Month: October 2019

HOUSTON —  All regular season long, Major League Baseball faced questions about the baseballs used because they were flying farther than ever. The evidence was there. More home runs were hit than ever before and studies illustrated details supporting claims that the balls were behaving differently. In June, MLB acknowledged the balls were different because a […]

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Los Angeles police are searching for a gunman in an officer-involved shooting that occurred late Tuesday night in Boyle Heights. The area where the incident occurred just before 10 p.m. was closed by police and remained off-limits to the public as investigators continued to search for evidence. One officer sustained a minor injury, but it […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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