The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is holding what could be its last public hearing Thursday, with committee members indicating they will focus on former President Trump’s state of mind that day.
“What did President Trump know? What was he told? What was his personal and substantial role in the multi-part plan to overturn the election?” Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said at the hearing.
Committee leaders described the hearing’s goal as a step back to look at the entire plan to keep Trump in power, and said it will cover the span of time from before the 2020 election until after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“The central cause of Jan. 6 was one man, Donald Trump, who many others followed,” vice chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said. “None of this would have happened without him. He was personally and substantially involved in all of it."
The drama between Lisa Rinna and other cast members goes back to earlier this year. The actor says she was "threatened" ahead of "RHOBH" reunion. latimes.com/entertainment-…
The recent leak of a recording that exposed some of Los Angeles’ top officials making racist comments has rocked L.A. But City Hall is no stranger to scandal.
Here’s a quick refresher of some of the most memorable scandals in recent history⬇️ latimes.com/california/sto…
Last year, City Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas was indicted along with a former USC dean on federal charges that he took bribes from the dean in exchange for directing millions in public funding to the university. latimes.com/california/sto…
In 2020, a L.A. police officer sued the city, alleging that he was repeatedly sexually harassed by one of Mayor Eric Garcetti's top advisors.
The suit claims that Garcetti witnessed some of the inappropriate behavior.
Scanning all the media coverage of the leaked City Council audio — which at this moment seems poised to join Nixon’s Watergate tapes in the annals of recording infamy — it’s hard to decide which sections might be the most appalling, writes @cmonstah.
The conversation is grotesque — a furnace blast of racist tropes and unvarnished political sausage-making. It also surfaces a roiling debate about the nature of Latino identity and the blinkered ways that identity has historically been defined and wielded. latimes.com/entertainment-…
For one, the us-versus-them framing of Black & Latino political interests actively overlooks — erases — the fact that Latinos can be Black & Black people can be Latino. (Latino is a loose ethnicity, not a race, & the African diaspora spans the Americas.)
Garrett Adelstein is one of poker’s top and most profitable high-stakes cash players.
On Sept. 29, Adelstein made the biggest bet of his life when he accused rookie player Robbi Jade Lew of cheating in a $269,000 hand against him on “Hustler Casino Live.” latimes.com/business/story…
Adelstein told @byandreachang he is “extremely confident” that he was the target of a cheating ring involving not just Lew but other players and at least one member of the show’s production crew.
Credit cards and digital payment apps such as PayPal offer some distinct advantages over cash, including the ability to recover money paid to scammers.
But #Zelle, a digital payment network owned by seven major banks, isn’t so protective of its users.
If you use Zelle to pay someone who proves to be a fraud, you have only a slim chance of recovering the money from your bank. The same is true if you send money to the wrong person. If you hit Send, the money is probably gone.
"I think [Zelle is] growing in popularity with scammers because it has some significant advantages from their perspective," said Kevin Roundy, senior technical director of the internet security company NortonLifeLock in Culver City.