Month: November 2019

I’d come home from another good day at my middle school teaching job, but my spirits sank as I opened the front door to that hollow feeling of an empty house. As I checked the mail, I found a large envelope addressed to me by hand. Hmmm. Never got many of those. It was from…

When you say you are going to spend the afternoon in Paramount, you might have to correct your friends from thinking you are doing a tour of Paramount Pictures studios. The city is nestled between Compton and Bellflower, with the rap-famous street Rosecrans Avenue running through the northern half while Alondra Boulevard (see rapper-singer Buddy’s…

HANOI, Vietnam —  A Vietnamese court on Monday sentenced a 70-year-old Australian to 12 years in jail on terrorism charges, state media reported. The Tuoi Tre newspaper said Chau Van Kham, a Sydney resident of Vietnamese origin, was found guilty of “terrorism to oppose the people’s administration” in a half-day trial at Ho Chi Minh City…

ANKARA, Turkey —  A U.S. national who is a member of the Islamic State group has been deported home, a Turkish official said Monday, as Ankara began repatriating captured foreign IS fighters. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Turkish Interior Ministry spokesman Ismail Catakli told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency that a German and a Danish national would…

LONDON —  From his elite education to his posh accent, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is, despite his shambling appearance, the very embodiment of a wealthy, powerful and privileged British establishment. But as the 55-year-old prime minister crisscrosses the country in advance of an enormously consequential election next month, he is casting himself in a role…

After U.S. President Donald Trump insisted in scripted remarks to reporters on Tuesday that he misspoke during the Helsinki summit when he unequivocally accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials of election meddling, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) mocked Trump for not having the “guts” to publicly challenge Putin’s narrative when he had the chance on Monday.…

Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Fallout in the Marshall Islands Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands. Today, a massive structure called Runit Dome holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris. Now the…

While Demi Lovato has a pretty impressive set of pipes, during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night, the singer turned to lip syncing to entertain the crowd. During a popular segment of the show appropriately titled “Lip Sync Conversation,” the pop star and Fallon mimed belting out songs ranging…

News of Fergie and Josh Duhamel’s separation broke Thursday as the former couple announced that they split earlier this year. Whatever the timing, it seems that the singer is putting her marriage behind her—and we must say, she’s doing so very stylishly. The Dutchess was spotted in Brazil on Wednesday rocking an ultra-mini peplum cheetah-print…

Mandy Moore recently got engaged to her boyfriend of two years, Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith. So when she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday alongside her This Is Us cast members Milo Ventimiglia and Sterling K. Brown, the talk show host just had to ask: How does her TV family feel about the…