A number of popular shows like Game of Thrones, The Big Bang Theory, Homeland, Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin are coming to an end in 2019. Hopefully these shows will answer lingering questions and offer satisfying conclusions to fans. Some of the series will even get spinoffs. But don’t despair: there […]
New top story from Time: A Section of a Los Angeles-Area Freeway Has Been Named After Barack Obama
(LOS ANGELES) — Signs have gone up naming a section of a Los Angeles-area freeway as the President Barack H. Obama Highway. The signs posted Thursday on State Route 134 apply to a stretch running from State Route 2 in Glendale, through the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles to Interstate 210 in Pasadena. The […]
New top story from Time: A Bishop in L.A. Has Resigned 13 Years After the Church Learned He Was Accused of Sex Abuse
(LOS ANGELES) — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Los Angeles auxiliary bishop, Monsignor Alexander Salazar, following an allegation of sexual misconduct with a child in the 1990s, officials said Wednesday. The Vatican announced the resignation in a one-line statement. It was the latest in a string of misconduct allegations against bishops to […]
New top story from Time: The Top 10 Sports Moments Of 2018
Justify, or J.R. Smith? In trying to fill the final slot for TIME’s list of the 10 most memorable sports moments of 2018, I found myself debating between the horse that won the second Triple Crown in 37 years, and the basketball player who spent the last few seconds of a tie game in the […]
New top story from Time: Elon Musk Just Unveiled an Underground Tunnel That He Says Will Beat ‘Soul-Destroying Traffic’
(LOS ANGELES) — Elon Musk unveiled his underground transportation tunnel on Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take some of the first rides in the revolutionary albeit bumpy subterranean tube — the tech entrepreneur’s answer to what he calls “soul-destroying traffic.” Guests boarded Musk’s Tesla Model S and rode along Los Angeles-area surface streets […]
New top story from Time: Penny Marshall, Director and Laverne and Shirley Star, Dies at 75
(LOS ANGELES) — Penny Marshall, who starred in “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75. Mashall’s publicist, Michelle Bega, said Marshall passed away in her Hollywood Hills, Calif., home on Monday due to complications from diabetes. Marshall starred alongside Cindy Williams in the hit […]