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Activist group UltraViolet presented a petition Wednesday to NBCUniversal calling for the firing of its top news executives in the wake of the allegations in former correspondent Ronan Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill.” A small group led by the organization that acts on behalf of sexual assault and harassment victims stood outside the headquarters of…

Among the many topics covered in his new book “Movies (and Other Things),” bestselling author Shea Serrano writes about high-octane hero Dominic Toretto with such infectious appreciation, I had to invite the visiting San Antonian to the Angelino Heights intersection where it all began. “The mecca!” he grins as we park it on a bench…

All three elements of last Wednesday’s “Chicago” crossover were among the week’s six most-watched non-NFL programs, helping NBC to its second weekly victory of the 2019-20 prime-time television season. The crossover began with “Chicago Fire,” airing at 8 p.m., an hour earlier than usual, and attracting its largest audience since April 3, averaging 8.24 million…

Internalized self-hatred fuels a black skinhead finding validation by way of brutality in Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s “Farming.” The mercilessly lurid account is based directly on the writer-director’s teenage experience as a product of a practice through which thousands of Nigerian parents fostered out their children to white British families between the 1960s and 1980s. Raised with…

Here are a few good deals for those going to San Luis Obispo any time soon: The downtown Hotel San Luis Obispo takes 10% off room prices for travelers who want to sample the new property a block from historic Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. And the local Chamber of Commerce throws in $100…

Aside from International Space Station astronauts, most us would find 19 hours and 16 minutes an excruciatingly long time to spend in the air. Forty-nine passengers and crew members endured that record-setting flight time aboard a 787 Dreamliner nicknamed Kookaburra. It took off from New York City and didn’t stop until Sunday when it landed…

You know all about one-way flights and round-trip flights, and nonstop flights and connecting flights, but do you know about stopover flights? That’s when you connect through a particular airport, deplane for a day or two, then continue to your destination. Besides the visit-two-cities-for-the-price-of-one aspect, stopovers let you recover from a long flight by breaking…

A tentative agreement between General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers union to end a more than five-week strike hinges on ratification by a handful of large branches, including a pickup-truck plant in Flint, Mich., that voted on the deal Wednesday. The factory’s 4,800 workers and two other big facilities — another truck plant…

Hip-hop star Tyga is getting a taste of the Westside. The Grammy-nominated artist has inked a deal to lease a hillside mansion in Bel-Air for $58,000 a month, records show. The scenic estate — which is still available for purchase at $12.88 million — expands horizontally across the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Set…

Tesla Inc.’s stock price surged in late trading after the electric-car maker reined in expenses and posted its first profit in almost a year — a shock almost no one saw coming. Click Here: Cheap Chiefs Rugby Jersey 2019 The Model 3 sedan maker earned $1.86 a share in the third quarter, beating analysts’ average…