In the male-dominated Showtime #Lakers world, two women emerged as key figures: Jeanie Buss, daughter of/successor to team owner Jerry Buss, and Claire Rothman, the Forum’s GM and VP.
Sifting through what’s fact, what’s fiction and what’s something in between, we examine whether a story can be honest without being fully true — and whether the series solves the problem posed by its womanizing protagonist, Jerry Buss. link.chtbl.com/binge-sesh?sid…
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WATCH LIVE: Author Reyna Grande joins the L.A. Times book club to discuss her novel, "A Ballad of Love and Glory." twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Set during the Mexican-American War, the book transports readers to 1846 as the U.S. Army wages war with Mexico. As the war escalates, a passionate relationship grows between a talented Mexican curandera and an Irish immigrant leading the battalion. latimes.com/entertainment-…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed into law a bill known to critics as “Don’t Say Gay” that would ban lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender education for students up to the age of 8. latimes.com/politics/story…
President Biden is expected to sign a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime, finally cementing a legislative triumph that’s eluded generations of lawmakers, civil rights groups and seven presidents. latimes.com/politics/story…
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is named in honor of a 14-year old Black boy who was kidnapped and tortured to death in Mississippi in 1955. latimes.com/politics/story…
The law will designate conspiracies to commit crimes, in which hate is the motivating factor and which result in death or serious bodily injury, as federal hate crimes punishable by up to 30 years in prison. latimes.com/politics/story…
The new season of #Bridgerton which premiered Friday, builds on the show’s successful formula by introducing a South Asian family to the ton, the Sharmas. latimes.com/entertainment-…
The family includes mother Lady Mary Sheffield Sharma (@shelley_conn), daughter, Edwina (Charithra Chandran), and stepdaughter, Kate (Simone Ashley). latimes.com/entertainment-…
A rapid boom in the number of hospices strongly point to an organized effort to defraud federal end-of-life care programs in L.A. County, putting vulnerable dying patients at risk of harm, according to a state audit released Tuesday. latimes.com/california/sto…
Auditors blamed lax oversight for the problems, noting that the California Department of Public Health became aware of possible fraud by some for-profit hospices seeking licenses yet still approved them. latimes.com/california/sto…
The audit’s findings mirror those of a 2020 Times investigation that uncovered widespread fraud and quality-of-care deficiencies in the state’s booming but loosely regulated hospice industry. latimes.com/california/sto…
The highly infectious BA.2 Omicron subvariant is now the dominant version of the coronavirus circulating in the U.S., according to federal estimates, a development that is triggering fresh concerns of a potential springtime wave.
How big that potential upswing might prove to be remains the subject of much debate.
Some experts believe California is armored against a significant surge because majority of residents have been vaccinated or have some immunity from a recent infection.