California Democrats are finding ways to make reparations to black descendants of slaves that don’t include direct cash payments, as voters overwhelmingly reject the idea of money handouts. Instead, they are moving ahead with ideas like subsidized property taxes and expedited business licenses–which experts say may violate constitutional guarantees of equal treatment.
Maya Jama sent temperatures soaring in a black bikini as she continued to soak up the sun while holidaying in California.
Skybound Entertainment has kicked off a crowdfunding campaign to support
The English-born fighter, who moved to Canada when his father gave up football punditry to become a pastor, is viewed as one of the best Muay Thai fighters in North America.
A lively Midwestern city has been named the country's top real-estate market. The city was previously the mortgage capital of America. It now has a bustling cultural scene, affordable housing and plenty of jobs
Former talkshow host discussed her controversial exit from daytime TV after reports of a toxic workplace in new standup setEllen DeGeneres has addressed the controversial end of her eponymous daytime talkshow after allegations that it was a toxic workplace.While performing the opening night of her new Ellen’s Last Stand Up Tour at the Largo in Los Angeles on Thursday evening, the former daytime host joked about getting “kicked out of show business” for being “mean”. Continue reading
Ellen DeGeneres reflected on the allegations of a toxic workplace on the set of her former talk show while returning to her stand-up comedy roots.
Two more insurers are pulling out of California's troubled homeowners insurance market, straining a marketplace that already has seen the pullback of several other companies that have cited increase costs related to wildfire risks. Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co. submitted filings to the California Department of Insurance stating they will not renew 12,556 homeowners policies with a premium value of $11.3 million starting July 1. Also not being renewed are...
By Matt Solomon Published: April 26th, 2024
Ellen DeGeneres is laying it all out. Two years after walking away from her eponymous daytime talk show—which was mired in allegations of a toxic workplace during its final years—the comedian
Once in a while, you stumble across a news piece that isn't just wandering into the realm of the surreal, but rather, it's jumping in with both feet. This is one of those, in which twerking vandals wreaked five figures worth of damage to a fleet of pink Volkswagens.
In recent decades, corporate consolidation of the book industry has shrunk the number of and the visions of publishing houses, concentrating power at the top of the remaining Big Five, prioritizing profitability over cultural contribution. Countering that contraction, the 2020 murder of George Floyd has triggered long-overdue inclusionary change in America, and in American book publishing. One manifestation of that change also began that year, when publishing veteran Molly Stern, former senior...