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Giannis Antetokounmpo had 30 points and 14 rebounds in his Christmas debut, and the Milwaukee Bucks celebrated their return to the holiday schedule by beating the New York Knicks 109-95 on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden. Brook Lopez scored 20 points for the Bucks, who played on Christmas for… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times

The petition was filed by lawyer Ayman Abdel-Hakim Ramadan, a supporter of the president, along with five other lawyers. They argued that eight years is insufficient for Sisi to tackle the country’s economic and security challenges, and that the term limits are therefore “unfair to the great Egyptian people.” Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times

The Mountain of Beverly Hills (Credit: A Bird’s Eye and Vity-Dream) It is one of the great what-might-bes of Los Angeles real estate. A 157-acre mountaintop property once envisioned as a mansion-in-the-sky for the Shah of Iran’s family remains unbuilt and unbought. After an earth-moving project three decades ago created 15 acres of flat land, […]

DECEMBER 25, 2018 IN Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), Susan Sontag reconsidered her earlier critique of the art of photography. She was no longer certain, she wrote, that images of others in pain “shrivel sympathy.” She found no evidence that “our culture of spectatorship neutralizes the moral force of photographs of atrocities.” Sontag was […]

In a blockbuster trade, the Los Angeles Dodgers are sending Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp and Alex Wood to the Cincinnati Reds for Homer Bailey and three prospects. Many think the Dodgers won the trade by gaining financial flexibility and replenishing their farm system. Others think the Reds won the trade by getting productive players in […]

The Los Angeles Chargers are tied for the best record in the AFC. They still have a chance at the top seed. All they need is a win against the Denver Broncos coupled with a Kansas City Chiefs loss in the season finale. But it may not matter if the Chargers can’t get off to […]