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Luis Tiant, who pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and himself to the doorstep of baseball’s Hall of Fame, has died. He was 83.
World & Nation
Many Cubans are waiting in anguish as electricity on much of the island has yet to be totally restored after days of blackout.
Entertainment & Arts
At the Golden Globes, ‘Anora’ star Mark Eydelshteyn recounts receiving an unsolicited phone number written in lipstick.
In churches across long-stifled Syria, Christians have marked the first Sunday services since Bashar Assad’s ouster in an air of transformation.
California
Mark Murphy, three-time mayor of Orange, has died. Nicknamed “Mr. Orange,” Murphy was among the city’s fiercest boosters.
First called the Santa Claus Lane Parade, the event has been held every year except 1942 through 1944 during World War II and in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
About 200 men, some from the neighboring Twin Towers lockup, attended this year’s Christmas Mass at Men’s Central Jail in downtown L.A., celebrated by Archbishop José Gomez.
The 136th Rose Parade kicked off at 8 a.m. PST on New Year’s Day and rolled along 5.5 miles of Pasadena streets before a crowd of hundreds of thousands.
Next year’s events that are visible to Californians include a rare peek at Mercury; Venus and Jupiter cozying up; and a total lunar eclipse.
A holiday honoring Panamanians killed protesting the U.S. presence there in 1964 takes on added resonance amid Trump’s threats to retake the Panama Canal.