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An explosives-packed vehicle detonated at a military checkpoint near Somalia’s presidential palace, killing at least six people and wounding several others, police said. The Al Qaeda-linked Shabab extremist group, which often targets Mogadishu, claimed responsibility for the attack. Those killed… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times

Netflix has a much-advertised new original picture, “The Christmas Chronicles,” a save-Christmas movie starring Kurt Russell as an off-course Santa; its main points of interest are its production design and Lamorne Morris in a small role as a Chicago cop. Better is “Angela’s Christmas,” an animated short based on a children’s book by Frank McCourt […]

Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. soldiers from Syria makes sense to me — just as limiting the role of the U.S. in that country made sense to President Obama. Our insistence that U.S. policies since World War II have led us to some kind of “exceptionalism” has caused us to engage in unwise misadventures. And […]

The urbanist vision is really about money and privilege. It benefits the YIMBYs who can afford sky-high rents in sky-high buildings, or those making fortunes from land speculation and construction. Ripping apart Los Angeles just to serve the elite will not benefit the poor or the middle class, nor will any of this “progress” happen […]

Netflix has a much-advertised new original picture, “The Christmas Chronicles,” a save-Christmas movie starring Kurt Russell as an off-course Santa; its main points of interest are its production design and Lamorne Morris in a small role as a Chicago cop. Better is “Angela’s Christmas,” an animated short based on a children’s book by Frank McCourt […]

Los Angeles Lakers Highlights vs. New Orleans Pelicans December 21, 2018: New Orleans Pelicans vs. Los Angeles Lakers – Highlights of Ivica Zubac, LeBron James, Tyson Chandler, Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram Source: “Los Angeles” – Google News