Month: December 2019

A l’occasion de la diffusion des “Dents de la mer” ce soir sur OCS Géants, voici un petit résumé de la terrifiante histoire vraie qui a inspiré le roman à l’origine du chef d’oeuvre signé Steven Spielberg… Les Dents de la mer de Steven Spielberg Avec Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss… De quoi ça parle ? A…

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has taken aim at one of the most progressive planks in the platforms of his rivals Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — eliminating tuition charges at public universities. In an ad running in Iowa, the first primary battleground state, Buttigieg attacks their proposals for making college “free even for the…

WASHINGTON —  President Trump’s pick to succeed Rick Perry as Energy secretary won easy Senate confirmation Monday, despite a Democratic senator’s objections that the nominee hadn’t fully answered questions related to the Trump impeachment investigation. Several other Democrats joined Republicans in approving Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette’s promotion, 70 to 15. Confirmation of Brouillette, who’d been…

WASHINGTON —  Former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein told the FBI that he was “angry, ashamed, horrified and embarrassed” at the way James B. Comey was fired as FBI director, according to records released Monday. Several weeks after Comey’s firing, Rosenstein was interviewed by FBI agents as part of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation…

WASHINGTON —  The House is plunging into a landmark impeachment week, with Democrats who once hoped to sway Republicans now facing the prospect of an ever-hardening partisan split over the question of removing President Trump from office. Lawmakers were getting their first look at the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report Monday night behind closed doors. The…

UCLA linebackers Tyree Thompson and Noah Keeter announced on social media Monday that they had entered the transfer portal, hoping to continue their college careers elsewhere. Thompson, who sat out all of the 2019 season after undergoing foot surgery in August, has exhausted his eligibility but indicated on Twitter that he intended to petition the…

SEATTLE —  Rashaad Penny scored one touchdown rushing and one receiving, Russell Wilson hit David Moore for a 60-yard touchdown pass, and the Seattle Seahawks built a big second-half lead before holding off the Minnesota Vikings for a 37-30 win Monday night. Seattle (10-2) moved into a tie with San Francisco atop of the NFC West…

It was only 5½ years ago that the Kings and the Ducks played an epic second-round playoff series that the Kings rallied to win in a seventh game at Honda Center, gaining an emotional boost that propelled them toward their second Stanley Cup championship in three seasons. Times have been lean for both teams since…

Hello and welcome to another edition of the L.A. Times soccer newsletter. I’m Kevin Baxter, the Times’ soccer writer and we start today in Europe, where the gap between the rich clubs and the poor ones has never been wider. The defending champion in three of the continent’s top five leagues – Bayern Munich, Paris…

1/8 Marie Velasco places a rose for her daughter, Yvette Velasco, at a memorial at Cal State San Bernardino on Monday. Yvette Velasco was one of the youngest victims at the mass shooting in San Bernardino four years ago that left 14 people dead and 22 others wounded.  (Allison Zaucha / For The Times) 2/8…