A dismissive Alycia Baumgardner said Britain’s Caroline Dubois still has more to prove before the American will entertain a fight between the two unified champions. That was the curt assessment from Baumgardner early Saturday morning after she retained her WBA, WBO and IBF junior lightweight world titles with a controlled, at times punishing display across…
Every 25 minutes in the United States, a baby is diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a condition that occurs in newborns who have been exposed to opioids in the womb and develop withdrawal after birth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Historically, research has focused on the impact of NAS—also known…
As we told you earlier, The Atlantic has published another hit piece, and this time it’s involving FBI Director Kash Patel. The piece alleges that Patel has a drinking problem which has raised alarms inside the FBI. Oddly enough these kinds of claims seem to have started only after Patel became the FBI Director…
Yet there’s very little drama in Gowin’s pictures, and any plot is sketchy or buried. The elders here are generally all of a piece—stoic, patient, dressed as simply and modestly as possible. Four sisters, Fannie, Bernice, Gertrude, and Edith’s mother, Reva, pose in loosely fitted housedresses that they made themselves from pretty printed gingham fabric…
The last time these two met in the playoffs was 2018, and the history between them is about as lopsided as it gets. Cleveland holds a 12-2 all-time playoff record against Toronto, winning all three previous series, including back-to-back sweeps in 2017 and 2018. The Raptors came in having swept the regular-season series 3-0, with…
Anne Hathaway is dipping her toes into the wrong shoe theory and the results are oh so right. On April 17, the 43-year-old actor found the perfect pairing for summer’s hero piece, the humble slip dress. While her particular version of the look is not quite as basic as the title typically implies—Hathaway’s version of…
The Pokémon franchise has turned 30, which means that it’s been a long time since a childhood friend and I braved Pokémon Blue’s haunted Lavender Town together – solemnly handing the Game Boy back and forth in the first (and perhaps last) documented case of two only children sharing something. For most of my 29…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday allowing expedited reviews of psychedelic drugs to be used for medical purposes, including mental health conditions. The executive order, “Accelerating Medical Treatments For Serious Mental Illnesses,” seeks to address the “burden of suicide and serious mental illness rates in America” by allowing psychedelics, including the Schedule I-classified…
Sophia Kercher is a senior editor for the entertainment and features sections at the Los Angeles Times. She oversees books and wellness. She has been writing and editing stories about L.A. for over a decade. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Variety, Vogue, Vulture, Elle, Women’s Health, Los Angeles Magazine and LAist,…
Apr 18, 2026, 12:41 PM ET While Victor Wembanyama and most of his teammates will make their playoff debut Sunday, the San Antonio Spurs actually have a ton of postseason knowledge to lean on. The greatest source of information and inspiration comes from the franchise’s former coach, Hall of Famer Gregg Popovich. A fixture at…
