terminar un juego en la historia de la postemporada, según el Elias Sports Bureau. "Le di un tiro realmente difícil de atrapar. Creo que fue una mejor atrapada que una buena jugada de mi parte”, dijo Hernández. Sasaki golpeó al mexicano Alejandro Kirk con un lanzamiento de 0-2 para comenzar la entrada, y Barger conectó un doble de terreno entre el jardín izquierdo y el central —la pelota se quedó atascada en el acojinado al pie de la barda. Fue entonces cuando el manager de los Dodgers, Dave Roberts, llamó a Glasnow. “Simplemente sentí que en ese momento, Roki no estaba tan afinado y sentí que Glas es un tipo que tiene cosas para hacer fallar el swing y simplemente quería apostar por él", dijo Roberts. "Ha estado ansioso por tener un impacto.” Max Scherzer abrirá el séptimo juego el sábado por la noche para los Azulejos. El tres veces ganador del premio Cy Young también comenzó el séptimo juego de la Serie Mundial de 2019, en el que se fue sin decisión cuando Washington ganó el título sobre Houston. “Estos muchachos son realmente buenos en simplemente pasar la página”, dijo el manager de Toronto, John Schneider. “Ese es un final salvaje. Me encanta la forma en que jugamos.” Por los Dodgers, el dominicano Teoscar Hernández de 4-0. El boricua Hernández de 4-0. El venezolano Rojas de 3-0. Por los Azulejos, el dominicano Vladimir Guerrero Jr. de 3-1. El mexicano Kirk de 3-0. El venezolano Giménez de 4-0. _____ Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
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"RONALD BLUM"
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto venció a Toronto por segunda vez en una semana, Mookie Betts se desperezó con un sencillo de dos carreras en una tercera entrada de tres anotaciones y los Dodgers de Los Ángeles, campeones defensores, se impusieron el viernes 3-1 sobre los Azulejos para llevar la Serie Mundial a un séptimo y decisivo encuentro.
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"Deportes",
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Deportes
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2025-11-01T03:35:09.173Z
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2025-11-01T03:35:09.173Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/deportes/articulo/2025-10-31/yamamoto-y-dodgers-fuerzan-a-7mo-juego-de-la-serie-mundial-con-victoria-de-3-1-sobre-azulejos
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LAPD captain claims city pushed misleading statement to justify police tactics at protest
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It was April 2021 and the LAPD was facing sharp criticism over its handling of mass protests against police brutality. The Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles complaint accused officers of firing less-lethal weapons at demonstrators who posed no threat, among other abuses. Smith said the assistant Los Angeles city attorney wanted his signature on a prewritten sworn declaration that described how LAPD officers had no choice but to use force against a volatile crowd hurling bottles and smoke bombs during a 2020 protest in Tujunga. He refused to put his name on it. Instead, eight months later, Smith filed his own lawsuit against the city, alleging he faced retaliation for trying to blow the whistle on a range of misconduct within the LAPD. Smith and his attorneys declined to be interviewed by The Times, but evidence in his lawsuit offers a revealing look at the behind-the-scenes coordination — and friction — between LAPD officials and the city attorney's office in defense of police use of force at protests. Smith's lawsuit says he felt pressured to give a misleading statement to cover up for reckless behavior by officers. The captain's claim, filed December 2021 in Los Angeles Superior Court, has taken on new significance with the city facing fresh litigation over LAPD crowd control tactics during recent protests against the Trump administration. The 2020 protests led to a court order that limits how LAPD officers can use certain less-lethal weapons, including launchers that shoot hard-foam projectiles typically used to disable uncooperative suspects. The city is still fighting to have those restrictions lifted, along with others put in place as a result of a separate lawsuit filed in June by press rights organizations. Last month, City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto drew a rebuke from the City Council after she sought a temporary stay of the order issued by U.S. District Judge Hernán D. Vera. Feldstein Soto argued that the rules — which prohibit officers from targeting journalists and nonviolent protesters — are overly broad and impractical. Vera rejected Feldstein Soto's request, but the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is taking up the matter, with a hearing tentatively set for mid-November. Smith said in his lawsuit that he wouldn't put his name on the Tujunga declaration because he had reviewed evidence that showed officers flouting LAPD rules on beanbag shotguns, as well as launchers that fire 37mm and 40mm projectiles — roughly the size of mini soda cans — at over 200 mph. Smith's lawsuit said the launchers are intended to be “target specific,” or fired at individuals who pose a threat — not to disperse a crowd. Smith said he raised alarms for months after the Tujunga protest, which occurred amid outrage over the police killings nationwide of Black and Latino people at the end of President Trump's first term. But it wasn't until the city got sued, Smith's complaint said, that incidents he flagged started to receive attention. The city has denied the allegations in Smith's lawsuit, saying in court filings that each LAPD use of force case was thoroughly investigated. Smith's lawsuit cites emails to senior LAPD officials that he says show efforts to sanitize the department's handling of excessive force complaints from the protests. An internal task force deemed most of the citizen complaints "unfounded." Yet nearly two dozen of those cases were later reopened after Smith and a small team of officers found that the department's review missed a litany of policy violations, his lawsuit says. Smith also called out what he saw as "problematic bias" in the way what occurred at the Tujunga protest was reported up the chain of command. His complaint describes a presentation given to then-Chief Michel Moore that downplayed the severity of the damage caused by less-lethal projectiles. According to Smith, the report omitted photos of "extensive injuries" suffered by one woman, who said in a lawsuit that she had to undergo plastic surgery after getting shot in the chest at close range with a beanbag round. The LAPD stopped using bean-bag shotguns at protests after a state law banned the practice, but the department still allows officers to use the weapons in other situations, such as when subduing an uncooperative suspect. Alan Skobin, a former police commissioner and a friend of Smith's, told The Times he was in the room when Smith received a call in April 2021 from the city attorney's office about the declaration he refused to sign. The exchange appeared to turn tense, Skobin recalled, as Smith repeated that details contained in the document were a "lie." Skobin said he wondered whether the assistant city attorney went "back and examined the videotaped and all the other evidence.” “That’s what I would hope would happen,” Skobin said. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles city attorney, Karen Richardson, provided The Times with a California State Bar report that said there was insufficient evidence to discipline the lawyer involved; the case was closed in June 2024. Richardson declined further comment, citing Smith's pending lawsuit. According to Smith, other high-ranking LAPD officials went along with the misleading story that the officers in Tujunga acted in response to being overwhelmed by a hostile crowd. Smith claims he faced retaliation for reporting a fellow captain who said police were justified in using force against a protester who held a placard turned sideways "so that the pole can be used as a weapon against officers." Body camera footage showed a different version of events, Smith said, with officers launching an unjustified assault on the man and others around him. The colleague that Smith reported, German Hurtado, has since been promoted to deputy chief. The city has denied the allegations in court filings. When reached for comment on Friday, Hurtado said he was limited in what he could say because the litigation is ongoing. “From what I understand all that’s been investigated and it was unfounded,” he said, referencing Smith’s allegations. “The lawsuit, I don’t know where it’s and I don’t know anything about it. No one’s talked to me. No one’s deposed me.” Critics argue that the LAPD continues to violate rules that prohibit targeting journalists during demonstrations. After a peaceful daytime "No Kings Day" protest downtown Oct. 18, about 100 to 200 people lingered outside downtown's Metropolitan Detention Center after nightfall. Police declared an unlawful assembly and officers began firing 40mm projectiles. Lexis-Olivier Ray, a reporter for the news site L.A. Taco who regularly covers demonstrations, was among those hit by the rounds. In a video shared widely online, an LAPD officer can be heard justifying the incident by saying they were firing at "fake" journalists. An LAPD spokesperson said the incident with Ray is under internal investigation and could offer no further comment. Ray said it wasn’t the first time he'd been struck by less-lethal rounds at protests despite years of legislation and court orders. “It’s pretty discouraging that stuff like this keeps happening,” he said. LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell defended the department at the Police Commission's weekly meeting Tuesday, saying the "No Kings" protesters who remained downtown after dark were shining lasers at officers, and throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks. Asked about the incident involving Ray, the chief said he didn't want to comment about it publicly, but would do so "offline" — drawing jeers from some in the audience who demanded an explanation. McDonnell told the commission that he supported the city's efforts to lift the court's injunction. Easing the restrictions, he said, would "allow our officers to have access to less-lethal force options so that we don't have to escalate beyond that." Times staff writer Noah Goldberg contributed to this report.
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"Libor Jany"
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A lawsuit filed by an LAPD captain offers a revealing look at the behind-the-scenes coordination — and friction — between police officials and the city attorney’s office.
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"California",
"L.A. Politics ",
"Crime & Courts"
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California
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2025-11-01T03:10:11.272Z
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2025-11-01T04:07:35.517Z
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-31/lapd-protest-use-of-force-lawsuit
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Cuba dice que no recibió ayuda concreta de EEUU tras el paso de ciclón pese a declaraciones
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Las autoridades cubanas aseguraron el viernes que pese a la declaración pública del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos con una inusual oferta de ayuda humanitaria tras el paso del destructivo huracán Melissa por la isla, no han recibido ningún tipo de propuesta o envío concreto. “Solo conocemos declaraciones públicas, que no equivalen ni es como se canaliza ayuda en casos de desastre”, dijo en una declaración escrita enviada a The Associated Press el vicecanciller Carlos Fernández de Cossío. “Hasta ahora Estados Unidos no ha formulado ofrecimiento de ayuda concreta alguna. Sí lo han hecho otros países y organizaciones internacionales”, agregó el diplomático. La víspera en un comunicado de prensa el Departamento de Estado aseguró que ese país estaba “listo para ayudar al pueblo cubano” tras el devastador paso de Melissa y brindar “asistencia humanitaria inmediata directamente y a través de socios locales que puedan entregarla de manera más efectiva a los necesitados”. Es habitual que Estados Unidos ofrezca apoyo a los países aliados en la región ante casos de desastres naturales, pero con Cuba mantiene una fuerte disputa. Las relaciones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos se encuentran en máxima tensión tras la llegada de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca y su secretario Marco Rubio, quienes han endurecido las sanciones contra la isla impuestas hace más de seis décadas buscando un cambio de modelo político. Las medidas contemplan desde la prohibición de viajes o la persecución de barcos con combustible a la isla hasta multas para las empresas de terceros países que comercien con Cuba. El huracán Melissa atravesó el oriente cubano el miércoles con fuertes vientos e inundaciones que arrasaron cosechas –plátano, yuca y café entre las más afectadas--, destruyeron viviendas, tiraron postes de luz y cableado telefónico, pero no ocasionaron víctimas mortales como las decenas reportadas en Jamaica y Haití. Unas 735.000 personas fueron evacuadas de lugares vulnerables. El ciclón llegó a la nación caribeña en momentos en que atraviesa una fuerte crisis económica con desabastecimiento, cortes de luz y emigración. "Alentamos a aquellos que buscan apoyar directamente al pueblo cubano a que se comuniquen con nosotros si hay algún problema”, dijo el comunicado del Departamento de Estado. Sin embargo, el vicecanciller Fernández de Cossío recordó que desde hace muchos años “existen vías establecidas en Cuba” para los envíos de familiares y organizaciones diversas desde Estados Unidos. Miles de toneladas de productos –alimentos, electrodomésticos, generadores eléctricos o medicinas—llegan a Cuba cada semana enviadas por parientes y amigos a los suyos en la isla. ———— Siga a Andrea Rodríguez en X: https://x.com/ARodriguezAP
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"ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ"
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Las autoridades cubanas aseguraron el viernes que pese a la declaración pública del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos con una inusual oferta de ayuda humanitaria tras el paso del destructivo huracán Melissa por la isla, no han recibido ningún tipo de propuesta o envío concreto.
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"EEUU",
"Noticas-Más",
"Internacional",
"Nota Roja",
"Medio Ambiente"
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EEUU
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2025-11-01T02:20:46.025Z
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2025-11-01T02:20:46.025Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/cuba-dice-que-no-recibio-ayuda-concreta-de-eeuu-tras-el-paso-de-ciclon-pese-a-declaraciones
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Hombre de Chicago cuya hija lucha contra el cáncer es liberado bajo fianza por jueza de inmigración
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Un hombre de Chicago cuya hija de 16 años está recibiendo tratamiento para combatir un cáncer en etapa avanzada será puesto en libertad bajo fianza y podrá regresar a casa, dictaminó el jueves una jueza de inmigración. Rubén Torres Maldonado, un mexicano de 40 años que se dedica a pintar y renovar casas, fue detenido el 18 de octubre en una tienda Home Depot en los suburbios de Chicago. Sus abogados solicitaron que sea liberado mientras su caso de deportación se resuelve en los tribunales. La jueza Eva S. Saltzman destacó el jueves que Torres Maldonado no tiene antecedentes penales como uno de los argumentos para permitir que sea liberado con una fianza de 2.000 dólares. "Estamos agradecidos de que la jueza haya tomado hoy la decisión humana y de sentido común de reunir a Rubén Torres Maldonado con su familia mientras enfrentan esta desafiante crisis de salud de su hija", afirmó su abogado, Kalman Resnick, en un comunicado. Resnick añadió que su cliente será puesto en libertad el jueves o viernes, y que está solicitando la residencia permanente en Estados Unidos. La hija de Torres Maldonado, Ofelia Torres, fue diagnosticada en diciembre pasado con una rara y agresiva forma de cáncer de tejido blando conocida como rabdomiosarcoma alveolar metastásico y ha estado recibiendo quimioterapia y radioterapia. "No puedo esperar para ver a mi papá", dijo Ofelia en un comunicado. "Necesitamos que esté en casa conmigo y nuestra familia". En un video publicado en una página de GoFundMe creada para su familia, Ofelia describió a su padre como una "persona trabajadora que se levanta de madrugada y se va a trabajar sin quejarse, pensando en su familia". Torres Maldonado y su pareja, Sandibell Hidalgo, también tienen un hijo de 4 años. Hidalgo agradeció a la jueza, a su comunidad y a las personas que han seguido la historia de la familia, la cual acaparó titulares a nivel nacional este mes. "Estamos muy agradecidos con todas las personas que han donado a nuestro GoFundMe, nos han traído la cena y nos han brindado apoyo emocional", dijo en un comunicado. El arresto de Torres Maldonado se produjo después de varias semanas de tensiones y tácticas cada vez más agresivas por parte de los agentes federales de inmigración involucrados en la Operación Midway Blitz, la cual ha resultado en más de 3.000 arrestos en el área metropolitana de Chicago. El juez de distrito de Estados Unidos, Jeremy Daniel, dijo la semana pasada que la detención de Torres Maldonado es ilegal y viola sus derechos al debido proceso. Pero Daniel también recalcó que no podía ordenar su liberación inmediata. "Aunque simpatizo con la difícil situación que enfrenta la hija del solicitante debido a sus problemas de salud, el tribunal debe actuar dentro de las limitaciones de los estatutos, reglas y precedentes relevantes", escribió el juez el viernes. El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional argumenta que Torres Maldonado ha estado viviendo sin autorización legal en Estados Unidos desde hace años, después de ingresar al país en 2003.
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"CHRISTINE FERNANDO"
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Un hombre de Chicago cuya hija de 16 años está recibiendo tratamiento para combatir un cáncer en etapa avanzada será puesto en libertad bajo fianza y podrá regresar a casa, dictaminó el jueves una jueza de inmigración.
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"EEUU",
"Noticas-Más",
"Política",
"Internacional",
"California",
"Nota Roja",
"MIGRACIÓN"
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EEUU
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2025-11-01T02:07:30.170Z
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2025-11-01T02:07:30.170Z
|
https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/hombre-de-chicago-cuya-hija-lucha-contra-el-cancer-es-liberado-bajo-fianza-por-jueza-de-inmigracion
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Manifestantes exigen la renuncia del gobernador tras redada policial letal en Río de Janeiro
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Cientos de manifestantes marcharon el viernes en una de las favelas donde se efectuó la redada policial más letal en la historia de Río de Janeiro, la cual dejó más de 100 muertos, exigiendo la renuncia del gobernador del estado de Río, Cláudio Castro, en medio de persistente indignación por el operativo. Residentes locales, políticos, activistas, madres afligidas que perdieron a sus hijos en operaciones anteriores, y personas de otros barrios de Río de Janeiro se reunieron para expresar su furia en Vila Cruzeiro, parte del complejo de favelas Penha, donde días antes los residentes colocaron en el piso decenas de cuerpos que habían recogido de un área verde cercana tras la redada. Al menos 121 personas murieron en el operativo del martes, incluidos cuatro policías, según la policía. La oficina del defensor público de Río dice que 132 personas perdieron la vida. “¡Cobarde, terrorista, asesino! Sus manos están manchadas de sangre”, denunció Anne Caroline Dos Santos, de 30 años, refiriéndose a Castro, aliado del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro y opositor del presidente izquierdista Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Castro ha acusado al gobierno federal de abandonar a Río en su lucha contra el crimen organizado, una afirmación que el gobierno de Lula ha refutado. Dos Santos acudió desde la favela más grande de Brasil, Rocinha, en la zona sur de Río, para expresar su indignación. Al igual que muchos otros manifestantes, acusó a las fuerzas policiales de cometer tortura y ejecuciones extrajudiciales. "Ahora las madres están luchando para recuperar los cuerpos de sus hijos y enterrarlos", manifestó, y añadió que había perdido a un amigo en la operación. Muchas tiendas han reabierto desde que cerraron esta semana, pero todavía había señales en las calles de los eventos recientes, incluidos autos quemados que fueron utilizados como barricadas contra el ingreso de la policía al barrio de bajos ingresos. Muchos vestían de blanco, lo que un manifestante dijo simbolizaba su deseo de paz, y algunas camisetas tenían manos rojas impresas. Otros sostenían carteles que decían: "dejen de matarnos", o llevaban calcomanías que rezaban: "basta de masacres". “Esto es una desgracia para Brasil”, lamentó Leandro Santiago, de 44 años, quien vive en Vila Cruzeiro y se gana la vida con su motocicleta, proporcionando paseos y haciendo entregas. "Nada justifica esto". La redada del martes, llevada a cabo por unos 2.500 policías y soldados, estaba enfocada en la notoria banda Comando Rojo en las favelas Complexo de Alemão y Complexo da Penha. Los objetivos declarados de la operación eran capturar a sus líderes y limitar la expansión territorial del Comando Rojo, que ha aumentado su control sobre las favelas en los últimos años, pero también se ha extendido por Brasil, incluso en la selva amazónica. Los miembros de la banda recibieron a los policías con disparos y otras represalias, lo cual desató escenas de caos en toda la ciudad. Castro indicó el martes que Río está en guerra contra el "narcoterrorismo", un término que evoca el usado por el gobierno del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump en su campaña contra el contrabando de drogas en América Latina. Dijo que la operación había sido un éxito. El gobierno estatal señaló que los muertos eran criminales que se resistieron a la policía. Pero el número de fallecidos, el más alto jamás registrado en una operación policial en Río, provocó condenas de grupos defensores de los derechos humanos y de Naciones Unidas, al igual que un intenso escrutinio por parte de las autoridades. El Supremo Tribunal Federal, fiscales y legisladores le ordenaron a Castro proporcionar información detallada sobre el operativo. Alexandre de Moraes, juez del Supremo Tribunal Federal, programó una audiencia con el gobernador del estado y los jefes de la policía militar y civil en Río para el 3 de noviembre. Gran parte de la furia en Vila Cruzeiro el viernes era contra Castro. Algunos manifestantes lo llamaron "asesino" y exigieron su renuncia, o incluso que sea enviado a prisión. “El gobernador dijo que estaba haciendo esta operación para combatir el narcotráfico. Pero necesitamos asfixiar a quienes lo financian. Necesitamos políticas que busquen abordar la corrupción”, declaró Mónica Benício, concejala local y viuda de la concejala asesinada Marielle Franco. "El asesinato de jóvenes en las favelas no es una política pública, es una masacre", añadió. Mientras que algunos en Brasil —particularmente votantes y políticos de derecha— elogiaron la operación contra la banda fuertemente armada, otros cuestionaron si lograría resultados duraderos, y argumentaron que muchos de los muertos eran de bajo rango y fácilmente reemplazables. El gobierno estatal indicó el viernes que, de los 99 sospechosos identificados hasta ahora, 42 tenían órdenes de arresto pendientes y al menos 78 tenían antecedentes penales extensos. Pero el periódico local O Globo señaló que ninguno de los 99 nombres fue acusado formalmente por la fiscalía pública de Río de Janeiro en la investigación que respaldó la operación principal. En la protesta muchos condenaron el estado en que se encontraron los cuerpos, de los cuales al menos uno estaba decapitado, mientras que otros fueron hallados con heridas de arma blanca o atados. Adriana Miranda, una abogada de 48 años presente en la manifestación del viernes, dijo que incluso si los jóvenes asesinados eran sospechosos de participar en el crimen organizado, de todas formas tenían derechos. "Las sospechas deben ser investigadas. Hay todo un procedimiento establecido en el Código Penal y el Código de Procedimiento Penal que debe seguirse", expresó. "La Constitución garantiza los derechos de todos".
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"ELÉONORE HUGHES"
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Cientos de manifestantes marcharon el viernes en una de las favelas donde se efectuó la redada policial más letal en la historia de Río de Janeiro, la cual dejó más de 100 muertos, exigiendo la renuncia del gobernador del estado de Río, Cláudio Castro, en medio de persistente indignación por el operativo.
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[
"Internacional",
"Nota Roja"
] |
Internacional
|
2025-11-01T01:57:20.735Z
|
2025-11-01T01:57:20.735Z
|
https://www.latimes.com/espanol/internacional/articulo/2025-10-31/manifestantes-exigen-la-renuncia-del-gobernador-tras-redada-policial-letal-en-rio-de-janeiro
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Maduro acusa a EEUU de tratar de imponer una narrativa para justificar un ataque contra Venezuela
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El presidente Nicolás Maduro volvió a acusar a Estados Unidos de tratar de imponer una narrativa “extravagante” para justificar un ataque contra Venezuela y un cambio de régimen en el país sudamericano. Los estadounidenses “siempre nos quieren imponer un relato, una narrativa”, señaló Maduro el viernes durante la clausura de un encuentro de parlamentarios del Caribe por la paz celebrado en Caracas. “Puedo decir que la narrativa que ha elegido el poder estadounidense contra la Venezuela digna, pacífica y bolivariana, es una narrativa extravagante, mentirosa y además calumniosa, con la dignidad de un pueblo decente, trabajador”, aseveró el gobernante ante las acusaciones de Washington que señalan a Venezuela como una pieza importante en el narcotráfico internacional. Los señalamientos de Maduro se dan en momentos de creciente tensión entre Venezuela y Estados Unidos por el despliegue de buques de guerra estadounidenses en aguas frente a la nación sudamericana. El gobierno de Trump dice que el despliegue busca combatir las amenazas de los cárteles de drogas latinoamericanos. Desde septiembre, las fuerzas militares de Estados Unidos han implementado una serie de ataques contra embarcaciones sospechosas de contrabando de drogas en el mar Caribe, incluidos al menos cuatro botes que afirman partieron de Venezuela. Ninguno ha tenido lugar en el mar territorial venezolano. “La verdad es que Venezuela es inocente y todo lo que se está haciendo contra Venezuela es para justificar una guerra, un cambio de régimen y robarnos la inmensa riqueza petrolera, que es la principal reserva petrolera y la cuarta reserva de gas del mundo”, agregó. A inicios de agosto Washington duplicó a 50 millones de dólares una recompensa por información que dé con la captura de Maduro, a quien acusó formalmente de narcoterrorismo. Maduro recalcó que son infundadas las denuncias y que buscarían desestabilizar a su gobierno. “Hoy quieren imponer una agenda permanente de amenazas de guerra, amenazas militares, guerra psicológica. Y yo siempre le digo al pueblo de Venezuela: nervios de acero, calma, cordura y máxima unión nacional. La fórmula para que nuestro país no se desvíe del camino que hemos tomado”, acotó el mandatario.
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El presidente Nicolás Maduro volvió a acusar a Estados Unidos de tratar de imponer una narrativa “extravagante” para justificar un ataque contra Venezuela y un cambio de régimen en el país sudamericano.
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[
"EEUU",
"Noticas-Más",
"Política",
"Internacional"
] |
EEUU
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2025-11-01T01:53:54.392Z
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2025-11-01T01:53:54.392Z
|
https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/maduro-acusa-a-eeuu-de-tratar-de-imponer-una-narrativa-para-justificar-un-ataque-contra-venezuela
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Juez ordena arresto de ex boina verde vinculado a golpe fallido en Venezuela tras faltar a juicio
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Un juez federal en Tampa ordenó el viernes el arresto de un ex boina verde acusado de planear invadir Venezuela en 2020 porque no se presentó en la corte para una audiencia sobre si debería ser detenido por violar las condiciones de su libertad previo al juicio. Jordan Goudreau, de 49 años, fue arrestado el año pasado por cargos de contrabando de armas relacionados con el fallido intento de golpe de Estado llevado a cabo durante la primera administración del presidente Donald Trump. Fue liberado después de unas semanas en la cárcel cuando la cineasta Jen Gatien puso su apartamento de 2 millones de dólares en Manhattan, donde vivía con el veterano de combate, como garantía para una fianza. En su testimonio esta semana, Gatien detalló cómo Goudreau, quien tiene tres Estrellas de Bronce, se volvió abusivo, alegando que amenazó con hacerle daño a ella y a otros y envió mensajes de texto diciendo que no volvería a la cárcel. “Creo que tiene la intención de dejar este país algún día”, afirmó Gatien, señalando que Goudreau anteriormente vivió en un velero en México. El juez Christopher Tuite emitió una orden de arresto el viernes después de esperar 30 minutos a que Goudreau se presentara para el tercer día de la audiencia de fianza. Un oficial de libertad condicional dijo que el monitor de tobillo que Goudreau debía usar todavía estaba ubicado en el área de Tampa, donde el acusado vivía mientras recibía terapia asistida por equinos supervisada por el Departamento de Asuntos de Veteranos. “Estoy desconcertada”, expresó al juez la abogada de Goudreau, Marissel Descalzo. “No he hablado con él sobre por qué no está aquí”. El nuevo documental de Gatien, “Men of War”, es una mirada en gran medida comprensiva al improvisado plan de Goudreau para entrenar una fuerza mercenaria de desertores del Ejército venezolano en el vecino Colombia para llevar a cabo una incursión transfronteriza que tenía como objetivo desencadenar una rebelión popular y destituir al presidente Nicolás Maduro. El complot, expuesto por The Associated Press dos días antes de la incursión, nunca tuvo una oportunidad contra las fuerzas de seguridad muy superiores de Maduro y terminó con varios golpistas muertos y dos miembros de las Fuerzas Especiales de Estados Unidos, compañeros de Goudreau, encarcelados en Venezuela. Desde el lanzamiento de la película el mes pasado, la relación entre los dos se ha deteriorado y en las semanas previas a la audiencia de fianza, en documentos judiciales, la cineasta acusó a Goudreau de engaño, coerción financiera y conducta amenazante. Específicamente, Gatien acusa a Goudreau de incumplir una promesa —descrita por los fiscales como un “acuerdo paralelo no revelado”— de comprometer sus considerables reservas de efectivo, monedas de oro y criptomonedas para mitigar el riesgo financiero de la cineasta como su única garante de la fianza. Ella también compartió con el tribunal capturas de pantalla de mensajes de texto enojados, a veces incoherentes y llenos de blasfemias, en los que él afirma “No voy a volver a prisión”, una declaración que, según los fiscales, indica su intención de huir. “Me quedaría sin nada si él huye”, testificó Gatien. “Todo lo que obtuve fueron promesas rotas durante el último año”. Entre los programados para testificar en la audiencia para el gobierno estaba una pareja de Oklahoma que estaba almacenando algunas de las pertenencias de Goudreau, incluidos dos rifles de asalto que un asociado intentó recuperar recientemente, posiblemente violando una orden judicial contra la posesión de armas de fuego mientras estaba en libertad bajo fianza. En una declaración jurada, Brande y Jason Woolems explicaron que Goudreau los telefoneó el mes pasado presionándolos para que hicieran acusaciones falsas contra Gatien para impedir que ella se retirara de la fianza. La pareja dijo en su declaración jurada que Goudreau les pidió que firmaran declaraciones que acusaban a Gatien de mala conducta. “Cuando nos negamos, nos llamó ‘Judas’ y nos acusó de traición, gritando repetidamente con ira”, dijeron en la declaración. La invasión de 2020, que llegó a conocerse como la Bahía de los Cerditos, se erige como un cuento de advertencia sobre la forma a menudo amateur en que la administración Trump ha buscado el cambio de régimen en Venezuela. Esas críticas se han intensificado en las últimas semanas, ya que una flotilla naval desplegada por Trump ha llevado a cabo múltiples ataques mortales contra barcos sospechosos de contrabando de drogas que salen de Venezuela, y el presidente autorizó a la CIA a llevar a cabo acciones encubiertas dentro del país sudamericano. En medio de la creciente preocupación por una posible invasión de Estados Unidos, Goudreau ha resurgido como un comentarista mediático popular entre los partidarios de Trump y los críticos “izquierdistas radicales” por igual. En entrevistas recientes, Goudreau a veces ha arremetido contra una serie de supuestos actores del llamado Estado profundo —entre ellos la CIA y el Departamento de Estado— a los que culpa de “sabotear” su misión clandestina, que insiste recibió el visto bueno de la primera administración Trump. Muchos de esos mismos actores están una vez más tratando de descarrilar la agenda de política exterior de Trump, según el ex boina verde. Mientras tanto, calificó las acusaciones de Trump de que Maduro es el líder del llamado Cártel de los Soles, que estaría conformado por oficiales militares narcotraficantes, como una “fabricación de la CIA”. “Si invadimos Venezuela, ¿qué sigue?”, dijo recientemente a la cadena estatal rusa RT. “La verdad es que la oposición venezolana es tan despiadada y tiránica como el régimen venezolano bajo Nicolás Maduro”. Goudreau, quien nació en Canadá, dijo que se convirtió en creyente de la causa de la democracia venezolana después de trabajar en seguridad en un concierto benéfico celebrado en Colombia para entregar ayuda humanitaria a través de la frontera. A pesar de su falta de español, se acercó a varios aliados exiliados del líder opositor Juan Guaidó, a quien Estados Unidos entonces reconocía como el líder legítimo de Venezuela. Durante varios meses, se gestó un plan para invadir Venezuela con el objetivo de desencadenar una rebelión popular. Como parte de ese esfuerzo, Goudreau firmó un contrato con el equipo de Guaidó, aunque las dos partes se separaron meses antes de que la incursión se llevara a cabo bajo un nuevo liderazgo posiblemente infiltrado por los servicios de inteligencia de Maduro. Goudreau estaba programado para ir a juicio en febrero por cargos de no obtener una licencia de exportación para enviar aproximadamente 60 rifles AR-15 a campamentos clandestinos donde se entrenaba a aspirantes a luchadores por la libertad. Dos de los rifles incautados en Colombia contenían rastros del ADN de Goudreau, mientras que los silenciadores, gafas de visión nocturna y otros equipos tenían números de serie que coincidían con los comprados por Goudreau y su empresa de seguridad Silvercorp, con sede en Melbourne, Florida, según los fiscales. Gatien registró una empresa de producción en Florida con Goudreau en 2021 y fue descrita en los registros judiciales como su novia. En su testimonio, Gatien negó que fueran algo más que buenos amigos, y Goudreau vivió con ella durante dos años mientras asistía a la Academia de Cine de Nueva York.
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[
"CURT ANDERSON y JOSHUA GOODMAN"
] |
Un juez federal en Tampa ordenó el viernes el arresto de un ex boina verde acusado de planear invadir Venezuela en 2020 porque no se presentó en la corte para una audiencia sobre si debería ser detenido por violar las condiciones de su libertad previo al juicio.
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[
"EEUU",
"Nota Roja"
] |
EEUU
|
2025-11-01T01:47:05.793Z
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2025-11-01T01:47:05.793Z
|
https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/juez-ordena-arresto-de-ex-boina-verde-vinculado-a-golpe-fallido-en-venezuela-tras-faltar-a-juicio
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Disney retira ABC, ESPN y otros canales de YouTube TV tras ruptura en negociaciones de contenido
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Los espectadores de YouTube TV ya no pueden ver los canales de Disney, incluidos ABC y ESPN, luego que ambas partes no llegaron a un acuerdo de distribución de contenido. Entre los canales que desaparecieron de la plataforma de televisión de pago de Google están Disney Channel, FX y Nat Geo. YouTube TV indicó en una publicación en un blog el jueves por la noche que Disney había cumplido con la amenaza de suspender su contenido en medio de las negociaciones. La medida podría afectar la cobertura de algunos partidos de fútbol universitario el sábado, así como de encuentros de la NBA, la NFL y la NHL. YouTube es el mayor proveedor de televisión por internet en Estados Unidos con más de nueve millones de suscriptores. Hulu, propiedad de Disney, le sigue con aproximadamente la mitad de clientes. Los espectadores se han dado cuenta de la disputa en las últimas semanas debido a las advertencias que se muestran en sus pantallas. YouTube señaló que Disney utilizó la amenaza de un apagón como táctica de negociación, lo que habría supuesto un aumento de los precios para sus suscriptores. La decisión de Disney de retirar su contenido también beneficia a sus propios productos de streaming —Hulu + Live TV y Fubo—, agregó. “Sabemos que este es un resultado frustrante y decepcionante para nuestros suscriptores y seguimos instando a Disney a trabajar con nosotros de manera constructiva para alcanzar un acuerdo justo que restaure sus redes en YouTube TV”, señaló la plataforma. YouTube indicó que dará a sus suscriptores 20 dólares en crédito si el contenido de Disney no está disponible “por un período prolongado de tiempo”. El plan de suscripción básico de la plataforma cuesta 82,99 dólares al mes. Disney sostuvo que YouTube TV se niega a pagar tarifas justas por sus canales y ha optado por “negar a sus suscriptores el contenido que más valoran", señalando la cantidad de equipos del Top 25 que juegan este fin de semana. “Con una capitalización de mercado de 3 billones de dólares, Google está utilizando su dominio en el mercado para eliminar a la competencia y socavar los términos estándar de la industria que hemos negociado con éxito con todos los demás distribuidores", destacó Disney. La compañía afirmó que está comprometida a lograr una solución lo más rápido posible. ___ Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
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Los espectadores de YouTube TV ya no pueden ver los canales de Disney, incluidos ABC y ESPN, luego que ambas partes no llegaron a un acuerdo de distribución de contenido.
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[
"Entretenimiento",
"Radio/TV",
"Lo Más Web"
] |
Entretenimiento
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2025-11-01T00:50:44.991Z
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2025-11-01T00:50:44.991Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/entretenimiento/articulo/2025-10-31/disney-retira-abc-espn-y-otros-canales-de-youtube-tv-tras-ruptura-en-negociaciones-de-contenido
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Xabi Alonso: ‘Todo zanjado’ con Vinícius y ‘ninguna represalia’ tras arrebato en el clásico
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El técnico del Real Madrid Xabi Alonso aseguró el viernes que “está todo zanjado” con Vinícius Júnior después del enojo del delantero brasileño por su sustitución en el tramo final del clásico contra el Barcelona y que no habrá “ninguna represalia”. “El miércoles, después de los dos días de descanso, tuvimos una reunión con todos. Vini estuvo impecable, habló desde el corazón, y yo quedé satisfecho. Está todo zanjado”, dijo Alonso en una rueda de prensa previa al duelo del sábado con Valencia en La Liga española. Previo en la semana, Vinícius se había disculpado por el arrebato hacia Alonso, explicando que la reacción a su “pasión” y “carácter competitivo”. El atacante se mostró visiblemente molesto cuando se enteró de que Alonso decidió reemplazarle con su compatriota Rodrygo a los 72 minutos de la victoria del Madrid por 2-1 ante el Barça el pasado domingo en el Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. Vinícius abrió los brazos y siguió hablando consigo mismo mientras abandonaba el campo. Se dirigió directamente al vestuario antes de reunirse con sus compañeros unos cinco minutos después. El técnico pareció no darle importancia a que el mensaje de disculpas no mencionara su nombre, tildando el comunicado de “muy valioso, muy positivo”. "Vini demostró honestidad. Habló desde el corazón, lo que significa el club y lo que quiere dar y para mí lo más importante es lo que dijo a sus compañeros, a la afición, al club”, manifestó Alonso, quien está cumpliendo su primera temporada al mando del Madrid tras relevar a Carlo Ancelotti. Vinicius ha sido sustituido con más frecuencia de lo que solía ser bajo entrenadores anteriores del Madrid. Tampoco fue titular en un par de partidos. También tuvo un cruce de palabras con Lamine Yamal, la estrella del Barcelona, durante el clásico, y estuvo involucrado en un altercado entre jugadores después del partido. “Yo me quedé muy satisfecho, y desde el miércoles se cerró el tema, estamos ya pensando en lo que viene. Mañana tenemos el partido, que es lo más importante. Ninguna represalia. Quedó muy bien cerrado, hablamos muy positivamente y el foco está en el campo”, afirmó Alonso.
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El técnico del Real Madrid Xabi Alonso aseguró el viernes que “está todo zanjado” con Vinícius Júnior después del enojo del delantero brasileño por su sustitución en el tramo final del clásico contra el Barcelona y que no habrá “ninguna represalia”.
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[
"Deportes",
"Fútbol"
] |
Deportes
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2025-11-01T00:40:51.070Z
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2025-11-01T00:40:51.070Z
|
https://www.latimes.com/espanol/deportes/articulo/2025-10-31/xabi-alonso-todo-zanjado-con-vinicius-y-ninguna-represalia-tras-arrebato-en-el-clasico
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Federación turca de fútbol suspende a 149 árbitros por presunta implicación en escándalo de apuestas
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La Federación Turca de Fútbol suspendió a 149 árbitros y árbitros asistentes por su presunta implicación en un escándalo de apuestas que involucra a ligas de fútbol profesional. La federación manifestó el viernes que había decidido imponer sanciones de entre ocho a 12 meses contra los 149 colegiados, mientras que las investigaciones continuaban contra otros tres. “La reputación del fútbol turco se construye sobre la santidad del esfuerzo en el campo y la integridad inquebrantable de la justicia. Cualquier acto que traicione estos valores no es meramente una violación de las reglas, sino una ruptura de la confianza”, señaló el presidente de la federación, İbrahim Hacıosmanoğlu, en un comunicado. “Las investigaciones recientes han revelado que algunos árbitros estaban involucrados en actividades de apuestas de una manera completamente incompatible con el espíritu del fútbol. Esto no es solo una violación, es un abuso que hiere las conciencias y envenena la justicia”, agregó. Hacıosmanoğlu había anunciado el lunes que las agencias gubernamentales determinaron que 371 de los 571 árbitros activos tenían al menos una cuenta con una empresa de apuestas. Dijo que 152 árbitros con cuentas realizaron apuestas en fútbol, incluidos siete árbitros de primer nivel y 15 asistentes de primer nivel. Hacıosmanoğlu comentó que 10 árbitros realizaron apuestas en más de 10.000 partidos cada uno durante cinco años, mientras que algunos solo hicieron una apuesta. Se alega que un árbitro realizó apuestas en 18.227 partidos. Citando fuentes judiciales, el medio Habertürk dijo que también se estaban llevando a cabo investigaciones contra clubes y jugadores. Informó que unos 3.700 jugadores están bajo investigación.
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La Federación Turca de Fútbol suspendió a 149 árbitros y árbitros asistentes por su presunta implicación en un escándalo de apuestas que involucra a ligas de fútbol profesional.
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[
"Deportes",
"Fútbol"
] |
Deportes
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2025-11-01T00:40:10.248Z
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2025-11-01T00:40:10.248Z
|
https://www.latimes.com/espanol/deportes/articulo/2025-10-31/federacion-turca-de-futbol-suspende-a-149-arbitros-por-presunta-implicacion-en-escandalo-de-apuestas
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A partir del sábado, árbitros de la NBA utilizarán auriculares
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Los árbitros de la NBA comenzarán desde el sábado a usar auriculares durante los partidos de la temporada regular. La liga lo anunció el viernes, detallando un plan en dos fases para emplear los dispositivos. La primera fase, que se espera continúe hasta enero, consistirá en que los árbitros lleven el auricular sujeto a sus uniformes, usándolo solo durante las revisiones de repetición instantánea y otras pausas, pero no durante el juego en vivo. En la segunda fase, que está pendiente de la evaluación de la primera, los árbitros llevarán los auriculares durante todo el partido, incluyendo el juego en vivo, y podrán comunicarse directamente con el centro de repetición y entre ellos en todo momento. Esa fase continuará al menos hasta el receso del Juego de Estrellas en febrero. Otras ligas alrededor del mundo han utilizado una tecnología similar desde hace algún tiempo. La NBA ha estado probando la tecnología desde 2022 en varios eventos, incluyendo la G League Winter Showcase, la NBA Summer League y los partidos de pretemporada de la NBA.
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Los árbitros de la NBA comenzarán desde el sábado a usar auriculares durante los partidos de la temporada regular.
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[
"Deportes",
"Básquetbol"
] |
Deportes
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2025-11-01T00:30:11.275Z
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2025-11-01T00:30:11.275Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/deportes/articulo/2025-10-31/a-partir-del-sabado-arbitros-de-la-nba-utilizaran-auriculares
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Federal judge rules Trump can’t require citizenship proof on the federal voting form
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President Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., sided with Democratic and civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over his executive order to overhaul U.S. elections. She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, dealing a blow to the administration and its allies who have argued that such a mandate is necessary to restore public confidence that only Americans are voting in U.S. elections. “Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her opinion. She further emphasized that on matters related to setting qualifications for voting and regulating federal election procedures “the Constitution assigns no direct role to the President in either domain.” Kollar-Kotelly echoed comments she made when she granted a preliminary injunction over the issue. The ruling grants the plaintiffs a partial summary judgment that prohibits the proof-of-citizenship requirement from going into effect. It says the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which has been considering adding the requirement to the federal voter form, is permanently barred from taking action to do so. A message seeking comment from the White House was not immediately returned. The lawsuit brought by the DNC and various civil rights groups will continue to play out to allow the judge to consider other challenges to Trump’s order. That includes a requirement that all mailed ballots be received, rather than just postmarked, by Election Day. Other lawsuits against Trump’s election executive order are ongoing. In early April, 19 Democratic state attorneys general asked a separate federal court to reject Trump’s executive order. Washington and Oregon, where virtually all voting is done with mailed ballots, followed with their own lawsuit against the order. Swenson and Riccardi write for the Associated Press.
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[
"Ali Swenson and Nicholas Riccardi"
] |
President Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a judge says.
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[
"World & Nation",
"Politics",
"Immigration & the Border",
"Trump Administration"
] |
World & Nation
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2025-11-01T00:14:01.919Z
|
2025-11-01T00:14:01.919Z
|
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-10-31/federal-judge-rules-trump-cant-require-citizenship-proof-on-the-federal-voting-form
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Bancos de alimentos se preparan para cuando el cierre de gobierno paralice la ayuda alimentaria
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Los bancos de alimentos y despensas comunitarias ya tenían problemas tras los recortes de programas federales este año, pero ahora se están preparando para una avalancha de personas hambrientas si una pausa en la ayuda alimentaria federal a personas de bajos ingresos entra en vigor este fin de semana mientras persiste el cierre del gobierno federal. La prisa ya ha comenzado. La despensa de alimentos de la iglesia Cristiana Central en el centro de Indianápolis se apresuró el sábado para acomodar a alrededor del doble de personas de las que normalmente atiende en un día. "Hay una demanda creciente. Y sabemos que en realidad ocurre desde que la economía ha decaído", dijo la voluntaria Beth White, añadiendo que con una interrupción en la financiación del Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria federal (SNAP, por sus siglas en inglés), "va a seguir empeorando para la gente". Es una preocupación compartida por los proveedores de alimentos caritativos en todo el país, mientras los estados se preparan para que las familias de bajos ingresos vean cómo se suspenden sus beneficios de SNAP agotarse. SNAP ayuda a 40 millones de estadounidenses, o aproximadamente uno de cada ocho, a comprar alimentos. Las tarjetas de débito que utilizan para comprar alimentos en tiendas participantes y mercados de agricultores normalmente se cargan cada mes por el gobierno federal. Está previsto que ese sistema se paralice al inicio del próximo mes después de que el gobierno de Trump dijera el viernes que no utilizará un fondo de contingencia de aproximadamente 5.000 millones de dólares para mantener la ayuda alimentaria en noviembre durante el cierre del gobierno. El gobierno también dice que los estados que cubran temporalmente el costo de los beneficios de asistencia alimentaria el próximo mes no serán reembolsados. "En resumen, el pozo se ha secado", dijo el Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos en un comunicado. "En este momento, no se emitirán beneficios el 01 de noviembre". Es la última de una serie de dificultades impuestas a los servicios de alimentos caritativos, que están destinados a ayudar a compensar cualquier deficiencia en la asistencia alimentaria federal, no a reemplazar la ayuda del gobierno por completo. Las organizaciones benéficas han visto una creciente demanda desde la pandemia de COVID-19 y el posterior aumento de la inflación, y sufrieron un golpe a principios de este año cuando el gobierno de Trump canceló programas que habían proporcionado más de 1.000 millones de dólares para escuelas y bancos de alimentos para combatir el hambre. Reggie Gibbs, de Indianápolis, comenzó a recibir beneficios de SNAP hace poco, lo que significó que no tuvo que recoger tanto de la despensa de alimentos de la iglesia Cristiana Central cuando pasó el sábado. Pero vive solo, dijo, y le preocupa lo que harán las familias con niños. "Tengo que pensar en las familias, hombre", dijo. "¿Qué crees que van a pasar, sabes?" Martina McCallop, de Washington, D.C., dijo que está preocupada por cómo alimentará a sus hijos, de 10 y 12 años, y a ella misma, cuando los 786 dólares que reciben en beneficios mensuales de SNAP se acaben. "Tengo que pagar mis cuentas, mi alquiler y conseguir cosas que mis hijos necesitan", dijo. "Después de eso, no tengo dinero para comida". Le preocupa que las despensas de alimentos no puedan satisfacer la demanda repentina en una ciudad con tantos trabajadores federales que no están cobrando. En el condado de Fairfax, Virginia, donde viven alrededor de 80.000 trabajadores federales, la directora ejecutiva de Food for Others, Deb Haynes, dijo que no espera quedarse sin alimentos por completo, en gran parte gracias a los donantes. "Si nos quedamos cortos y necesito pedir ayuda, sé que la recibiré", dijo Haynes. Las despensas de alimentos proporcionan aproximadamente una comida por cada nueve proporcionadas por SNAP, según Feeding America, una red nacional de bancos de alimentos. Obtienen los alimentos que distribuyen a través de donaciones de personas, empresas y algunos agricultores. También obtienen alimentos de programas del Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos y a veces compran alimentos con contribuciones y fondos de subvenciones. "Cuando quitas SNAP, las implicaciones son catastróficas", dijo Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, director general de Feeding America. "Supongo que la gente está asumiendo que alguien va a detenerlo antes de que se ponga demasiado mal. Bueno, ya está demasiado mal. Y está empeorando". Algunos distribuidores ya están viendo suministros de alimentos alarmantemente bajos. George Matysik, director ejecutivo del Programa de Alimentos Compartidos en el área de Filadelfia, dijo que un estancamiento en el presupuesto del gobierno estatal ya había recortado la financiación para su programa. "Llevo aquí siete años", dijo Matysik. "Nunca he visto nuestros almacenes tan vacíos como están ahora". La gobernadora de Nueva York, Kathy Hochul, dijo que está acelerando 30 millones de dólares en fondos de asistencia alimentaria de emergencia para "ayudar a mantener las despensas de alimentos abastecidas", y la gobernadora de Nuevo México, Michelle Lujan Grisham, dijo que su estado aceleraría ocho millones de dólares que se habían asignado para bancos de alimentos. Funcionarios en Luisiana, Vermont y Virginia dijeron la semana pasada que buscarían mantener la ayuda alimentaria fluyendo a los beneficiarios en sus estados, incluso si el programa federal se detiene. Otros estados no están en posición de ofrecer mucha ayuda, especialmente si no serán reembolsados por el gobierno federal. Los funcionarios de Arkansas, por ejemplo, han advertido a los beneficiarios que busquen despensas de alimentos u otros grupos benéficos, incluso amigos y familiares, para obtener ayuda.
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"MARGERY A. BECK y GEOFF MULVIHILL"
] |
Los bancos de alimentos y despensas comunitarias ya tenían problemas tras los recortes de programas federales este año, pero ahora se están preparando para una avalancha de personas hambrientas si una pausa en la ayuda alimentaria federal a personas de bajos ingresos entra en vigor este fin de semana mientras persiste el cierre del gobierno federal.
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"EEUU",
"California"
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EEUU
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2025-11-01T00:12:28.654Z
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2025-11-01T00:12:28.654Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/bancos-de-alimentos-se-preparan-para-cuando-el-cierre-de-gobierno-paralice-la-ayuda-alimentaria
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Las polémicas y escándalos del príncipe Andrés que han puesto a prueba a la realeza por décadas
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El príncipe Andrés perderá el título que ha tenido desde su nacimiento y será desalojado de su residencia real en el Reino Unido tras las recientes revelaciones sobre su relación con el delincuente sexual convicto Jeffrey Epstein. El escándalo resultó ser demasiado para su hermano, el rey Carlos III, quien tomó medidas el jueves, según el Palacio de Buckingham. El comportamiento de Andrés ha puesto a prueba la paciencia de la familia real durante más de 40 años, provocando titulares embarazosos, demandas y sospechas de que el príncipe, ahora de 65 años, estaba utilizando su posición para beneficio personal. A continuación, algunos de los episodios que empañaron la reputación del segundo hijo de la difunta reina Isabel II y finalmente obligaron a su hermano mayor a desterrarlo de la vida pública. 1984 — Andrés rocía a reporteros y fotógrafos con pintura mientras recorría un proyecto de construcción en el barrio de Watts en Los Ángeles. "Disfruté eso", afirmó Andrés, mientras se limpiaba las manos con un trozo de periódico. 2007 — El príncipe vende su casa en Sunninghill Park, cerca del Castillo de Windsor, con informes de prensa que sugieren que el comprador pagó un 20% más que el precio de venta de 15 millones de libras. Se informó que el comprador era Timur Kulibayev, yerno de Nursultan Nazarbayev, entonces presidente de Kazajistán, lo que generó preocupaciones de que el acuerdo fuera un intento de comprar influencia en Gran Bretaña. 2010 — Un reportero encubierto haciéndose pasar por un árabe adinerado filma a la exesposa de Andrés, Sarah Ferguson, aparentemente ofreciendo vender acceso al príncipe por 500.000 libras (670.000 dólares al tipo de cambio actual). 2011 — Andrés se ve obligado a renunciar como enviado especial de comercio de Gran Bretaña tras los primeros informes de sus vínculos con Epstein. El príncipe también enfrentaba preguntas sobre su amistad con Said Gadafi, hijo del fallecido líder libio Moammar Gadafi, así como sus vínculos con un traficante de armas libio convicto. Julio 2019 — Epstein es arrestado por segunda vez bajo cargos de tráfico sexual y posteriormente se suicida en una celda de la cárcel de Nueva York. La noticia centra la atención pública en las acusaciones de que Andrés tuvo relaciones sexuales con al menos una adolescente menor de edad traficada por Epstein. Andrés niega las acusaciones. 16 de noviembre de 2019 — Andrés intenta detener la avalancha de críticas al aceptar una entrevista en cámara con la reportera de la BBC Emily Maitlis. La entrevista resulta contraproducente cuando Andrés defiende su relación con Epstein, no muestra empatía por sus víctimas y ofrece explicaciones de su comportamiento que muchas personas encuentran difíciles de creer. Andrés dice que rompió el contacto con Epstein en diciembre de 2010, una fecha que volverá para atormentarlo. 20 de noviembre de 2020 — El Palacio de Buckingham anuncia que Andrés suspenderá todos sus deberes reales "en el futuro previsible". Cuatro días después, el príncipe es despojado de su papel como patrocinador de 230 organizaciones benéficas. 2022 — Andrés acepta resolver una demanda civil en Nueva York presentada por Virginia Giuffre, quien alegó que fue obligada a tener relaciones sexuales con él cuando tenía 17 años. Aunque Andrés no admitió ninguna de las acusaciones de Giuffre, reconoció que ella había sufrido como víctima de abuso sexual. Los expertos legales estiman que el acuerdo no revelado le costó a Andrés hasta diez millones de dólares. 2024 — Los vínculos de Andrés con un presunto espía chino son revelados en documentos judiciales. El empresario y presunto espía fue expulsado del Reino Unido debido a preocupaciones de que representaba una amenaza para la seguridad nacional. Los funcionarios de seguridad estaban preocupados de que el hombre pudiera haber utilizado indebidamente su influencia sobre Andrés. 25 de abril de 2025 — Virginia Giuffre se suicida en Australia, donde había vivido desde aproximadamente 2002. 12 de octubre de 2025 — Los periódicos británicos revelan que Andrés envió un correo electrónico a Epstein el 28 de febrero de 2011, más de dos meses después de que el príncipe le dijera a Maitlis que había cortado todo contacto con su antiguo amigo. Andrés escribió el correo electrónico después de los continuos informes de los medios sobre el escándalo de Epstein, diciéndole que estaban "en esto juntos" y que "tendrían que superarlo". 30 de octubre de 2025 — El Palacio de Buckingham anuncia que el rey despojará a Andrés de sus títulos restantes y lo desalojará de su residencia real cerca del Castillo de Windsor. Andrés será conocido como Andrés Mountbatten Windsor, y no como príncipe, y tendrá que mudarse a una residencia privada.
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"DANICA KIRKA"
] |
El príncipe Andrés perderá el título que ha tenido desde su nacimiento y será desalojado de su residencia real en el Reino Unido tras las recientes revelaciones sobre su relación con el delincuente sexual convicto Jeffrey Epstein.
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"Vida y Estilo",
"Noticas-Más",
"EEUU",
"Nota Roja"
] |
Vida y Estilo
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2025-11-01T00:06:42.519Z
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2025-11-01T00:06:42.519Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/vida-y-estilo/articulo/2025-10-31/las-polemicas-y-escandalos-del-principe-andres-que-han-puesto-a-prueba-a-la-realeza-por-decadas
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‘Violation of the oath’: Deputy arrested in case of Orange County hospital assault
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An Orange County sheriff’s deputy is out on bail after being arrested this week in connection with the reported sexual assault of an incarcerated woman. The 29-year-old deputy, Leobardo Martinez Garcia, was arrested Wednesday, two weeks after the victim made a report, according to authorities. In March 2025, the victim was in custody and being treated at a local hospital when Martinez Garcia assaulted her, authorities allege. Eight months later, on Oct. 14, the victim, who is currently incarcerated at an Orange County jail, reported the assault to jail staff, who then shared the claim with investigators, sheriff's deputies said. Orange County investigators “immediately” began the investigation, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department, and conducted interviews and analyzed “digital evidence,” which could include phone and email records, as well as search warrants. The information uncovered was adequate enough to warrant the arrest of Martinez Garcia on suspicion of felony sexual battery and assault under the color of authority, and he was detained in the Santa Ana Jail. He was released Thursday on bond and placed on paid leave. Officials confirmed that Martinez Garcia is still employed by the sheriff’s office as the investigation into his charges continues. In light of Martinez Garcia’s charges, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes called the deputy’s alleged conduct “a violation of the oath to serve and protect our community, particularly those entrusted to our care in the Orange County Jail.” “I could not be more disappointed in the actions of Mr. Martinez Garcia,” Barnes said. After the investigation is completed, officials said the case will either be assigned to the Orange County district attorney or to the United States district attorney, depending on the charges considered and evidence collected. His arraignment date will then be announced. If Martinez Garcia is charged with assault under the color of authority, a federal crime, his case will be heard in U.S. federal court.
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[
"Katerina Portela"
] |
An Orange County sheriff's deputy was arrested after a woman reported she was sexually assaulted in an Orange County hospital.
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[
"California"
] |
California
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2025-10-31T23:57:17.099Z
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2025-10-31T23:57:17.099Z
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-31/violation-of-the-oath-deputy-arrested-in-case-of-assault-woman-in-orange-county-hospital
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El Día de los Muertos del Hollywood Forever tendrá este año un formato mucho más íntimo
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El sábado 1ro de noviembre de 2025, Hollywood Forever dará la bienvenida a familias, amigos y vecinos a su recinto sagrado para una celebración del Día de los Muertos que tendrá un sabor distinto al habitual. Lo que comenzó hace un cuarto de siglo como una ofrenda sentida se ha convertido en una de las tradiciones culturales más preciadas de Los Ángeles, acogida y mantenida por la comunidad mayoritariamente latina que ahora considera a este cementerio como su última morada. Llama la atención que, en lugar del cartel lleno de artistas musicales de diferentes procedencias, varios de ellos de fama minimalismo, el evento de este año prescinda completamente de ellos para asumir “un formato más íntimo y centrado en la comunidad” que, en palabras de sus organizadores, se ha implementado “en respuesta a la situación actual”. “Hollywood Forever mantiene su firme compromiso de crear un espacio de recuerdo, reflexión y orgullo cultural, priorizando la seguridad y el cuidado colectivo”, dice el comunicado en otros de sus párrafos. De todos, prometen que se mantendrán los elementos esenciales del Día de los Muertos (altares, memoria, comida, danza y narración de historias) a través de decenas de altares, danzantes aztecas, vendedores selectos de comida y artesanías y dos proyecciones al aire libre de la película “Coco” en el Fairbanks Lawn. También habrá un espectáculo de drones y el tradicional concurso anual de altares. La página oficial de la conmemoracion es esta, y los boletos se pueden adquirir aquí. Estos son los horarios de entrada, con precios diferentes: -1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Entrada: $5 Altares, vendedores, DJ en el césped y danzantes aztecas. Boletos comunitarios gratuitos disponibles. -4:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Entrada: $30 Acceso al atardecer a los altares, vendedores, danzantes aztecas, DJ en el césped, proyección de “Coco” a las 6:45 p.m. y espectáculo de drones. -9:30 p.m. – 1:30 a.m. Entrada: $25 Acceso nocturno a los altares, vendedores, danzantes aztecas, DJ en el césped y proyección de “Coco” a las 11:00 p.m. (sin espectáculo de drones).
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"REDACCIÓN LOS ANGELES TIMES EN ESPAÑOL"
] |
No habrá estrellas internacionales en la popular actividad del cementerio angelino
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"Entretenimiento",
"Diversión"
] |
Entretenimiento
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2025-10-31T23:41:31.725Z
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2025-10-31T23:41:31.725Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/entretenimiento/articulo/2025-10-31/el-dia-de-los-muertos-del-hollywood-forever-tendra-este-ano-un-formato-mucho-mas-intimo
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More football players declared ineligible; Long Beach Poly pulls out of playoff consideration
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Long Beach Poly, a 12-time Southern Section football champion, announced on Friday it will not participate in this season's playoffs despite finishing second in the Moore League. The school earlier this season had six transfer students declared ineligible for providing false information on paperwork to the Southern Section, a violation of CIF bylaw 202. Here's the statement from the Long Beach Unified School District: "Long Beach Poly High School acknowledges the recent CIF ruling related to violations of CIF Bylaw 202 within its football program. In accordance with that ruling, and as part of an ongoing internal investigation, Poly will withdraw from postseason play. "The school is fully cooperating with CIF and the District, as a thorough review of our processes and systems is conducted to ensure full compliance with CIF rules and District policy. While student and employee matters are confidential, our commitment remains to support our students while upholding the integrity of our athletic programs." San Juan Hills became the latest school to announce forfeits on Friday for using ineligible players. Two transfer students had been in the transfer portal listed as "under review." The school will forfeit nine games and is now 1-9. Both players were held out of a game on Thursday. Norco earlier this week forfeited six wins, dropping to 1-9 after a win on Thursday. This crackdown by the Southern Section against students providing false information started during the summer when schools began submitting transfer paperwork. The Southern Section is using new technological tools to verify information. Bishop Montgomery received the harshest punishment, with 24 players declared ineligible, forcing the school to cancel its football season. Other schools found to have ineligible players this season include Long Beach Millikan, Compton, Bellflower, Victor Valley and Orange Lutheran. Southern Section commissioner Mike West said last month, "We’ve had a real influx of fraudulent paperwork. It’s been significant and very disheartening.”
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[
"Eric Sondheimer"
] |
The Jackrabbits, a 12-time Southern Section champion, withdraw from playoff consideration. San Juan Hills might be next.
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[
"High School Sports",
"Sports"
] |
High School Sports
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2025-10-31T23:41:15.505Z
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2025-11-01T01:00:41.203Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2025-10-31/long-beach-poly-other-schools-have-ineligible-players-no-playoffs
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The citizen fire brigade that helped fight the Palisades fire is growing. Is it worth the risk?
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When a column of smoke rose above Pacific Palisades on January 7, a couple dozen residents of the Santa Monica Mountains, instead of evacuating, jumped into their own fire engines. The Community Brigade raced door to door ordering residents to evacuate, stamped out spot fires and transported animals (including koi fish) to safety. As the fire garnered national attention, Keegan Gibbs, the brigade's director of operations, found himself talking to CNN, Vogue and the New York Times. Locals, galvanized by the events of January, began signing up in droves. The team of about 50 received hundreds of requests to join. Starting Saturday, the brigade, which has operated formally under the supervision of the Los Angeles County Fire Department since 2023, will begin training roughly 50 new recruits in a classroom they’ve co-opted at Pepperdine University — essentially doubling the brigade’s size. They hope to double it again next year. Gibbs views the brigade's high-profile firefighting as a "Trojan horse" to recruit citizens to help with the "real work" — home hardening and community wildfire preparedness. Yet some fire safety advocates argue there’s simply no need to engage in dramatic, high-risk operations in order to make a difference. “There's plenty that you as concerned citizens can do,” said David Barrett, executive director of the Los Angeles Regional Fire Safe Council (one of the many organizations that does wildfire preparedness work similar to the brigade, just without the firefighting part). For the brigade, he said, “It's terrific that you want to protect your community — How would you feel if your actions caused the death of a firefighter? What would happen if your vehicles clogged evacuation routes and people couldn't get out? What if you forced firefighters to rescue you?” Guerrilla-style fire brigades have a long history in the Santa Monica Mountains, where the old-school do-it-yourself ethos of ranchers still permeates, Gibbs, a lifelong resident, noted. But the 2018 Woolsey fire, which Gibbs and his longtime friend Tyler Hauptman fought with garden hoses and shovels, stirred a rising frustration among residents that they could not trust the Fire Department alone to save their homes. So, after nearly five years of negotiations, the County agreed to formalize a brigade. In the agreement, the brigade gained significant access to Fire Department training and the authority to operate in emergency situations. Meanwhile, the Fire Department took meaningful control over the previously haphazard operations — the department could now reject or remove certain individuals from the brigade, dictate its role during emergencies and ensure its activities don’t interfere with professional operations. It also requires volunteers to acknowledge the significant risks of injury and death by participating in the brigade, and that the Fire Department is not liable if something goes wrong. The brigade’s leaders say they take safety extremely seriously: They have a rigorous screening process for applicants (including a background check), provide routine professional-grade firefighter training, and have strict limitations on what they can and cannot do during an emergency, acting as background support for the professionals instead of running for the ferocious front line. “There's a lot that we don't do because either it's too dangerous, we don't have the equipment for it or we're not trained for it,” Gibbs said. “We have guardrails. This isn’t an unhinged ‘Hey, just go drive towards the fire.’” The evening of Jan. 7, as the winds picked up, the power of the Palisades fire became terrifyingly apparent to Gibbs. One of the crew’s fire engines — a “Type 6,” essentially a decked-out pickup truck — blew a fuse, leaving it stuck in park as a nearby home erupted into flames. The team dispatched another brigade member to attempt to fix it. An hour passed as flames engulfed Pacific Coast Highway, the crew’s way out. By the time the crew got the truck in working order and made their escape, the dark of night had already set in. Gibbs drove out, with the fires lighting the way and the crackling of the radio keeping him updated. The situation now seemed out of control as fire crews began responding to another fire near Altadena. In that moment, Gibbs felt a deep sense of responsibility for the lives of his fellow brigade members. “It made you feel fragile or brittle of just how easily something as simple as a fuse could just completely break down your operation,” he said. It’s this precarious reality that seriously concerns Barrett. Becoming a professional firefighter typically requires hundreds of hours of training. And after that, departments train weekly, with continual medical screenings and re-qualifications. “The wildfire conditions in California are far too dangerous for moderately trained civilians,” he said. While the ferocity of the Palisades fire shook both Barrett and the brigade members, Hauptman noticed a silver lining while driving through his town on fire: Many of the homes the brigade had inspected and helped residents harden still stood tall amid the flames. “One house in particular looked seemingly untouched — but it was up Los Flores Canyon, which saw some of the most extreme fire behavior I’ve ever witnessed,” said Hauptman, now the brigade’s director of mitigation. “That was pretty much all the validation that we really needed to understand how powerful this is, getting homes prepared in our local community, because you can only do so much during an actual incident.” To date, the brigade has completed over 400 of these inspections, according to Hauptman. The focus is not necessarily on the regulations residents must comply with (although those are important, too) but instead on teaching them how homes burn. “We imagine we have a big box of matches, and we start lighting them,” Hauptman said. “We're lighting it around the whole house, the whole perimeter, and seeing what ignites.” For the brigade, the name of the game is community buy-in. When top-down fire safety requirements — like home hardening, defensible space and evacuation planning — fail, whether due to a lack of enforcement or intense public backlash, slowly building trust with neighbors to help them start thinking about fire differently can go a long way. It might be a brigade member that convinces their neighbor to evacuate, not a cellphone alert. It might be a brigade member that teaches a resident how to harden their home and clear their brush, not a list of regulations from the state. And it might be a brigade member that convinces a homeowner to pack their stuff during a Red Flag Warning, not a tweet from local officials. “It's received in a different way when you're just hanging out with your friends or in your community talking neighbor to neighbor,” said Gibbs. “They start absorbing some of that in a way that they can't when it's said to them from the top down.”
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[
"Noah Haggerty"
] |
A 50-person citizen fire brigade became famous during the Palisades fires, and now volunteers are applying by the hundreds. But some experts say its methods are too risky.
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[
"Climate & Environment",
"California",
"Fires"
] |
Climate & Environment
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2025-10-31T23:36:32.436Z
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2025-10-31T23:36:32.436Z
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https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-31/palisades-community-fire-brigade
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‘Our stomping ground’: Demolition of historic Valley Plaza mall begins
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David Udoff fondly remembers how his mother would drive him and his brother to Valley Plaza in her avocado Dodge Dart. The family would shop at the once-vibrant and bustling selection of retail businesses. They would visit the Sears, a bakery and the animatronic fortune-telling machine in front of the drugstore. Then they would lunch on Salisbury steak and Jell-O platters at Schaber's Cafeteria. "The good old Valley days," the 67-year-old former North Hollywood and Toluca Lake resident said of his family outings in the 1960s. Now, swaths of the historic San Fernando Valley mall are being demolished after years of complaints from neighbors that the collection of vacant buildings and parking lots had fallen into disrepair. The Valley Plaza, which opened in 1951, was among the first and largest open-air shopping malls on the West Coast and a major center of commerce. In its heyday, the sprawling complex of suburban buildings and modernist high-rises drew crowds and even a visit from John F. Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign. The demolition, which began this week, came after a panel of Los Angeles city commissioners appointed by Mayor Karen Bass voted in August to declare much of the site a public nuisance. The vote greenlighted the destruction of six buildings in the plaza. Some structures deemed historic, including the iconic 12-story, 165-foot-tall tower — among the first skyscrapers built in L.A. — will be spared. "It's crazy that it's happening. It has been an eyesore in the Valley for so long," said Stuart Waldman, president of the Valley Industry and Commerce Assn. "We're excited we are going to have something built there that will be usable." The site had drawn squatters, and nearby homeowners voiced concerns about crime and potential fires. Waldman, who lives nearby, said watching the mall's deterioration "has been sad." He said he expects the property will be turned into a mixed-use commercial and residential space, as was done in the development of NoHo West, which repurposed the site of the former Laurel Plaza mall and a Macy's department store. But Waldman warned it could be an uphill battle. "It's hard to build in L.A. It is expensive, and the city makes it difficult," Waldman said. "I hope someone's going to take a chance. It's an opportunity to help the community while also making a profit." The influential regional shopping center was an early example of how building entrances were reoriented to face large rear parking lots instead of streets and sidewalks, emphasizing vehicle access from newly built freeways, according to the Los Angeles Conservancy. "This was our stomping ground," Jack McGrath, a former president of the Studio City Chamber of Commerce, said in a video series on Valley Plaza published by the news outlet Patch in 2013. McGrath, in the video, described how thousands of people crowded into the mall's sprawling parking lot to see Kennedy speak. "This man was absolutely handsome, and more importantly, he had the best-looking tan I've ever seen on a man or a politician," McGrath said. "The women were goofy, looking at this fellow." The shopping center's decline began with the rise of big-box retail, as well as competition from other newer malls in Burbank and Sherman Oaks. Economic strife in the 1990s and damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake also dealt blows, pushing some businesses to permanently close. In 2000, about 30% of the mall's storefronts were vacant, and in recent years film and television producers have used the site as a grimy, boarded-up backdrop — rather than an iconic institution once showcased in the music video for Randy Newman's 1983 anthem, “I Love L.A.” On Thursday, piles of dirt, concrete shards and other debris surrounded the property, with a bulldozer watching over. Fred Gaines, an attorney for Charles Co., the real estate and development firm that owns the property, and which engaged the demolition contractor, said there was not yet a specific redevelopment plan for the site. He said future development would depend on how the city handles homelessness encampments in the area. "We certainly will look to the city to fix this problem in the neighborhood and allow this to be a viable development site," Gaines said. Charles Co. has had its own problems in recent years, as one of the firm's owners became embroiled in a major L.A. corruption case. Co-owner Arman Gabaee was sentenced in 2022 to four years in federal prison after making payments to a county official in return for leases and nonpublic information. Udoff, the former Valley resident who currently lives in South Florida, said he tried to move back to L.A. a few years ago, but housing was too expensive. As prices rise in the Miami-area suburb where he lives, he is looking to resettle in a more affordable area in California or Oregon. In August, he wrote a letter to Bass' office urging the city to help steer development of the property into a cultural center or subsidized affordable housing. "How things change," Udoff said. "They should make it into something really nice." Times staff photographer Eric Thayer contributed to this report.
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One of the San Fernando Valley’s oldest outdoor shopping malls, Valley Plaza opened in the early 1950s but has fallen on hard times in recent years, prompting complaints from neighbors.
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Business
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2025-10-31T23:27:58.425Z
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2025-10-31T23:54:04.579Z
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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-10-31/demolition-valley-plaza-mall-north-hollywood-los-angeles-begins
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Favorite Ted Noffey rumbles to win in $2-million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile
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Sometimes the toughest part of owning a horse is deciding what to name it. If you own a bunch of horses, you run out of logical names pretty quickly. You can only do a play on the sire’s name so many times. And if you name it after a living person, you need permission from that person. But every once in a while happenstance is your guide. Ned Toffey has been the general manager of Spendthrift Farm for 21 years. Spendthrift saw an Into Mischief colt it liked and bought the yet unnamed colt as a yearling for $650,000. Now the tough part, naming him. Toffey had just completed an interview with a publication and it was trying to promote it on social media. The only problem is they got a couple of first letters transposed and sent out posted a message on X calling the longtime Spendthrift executive Ted Noffey. Innocent mistake. Once notified it was corrected but not before a few screenshots were taken. Noffey went with the joke. Now people will remember that colt as the winner of the $2-million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, pushing his name to the top of Kentucky Derby future pools. His win wasn’t a surprise as he has won all four of his races, but none this prestigious on the first day of the two-day Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar. All five of the races on Friday were worth no less than $1 million with nine more on Saturday. Ted Noffey, the horse, was the favorite and was within a length of the lead all the way around the 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-old males, winning by a length. “It pretty much unfolded like we thought it would,” said trainer Todd Pletcher. “I’m just glad that he was able to keep finding more." Brant, the $3-million purchase for trainer Bob Baffert, went to the lead and was in front until the top of the stretch when Ted Noffey inched past and then kept going. He ended up winning by a length over Mr. A.P. “I was happy with the trip, [Brant] just got tired,” Baffert said. “The lack of two turns caught up with him. He was beat by a real good horse, and they ran really fast. I think he will move up off this race.” Brant finished third and Baffert’s other horse, Litmus Test, finished fourth. Ted Noffey was the favorite and paid $3.60 to win . The other $2-million race, the Juvenile Fillies, was won by Super Corredora ($19.60 to win), whose last race was a maiden win, the only time this has happened in this race. Southern California-based John Sadler had to go 42 races before he won his first Breeders’ Cup race in 2018 when he won the Classic with Accelerate. “My journey has been, there was a time when they’d say, he’s the best trainer that hasn’t won a Breeders’ Cup,” Sadler said. “They stopped asking that after Accelerate. So we’ve won quite a few of them now. So, I’m very pleased with that. “And as you’re an older trainer, which I am at this point (he’s 69), these are the races you want to win. I think I hold most of the categories here at Del Mar, right behind Baffert — number of wins, number of stakes wins and money earned. The big days are especially rewarding.” The 2-year-old filly led the entire 1 1/16 mile race and was the front half of a Southern California exacta with Baffert’s Explora finishing second. Hector Barrios was the jockey and it was his first Breeders’ Cup win with a three-quarters of a length victory. The first race of the day, the $1 million Juvenile Turf Sprint, was won by Cy Fair ($12.00), a horse named after a high school in Texas and trained by George Weaver. Everyone gave Aidan O’Brien a good shot to win the five-furlong race since he had three horses in the race and his next win would give him 21, the most ever, breaking a tie with the late Wayne Lukas. O’Brien had to wait for the last race of the day, the $1-million Juvenile Turf over one mile to pick up No. 21. Gstaad ($4.40) was the favorite and didn’t disappoint coming off the pace at the top of the stretch and winning by three-quarters of a length. The other Breeders’ Cup race of the day, the $1-million Juvenile Fillies Turf, was won by Balantina ($43.20) by 1 ¼ lengths, the largest margin of the day. She came from well off the pace in the one mile race with a strong stretch drive for trainer Donnacha O’Brien, Aidan’s son. The first day of the Breeders’ Cup is all 2-year-old races, but Saturday is where all the money is, $23 million in purses to be exact. It’s headed by the $7-million Classic, a 1¼ mile race for horses of any age or sex. The race, and the whole event, took a major blow when Sovereignty, the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner and top-ranked horse in the country, was scratched after he spiked a fever early in the week. He was the 6-5 morning line favorite. Everyone was looking forward to the rematch of Sovereignty and Journalism (5-1 adjusted odds), who finished one-two in both the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. McCarthy, who trains Journalism and owner Aron Wellman replaced jockey Umberto Rispoli after they didn’t like his ride in the Pacific Classic. Jose Ortiz picked up the mount. “I think it’s unfortunate that Sovereignty is not in there but this is probably one of the best Classics we’ve seen in about 20 years,” McCarthy said. “We’ll bounce out of there and try and be tactical and try to be within four or five lengths of the lead.” There should also be some interest in Fierceness (5-2), who won the Pacific Classic after a terrible break when he ducked near the rail breaking from the one. He drew the one for this race too. “He’s got to break straight and establish the position he wants and run his race,” trainer Todd Pletcher said. “His best race gives him a big chance, if he can deliver that." Among others in the race are Santa Anita-based Baeza (10-1), who won the Pennsylvania Derby; Japanese horse Forever Young (7-2), winner of the Saudi Cup; last year’s winner Sierra Leone (7-2); and Nevada Beach (20-1) for Baffert and winner of the Los Alamitos Derby and the Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita. Another race to watch on Saturday is the $5-million Turf in which Rebel’s Romance is trying to become the first three-time winner of this race and the third horse to ever win three Breeders’ Cup races, joining Goldikova and Beholder.
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Colt Ted Noffey, whose name is inspired by a mistake, won the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. It pushed his to the top of Kentucky Derby future pools.
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Sports
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2025-10-31T23:19:53.219Z
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2025-11-01T02:07:00.000Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2025-10-31/breeders-cup-day-1-coverage
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Celebra el Halloween con una película de Drácula completamente demente
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Es probable que muchos de los que vean por accidente esta película, o que lo hagan pensando que se trata de una nueva producción cinematográfica sobre el conde favorito de las historias de miedo, queden completamente espantados. Pero no porque la cinta les de miedo, sino porque se trata de una propuesta rabiosamente irreverente, considerablemente experimental, extremadamente larga y ocasionalmente pornográfica que tiene el potencial de causar profundo desagrado entre los amantes del cine comercial, los adeptos a las convenciones estéticas y los defensores de las “buenas costumbres”. Lo que no deberían hacer es acusar a su director Radu Jude de falta de originalidad, sobre todo en lo que corresponde a retomar un personaje que ha sido objeto de incontables trabajos audiovisuales pero que no había sido nunca tratado de este modo; y, claro está, tendrían que estar más enterados y saber que lo que tienen ante sus ojos no podría ser ni por asomo convencional en vista de que estamos ante una obra del mismo realizador de “Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World” (2022), una cinta altamente atípica que se encontraba firmemente anclada en la comedia del absurdo. En realidad, el “Dracula” de Jude (que se puede ver ya en la Alamo Drafthouse de DTLA y en Laemmle Glendale) no es ni siquiera una adaptación de la celebérrima novela de Bram Stoker, o no lo es al menos de manera integral, porque sus casi tres horas de duración (que desafiarán incluso más a los inconformes en el caso improbable de que estos se mantengan en la sala) se encuentran separadas por diversos episodios, hilvanados por la intervención de un director de cine ficticio que ha decidido hacer una película sobre el personaje recurriendo a una herramienta parlante de Inteligencia Artificial con la que se comunica a través de una tableta. Fuera de un relato en particular que se abandona y se retoma a lo largo de todo el film, y que tiene como protagonistas a los intérpretes de un cabaret ‘underground’, los segmentos son independientes, y aunque manejan ampliamente el sentido del humor, se alejan por completo de las normas tradicionales de las películas de terror episódicas, porque lo que menos tratan de hacer es provocar miedo. Optan, en cambio, por un sentido de la provocación en el que no faltan los desnudos, los ‘fellatios’ y los momentos extraños. El único ‘sketch’ que se toma las cosas en serio (¿eso hace que no sea ya un ‘sketch’?) es el que presenta el desafortunado romance entre un conductor de camión y una trabajadora agrícola durante la era “comunista” de Rumania, basado en un cuento de Nicolae Velea. Lo demás apunta hacia aspectos de lo más distintos y delirantes, como la historia de una anciana internada en un centro de rejuvenecimiento al que han asistido también Chaplin y Spielberg; una serie de comerciales con tintes sexuales que involucran al Nosferatu de Murnau; una recreación clamorosamente falsa del título de Coppola; una adaptación de un cuento folclórico que, en esta ocasión, encuentra a un campesino cosechando penes en lugar de maíz; y una aproximación a “El Capital” de Marx en la que el viejo Vlad se convierte en el dueño de una fábrica cuyos trabajadores son explotados sin misericordia. Los segmentos no mantienen consistencia alguna en cuestiones de duración; algunos se extienden por pocos minutos, mientras que uno de ellos, correspondiente a una reconstrucción obviamente libre de “Vampirul” -una oscura novela rumana de 1938 en la que el monstruo era en realidad un sacerdote que se aprovechaba de las supersticiones de su comunidad-, llega casi a la hora e inserta sin reparos tanto escenografías de cartón que no ocultan su precariedad como imágenes de automóviles y transeúntes contemporáneos en medio de una ambientación que, por otro lado, pretende ser de época. No hay tampoco consistencia en cuanto a los estilos visuales; algunos de los capítulos se encuentran filmados casi a la carrera, aparentemente con teléfonos móviles, mientras que otros gozan de una puesta en escena cuidadosa con encuadres preciosistas que, sin embargo, se ven súbitamente interrumpidos por momentos de animación hechos con una IA intencionalmente chapucera. El “Dracula” de Radu Jude es una curiosa combinación de cultura popular ramplona (tiene demasiadas bromas sexuales) y de intelectualismo elevado (gracias a sus incontables referencias literarias y cinematográficas); pero es también un alegato en contra del imperialismo y del autoritarismo, plasmado en los comentarios que hace sobre Ion Antonescu, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Vladimir Putin y hasta Donald Trump. Hay una escena particularmente elocuente en la que un grupo de turistas sedientos de sangre defiende las tácticas de tortura de la CIA en Bucarest. Más allá de cualquier consideración, uno de los puntos a favor de este “Dracula” (y uno que debería ser claro a estas alturas del texto) es su origen rumano, es decir, un detalle importante en vista de que el personaje mismo era oriundo de dicho país. Jude aprovecha estas circunstancias para cuestionar el papel heroico que se le sigue adjudicando a El Empalador en sus territorios, sobre todo por parte de los simpatizantes de la derecha. Una búsqueda rápida en la internet revela la inexistencia de producciones de ficción para la pantalla que se encuentren específicamente dedicadas a la creación de Stoker y que hayan sido realizadas en Rumania, lo que refuerza incluso más la novedad de una película que no se encuentra ni por asomo hecha para las masas y que desafía la paciencia de cualquier tipo de espectador, pero a la que yo le hinqué el colmillo con todo el gusto del mundo. Así soy de raro.
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El ‘Dracula’ de Radu Jude es original, atrevido y difícil de asimilar
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Entretenimiento
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2025-10-31T23:16:26.037Z
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2025-10-31T23:16:26.037Z
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-12/earthquake-preparedness-tips-lucy-jones
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CdM takes overtime loss at Yorba Linda, Bravo League title split 3 ways
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Corona del Mar could not complete an undefeated regular season, a couple of key turnovers tipping the scales in its Bravo League football finale. Thomas Knutson came up with the interception of the Sea Kings’ lone offensive play in overtime, putting an end to the latest chapter in a burgeoning rivalry between CdM and Yorba Linda. Brady Annett accounted for four total touchdowns, but CdM suffered a 35-28 defeat Thursday at Nathan Shapell Memorial Stadium. Corona del Mar (9-1, 4-1 in the Bravo League) held the inside track to an outright league championship, which ended up being shared three ways. Yorba Linda (8-2, 4-1) grabbed its share with the result, while San Juan Hills (8-2, 4-1) made its way to the top with a 41-7 win over Tesoro. “It’s two really good teams that left it out here tonight,” CdM coach Kevin Hettig said. “That’s all you can ask for in a football game. We came up short. We didn’t play our best in the second half, and that type of thing is going to happen. If you don’t play well against a team like this, you’re going to get beat.” The Sea Kings took a 21-7 lead into halftime and were going to get the ball back, but a fumble on the kickoff coming out of the locker room loomed large. Andrew Maldonado made the recovery for the Mustangs at the CdM 18-yard line. Five plays later — all on the ground — Isaiah Trujillo crashed into the end zone for his second score of the evening. The sophomore running back ended up with a game-best 127 rushing yards. “I think at the beginning of the half, when we got that fumble, that’s when everything started to change for us,” Trujillo said. “Everything started clicking from there.” Corona del Mar punted the ball away near midfield on its next possession. Yorba Linda, which threw the ball just four times after halftime, put together an 11-play, 83-yard march that took six minutes off the clock. Noah Trujillo connected with Troy Roberts on a fade route to the left corner of the end zone for a 13-yard touchdown, tying the score, 21-21, on the first play of the fourth quarter. The Sea Kings responded with an even longer drive, getting the ball back at their own 11-yard line. An ineligible-receiver penalty backed them up to the shadow of their own end zone, before a defensive personal foul got the drive started. Annett made magic out of an extended play, coming all the way to the Mustangs’ sideline before reversing field. He was back between the hash marks before unleashing a deep pass to Garrett James for a 35-yard gain down to the Yorba Linda 7-yard line. “The same thing happened last week [when] I scored on a play similar to [the broken play],” said James, who had five catches for 104 receiving yards, including a touchdown grab along the boundary. “I just run behind everyone, they lose track of me. I just wave my arms high in the air for Brady, and he finds me every time.” Two plays later, Annett found Dorsett Stecker in the end zone to retake the lead. Stecker finished with seven catches for 60 yards and two touchdowns. “He’s a baller,” Hettig said of Annett. “He’s one of the best in Orange County. I don’t even think it’s hard to say that, and it’s fun to coach him, and it’s fun to watch him play.” Again, Yorba Linda kept the ball on the ground for an extended period. The Mustangs engineered a 15-play, 73-yard drive to go down for the tying score once more. Key plays included a 15-yard run by Isaiah Trujillo on a third-and-8, the Mustangs’ offensive line pushing the pile the majority of the gain. Yorba Linda also came out of a timeout on a fourth-and-6 at the CdM 17-yard line, picking up 15 yards on a pass from Noah Trujillo to tight end Jordan McCormack, his only catch of the contest. Fullback Vaughn Sharp got the call and carried the ball into the end zone for the tying score with roughly a minute remaining. Corona del Mar had 55 seconds to work with to get into field goal range when it took over at its own 24-yard line. A defensive personal foul brought the ball to the CdM 43, but free safety Owen Smith came away with the interception when Annett took a deep shot in the direction of Stecker. Smith also had a fumble recovery in the first half. The Mustangs had the ball first in overtime, and they kept it on the ground the whole way. Noah Trujillo rolled out to his left on the seventh play of the drive — which started from the 25-yard line — for the go-ahead 4-yard touchdown. “We made plays,” Yorba Linda coach Jeff Bailey said. “The kids have heart. It’s a fun group to coach, and we’ll keep it going.” Finn Grimstad, Nolan Scott, Max Brengel and Troy Merriman each had a sack for CdM, all coming in the first half. Tucker Murray and Cash Pearsall also had an interception apiece for the Sea Kings. The CIF Southern Section will release its football playoff pairings at 10 a.m. on Sunday. Bravo League Yorba Linda 35, Corona del Mar 28 SCORE BY QUARTERS Corona del Mar 7 - 14 - 0 - 7 - 0 — 28 Yorba Linda 7 - 0 - 7 - 14 - 7 — 35 FIRST QUARTER YL — I. Trujillo 34 run (Wilson kick), 9:02. CdM — Annett 1 run (DiBella kick), 2:36. SECOND QUARTER CdM — Stecker 15 pass from Annett (DiBella kick), 5:17. CdM — James 11 pass from Annett (DiBella kick), 3:56. THIRD QUARTER YL — I. Trujillo 3 run (Wilson kick), 9:14. FOURTH QUARTER YL — Roberts 13 pass from N. Trujillo (Wilson kick), 11:54. CdM — Stecker 7 pass from Annett (DiBella kick), 9:25. YL — Sharp 2 run (Wilson kick), 1:02. OVERTIME YL — N. Trujillo 4 run (Wilson kick). INDIVIDUAL RUSHING CdM — Annett, 5-25; Kuchera, 6-22; Nixon, 1-10; Team, 1-(-1). YL — I. Trujillo, 16-127, 2 TDs; Gutierrez, 15-78; N. Trujillo, 5-37; Smolskis, 4-14; Sharp, 1-10; Roberts, 1-3; Team, 5-(-22). INDIVIDUAL PASSING CdM — Annett, 16-26-2, 243, 3 TDs. YL — N. Trujillo, 11-18-2, 130, 1 TD. INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING CdM — James, 5-104, 1 TD; Haley, 2-63; Stecker, 7-60, 2 TDs; Dickens, 1-9; Nixon, 1-7. YL — Saucedo, 5-68; Roberts, 3-40, 1 TD; McCormack, 1-15; Lopez, 1-9; I. Trujillo, 1-(-2).
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Corona del Mar squandered a two-touchdown halftime lead in a 35-28 overtime loss at Yorba Linda. The Bravo League title was shared by CdM, Yorba Linda and San Juan Hills.
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Sports
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2025-10-31T23:15:46.774Z
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2025-10-31T23:15:46.774Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/sports/story/2025-10-31/cdm-takes-overtime-loss-at-yorba-linda-bravo-league-title-split-three-ways
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Estancia boys’ water polo exits playoffs after overtime thriller against Western
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Estancia High boys' water polo senior Ryan Ranes had been waiting for weeks for his chance to shine again. It was a long road back for Ranes after he broke his pinky finger on his right (shooting) hand during a tournament in September. He was cleared Wednesday to return to action, just one day before the Eagles were set to open the CIF Southern Section Division 4 playoffs. "This is obviously the most important game of the whole season," Ranes said of Thursday's match against Western. "It epitomizes the whole season, all of the work we put in all four years, especially for the seniors, even in club [water polo], swimming, all of that. Coming back was always in my mind. Right when I broke my finger, it was all about coming back for CIF and playing in this game." Given the circumstances, Ranes' performance could be seen as heroic. He was all over the pool on both offense and defense and scored a season-high nine goals. Western was just one goal better. The Pioneers edged out a 16-15 overtime win at Garden Grove High School, ending Estancia's season. Estancia and Western split their two meetings during the season in Coast League play, finishing tied for second. By winning the rubber match, Western (18-9) advanced to host Glendale in a Division 4 second round match on Tuesday. Estancia's season ended with a 12-13 record. Second-year Estancia head coach Olivia Schwartz praised her team's resilience, especially the senior class that went through a few different head coaches during its tenure. "It's been very up and down, a big roller coaster for them," Schwartz said. "They've been working really hard under all of the coaches that they've had, and everything that all of us have taught them has been building to today. It's the stamina, the aggressiveness, the teamwork that we see with these guys that really pushes them to the next level, and it comes from their previous coaches too. They've been doing a really good job." Junior Charlie Goan and sophomore Evan Gruebel added two goals each for Estancia, which also had junior Shane Smith and sophomore Kevin Lahut find the back of the net. Senior goalkeeper Ethan Rose came up with several big saves. Estancia played without senior standout Davis Gruebel, who has missed the last two weeks after suffering a concussion. Schwartz called him the team's best all-around player. "The trainer actually cleared him for Friday, but not today," Ranes said. "It's unfortunate. We're not going to make excuses, obviously, but it's just unfortunate." Nathan Van Horn paced Western with five goals, and Anthony Sayavong scored four. The Pioneers jumped out to a 4-1 lead after the first quarter, but Estancia battled back throughout the match. Still, Western had a 12-10 advantage in the final two minutes of regulation before the Eagles rallied. First it was Goan's goal that brought Estancia within one, then sophomore Brooks Harder found Evan Gruebel on a cross-cage goal that tied the score at 12-12 with 1:08 to play. The match would continue into extra time, but Western came out stronger, scoring three successive goals to take a 15-12 advantage. Ranes scored all three of Estancia's goals in the second overtime period, including the final strike on a sweep shot with just seconds remaining, but the Eagles just ran out of time. Still, Schwartz was happy with the progress of her squad. The season came with some other highlights, including beating crosstown rival Costa Mesa in the Battle for the Bell game for the second straight year. The Eagles fans who watched Thursday's thriller certainly won't forget Ranes' will to win. "He put in some serious work for us today," Schwartz said. "We weren't totally sure what to expect, considering he's been out for so long, and he exceeded all of our expectations by far."
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The shorthanded Eagles battled but lost 16-15 Thursday night in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 4 playoffs.
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Sports
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2025-10-31T22:53:22.055Z
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2025-10-31T22:53:22.055Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/sports/story/2025-10-31/estancia-boys-water-polo-exits-playoffs-after-overtime-thriller-against-western
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Miss Huntington Beach 2026 went from council candidate to city’s queen
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Gabrielle Samiy ran for Huntington Beach City Council in 2022. It was a bold move at the time for Samiy, then just 22, but she had a passion for local politics and wanted to represent her city. A lifelong Surf City resident, Samiy was not elected then. But she'll now be representing her hometown in a decidedly different manner, having been named Miss Huntington Beach for 2026 during an Oct. 25 coronation ceremony at the Central Library Theater. Samiy, the 113th Miss Huntington Beach in the city's history, has a court that includes Princesses Lilliana Mindel and Annaleah LaParne. Now 25, the Edison High School graduate said she applied last year for Miss Huntington Beach after receiving some encouragement while enrolled in the city's Citizen Academy. That was her first-ever pageant, but she came back a year later feeling more comfortable in the role. "It was something that was crazy new, but I am someone who likes to try new things," Samiy said in an interview with the Daily Pilot. "It was a fun experience." The crown and title are a new stop on Samiy's road less traveled. She holds three associate's degrees and has attended three different junior colleges. The coronavirus pandemic played a role in her zig-zagging path, she said, along with some personal setbacks. Samiy, who played on Edison's girls' basketball team, continued the sport in community college. While attending Orange Coast College in 2023, she helped her teammates win the California Community College Athletic Assn. State Championship. "I definitely had the title at OCC as 'Grandma Gab,' because I'm so old, but it worked out," said Samiy, who was just 23 at the time. "I gave wisdom to this team, and it added nothing but good to the team. "It's been a long road, but I probably would not have been doing something that I would enjoy if I would have stayed on the traditional path. I really don't think you know what you want to do right when you graduate high school, especially when you're in sports." The Miss Huntington Beach Scholarship Program and Pageant are sponsored by the nonprofit Sand Dollars of Huntington Beach. Candidates are judged on a panel interview with the five judges, as well as three rounds of on-stage competition: personal expression, active/lifestyle wear and evening gown. City videographer Matt Liffreing served as this year's pageant emcee. Upon completion of their reign, each young woman will receive a scholarship to further her education. Samiy plans to purse a business finance degree at Cal State Fullerton. She said she also plans to run for city council again sometime in the future. She can take solace in knowing that when Jill Hardy was sworn in as Huntington Beach's mayor in 2005, she was recognized as the youngest mayor in Orange County history. Hardy, one of the five judges for this year's Miss Huntington Beach pageant, was just 31 years old at the time. Samiy said she looks forward to serving Huntington Beach next year, albeit in a different capacity. "One of my biggest goals when I ran for city council was to be a bridge of communication between the city and the council," she said. "It's something that I can still do now, right? I'm still participating in these events where I'm with our citizens from each diverse community, wanting to communicate with them. I am an extension of the city, in a different way." Her pageant platform was strengthening community connections, inspiring civic participation and championing the values that define Huntington Beach. "It's always been super-special to me," she said of her hometown. "I could have been born anywhere on this earth, and I got to be raised here. It has changed, but the community hasn't changed. My mom and I can go anywhere, and either I will know someone or she will." Mindel, one of the two princesses, is a sophomore at UCLA who aspires to become a full-time opera singer. Her platform was the Boys & Girls Club of Huntington Valley, where she performed in her first musical as a singing bee in "Winnie the Pooh." LaParne, the other princess, is a senior at Huntington Beach High School and a member of the water polo and swim teams. She's also an Eagle Scout and a Girl Scout ambassador, and her platform included demonstrating water safety awareness. Allyssa Coe, Amanda Luyks, 2024 princess Lainie Shield and Kelli Wilkes were this year's other candidates.
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Miss Huntington Beach Queen Gabrielle Samiy and Princesses Lilliana Mindel and Annaleah LaParne were crowned in an Oct. 25 ceremony.
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2025-10-31T22:45:01.286Z
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2025-10-31T22:45:01.286Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2025-10-31/gabrielle-samiy-miss-huntington-beach-for-2026-went-from-council-candidate-to-queen
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‘Back Bay Book Queen’ Joan Pizzo honored by community
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Joan Pizzo took a pair of binoculars with her whenever she and her four children went for walks on the cliffs of Upper Newport Bay so they could admire the birds living in the estuary. But sometimes they got a little too close for comfort. “We’d get attacked a little bit because we were getting a little too close to their nests,” Pizzo recalled. “And the kids would say, ‘Why are they up here and not down at the water? We’re here to look at the Back Bay.’ And I’d say, ‘Well, they like the Back Bay, too.” Pizzo knew the Back Bay belonged at least as much to the delicate balance of wildlife that thrived in the area as it did to the humans who had taken up residence nearby or developers who sought to transform it during the 1960s into a commercial marina with private docks and waterfront homes. It was an environmental treasure that deserved to be protected. There used to only be a one-way, single-lane road running along the banks of the bay. A plan approved by the Newport Beach City Council in the early ’70s would have expanded the 55 Freeway through the region, potentially destroying the estuary. Pizzo, encouraged by friend and environmentalist Jean Watt, joined the efforts of a grassroots group called the Freeway Fighters who succeeded in thwarting the expansion. That experience inspired the former teacher to write “Little Crumb: Tales of the Back Bay.” It was the first of four children’s books meant to impart her love of Newport Beach and the importance of preserving the environment to future generations. “Little Crumb,” along with “Amy Avocet, the Back Bay Ballerina,” “Pelican Bill: The Fisherman,” and “The Tale of the Bay Ducklings,” transformed the wildlife of the estuary into beloved characters. Pizzo toured up and down California’s coast to read her books at elementary schools, planting seeds of compassion for the natural world in many who would grow up to become environmentalists themselves. “She found passion in those birds that live there and then wrote those childrens’ books that were read by thousands,” said Heather Ciselak, operations director for the Newport Bay Conservancy. “...When we give more characteristics and we tell stories that are relatable about the plants and animals in the Back Bay, that gives them depth. That teaches people about the environment and hopefully they make better choices that inspire them to take care of the Back Bay.” Ciselak was among a circle of friends, relatives and community members who celebrated Pizzo’s work and listened to her read “Amy Avocet” on a recent Thursday at the Heavenly Home, a hospice care facility run by the Southern California Hospice Foundation in Mission Viejo. The author was dressed like royalty for the occasion with a tiara and a blue sash proclaiming her the “Back Bay Book Queen.” Pizzo, now 88, is living with congestive heart failure and requires assistance to bathe, prepare meals and perform many other day-to-day tasks. Yet her eyes shined with warmth and understanding as she read her book and chatted with visitors, occasionally flirting with the idea of penning a new story. The gathering was one of many held at the facility each week to bring people of different generations together and learn from one another, the Foundation’s executive director, Michelle Wulfestieg said. Those interactions keep the hospice home’s residents engaged with their neighbors, and can help change visitors’ attitudes toward death and the end of their own lives. “They still have a lot of life left in them and they have a lot to give,” Wullfestieg said of the facility’s residents. “We try to let people know in the community that hospice is not scary. This isn’t a place to fear. It’s a place where love happens and hope grows. It’s a place where people can be celebrated.” Pizzo’s books went out of print long ago, and copies can be difficult to track down on the second-hand market. The conservancy hopes to remedy that, and is exploring avenues to republish her work, Ciselak said. She added that getting permission from the author would be simple enough, but obtaining rights to the illustrations may prove more challenging. The whimsical avian characters depicted in Pizzo’s books were designed by the late Clyde Geronimi, a former animation director for Walt Disney who died in Newport Beach in 1989. Geronimi had a hand in creating “Dumbo,” “Bambi,” “Cinderella,” “Lady and the Tramp,” and numerous other iconic cartoons. He was a neighbor of Pizzo’s who approached her after learning she was working on a children’s book. "He came back one day and he knocked at my door and he had all those manuscripts, hand-written, that I had given him to read,” Pizzo recalled. “And he had all these little pictures of what he was thinking when he was reading the stories. He also had a fresh flower in his lapel. It was so cute, so Walt Disney!”
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Inspired by Upper Newport Bay, also known as the Back Bay, Joan Pizzo began writing children's books in the 1970s to teach them about the environment. She was recently feted.
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2025-10-31T22:16:38.794Z
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2025-10-31T22:16:38.794Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2025-10-31/back-bay-book-queen-joan-pizzo-honored-by-community
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For his next trick, Jesse Eisenberg will make his kidney disappear — into a stranger
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"Now You See Me: Now You Don't" star Jesse Eisenberg may soon one-up the film franchise's Robin Hood-esque Four Horsemen in the giving-back department. This December, the Academy Award nominee and longtime blood donor will give one of his kidneys to a complete stranger, he said Thursday on the "Today" show. He slipped the news into a conversation with host Craig Melvin about a recent show-sponsored blood drive. As Melvin and his co-hosts reacted in disbelief, Eisenberg said, "I really am [donating]." "I don't know why. I got bitten by the blood donation bug," he said, adding that he was "so excited" to make the nondirected (a.k.a. "altruistic") donation, wherein a living donor is not related to or known by the recipient. According to the National Kidney Registry, approximately 90,000 people in the U.S. are currently in need of a kidney transplant, while roughly 6,000 people donate kidneys each year. Less than 5% of those already slim donations are nondirected. Eisenberg said he suspected that if people knew how safe the process was, those numbers would go up. "It's essentially risk-free and so needed," Eisenberg said in a separate interview with Today.com. "I think people will realize that it's a no-brainer, if you have the time and the inclination." "The Social Network" alum added that prospective donors need not worry about forking over a kidney and later facing a situation wherein a family member urgently needs one. "The way it works now is you can put a list of whoever you would like to be the first [relative] to be at the top of the list," he said, referring to the National Kidney Registry's family voucher program. The program launched in 2019, preceded by an earlier "standard" iteration that required the voucher donor to name a voucher holder who had some form of kidney impairment. (The standard voucher option is still available to donors as well.) “Not only does this remove an important disincentive to living kidney donation, but it is the right thing to do for the generous people who are donating a kidney to a stranger. Donors can now donate a kidney and still provide security for their loved ones should they need a kidney transplant in the future,” Dr. Jeff Veale, who helped pioneer the voucher system, said in a statement at the time of the program update. Recovery is also a non-issue for most kidney donors, who on average return to daily activities within a few weeks of the surgery, per the Mayo Clinic. "Now You See Me: Now You Don't" hits theaters Nov. 14, nearly a decade after the previous installment in the franchise premiered. Eisenberg stars alongside returning cast members Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco and newcomers Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt and Rosamund Pike.
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Jesse Eisenberg is about to donate one of his kidneys to a stranger. The 'Now You See Me: Now You Don't' star called the move a 'no-brainer.'
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2025-10-31T21:57:09.132Z
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2025-10-31T21:57:09.132Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-10-31/jesse-eisenberg-kidney-donation
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La flor de cempasúchil cubre México en Día de Muertos, pero el cambio climático la pone en riesgo
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Lucía Ortíz avanza con dificultad entre interminables campos de flores de cempasúchil, cuyos pétalos de un naranja luminoso se ven en todas partes en estos días, en calles y cementerios de todo México. Aquí, en canales sinuosos y granjas en los márgenes de Ciudad de México, la flor también conocida como caléndula mexicana se ha cultivado durante generaciones y toma protagonismo cada año en las celebraciones del Día de Muertos. Pero mientras Ortíz, de 50 años, y otros agricultores agrupan afanosamente racimos de la planta para vender en los mercados de la capital, se preguntan en silencio qué quedará de su sustento en el futuro. Eso se debe a que los cultivadores de cempasúchil se han visto afectados por lluvias torrenciales, sequía prolongada y otros impactos del cambio climático causados por la quema de combustibles como el gas, el petróleo y el carbón, que se han vuelto cada vez más comunes. Los agricultores, que dependen de los altibajos del clima para sus cosechas, están en la primera línea de la crisis climática. Solo este año, los productores de cempasúchil dijeron que perdieron hasta la mitad de su cosecha de flores debido a las fuertes lluvias e inundaciones. “Este año sí hemos perdido, pues mucho. De hecho, nos costó mucho trabajo sacar el cultivo de cempasúchil porque había momentos en el cual no teníamos para costear algunos fertilizantes”, comentó Ortíz. “La planta de cempasúchil a veces nos deja sin nada”. La flor naranja se ha convertido en un símbolo de la celebración mexicana del 1 y 2 de noviembre. También conocida como “la flor de los muertos”, se cree que el cempasúchil es un punto de conexión entre el mundo de los muertos y los vivos, con pétalos brillantes que iluminan el camino de las almas hacia los altares dispuestos por sus seres queridos. Las flores también son un motor económico crucial en todo México, y los grupos comerciales predicen que generarán casi 2,7 millones de dólares para los agricultores en 2025. Ortíz y su familia comenzaron a cultivar la flor hace 30 años en su pequeño terreno en Xochimilco, una delegación rural en el sur de Ciudad de México donde los residentes utilizan todavía técnicas agrícolas ancestrales en canales que serpentean entre las tierras de cultivo como un laberinto. Cada año, los lugareños comienzan a plantar las semillas de caléndula en julio y cultivan las plantas para cuando la temporada de lluvias llega a su fin. Pero dicen que han recibido duros golpes durante años consecutivos, ya que las fuertes lluvias, la sequía, las inundaciones y otros cambios climáticos han hecho cada vez más difícil mantener vivas sus cosechas. Este año, las lluvias torrenciales que se prolongaron durante meses arrasaron más de 37.000 acres de cultivos en todo el país, según cifras del gobierno. En una visita a los campos de cempasúchil a principios de este mes en Xochimilco, la alcaldesa de Ciudad de México, Clara Brugada, dijo que hasta 2 millones de plantas de caléndula estuvieron en riesgo. A pesar de eso, dijo que la producción de este año simultáneamente rompió un récord de 6 millones de plantas, ya que los agricultores aumentan la producción para satisfacer la creciente demanda, incluso cuando el cultivo de la flor se ha vuelto más precario. Ortíz dijo que el exceso de lluvia ha generado plagas y enfermedades, y podrido las raíces de sus plantas. Estima que perdió al menos el 30% de su cosecha, mientras que otros dicen que han perdido cerca del 50%. La familia se ha visto obligada a gastar dinero en insecticidas, fertilizantes y más para salvar sus cultivos. A medida que lo han hecho, los márgenes de ganancia, ya de por sí estrechos, se han convertido en pérdidas, y han tenido que hacer recortes en cosas básicas como la carne de res y golosinas para llegar a fin de mes. “Si yo me pusiera a ver todas mis pérdidas, quedaría desilusionada. Y entonces, en ese momento, pues a la mejor ya ni me darían ganas de cultivarlas”, dijo. “Tratamos de echarle muchas ganas para que esto siga adelante”. Justo al final del camino de la granja de Ortíz, científicos del gobierno buscan soluciones más allá del alivio económico a corto plazo proporcionado por el gobierno local. En un pequeño banco de semillas conocido como Toxinachcal, hombres con trajes blancos examinan meticulosamente brotes en un plato de laboratorio. Los científicos llevan año y medio trabajando y acumulando miles de variantes de semillas de especies de plantas nativas, incluidas 20 variantes de cempasúchil, en frascos que alinean congeladores gigantes con la esperanza de que la instalación de almacenamiento sea una herramienta clave para combatir los efectos más adversos del cambio climático. La bióloga Clara Soto Cortés, jefa del banco de semillas, dijo que parte de la razón por la que el cultivo ha sido devastado es porque los agricultores en los últimos años han optado por usar una variante híbrida de semilla de caléndula de Estados Unidos. La semilla produce una planta más corta y de aspecto más uniforme que es más fácil de vender en masa y en lugares como supermercados. Pero eso significa que los agricultores se han alejado de las variedades nativas más resistentes, que tienen tallos más largos y varían ampliamente en color, tamaño y textura. La diversidad genética de estas variedades mexicanas las hace más resistentes a cambios climáticos drásticos como los vistos este año, dijo Soto. “Estas semillas nativas son semillas adaptadas a diferentes contextos geográficos, es decir, pueden crecer en zonas altas, en zonas bajas, en zonas donde hay bastante humedad o en zonas donde no hay, hay semillas que son resistentes a insectos”, explicó. “La otra semilla (la híbrida) ha sido configurada para un fin. No tiene la diversidad genética que tiene esta para hacerle frente al cambio climático”, indicó. Si más eventos climáticos, como las inundaciones que sacudieron a los productores, arrasan con una cosecha entera, Soto dijo que el banco pondrá semillas a disposición de los productores locales para que recuperen sus cultivos, esta vez con una variante más resistente que sus antepasados han cultivado durante siglos. Mientras tanto, los cultivadores batallan para recuperarse a corto plazo y dicen que las pérdidas también representan una amenaza para la tradición agrícola que sus familias han luchado por mantener en el borde de la densa ciudad de 23 millones de personas. Carlos Jiménez, de 61 años, lleva mucho tiempo trabajando en los campos de Xochimilco, pero comenzó a cultivar la caléndula más corta hace ocho años, cuando notó que el híbrido era más comercializable. Debido a que ha perdido más cultivos y ha tenido que bajar el precio de las plantas debido al moho que se acumula en sus raíces, dijo que ha comenzado a considerar formas de adaptarse, como construir invernaderos. “Si se enferman, se pudren y se acabó el negocio”, dijo Jiménez. “Se acabó la tradición, se puede decir, porque afecta mucho la economía”. Productores como Ortíz han considerado lo mismo. Pero sus pérdidas significan que no tienen dinero para más infraestructura. Su familia y otros agricultores han pedido ayuda a las autoridades locales, pero dicen que han recibido solo centavos por cada dólar de lo que necesitan para recuperarse. Aunque el gobierno local ha dicho que continúa trabajando para ayudar a mitigar el golpe que afecta a los agricultores. Ortíz dice que ha comenzado a mirar otras opciones para cultivar y que son más resistentes que las corrugadas flores naranjas. En cambio, Jiménez dice que, aunque las raíces de sus plantas se pudran, por ahora él se mantiene firme, ya que considera que la planta tiene un significado más profundo para los queridos difuntos. “Las tradiciones ya están desde nuestros ancestros, no va a afectar nunca la tradición”.
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Los agricultores, que dependen de los altibajos del clima para sus cosechas, están en la primera línea de la crisis climática.
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Vida y Estilo
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2025-10-31T21:57:05.550Z
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2025-10-31T21:57:05.550Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/vida-y-estilo/articulo/2025-10-31/la-flor-de-cempasuchil-cubre-mexico-en-dia-de-muertos-pero-el-cambio-climatico-la-pone-en-riesgo
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Mayor Bass calls for investigation into LAFD missteps before Palisades fire
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Friday requested a full investigation into revelations that firefighters were ordered to leave a smoldering burn site days before it reignited into the Palisades fire, calling the news "tremendously alarming." In a letter to interim Fire Chief Ronnie Villanueva, Bass asked that he "thoroughly investigate" a report by The Times about the Los Angeles Fire Department’s missteps in putting out a small brush fire that federal authorities say was intentionally set on New Year's Day. The previously undisclosed details have prompted fresh outrage among those who lost homes in the worst fire in city history. "A full understanding of the Lachman fire response is essential to an accurate accounting of what occurred during the January wildfires," Bass wrote. Bass had said in a statement late Thursday that her office has been “leading a series of reforms” in the LAFD, including strengthening pre-deployment protocols, upgrading technology and expanding training for all staff. Her handling of the blaze and its aftermath is expected to be a significant issue in next year’s mayoral race, with her opponent Austin Beutner calling on her to provide a thorough accounting of what happened. The Times reported this week that crews mopping up the Jan. 1 Lachman fire warned a battalion chief that the ground was still smoldering and rocks remained hot to the touch, according to text exchanges reviewed by The Times. However, firefighters were ordered to pack up and leave the scene anyway. Federal investigators say the Lachman fire was deliberately set and had burned underground in a canyon root system until the winds rekindled it on Jan. 7. In one text message reported in The Times, a firefighter who was at the scene on Jan. 2 wrote that the battalion chief had been told it was a “bad idea” to leave because of the visible signs of smoldering terrain which crews feared could start a new fire if left unprotected. “And the rest is history,” the firefighter wrote in recent weeks. A second firefighter was told that tree stumps were still hot at the location when the crew packed up and left, according to the texts. And a third firefighter said this month that crew members were upset when told to pack up and leave, but that they could not ignore orders, according to the texts. The third firefighter also wrote that he and his colleagues knew immediately that the Jan. 7 fire was a rekindle of the Jan. 1 blaze. The LAFD has not answered questions about the firefighter accounts in the text messages, but has previously said that officials did everything they could to ensure the Lachman fire was fully extinguished. They have not provided dispatch records of all firefighting and mop-up activity before Jan. 7. The battalion chief listed as being on duty the day firefighters were ordered to leave the Lachman fire, Mario Garcia, did not respond to requests for comment. Beutner, the former Los Angeles Unified schools superintendent, said the new details are a reflection of poor leadership. “Commanding the fire crew on duty to leave something where they raised objections? To me, that’s not responsible,” he said. “But ultimately, where does the buck stop for this? … I'd like to hear from the mayor. How she's accountable. What has she learned?” The firefighters’ accounts line up with a video recorded by a hiker above Skull Rock Trailhead about 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 2 — almost 36 hours after the Lachman fire started — that shows smoke rising from the dirt. “It’s still smoldering,” the hiker says from behind the camera. “This Palisades fire was totally preventable,” said E. Randol Schoenberg, a lawyer who lost his home in Malibu. Schoenberg said LAFD’s review of its own actions thus far ignores the missteps that he believes require the most scrutiny: What was and wasn’t done between Jan. 1 and Jan. 7. “There’s nothing in the after-action report that would stop this from happening again — nothing,” he said, noting that the report evaluated evacuation and communication problems during the Palisades fire. “The only issue is they wouldn’t have made a difference in this fire, and won’t make a difference in the next fire if we allow one to start this way.” He added: “The one thing they could have done is sit on the Jan. 1 fire, and make sure it didn’t rekindle … It wouldn’t have cost them anything and all 6,000 houses would have been saved.” Palisades resident Peter Viles said LAFD’s handling of the Jan. 1 fire is “beyond disappointing” and reflects a lack of urgency in preventing major fires. “It’s even more frustrating that they still haven’t given a straightforward account of how they allowed that small fire to stay alive for a week,” he said. In a previous interview with The Times, Villanueva — who came out of retirement to head the department in February — said firefighters remained in the Lachman fire burn area for more than 36 hours and “cold-trailed” it, meaning they used their hands to feel for heat, dug out hot spots and chopped a line around the perimeter of the fire to ensure it was contained. He said firefighters returned on Jan. 3 for another round of cold-trailing after a report of smoke in the area, though LAFD did not provide dispatch records that corroborated those actions. Times staff writer David Zahniser contributed to this report.
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Bass has directed L.A. Fire Chief Ronnie Villanueva to "thoroughly investigate" LAFD missteps in putting out a brush fire that later reignited as the Palisades fire.
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2025-10-31T21:40:27.673Z
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2025-11-01T00:38:00.000Z
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-31/mayor-bass-investigation-lafd-palisades-fire
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Wallis Annenberg PetSpace Invites Angelenos to Honor Late Pets This Día de los Muertos
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On Saturday, Nov. 1, Wallis Annenberg PetSpace will host a heartfelt Día de los Muertos celebration dedicated to the pets who have touched our lives. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., guests are invited to gather at the Playa Vista campus for a day of remembrance filled with color, music, and community. Visitors can contribute to a communal pet ofrenda by bringing a favorite photo of a late pet to frame and decorate on-site. Other highlights include complimentary pet portraits by photographer Andrea Castanon, tote bag silk-screening by artist Oscar Rodriguez, festive bites from Cena Vegan, and pet treats from La Pawnaderia. There will also be live mariachi music, and family-friendly activities like face painting. Admission is free, with reservations recommended. “At Wallis Annenberg PetSpace, our mission is to promote and strengthen the human-animal bond,” says director Allison Cardona. “We know our pets are family, so at this special time of year, when we honor loved ones who’ve gone before us, we want to make sure that includes our beloved dogs, cats, guinea pigs, birds, and other animals.” Cardona adds that the event’s growing popularity speaks to the deep connections people share with their pets. “The loss of a pet is devastating and can often feel isolating,” she says. “Día de los Muertos brings people together through a shared love for animals and a desire to celebrate their importance.” Rooted in Mexican tradition, Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a time to honor and remember loved ones who have passed on, celebrating their lives with vibrant altars, flowers, food, and music. PetSpace’s annual event reimagines this cultural celebration through the lens of the human-animal bond—offering a joyful, communal way to keep the memories of cherished pets alive. Event Details:When: Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.Where: Wallis Annenberg PetSpace, 12005 Bluff Creek Dr., Playa Vista, CA 90094Admission: Free (reservations recommended)
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Celebrate Día de los Muertos at Wallis Annenberg PetSpace in Playa Vista on Nov. 1. Enjoy free admission, live mariachi, pet portraits, treats, and a community ofrenda honoring beloved pets.
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Pet Adoption
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2025-10-31T21:25:00.592Z
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2025-10-31T21:25:00.592Z
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https://www.latimes.com/companion-animals/adoption/story/2025-10-31/wallis-annenberg-petspace-dia-de-los-muertos
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Jueza federal falla que Trump no puede exigir prueba de ciudadanía en formulario de votación federal
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La solicitud del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump de añadir un requisito de prueba documental de ciudadanía al formulario federal de registro de votantes no puede ser aplicada, falló el viernes una jueza federal. La jueza de distrito Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, en Washington, D.C., falló a favor de los grupos demócratas y de derechos civiles que demandaron al gobierno de Trump por su orden ejecutiva para reformar las elecciones en Estados Unidos. La jueza dictaminó que la directriz de prueba de ciudadanía es una violación inconstitucional de la separación de poderes, asestando un golpe al gobierno federal y sus aliados, quienes han argumentado que tal mandato es necesario para restaurar la confianza pública de que sólo los estadounidenses están votando en las elecciones de Estados Unidos. "Debido a que nuestra Constitución asigna la responsabilidad de la regulación electoral a los estados y al Congreso, este tribunal sostiene que el presidente carece de la autoridad para ordenar tales cambios", escribió Kollar-Kotelly en su opinión. Kollar-Kotelly repitió comentarios que hizo cuando concedió un interdicto preliminar sobre el tema. El fallo otorga a los demandantes un juicio sumario parcial que prohíbe que el requisito de prueba de ciudadanía entre en vigor. Dice que la Comisión de Asistencia Electoral de Estados Unidos, que ha estado considerando añadir el requisito al formulario federal de votantes, tiene prohibido permanentemente tomar medidas para hacerlo. La demanda presentada por el Comité Nacional Demócrata y varios grupos de derechos civiles continuará desarrollándose para permitir que la jueza considere otras impugnaciones al decreto de Trump. Eso incluye un requisito de que todas las boletas enviadas por correo sean recibidas para el día de las elecciones, y que no sólo el matasellos tenga la fecha del día de las elecciones. Otras demandas contra la orden ejecutiva electoral de Trump están en curso. A principios de abril, 19 fiscales generales estatales demócratas pidieron a un tribunal federal separado que rechazara el decreto de Trump. Washington y Oregon, donde prácticamente toda la votación se realiza con boletas enviadas por correo, entablaron luego su propia demanda contra el decreto. ___ Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
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La jueza dictaminó que la directriz de prueba de ciudadanía es una violación inconstitucional de la separación de poderes
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2025-10-31T21:18:34.244Z
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2025-10-31T21:52:24.856Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/jueza-federal-falla-que-trump-no-puede-exigir-prueba-de-ciudadania-en-formulario-de-votacion-federal
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Re-evaluating Modern Topical Treatments in Canine Skin and Ear Medications
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The pressure to reach for a systemic medication is constant. Clients want a simple fix—a pill or an injection—and frankly, so do we. It’s predictable. It bypasses the entire messy conversation about compliance, application technique, and "Did you actually get it in the ear?" But we have a growing body of evidence suggesting this convenience comes at a cost, both in potential side effects and in the larger fight against antimicrobial resistance. The question is whether we're taking the efficacy of topical treatments seriously enough. Take canine otitis externa. It’s one of the most common, frustrating presentations we see. The pain, the smell, the discharge. We have options. A comparative study looked at two common multi-drug formulas: one with marbofloxacin, clotrimazole, and dexamethasone, and another with polymyxin B, miconazole, and prednisolone [1]. The findings? Both were well-tolerated. Both had similar cure rates. This isn't surprising. What is interesting is that the marbofloxacin combination seemed to provide faster relief from pain, discharge, and odor [1]. This points to a nuance beyond just "cured" or "not cured." It’s about patient comfort, which is what the owner sees. It suggests that formulation matters, and a topical can deliver a potent, targeted punch right where it's needed, without flooding the system. This stewardship angle gets even sharper when we talk about superficial pyoderma. We’ve all seen these cases; the itching, the hair loss, the classic lesions. The default for years was a long course of systemic antibiotics. For best results, chlorhexidine shampoo should remain on the skin for at least 10 minutes before rinsing. Now, we know better. Or we should. Studies are piling up showing that antiseptic shampoos and solutions, particularly those with chlorhexidine, can be just as effective as systemic antibiotics [3][6]. Think about that. Just as effective. One study even looked at dogs with methicillin-resistant (MRS) bacteria. They responded to chlorhexidine without any systemic medication [3][4][5]. This isn't just a "nice to have." This is a fundamental shift. It's how we fight antimicrobial resistance on the front lines. Every time we can use a topical antimicrobial instead of an oral one, we are preserving the effectiveness of our systemic drugs. But it requires client buy-in. It requires them to do the bath. That’s the real hurdle. RELATED: Pet Skin Conditions Deconstructed: A Look Inside the Diagnostic Puzzle The evidence continues. Acute moist dermatitis—the "hot spot"—is another area. A study comparing a topical gel (with an antimicrobial and an anti-inflammatory) against a full systemic treatment found the results were nearly identical [4]. A gel versus a full-body exposure to drugs. Why would we not choose the gel? Shampoos with 2-4% chlorhexidine are very effective against both bacteria and yeast. Natural antimicrobial shampoos and lotions have even been tested against conventional medicated shampoos and oral antibiotics, with all groups showing improvement. The interesting part of that study? The dogs on oral antibiotics had a 25% rate of digestive upset. The topical groups? Zero side effects [7]. Zero. Fungal skin infections, like dermatophytosis, are a bit trickier. Topicals are the mainstay—lime sulfur rinses, enilconazole, miconazole-chlorhexidine shampoos [5]. But we have to be honest with clients: this often requires oral medication, like itraconazole or terbinafine, for a complete cure [6][8]. And that means weeks or months of dosing. The topicals are still crucial for reducing environmental contamination, but they might not be the whole story. We have to set realistic expectations. And then there's parasite control. This is where the oral vs. topical debate gets really heated, mostly because the isoxazoline orals are just so popular. And for fleas? They work. One study found oral spinosad was flat-out more effective than topical fipronil/(S)-methoprene at killing fleas [8]. That’s a clear win. Topical options containing permethrin repel and prevent tick attachment. But ticks are a different animal. Especially with the rise of Lyme disease, clients are (rightfully) terrified. We’re seeing it all over, from coastal areas to deep in New York state. This is where the conversation gets nuanced. An oral product is great. It kills the ticks that bite. But the key word there is bite. The tick has to latch on, start feeding, and then it dies. For a client worried about Lyme, that's a tough pill to swallow. They don't want the tick attaching at all. Oral preventatives containing isoxazoline do not prevent tick attachment but have a fast tick kill time. This is the big selling point for many topicals and collars. The "repel" factor. A good topical (or a modern collar) can repel and kill on contact. The tick crawls on the pet after a run in the tall grass and... it just doesn't want to be there. It drops off. Or it dies before it can transmit disease. That's a huge benefit. Of course, it's not perfect. "Topical treatment for dogs" isn't a single category. There's a huge variety of products. Some owners hate the greasy spot. We see skin irritation at the application site now and then. And if the dog swims constantly, is it even staying on? Most topical products should be left to dry for two days before bathing or swimming. On the flip side, we all have those clients who tell us the oral gave their dog diarrhea or vomiting. So, nothing is side-effect-free. The bottom line is we have to consult with the owner. The best flea and tick prevention will vary and depend on the lifestyle. Is this pet mostly indoors? Or is it a hiking buddy that's constantly buried in brush? We have to preach the important stuff: check your pets every single time they come inside. Feel for those little bumps. Start prevention before tick season hits. Because we all love our pets, and keeping them safe is the whole point. It's not just about their health; it's about our own. (Nobody wants to find a stray, engorged tick on their furniture. Or worse, on themselves.) We have to treat the home environment, too, if we want to prevent fleas from taking over. So, do we have a clear winner? No. But having both gives us flexibility. If an owner struggles with topicals, an oral is a reliable choice. If the client is terrified of Lyme and wants to repel ticks, a topical or collar is probably the way to go. We just have to know the signs of trouble and make sure the owner does, too. RELATED: The Real Reason Year-Round Flea and Tick Prevention Fails for Pet Owners We're even seeing topicals for things we traditionally associate with systemic drugs, like pain. Topical naproxen gel, for instance. A study looked at its ability to target local pain. The good news: it reached useful concentrations in local tissues. The bad news: overall absorption was low [9]. So, is it a viable option for managing significant joint discomfort? Probably not. Not yet. But for a very specific, local issue, maybe. It’s an area to watch. Of course, "topical" doesn't automatically mean "safe." We have to know our products. Research on chlorhexidine gluconate, our workhorse antiseptic, shows that while lower concentrations are safe and effective, higher concentrations can potentially damage the skin barrier [10]. It's a reminder that product choice and veterinary guidance are everything. So where does this leave us? The evidence is clear: topical treatments aren't a lesser option. For many common conditions—otitis, pyoderma, dermatitis—they can match or even beat systemic therapies, often with a wider safety margin [1][3][4][7]. They are one of our best tools for antimicrobial stewardship. But they aren't fire-and-forget. They demand more from us. More education, more client communication, more follow-up. We have to be the ones to explain why the shampoo is better than the pill, and how to use it correctly. Because if the treatment doesn't get applied, it doesn't work. That's the part the studies don't measure. RELATED: Why We Need to Reframe the Veterinary Second Opinion So, where does this all leave us? At the end of the day, the evidence is pretty clear: topical treatments aren't some "lesser" option. For so many common things—otitis, pyoderma, dermatitis—they can match or even beat systemic therapies, often with a much wider safety margin [1][7][10]. And they are one of our single best tools for antimicrobial stewardship. That’s not a buzzword. It's the whole game. But (and this is a big "but") they aren't fire-and-forget. They demand more from us. A lot more. More education, more client communication, more messy conversations about "how to actually clean an ear." We have to be the ones to explain why the medicated bath is better than the pill, and then show them how to actually do it so it works. The real kicker is that the most effective topical in the world is 100% useless if it just sits in the box. Client compliance is the variable the studies can't measure. That's the part that keeps it interesting. We’re not just treating a skin infection or a parasite problem. We're treating a pet that lives with a person. And sometimes, the "good enough" oral that actually gets into the dog is a better choice than the "perfect" topical the owner is too intimidated to even try. It’s a judgment call. Every single time. [1] Rougier, S., Borell, D., Pheulpin, S., Woehrlé, F., & Boisramé, B. (2005). A comparative study of two antimicrobial/anti-inflammatory formulations in the treatment of canine otitis externa. Veterinary dermatology, 16(5), 299–307. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3164.2005.00465.x [2] Quintana, T. A., Karwath, G. N., Mayhue, E. J., Jugan, M. C., Jesudoss Chelladurai, J. R. J., & Martinez, S. E. (2025). Topical and oral emodepside formulations for last-line treatment of multianthelmintic drug-resistant hookworms when given orally to dogs are not bioequivalent. American journal of veterinary research, 86(7), ajvr.25.01.0027. https://doi.org/10.2460/ajvr.25.01.0027 [3] Borio, S., Colombo, S., La Rosa, G., De Lucia, M., Damborg, P., & Guardabassi, L. (2015). Effectiveness of a combined (4% chlorhexidine digluconate shampoo and solution) protocol in MRS and non-MRS canine superficial pyoderma: a randomized, blinded, antibiotic-controlled study. Veterinary dermatology, 26(5), 339–e72. https://doi.org/10.1111/vde.12233 [4] Cobb, M. A., Edwards, H. J., Jagger, T. D., Marshall, J., & Bowker, K. E. (2005). Topical fusidic acid/betamethasone-containing gel compared to systemic therapy in the treatment of canine acute moist dermatitis. Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997), 169(2), 276–280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2004.01.017 [5] Moriello K. A. (2004). Treatment of dermatophytosis in dogs and cats: review of published studies. Veterinary dermatology, 15(2), 99–107. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3164.2004.00361.x [6] Santoro D. (2023). Topical therapy for canine pyoderma: what is new?. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 261(S1), S140–S148. https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.23.01.0001 [7] Gmyterco, V. C., Luciano, F. B., Ludwig, L. A., Evangelista, A. G., Ferreira, T. S., Borek, F., & de Farias, M. R. (2025). Comparative study of a commercial formula containing natural antimicrobials versus oral cephalexin or topical chlorhexidine-miconazole therapies for treating superficial pyoderma in dogs. Veterinary dermatology, 36(2), 137–147. https://doi.org/10.1111/vde.13323 [8] Dryden, M. W., Ryan, W. G., Bell, M., Rumschlag, A. J., Young, L. M., & Snyder, D. E. (2013). Assessment of owner-administered monthly treatments with oral spinosad or topical spot-on fipronil/(S)-methoprene in controlling fleas and associated pruritus in dogs. Veterinary parasitology, 191(3-4), 340–346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.09.003 [9] Gopinath, D., Meyer, L., Smith, J., & Armstrong, R. (2018). Topical or oral fluralaner efficacy against flea (Ctenocephalides felis) transmission of Dipylidium caninum infection to dogs. Parasites & vectors, 11(1), 557. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-3140-x [10] Dos Santos, G. C. M., Scott, F. B., Campos, D. R., Magalhães, V. S., Borges, D. A., Miranda, F. R., Alves, M. C. C., Pereira, G. A., Moreira, L. O., Lima, E. A. S., Rocha, M. B. D. S., & Cid, Y. P. (2022). Oral pharmacokinetic profile of fipronil and efficacy against flea and tick in dogs. Journal of veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics, 45(1), 23–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvp.13004
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Topical treatments often match oral drug efficacy for skin and ear issues, with fewer side effects, and the case for topical therapy in canine medicine.
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2025-10-31T21:16:23.271Z
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2025-10-31T21:16:23.271Z
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https://www.latimes.com/veterinarians/conditions/medication/story/topical-treatments-dogs-canine-otitis-externa-medication
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Beyond the Scalpel: What’s Really Changing in Surgical Oncology Around Brain Tumors
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Evolving Techniques in Brain Tumor and Cancer Surgery Minimally Invasive Surgical Innovations for the Spine and Skull Base Advancements in Patient Care Other Oncologic Surgeries The Robot in the Room: A New Era of Surgical Procedures Surgical Resection Still Matters in Metastatic Disease A Broader Look at Innovation Training the Next Generation (And Thinking Beyond the Tumor) Closing Thoughts For years, the core of the job felt straightforward, if incredibly difficult. Define the margins, resect the tumor, preserve function. That was the mission. But we were often working in the dark, relying on preoperative scans and the feel of the tissue under our instruments. We all know what that felt like. The uncertainty. Now, things are different. The operating room is starting to look less like a workshop and more like a data hub. And nowhere is this more obvious than in neurosurgical oncology. We’re moving past just what we can see with our eyes. The conversation has shifted toward achieving maximal safe resections not just through skill, but through real-time, data-driven guidance [1]. Take intraoperative MRI. It sounds like a logistical nightmare-and it can be-but it changes the game. It allows us to see the extent of resection before closing, catching residual tumor that would have been invisible. It’s a reality check, right there on the table. No more waiting for the post-op scan to know if you got it all. Then there’s 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) fluorescence. This is a different kind of clever. The patient drinks a solution, and the tumor cells metabolize it into a fluorescent molecule. Under a specific blue light, the tumor glows pink. Suddenly, the boundaries aren't a matter of subjective judgment. They’re illuminated. It’s not a silver bullet, of course. Not all tumors pick it up uniformly. But it’s another layer of information, another tool to make resection more complete and, hopefully, safer. This is all part of a larger concept we’re starting to call “theranostics” [2]. It’s a clunky word, but the idea is powerful: using diagnostic tools to actively guide therapeutic interventions in the moment. It’s the fusion of seeing and doing. Image-guided surgery, fluorescence imaging, and things like stereotactic radiosurgery aren’t separate disciplines anymore. They’re becoming components of a single, integrated treatment approach. We used to think it was about the steadiest hand. Now, it’s about the surgeon who can best integrate these disparate data streams into a coherent surgical plan, on the fly. It’s a fundamental shift in the skillset we need. And this thinking isn’t staying confined to intracranial work. The philosophy is spreading. The push for less invasive, more precise approaches is showing up everywhere. Look at metastatic spine tumors. A decade or two ago, the standard approach was often a massive, destabilizing operation. The recovery was brutal, and for a patient with metastatic disease, that time is precious. Now, we’re seeing a profound shift toward minimally invasive stabilization and decompression procedures [3]. The goal is the same-relieve pressure on the cord, stabilize the spine-but the means are entirely different. Smaller incisions, less tissue disruption, faster recovery. The oncologic outcome might be palliative, but the impact on the patient’s quality of life is immediate and significant. We’re treating the patient, not just the tumor on the scan. The real frontier, though, is in those hard-to-reach places. Skull base and infratemporal fossa tumors. These are the cases that keep us up at night. The anatomy is a minefield. Historically, the approaches required large craniotomies or disfiguring facial incisions. But neuroendoscopic techniques are changing that calculus. We’re learning to navigate complex corridors through the nose and sinuses to reach deep-seated tumors. A recent series on the anterior prelacrimal recess approach, for instance, showed successful resections with minimal cosmetic impact [4]. Let’s pause on that. Minimal cosmetic disruption. It’s a phrase that would have been a secondary concern not too long ago. Survival was the only metric that mattered. But now we understand that how a patient lives after surgery is just as important. It’s a reflection of our growing confidence in these techniques. We’re getting better at removing the tumor, so now we can start focusing on how to do it with less collateral damage. It’s a maturation of the field. This philosophy-less is more, if it’s the right kind of less-is rippling through every corner of surgical oncology. In thoracic oncology, the debate around lobectomy versus sublobar resection for early-stage lung cancer has been raging for years. The old dogma was to take the whole lobe. No questions asked. But we’re getting smarter. With better imaging and a deeper understanding of tumor biology, we can now identify select patients who do just as well with sublobar resections [5]. Preserving lung function is a huge win for patients, especially the elderly or those with comorbidities. And the rise of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has made these lung-preserving procedures the standard, not the exception. It offers equivalent oncologic control with less pain, shorter hospital stays, and a faster return to normal life. Why would we do more if we don't have to? That’s the central question. It even applies to things like benign neck neoplasms. We used to accept a long, visible scar on the neck as the price of surgery. But now, with endoscope-assisted resections, we can remove these tumors through small, hidden incisions-behind the ear, in the hairline [6]. A study showed excellent cosmetic outcomes with no recurrences. Is it about life and death? No. But it’s about acknowledging the whole patient. Even in orthopedic oncology, we’re seeing refinement. The reconstructions after major tumor removals are getting more sophisticated. The "lighthouse technique" for humeral suspension after a shoulder resection is a great example-a small, technical innovation focused on improving wound healing and implant stability [7]. It’s not flashy. It won’t make headlines. But it’s this kind of incremental, practical progress that defines the daily reality of surgical advancement. It’s about solving the real, tangible problems we face with our patients every day. Failure. That’s what we’re trying to avoid. Implant failure, wound failure, functional failure. These new techniques are all, at their core, about reducing the points of failure. RELATED: Galleri: The Multi-Cancer Early Detection Blood Test, Explained And, of course, we can't talk about surgical innovation without talking about the big one: robotic surgery. Let's be honest, for a while it felt like a solution in search of a problem. But that's changing. Fast. These current robotic surgical systems aren't just about a steady hand; they're about revolutionizing minimal surgical access. They facilitate complex endoscopic procedures that were, frankly, a nightmare with traditional laparoscopic tools. The real kicker is the articulation. The robot's wrists can move in ways the human hand just can't, especially in tight spaces. When you're trying to get at a solid malignant tumor tucked deep in the pelvis or chest, this is a massive deal. We're seeing minimally invasive techniques applied to surgical procedures that were previously only possible with large, open surgical procedures. But it's not a magic wand. There's a steep learning curve. And we have to be brutally honest about the risks—unwanted surgical complications or potential adverse patient outcomes can still happen. The machine doesn't make the decisions. It's a tool. A very sophisticated one, but still a tool. The focus has to be on enhancing patient safety, not just using the shiny new tech. So, as we implement robotic surgery across many surgical specialties, we have to track our clinical outcomes obsessively. RELATED: Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery: Advancements and Benefits But amidst all this talk of new technology and minimally invasive approaches, it’s easy to get carried away. It’s easy to think that systemic therapies-immunotherapy, targeted agents-have made the scalpel obsolete, especially in metastatic disease. They haven’t. We need to be very clear about this. Surgical resection remains a cornerstone of treatment, even for patients with cancer that has spread. The data on brain metastasis is particularly compelling. A 17-year longitudinal study-that’s a serious amount of data-found that achieving a gross total resection was a significant factor in improving survival outcomes [8]. So while the rest of the oncologic world is focused on molecules and pathways, the physical reality of tumor burden still matters. Removing a focal point of disease can change a patient’s trajectory. It can relieve symptoms, make subsequent therapies more effective, and, in some cases, buy significant time. The rise of targeted therapies doesn't diminish the role of surgery; it sharpens it. Surgery becomes a strategic tool used in concert with systemic treatments, not in opposition to them. Our role is evolving from primary treatment to a critical component of a multi-modal strategy. We’re not just cutters anymore. We’re strategic partners. RELATED: Understanding Metastatic Breast Cancer: An In-Depth Look So when we step back and look at the whole picture, a few themes emerge. First, the obvious one: the relentless march toward minimally invasive surgery. It’s happening everywhere, in every specialty. Patients demand it, and the technology is finally catching up to the ambition. Second, the integration of imaging and diagnostics directly into the surgical act. The line between the radiology suite and the operating room is blurring. We operate with more information than ever before. And third, the shift toward function-preserving and cosmetically sensitive techniques. It’s a holistic view of what a successful outcome really means. But here’s where we need to be skeptical. Where the real work comes in. It’s not a straight line of progress. Not every new technology is a winner. For every 5-ALA, there are a dozen gadgets that promised to revolutionize surgery and are now collecting dust in a storage closet. Where this gets complicated is separating the true innovations from the expensive toys. The jury is still out on things like nanoparticle-guided therapy or novel ablation techniques [9]. They show promise in the lab, but promise doesn’t cure patients. They need to be rigorously tested in large clinical trials before we can even think about widespread adoption. We have a responsibility to be both open to innovation and fiercely critical of the evidence behind it. And that’s the real bottom line. The future of surgical oncology is one of precision, yes, but also of complexity. The scalpel isn’t just guided by our hands anymore. It’s guided by a whole suite of integrated technologies. And if that's true, then our next challenge isn't just learning how to use these new tools. It's developing the wisdom to know when-and when not-to use them. So if this is the new normal, how do we prepare future surgeons? The old "see one, do one, teach one" model just can't keep up. It's not safe, and it's not efficient. This is where surgical simulators come in. And not just the clunky ones. We're talking new surgical simulators that offer high-fidelity practice for complex endoscopic procedures or robotic techniques. It's a game-changer for surgeons in training. They can get through the toughest parts of the learning curve without ever touching a patient. This kind of work in surgical curricula is critical. And this all ties into a bigger idea. A significant paradigm shift in how we even think about cancer treatment. We’re getting flooded with data from genomic and molecular sciences. We have new molecular diagnostic technologies that can profile a tumor in ways we only dreamed of. The goal? Tailored treatment. Precision medicine. It's not just about removing the cancer; it's about understanding that specific patient's cancer. This is where the biosocial medicine approach comes in. It aims to look at the whole picture. The human cost. The decreased psychological impact of a minimal surgical access procedure. The patient's rapid recovery. We're not just treating a scan; we're treating a person who has to live with the results of our work. It’s about merging these innovative engineering solutions with a better understanding of the patient's entire life. That’s the real path to improved patient outcomes. RELATED: 3D Bioprinting: How The Future of Medicine is Being Built, Layer by Layer So, what's the bottom line? It’s an amazing time to be in this field. But the tech—the robots, the fluorescence, the intraoperative imaging—isn't the endgame. It's the means to an end. At the end of the day, all these innovations are tools to answer a few simple, very human questions. How can we make this cancer surgery safer? How can we help this person get back to their life faster? How can we give them a better shot at a longer, fuller life? The future isn't just about a steadier robotic hand or a clearer image. It’s about surgeons achieving a new level of partnership with their patients. It’s about using this data and these tools to make smarter, more compassionate decisions. The scalpel is getting smarter, for sure. But our real job is to make sure our wisdom keeps pace. [1] Rivera, M., Norman, S., Sehgal, R., & Juthani, R. (2021). Updates on Surgical Management and Advances for Brain Tumors. Current oncology reports, 23(3), 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11912-020-01005-7 [2] Guru, S., Lam, F. C., Akhavan-Sigari, A., Hori, Y. S., AbuReesh, D., Tayag, A., Emrich, S. C., Ustrzynski, L., Park, D. J., & Chang, S. D. (2024). "Beyond the Knife"-Applying Theranostic Technologies to Enhance Outcomes in Neurosurgical Oncology. Brain sciences, 14(12), 1253. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14121253 [3] Porras, J. L., Pennington, Z., Hung, B., Hersh, A., Schilling, A., Goodwin, C. R., & Sciubba, D. M. (2021). Radiotherapy and Surgical Advances in the Treatment of Metastatic Spine Tumors: A Narrative Review. World neurosurgery, 151, 147–154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2021.05.032 [4] Yang, J., Zhang, F., Cai, Y., Zhang, X., Liu, Y., Zheng, W., Chen, F., Chen, L., & Huang, G. (2025). Neuroendoscopic Anterior Prelacrimal Recess Approach for Resection of Tumors in the Infratemporal Fossa. The Journal of craniofacial surgery, 10.1097/SCS.0000000000011536. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/SCS.0000000000011536 [5] Udelsman, B. V., & Blasberg, J. D. (2023). Advances in Surgical Techniques for Lung Cancer. Hematology/oncology clinics of North America, 37(3), 489–497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hoc.2023.02.006 [6] Shi, L., Song, X. B., Wang, K. T., Liu, C., Tan, W. Y., & Wang, Y. (2020). Zhonghua kou qiang yi xue za zhi = Zhonghua kouqiang yixue zazhi = Chinese journal of stomatology, 55(2), 115–118. https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.issn.1002-0098.2020.02.008 [7] Samargandi, R., Berhouet, J., Nicolas, Q., & Le Nail, L. R. (2025). The lighthouse technique for humeral suspension following a modified Tikhoff-Linberg procedure for the resection of bone and soft tissue tumors around the shoulder girdle: clinical and functional outcomes. European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie, 35(1), 228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00590-025-04351-z [8] Lee, C. H., Kim, D. G., Kim, J. W., Han, J. H., Kim, Y. H., Park, C. K., Kim, C. Y., Paek, S. H., & Jung, H. W. (2013). The role of surgical resection in the management of brain metastasis: a 17-year longitudinal study. Acta neurochirurgica, 155(3), 389–397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-013-1619-y [9] Debela, D. T., Muzazu, S. G., Heraro, K. D., Ndalama, M. T., Mesele, B. W., Haile, D. C., Kitui, S. K., & Manyazewal, T. (2021). New approaches and procedures for cancer treatment: Current perspectives. SAGE open medicine, 9, 20503121211034366. https://doi.org/10.1177/20503121211034366
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Deconstructing the hype around new surgical tools to understand what truly improves patient outcomes in cancer resection today.
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Medical Advancements
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2025-10-31T21:16:06.459Z
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2025-10-31T21:16:06.459Z
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https://www.latimes.com/doctors-scientists/innovations/advancements/story/brain-tumor-surgery-advancements-surgical-oncology-innovations-vats
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Under Trump, ticket sales plummet for Kennedy Center performances
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President Trump's favorite musical is, famously, "Les Misérables," but few fans have been storming the barricades to get into the Kennedy Center this season. The Washington Post reports that sales for the current season of music, dance and theater at the Washington, D.C., cultural institution have declined dramatically since the president's inauguration and his subsequent takeover of the Kennedy Center's leadership. The Post cites data showing the Kennedy Center has sold only 57% of its tickets from September to mid October, many of which are believed to be comped giveaways. That contrasts with a 93% ticket sale rate through the same period last year. The venues surveyed include the Opera House, the Concert Hall and the Eisenhower Theater, with performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, touring Broadway musicals and dance troupes. Out of 143,000 possible seats for the current season, 53,000 have not yet sold. When fans have bought tickets, they've spent less than half as much money from September to the first half of October 2025 compared with the same time last year — the lowest total since 2018 other than the height of the 2020 pandemic. After Trump's election, he appointed Republican diplomat and former State Department spokesperson Richard Grenell to lead the Kennedy Center, whose board elected Trump as its president. The new leadership fired several longtime staffers, and prominent board members and leaders like Ben Folds left the organization. "“I couldn’t be a pawn in that,” Folds told The Times. “Was I supposed to call my homies like Sara Bareilles and say, ‘Hey, do you want to come play here?’” Artists that do perform at the Kennedy Center have noted a change in the audience. Yasmin Williams, a singer-songwriter who performed in September after a contentious email exchange with Grennell, said that "During my Kennedy Center show on Thursday night, a group of Tr*mp supporters boo’d me when I mentioned Ric Grenell and seemed to be there to intimidate me," yet "playing that Malcolm X video in that space and forcing this current administration to reckon with the damage they’ve caused, while also promoting joy and the power of music to the audience … this is why I do what I do.” (Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi told the Post that “This is an absolutely ridiculous claim.”) Grennell, for his part, said on X that that "We are doing the big things that people want to see. We are seeing a huge change because people are recognizing that they want to be a part of something that is common-sense programming.” In August, Trump announced his picks for Kennedy Center honors, including actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone, glam-rockers KISS, singer Gloria Gaynor, country music star George Strait and English actor and comedian Michael Crawford.
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The Washington Post cites data showing the Kennedy Center has sold only 57% of its tickets from September to mid October.
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Music
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2025-10-31T21:14:46.898Z
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2025-10-31T21:14:46.898Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-10-31/under-trump-ticket-sales-plummet-for-kennedy-center-performances
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Newport Beach supports plan to rebuild library, uproot eucalyptus where herons nest
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A blue gum eucalyptus tree that shades the Balboa Branch Public Library remains slated for removal after the Newport Beach City Council Tuesday backed modified landscape changes for the site. The council's unanimous approval of the changes comes despite numerous appeals filed by concerned residents to save the “landmark” tree amid reconstruction plans for the branch library and a fire station on the property, located at 100 E. Balboa Blvd. “The simple solution is [to] rebuild the library and fire station where they currently stand,” April Strong, a resident who lives near the site, told councilmembers. “Leave our precious tiny green space with our tree for our neighborhood, for nature and for our children.” Councilmembers approved plans to demolish and rebuild the library and fire station last year, after an assessment found the buildings to be in poor condition. City-hired arborists tested the eucalyptus tree and found signs of disease, although not to the same extent of two other nearby landmark trees that have already been removed. But the demolition has not begun this year as planned. The razing has been put on hold as Chris Petit, of the Friends of the Library Park, filed an appeal with the California Coastal Commission citing concerns that chopping the tree down would potentially displace great blue herons that nest there. City staff discussed revised landscape plans with the Coastal Commission in the meantime that still involve removing the tree but support nesting birds, such as great blue herons, with different tree species than ones originally planned for, like Catalina ironwood and California sycamore trees. Revised plans include the planting of Western sycamore trees along Island and East Bay avenues. A sweetshade and Australian willow tree are also planned for the parking lot area. “This specific tree species was recommended by the California Coastal Commission staff,” Laura Rodriguez, an assistant city planner, told councilmembers Tuesday. “It was also recommended by our Dudek [environmental] consultant.” The substitute trees are ecological, climate compatible and favorable for nesting birds like the herons, Rodriguez added. The minor revision would come at the expense of one extra parking space. Then-Community Development Director Seimone Jurjis, who now serves as assistant city manager, approved the minor landscaping and parking changes in July without a public hearing. Petit filed another appeal against Jurjis’ decision that same month. The appeal claimed that the modifications were not exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act, did not provide a sufficient nesting alternative for great blue herons and put at risk state Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas. The Planning Commission denied the appeal in September and upheld Jurjis’ decision on landscaping changes. Petit appealed the Planning Commission’s decision to the City Council but did not show up for Tuesday's meeting. Still, several residents continued to advocate for the eucalyptus tree’s preservation. “Leave the tree,” said resident Michele Silver. “Do whatever you want with the buildings.” Jaime Murillo, deputy director of community development, reminded the council that the tree’s removal wasn’t before them, as it had already been decided last year. “Our work in collaborating with the Coastal Commission led to a minor change to the tree species that was originally planned for to a new type that is better, that would better support nesting herons in the future,” he said. “That’s what’s really before the council today.” Without any deliberation, councilmembers voted unanimously to adopt the resolution.
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A new landscaping plan will uproot a blue gum eucalyptus tree during the rebuilding of a library and fire station.
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News
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2025-10-31T21:10:05.738Z
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2025-10-31T21:10:05.738Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2025-10-31/newport-beach-blue-gum-eucalyptus
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Amazon carries Wall Street to the finish of another winning week and month
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Amazon led the U.S. stock market on Friday to the finish of another winning week and month. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% and pulled closer to its all-time high set on Tuesday. It closed out a third straight winning week and a sixth straight winning month, its longest monthly winning streak since 2021. The Dow Jones industrial average added 40 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.6%. Amazon led the way and jumped 9.6%. The retail giant was by far the strongest force lifting the market after reporting profit for the latest quarter that blew past analysts’ expectations. Chief Executive Andy Jassy said growth for its booming cloud-computing business has accelerated to a pace it hasn’t seen since 2022. Amazon’s massive size of roughly $2.4 trillion means its stock movements carry more weight on the S&P 500 than almost any other company’s. Without it, the S&P 500 would have been down for the day. Another highly influential stock, Apple, had less of an effect on the market even though it’s bigger than Amazon. The iPhone maker, which is worth more than $4 trillion, swung between modest gains and losses through the day before finishing with a dip of 0.4%. It likewise delivered a better profit report for the latest quarter than analysts expected, though by not as big a margin as Amazon did. Chief Executive Tim Cook said it benefited from strong revenue for both its iPhone lineup and its services offerings, which include its app store. Elsewhere on Wall Street, online message board Reddit jumped 7.5% to erase losses from earlier in the week after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Coinbase Global rose 4.6% after the crypto exchange’s profit likewise topped expectations. Beyond earnings reports, Netflix added 2.7% after the video streamer announced a move that could make its stock price more affordable but still leave all its investors holding the same amount. Netflix will undergo a 10-for-1 stock split, where it will give nine additional shares to investors for each they own. They helped offset a drop for AbbVie, which fell 4.5% even though the medicine maker reported stronger profit for the latest quarter than expected. Analysts pointed to how it’s beating forecasts by less than before, and expectations may have been high after AbbVie’s stock came into the day with a strong 28.4% gain for the year so far. The pressure is on companies broadly to deliver big growth in profits to justify the huge gains their stock prices have made since April. Criticism has been growing that the U.S. stock market has become too expensive. A day earlier, the S&P 500 slumped 1% as investors appeared unnerved by big increases in spending that Meta Platforms and Microsoft are planning as part of the investment spree underway in artificial-intelligence technology. Financial markets also appeared skeptical that President Trump’s trade truce with China would put an end to tensions between the two countries. Additional drops on Friday of 1.5% for Microsoft and 2.7% for Meta were the two heaviest weights on the U.S. market. All told, the S&P 500 rose 17.86 points to 6,840.20. The Dow Jones industrial average added 40.75 to 47,562.87, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 143.81 to 23,724.96. In stock markets abroad, indexes dipped in Europe following a mixed finish in Asia. Stocks fell 1.4% in Hong Kong and 0.8% in Shanghai after data showed factory activity in China contracted in October for a seventh straight month. Japan’s Nikkei 225, meanwhile, jumped 2.1% to another record after a report showed industrial production rose more in September than expected. In the bond market, Treasury yields eased following their spurt higher in the middle of the week, when Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that another cut to interest rates in December “is not a foregone conclusion — far from it.” The yield on the 10-year Treasury dipped to 4.09% from 4.11% late Thursday, though it’s still above the 3.99% level it was at before Powell’s warning. Other central banks have halted cuts to rates or hinted at pauses recently, and “it seems this is it for the 2025 easing season in developed economies,” economists at Bank of America wrote in a BofA Global Research report. Choe writes for the Associated Press.
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Amazon carried the U.S. stock market to the finish of another winning week and month
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Business
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2025-10-31T21:06:47.395Z
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2025-10-31T21:05:00.000Z
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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-10-31/amazon-carries-wall-street-to-the-finish-of-another-winning-week-and-month
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‘It’s home’: Caribbean diaspora from Miami to New York fuels Hurricane Melissa relief efforts
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South Florida was spared a direct blow from Hurricane Melissa, but the massive storm still hit home for the millions of residents there who have deep roots in the Caribbean. Now, the Caribbean diaspora from Miami to New York City is turning its heartbreak into action: filling warehouses with emergency supplies to send to communities across Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and the Bahamas that were battered by Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record. Centers of global wealth — and vibrant exile communities that run generations deep — both cities are cultural melting pots that have long been major points of entry for immigrants. Miami-Dade County, Florida’s largest county, is now home to more immigrants than native-born Americans. More immigrants have moved into the New York and Miami areas so far this decade than any other U.S. metro areas, 721,000 people and 553,000 people respectively. For many in Miami, the city is an unofficial capital of Latin America — where the salsa clubs of Little Havana and the rooster-filled streets of Little Haiti feel physically and culturally closer to the Caribbean than the rest of the mainland U.S. Across Florida, there are more than a million foreign-born Cubans and 231,000 foreign-born Jamaicans, while New York state is home to 22,800 foreign-born Cubans and 225,000 foreign-born Jamaicans, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Many Haitian Americans are all too familiar with the pain of watching a catastrophe unfold from afar, with Melissa being the latest in a long line of crises. But members of the diaspora do their best to support loved ones back home, said Carine Jocelyn, Chief Executive Officer of Brooklyn-based Diaspora Community Services. The feeling of “donation fatigue” doesn’t apply to Haiti, she said, adding, “we don’t really get to say that.” Even as gang violence continues to disrupt transportation in the capital of Port-au-Prince, Jocelyn says she hopes resources will still be able to get in through the Cap-Haïtien and Les Cayes airports. She urged donors to give to verified Haitian nonprofits to ensure aid reaches communities most in need. Nonprofit groups told The Associated Press that cash is the best way to help, and experts recommend using sites like Charity Navigator or the Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance to check out unfamiliar charities before donating. Eugene Lapaine, president of the rural development and civic engagement organization Association des Paysans Haut Douzieme, is leading a rescue mission in communities near his mountainside city of Petit-Goâve in southern Haiti. “People are leaving their homes to seek shelter,” Eugene said. “We are doing our best as a community to help each other through this.” At a bustling warehouse in the suburban Broward County, Fla., city of Coconut Creek on Thursday, volunteers with the hunger and poverty relief organization Food For The Poor hustled to assemble emergency care kits and load dozens of palates of food, water and personal hygiene products. Susan James-Casserly, who comes from a long line of Jamaican cattle farmers, was born on the island but came to South Florida in 1978, and she now works for the charity. She's flying out next week to help with the on-site relief effort in her home country, where many were still recovering from last year's Hurricane Beryl when Melissa showed up on the radar. “Jamaicans are very strong and resilient. I’m afraid of what I’m going to see. But one of the things I know is that we are ready to help,” she said. Kivette Silvera, who was born in Jamaica and now lives in South Florida, was among the Food For The Poor team who rode out the storm on the island, huddled in prayer as she listened to the winds howl and watched the trees bend. “Words can't express what they’re going through right now. It’s devastating. It is devastating,” she said in an interview from the organization’s office in the city of Spanish Town, west of the capital Kingston. Marlon Hill is a corporate attorney in Miami who is helping lead the group South Florida Caribbean Strong to mobilize volunteers and donors for the storm response. “For me being a born Jamaican and a raised American, this one hits different,” Hill told reporters. In the Broward County suburb of Miramar — where every member of the city council is either a Caribbean immigrant or the child of one — residents have also sprung into action. Local officials have organized a citywide relief effort to collect and deliver essential supplies to the islands. Residents can drop off items like shelf-stable food, water, tarps, flashlights and sleeping bags at designated donation sites at fire departments and police stations, 24 hours a day. In the nearby city of Lauderhill, residents can take donations to city hall, parks, and Jamaican restaurants in the area. In Cooper City, Brittany and Dwayne Wolfe have offered up their home as a drop-off site for diapers and other necessities. The couple are the co-founders of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Diaper Bank, and many of the organization's volunteers and supporters grew up in Jamaica or still have family on the island. Dwayne, who was born in the central Jamaican city of Mandeville, still hasn't been able to reach cousins, friends and loved ones there in the aftermath of the storm. But while he waits for a call, he can focus on gathering more donations. “I truly feel that a lot of folks that live in South Florida can really relate,” he said, “because we’re so close.” Contributions to the diaper bank's online fundraising site have been coming in from around the world, Brittany Wolfe said, as the organization prepares to send its first shipment of diapers to Jamaica. “It’s home,” she said. “And when things like this happen, you know, you have to help.” Payne and Jackson write for the Associated Press. AP journalists Liseberth Guillaume in New York and Mike Schneider in Orlando, Fla., contributed to this report.
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"Kate Payne and Cody Jackson"
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Centers of global wealth — and vibrant exile communities that run generations deep — both cities are cultural melting pots that have long been major points of entry for immigrants.
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"Mexico & the Americas"
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World & Nation
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2025-10-31T20:56:38.898Z
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2025-10-31T21:02:34.217Z
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-10-31/its-home-caribbean-diaspora-from-miami-to-new-york-fuels-hurricane-melissa-relief-efforts
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Israel’s military prosecutor admits she leaked video of soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee
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Israel’s top military prosecutor resigned Friday, admitting she was responsible for leaking a video showing soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee at a notorious military detention center, according to excerpts of the letter published by Israeli media. The admission has embroiled the prosecutor, Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, in a firestorm of criticism from the right-wingers dominating Israeli politics who say her actions betrayed the state. The chain of events shows how a prosecutor such as Tomer-Yerushalmi, whose office is viewed by many human rights groups as being too soft on the wartime conduct of Israeli soldiers, faces heavy pressure from Israeli politicians to refrain from aggressively prosecuting alleged wrongdoing. It also follows broader attempts by the country’s political leaders to overhaul a judicial system that they see as an obstacle to government policies. The leaked video was aired last year by Israel’s Channel 12 and purported to show an incident in which soldiers at the Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel had sodomized a Palestinian detainee from Gaza. Israel’s military was investigating the case at the time and had arrested soldiers for suspected involvement, prompting fury from hard-line ultranationalists who violently overran the facility in protest. In her resignation letter Friday, Tomer-Yerushalmi said that she had leaked the video to counter the criticism that the military was prioritizing Palestinian detainees over Israeli troops. According to excerpts of the letter published in Israeli media, she wrote that the military had a “duty to investigate when there is reasonable suspicion of violence against a detainee. “Unfortunately, this basic understanding — that there are actions which must never be taken even against the vilest of detainees — no longer convinces everyone," she wrote. Defense Minister Israel Katz and a chorus of Israeli politicians castigated Tomer-Yerushalmi following her resignation, and Katz said she would not be reinstated. He said investigations would continue into those involved in the decision to leak the video. Throughout the war, Israel’s treatment of Palestinian detainees from Gaza — especially at the Sde Teiman facility where the incident took place — has been characterized by rights groups as abusive. Detainees have been rounded up en masse and brought to detention facilities where they could be held for months without charge or trial. Many released detainees have reported frequent beatings from prison guards, scant food and awful conditions. Frankel writes for the Associated Press.
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Israel’s top military prosecutor has resigned after admitting to leaking a video showing soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee.
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"Middle East"
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World & Nation
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2025-10-31T20:51:42.403Z
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2025-10-31T20:51:42.403Z
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-10-31/israels-military-prosecutor-admits-she-leaked-video-of-soldiers-assaulting-a-palestinian-detainee
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La “valiente acción climática” de Papúa Nueva Guinea recibe elogios de Guterres
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El jefe de la ONU, António Guterres, felicitó a Papúa Nueva Guinea por su papel de liderazgo global en el cambio climático, durante la primera visita de un secretario general en funciones de las Naciones Unidas a la nación insular del Pacífico Sur. La visita de Guterres se produce antes de que la nación en desarrollo conmemore el 50 aniversario de su independencia de su vecino cercano, Australia, el 16 de septiembre. Él afirmó que la primera lección que Papúa Nueva Guinea había enseñado al mundo era el "arte de forjar consenso a través del diálogo" desde que se convirtió en una nación independiente. "La segunda lección que ofrecen al mundo es la audaz acción climática", dijo Guterres en un discurso ante el Parlamento Nacional en la capital, Port Moresby. "Hemos visto una y otra vez que el liderazgo climático no proviene de los países con más riqueza y poder, sino de aquellos que conocen de primera mano lo que está en juego", añadió. Guterres reconoció a Papúa Nueva Guinea por desempeñar un papel de liderazgo en la iniciativa de la opinión consultiva de la Corte Internacional de Justicia en julio, que estableció que los países podrían estar violando el derecho internacional si no tomaban medidas para proteger el planeta del cambio climático, y que las naciones perjudicadas por sus efectos podrían tener derecho a reparaciones. La opinión no vinculante de la CIJ, respaldada unánimemente por los 15 jueces de la corte, ha sido aclamada como un punto de inflexión en el derecho internacional sobre el clima. El caso fue liderado por la nación insular del Pacífico Sur de Vanuatu y respaldado por más de 130 países. "Es un testimonio del liderazgo de Papúa Nueva Guinea, Melanesia y la región más amplia del Pacífico", dijo Guterres. "Papúa Nueva Guinea no contribuye al cambio climático. Incluso son un país sumidero de carbono", añadió, refiriéndose a los bosques de la nación y a las praderas marinas circundantes que absorben más dióxido de carbono del que emite la población. Guterres no mencionó que Papúa Nueva Guinea ha estado exportando gas natural licuado desde 2014 y planea expandir esa industria de combustibles fósiles. El primer ministro de Papúa Nueva Guinea, James Marape, dijo al Parlamento en respuesta al discurso de Guterres que el "camino de desarrollo de su nación será verde, resiliente e inclusivo". Marape ha argumentado durante mucho tiempo que los países que emiten más dióxido de carbono tienen una "obligación moral y una mayor responsabilidad" para gestionar el cambio climático. Fue crítico con el presidente Donald Trump por retirar a Estados Unidos del histórico acuerdo climático de París en enero. Paul Barker, director ejecutivo del grupo de expertos Instituto de Asuntos Nacionales con sede en Port Moresby, dijo que la efectividad de Papúa Nueva Guinea como sumidero de dióxido de carbono probablemente se ha reducido por décadas de tala de bosques tropicales. "Es una historia dispar y los datos son un poco inciertos", dijo Barker sobre los cambios en el uso de la tierra bajo lo que el gobierno llama acuerdos de conversión forestal. Papúa Nueva Guinea es el país más poblado del Pacífico Sur después de Australia. Australia tiene 27 millones de personas, mientras que la oficina de estadísticas de Papúa Nueva Guinea estima que su población se acerca a los 12 millones. No se ha completado un censo ampliamente aceptado desde el año 2000. Papúa Nueva Guinea también tiene una población extraordinariamente diversa, con más de 800 lenguas indígenas. ___ Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
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El jefe de la ONU, António Guterres, felicitó a Papúa Nueva Guinea por su papel de liderazgo global en el cambio climático, durante la primera visita de un secretario general en funciones de las Naciones Unidas a la nación insular del Pacífico Sur.
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Internacional
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2025-10-31T20:43:27.015Z
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2025-10-31T20:43:27.015Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/internacional/articulo/2025-10-31/la-valiente-accion-climatica-de-papua-nueva-guinea-recibe-elogios-de-guterres
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Til Death Do Us Part: America’s Most Spooky and Hauntingly Romantic Wedding Venues
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If you’re the type of couple who’d rather toast under flickering chandeliers than fairy lights—or who thinks “something old, something new” should include a ghost or two—we’ve selected the locations below to prove that love stories and ghost stories aren’t mutually exclusive. All across the United States, a handful of historic venues have leaned into their haunted reputations, offering both atmosphere appealing to the fainter-of-heart and uncanny intrigue for those whose interests lean more towards the macabre. With coastal steamships, Victorian mansions, horror film icons, and cemeteries stocked with more spirits than an open bar, these ten wedding-ready spots make a strong case that true love never dies. Estes Park, Colorado Few places embody “haunted luxury” quite like The Stanley Hotel, the grand 1909 estate that inspired Stephen King’s The Shining. Set against the Rockies at the edge of Estes Park, the hotel combines turn-of-the-century opulence with sweeping mountain views and 41,000 square feet of event space. Its MacGregor Ballroom and cascading front lawn make dramatic ceremony backdrops for couples chasing that “moody-elegant” aesthetic. Of course, it’s the hotel’s ghostly lore—piano music unaccompanied by a player, temperamental lights, and spectral guests purportedly checking in unannounced—that lends its supernatural thrill. Just don’t be too surprised if your wedding at The Stanley has to accommodate a few uninvited guests. Atlanta, Georgia Before you entirely dismiss the prospect of hosting your wedding at a graveyard, pay a visit to Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery. Founded in 1850, the 48-acre Victorian garden cemetery doubles as one of the city’s most atmospheric public parks, abundant with ancient oaks, ornate mausoleums, and intricate sculptures bathed in southern sunlight. Couples can exchange vows under lush foliage or amidst marble-wrought memorials, surrounded by the cemetery’s ornate ironwork and by the imprints of history. The effect is one that feels more poetic than it is morbid—a celebration of enduring love, the bygone past and future to come, and the momentousness of life lived and remembered. For romantics with an affinity for drama or those seeking a venue with just the right balance between serene and spine-chilling, Oakland Cemetery is an unequivocally enchanting, monumental location for any couple’s nuptials. Long Beach, California Moored in Long Beach harbor, The Queen Mary (known familiarly, by some, as “The Ghost Ship of Long Beach”) remains one of Southern California’s most iconic—and allegedly one of the world’s most haunted—landmarks. The 1930s retired ocean-liner-turned-hotel is replete with brass railings and Art Deco glam, with 14 salons and multiple ocean-overlooking decks available for weddings. For couples seeking vintage opulence with a view, this venue more than provides—as long as those booking the space aren’t fazed by a touch of the paranormal as part of the package. The ship’s lengthy (although mostly classified) service records recount unnerving incidents and passenger deaths thought by some to be linked with ongoing supernatural occurrences often reported by guests and visitors who board the ship to this day. Opt for a ceremony on the Sun Deck or a midnight toast in the Observation Bar—either way, The Queen Mary promises glamor, grandeur, and definitely some goosebumps. Beverly Hills, California For an elegantly haunted, classic Hollywood setting, it’s near impossible to top Greystone Mansion & Gardens. Built in 1928 for oil heir Edward Doheny Jr., the Tudor-style estate’s manicured gardens and limestone terraces have made countless appearances on the silver screen. Behind its fastidiously groomed beauty, however, lurks the dark lore of a still-unsolved murder-suicide that took place within the mansion’s walls shortly after its completion. Today, the City of Beverly Hills rents out Greystone as a venue for weddings and other events, offering couples a cinematic backdrop basked in California sunshine, paired with a hint of mystery and the type of perfectly sordid backstory you’d expect only to find in a veritable film noir. Bodie, California Perched in the Sierra Nevada, only about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, Bodie ghost town sits frozen in time—of a different century entirely. Once a booming gold-rush outpost, the now long-deserted town—now a California State Historic Park—remains preserved in a state of “arrested decay,” its church, saloon, and storefront standing, though weathered by time and the elements, otherwise almost exactly as they were left nearly a century ago. Though not the most conventional of venues, for couples willing to embrace the remote setting, Bodie’s stark beauty, eerie quiet, and lingering spirit (and, maybe even spirits) of the Old West offer a cinematic, if offbeat, wedding backdrop. Here, couples can stage intimate ceremonies amid the relics—the still-standing town chapel is a popular choice—surrounded by the bones of history. Bodie’s desolation—and the whispers said to rise from its long-vacant homes—make this setting hauntingly romantic in its own, dust-covered way. Salem, Massachusetts In Salem, Massachusetts—the capital of all things witchy—the Hawthorne Hotel stands as both a symbol of refinement and a magnet for the mysterious. Built in 1925, its Georgian brickwork and grand ballroom have hosted generations of celebrations, from presidential visits to black-tie weddings. The hotel’s full-service wedding packages let couples exchange vows just steps away from Salem Common, surrounded by centuries of history. It’s the building’s after-hours reputation, though, that makes it a fixture in local lore. Guests tell of lights that dim without cause, footsteps that echo in empty corridors, and the occasional piece of furniture that just refuses to stay put. Equally elegant and eerie, history at the Hawthorne Hotel doesn’t just linger—it walks the halls. Los Angeles, California The Hollywood Roosevelt has always been a place for stories—some captured on film, others lingering in its marble halls. Since 1927, the Spanish Colonial landmark has embodied Los Angeles glamour, its palm-lined terraces and Deco interiors glowing under the same soft light that once illuminated the first Academy Awards. Among the Roosevelt’s most enduring legends is that of Marilyn Monroe, whose spirit is said to linger near the mirror that once hung in her poolside suite. For couples drawn to cinematic romance, it’s hard to imagine a more fitting stage than this one, where old ghosts and new beginnings can coexist beautifully under the same gilded roof.. St. Louis, Missouri Once home to the prosperous Lemp Brewing family, this ornate 19th-century mansion now doubles as a restaurant, inn, and one of St. Louis’s most storied event spaces. The mansion’s lavish interiors—stained glass, carved woodwork, and period furnishings—set the stage for intimate weddings and receptions. But it’s the family’s tragic history that gives the venue its notoriety: a string of suicides and misfortune have cemented Lemp Mansion’s reputation as one of America’s most haunted homes. Hosting your wedding here means saying “forever” beneath chandeliers that may flicker from more than just candlelight. Eureka Springs, Arkansas Perched on a hillside above the Ozarks, the 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa is all turrets, wraparound verandas, and Victorian charm—plus a ghost story in nearly every hallway. Once converted into a dubious “cancer hospital” in the 1930s, the hotel has since reclaimed its reputation as a luxurious destination for weddings, with gardens, ballrooms, and full guest accommodations. Still, many say the spirits of former patients never checked out. For couples seeking Southern Gothic drama—with champagne service and a spa day—the Crescent offers the best of both worlds. San Jose, California No spooky venue roundup would be complete without the Winchester Mystery House—the sprawling, maze-like mansion built by rifle heiress Sarah Winchester. Designed to confuse vengeful spirits—with staircases to nowhere, doors that open into walls, and 160 wholly eccentric rooms—this has become one of California’s most famous haunted landmarks. Today, the estate’s gardens, carriage house, and patio host weddings that are as whimsical as they are eerie. Complete with ornate, labyrinthine architecture and a good ghost story, it’s hard to imagine a more thematically appropriate place to say “’til death do us part.” New Orleans, Louisiana Few places capture the soul of New Orleans like the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, a French Quarter fixture whose walls have absorbed two centuries of music, mystery, and memory. Built in 1817 as a ballroom for the city’s elite and later transformed into a convent and an orphanage, in its current iteration, it has today become one of the city’s most beloved—and, supposedly, most haunted—boutique hotels. Rumor has it, though, that some of the building’s former tenants have never quite checked out. Guests have reported the faint sound of children’s laughter, the rustle of a nun’s habit in empty corridors, and the shimmer of a solitary dancer beneath the ballroom chandeliers. With soaring ceilings, antique mirrors, wrought-iron balconies, pastel-hued salons, and the echoes of the jazz tones suffusing Bourbon Street, the Bourbon Orleans has all the makings for a perfect New Orleans wedding. In the city of second lines, where funerals can be celebrations, and every brick is steeped in legend as much as in history, it seems only fitting that the past—here, in the form of spectral dancers and lingering nuns—insist on attending a celebration of the future. So, for the not-so-faint-of-hear, consider extending an invitation—and maybe even, in true New Orleans fashion, offering it a drink.
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From haunted hotels to ghost towns frozen in time, these venues are perfect for couples looking to add a little “spirit” to their big day.
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Wedding Venues
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2025-10-31T20:43:22.266Z
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2025-10-31T20:43:22.266Z
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https://www.latimes.com/weddings/locations/venues/story/americas-most-haunted-wedding-venues
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En bancos y comercios escasean monedas de 1 centavo, pues Casa de Moneda de EEUU dejó de acuñarlas
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Estados Unidos se está quedando sin monedas de 1 centavo. La decisión del presidente Donald Trump de suspender la acuñación de la moneda de 1 centavo a principios de este año comienza a tener consecuencias importantes para el comercio del país. Los comerciantes de varias regiones se han quedado sin monedas de 1 centavo y no pueden dar el cambio exacto. Por su parte, los bancos no pueden ordenar monedas nuevas y las racionan para sus clientes. Sheetz, una cadena de tiendas de conveniencia, llegó a tal punto de desesperación por la escasez de monedas de 1 centavo que lanzó una promoción de corta duración que ofrecía un refresco gratis a clientes que llevaran 100 de ellas. Otro minorista expuso que la falta de monedas de 1 centavo le costará millones este año, debido a la necesidad de redondear a la baja para evitar demandas. “Es una cantidad considerable de cambio”, dijo Dylan Jeon, director sénior de relaciones gubernamentales de la National Retail Federation (Federación Nacional de Minoristas). El problema de la escasez de monedas de 1 centavo comenzó a finales del verano y no hace más que empeorar a medida que el país se adentra en la temporada de compras navideñas. No obstante, ningún comerciante ni banco ha pedido que se mantenga la moneda de 1 centavo. Esas monedas, especialmente en grandes cantidades, son pesados y se utilizan casi exclusivamente para dar cambio a los clientes. Sin embargo, la decisión abrupta de eliminarlos llegó sin ninguna directriz del gobierno federal. Muchas tiendas se han visto obligadas a suplicar a los estadounidenses que paguen con el cambio exacto. “Hemos abogado por la abolición de las monedas de 1 centavo durante 30 años. Pero este no era el camino en que queríamos que desapareciera”, dijo Jeff Lenard, de la National Association of Convenience Stores (Asociación Nacional de Tiendas de Conveniencia, o NACS). El 9 de febrero, Trump anunció que Estados Unidos dejaría de acuñar monedas de 1 centavo al citar su costo elevado de producción. Desde hace varios años, a pesar de los esfuerzos de la Casa de la Moneda de Estados Unidos por reducir costos, tanto la moneda de 1 centavo como la de 5 centavos han sido más caras de producir que lo que valen. Según su informe anual más reciente, la Casa de la Moneda gastó 3,7 centavos para producir una monedas de 1 centavo en 2024 y gasta 13,8 centavos para producir una monedas de 5 centavos. “Eliminemos el despilfarro del presupuesto de nuestra gran nación, aunque sea centavo a centavo”, escribió Trump en Truth Social, su red social. El Departamento del Tesoro anunció en mayo que estaba por realizar su último pedido de cospeles de cobre-zinc —los discos metálicos en bruto que se utilizan para acuñar monedas de 1 centavo. En junio se acuñaron las últimas monedas de 1 centavo y para agosto se distribuyeron a bancos y empresas de transporte blindado de valores. Troy Richards, presidente y director de operaciones del banco Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., con sede en Luisiana, manifestó que desde agosto ha tenido dificultades para conseguir suficientes monedas de 1 centavo para sus clientes. “Recibimos un correo electrónico de la Reserva Federal que anunciaba la reducción de envíos de monedas de 1 centavo. No nos imaginábamos que esos envíos ya no nos llegarían más”, agregó Richards. También explicó que los 1.800 dólares en monedas de 1 centavo que tenía el banco se agotaron en dos semanas. Sus sucursales solo conservan pequeñas cantidades de ellas para los clientes que necesitan cobrar cheques, pero nada más. La Casa de la Moneda de Estados Unidos acuñó 3.230 millones de monedas de 1 centavo en 2024, el último año de producción completa, más del doble que la segunda moneda más acuñada del país: la de 25 centavos o cuarto de dólar. Pero el problema con las monedas de 1 centavo es que se acuñan, se dan como cambio y rara vez se reincorporan a la economía. Los estadounidenses guardan sus monedas de 1 centavo en frascos o los usan como decoración. Esto obliga a la Casa de la Moneda a producir cantidades importantes de esas monedas cada año. Se espera que el gobierno ahorre 56 millones de dólares al no acuñar monedas de 1 centavo, según el Departamento del Tesoro. A pesar de perder dinero cuando acuña esas monedas, la Casa de la Moneda es rentable para el gobierno estadounidense gracias a que acuña otras monedas de circulación, así como de monedas de prueba y juegos conmemorativos que son atractivos para los coleccionistas numismáticos. En 2024, la Casa de la Moneda obtuvo 182 millones de dólares en señoreaje —la ganancia que resulta de emitir monedas cuyo valor nominal es mayor que su costo de fabricación—, que es su equivalente a ganancias. Además de la costumbre de los estadounidenses de guardar las monedas de 1 centavo, un problema logístico también impide que circulen. La distribución de monedas está a cargo de la Junta de la Reserva Federal (Fed). Varias empresas, principalmente las de transporte blindado de valores, operan terminales de monedas donde los bancos pueden depositar y retirar monedas. Aproximadamente un tercio de estas 170 terminales están ahora cerradas tanto para depósitos como para retiros de monedas de 1 centavo. Los cabilderos bancarios dicen que el cierre de estas terminales para depósitos de monedas de 1 centavo agrava la escasez, ya que las zonas del país que quizá tengan excedentes de peniques no pueden enviarlos a las áreas donde no los hay. “Como resultado de la decisión del Departamento del Tesoro de Estados Unidos de poner fin a la acuñación de monedas de 1 centavo, los puntos de distribución que aceptan depósitos y procesan pedidos de monedas de 1 centavo variarán con el tiempo a medida que se agoten las existencias”, declaró un portavoz de la Reserva Federal. La escasez de monedas de 1 centavo también se ha convertido en un problema legal para tiendas y minoristas. En algunos estados y ciudades, es ilegal redondear una transacción al múltiplo de 5 o 10 centavos más cercano, ya que esto infringe las leyes que buscan garantizar la igualdad de condiciones en cuanto al precio de los artículos para los clientes que pagan en efectivo y los que usan tarjetas de débito y crédito. Por lo tanto, para evitar demandas, los minoristas redondean a la baja. Si bien 2 o 3 centavos pueden no parecer mucho, ese cambio extra se acumula al realizar decenas de miles de transacciones. Un portavoz de Kwik Trip, la cadena de tiendas de conveniencia de la región del centro-norte de Estados Unidos, reportó que han redondeado a la baja todas las transacciones en efectivo al múltiplo de cinco centavos más cercano. Se estima que eso le costará a la empresa aproximadamente 3 millones de dólares este año. Algunos minoristas también piden a los clientes que donen su cambio a organizaciones benéficas locales o afiliadas cuando pagan, en un esfuerzo por evitar el redondeo a la baja. Un proyecto de ley que se encuentra pendiente en el Congreso actualmente, conocido como la Common Cents Act (Ley sobre Centavos de Uso Común), exige que las transacciones en efectivo se redondeen al múltiplo de 5 centavos más cercano, ya sea hacia arriba o hacia abajo. Si bien la propuesta resulta atractiva para los negocios, el redondeo podría ser costoso para los consumidores. El Departamento del Tesoro no respondió a la solicitud de comentarios sobre si contaba con alguna guía para los minoristas o los bancos respecto a la escasez de monedas de 1 centavo, o sobre los problemas relacionados con su circulación. Estados Unidos no es el primer país en abandonar las monedas de baja denominación ni en descontinuar las monedas obsoletas. Pero en todos los casos, los gobiernos redujeron gradualmente el uso de sus monedas inadecuadas a lo largo de un período de, con frecuencia, años. Canadá, por ejemplo, anunció la eliminación de su moneda de 1 centavo en 2012, comenzó a eliminar las transiciones en efectivo de 1 centavo en 2013 y todavía canjea y recicla monedas de 1 centavo una década después. Su proceso de “decimalización” —que convirtió la moneda de un cuarto de penique (farthing) y el chelín (la 20ma parte de 1 libra) a un sistema de 100 peniques por libra—, se realizó a lo largo de gran parte de las décadas de 1960 y 1970. Estados Unidos retiró las monedas de 1 centavo del comercio abruptamente, sin ninguna acción del Congreso ni directrices regulatorias para los bancos, minoristas o estados. Los sectores minorista y bancario, que rara vez se alían en la capital del país en asuntos políticos relacionados con los puntos de venta, exigen que Washington emita directrices o promulgue una ley para solucionar los problemas derivados de la escasez. “No queremos que vuelvan las monedas de 1 centavo. Solo queremos claridad por parte del gobierno federal sobre qué hacer, ya que este problema no hará más que empeorar”, declaró Lenard, de la NACS.
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Estados Unidos se está quedando sin monedas de 1 centavo.
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EEUU
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2025-10-31T20:39:13.220Z
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2025-10-31T20:39:13.220Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/en-bancos-y-comercios-escasean-monedas-de-1-centavo-pues-casa-de-moneda-de-eeuu-dejo-de-acunarlas
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La Liga Premier explica por qué hay menos partidos el Boxing Day este año
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La Liga Premier culpó a la expansión de las competiciones de clubes europeos por la reducción de los partidos del Boxing Day, lo que afecta "una tradición importante en el fútbol inglés". Únicamente se jugará un partido el 26 de diciembre: Manchester United contra Newcastle. Ocho partidos fueron escenificados en esa fecha el año pasado.. La liga dijo el viernes que la expansión de competiciones como la Liga de Campeones le presenta "varios desafíos". "Con menos fines de semana disponibles, la liga está limitada con el calendario", afirmó en un comunicado. "Como en años anteriores, y en consonancia con nuestro compromiso con los clubes, se han hecho arreglos especiales para permitir más tiempo entre los partidos jugados durante el período festivo". La liga aseguró que se jugarían más partidos en el Boxing Day de 2026 porque el día cae en sábado. ___ Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
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La Liga Premier culpó a la expansión de las competiciones de clubes europeos por la reducción de los partidos del Boxing Day, lo que afecta "una tradición importante en el fútbol inglés".
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Deportes
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2025-10-31T20:25:51.093Z
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2025-10-31T20:25:51.093Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/deportes/articulo/2025-10-31/la-liga-premier-explica-por-que-hay-menos-partidos-el-boxing-day-este-ano
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Con Wembanyama, Spurs liberan años de frustración con inicio récord de temporada
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El pívot Victor Wembanyama liberó años de frustración de los Spurs de San Antonio con un grito apasionado después de una victoria ante el Heat de Miami para quedar 5-0 en el inicio de la temporada. San Antonio derrotó 107-101 a Miami y estableció un récord de la franquicia al comenzar la campaña con foja de 5-0. Ganar cinco partidos consecutivos tiene más que un significado histórico para este joven equipo. Es una prueba de que los Spurs están avanzando en la dirección correcta después de años cargados de mediocridad. "Estoy cansado de perder", dijo el escolta de San Antonio Devin Vassell, quien está en su sexta temporada. "He estado aquí por mucho tiempo y ha sido una aventura. Puedo decir eso, pero simplemente estoy cansado de perder". El cansancio es comprensible. San Antonio estableció un récord de futilidad al perder 16 partidos consecutivos en 2023 y luego lo superó la temporada siguiente con 18 derrotas consecutivas. Los Spurs perdieron al menos cinco partidos seguidos en 11 ocasiones durante las últimas tres temporadas con un récord de 78-168 durante ese período. Fue un tormento para una franquicia que conquistó cinco campeonatos de la NBA, igualó un récord de la liga con 22 apariciones consecutivas en postemporada y tuvo 21 rachas ganadoras de más de 10 partidos durante sus 53 años de historia en San Antonio. Sin embargo, a pesar de lo exitosos que habían sido los Spurs, nunca habían comenzado una temporada con cinco victorias consecutivas hasta el jueves. Ahora ese récord de franquicia pertenece a un equipo liderado por un pívot de 21 años de Francia y otros nueve jugadores de 25 años o menos que nunca han ganado 35 partidos en una temporada. "Se siente bien estar ganando", dijo Keldon Johnson, el alero que cumple su séptima temporada. "La mejor sensación del mundo". Así que el grito de Wembanyama después de vencer a Miami fue tanto un exorcismo como una celebración. "Estaba pensando en el récord de 5-0, en la historia de los Spurs, y simplemente estaba orgulloso de ser un Spur en ese momento", dijo Wembanyama. Que los Spurs desperdiciaran una ventaja de 15 puntos contra el Heat y estuvieran perdiendo 91-90 con 6:44 restantes solo hizo que su victoria récord fuera más dulce. "No conseguimos esas cinco victorias al azar", dijo Wembanyama. "Trabajamos para ello. Comenzamos la temporada fuerte y mantenemos esa racha el mayor tiempo posible. Es bueno ver resultados porque podríamos estar jugando bien y aún así no obtener tantas victorias como deseamos, pero es bueno tener resultados y eso nos impulsa". Bam Adebayo, el pívot de Miami, hizo las cosas especialmente difíciles para Wembanyama. Adebayo tuvo 31 puntos y 10 rebotes mientras mantenía un pulso con Wembanyama en ambos extremos. Wembanyama terminó acertando 10 de 23 en tiros de campo al disputar 40 minutos. "La clave es hacer que tome tiros incómodos, sacarlo de su ritmo y hacerlo como una unidad colectiva", dijo Adebayo. "No solo yo lo defendí. Andrew Wiggins tuvo algunas grandes intervenciones cuando él estaba lanzando el balón desde atrás donde no podía ver. Todo eso importa para hacer que alguien falle". Miami abrió el último cuarto con una racha 17-1, pero San Antonio cerró el juego con una racha de 8-3 para preservar su racha ganadora. "Los Spurs hicieron más jugadas al final", dijo el entrenador del Heat Erik Spoelstra. "Fue un gran juego en esos últimos tres minutos". Mientras se levantaba de la cancha después de una falta dura de Wiggins con 14.6 segundos restantes, Wembanyama instó a la multitud a levantarse y celebrar. "Es el punto de exclamación", dijo Wembanyama. ___ Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/deportes
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El pívot Victor Wembanyama liberó años de frustración de los Spurs de San Antonio con un grito apasionado después de una victoria ante el Heat de Miami para quedar 5-0 en el inicio de la temporada.
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Deportes
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2025-10-31T20:23:59.165Z
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2025-10-31T20:23:59.165Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/deportes/articulo/2025-10-31/con-wembanyama-spurs-liberan-anos-de-frustracion-con-inicio-record-de-temporada
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Yamamoto y Gausman ponen al ‘splitter’ en el centro de atención en el Juego 6 de la Serie Mundial
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El splitter ha regresado. Abanderados por Yoshinobu Yamamoto y Kevin Gausman, los abridores del sexto duelo de la Serie Mundial, los lanzamientos de recta con los dedos separados se han utilizado en el 6,8% de los pitcheo de la postemporada este año, más del doble del 2,4% del año pasado y un aumento desde el 1,5% cuando comenzó el seguimiento de lanzamientos en 2008. “Hay tantos buenos lanzamientos en el juego de hoy: hay tantos buenos sweepers, sliders y rectas cortadas. Creo que el split es casi un tipo de lanzamiento un poco diferente. Puedes reconocer el giro y aún así tener un swing bastante feo si las métricas son correctas", dijo Gausman. Toronto utilizó los splitters un 9,3% del tiempo durante la temporada regular, según MLB Statcast. Ese fue el porcentaje más alto de cualquier equipo desde que comenzó el seguimiento de lanzamientos en 2008, superando el 7,8% de Minnesota en 2023 y Baltimore este año. Gausman ha lanzado su splitter el 41,4% del tiempo en la postemporada, seguido en los Azulejos por su compañero abridor Trey Yesavage (27,7%), el cerrador Jeff Hoffman (25,9%) y los relevistas Seranthony Domínguez (16,7%) y Yariel Rodríguez (8,6%). Roki Sasaki, trasladado de la rotación al relevo, lidera a los Dodgers con un 45,9%, seguido por Yamamoto con un 24,7% y Shohei Ohtani con un 7,4%. "Roger Craig está sonriendo en algún lugar", dijo el mánager de los Yankees de Nueva York, Aaron Boone, refiriéndose al fallecido coach de lanzadores y mánager, uno de los defensores más prominentes del splitter. “Con todas estas cámaras y tecnología y cosas, realmente puedes equipar a los muchachos con lo que deberían estar haciendo según cómo se mueve su cuerpo”. Bruce Sutter, Jack Morris y John Smoltz utilizaron el splitter durante carreras que les valieron ser exaltados al Salón de la Fama. Los splitters se lanzan con los dedos índice y medio bien separados, con la intención de tener un quiebre sustancial hacia abajo. Sutter atribuyó su llegada al Salón de la Fama aprender el splitter de Fred Martin, un jugador de grandes ligas de 1946-50 que se convirtió en instructor de ligas menores de los Cachorros de Chicago. “Me dijo que separara mis dedos y lo lanzara como una recta. Había jugadores lanzando forkballs en ese momento y algunos muchachos lo usaban como cambio, pero nadie estaba lanzando lo que él llamaba el split finger", relató Sutter durante su discurso de ingreso a Cooperstown en 2006. "Era un lanzamiento que no cambió cómo se jugaba el juego, pero desarrolló una nueva forma de sacar a los bateadores”. Craig enseñó el splitter a Morris como coach de lanzadores de los Tigres de Detroit y a Mike Scott cuando estaba con los Astros de Houston. Roger Clemens aprendió a lanzarlo de Scott en un evento benéfico de golf en 1986 y comenzó a llamar al lanzamiento “Mr. Splitty”. El uso disminuyó después de que el lanzamiento ganara la reputación de causar lesiones en el codo. Solo el 1,4% de los lanzamientos de la temporada regular eran splitters cuando comenzó el seguimiento. El porcentaje subió al 2,2% en 2023, 3,1% en 2024 y 3,3% este año. “Volviendo unos años atrás, creo que ciertas personas pensaban que no podían lanzarlo, que no podían realmente abrir lo suficiente sus dedos", comentó el mánager de los Azulejos, John Schneider. “El diseño de lanzamientos ha cambiado, y creo que los muchachos han descubierto diferentes formas de agarrarlo, como, el de Gausman es diferente al de Trey, el de Trey es diferente al de Seranthony, el de Yariel es diferente al de -- todos lo sostienen un poco diferente”. El uso del splitter de Gausman del 37,6% durante la temporada fue el tercero detrás de Rafael Montero de Detroit (46,9%) y Jhoan Durán de Filadelfia (39,7%) entre aquellos que lanzaron al menos 1.000 lanzamientos. Entre los lanzadores abridores que lanzaron al menos 100 splitters, Yamamoto mantuvo a los bateadores con un promedio de .136, tercero detrás de Logan Gilbert de Seattle (.119) y Spencer Schwellenbach de Atlanta (.132). Los bateadores tuvieron un promedio de .181 contra el splitter de Gausman, bajando de .230 frente a su recta y .342 contra su slider. “Uno de los pocos lanzamientos en los que creo firmemente que un bateador puede saber que viene y aún así será out. Siempre he sentido que el cambio es el mejor lanzamiento en el juego porque parece una bola rápida, y cualquier cosa que parezca una bola rápida y no lo sea, es realmente buena”, remarcó Gausman. ___ Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/deportes
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El splitter ha regresado.
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Deportes
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2025-10-31T20:20:08.331Z
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2025-10-31T20:20:08.331Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/deportes/articulo/2025-10-31/yamamoto-y-gausman-ponen-al-splitter-en-el-centro-de-atencion-en-el-juego-6-de-la-serie-mundial
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A Word, Please: The fine line between right and wrong — literally
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Once upon a time, “goodbye” was hyphenated. So was “teenager.” So was “email.” So were many other terms that we don’t hyphenate today. What happened? The same thing that happens to a lot of multiword terms: over time, as people get to know them, they fuse into a single word. But during the process, people get confused. Mistakes follow. Complicated rules about prefixes and suffixes don’t help. Nor do rules about hyphenating two words used to describe a third, as in “forward-looking statements.” And, worse, spell-check programs don’t always catch hyphenation mistakes. So here’s a quick rundown of eight terms you’re probably hyphenating wrong. Lineup. “The team has a great lineup this year.” The hyphenated form, “line-up,” seems to turn up a lot. I have a 1933 Oxford Universal Dictionary that lists “line-up” as a noun meaning “the assembling of a number of persons in a line.” So if you were writing something early in the last century, that hyphen would be fine. But my next-oldest dictionary, a Webster’s New World published in 1976, writes it “lineup.” So does every other dictionary I have access to. So the noun is lineup. The verb, of course, is line up. Multimillion-dollar. I expect every writer I edit to get this wrong, and I’m never disappointed. They always put a hyphen after “multi” and usually omit the hyphen before “dollar.” But in fact, because “multi” is a prefix, you can usually add it to another word with no hyphen. And because “multimillion” when combined with “dollar” is almost always an adjective describing a noun that follows, as in “a multimillion-dollar budget,” a single hyphen before “dollar” is best here. Well-being. I’m fascinated by the sudden popularity of “wellbeing.” Lately, it’s in every piece of writing I see that wasn’t professionally edited. I even saw it on a billboard not too long ago. This tells us something: It’s quite likely that, in the near future, “well-being” will be correctly written “wellbeing.” That is, after all, the usual trend. But I can’t figure out why so many people are jumping the gun. For now, according to dictionaries, it’s “well-being.” Passersby. No one can be blamed for writing this “passers-by.” The correct form, “passersby,” is probably the weirdest plural in the English language. The plural S in the middle? Without even a hyphen to smooth it over? Outrageous, yet true. In 2019, the Associated Press Stylebook belatedly got on board with what dictionaries had been saying for decades: passerby is one word, not hyphenated, and its plural is, too: passersby. Longtime. Anyone who correctly hyphenates “long-term” as a modifier, for example in “a long-term plan,” might naturally assume that the modifier “longtime” would be written the same way. But at some point in the past, the adjective “longtime” became a word all its own. As a noun, though, it’s two words: It was a long time coming. I haven’t seen him in a long time. Re-create. OK, technically it’s not wrong to say you want to “recreate” a wonderful experience or recipe or other long-lost thing. The rules of prefixes allow you to attach “re” to “create” without a hyphen. But why would you choose “recreate,” which means to play, when publishers and style guides sanction a hyphen in “re-create,” removing all possible confusion between the two? On-site, off-site. Here’s a recent example from my editing work of a writer getting this wrong: “The resort has a host of onsite amenities.” Unhyphenated “onsite” may be on its way to becoming a word, but it’s not there yet. For now, dictionaries and style guides agree, it’s “on-site.” Square-foot. For some reason, writers lately seem afraid to use more than a single hyphen in any term. The result, stuff like: “a 1,000-square foot apartment.” As if a foot were made up of a thousand squares. There’s no need to avoid the extra hyphen. Instead write “a 1,000-square-foot apartment.” But only when you’re using it as an adjective. When it’s not describing another noun, these square-foot measurements are usually not hyphenated: the apartment is 1,000 square feet. — June Casagrande is the author of “The Joy of Syntax: A Simple Guide to All the Grammar You Know You Should Know.” She can be reached at [email protected].
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Grammar expert June Casagrande tackles the use of hyphens with a close look at eight multiword terms that writers sometimes get wrong.
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Opinion
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2025-10-31T20:04:12.328Z
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2025-10-31T20:04:12.328Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/story/2025-10-31/a-word-please-neither-here-nor-there-not-quite
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La nueva generación del Kia Telluride 2027 ya tiene fecha para su lanzamiento mundial
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Desde su sorprendente concepto inicial hasta convertirse en un vehículo de producción aclamado por la crítica, el SUV Telluride ha desempeñado un papel fundamental en la transformación integral de la marca Kia durante casi una década. Como el primer Kia diseñado específicamente para el mercado estadounidense, el Telluride es el único SUV en haber recibido los premios de «Vehículo del Año a Nivel Mundial», «Vehículo Utilitario del Año en Norteamérica», «SUV del Año de MotorTrend» y «10 Mejores Vehículos de Car and Driver» en el mismo año (2020). La primera generación del Telluride cambió radicalmente la percepción que la crítica y los consumidores tenían de Kia, impulsando así la trayectoria de la marca. Las ventas del Telluride han aumentado año tras año desde su lanzamiento en 2019, y este SUV insignia de Kia se convirtió rápidamente en uno de los SUV de tres filas y ocho plazas más demandados y premiados en Estados Unidos. Tanto el vehículo como Kia América prevén alcanzar sus mejores cifras de ventas anuales en 2025. «El Telluride marcó la llegada de Kia a la élite de las marcas automotrices mundiales, siendo un vehículo insignia que simboliza la innovación y la audacia, a la vez que resulta accesible y atractivo», afirmó SeungKyu (Sean) Yoon, presidente y director ejecutivo de Kia North América y Kia América. «La popularidad y la demanda del Telluride han crecido año tras año, y al despedirnos de la generación actual, es imposible exagerar su impacto duradero en Kia en Estados Unidos». La campaña publicitaria, titulada: “Telluride Legacy” (El legado del Telluride), rememora el inicio de la producción del Telluride hace siete años en West Point, Georgia. Con la segunda generación del Telluride a punto de llegar al mercado, Kia sigue superando las expectativas, ofreciendo aún más de aquello que hizo que el modelo original fuera un éxito. El nuevo Telluride del 2027 hará su debut mundial oficial en el Salón del Automóvil de Los Ángeles el 20 de noviembre de 2025.
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Desde su sorprendente concepto inicial hasta convertirse en un vehículo de producción aclamado por la crítica, el SUV Telluride ha desempeñado un papel fundamental en la transformación integral de la marca Kia durante casi una década.
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Noticas-Más
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2025-10-31T19:57:00.158Z
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2025-10-31T19:57:00.158Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/noticas-mas/articulo/2025-10-31/la-nueva-generacion-del-kia-telluride-2027-ya-tiene-fecha-para-su-lanzamiento-mundial
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Is there still hope for the Cinerama Dome? New permit request filed with city of L.A.
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Will Cinerama Dome ever reopen? Maybe. Dome Center LLC, the company that owns the property along Sunset Boulevard upon which the iconic movie venue stands, filed an application for a conditional-use permit to sell alcohol for on-site consumption at the Cinerama Dome Theater and adjoined multiplex Tuesday. According to the application filed by the company's representative, Elizabeth Peterson-Gower of Place Weavers Inc., Dome Center is seeking a new permit that would "allow for the continued sale and dispensing of a full line of alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption in conjunction with the existing Cinerama Dome Theater, 14 auditoriums within the Arclight Cinemas Theater Complex, and restaurant/cafe with two outdoor dining terraces from 7:00 am - 4:00 am, daily." This would be a renewal of the current 10-year permit, which expires Nov. 5. The findings document filed with the City Planning Department also mentions that "when the theater reopens, it will bring additional jobs to Hollywood and reactivate the adjacent streets, increasing safety and once again bringing vibrancy to the surrounding area." No timetable for this reopening was indicated. A representative for Dome Center LLC did not respond immediately Friday to a request for comment. The Cinerama Dome, which first opened in 1963, has been closed since it was shut down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. After it was announced in April 2021 that the beloved theater would remained closed even after the pandemic, it was revealed in December of that year that there were plans for the Cinerama Dome and the attached theater complex to eventually reopen. In 2022, news that the property owners obtained a liquor license for the renamed "Cinerama Hollywood" fueled the L.A. film-loving community's hope that the venue was still on track to return. But the Cinerama Dome's doors have remained closed. At a public hearing regarding the adjacent Blue Note Jazz Club in June, Peterson reportedly indicated that while there were not yet any definitive plans, the property owners had reached out to her to discuss the Cinerama Dome next. Perhaps this new permit application is a sign plans are finally coming together.
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The owner of the iconic Cinerama Dome has filed for a new permit for alcohol sales. L.A. movie lovers have been waiting for the venue to reopen since 2021.
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2025-10-31T19:48:52.616Z
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2025-10-31T20:34:00.660Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-10-31/cinerama-dome-reopening-alcohol-sales-permit
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Acusan a hombre de amenazar a rabinos, un imán y otras personas en varios estados del sur de EEUU
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Los fiscales federales han acusado a un hombre de Alabama de realizar llamadas y enviar mensajes amenazantes a varios rabinos, un imán y otras personas en el sur, incluyendo decirle a un rabino que "quiero que mueras". Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker, de Needham, Alabama, fue acusado de hacer una amenaza de comunicaciones interestatales. Fue arrestado anteriormente por cargos estatales relacionados de resistencia al arresto y posesión de una pistola por una persona a la que se le prohíbe legalmente tener un arma de fuego. Un agente del FBI escribió en documentos judiciales que Shoemaker realizó una serie de llamadas y mensajes amenazantes a rabinos en Alabama y Luisiana, un imán en Georgia, una iglesia en Carolina del Norte y otros. Las autoridades dijeron que se encontraron múltiples armas de fuego en la casa del hombre, junto con una maleta llena de municiones y papeles con los nombres, direcciones y números de teléfono de líderes religiosos y otras figuras prominentes. El agente escribió que Shoemaker dijo a las autoridades que las comunicaciones no eran una amenaza de violencia real, sino "un esfuerzo por intimidar o participar en una guerra psicológica". Los documentos judiciales también sugieren que el hombre padece una enfermedad mental diagnosticada. Su abuela le dijo al agente del FBI que él se había negado a tomar su medicamento contra la enfermedad, escribió el agente. El nombre del diagnóstico fue redactado en los documentos judiciales públicos. Una declaración jurada de un agente del FBI presentada con documentos judiciales federales señala que Shoemaker llamó la atención de las autoridades federales después de dejar mensajes de voz amenazantes, incluyendo uno a principios de este mes para un rabino en Mountain Brook, Alabama. "Quiero que mueras porque deseas nuestra muerte", dijo Shoemaker en una de las llamadas. "Quieres que Occidente desaparezca". El agente escribió que Shoemaker envió mensajes de texto a un centro islámico en Luisiana en 2024, incluyendo uno que decía que "los judíos y ustedes, los musulmanes, nos han declarado la guerra de nuevo, y vamos a defendernos". Otro mensaje a un imán de Georgia este año decía que sabía dónde vivía el imán y le advertía que tuviera cuidado. Shoemaker le dijo al agente del FBI que no tenía intención de violencia y que las llamadas y mensajes eran un intento de intimidación. "Shoemaker afirmó que sus declaraciones eran sátira, no una amenaza legítima, una refutación y una burla hacia ellos", escribió el agente. Un registro en la casa de Shoemaker encontró múltiples armas de fuego, un portador de chaleco antibalas y numerosas cajas de municiones. Needham es un pequeño pueblo en el suroeste de Alabama, ubicado a unos 16 kilómetros (10 millas) de los límites entre Mississippi y Alabama. Shoemaker está detenido en la cárcel del condado Choctaw. Sara Jones, agente especial a cargo del FBI, dijo que múltiples agencias policiales actuaron "dentro de horas de enterarse de una amenaza a un miembro de la comunidad judía". "Este es un ejemplo destacado de cómo las fuerzas policiales trabajan juntas para aplastar el crimen violento y proteger al pueblo estadounidense", dijo Jones en un comunicado el viernes. Ernest C. McCorquodale, III, un abogado defensor que representa a Shoemaker en los cargos estatales, se negó a comentar cuando fue contactado a principios de esta semana. La Policía del Condado Clarke anunció el martes que un hombre fue detenido por una fuerza de múltiples agencias después que el FBI y otras agencias policiales fueran "notificadas de amenazas creíbles de violencia hechas contra múltiples sinagogas en todo Alabama y estados circundantes". Una foto del interior de la casa, publicada por el Departamento del Policía, muestra un fusil semiautomático, una escopeta, una pistola y montones de municiones.
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Los fiscales federales han acusado a un hombre de Alabama de realizar llamadas y enviar mensajes amenazantes a varios rabinos, un imán y otras personas en el sur, incluyendo decirle a un rabino que "quiero que mueras".
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EEUU
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2025-10-31T19:44:06.617Z
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2025-10-31T19:44:06.617Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/acusan-a-hombre-de-amenazar-a-rabinos-un-iman-y-otras-personas-en-varios-estados-del-sur-de-eeuu
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O.C. man convicted of killing parents, housekeeper found sane, facing life sentence
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A jury Thursday found a 34-year-old man who bludgeoned and repeatedly stabbed his parents and a longtime housekeeper inside their home in a gated community of Newport Beach was legally sane at the time of the killings. Camden Burton Nicholson was convicted Oct. 22 of three counts of special-circumstances murder with a sentencing enhancement of multiple murders. But because he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, the trial entered a second phase, with jurors determining whether he was legally insane at the time of the 2019 slayings. With the finding of sanity, Nicholson will face life in prison without the possibility of parole when he is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 19. If the jury had found he was legally insane, he would have faced an indefinite stay at a mental health facility. The burden of proof was on the defense, which made its case in a Santa Ana courtroom this week. Jurors had to decide the question by a preponderance of the evidence, a lower standard than reasonable doubt, the standard applied during the guilt phase. Jurors earlier this month concluded Nicholson killed his parents — 64-year-old Richard Nicholson and 61-year-old Kim Nicholson — on Feb. 11, 2019, then murdered 57-year-old housekeeper Maria Morse of Anaheim the following day. Nicholson's attorney, Richard Cheung of the Orange County Public Defender's Office, said the law required the defendant be found with a mental disease or defect, as his client did not understand the crime was legally or morally wrong. Cheung said three psychiatric experts concluded Nicholson wrongly believed his parents and his maid were part of a conspiracy to kill him and so acted in self-defense. One expert was hired by Cheung's office, while the other two were appointed by a judge. One expert, however, testified for prosecutors that the defendant was malingering, or exaggerating, his psychiatric issues and was not legally insane at the time. “Yes, Camden understood three people were killed,” the defense attorney said. “But he was delusional, psychotic. ... He had this delusion his parents and housekeeper were in a conspiracy to kill him.” Nicholson thought that when his parents attempted to hospitalize him to help him, they were setting it up to have him poisoned, Cheung maintained. Part of the reason Nicholson was suspicious of the housekeeper was because she used a room deodorizer that triggered his seizures. Nicholson was also paranoid that his parents were tracking him, so when he would leave home and check into a motel he would continuously switch rooms, the defense offered. His parents would implore him to come home, telling him they loved him, but then try to persuade him to check into a hospital, triggering the defendant’s fear of the false conspiracy all over again, Cheung said. Forensic psychologist Lisa Grajewski testified that when Nicholson was in college “he was struggling” with suicidal ideation and consequently hospitalized and prescribed medication. Nicholson had “periods of compliance and non-compliance” with taking his medications, she said. Nicholson was also using steroids for low testosterone and cannabis “to self medicate” in addition to anti-psychotics, mood stabilizers and tranquilizers, Grajewski said. Senior Deputy District Atty. Dave Porter noted that Nicholson appeared to take steps to destroy evidence, such as a blood-stained jacket, and moved the housekeeper's car about a mile away from the home to avoid detection. Richard Nicholson was seen in security footage driving back to his home in the gated community at 36 Palazzo about 12:45 p.m. the day of his death, Porter said during opening statements. Nicholson, who was “completely dependent on his parents,” met his father in the garage of the home and “stabbed him over and over again,” the prosecutor alleged. He placed his father's body in a small bathroom and stuffed towels at the bottom of the door to keep blood from seeping out. When his mother came home about 10 minutes later, Nicholson struck her with a metal statue before repeatedly stabbing her. Investigators found clumps of Kim Nicholson’s hair at the scene, indicating she fought for her life during a struggle, Porter said. After the killings, Nicholson used his parents’ cars to drive to various stores and businesses. The following day, Morse, a “longtime housekeeper” for the family, arrived for work about 7:45 a.m. Nicholson repeatedly stabbed her and slit her throat before stuffing her into a large plastic bin, Porter said. He then went on a series of “shopping sprees,” spending $300 on marijuana at a dispensary and making stops at a drugstore and an adult novelty shop. Around 8:30 p.m., after returning home, Nicholson left again in his father's car and drove to a Kaiser Permanente facility in Irvine, where he called 911 and said he had killed his parents in self-defense because they were trying to kill him, Porter said. Nicholson, living with a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, was raised in Newport Beach in a Mormon family, and his mental health struggles began in 2012, when he suffered his first episode during a mission trip to Florida, Cheung said. He was prescribed medication and sent home early from the trip.
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Camden Burton Nicholson, 34, pleaded not guilty to bludgeoning and stabbing his parents and a longtime housekeeper in their Newport Beach home in 2019, by reason of insanity. A Jury Thursday found otherwise.
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2025-10-31T19:43:03.664Z
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2025-10-31T19:43:03.664Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2025-10-31/o-c-man-convicted-of-killing-parents-housekeeper-found-sane-faces-life-sentence
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Israel entrega los cuerpos de 30 palestinos mientras avanza el acuerdo de alto el fuego
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Israel devolvió el viernes los cuerpos de 30 palestinos a las autoridades sanitarias en Gaza, completando un intercambio después de que los rebeldes entregaran los restos de dos rehenes, en una señal de que el tenso acuerdo de alto el fuego entre Israel y Hamás avanza. El paulatino avance se produjo a pesar de los ataques israelíes sobre Gaza esta semana, en los que murieron más de 100 personas tras la muerte de un soldado israelí. La Cruz Roja actuó como intermediaria en la transferencia de los cuerpos. La devolución de los restos palestinos fue confirmada por un médico del Hospital Nasser en la ciudad sureña de Jan Yunis, donde los trabajadores sanitarios trataban de identificarlos. En fotografías se podían ver los restos, metidos en bolsas blancas para cadáveres, dispuestos en filas dentro del recinto del hospital. Las autoridades sanitarias han tenido dificultades para identificar los cadáveres sin acceso a kits de ADN. La entrega eleva a 225 el número de cuerpos palestinos devueltos por Israel, de los cuales solo 75 han sido identificados por las familias, según el Ministerio de Salud gazatí. No se sabe si las personas cuyos restos fueron devueltos fueron asesinadas en Israel durante el ataque del 7 de octubre de 2023, si murieron mientras estaban detenidas por las fuerzas israelíes o si fueron recuperadas en Gaza por soldados durante la guerra. Los cuerpos devueltos habían sido “desgarrados y exhumados”, dijo en X Munir al-Bursh, director general del Ministerio de Salud de Gaza. “Su carne se derritió y sus rostros fueron borrados por el fuego, dejando solo huesos y dientes”, dijo. El Ejército israelí declaró previamente a The Associated Press que todos los cuerpos devueltos hasta ahora pertenecían a combatientes, una afirmación que la AP no pudo verificar. El Ejército ha dicho que opera de acuerdo con el derecho internacional. Al-Bursh dijo recientemente que muchos de los cuerpos entregados parecen ser milicianos u otras personas muertas durante el ataque de 2023. Varios familiares que han identificado los cuerpos de miembros de sus familias dijeron que no eran combatientes. En Israel, la oficina del primer ministro, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmó el jueves por la noche que los restos entregados por rebeldes palestinos eran los de Sahar Baruch y Amiram Cooper, ambos tomados como rehenes durante el ataque de 2023. Hamás ha devuelto hasta ahora los restos de 17 rehenes desde el inicio del alto el fuego, y quedan 11 más en Gaza, que serán entregados según los términos del acuerdo. El viernes, un pequeño grupo de israelíes se reunió en el sitio conocido como Plaza de los Rehenes, rezando juntos por el regreso de los rehenes muertos que aún están en Gaza. “No podemos rendirnos hasta que todos, todos los cuerpos, estén aquí”, dijo Rimona Velner, una residente de Tel Aviv que se unió a la manifestación. “Es muy importante para las familias y para nosotros... cerrar este círculo.” Un alto funcionario de Estados Unidos y una fuente familiarizada con las negociaciones dijeron que, en mensajes transmitidos el miércoles a Hamás a través de mediadores, Israel advirtió al grupo que sus combatientes tenían 24 horas para abandonar la zona amarilla o enfrentarían ataques. Ese plazo expiró el jueves por la noche, después de lo cual el alto funcionario estadounidense dijo que “Israel aplicará el alto el fuego y atacará objetivos de Hamás detrás de la línea amarilla”. Hamás no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios. El viernes, el director del hospital Shifa, Mohamed Abu Selmiya, dijo que una persona fue asesinada por disparos israelíes en el norte de Gaza. El Ejército israelí dijo que sus efectivos dispararon cuando la persona se acercara a ellos de una manera que representaba una amenaza. En una nueva evaluación publicada el viernes, las Naciones Unidas dijeron que las fotos satelitales tomadas a principios de octubre muestran que el 81 por ciento de los edificios en Gaza han sido destruidos o dañados en el conflicto. Funcionarios gubernamentales de ocho naciones árabes y musulmanas se reunirán el lunes en Estambul para analizar los próximos pasos para Gaza, dijo el viernes el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Turquía, Hakan Fidan. Las conversaciones siguen a una reunión entre los líderes de los países y el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump, al margen de la reunión del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, antes del acuerdo de alto el fuego. Son el más reciente esfuerzo para crear una Fuerza Internacional de Estabilización en Gaza, delineada en un plan de 20 puntos propuesto por Estados Unidos. El alto el fuego, que comenzó el 10 de octubre, tiene como objetivo poner fin a una guerra que, con diferencia, es la más letal y destructiva de las que se han librado entre Israel y Hamás. En el ataque de octubre de 2023 a Israel, combatientes liderados por Hamás mataron a unas 1.200 personas y tomaron a 251 más como rehenes. En los dos años transcurridos desde entonces, la ofensiva militar israelí se ha cobrado la vida de más de 68.600 palestinos en Gaza, según el Ministerio de Salud, que no distingue entre víctimas civiles y combatientes. El ministerio, que forma parte del gobierno dirigido por Hamás y está compuesto por profesionales médicos, mantiene registros detallados que son considerados fiables por expertos independientes. Israel, a quien algunos críticos internacionales han acusado de cometer genocidio en la Franja, ha cuestionado las cifras, sin ofrecer su propio conteo. El viernes, en la ciudad de Silwad, en el centro de Cisjordania, una multitud de dolientes llenó las calles para el funeral de Yamen Hamed, de 15 años, quien, según autoridades de salud palestinas, recibió disparos de un soldado israelí durante la noche. Samed Yousef Hamed besó a su hijo para despedirse. Samed dijo que su hijo salió de casa el jueves para pasar el rato con amigos. Poco después, se enteró de que el adolescente había sido herido y que el ejército de Israel impedía el paso de una ambulancia. Ahed Smirat, el conductor de la ambulancia que intentó llegar a Hamed tras el tiroteo, dijo a la AP que los soldados lo detuvieron varias veces. Para cuando lo dejaron pasar, le dijeron que el adolescente había muerto, afirmó. El ejército israelí calificó al menor de “terrorista” y dijo que los soldados dispararon creyendo que sostenía un explosivo, pero no proporcionaron ninguna evidencia para respaldar esa afirmación. El funeral de Hamed tuvo lugar el viernes. El tiroteo es el más reciente de una serie de asesinatos de niños palestinos por parte de militares en Cisjordania, que coincide con un aumento generalizado de la violencia en el territorio desde el inicio de la guerra entre Israel y Hamás. Algunos murieron en redadas militares israelíes en barrios densamente poblados y otros fueron alcanzados por francotiradores en zonas tranquilas. Los asesinatos se han incrementado a medida que el ejército israelí ha intensificado las operaciones en la Cisjordania ocupada desde el inicio de la guerra, en lo que califica de represión contra la insurgencia.
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Israel devolvió el viernes los cuerpos de 30 palestinos a las autoridades sanitarias en Gaza, completando un intercambio después de que los rebeldes entregaran los restos de dos rehenes, en una señal de que el tenso acuerdo de alto el fuego entre Israel y Hamás avanza.
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Internacional
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2025-10-31T19:38:12.907Z
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2025-10-31T19:38:12.907Z
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https://www.latimes.com/espanol/internacional/articulo/2025-10-31/israel-entrega-los-cuerpos-de-30-palestinos-mientras-avanza-el-acuerdo-de-alto-el-fuego
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Debate over energy costs fuels clear divide in New Jersey and Virginia governor’s races
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If there's agreement on anything in the two states with governor's races this year, it's that utility bills are a growing concern among voters. One Virginia voter, Kim Wilson, lamented at a town hall recently that her electricity bill seems to go up every month, no matter how much she tries to mitigate the costs. She was drawn to the event in part by its title: “The energy bills are too damn high.” “It’s way too high,” Wilson readily agreed. In New Jersey, Herb Michitsch of Kenilworth said his electric bill has climbed to nearly $400 a month, or more than four times what it was when he and his wife moved into their home half a century ago. “Something really has to be done,” Michitsch said. That something must be done is pretty much where the agreement ends. It's what must be done that splits politicians back into rival camps. Democratic candidates in the two states are far more likely to embrace clean energy options like wind and solar than their Republican opponents. The two states’ Republican nominees are more closely aligned with the policies of President Trump, who has called climate change a “con job” and promotes more traditional energy sources like gas and coal. New Jersey Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli has acknowledged that human-caused climate change is occurring, but he says Democrats have driven up costs with their clean energy push. Which side voters land on in the off-year elections will give both parties plenty to consider in what feels destined to be an emerging economic issue heading into next year's midterm elections. At a recent rally in New Jersey, Democratic state Sen. Vin Gopal made clear that he stood with Democratic nominee Mikie Sherrill in support of her plans to lower costs. But Gopal acknowledged that the outcome could signal whether voters are ready to embrace the president’s approach or have simply grown weary of national politics. “The whole country is watching what happens,” he said. The debate comes as people in the two states grapple with double-digit percentage increases in monthly electricity bills. The exploding costs are driven by soaring demand, particularly from data centers, and by the rapid onset of energy-intensive artificial intelligence technology. Virginia's largest energy utility also has linked potential future rate increases to inflation and other costs. In Virginia’s open race to succeed a term-limited GOP incumbent, Democrat Abigail Spanberger and Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears are at odds over the development of renewable energy sources. Spanberger has laid out a plan to expand solar and wind production in underused locations, praising a wind project off the coast of Virginia Beach. In a debate against her opponent, she also said she would “ensure that data centers pay their fair share” as costs rise. The state is home to the world’s largest data center market, Republican Winsome Earle-Sears wasn't having it. “That’s all she wants, is solar and wind,” Earle-Sears said of Spanberger at the debate. “Well, if you look outside, the sun isn’t shining and the breeze isn’t blowing, and then what, Abigail, what will you do?” In New Jersey, where Ciattarelli's endorsement by Trump included recent social media posts praising his energy affordability plans, the GOP nominee blames rising costs on eight years of Democratic control of state government. Ciattarelli says he would pull New Jersey out of a regional greenhouse gas trading bloc, which Democratic incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy reentered when he first took office in 2018. “It’s been a failure,” Ciattarelli said at the final debate of the campaign. “Electricity is at an all-time high.” He’s also come out as a strident opponent of wind energy off the state’s coast, an effort Democrats spearheaded under Murphy. A major offshore wind project ground to a halt when the Danish company overseeing it scrapped projects, citing supply chain problems and high interest rates. At the center of Sherrill’s campaign promise on the issue is an executive order to freeze rates and build cheaper and cleaner power generation. “I know my opponent laughs at it,” Sherrill said recently. The candidates’ focus on affordability and utility rates reflects an unease among voters. A recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found electricity bills are a "major” source of stress for 36% of U.S. adults, at a time when data center development for AI could further strain the power grid. Perhaps that's why the statewide races have become something of an energy proxy battle in Virginia. Clean Virginia, a clean energy advocacy group that targets utility corruption, has backed all three Democratic candidates for statewide office in Virginia — a first for the organization. GOP statewide candidates, meanwhile, have accepted money from Dominion Energy, the largest electric utility in Virginia. To further complicate an already complex issue: Virginia has passed the Virginia Clean Economy Act, which calls for utilities to sunset carbon energy production methods by 2045. Republican House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, who represents the southwest edge of Virginia, had failed to alter part of the state's Clean Economy Act earlier this year. Kilgore, whose top donor is Dominion Energy, said in February: “If their bills go any higher, there are folks in my region that are not able to pay them now, they’re definitely not going to be able to pay them in the future.” Evan Vaughn, executive director of MAREC Action, a group of Mid-Atlantic renewable energy developers, said candidates from both parties are in a tough spot because bringing down prices quickly will be difficult given broader market dynamics. “Voters should look to which candidate they think can do the best to stabilize prices by bringing more generation online,” he said. “That’s really going to be the key to affordability.” Michitsch, who’s backing Sherrill in the governor's race and said he would campaign for her, said her proposal shows she's willing to do something to address spiraling costs. “We need to change,” he said. “And I think she is here to change things.” Diaz and Catalini write for the Associated Press.
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Climbing monthly electricity bills, a growing stressor on U.S. families as demand surges for energy, have emerged as a significant issue in the nation’s only two elections for governor this year and as a test on the political parties’ messages for next year’s midterms
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World & Nation
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2025-10-31T19:36:24.216Z
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2025-10-31T19:36:24.216Z
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-10-31/debate-over-energy-costs-fuels-clear-divide-in-new-jersey-and-virginia-governors-races
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Doing ‘Dracula’ his own way, a Romanian provocateur sucks the audience’s lifeblood
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As attention spans keep getting whittled down, intellectually impish Romanian satirist Radu Jude continues to go longer and longer, his latest act of cinematic disobedience the nearly three-hour mythbuster “Dracula.” But you will not be getting a worshipful retelling of author Bram Stoker’s horror classic. For that, call Francis Ford Coppola. Rather, Jude has Frankensteined together a grab bag of notions about the vampire saga that is his country’s most well-known cultural export — originating with real-life medieval slaughterer Vlad the Impaler but most famously immortalized by a 19th century Irish author. Jude turns it into a vaudeville that, even at its most entertaining, is best described by a common bat-related term that's more scatological. For the last decade, festival favorite Jude has turned contemporary Romania’s fault lines into his own jangly, caustically funny microcosm of the world’s glaring sociopolitical hypocrisies, from the warping of the past (“I Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians”) to sexual attitudes (“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”) to late-stage capitalism (“Do Not Expect Much From the End of the World”). Jude is especially trenchant about how these realities are sold to us, and what’s inherently funny and tragic about that. Halfway between an endurance test and a mad romp, “Dracula” is still proof he’s cinema’s brainiest, raunchiest crank: Eastern European’s own X-rated Monty Python. "Dracula" was birthed initially as a jokey response to his anti-commercial tendencies — as if Jude could ever make a conventional horror movie. But it still managed to percolate (fester?) until he’d found a unifying idea across a dozen or so vignettes of prurient humor and social commentary: the twinned legacy of a bloodthirsty despot who still stirs national pride, and an invented, Hollywoodized legend. All of it is engineered around the brutality of capitalism, which bites, slurps, then discards. It’s economics and entertainment. As for that sucking sound in Jude’s antic organizing concept, it’s artificial intelligence: His proxy narrator is a creatively blocked filmmaker (Adonis Tanţa, in one of many roles) turning to an AI chatbot to generate ideas for his vampire film. The film’s cheeky opening is a succession of AI-generated Vlads/Draculas of all genders, colors and ages. From there, the intermittent interludes of hilariously nonsensical AI slop visuals — whether inoffensively ugly, as when inserted into a doomed peasant love story, or pornographic, when the prompt is sexing up Coppola’s 1992 version — are a consistently funny middle finger directed at a grotesquely vampiric, art-leeching technology. The various “generated” stories and sketches, meanwhile, break up a narrative about a sleazy Dracula dinner theater in Transylvania that, when its underpaid, slave-labor leads decide to bolt mid-performance, gives dissatisfied customers a (ahem) stake in the outcome. The punchy bits work best, as when a reincarnated Vlad interrupts a modern-day tour of his home to clap back at rumors (“I didn’t kill rats!”) or a very Jude-like scenario in which Dracula is a ruthless video game company head exploiting his workers. Less effective is an overlong adaptation of the first Romanian vampire novel, its phone-shot cheapness and amateur theatrics eventually grating, and a Chaucer-adjacent fable about a cursed farmer’s harvest of phalluses that is more obnoxious than clever. With Jude, of course, vulgarity is often the point, and maybe, as two hours becomes three, the excessiveness is part of the point too. When will we all be worn down by stupid consumerism? It doesn’t make the devilish, insane and extreme “Dracula” any easier to take as a skewering of sensibilities and conventions. As often as you may be tickled by its fanged silliness, you’ll also be drained.
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Directed by Radu Jude, a filmmaker who has often hit the target of late-capitalist satire, this horror-adjacent comedy is only for those seeking a creative reinterpretation.
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Movies
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2025-10-31T19:33:15.255Z
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2025-10-31T19:33:15.255Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-10-31/dracula-review-radu-jude-horror-satire-romania
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A long-awaited return: Super Irvine opens in new location 3 years after leaving the city
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The scent of meat being grilled filled the air on a recent morning, as employees stocked shelves and put the finishing touches on Super Irvine International Market, which opened Friday at Parkview Center in Irvine. Super Irvine, known for its Persian goods and Mediterranean produce, has made a long-awaited return to its hometown with an upgraded location at 5311 University Drive. Its original Irvine location on Culver Drive closed in 2022 and the community has felt its absence, as evidenced by perpetual speculation about the store’s return on social media platforms, especially on Irvine's subreddit. Sisters Mahta and Anahita Ariarad, owners of the store, have been hard at work bringing it back to the city where the business first opened nearly 30 years ago. “We are excited for Super Irvine to be a market for everyone,” Mahta Ariarad said. “Irvine is a melting pot and we want to cater to everyone.” She and Anahita have taken over the legacy started by their father, Ali Ariarad, who in 1983 opened a small butcher shop in Orange. In 1996, the family opened their first Super Irvine location and a second location in Mission Viejo in 2003, the first Persian market for that city. The new market has taken over space formerly occupied by Zion Market, not far from Strawberry Farms Golf Club and Tanaka Farms. The 30,000-square-foot grocery store also boasts an in-store café, bakery and juice and coffee bar, with traditional Turkish coffee. “At the juice bar, we’ll have juice, smoothies, coffee and specialty teas with tables and chairs for people to enjoy their drinks,” Mahta said ahead of Friday's opening. A large produce area offers organic fruits, vegetables and herbs, some of them sourced from the family’s own farm in Fallbrook. “All of our organic citrus comes from our farm. We have about 500 chickens right now, so our organic eggs come from the farm too,” Mahta said. “And we just installed a greenhouse.” Depending on the season, she said, shoppers will also find items like avocados, pomegranates and more that come directly from the Ariarad family farm. Super Irvine will carry even more specialty food items and hard-to-find ingredients from an array of cultures than it did in its first location, which was smaller. “We are focusing on a global market with specialty items from everywhere; Russia, Turkey, Italy and all over Europe,” Mahta said. Two entire aisles are dedicated to specialty food items that have been carefully curated by the sisters. “It’s all things our customers have requested in our other markets, and we are also talking with our vendors about what their top [selling] items in Irvine are,” said Anahita. “So I think there is going to be a little bit of an adjustment period once we open, just listening to what our customers want." Bella’s Bakery is serving fresh-baked goods daily and is equipped for catering weddings and special events, while the full-service deli and butcher shop are stocked with halal and kosher options. A selection of prepared foods for grab-and-go meals ranging from sandwiches to sushi are also offered. “Since we are so close to UCI, any UCI students will get 10% off, so we will have a lot of packaged lunches, smoothies and yogurt,” Mahta said. The Ariarad family is also behind Irvine restaurants like Irvine Grill, Caspian Restaurant and the Mex-Med destination, Aria Kitchen. The new store will incorporate their hospitality experience with a sit-down Mediterranean restaurant, Bita, inside Super Irvine. “The menu is almost identical to Irvine Grill in Quail Hill, but it will be a little bit faster,” said Anahita. “We have a rotisserie in there too." Super Irvine joins several other international markets to open in Orange County in the last few years that offer more than just groceries. In 2023, when Northgate Market opened its 70,000-square-foot behemoth Mercado González, the Mexican market and food hall on Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa, it was touted as the first of its kind in Orange County. The space was designed to be a place where shoppers could not only shop for food and culturally-specific ingredients, but dine together and enjoy music. H-Mart opened in Westminster late this summer with a Korean food hall boasting more than 10 vendors. Tokyo Central, which stocks Japanese goods and groceries, opened its third O.C. store at Heritage Plaza shopping center in Irvine this year, with its sister brand sushi restaurant, Waka Sakura, next door. In 2026, Orange County will welcome its first T&T Supermarket, Canada’s largest Asian grocery chain, to Irvine. Creating a space that serves multicultural customers, from home cooks to students, while also offering a unique experience, is key to serving the Irvine community as a whole, the Ariarad sisters believe. “We are trying to meet everyone's needs, and we are excited that the community, in a sense, is coming back together,” Mahta said. “Super Irvine was always a second home for everyone.”
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Oct. 31 marked the long-awaited reopening of Super Irvine International Market at new, upgraded location
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TimesOC
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2025-10-31T19:28:00.000Z
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2025-10-31T19:28:00.395Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2025-10-31/super-irvine-to-open-this-month
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Jeremy Piven ready to stand up to the mike at Irvine Improv
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Jeremy Piven grew up in a household of actors, directors and drama teachers, so the stage appeared to be set for him to pursue an acting career. The Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor, best known for his role as Hollywood agent Ari Gold in the HBO series “Entourage,” continues to hold some of those early teachings close to him. “My mom [Joyce] used to quote Shakespeare and say, ‘The readiness is all,’ and I do think the readiness is all,” said, rhe eferring to a line from “Hamlet.” “You can’t go, ‘Oh, nah, man, I can’t do that right now.’ “It’s like, ‘No, of course you can,’ you know, and you do it because you love it, and you throw it down, and then you’re known as the guy who can step up at a moment’s notice," said Piven, who recently did voiceover work to promote the World Series. An insatiable desire to showcase one’s range can drive an actor to take on a variety of roles. While Piven has more than 80 film credits to his name, exploring the arena of stand-up comedy was a later development. On Tuesday, the morning after Freddie Freeman’s walk-off home run ended the marathon Game 3 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays, Piven discussed his journey into stand-up. He described it as a proving ground. “I love it,” Piven said. “It’s the 18th inning in the World Series every time I get on stage.” The Irvine Improv will host Piven for four shows over two nights next Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7-8. “That’s a pretty incredible room,” Piven said of the venue. “Everyone stops through the Irvine Improv. You can get 2,000 or 2,500 people in a weekend over there. The room is about 500 people, so you do four or five shows, and you get to make a lot of people laugh. “It’s one of my favorite places to go to. Each room has its own personality, and that room is like a very hot room for comics, which just means that it’s alive and it’s there for the taking.” Whether it’s Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter or others, iconic roles often come to define a career. Piven shared his thoughts on playing Ari Gold on screen. “I used to get offended when people would approach me as if I really was Ari, because my ego got in the way, and I immediately thought, ‘Well, wait a minute. Don’t you understand that I’m an actor?’” he said. “I’ve trained my entire life. I’ve been on stage since I was 8 years old, and I inhabited this character, and you’re then basically discrediting me as an actor and just thinking that I am that character. “Then you come to the realization, ‘My God, I’ve been in their living rooms. I played the character authentically. I did my job, maybe so well that they think that I am that guy,’ so that’s a compliment, even though they’re yelling at you and smacking you in the back while you’re at the urinal. It’s all very awkward and beautiful, and that’s the way life is.” Effectively, stand-up comedy, a talent Piven has honed for more than a decade now, is one more way — beyond his credits — to showcase his range. “I can rail against the universe for being unfair and for people not understanding me, or I can solve the problem, and that’s what stand-up is,” Piven said. “With stand-up, you can spend the evening with me, and then get a sense of who I am, what I think is funny. I do bits, stories, observational humor. I do impressions, I’m all over the place, and I’m basically just trying to convey what I think is funny and having a great time. … “I don’t care how you classify it, I’m going to make you laugh for an hour set, and if I don’t, that’s on me. That’s my fault. No matter who you are, no matter what the room is, no matter what the challenges are, I got to rise to the occasion.”
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The award-winning actor will bring his stand-up comedy, which ranges from observational bits to impressions, to the Irvine Improv Nov. 7-8.
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News
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2025-10-31T19:19:20.440Z
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2025-10-31T19:19:20.440Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2025-10-31/jeremy-piven-ready-to-make-his-comedy-stand-up-at-irvine-improv
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Judges order USDA to restart SNAP funding, but hungry families won’t get immediate relief
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Two federal judges told the U.S. Department of Agriculture in separate rulings Friday that it must begin using billions of dollars in contingency funding to provide federal food assistance to poor American families despite the federal shutdown, but gave the agency until Monday to decide how to do so. Both Obama-appointed judges rejected Trump administration arguments that more than $5 billion in USDA contingency funds could not legally be tapped to continue Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for nearly 42 million people — about 1 in 8 Americans — while the federal government remains closed. But both also left unclear how exactly the relief should be provided, or when it will arrive for millions of families set to lose benefits starting Saturday. The two rulings came almost simultaneously Friday. In Massachusetts, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani stopped short of granting California and a coalition of 24 other Democrat-led states a temporary restraining order they had requested. But she ruled that the states were likely to succeed in their arguments that the USDA's total shutoff of SNAP benefits — despite having billions in emergency contingency funds on hand — was unlawful. Talwani gave USDA until Monday to tell her whether they would authorize "only reduced SNAP benefits" using the contingency funding — which would not cover the total $8.5 billion to $9 billion needed for all November benefits, according to the USDA — or would authorize "full SNAP benefits using both the Contingency Funds and additional available funds." Separately, in Rhode Island, U.S. District Judge John McConnell granted a temporary restraining order requested by nonprofit organizations, ruling from the bench that SNAP must be funded with at least the contingency funds "as soon as possible," and requesting an update on progress by Monday. California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta — whose office helped bring the states' lawsuit — praised the decisions of the two courts, saying SNAP benefits "provide an essential hunger safety net" to 5.5 million Californians. "Simply put, the stakes could not be higher." Skye Perryman, president and chief executive of Democracy Forward, which represented the nonprofit groups, said the ruling in that case "affirms what both the law and basic decency require" and "protects millions of families, seniors, and veterans from being used as leverage in a political fight." It was not clear if the administration would appeal the rulings. President Trump wrote in a post to his Truth Social platform that he does not want Americans to go hungry and that he had instructed the government's lawyers "to ask the Court to clarify how we can legally fund SNAP as soon as possible," as it would be his "HONOR" to provide the funding with "appropriate legal direction by the Court." "It is already delayed enough due to the Democrats keeping the Government closed through the monthly payment date and, even if we get immediate guidance, it will unfortunately be delayed while States get the money out," Trump wrote, before urging SNAP recipients to call Democrats in Congress and demand they end the shutdown. While the orders were a win for states and the nation's SNAP recipients, they do not mean that all those recipients will be spared a lapse in their food aid, state officials stressed. State and local food banks continued scrambling to prepare for a deluge of need starting Saturday. Asked Thursday if a ruling in the states' favor would mean SNAP funds would be immediately loaded onto CalFresh and other benefits cards, Bonta said "the answer is no, unfortunately." "Our best estimates are that [SNAP benefit] cards could be loaded and used in about a week," he said, calling that lag "problematic." "There could be about a week where people are hungry and need food," he said. For new applicants to the program, he said, it could take even longer. The rulings came as the now monthlong shutdown continued Friday with no immediate end in sight. They also came after Trump called Thursday for the Senate to end the shutdown by first ending the filibuster, a longstanding rule that requires 60 votes to overcome objections to legislation. The rule has traditionally been favored by lawmakers as a means of blocking particularly partisan measures, and is currently being used by Democrats to resist the will of the current 53-seat Republican majority. Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Chief Executive Michael Flood, standing alongside Bonta as members of the California National Guard worked behind them stuffing food boxes Thursday, said his organization was preparing for massive weekend lines, similar to those seen during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. "This is a disaster type of situation," Flood said. "5.5 million Californians, 1.5 million children and adults in L.A. County alone, will be left high and dry — illegally so, unnecessarily so, in a way that is morally bankrupt," Bonta said. Bonta blamed the shutdown on Trump and his administration, and said the USDA broke the law by not tapping its contingency funds to continue payments. Bonta said SNAP benefits have never been disrupted during previous federal government shutdowns, and should never have been disrupted during this shutdown, either. "That was avoidable," he said. "Trump created this problem." The Trump administration has blamed the shutdown and the looming disruption to SNAP benefits entirely on Democrats in Congress, who have blocked short-term spending measures to restart the government and fund SNAP. Democrats are holding out to pressure Republicans into rescinding massive cuts to subsidies that help millions of Americans afford health insurance. Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson, previously told The Times that Democrats should be the ones getting asked "when the shutdown will end," because "they are the ones who have decided to shut down the government so they can use working Americans and SNAP benefits as 'leverage' to pursue their radical left wing agenda." "Americans are suffering because of Democrats," Jackson said. In their opposition to the states' request for a temporary restraining order requiring the disbursement of funds, attorneys for the USDA argued that using emergency funds to cover November SNAP benefits would deplete funds meant to provide "critical support in the event of natural disasters and other uncontrollable catastrophes," and could actually cause more disruption to benefits down the line. They wrote that SNAP requires between $8.5 billion and $9 billion each month, and the USDA's contingency fund has only about $5.25 billion, meaning it could not fully fund November benefits even if it did release contingency funding. Meanwhile, "a partial payment has never been made — and for good reason," because it would force every state to recalculate benefits for recipients and then recalibrate their systems to provide the new amounts, they wrote. That "would take weeks, if it can be done at all," and would then have to be undone in order to issue December benefits at normal levels, assuming the shutdown would have lifted by then, they wrote. Simply pausing the benefits to immediately be reissued whenever the shutdown ends is the smarter and less disruptive course of action, they argued. In addition to suing the administration, California and its leaders have been rushing to ensure that hungry families have something to eat in coming days. Gov. Gavin Newsom directed $80 million to food banks to stock up on provisions, and activated the National Guard to help package food for those who need it. Counties have also been working to offset the need, including by directing additional funding to food banks and other resource centers and asking partners in the private sector to assist. Dozens of organizations in California have written to Newsom calling on him to use state funds to fully cover the missing federal benefits, in order to prevent "a crisis of unthinkable magnitude," but Newsom has suggested that is not possible given the scale of funding withheld. SNAP served about 41.7 million people in 2024, at an annual cost of nearly $100 billion, according to the USDA. Children and older people accounted for more than 63% of California recipients. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Two federal judges told the U.S. Department of Agriculture it must begin using contingency funds to provide food assistance, but gave the agency until Monday to decide exactly how to do so.
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Politics
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2025-10-31T19:11:11.171Z
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2025-10-31T22:36:00.000Z
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https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-31/judges-order-usda-restart-snap-funding-shutdown
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A new girlfriend ushers in a change of heart in the darkly political ‘Anniversary’
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Polish director Jan Komasa might be best known in the United States for his 2019 Oscar-nominated film “Corpus Christi,” but his biggest box-office success was in Poland for his 2014 film “Warsaw 44,” about the Warsaw Uprising, the bloody effort by the Polish resistance to expel the occupying German army from the city toward the end of World War II. Komasa knows authoritarianism in its most flagrant, brutal forms, but his new film “Anniversary” imagines a scenario in which fascism doesn’t stomp in, jackbooted, but creeps, pretty and ladylike, on kitten-heeled feet. It’s a thought experiment more than anything else, from a story by Komasa and Lori Rosene-Gambino, the latter who wrote the screenplay. “Anniversary” maps five years in the life — and obliteration — of an American family, a microcosm of a larger rapid political devolution that turns suburban utopia into a dystopia with a speed that could make your head spin. Meet the Taylors — we’ll get to know them across reunions and celebrations starting with an anniversary party for Ellen (Diane Lane) and Paul (Kyle Chandler). She’s a professor at Georgetown, a public intellectual caught up in the university culture-wars debate; he’s a chef, and they have four children upon whom they dote: Cynthia (Zoey Deutch, also in this week's "Nouvelle Vague"), an environmental lawyer, Anna (Madeleine Brewer), a provocative comedian, high-school science nerd Birdie (Mckenna Grace) and brother Josh (Dylan O’Brien), a nebbishy, struggling writer. The camera knits them all together in long shots, swirling around their idyllic backyard. Josh has brought home a new girlfriend, Liz (Phoebe Dynevor, of 2023's "Fair Play"), who is carefully coiffed and poised, immaculately presented and mannered, though her perfection gives his sisters pause. After the introductions, she and Ellen have a quiet, awkward moment together. As one of Ellen’s former students, Liz wrote a thesis that scandalized the professor, which Ellen describes to her husband as having “radical anti-democratic sentiments,” advocating for a single-party system. The title? “The Change.” While Liz says she “came here with the best of intentions” and claims she and Josh were introduced by their shared agent, Ellen is suspicious and rightly so. The enigmatic Liz is mild-mannered and quiet, but her ideas are anything but. As she hugs Ellen, she whispers, “I used to be afraid of you but I don’t think I am anymore.” That is never more clear than when she sends Ellen a copy of her newly published book, “The Change,” dedicated to “the haters, the doubters and the academic stranglers.” Two years later, the Change is officially afoot. Liz is a celebrity, now working with a mysterious organization called the Cumberland Company. She and Josh are married, pregnant with twins, and he’s achieved a conservative glow-up. New flags are popping up in the Taylor’s well-heeled neighborhood and things are shifting in ways that make Ellen uncomfortable, enraged even. But in the spirit of politeness and family unity, she acquiesces to Paul’s desire for a nice family Thanksgiving, despite their political differences. Therein lies what might be “Anniversary’s" biggest warning: Don’t let the fox into the henhouse, even if it seems rude not to. Ellen maintains an appropriately wary distance and skepticism of Liz, but Paul’s fatal flaw is his assumption of good faith. He hasn’t even read “The Change” because, frankly, he doesn’t want to know. But as Liz attaches herself to Josh like a parasite, perhaps in an attempt to enact revenge on her former professor, so too do the other Taylor children topple as the nation changes under their feet. Some might find “Anniversary” too vague: What, precisely, is Liz’s political stance that makes her so powerful and so repugnant to Ellen? She has advocated for a “single-party system” branded under the guise of “solidarity,” but the result is an autocratic surveillance state that suppresses free speech, upheld by a violent paramilitary police force. The film never gets into the specifics, perhaps because the only ideology of fascism is the concentration of power. “Anniversary” suggests the rhetoric doesn’t matter when we can turn on each other so easily, humanity and freedom crushed under such a state. It is fascinating that recent movies that attempt to grapple with contemporary sociopolitical issues often feminize the threat: the #MeToo cancel culture fable “Tár” or this year’s academia scandal film “After the Hunt.” “Anniversary” situates a nonthreatening woman as the vessel for such evil, even as Liz’s male host, Josh, starts to embody the most extreme outcomes of what she has set in motion. “Anniversary” is a deeply nihilistic film that can’t be described as a cautionary tale — that horse has already left the barn. Rather, it’s a hypothetical question as character study, an examination of how this happens and an assertion that a system like this shows no mercy, not even to its most loyal subjects, despite what we want to believe. Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.
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Directed by Poland's Jan Komasa, the movie, a domestic thriller with a larger social dimension, stars Phoebe Dynevor as a sweet-smiling newcomer with some scary ideas.
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Movies
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2025-10-31T19:04:38.036Z
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2025-10-31T19:04:38.036Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-10-31/anniversary-review-kyle-chandler-diane-lane-phoebe-dynevor-zoey-deutch-jan-komasa
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For Jovan Adepo, the horrors depicted in ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ go beyond monsters
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Welcome to Screen Gab, the spooky newsletter for everyone who loves scares, thrills, tricks and treats. Happy Halloween! Whether you plan to stay home or don a costume and hit the town, at some point this weekend, it's worth putting on a movie or show to fit the theme of the season. The great thing is that there's something for everyone, as our guide to Halloween programming shows. Whether you prefer something kid-friendly like "Is It Cake? Halloween" or something more sinister like the newly released HBO series "It: Welcome to Derry," which expands Stephen King's horror universe (more on that below), there's plenty to choose from. And if you're in L.A., film editor Joshua Rothkopf and reporter Mark Olsen have compiled a guide to local theaters hosting screenings of classic horror films like "Black Sabbath" and "Bride of Frankenstein." (If you can't snag a ticket, their list also doubles as a great reference for films to watch at home, as many are available to stream.) If that's not enough, we have more recommendations that you can add to your queue, including a special episode of a (sadly) recently canceled Apple TV series and the pair of "It" films that led to the creation of "Welcome to Derry." Additionally, Jovan Adepo, who plays Leroy Hanlon on the prequel series, which dropped its second episode on HBO Max in time for Halloween, spoke to us about some of the real-life themes of horror the show covers. Must-read stories you might have missed To lead his next show, Vince Gilligan thought: Better call Rhea Seehorn: In his first series outside the “Breaking Bad” universe, Gilligan tapped Seehorn to play “the most miserable person on Earth" as the lead of Apple TV’s “Pluribus.” In Rachel Sennott’s ‘I Love L.A.,’ Gen Z is desperate and difficult but very watchable: HBO’s new series about 20-somethings living in L.A. has some characters that are more trying than charming, but that’s part of its appeal. Forget ‘I’m too old for this’: Women over 60 are redefining action stardom: The growing army of 60-ish women who kick ass, take names and rarely complain about getting too old for anything has been joined by Emma Thompson’s Zoë Boehm in "Down Cemetery Road" and the menopausal punk rockers of "Riot Women." Inside the ‘wild and weird’ rise of ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ phenoms Huntr/x: Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami hadn't even met in person until the premiere of Netflix's animated blockbuster. Now they're taking the world by storm. Recommendations from the film and TV experts at The Times "The Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin: The Night of the Werebear" (Apple TV) That this period comedy, on my best of 2024 list, failed to complete a second season is one of the great television tragedies of this year. (Star and co-creator Noel Fielding stopped showing up partway through production, reportedly due to health issues.) It has nevertheless left us this one extra, excellent, just-released Halloween-appropriate episode. A mysterious creature (see title) has been attacking coaches along the highway, leaving Dick (Fielding), the notorious English highwayman, and his motley crew without anything to rob. Although technically about a criminal, its hero is good-hearted — essentially a version of the Fielding one sees co-hosting “The Great British Baking Show” — and its approach to monsters trends more to understanding than horror. (A recommendation in itself.) Continuing in the All Hallows Eve spirit, you’ll find more paranormal doings in the series’ still-available first season, including witches, warlocks and a cursed coach. And you may want to carry on (and should) to its equally fine twin sister, “Renegade Nell” (Disney+) — another period supernatural comedy about an early 18th century highwayman (or woman, as the case may be), which adds a feminist twist. — Robert Lloyd "It" and "It: Chapter Two" (HBO Max) The Halloween season is in full swing, and there are few things more terrifying than a demonic clown with a red balloon. HBO has just launched "It: Welcome to Derry," the prequel to "It" and "It: Chapter Two," the recent hit film adaptations of Stephen King's 1986 epic novel featuring Pennywise, the deadly clown who preys on children and adults. Co-created by Andy Muschietti, who directed the films and directs on the series, the drama is set in the early 1960s in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, and takes on an even more nightmarish quality in delving into the origins of the notorious villain. Bill Skarsgård, who played Pennywise in the films, reprises the role in "Derry." Before more episodes are released, viewers should get their scare on by revisiting the films or watching them for the first time. The first film is particularly chilling, and Pennywise will give you the shivers. Be afraid. — Greg Braxton A weekly chat with actors, writers, directors and more about what they’re working on — and what they’re watching The monster at the center of Stephen King's "It" remains one of horror's most terrifying figures. The author's novel provided readers with the original tale of a group adolescents who battled a demonic clown, but it wasn't until 1990 that we got an onscreen adaptation via the ABC miniseries that starred Tim Curry as the story's terrifying villain, Pennywise. His devilish clown was merciless, preying on children and taunting them with bursts of blood, dead loved ones and a frightening set of sharp teeth. And while those things were scary, what made the adaptation horrifying was how it made mundane things like storm drains, old pipes and red balloons appear much more sinister. Nearly two decades later, the feature films introduced a whole new generation to the terrors of "It," and now with "Welcome to Derry," we get a new story that adds more layers and aims to show who or what It really is. The HBO series, which will have a three-season arc, begins in 1962 with the story of the Hanlons, a Black military family that moves to Derry. The patriarch, Air Force Maj. Leroy Hanlon, played by Adepo, is a respected war hero who almost immediately has to battle a different kind of demon: bigotry. It's a central theme and shows how "these horrors keep haunting us," according to Barbara Muschietti, who alongside her brother Andy, spoke recently about the series to senior reporter Greg Braxton. Adepo is no stranger to stories where race and bigotry are explored, having starred in series like Netflix's "When They See Us," a dramatization about the Central Park Five, and HBO's "The Watchmen," in which he played Hooded Justice. He stopped by Guest Spot this week to talk about the kinds of horrors "Welcome to Derry" portrays, what helped him unwind after filming and how he turns to a pair of TV comedies for comfort. — Maira Garcia “It” has been adapted for the screen before. How familiar were you with King’s universe and “It” before taking on this role? Had you read the book or watched the films or miniseries? I hadn’t read the book in the years before, but I was quite familiar with the recent two films, as well as the classic miniseries. Taking on the role of Leroy gave me a special opportunity to dive deeper into the lore and to also explore some of my own choices for how Leroy was portrayed. “Welcome to Derry” begins by giving us some of the back story for Mike Hanlon’s family — a key character in “It.” In Episode 1, we’re introduced to your character, Leroy Hanlon, Mike’s grandfather, an Air Force major who encounters overt racism almost immediately when arriving on base in Derry. You’ve explored themes of race in previous roles — what was it like to explore it in the context of this show and the time period it’s set in, the ‘60s? I think it’s the perfect lens through which to tell this story within the context of the era, because it adds another layer of life challenges for the Hanlons. It explores the struggle of dealing with prejudice and oppression among the members of the community, who are being tormented in a completely different way. That dynamic already creates an interesting environment that only deepens when you add the individual obstacles these characters face. I’m compelled by an idea that this series brings forth: Monsters are terrifying, but the real world — with war, racism, genocide and so forth — is frightening enough. Did that resonate with you and your character at all? Yes, in fact, I think that idea runs through the veins of a few characters here. I truly think this genre — and what Andy and Barb have brought to this season — beautifully showcases a very relatable experience of fear, one rooted in real historical moments and woven into a much more sensational element. Along with [co-showrunners Jason] Fuchs and [Brad Caleb] Kane, they’ve created space for viewers to connect with characters’ lives before the monster really begins to engage. Working on such heavy material, how would you unwind after shoots? I spent a lot of time at home recharging — watching films, exploring my neighborhood on walks with my dog, and so on. Building a routine of going shopping at the market, visiting my butcher shop, and going out to eat with my castmates was also quite relaxing. Most of us lived close to each other, so I saw everyone quite often. What have you watched recently that you are recommending to everyone you know? I’m a creature of habit, so on my off days I usually recharge by watching previously released shows or films. I think the last thing I brought up in conversation on set was the HBO show "Animals" [HBO Max]. What’s your go-to “comfort watch,” the movie or TV show you go back to again and again? Oh, man. Comfort watching, to me, is something I can put on in the background after a long day on set. I’d have to give it to "Family Guy" [Hulu] or "The Office" [Peacock]. READ MORE >> ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ will satisfy fans of horror and of Stephen King’s deadly clown
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In this week's Screen Gab, we talk to Jovan Adepo about his starring role in HBO's 'It' prequel series, and we give you spooky streaming recommendations to get into the Halloween spirit.
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"Television",
"Movies",
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Television
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2025-10-31T19:00:00.000Z
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2025-10-31T19:00:04.535Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/newsletter/2025-10-31/it-welcome-to-derry-halloween-recommendations
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‘Days of Our Lives’ star Suzanne Rogers discloses cancer diagnosis: ‘It was all a shock’
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Suzanne Rogers, who has spent more than five decades as a cast member on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives," has enviable endurance. This past summer, she learned she was even stronger than she'd thought. For six weeks between June and July, Rogers, 82, underwent treatment for Stage II colorectal cancer, she told TV Insider in an interview published Thursday. The actor said she was diagnosed with the disease earlier this year after consulting a doctor about a nagging feeling that something "wasn't quite right" with her body. Colorectal cancer is a term for cancer originating in the colon or rectum. Chances of occurrence increase with age, and experts recommend regular screenings for those age 45 and above, continuing until at least age 75. Rogers suspected her health issues might be serious when her doctor told her he would like to do a slew of tests, including a colonoscopy, MRI and PET scan. Still, when he confirmed the bad news, the Daytime Emmy winner — who already did routine colonoscopies — couldn't believe it. "I think I was in shock for several days because I take pretty good care of myself," she told TV Insider. Fortunately, her doctor said, "It's a good thing you caught it in time." After wrapping on "Days" in June, Rogers began daily radiation and chemotherapy treatments. She said the intense regimen made her treasure her weekends "because I didn’t have to go to and see a doctor. I was so tired of seeing doctors." Luckily, the Peacock soap happened to be on hiatus at the time, so Rogers had no trouble making her appointments. On top of that, her onscreen daughter Linsey Godfrey, who herself battled Hodgkin's lymphoma as a teenager, was able to accompany her on treatment visits, which made the ordeal less daunting. "We really feel like a family," Rogers said, adding that other cast and crew members regularly called to check in on her, and the "Days" producers never rushed her recovery. "They all said, 'Don't worry about a thing, take care of yourself, get yourself well. That's the most important thing. We are here,' " Rogers said. As the actor heads back to the "Days" set next week, she said she is "feeling really good," albeit nervous that lingering fatigue might hold her back. "That’s the only anxiousness I feel. It’s not because of my illness, let’s put it that way," she said. When she does return to the screen, Rogers will still be sporting her famous ginger mane, as she didn't lose her hair during chemo. "Days of Our Lives" premiered on NBC in 1965 and is currently airing Season 61 on Peacock. In July, the classic daytime drama announced it had been renewed for a 62nd and 63rd season on the streaming service.
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Suzanne Rogers, a 52-year veteran on 'Days of Our Lives,' kept her Stage II colorectal cancer diagnosis quiet as she received radiation and chemotherapy this summer.
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"Television",
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Television
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2025-10-31T18:57:22.954Z
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2025-10-31T18:57:22.954Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2025-10-31/suzanne-rogers-colon-cancer-days-of-our-lives
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LSU football coach, athletic director are out. Yet, interim AD insists, ‘this place is not broken’
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On Monday, Louisiana State fired football coach Brian Kelly. On Wednesday, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said the university's athletic director, Scott Woodward, should have no say in the selection of the new coach. On Thursday, Woodward and LSU "agreed to part ways," according to the school's athletic department. And on Friday, the interim athletic director attempted to assure everyone that, despite all that has transpired this week, the department is not in disarray. “This place is not broken,” Verge Ausberry said during a news conference at which he sat between two members of the LSU Board of Supervisors at the front of a meeting room inside Tiger Stadium. “The athletic department is not broken. We win.” Ausberry has been given "full authority" to run the athletic department and lead the search for a new football coach, board member John Carmouche told reporters. "We're going to hire the best football coach there is," said Ausberry, a former Tigers football player who has worked in LSU athletics administration since 1991. "That's our job. We are not going to let this program fail. LSU has to be in the playoffs every year in football." Woodward, a Baton Rouge native and LSU graduate, had served as the university's athletic director since April 2019. During that span, the Tigers won two national titles in baseball and one each in football, women's basketball and gymnastics. One major move made during Woodward's tenure was the 2021 firing of football coach Ed Orgeron, who had led the Tigers to the national championship following the 2019 season, and subsequent signing Kelly, the former Notre Dame coach, to a guaranteed 10-year contract worth about $100 million. This week, days after LSU suffered its third loss in four games, Kelly was fired with more than six years remaining on his contract. Running backs coach Frank Wilson was named interim head coach. “When Coach Kelly arrived at LSU four years ago, we had high hopes that he would lead us to multiple SEC and national championships during his time in Baton Rouge,” Woodward said in announcing Kelly's firing. “Ultimately, the success at the level that LSU demands simply did not materialize.” The move leaves the university on the hook for a substantial buyout. Louisiana's governor said Wednesday he was involved in the discussions that led to Kelly's ouster but made clear that he was unhappy with the finances of the situation. “My role is about the fiscal effect of firing a coach under a terrible contract,” said Landry, who was speaking to reporters about other matters but was asked about recent developments at LSU. “All I care about is what the taxpayers are going to be on the hook for.” Unnamed private donors are said to have pledged to cover the cost of Kelly's buyout. “If big billionaires want to spend all that kind of money, no problem,” Landry said. “But if I’ve got to go find $53 million … it’s not going to be a pleasant conversation.” Landry also made it clear that he had no intention of allowing Woodward to play a role in the hiring of the next coach. “Hell, I’ll let Donald Trump select him before I let [Woodward] do it,” the Republican governor said. The next night, Woodward was out. “We thank Scott for the last six years of service as athletic director,” LSU Board of Supervisors chair Scott Ballard said in a statement. “He had a lot of success at LSU, and we wish him nothing but the best in the future. Our focus now is on moving the athletic department forward and best positioning LSU to achieve its full potential.” The news of Woodward's departure dropped during a women's basketball exhibition game between LSU and Langston. Tigers coach Kim Mulkey, who was hired by Woodward in 2021, did not attend a postgame news conference, with associate head coach Bob Starkey telling reporters Mulkey was “heartbroken” over the news. Woodward wrote in an open letter to Tiger Nation: "Others can recap or opine on my tenure and on my decisions over the last six years as Director of Athletics, but I will not. Rather, I will focus on the absolute joy that LSU Athletics brings to our state’s residents and to the Baton Rouge community. ... "Our University will always hold a special place in my heart and I will never be too far from LSU." The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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It's been quite a week for LSU, with football coach Brian Kelly and athletic director Scott Woodward now gone. Interim AD Verge Ausberry told reporters Friday everything will be fine.
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Sports
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2025-10-31T18:28:55.420Z
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2025-10-31T21:23:19.684Z
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https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2025-10-31/lsu-football-athletic-director-verge-ausberry-scott-woodward-brian-kelly
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Why your local Gold’s Gym may be getting a new name
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Gold's Gym, a decades-old fitness brand with a cult following and roots in Venice Beach, is allowing almost all of its Southern California outlets to be taken over by Eōs Fitness. The gym's long-time SoCal franchisees, brothers Angel and Willy Banos, sold more than 20 locations to Dallas-based Eōs. Gold's will retain ownership of the original Venice Beach Gold's Gym, which opened in 1965 and is known to some as "the mecca of bodybuilding." Founder Joe Gold opened the Venice location with a focus on strength and conditioning, work ethic and lifestyle. The gym has attracted bodybuilding greats such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. The brand has hundreds of other franchised locations across the U.S. and globally, including in Italy and Mexico. The move isn't a rejection of California. It allows the chain to open up to new franchisees in the region, the company said in a news release. “Gold’s Gym has always been a leader in health and fitness, and this decision marks a huge step forward for the brand, our franchisees and our members,” said co-chief executive Danny Waggoner in the release. “We are pushing the brand into a new era while remaining true to our heritage.” In an email sent to members, Gold's Gym SoCal said the move to sell "wasn’t a decision we made lightly," the WeHo Times reported. The email noted that Eōs Fitness chief executive Rich Drengberg spent more than a decade with Gold's Gym earlier in his career. Eōs Fitness operates more than 200 locations across the country under the slogan "Better Gym. Better price." The Gold's Gym acquisition will make Southern California the largest market for Eōs, where the brand plans to have 50 locations by the end of the year. “While this acquisition accelerates our expansion in a highly competitive real estate market, we are especially grateful to Angel and Willy Banos for their vision and diligence in building these gyms," Drengberg said in a company release. The new Eōs locations will include Beverly Center, Hollywood, Long Beach and Santa Barbara. Eōs announced in an email to members that the transition took effect Oct. 29 and would not interrupt gym access. Gold's Gym was acquired by fitness company RSG Group in 2020. It costs between $1.7 million and $4.3 million plus a franchise fee to own a 25,000 square-foot Gold's location.
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The operators of more than 20 Gold's Gym locations in and around Los Angeles are selling most of the gyms to Eōs Fitness.
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Business
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2025-10-31T18:23:15.790Z
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2025-10-31T19:44:08.114Z
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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-10-31/gold-gyms-franchisees-sell-southern-california-locations
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What Madi Diaz knows about love
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A little over a year ago, Madi Diaz lay in bed in an apartment near Dodger Stadium sweating out a gnarly case of COVID-19. The Nashville-based singer and songwriter had traveled to Los Angeles to record the follow-up to her album “Weird Faith,” which came out in early 2024 and would go on to earn two Grammy nominations, including one for a beautifully bummed-out duet with her friend Kacey Musgraves. But after three or four days of work in the studio, Diaz became sick just as the Dodgers were battling the Mets in last October’s National League Championship Series. “I could literally see the stadium lights — there were drones everywhere and people honking and lighting things on fire,” she recalls. “I was just like, Why, L.A. — why?” Her suffering in a city she once called home was worth it: “Fatal Optimist,” the LP Diaz eventually completed in time to release this month, is one of 2025’s most gripping — a bravely stripped-down set of songs about heartbreak and renewal arranged for little more than Diaz’s confiding voice and her folky acoustic guitar. In the album’s opener, “Hope Less,” she wonders how far she might be willing to go to accommodate a lover’s neglect; “Good Liar” examines the self-deception necessary to keep putting up with it. Yet Diaz also thinks through the harm she’s doled out, as in “Flirting” (“I can’t change what happened, the moment was just what it was / Nothing to me, something to you”). And then there’s the gutting “Heavy Metal,” in which she acknowledges that enduring the pain of a breakup has prepared her to deal with the inevitability of the next one. “This record is me facing myself and going, 'I have to stay in my body for this entire song,' ” Diaz, 39, says on a recent afternoon during a return trip to L.A. What makes the unguardedness of the music even more remarkable is that “Fatal Optimist” comes more than a decade and a half into a twisty-turny career that might’ve left Diaz more leathered than she sounds here. Beyond making her own albums — “Fatal Optimist” is her sixth since she moved to Nashville in 2008 — she’s written songs for commercials and TV shows and for other artists including Maren Morris and Little Big Town; she’s sung backup for Miranda Lambert and Parker McCollum and even played guitar in Harry Styles’ band on tour in 2023. Yet in a tender new song like “Feel Something,” about longing to “be someone who doesn’t know your middle name,” Diaz’s singing reveals every bruise. “Music is a life force for Madi,” says Bethany Cosentino, the Best Coast frontwoman who tapped Diaz as a songwriting partner for her 2023 solo album, “Natural Disaster.” “She has to do it, and it’s so authentic and so real and so raw because it’s not coming from this place of ‘Well, guess I gotta go make another record.’ " “If she doesn’t put those emotions somewhere,” Cosentino adds, “I think she’ll implode.” Which doesn’t mean that putting out a record as vulnerable as “Fatal Optimist” hasn’t felt scary. “I was gonna say it’s like the emperor’s new clothes,” Diaz says with a laugh over coffee in Griffith Park. “But I know I’m not wearing any clothes.” Dressed in shorts and a denim shirt, her hair tucked beneath a ball cap, she sits at a picnic table outside a café she liked when she lived in L.A. from 2012 to 2017. “For a second, I was like, Damn, I wish I’d brought my hiking shoes — could’ve gone up to the top,” she says. “I would absolutely have done that as my masochistic 28-year-old self. Hike in the heat of the day? Let’s go.” Diaz points to a couple of touchstones for her LP’s bare-bones approach, among them Patty Griffin’s “Living With Ghosts” — “a star in Orion’s Belt,” as she puts it — and “obviously Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue,’ ” she says. “That’s just a duh.” Like Mitchell, Diaz achieves a clarity of thought in her songs that only intensifies the heartache; also like Mitchell (not to mention Taylor Swift), she can describe a partner’s failings with unsparing precision. “Some ‘I’m sorry’s’ are so selfish / And you just act like you can’t help it,” she sings in “Why’d You Have to Bring Me Flowers,” one of a handful of what she jokingly calls “folk diss tracks” on “Fatal Optimist.” It goes on: “Bulls— smile, in denial / We’ve been circling the block / We’ve been in a downward spiral.” “There are definitely a couple songs on this record where I felt apologetic as I was writing it," she says. "Then when I finished it was just like: It had to be done." She grins. “They’re tough," she says of her exes. "They’ll be fine.” Asked whether any of her songs express her feelings in a way she wasn’t capable of doing with the ex in question, she nods. “I’d say I could get about halfway there in real life,” she says. “It’s almost like I couldn’t finish the thought within the relationship, and that was the signal that we couldn’t go onward. Or that I couldn’t go onward.” Has writing about love taught her anything about herself and what she wants? “I travel a lot — I’m all over the place,” she says. “And I really like to come and go as I please. But it’s funny: In retrospect, I think maybe I was chasing a relationship that was a little more traditional, even though I don’t know if I can actually be that way. So that’s a weird thing to be aware of.” Diaz grew up home-schooled in a Quaker household in rural Pennsylvania and learned to play piano and guitar when she was young; when she was a teenager, her talent took her to Philadelphia’s Paul Green School of Rock, whose founder was later accused of abuse and sexual misconduct by dozens of former students, including Diaz. (“It was a really toxic place,” she told the New York Times.) She studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston before dropping out and heading to Nashville, where she started making her name as a singer-songwriter operating at the intersection of country and pop. After a few years of fruitful grinding, she came to L.A. to “see how high the ceiling was,” she says, and quickly fell in with a group of musician friends. “We used to love going to the Smog Cutter,” she says of the shuttered Silver Lake dive bar, “to have a couple Bud Lights and sing Mariah Carey really poorly.” Diaz was making money writing songs — Connie Britton sang one of her tunes on the soapy ABC series “Nashville” — but she struggled to achieve the kind of liftoff she was looking for as an artist. “Turned out the ceiling was quite high,” she says now with a laugh. Along with the professional frustrations came “a nuclear explosion of a breakup” with a fellow songwriter, Teddy Geiger. “They were going through a huge identity shift,” Diaz says of Geiger, who came out as transgender, “and we worked in the same industry, and it just kind of felt like there wasn’t a place for me here.” Diaz returned to Nashville, which didn’t immediately super-charge her career. “I was bartending at Wilburn Street Tavern and making Jack White nachos,” she recalls. “He would never remember this, but I remember. I was like, This is my life now.” In fact, her acclaimed 2021 album “History of a Feeling” — with songs inspired by the complicated dynamics of her and Geiger’s split — finally brought the kind of attention she’d been working toward. She signed with the respected indie label Anti- (whose other acts include Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman) and scored the road gig with Styles after he reached out via DM; she also became an in-demand presence in Nashville’s close-knit songwriting scene. “I don’t know of anybody in town that doesn’t love Madi,” says Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, who adds that Diaz “has instincts about melodies that are all her own. Sometimes I’m thinking, 'How’s she gonna fit that into the phrasing?' But she always does.” For “Fatal Optimist,” Diaz took an initial pass at recording her songs with a full band before deciding they called for the minimalist setup she landed on with her co-producer, Gabe Wax, at his studio in Burbank. “We did it with no headphones, no click track, no grid,” she says. “It speeds up and slows down, and it goes in and out of tune as instruments do.” (One unlikely sonic inspiration was a singles collection by the pioneering riot grrrl band Bikini Kill, which she hailed for its “still-kind-of-figuring-it-out energy.”) Diaz describes herself as a perfectionist but says “Fatal Optimist” was about “trying to find our way through the cracks of imperfection to break the ground and sit on the surface. I feel so proud that we let it live there.” She’s touring behind the album this fall, playing solo shows — including a Nov. 20 date at the Highland Park Ebell Club — meant to preserve the album’s solitary vibe. “I don’t know if I’d really thought that through when I made the decision,” she says with a laugh. As good as she is on her own — and for all the torment she knows another relationship is likely to hold — “I’m a die-hard loyalist,” Diaz says. “I’m still looking for connection more than anything else.”
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The Nashville-based singer and songwriter discusses the stripped-down breakup songs of her new album, 'Fatal Optimist.'
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Music
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2025-10-31T18:17:22.017Z
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2025-10-31T18:17:22.017Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-10-31/madi-diaz-fatal-optimist-interview
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Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, the band’s married stars, separate
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The marriage between Arcade Fire's indie-rocker spouses Win Butler and Régine Chassagne has flamed out. The longtime collaborators and romantic partners split "after a long and loving marriage," the Canadian "Reflektor" group announced Thursday in a statement shared on social media. Butler, 45, and Chassagne, 49, married in 2003 and will "continue to love, admire and support each other as they co-parent their son," the band said. The Grammy-winning rock group, founded in 2001 and known for songs "The Suburbs" and "Wake Up," announced the singers' separation years after several people accused frontman Butler of sexual misconduct in 2022. Four people came forward about their alleged experiences with Butler in a report published by Pitchfork in August 2022. Three women alleged they were subjected to sexual misconduct between 2016 and 2022 when they were between the ages of 18 and 23. The fourth, gender-fluid accuser alleged Butler sexually assaulted them in 2015 when they were 21 and he was 34. Amid Pitchfork's report, Butler denied the misconduct allegations in a statement and said he "had consensual relationships outside my marriage." Chassagne, who gave birth to her son with Butler in 2013, remained firm in her support for her now-estranged husband in 2022. The "Sprawl II" singer said, "I know what is in his heart, and I know he has never, and would never, touch a woman without her consent and I am certain he never did." She added at the time: "He has lost his way and he has found his way back. I love him and love the life we have created together.” Arcade Fire rose to prominence in the 2000s for its anthemic rock, cementing its place in the Montreal indie scene with its Grammy-winning 2010 album "The Suburbs." The group has been nominated for 10 Grammy Awards and has played some of music's biggest stages including the Coachella and Lollapalooza music festivals. The group released its seventh album, "Pink Elephant," in May. Thursday's statement clarified that Butler and Chassagne's "bond as creative soulmates will endure, as will Arcade Fire." The estranged spouses will also continue their charity work in addition to caring for their child. "The band send their love and look forward to seeing you all on tour soon," the statement said. Times staff writer Stacy Perman contributed to this report.
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Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Régine Chassagne's marriage has flamed out. The longtime collaborators and romantic partners split more than 20 years after saying 'I do.'
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2025-10-31T18:08:04.436Z
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2025-10-31T18:08:04.436Z
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-10-31/arcade-fire-win-butler-regine-chassagne-separate
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Is ‘Jeanne Dielman’ the greatest film of all time? Plus more to see in L.A. this week
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Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. For L.A. locals, it is worth noting that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” will end its run at the Vista Theater on Tuesday. The theater is one of only four public venues in the world screening the film in VistaVision. If you haven’t seen it in that format yet, the clock is ticking. Among this week’s new releases is Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s groundbreaking debut “Breathless” and stars Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg and Guillaume Marbeck as Godard. (“Nouvelle Vague” is also scheduled to start a brief run in 35mm at the Vista on Nov. 8 before launching on Netflix on Nov. 14. Special 35mm screenings are also happening at the Landmark Westwood.) In her review of the film, Amy Nicholson wrote about "Nouvelle Vague" as a celebration of the creative impulse, with Linklater looking back at his own influences while also encouraging future generations to make something for themselves. As she said, “The paradox of ‘Nouvelle Vague’ is that it trumpets the urgency to make something fresh while itself rewinding to show how something was done 65 years ago. Yet Godard built his own career on the twin tenets of homage and upheaval, injecting his adoration for Humphrey Bogart into a film that would change the cinema forever, and continuing on to make more movies that eventually were nothing but allusions to other movies while being distinctively his own. Creativity has no limits. Just pick up a camera.” Back for the fall preview, I spoke to Deutch about playing Seberg, the American actor living in Paris who would see her career reborn when “Breathless” became an international sensation. For Deutch, it was rewarding to explore how the chaos and uncertainty that surrounded the making of “Breathless” made its way onscreen into the film that audiences still love today. “There’s always that layer when you’re filming a movie — it’s just people don’t know it’s there,” he said. “No one ever watches the movie and knows that day you got into a fight with your husband or your dog died or it was raining and your mascara was smearing. No one has any context and no one really cares. Generally they see it for what it is. But you feel it and see it and remember.” Since we already covered lots of Halloween-related screenings last week, we won't go deep into them now, except to note that Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s satirical take on “Dracula” hits local theaters this week. Additionally, "Back to the Future" returns to theaters this week for its 40th anniversary and Amy wrote a review in celebration of that re-release. It's a movie she calls "the modern era’s zippiest comedy about the collapse of the American dream, with a sting that would have had its forefathers Frank Capra and Preston Sturges cheering: How the dickens did Robert Zemeckis get away with that?" The American Cinematheque is launching a series dedicated to Belgian-born filmmaker Chantal Akerman with a 35mm screening on Sunday at the Egyptian Theatre of her 1975 masterwork “Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.” The film was voted the greatest film of all time in the most recent Sight and Sound critics poll. Akerman, who died in 2015 at age 65, was only 25 years old when she made the film, which has a meditative quality due to its extended running time of over three hours but also a blistering undercurrent of anger and dissatisfaction. Delphine Seyrig plays the title character, a widow who goes about her housework keeping up her apartment and raising her teenage son while working as a prostitute. Writing about the film for the Los Angeles Times in 2004, Manohla Dargis said that “the standard line on ‘Jeanne Dielman’ … is that it’s a feminist classic, a designation that’s both perfectly true and reductive.” In 2009, Sam Adams said of the film, “ ‘Jeanne Dielman’ belongs to the rare class of films capable of transforming the world around you, though it requires the kind of patience and dedication that can be hard to come by at home. (In other words, turn off your phone, then watch.) The reward is a new sense of connection to actions that normally pass without thought, a sense that every flip of a light switch is an experience to be savored for its pure physical sensation, a step in a dance that never ends.” Also screening in the Cinematheque’s series are some of her short films, plus the 1974 feature “Je Tu Il Elle,” 1976’s essay film “News From Home” and the 1972 documentary “Hotel Monterey.” Not unexpectedly, both Vidiots and the American Cinematheque have launched series in tribute to Diane Keaton. On Saturday Vidiots will show 1987’s “Baby Boom,” the first of Keaton’s collaborations with Nancy Meyers, credited as co-writer and producer. (Meyers’ husband at the time, Charles Shyer, co-wrote and directed.) Keaton stars as J.C. Wyatt, an ambitious rising executive in New York City. After the death of a distant relative, J.C. is charged with the care of an infant, which turns her world upside down. After moving to Vermont, she falls for a small-town veterinarian (a charming Sam Shepard) and finds unexpected business opportunities. A witty satire of the notion of “having it all,” the film is a spectacular showcase for Keaton’s sparkling screen presence. In his original review, Kevin Thomas said of Meyers and Shyer, “They’re not afraid to be sophisticated and screwballish in the best ‘30s tradition, and they know just how far to exaggerate for laughs without leaving touch with reality entirely or destroying sentiment. The humor in 'Baby Boom' is sharp without being heartless. They’ve also presented Diane Keaton with a dream part. She’s funny, she’s smart, she’s sexy, she’s tough and she’s vulnerable — all at the same time. … Keaton in ‘Baby Boom’ brings back memories of Hepburn and Colbert in their salad days.” 'Red Sun' at Mezzanine Recent releases like “One Battle After Another” and “The Mastermind” have tapped into an air of discontent and a curiosity about radical politics. So the timing of Mezzanine’s screening Wednesday at 2220 Arts + Archives of the 1970 German film “Red Sun,” directed by Rudolf Thome, could not be better. Released the same year the notorious revolutionary group the Red Army Faction was formed, “Red Sun” is a about a group of young women who live together under an unusual pact — that they must kill any romantic partner after five days. This gets complicated after Peggy (Uschi Obermaier, one of the emblematic stars of the moment in Germany) encounters an old boyfriend, Thomas (Marquand Bohm), who wants to rekindle their relationship. Stylish, sexy and provocative, this movie is very much of its time but perhaps also has a few things to say about our present moment. Dan Gilroy and 'Nightcrawler' On Wednesday, Vidiots will screen 2014's “Nightcrawler” with writer-director Dan Gilroy in-person. Stylish and disturbing, the film evokes a powerful vision of Los Angeles in telling the story of a small-time crook named Lou Bloom (a ferocious Jake Gyllenhaal) who falls into working as a freelance nighttime news cameraman and becomes more involved than he should in the world that he is capturing, walking an ethical and moral tightrope. The cast also includes Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed and Bill Paxton. In his review at the time, Kenneth Turan wrote, “ ‘Nightcrawler’ is pulp with a purpose. A smart, engaged film powered by an altogether remarkable performance by Jake Gyllenhaal, it is melodrama grounded in a disturbing reality, an extreme scenario that is troubling because it cuts close to the bone. … Despite the melodrama that increases as ‘Nightcrawler’ moves to a conclusion, there is no denying that something real is in the wind here, something about us as a society, how we talk and what we value. No matter what we think of Lou and his exploits, it is hard to deny that the world he thrives in is the one we have made.” Ahead of the film’s world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, I spoke to Gilroy about the origins of Gyllenhaal’s character. “I didn’t look at Lou as a deranged, damaged person,” he said. “I really wanted to look at a person who doesn’t have the programming and support from childhood and has limited tools to survive. To me the through-line of the character was somebody trying to survive in today’s world. … We were trying to get something that felt real, that felt topical, that felt current, that had a relevance to people’s lives.” Barbara Loden's 'Wanda' Directed by its star Barbara Loden, “Wanda” (1970) had fallen into obscurity until a 2010 restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive helped put it in front of new audiences and restore it to its rightful place as a much-admired, deeply influential work. The archive will show the film in 35mm on Sunday at the Billy Wilder Theater, with a Q&A with Elena Gorfinkel, author of “BFI Film Classics: Wanda,” to be moderated by Maya Montañez Smukler. A book signing will precede the film. Loden, known as an actor in such films such as “Splendor in the Grass” (directed by her husband, Elia Kazan), stars as the title character, who drifts aimlessly around Pennsylvania coal country. Yet there is a willfulness to her performance that is captivating, as the film watches a woman struggle to find a place for herself in the world. Writing about the film in 2018, Justin Chang said, “What [Loden] achieved with her directorial debut was not just a radical vision of Middle America in economic and existential crisis, though that in itself would have been plenty. She also brilliantly challenged the industry’s stereotypes, its assumptions that she was just another beautiful Hollywood blonde rather than a restless, pioneering film artist.”
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Also this week: Diane Keaton in 'Baby Boom,' Dan Gilroy with 'Nightcrawler' and Barbara Loden's 'Wanda' in 35mm.
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/newsletter/2025-10-31/la-et-jeanne-dielman-chantal-akerman-baby-boom-diane-keaton-nancy-meyers-nightcrawler-dan-gilroy-wanda-barbara-loden
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Israel hands over bodies of 30 Palestinians, Gaza hospital officials say
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Israel has handed over the bodies of 30 Palestinians, Red Cross and hospital officials in Gaza said Friday, a day after Palestinian militants returned the remains of two hostages to Israel. A doctor at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis confirmed receiving the bodies and said they were all unidentified. The Red Cross said that its teams had facilitated the transfer. The exchange was the latest indication that the fraught Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement is moving forward, despite Israeli strikes on Gaza this week that killed more than 100 people following the killing of an Israeli soldier. Ahmed al-Farra, head of the pediatric unit at Nasser Hospital, confirmed to the Associated Press on Friday morning that the hospital received the unidentified bodies of 30 Palestinians from Israel. Photos showed the remains, in white body bags, arranged in rows inside the grounds of Nasser Hospital. Health officials have struggled to identify bodies without access to DNA kits. The return brings the number of Palestinian bodies returned by Israel to 225, only 75 of which have been identified by families, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. It is unclear if those returned were killed in Israel during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war, died in Israeli custody as detainees or were recovered from Gaza by troops during the war. The bodies returned had been “torn apart and exhumed,” Munir al-Bursh, director general of Gaza’s Health Ministry, said in a post on X. “Their flesh had melted, their faces erased by fire, leaving behind only bones and teeth,” he said. The Israeli military has previously told the Associated Press that all bodies returned so far are those of combatants, a claim the AP was unable to verify. The military has said it operates in accordance with international law. Al-Bursh said recently that many of the bodies handed over appear to be fighters or others killed during the 2023 attack. Several relatives who have identified the bodies of family members said they weren’t fighters. In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said late Thursday that the remains returned by Palestinian militants had been confirmed as those of Sahar Baruch and Amiram Cooper, both taken hostage during the 2023 attack. Hamas has now returned the remains of 17 hostages since the start of the ceasefire, with 11 others still in Gaza and set to be turned over under the terms of the agreement. On Friday a small crowd of Israelis gathered in the plaza known as Hostages Square, praying together for the return of the dead hostages still in Gaza. “We cannot give up until everybody, all the bodies, will be here," said Rimona Velner, a Tel Aviv resident who joined the gathering. “It’s very important to the families and for us ... to close this circle.” A senior U.S. official and a second source familiar with negotiations said that in messages passed to Hamas by mediators on Wednesday, Israel warned the militant group that its fighters had 24 hours to leave the yellow zone or face strikes. That deadline passed Thursday evening, after which the senior U.S. official said, “Israel will enforce the ceasefire and engage Hamas targets behind the yellow line.” Hamas did not respond to a request for comment. On Friday, Shifa hospital director Mohamed Abu Selmiya said that one person had been killed by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza. Israel's military said its troops had fired after the person approached troops in a way that posed a threat. Government officials from eight Arab and Muslim nations will gather in Istanbul on Monday to discuss the next steps for Gaza, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Friday. The talks follow a meeting between the countries' leaders and President Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations Security Council, preceding the ceasefire agreement. They mark the latest effort to create an International Stabilization Force in Gaza, outlined in a 20-point U.S. plan. The ceasefire, which began Oct. 10, is aimed at winding down a war that is by far the deadliest and most destructive of those ever fought between Israel and Hamas. In the October 2023 attack on Israel, Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people and took 251 others hostage. In the two years since, Israel’s military offensive has killed more than 68,600 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government and is staffed by medical professionals, maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by independent experts. Israel, which some international critics have accused of committing genocide in Gaza, has disputed the figures without providing its own tally. In the central West Bank town of Silwad on Friday, mourners thronged the streets for the funeral of Yamen Hamed, 15, who Palestinian health officials say was shot by an Israeli soldier overnight. Samed Yousef Hamed kissed his son goodbye. Samed said his son left home Thursday to hang out with friends. Soon after, he learned the teen had been injured and Israel's army was preventing an ambulance from reaching him. Ahed Smirat, the ambulance driver who tried to reach Hamed following the shooting, told the AP that troops held him up multiple times. By the time they let him through, troops told him the teen had died, he said. Israel’s military called the teen a “terrorist” and said troops had fired believing that he was holding an explosive, but did not provide any evidence to support that characterization. Hamed's funeral was Friday. The shooting is the latest in a surge of military killings of Palestinian children in the West Bank that has accompanied a general upswing in violence in the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Some were killed during Israeli military raids in dense neighborhoods, others by sniper fire in peaceful areas. The killings have risen as the Israeli military has stepped up operations in the occupied West Bank since the war’s onset in what it calls a crackdown on militants. Shurafa and Frankel write for the Associated Press. Frankel reported from Jerusalem. AP reporter Toqa Ezzidin in Cairo and AP writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
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2025-10-31T17:58:19.659Z
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2025-10-31T19:58:51.007Z
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-10-31/israel-hands-over-bodies-of-30-palestinians-gaza-hospital-officials-say
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Anaheim City Council declines to put a Disney gate tax on the ballot
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A proposed ballot measure that, if passed, would tax Disney theme park admission tickets will not go before voters next year after failing to gain enough support from the Anaheim City Council. Councilmember Natalie Rubalcava first requested a discussion on a Disney gate tax in September, as Anaheim recently turned to tax bonds, debt reserves and cash from a parking garage sale to patch up a $63-million budget shortfall. If a 3% tourism tax were to be passed, it could generate from $83 million to $134 million in general fund revenue annually, according to a city staff report. “As a policymaker for the city of Anaheim, it really is my responsibility to ensure that we have a properly funded general fund,” Rubalcava said during Tuesday’s meeting. “I wanted to take the opportunity to really go through the budget and identify the reasons why an initiative like this makes sense for our city.” Past councils have debated a Disney gate tax over the decades without having passed the policy, and Tuesday’s council meeting proved no different. Billed as a citywide tax on theme parks, sporting and entertainment venues, the proposed ballot initiative, as written, would have collected and kept tax revenue only from Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure. Angel Stadium already has a ticket and parking tax reimbursement clause in its current lease, while the Honda Center would have been exempt from the measure, as it is smaller than the proposal's 20,000-capacity threshold. Rubalcava also proposed a 10% parking tax ballot initiative for garages containing at least 1,500 spaces. Together, the two initiatives could generate as much as $164 million in revenue, according to city estimates. But placing either measure on the November 2026 ballot would require approval by five members of the seven-member council, a threshold that could not be met Tuesday. Ahead of the meeting, Mayor Ashleigh Aitken penned an op-ed opposing the gate tax for the Orange County Register. She reiterated her thoughts on the subject from the dais. “We can keep trying to work with our partners and work with our resort community, and work with our business leaders to attract more investment, or we can bleed them dry,” she said. “I’d rather look at us tightening our belts than doing something that, to me, is just a bit shortsighted and not in the city’s best interest.” Anaheim is due to receive a tax revenue boost in two years, after the city pays off its bond obligations from a massive 1996 Disney expansion deal. Finance Director Debbie Moreno expects the final payment to arrive in April 2027. After that, the city is anticipating $120 million in additional tax revenue annually. But the city could face a $1-million structural deficit again by 2030 if a 5% increase in labor costs is taken into account. “I'm not the kind of policymaker that waits until we’re in an economic crisis, but I do see the writing on the wall,” Rubalcava said. “I do think that we need to be proactive.” The ballot initiative push has enjoyed conditional support from Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development and longtime Disney critics. But a new proponent has emerged in the form of the Anaheim Police Assn. (APA). “Tourism also depends on something that is nonnegotiable and that’s public safety, strong infrastructure and reliable city services,” APA President Jose Duran told councilmembers. “Disneyland brings approximately 50,000 to 80,000 residents every single day, on top of the 350,000 residents here in Anaheim," he continued. "That means daily emergency response, traffic control and infrastructure support on a scale that most cities never experience." He claimed the Anaheim Police Department is currently short 70 officers, compared to the staffing levels suggested by independent studies, one reason why he supports putting the ballot measure before voters. Duane Roberts, a longtime Anaheim resident and watchdog, criticized the ballot initiative as an attempted cash grab by Anaheim PD, which is seeking to fund a new $350-million police headquarters building. “Despite all of the hoopla we’ve heard about a gate tax, most of the funds collected won’t be spent on parks, housing and vital social services,” Roberts said. “Much of it is going to be used to pay for a massive, decade-long expansion of the Anaheim Police Department — the biggest in this city’s history.” Sensing a lack of support from her council colleagues, Rubalcava asked to continue the Disney gate tax discussion to a future meeting, to be considered alongside other revenue-generating ideas. “We need to do the right thing for the residents of Anaheim,” she said. “With those capital improvement projects that we would be able to fund here, it would generate jobs for our local trades, as well as the residents of Anaheim, and create more opportunities for the people here to thrive.” Councilmembers voted 5-2, with Aitken and Councilmember Ryan Balius opposed, to continue an expanded discussion sometime after a scheduled strategic planning session next month.
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Anaheim Councilmember Natalie Rubalcava's push for a gate tax ballot measure failed to persuade her colleagues.
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2025-10-31T17:55:47.702Z
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2025-10-31T17:58:26.331Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2025-10-31/anaheim-disney-gate-tax
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Big Tech’s stubborn winning streak seems to be headed toward the history books
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A record-smashing rally in megacap high-fliers shows no signs of stopping as blowout earnings readouts from companies including Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. defied warnings of a tech bubble. The Magnificent Seven Index is set for its seventh consecutive monthly gain, a streak that was exceeded just once ever. The S&P 500 Index rose 0.2% as of 12:31 a.m. in New York. The benchmark is poised to notch its sixth straight month of gains after soaring nearly 40% from its April nadir in one of the fastest recoveries in stock market history. Amazon shares surged after its cloud unit posted the strongest growth rate in almost three years. Apple projected a jump in sales over the holiday season after releasing new iPhones, helping to assure investors that its flagship product remains a growth engine. “It’s Big Tech that keeps the stock market going, so if that group starts to go down, the whole market starts to go down,” said Matt Maley, chief strategist at Miller Tabak & Co. “Big Tech earnings gave people a lot of relief. Going into this earnings season people were quite concerned about what the results would look like, especially after the recent record-smashing advance.” Positive developments on the trade front also lifted sentiment, with President Trump touting that the U.S. and China had “settled” their differences on access to China’s rare earths after a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Despite upbeat signals from tariff negotiations and technology earnings, investors still face a murky economic outlook after the Federal Reserve earlier this week pushed back on the prospect of further interest-rate reductions, with the U.S. in a data blackout because of the government shutdown. Kansas City Fed President Jeff Schmid said he voted against the U.S. central bank’s decision to lower rates this week because he’s concerned that economic growth and investment will put upward pressure on inflation. That view was echoed by his Dallas counterpart Lorie Logan, who said she did not support the U.S. central bank’s decision to cut interest rates this week and will likely find it appropriate to hold rates steady at the next meeting because inflation remains too high. U.S. equities have zoomed to another banner year, but going by the derivatives market, there may not be much left in the tank. Options bets on the S&P 500’s level in late December are clustering near 7,000, a round-number milestone that would put the index up 19% in 2025. But that’s just 2.5% from Thursday’s close of 6,822.34, with two months left to go. Chinese stocks and gold are the best hedges against a boom in the artificial intelligence trade that has pushed valuations to elevated levels, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists. The S&P 500 trades at 23 times forward earnings, well above its average of 16 over the past two decades. The so-called Magnificent Seven group of tech megacaps accounts for more than a third of the U.S. benchmark’s weight. Valuations across this cohort are even higher, at 31 times forward earnings. “AI equity leadership ain’t budging for time being and we like gold and China stocks as best boom/bubble hedges,” the BofA team led by Michael Hartnett said in a note. Semenova writes for Bloomberg.
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2025-10-31T17:45:46.972Z
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2025-10-31T17:43:00.000Z
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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-10-31/big-tech-winning-streak-eyes-history-books-amid-blowout-earnings
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Alabama man charged with threatening rabbis, imam and others in multiple Southern states
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Federal prosecutors have charged an Alabama man with making threatening calls and texts to multiple rabbis, an imam and others in the South, including telling one that “I want you to die.” Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker of Needham, Ala., was charged with making an Interstate Communications Threat. He was arrested earlier on related state charges of resisting arrest and possession of a pistol by a person forbidden to legally have a handgun. An FBI agent wrote in court documents that the man made a series of menacing calls and texts to rabbis in Alabama and Louisiana, an imam in Georgia, a church in North Carolina and others. Weapons were later found in the man’s home, along with a suitcase full of ammunition and papers listing the names, addresses and phone numbers of religious leaders and other prominent figures, authorities said. Court documents also suggest the man has a diagnosed mental illness. His grandmother told the FBI agent that he had refused to take his medication for the illness, the agent wrote. The name of the diagnosis was redacted in public court documents. An FBI agent’s affidavit filed with federal court documents said that Shoemaker began making threatening calls to a rabbi in Mountain Brook, Ala. It was then determined he had made threatening calls to others. The agent wrote that Shoemaker sent text messages to an Islamic center in Louisiana in 2024, including one stating that the “jews and you musIimeens have declared war on us again, and we are going to defend ourselves.” Another to a Georgia imam this year said he knew where the imam lived and warned for him to watch his back. Shoemaker told the FBI agent that he did not intend any violence and the calls and texts were an attempt at intimidation. “Shoemaker claimed his statements were satire, not a legitimate threat, rebuttal, and mocking them,” the agent wrote. A search of Shoemaker's home found multiple firearms, a body armor carrier, and numerous boxes of ammunition. Needham is a small town in southwest Alabama located about 10 miles from the Mississippi-Alabama border. Shoemaker is being held in the Choctaw County Jail. Sara Jones, FBI special agent in charge, said multiple law enforcement agencies acted “within hours of learning of a threat to a member of the Jewish community.” “This is a prime example of law enforcement working together to crush violent crime and protect the American people,” Jones said in a statement Friday. Ernest C. McCorquodale, III, a defense lawyer representing Shoemaker in the state charges, declined to comment when reached earlier this week. The Clarke County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that a man was taken into custody by a multi-agency force after the FBI and other law enforcement offices were “notified of credible threats of violence made against multiple synagogues throughout Alabama and surrounding states.” A photo posted by the sheriff's department shows a semiautomatic rifle, shotgun, handgun and piles of ammunition taken from the home. Chandler writes for the Associated Press.
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2025-10-31T17:43:57.882Z
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-10-31/alabama-man-charged-with-threatening-rabbis-imam-and-others-in-multiple-southern-states
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Banks and retailers are running out of pennies
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The United States is running out of pennies. President Trump’s decision to stop producing the penny earlier this year is starting to have real implications for the nation’s commerce. Merchants in multiple regions of the country have run out of pennies and are unable to produce exact change. Meanwhile, banks are unable to order fresh pennies and are rationing pennies for their customers. One convenience store chain, Sheetz, got so desperate for pennies that it briefly ran a promotion offering a free soda to customers who bring in 100 pennies. Another retailer says the lack of pennies will end up costing it millions this year, because of the need to round down to avoid lawsuits. “It’s a chunk of change,” said Dylan Jeon, senior director of government relations with the National Retail Federation. The penny problem started in late summer and is only getting worse as the country heads into the holiday shopping season. To be sure, not one retailer or bank has called for the penny to stick around. Pennies, especially in bulk, are heavy and are more often than not used exclusively to give customers change. But the abrupt decision to get rid of the penny has come with no guidance from the federal government. Many stores have been left pleading for Americans to pay in exact change. “We have been advocating abolition of the penny for 30 years. But this is not the way we wanted it to go,” said Jeff Lenard with the National Assn. of Convenience Stores. Trump announced on Feb. 9 that the U.S. would no longer mint pennies, citing the high costs. Both the penny and the nickel have been more expensive to produce than they are worth for several years, despite efforts by the U.S. Mint to reduce costs. The Mint spent 3.7 cents to make a penny in 2024, according to its most recent annual report, and it spends 13.8 cents to make a nickel. “Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The Treasury Department said in May that it was placing its last order of copper-zinc planchets — the blank metal disks that are minted into coins. In June, the last pennies were minted and by August, those pennies were distributed to banks and armored vehicle service companies. Troy Richards, president at Louisiana-based Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., said he's had to scramble to have enough pennies on hand for his customers since August. “We got an email announcement from the Federal Reserve that penny shipments would be curtailed. Little did we know that those shipments were already over for us,” Richards said. Richards said the $1,800 in pennies the bank had were gone in two weeks. His branches are keeping small amounts of pennies for customers who need to cash checks, but that’s it. The U.S. Mint issued 3.23 billion pennies in 2024, the last full year of production, more than double that of the second-most minted coin in the country: the quarter. But the problem with pennies is they are issued, given as change, and rarely recirculated back into the economy. Americans store their pennies in jars or use them for decoration. This requires the Mint to produce significant sums of pennies each year. The government is expected to save $56 million by not minting pennies, according to the Treasury Department. Despite losing money on the penny, the Mint is profitable for the U.S. government through its production of other circulating coins as well as coin proof and commemorative sets that appeal to numismatic collectors. In 2024, the Mint made $182 million in seigniorage, which is its equivalent of profit. Besides American's penny hoarding habit, a logistical issue is also preventing pennies from circulating. The distribution of coins is handled by the Federal Reserve system. Several companies, mostly armored carrier companies, operate coin terminals where banks can withdraw and deposit coins. Roughly a third of these 170 coin terminals are now closed to both penny deposits as well as penny withdrawals. Bank lobbyists say these terminals being closed to penny deposits is exacerbating the penny shortage, because parts of the country that may have some surplus pennies are unable to get those pennies to parts of country with shortages. “As a result of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s decision to end production of the penny, coin distribution locations accepting penny deposits and fulfilling orders will vary over time as (penny) inventory is depleted” a Federal Reserve spokeswoman said. The lack of pennies has also become a legal minefield for stores and retailers. In some states and cities, it is illegal to round up a transaction to the nearest nickel or dime because doing so would run afoul of laws that are supposed to place cash customers and debit and credit card customers on an equal playing field when it comes to item costs. So, to avoid lawsuits, retailers are rounding down. While two or three cents may not seem like much, that extra change can add up over tens of thousands of transactions. A spokesman for Kwik Trip, the Midwest convenience store chain, says it has been rounding down every cash transaction to the nearest nickel. That's expected to cost the company roughly $3 million this year. Some retailers are asking customers to give their change to local or affiliated charities at the cash register, in an effort to avoid pennies as well. A bill currently pending in Congress, known as the Common Cents Act, calls for cash transactions to be rounded to the nearest nickel, up or down. While the proposal is palatable to businesses, rounding up could be costly for consumers. The Treasury Department did not respond to a request for comment on whether they had any guidance for retailers or banks regarding the penny shortage, or the issues regarding penny circulation. The United States is not the first country to transition away from small denomination coins or discontinue out-of-date coins. But in all of these cases, governments wound down the use of their out-of-date coins over a period of, often, years. For example, Canada announced it would eliminate its one-cent coin in 2012, transitioning away from one-cent cash transactions starting in 2013 and is still redeeming and recycling one-cent coins a decade later. The “decimalization” process of converting British coins from farthings and shillings to a 100-pence-to-a-pound system took much of the 1960s and early 1970s. The U.S. removed the penny from commerce abruptly, without any action by Congress or any regulatory guidance for banks, retailers or states. The retail and banking industries, rarely allies in Washington on policy matters related to point-of-sale, are demanding that Washington issue guidance or pass a law fixing the issues that are arising due to the shortage. “We don’t want the penny back. We just want some sort of clarity from the federal government on what to do, as this issue is only going to get worse,” the NACS' Lenard said. Sweet writes for the Associated Press.
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The United States is experiencing a shortage of pennies after President Trump decided to stop their production earlier this year
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2025-10-31T17:41:14.631Z
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2025-10-31T17:41:00.000Z
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https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-10-31/banks-and-retailers-run-short-on-pennies-as-the-us-mint-stops-making-them
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Balboa Bay Resort cooks up unique dining experiences with a new chef
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Beach bonfires are a summer tradition in Orange County, and the Balboa Bay Resort in Newport Beach likes to keep the fun burning into fall and winter with fireside experiences. Located on 15 acres overlooking Newport Harbor, the resort hosts tourists and locals for vacations and events such as the city’s Fourth of July Old Glory Boat Parade. The recently revamped harborside patio features fire pits and heat lamps. It's a space where guests can indulge in fireside fondue for up to six people. Pots of melted Parmesan and smoky Gouda are presented along with a selection of fresh bread, veggies and meats for dipping. For a sweet night, guests can choose a "S'mores & More" experience with a board of marshmallows for roasting along with pieces of chocolate, graham crackers, strawberries and other confections for a twist on the classic campfire favorite. The outdoor upgrade isn’t the only new addition to Balboa Bay Resort. The staff recently welcomed executive chef Diego Bernal to head up the property's culinary program and the resort's signature A+O Restaurant & Bar. Bernal's background includes tenure at the Resort at Pelican Hill and the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach. He also spent time training under celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey. “I was with chef Gordon Ramsey for about four years, and now I am here at Balboa Bay and it is a privilege to be here,” Bernal said. The Colombian-born chef is looking forward to showcasing local produce by bringing farm-to-table dining to Balboa Bay Resort. “We’re in California and we have the best produce in the country. We have such great diversity in the area as well,” Bernal said. “I want to let the ingredients speak for themselves…I think simplicity is more elegant." Bernal is incorporating seasonal produce into the menu, introducing guests to dining that makes best use of Southern California’s natural bounty. “In California, we grow olives, pistachios, we have peaches, we have tomatoes...all kinds of variety that is raised and farmed in our backyard,” the chef said. Seafood is another culinary focus at Balboa Bay Club, and Bernal hopes to find fun, creative ways for guests to enjoy fresh fish, crab and more. For example, at A+O Restaurant & Bar the chef featured a seafood station offering for the month of October with oysters, jumbo shrimp and other fresh catches displayed on ice for an ocean-to-table adventure. Throughout November the resort is hosting a raclette royal dining experience each Saturday, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Raclette du Valais, a semi-hard cheese, will be melted tableside with artisanal accompaniments and paired with a cocktail. There are weekly activities too, like live music on the patio on Friday and Saturday evenings and a happy hour Mondays through Thursdays that starts at 3 p.m. and continues to 6 p.m. Bernal said all the resort's events are designed to make drinking and dining more unique and enjoyable for resort guests and locals alike. "To me, everything is hospitality," Bernal said.
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New executive chef Diego Bernal will will fire up new enhancements for the Fireside Experiences on the resort’s outdoor patio.
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2025-10-31T17:30:49.119Z
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2025-10-31T17:30:49.119Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/story/2025-10-31/balboa-bay-resort-cooks-up-new-dining-experiences-with-a-new-chef
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