Once upon a time, Hollywood was a company town. Now, Los Angeles has so much more to offer than box office smashes and boulevards of broken dreams. The Staples Center alone gets 20 million visitors a year, and international travelers alight to eat, shop, gallery-hop and explore overlooked neighborhoods that are buzzing with enterprise. Take […]
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The Los Angeles Lakers returned from the All-Star break with a 117-105 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer February 22, 2020, 7:30 AM 5 min read LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers hadn’t even been back on the court for three minutes after the All-Star break when Anthony Davis
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LAS VEGAS — The three women knocking on doors around Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon wanted to talk to people about the importance of voting, especially in a state with low voter turnout. They gave all the logistical details — where to go, what time to get there — and explained how early voting worked.
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AHMEDABAD, India — A festive mood has enveloped Ahmedabad in India’s northwestern state of Gujarat ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting there on Monday with President Donald Trump, whom he’s promised millions of adoring fans. The rally in Modi’s home state may help displace his association with deadly anti-Muslim riots in 2002 that landed
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Some have accused media outlets of using female medical workers as a “propaganda tool” A video featuring a pregnant nurse treating patients in a hospital in the virus epicentre of Wuhan has sparked a backlash across China. The video by state media outlet CCTV was meant to portray nine-month
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The Boy Who Lived wouldn’t have done so without a bit of luck, and Daniel Radcliffe knows that playing him required some too. The actor’s new film, “Escape from Pretoria,” is based on the real-life story of Tim Jenkin, a white South African political activist who, after being arrested for distributing anti-apartheid pamphlets alongside fellow activist Stephen
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Image copyright Getty Images Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has been criticised for saying Muslim men should be profiled at airports because “that is where the threat is coming from”. He made his comments in the Times. The chief executive also said families with young children should be waved through airport security because there was virtually
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Ottawa forward Bobby Ryan finally sought help to deal with a longtime alcohol problem and is close to returning to the Senators lineup February 22, 2020, 7:48 AM 5 min read OTTAWA, Ontario — After realizing he was coming to a dead end in his battle with an alcohol problem, Bobby Ryan says asking for
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LAS VEGAS — They each remember that moment, just after dawn on a September day in 1991, when they walked out of the Frontier Hotel and Casino. There was music and singing — “Solidarity forever,” went the song. That first day, the atmosphere was more like a celebration than a work protest. But the strike
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U.S. regulators have approved a new type of cholesterol-lowering drug aimed at millions of people who don’t get enough help from widely used statin pills like Lipitor and Crestor By LINDA A. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer February 21, 2020, 9:41 PM 4 min read TRENTON, N.J. — U.S. regulators on Friday approved a new type
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