But on the demise of the previous world order – underwritten by US-led institutions and alliances – Washington seems in sync. “A divide has opened up between Europe and the United States,” Merz said. “The United States’ claim to leadership has been challenged, and possibly lost,” he said. “In the era of great power rivalry, even the United States will not be powerful enough to go it alone,” Merz cautioned. Today only the United States can stop Putin.

›Casey Wasserman, the head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and a prominent Los Angeles entertainment executive, has announced plans to sell his talent agency Wasserman Group after dozens of musicians and performers departed the firm following the release of emails between Wasserman and Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wasserman's agency, which represents over 4,000 performers and athletes, was a major acquisition target in 2021 when it bought Paradigm's North American music division. On February 13, 2026, Wasserman announced he would sell the Wasserman Group talent agency. The players Casey Wasserman A Los Angeles entertainment executive, the chair of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, and the founder of the Wasserman Group talent agency. Chappell Roan A Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who announced she would leave Wasserman's agency.

), another leading advocate of regulating AI, said the industry is trying “to make sure that they can continue doing whatever they want.”“It’s a problem,” she added. AI companies have modeled their lobbying efforts after crypto-backed groups, another influential segment of the tech industry that invested heavily in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Leading The Future, the main pro-AI industry super PAC backed by OpenAI, plans to spend at least $100 million to support candidates who favor AI adoption with minimal regulatory hindrances. AdvertisementMeanwhile, Anthropic, another AI company founded by former OpenAI executives, announced this week that it is investing $20 million in another super PAC focused on strengthening industry guardrails. The dueling AI super PACs could upend both parties’ coalitions and the tech industry itself.

According to the leading mental health charity Mind, 1 in 5 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (like anxiety and depression) in any given week in England. Additionally, the overall number of people reporting mental health problems has been rising in recent years. AdvertisementNow, a new review by psycholologists from James Cook University has revealed that some exercises can be beneficial in tackling common mental health issues and the symptoms that come with them. We found exercising had a high impact on depression symptoms, and a medium impact on anxiety, compared to staying inactive. “The benefits were comparable to, and in some cases better than, more widely prescribed mental health treatments, including therapy and antidepressants.

A state contractor plugged all 21 oil wells at the AllenCo Energy drill site in University Park, preventing the release of noxious gases and chemical vapors into the densely populated South Los Angeles neighborhood. This month, the California Department of Conservation’s Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) finished capping the remaining unplugged wells with help from Biden-era federal funding. The company drastically boosted oil production, but failed to properly maintain its equipment, resulting in oil spills and gas leaks. The AllenCo wells were prioritized and plugged this week as part of a CalGEM program to identify and permanently cap high-risk oil and gas wells. Tens of thousands of unproductive and unplugged oil wells have been abandoned across California — many of which continue to leak potentially explosive methane or toxic benzene.

TLDRCalifornia has introduced a new ticketing bill, the California Fans First Act, that would impose price caps on tickets sold in the resale market, limiting prices to no more than 10% above the ticket’s face value. The bill aims to make resale tickets more affordable for fans and would apply only to shows in California, excluding tickets to sporting events.

AdvertisementZain Lakhani, WRC’s director of migrant rights and justice, estimates hundreds of parents deported to Honduras have been separated from their families. But even during that time —the most notorious and sweeping example of family separation in recent history — there were more robust directives in place that were meant to minimize family separation. More than 30 children in seven states have entered foster care after their parents were deported, a NOTUS investigation found, and there are likely many more since there’s no comprehensive national database that tracks where kids end up after their parents are deported. “We didn’t go in thinking we were going to find so many instances of really forcible family separation,” Heisler said. AdvertisementThere are now six times as many children detained in ICE detention centers as there were at the beginning of 2025, according to The Marshall Project.

Lately, when our adult child has been over to visit and we step away to share a joint, they’ll comment “I thought you only smoked on these days” or something to that extent. Our adult child is aware of this. I’d like to mention that up to a year ago, this adult child smoked marijuana with us at times. When these comments start coming, I want to tell this adult child that it’s none of their business what we do in our home. — Senior HighHigh: Bring it up to your child in a neutral manner and ask your adult child to have a discussion with you about it.

The leaders of seven states announced Friday, one day before a Trump administration deadline, that there is still no deal to share the diminishing waters of the Colorado River. That leaves the Southwest in a quagmire with uncertain repercussions while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline. Babbitt, who was Interior secretary under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, said he thinks the Trump administration’s options are too narrow and inadequate. They would place the burden of water cuts on Arizona, California and Nevada while not requiring any for the four other upriver states — Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico. In a written statement, they stressed they are already dealing with substantial water cuts, and said their downstream neighbors are trying to secure water “that simply does not exist.”___©2026 Los Angeles Times.

Two weeks out from the Super Bowl, the trusty old plasma-screen TV I bought in 2008 gave up the ghost. I also never really cottoned to the binge-watchable TV series revolution; multi-episode, multi-season storyline arcs of prestige series frequently just lost me. Paul Fischer’s sprawling new history, “The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg — and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema,” provides plenty of biographical texture for what surely was a golden age. It traces the intertwined careers of a group of young men who first barged into Hollywood, determined to make more “personal” films just as the old studio system was running out of steam. The three main protagonists, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, end up in different places, though all three prove Murch right in their own way.

A federal agent was injured during a clash with protesters in downtown Los Angeles on Friday afternoon, authorities said. Three federal agents were injured during a clash with protesters in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, authorities said. The incident occurred as scores of local students walked out of class in protest of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. AdvertisementBill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in L.A., said federal officers are being sent to downtown federal buildings in response to an uptick in violence. Friday’s protest is the latest in a series of demonstrations over immigration actions and deportations being carried out by federal agents across the country.

While menopause is a stage in every woman’s life, there is still so much we don’t know about the transitional period and the impacts it has on the body beyond the stereotypical symptoms such as hot flashes and mood swings. They placed participants into three groups: pre-menopausal, post-menopausal and post-menopausal with HRT. Women who used HRT typically began treatment around the same age. AdvertisementThey found that menopause was associated with poorer sleep, increased mental health problems and even changes within the brain itself. Writing for The Conversation, the researchers said: “Post-menopausal women were more likely than pre-menopausal women to report symptoms of anxiety and depression.

With everything available instantly, it’s no surprise that some singles are craving the opposite — a rewind to romance, old-school style. Think of retromancing as a return to old-school dating — essentially anything we could’ve done in the ’90s or earlier. Think homemade meals instead of reservations, phone calls over text messages, and handwritten love notes rather than extravagant gifts. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement“Retromancing is a throwback to old-school romance,” said Michael Kaye, dating expert at Plenty of Fish. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementSo is retromancing actually better for couples?

Four years later, the Coastal Act became state law, regulating development in collaboration with local government agencies, guaranteeing public access and protecting marine and coastal habitats. During that time, the McCoys were locked in a fight worth revisiting now, on the 50th anniversary of the Coastal Act. Mike McCoy knew the roughly 2,500-acre space was already something useful, and vitally important. At a 1977 Imperial Beach meeting packed with marina supporters, Mike McCoy drew his line in the sand. Coastal conservationist Mike McCoy looks at a new interpretive sign at the Tijuana Estuary in Imperial Beach on Friday.

A judge declared a mistrial after a jury could not reach a verdict in a case involving five current and former students charged with felonies. The jury deadlocked, with nine jurors for and three against convicting on the vandalism charge, and eight for and four against convicting on conspiracy. The detailsOn June 5, 2024, police arrested 13 people in connection with breaking into the office of the Stanford president early that morning and barricading themselves inside. On June 5, 2024, police arrested 13 people in connection with the protests at Stanford. The players Jeff Rosen The district attorney for Santa Clara County who plans to retry the case.