WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday moved to withdraw his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns after reports that his administration was poised to create a fund to compensate some of his allies. The disclosure was made in a filing in federal court in Florida, where the lawsuit … Read more
Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company’s codebase. In a series of posts on social media, the lab said its investigation found that the hackers had abused a stolen … Read more
The best way to incite a riot at a rock club? Start talking about when — exactly — the style of music was born. The same holds doubly true for punk. The hectic, electrified, primal scream of a genre can be traced to the 1960s, but really came alive in the ‘70s. Some fans say … Read more
Tyler Starling of Agoura High is a teenager every coach wishes to have. Regardless of how good he has become in baseball, he continues to play multiple sports to have fun, hang out with his friends and perhaps please his mother, Amanda, who happens to be Agoura’s track coach. In the fall, Starling caught 56 … Read more
Growing up in London, I always dreamed of living in America. Loading audio narration… After visiting New York City for the first time as a 19-year-old, I started daydreaming about moving across the pond and working as a writer in Manhattan. I’d be the British version of Carrie Bradshaw, if you will — minus the … Read more
Elon Musk has turned science fiction into reality for the better part of two decades, making believers rich and earning the benefit of the doubt from many on Wall Street. Away from rockets and electric cars, his companies are bending reality on another plane – convincing analysts to stretch their traditional valuation tools, and assign … Read more
SACRAMENTO — The Democrats’ mantra this election year — especially among wannabe governors — is that the richest Californians should “pay their fair share.” But by any objective measurement, they already do. I’m referring to state taxes, not federal. It’s a valid argument that the most prosperous Americans should kick in more to the federal government, … Read more
It is not just any Tuesday. It is 9 p.m. on a dreary night in Shadow Hills, just miles away from the lush foothills of the Verdugo Mountains. The delicate pitter-patter of a drum’s cymbal is the only sound to break through the thick brick wall of the obscure performance venue, Sun Space, and reach … Read more
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Prep Rally. I’m Eric Sondheimer. Jason Collins, who combined with his brother, Jarron, to bring San Fernando Valley high school basketball to an unprecedented level during their days at Harvard-Westlake in the 1990s, died at the age of 47 because of brain cancer. Here are some recollections. Get … Read more
Commuters in New York are starting the week facing travel chaos as a strike on the Long Island Railroad enters its third day, and its first during the working week. Loading audio narration… Around 3,500 workers on the train service — which connects around 8 million people living on Long Island with Manhattan and the … Read more
Last week, Josh D’Amaro faced investors for the first time as Walt Disney Co.’s chief executive during the company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings call. The call gave D’Amaro a chance to lay out his long-term plan for the Mouse House — one that focuses heavily on building an ecosystem around the Burbank media and entertainment giant’s … Read more
For the sixth and final time before votes are counted, the leading contenders for California governor gathered Thursday night for a televised debate, this one a 90-minute session in San Francisco. Times columnists Gustavo Arellano, Mark Z. Barabak and Anita Chabria absorbed the rhetorical blows, followed the heated back-and-forths and took in each and every … Read more
ROME — The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. They flipped through its digitized pages and found their sought-after treasure: the oldest surviving English poem. “We were extremely surprised. We were speechless. We couldn’t believe our eyes when we first saw that,” Elisabetta Magnanti, … Read more
Welcome back to the Times of Troy newsletter, where USC and Notre Dame are back at the bargaining table — as you first read in this space last Monday — and also back to bickering about who’s to blame for blowing up their century-old rivalry in the first place. One step closer to order being … Read more
Burger King wants to be crowned the top burger chain — and while company leadership says its turnaround effort could take decades, it’s already showing results. Loading audio narration… “‘Reclaim the Flame’ is, frankly, a two-decade strategy because of everything that has to be done,” Burger King US and Canada president Tom Curtis said during … Read more