Month: November 2019

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff dismissed ridiculous rumors that there had been some conniving behind the scenes over the winter of some big players to set up a breakaway F1 series. According to Auto Motor und Sport, It all started with a quiet but well-attended lunch in glitzy Gstaad in Switzerland back in February. Gathered around…

McLaren has secured a sponsorship deal with the Coca-Cola Company that will see the team promote several of the beverage company’s brands during the 2019 season. The commercial agreement follows a successful 2018 pilot programme that was activated at the US, Mexican, Brazilian and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix last year and which saw the Coca-Cola…

Williams rookie George Russell says the British team’s performance could remain depressed for months because of a “fundamental” problem impacting its FW42. The Grove-based outfit would be hard pressed to find even a glimmer of a silver lining in its sobbing state of affairs. After enduring perhaps the worst campaign in its modern history in…

New rules the Trump administration issued Friday would require insurers and hospitals to disclose upfront the actual prices for common tests and procedures to promote competition and push down costs. The sweeping changes face stiff pushback from the healthcare industry. A coalition of major hospital groups quickly announced that hospitals will sue to block key…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren explained Friday how she plans to gradually move the United States into her government-run “Medicare for all” system, sending managed-care and hospital stocks higher as the Democratic presidential candidate mapped out her three-year design to fundamentally change the way Americans get healthcare coverage. Warren said in a Medium post Friday that she…

WASHINGTON —  President Trump has pardoned a former U.S. Army commando set to stand trial next year in the killing of a suspected Afghan bomb maker and a former Army lieutenant convicted of murder for ordering his men to fire on three Afghans, killing two, the White House announced late Friday. Trump also ordered a promotion…

Juvenal “Juve” Quintana was never really into politics until he learned about Bernie Sanders’ first presidential campaign. In 2016, Quintana heard the Vermont senator’s talk of providing everyone with health insurance and thought that would help Latinos in his hometown of Modesto, but he didn’t think they were getting the message from Spanish-language media. So…

California’s high-profile farmworkers union endorsed Sen. Kamala Harris for president on Saturday, soon after her rival Sen. Bernie Sanders won the support of the national nurses labor group and Los Angeles teachers. The endorsements coincide with this weekend’s California Democratic Party gathering in Long Beach, where Harris, Sanders and 10 other primary contenders are courting…

All the Mission Viejo football team needed to advance in the Southern Section Division 1 playoffs was a stop from its lauded defense, but it wasn’t as easy as it had been for the Diablos during the regular season. Servite’s offense was flowing to the tune of 28 second-half points, and instead of a defensive…

FOOTBALL CITY Quarterfinals, Friday OPEN DIVISION San Pedro 17, Carson 0 Birmingham 34, Garfield 14 Wilmington Banning 35, Palisades 21 Crenshaw 26, San Fernando 23 DIVISION I Eagle Rock 42, Locke 21 El Camino Real 44, Grant 21 Venice 50, Westchester 41 Reseda 14, Los Angeles Roosevelt 12 DIVISION II Franklin 34, Los Angeles Marshall…