Month: January 2020

Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger’s compensation was $48 million last year, down 28% because of a special bonus he got in fiscal 2018 for extending his contract and clinching the agreement to buy 21st Century Fox Inc. Even without that one-time boost, Iger’s pay remains among the highest in corporate America. It […]

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Click:香港普通话心理咨询 1/10 Actress Bella Thorne in the “pink room” of her Sherman Oaks home.  (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) 2/10 Decorative items on a shelf.  (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) 3/10 “My sister loves dinosaurs and I wanted to get her a dope Christmas gift,” Thorne said.  (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) […]

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German rangers stand guard to shoo away visitors from a nondescript stretch of forest near Berlin, where a sign nearby warns of “Lebensgefahr” (mortal danger). The precautions are part of the frantic activity underway to set up Tesla Inc.’s latest assembly plant, Elon Musk’s most daring attack on the German auto establishment. Workers wielding metal […]

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1/11 French Montana is asking $6.599 million for the Hidden Hills home he bought four years ago from Selena Gomez.  (Hagai Aharon) 2/11 The three-acre compound centers on a custom home of 7,800 square feet.  (Hagai Aharon) 3/11 The hip-hop star added a recording studio.  (Hagai Aharon) 4/11 Amenities include a gym, a movie theater […]

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Nine-year-old Avery Norbryhn can ski backward, which is no small feat. The fourth grader has also mastered jumps at her local hill, Snow Valley Mountain Resort, in the San Bernardino Mountains about 90 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. One day in the not-too-distant future, she says she’s going to be able to keep up […]

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In a city as large and sprawling as Los Angeles, it’s easy to miss the little things. But what about the big things? L.A.-based artist Pae White’s recent installations at the Beverly Center shopping center (which she’s pretty sure are her largest works ever) have taken over the walls along the glassed-in architectural detail on […]

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NEW YORK —  A former New York congressman who was one of President Trump’s earliest supporters was sentenced Friday to two years and two months in federal prison after admitting he helped his son and others dodge $800,000 in stock market losses when he learned that a drug trial by a small pharmaceutical company had failed. […]

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CANBERRA, Australia —  Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday. Firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains a week before a massive wildlife […]

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WASHINGTON —  The Trump administration has granted Chevron a special license to keep drilling oil in Venezuela despite a ban on American companies doing business with President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government. The Treasury Department late Friday renewed until April 22 the license for Chevron and four other U.S. service suppliers that are among the last American […]

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