It’s been nearly a week since Californians fanned out across the state to vote in the primary election. First-place candidates in more than 40 races don’t yet know whom they will compete against in November. You’re reading the Essential California newsletter Sign up to start every day with California’s most important stories. By continuing, you … Read more
With Donald Trump in the White House, one of the most important times of the week is Friday night. That’s when the president and his team have an unnerving habit of announcing news they hope the public won’t notice. Take this past Friday night, for example. The New York Times reported: President Trump has pardoned … Read more
Although van life is increasingly popular — or at least increasingly visible, as the many people who ask if we “do the YouTube thing” prove — it’s still not well understood. Short-term road trips make more sense to people: Sure, you can handle just about anything for a brief period. But can you actually fit … Read more
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Prep Rally. I’m Eric Sondheimer. It’s awards time for baseball and softball as school ends and summer workouts begin. Get our high school sports newsletter Prep Rally is devoted to the SoCal high school sports experience, bringing you scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep … Read more
Italian app studio Bending Spoons, which has acquired businesses like Eventbrite, Vimeo, and WeTransfer in recent years, has filed to go public in the U.S. The company joins other names like SpaceX and Anthropic that are preparing to IPO this summer. The company said it has over 500 million monthly active users across its apps, … Read more
Italy’s biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo launched Monday a 31 billion euro ($35 billion) bid for Monte dei Paschi (MPS), elbowing in on a merger overture for the bank from Banco BPM announced just a day earlier. The offer kicks off a new round of consolidation in the country’s banking sector, as firms look to bulk … Read more
“Alice and Steve,” a marvelous six-part British comedy coming Monday to Hulu, gives us Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement as the titular longtime best friends whose lives are turned inside out when Steve begins dating Alice’s daughter, Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith). She’s 26, and he’s “a 50-year-old man, and that’s when I’m rounding down.” Creator … Read more
Rush break out “By-Tor and the Snow Dog” and much more in their first full show with new touring drummer Anika Nilles Powerhouse new touring drummer Anika Nilles wasn’t the only woman onstage with Rush in Los Angeles Sunday night. During the band’s Fifty Something Tour opener at Kia Forum, singer-songwriter Aimee Mann emerged from … Read more
One of Argentina’s new filmmaking talents to watch, Sundance Institute Latin Fellowship recipient Ana Bovino has just received private funding for her documentary project “The Nights” (“Las noches”) from heavyweight doc player Jane Ray, founder of Cat Flap Media and consultant artistic director of UK funding body The Whickers. Shopped at various co-production markets including Chile’s … Read more
Our son graduated from high school early by finishing online and isn’t planning to attend college right now. He’s been working since he was 14, and we’ve always focused on helping him build practical life skills early: cooking his own meals, managing his work schedule, doing his own laundry. We struggled to find a suitable … Read more
SACRAMENTO — Winning elections — or achieving any success — often is about being in the right spot at the right moment. Getting lucky and capitalizing. Xavier Becerra is a textbook example. Becerra’s moribund campaign for California governor was flatlining in early April when he got a shocking break. Five women publicly accused the Democratic front-runner, Rep. … Read more
Welcome back to the Times of Troy newsletter, where USC baseball’s charmed season came to a devastating end in the bottom of the ninth of a decisive Super Regional matchup with North Carolina on Sunday. But no matter how brutal it may have been in the moment — with black-stained tears streaming down Trojan cheeks … Read more
Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass privacy protections that grant the state’s residents new rights over accessing and deleting their data held by big tech giants. The bill also bans companies from selling their users’ precise location data. Lawmakers in the Massachusetts House passed the state’s Consumer Data Privacy Act in a unanimous 146-0 vote … Read more
Every year, there’s an event in France to honor the anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and every year, a prominent U.S. official speaks at the commemoration ceremony to honor those who helped save the world. The ceremonies are never controversial. This year, however, was an exception. Unfortunately, the Trump administration decided to dispatch … Read more
(Brittany Holloway-Brown / For The Times; Getty Images, Smithsonian) I begin working as a temporary lecturer at different colleges around the city. It is my first time teaching undergraduates and it feels almost as natural as writing does. I make it a point to introduce my students to the literature of their home state, which … Read more