22+ hour, 30+ min ago   (255+ words) SAN FRANCISCO — The footage arrived quietly, the way bad news often does in the NBA offseason. The question, as it has been for eight months, is whether that confidence is warranted — or whether it is simply the optimism of a…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (155+ words) LOS ANGELES — There is a lotus tattooed on Alan Ritchson’s wrist in honour of his wife. “She’s the flower,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2024. “I’m undoubtedly the mud.” On Saturday morning, Ritchson and Catherine Ritchson posted a joint statement…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (216+ words) WASHINGTON – When Vice President JD Vance picked up the phone to call U.S. military commanders in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, he was not looking for the Pentagon’s consolidated position on the Iran war. He was looking for something…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (210+ words) TORONTO — For the first time since childhood, Lisa found herself without Blackpink. That is the central premise of Always Lalisa, the 97-minute documentary from director Sue Kim, which will receive its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (178+ words) MOSCOW — The statement Dmitry Medvedev delivered to the Vedomosti business daily this week was not intended as an escalation. That, he said, was precisely the misreading he wanted to correct. “Nuclear weapons can be used in certain cases,” Russia’s Security…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (412+ words) It is the best week of the year to buy a phone, a TV, or a washing machine. It is also the easiest week of the year to overpay while feeling like you got a bargain. The difference between the…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1348+ words) Two squares in one day from a Capricorn Moon is not a soft sky. Capricorn is the sign of consequence, and both squares strike planets that deal in terms: Saturn, which sets them, and Venus, which negotiates them. The dawn…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (913+ words) Two things about the moon reversed over the weekend, and today is the first day both reversals are working in the same direction. It has stopped moving away from Earth and it has stopped sliding south. The moon phase today,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (141+ words) LOS ANGELES – She walked out to the Jimmy Kimmel Live set Monday night and, before any joke, any introduction, any of the machinery of late-night television, said four words to no one in the studio and everyone she meant: “Hi,…...