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The new-look FIFA Club World Cup make its debut Sunday at the Rose Bowl. The expanded tournament, now featuring 32 teams, carries with it a hefty total prize tag of $1 billion, with teams receiving a piece at the end of every round: $2 million per win the group stage and $1 million per draw. The breakdown continues: $7.5 million for the round of 16, $13.125 million for quarterfinals, $21 million for semifinals, $30 million for finalists and $40 million for the winner. In its new format, the tournament will be played every four years. “The list of participants at…
Sixteen buyers of two or more lots accounted for at least 72 of the sales in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, a Southern California News Group analysis of county records and Redfin data show. Single-lot buyers bought at least 129 parcels. The Southern California News Group was unable to identify the buyers of eight lots. RELATED: Lottery winner, investors snatch up homesites in LA fire zones Redfin shows there are about 305 other lots listed for sale, including 86 in Altadena, 190 in Pacific Palisades, 15 in Pasadena and 14 in Sunset Mesa. Reports by real estate agents tracking lot sales…
Thousands of people are expected to rally at dozens of demonstrations in Southern California today as part of a massive, nationwide “No Kings Day of Defiance” protest against President Trump and his policies. More than 1,500 events will be held nationwide, and demonstrations will take place throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. A complete list can be found here. The “No Kings Day” protests across the country coincide with a military parade the Trump administration is organizing on Flag Day in Washington, D.C., to mark the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday. It’s also Trump’s birthday, and his critics…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive military parade unfolding against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s unconventional flex of fighting forces in American streets this week is on track to begin Saturday evening with tanks, bands and thousands of troops. The parade, honoring the Army’s long-planned 250th anniversary celebration and coinciding with Trump’s 79th birthday, is set to step off from the Lincoln Memorial under the threat of stormy weather in Washington and protests around the country tied to a turbulent week of immigration enforcement that has involved military deployment in Los Angeles. Demonstrators crowded into parks and plazas across the U.S. Saturday to rally against…
Edwin Castro has avoided the spotlight since he won a $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot from a ticket he bought at an Altadena gas station 2 ½ years ago. In recent months, however, the largest lottery winner in history plowed some of those winnings back into Altadena, paying $8.9 million to buy up at least a dozen burned-out homesites in the beleaguered community. That makes Black Lion Properties LLC, the company Castro and brother Jesse formed last year, the largest land investor in the Los Angeles County fire zones. Related: In a recent statement, the Castro brothers said they want to…
President Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law, and for the first time in many decades immigration enforcement does not resemble a basketball game. In basketball, there are unwritten rules about what fouls the referees will or won’t call, and when, and on which players. It’s easy to tell when an unwritten rule has been broken. There’s a coast-to-coast roar of shock and outrage that emanates from bars, living rooms and sports books, followed by an announcer wryly observing that nobody buys a ticket to see the refs, or to watch a superstar sit on the bench with three fouls in…
Paying $2 for a lottery ticket is like buying a cheap daydream. Visions of unlimited wealth dance in your head — until the numbers are drawn and the ticket ends up in the trash. For Edwin Castro, 33, that daydream turned reality when the ticket matched all six numbers in a 2022 Powerball drawing, making him a $2.04 billion winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in world history, according to the California Lottery. His winnings were halved after he opted for a lump-sum payment, and the lottery deducted 24% for federal taxes before issuing an award of $758 million. His actual…
By TED ANTHONY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — On the first weekend: a vision of the nation built upon inclusivity and the tenets of liberalism — a conception of country that incorporates generations of fights for equity, for compassion, for expanding what it means to be an American. On the second weekend, in the same town: a public show of strength and nationalism constructed on a foundation of military might, law and order, a tour de force of force. And on the days in between: a city 2,000 miles from the capital locked in pitched battles over the use —…
A lifelong friend texted the group chat the other day. His father — later a Conrad scholar and Caltech professor out of Pomona College and CGU and a famous bon vivant in Southland literature circles — landed on the Iwo Jima beach as a lieutenant in the United States Marines. My friend’s text: “My dad would be rolling over in his grave.” David Smith had led a contingent of 46 Marines (of whom only seven survived) to take a hill from the Japanese Imperial Army in an engagement known as Cushman’s Pocket. “And we paid the price, particularly as they…
California is increasing restrictions at its highest security men’s prisons, including at a facility in Los Angeles County where two officers have been stabbed in the last 10 days, as it conducts investigations into a “concerning rise” in violence, drug overdoses and contraband. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced the immediate implementation of a “modified program” at 21 of its Level III and Level IV — the two highest security tiers — facilities across the state in a press release Thursday, June 12. A modified program is not a full lockdown, but it does impose severe restrictions on…