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DECEMBER 16, 2018 AS THE AMERICAN EXPAT at the center of Alice Stephens’s debut novel, Famous Adopted People, sits at a bar on the side streets of Seoul, she’s nursing a hangover and her life is in dire straits. She’s socially adrift, her future is increasingly uncertain after being forced to leave a teaching position, […]

We’re live from PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh as the Penguins take on the Los Angeles Kings. Mercifully, the road trip ends tonight in Pittsburgh. The Kings haven’t looked good since the second period in Buffalo and have managed one point so far and sit at 0-2-1. Jonathan Quick is 3-4-3 in 10 appearances all […]

Harris and coach Doc Rivers saw a hint of one despite a 110-104 loss Saturday to a Thunder team playing its second game in as many nights. The Clippers made 14 three-pointers, their most in 17 games, and shot their highest percentage from behind the arc in nine games. Still, the season-high 26 turnovers were […]

Still, a partial shutdown could be widely felt, affecting departments including Homeland Security, Treasury and Commerce and a host of smaller agencies. The administration has refused so far to release detailed plans for a shutdown, but a wide range of government operations and services could close down temporarily or be restricted, including national parks, passport […]

Chris James of St. John Bosco gets excited in game against La Mirada. (Nick Koza) The semifinals for the St. John Bosco tournament on Friday night are set. It will be St. John Bosco taking on Loyola at 6 p.m., followed by Windward playing Long Beach Poly at 7:30 p.m. On Thursday night, St. John […]

Yet multibillionaire Mukesh Ambani decided that $100 million would be better spent on his daughter’s wedding than on improving the lot of his countrymen. I know it would have been an enormous sacrifice, but he probably could have thrown a decent wedding for her if he had only spent $50 million or so and used […]