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Microsoft unveils Xbox One! Layoffs at ESPN. Box-office pressure.

2013-05-22 07:31:00

After the coffee. Before waiting for Xbox One to change my world. The Skinny: I may be in the minority, but I'm not looking for more interaction with my TV. I spend my days interacting and it is mostly a frustrating experience. I don't want to be...

FBI spied on Fox News reporter, accused him of crime

2013-05-20 21:15:00

WASHINGTON — The FBI obtained a sealed search warrant to read a Fox News reporter's personal emails from two days in 2010 after arguing there was probable cause he had violated espionage laws by soliciting classified information from a government...

They said it: Quotes from around baseball

2013-05-18 17:50:00

"I want him to play 100 miles an hour with his hair on fire." — Washington Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo, to the Washington Post, rejecting suggestions that Bryce Harper should play cautiously in the outfield after injuring himself crashing...

Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Doctor Who'

2013-05-17 12:18:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 19 - 25, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES Doctor Who The Doctor's (Matt Smith)...

Short sales routinely show up in credit reports as foreclosures

2013-05-17 20:20:00

WASHINGTON — Are large numbers of homeowners who have negotiated short sales with lenders at risk because of a startling omission in the American credit system? Do their credit reports and scores indicate that they were foreclosed upon, rather...

'Star Trek Into Darkness' a worthy enterprise, critics say

2013-05-18 12:11:00

It wouldn't be quite accurate to say that J.J. Abrams' 2009 "Star Trek" reboot boldly went where no man had gone before. After all, such familiar faces such as Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and Uhura were along for the ride (though played by new actors), as was...

Friday roundup: DOJ and Apple, John Green's commencement speech

2013-05-17 09:46:00

John Green, bestselling and prize-winning author of young adult novels including "The Fault In Our Stars" and "Looking for Alaska," gave the commencement address at Butler University on May 11. It's witty, smart, thoughtful, and going viral; if you...

Friday's TV Highlights: 'Shark Tank' on ABC

2013-05-16 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � SERIES Undercover Boss Following last week'...

Cannes keeps being film industry's place to be

2013-05-15 06:00:00

— It's been 42 years since I first covered the Cannes Film Festival. Arriving on the French Riviera this week, I was struck by how Cannes has remained the quintessential place for film, despite enormous changes in the cinema landscape. Cannes...

IRS unites nation with shoddy treatment of tea party groups

2013-05-14 08:45:00

Finally, a small cadre of busybody bureaucrats has discovered a way to bring this divided country together. Thank you, IRS, for pulling off what no politician has been able to do. Mortal political enemies on both sides of the aisle agree: The IRS...

Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist

2013-05-13 20:12:00

Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...

GOP slams fundraising, other efforts to promote Obama health law

2013-05-13 20:14:00

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have opened a new line of attack on President Obama's healthcare law, charging that the administration has improperly sought help from the healthcare industry and other outside groups to implement the...

White House press secretary Jay Carney starts a daily news briefing with a joke of the "many faces of Jay Carney," supplied to him by the Washington Post, of moments from his testy briefing on the IRS, Benghazi and the AP leak.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Tuna shows off his ability to bowl during the Amazing Acro Cats show at the Port Tobacco Theater Sunday May 5, 2013 in La Plata, MD. He got a strike. The cats jump through hoops, raise flags and play musical instruments. They're now headed to Michigan..

2013-05-05 00:00:00

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