New Year's Rose Parade to proceed despite COVID-19 surge

50-year record. This year’s number is the lowest since 2011, when 265 titles qualified. The last time the number of eligible films was below 300 was 2013, when there were 289.

The Viking empire is growing.

A hoaxer who posed as a 17-year-old schoolboy while in his 30s has had his bizarre story turned into a film featuring Aberfeldy -born actor Alan Cumming.

In what may be the first sign of the beginning of the end of the Omicron surge in Los Angeles, the 7-day average daily rate of people testing positive for the virus has fallen dramatically in the past week. Test positivity is considered a better measure of the rate of spread than raw case counts because it is a percentage that is averaged over a week’s time.

On Saturday, Los Angeles County passed the milestone of 28,000 Covid-related deaths, reporting 66 new deaths, as well as 41,765 new positive cases. Today’s death count is the highest  the Department of Public Health has reported in a single day since April 2, 2021, with daily deaths having increased fourfold in the course of the last week alone.

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Shah-mazing or fashion fail? Jen Shah arrived to the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City reunion in a very over-the-top Jean Louis Sabaji purple velvet gown — and it didn’t take long for the memes to star rolling it. 

Joe Biden announced plans for a wider distribution of at-home Covid tests and higher quality masks, as much of the country grapples with a dramatic increase in cases due to the omicron variant.

With infections still surging, Los Angeles County’s cumulative number of Covid cases throughout the pandemic surpassed the 2 million mark today, with 43,582 new cases confirmed. Those new cases lifted the county’s cumulative case total to 2,010,964 since the pandemic began. Daily cases in the county set an all-time high on Sunday at 45,584.

Mourning Bob Saget. Following the How I Met Your Mother alum’s sudden death on Sunday, January 9, the late actor’s former costars penned touching tributes in his honor.

The Omicron surge in Los Angeles County is showing no signs of slowing down.

Everyone knows the 1964 dark comedy Dr. Strangelove, a Stanley Kubrick film which satirized Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict.

Los Angeles County’s 43,712 new Covid infections today is the highest daily total of the entire pandemic, breaking a record set just 24 hours before, when 37,215 new cases were announced. Thursday’s number had, in turn, skyrocketed up over 10,000 cases from 26,754 the day before.

Los Angeles County reported a staggering 37,215 new Covid-19 cases today, by far the highest single-day number of the entire pandemic. Hospitalizations and deaths have doubled in the past week as well, although those counts are still well short of the peaks set during last winter’s surge in infections.

Spooked by a record number of new omicron cases emerging in the state, public health officials have extended their expiring mandate that masks must be worn indoors at last until Feb. 15

football bowl games, ESPN had the highest prime-time average of any network last week, at 8.09 million. Fox News Channel was the second-ranked cable network at 1.72 million, Paramount had 1.59 million, Hallmark had 1.3 million and HGTV had 1.07 million.Evening news ratings were not immediately available.For the week of Dec. 27 to Jan.