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How Danita Johnson Is Flipping the Field

The pioneering D.C. United president has big plans for MLS’s founding franchise.

Sports Illustrated · Apr 26, 2022

GTA 6 shouldn’t have an American lead character

The GTA games are at their best when they’re showing us America through foreign eyes.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 26, 2022

The Office star Lucy Davis looks unrecognisable after taking up weightlifting in LA

She found fame as Dawn Tinsley in BBC comedy The Office - but actress Lucy Davis, 49, looks very different now

Daily Mirror · Apr 26, 2022

Sienna Miller says being Jude Law's girlfriend protected her from Harvey Weinstein

The Hollywood actress appeared in a Weinstein bankrolled film and was reduced to tears by the convicted rapist – but she says dating Jude at the time protected her from the worst

Daily Mirror · Apr 26, 2022

Sophie Marceau gives rom-com French flair in ‘I Love America’

Quintessentially French, Sophie Marceau gets laughs, sympathy, perhaps even a little envy, as a single Parisian approaching 50 and looking for love in “I Love America,” a French and English romantic comedy debuting April 29 on Amazon.

Tribune News Service · Apr 26, 2022

The world lost 6 revolutionary composers within a year. How LA, and only LA, is paying tribute

LOS ANGELES — When Harrison Birtwistle died last week at 87, he became the sixth pioneering composer who came to prominence in the 1960s that we lost in less than nine months. This uncompromising British modernist, along with Holland's most important composer, Louis Andriessen, and Americans Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb,…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 26, 2022

California's biggest election this year could be the race for attorney general

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The most contentious and closely watched California election in 2022 is likely to be the race for attorney general, where voters will choose in June from the liberal incumbent who was appointed to the job last year, three unheralded challengers and an openly gay career prosecutor whose…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 26, 2022

Dodgers pitcher Bauer files suit against sex abuse accuser

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has sued the woman who accused him of sexual assault in federal court in a move that came less than three months after prosecutors decided not to file criminal charges against the athlete

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022

House Republicans plot to impeach Mayorkas

The Republican Study Committee is laying groundwork to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Axios · Apr 26, 2022

April storms make small dent in California’s drought, but it’s not enough

LOS ANGELES — The late-season burst of snow and moisture that blanketed Northern California in April helped make a small dent in drought conditions, experts said, but the majority of the state is still far below where it needs to be as it heads toward the hot, dry months of…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 25, 2022