December 5, 2023
Mitchell Johnson says he regrets bringing up the sandpaper scandal as the fallout from his searing criticism of David Warner continues. Johnson stunned the cricket world – and the Aussie playing fraternity – when he targeted the opening batsman and national team selector George Bailey in a column for The West Australian. The BBL is
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Mitchell Johnson has provided new detail on his fractured relationships with David Warner and George Bailey as an explosive start to the summer threatens to boil over. Johnson stunned the cricket world – and the Aussie playing fraternity – when he targeted the opening batsman and national team selector in a column for The West
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WASHINGTON — When Israel pounded Gaza with airstrikes after Hamas launched its Oct. 7 attack, it opened a dramatic divide among Democrats over a war that has claimed thousands of civilian lives. Progressive activists staged protests across the country, demanded an immediate ceasefire and accused President Biden of complicity in genocide. A handful of Democrats in
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I was once the Grinch who hated when teams with losing records ended up making the postseason. All teams. All sports. All eras — even the ones I wasn’t around for. In 1960, the year before arriving in Los Angeles, the 25-50 Minneapolis Lakers made the playoffs and swept the 30-45 Detroit Pistons in a
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WASHINGTON — In a world beset by wars in Gaza and Ukraine, it’s good news when two superpowers step back from frictions that increased the danger of another war in Asia. That’s what happened last week when President Biden met with China’s Xi Jinping at a country estate in the ridges west of Silicon Valley. The
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WASHINGTON — As he battles criminal prosecutors and civil suits in four jurisdictions, former President Trump is relying on three tactics: denounce, disrupt and delay. In the short run, that may be good politics; Trump’s self-portrayal as a martyr appears to have cemented his hold on the Republican presidential nomination. But as a legal strategy, it’s
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When my reporting takes me to the San Gabriel Valley, I often stop at Jim’s Bakery for egg tarts, Ba Le for banh mi and Alice’s Kitchen for rice rolls, if my diet can justify it. But they were all closed Tuesday, a common day off for restaurants — especially for mom-and-pop businesses where family
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Early this week the New York Times released polling from a half-dozen political battleground states, and you might have thought Moses himself had descended Mt. Sinai with a commandment: Thus shall be decided the 2024 presidential race. The findings weren’t good for the Democratic incumbent. President Biden trails the serially indicted Donald Trump in five
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WASHINGTON — Last week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken headed for the Middle East to try to keep Israel’s war in Gaza from spinning out of control, and to begin talks on what diplomats call “the day after” — what happens after the shooting stops. Who will govern a shattered Gaza? Who will feed and
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His back on the Crytpo.com Arena floor, Austin Reaves looked up toward the rafters and exhaled. “… finally,” he said. He’d just made a floater to bestow the Lakers a lead they’d hold until the end of the overtime period. Fouled on the play by Norman Powell, he was about to complete a three-point play.
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