By Matt Cantor
Kanye West is suspected of felony attempted robbery after a brief dust-up with a paparazzo at LAX, according to TMZ . At the airport, “five photographers started shooting pictures of him and one of them was over the microphone and was saying stuff to him,” a witness tells the Los Angeles… …read more
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Head ten minutes south of LAX on the 405, exit at El Segundo and you’ll blunder upon a 200,000-square-foot concrete bunker lurking among the strip malls in this seedy bit of Los Angeles County. The low-slung structure, surrounded by a black iron fence, was once an aircraft parts factory. It now houses the design laboratories of Mattel, Inc., the world’s largest toymaker, and deep inside the high-security facility a crack, roughly 12-person team of screenwriters, computer animators, comic book artists and industrial designers are busy engineering the next great American toy: Max Steel.
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Megan Fox is officially a redhead.
X17online.com has photos of the 26-year-old actress debuting her fiery new locks while arriving at LAX airport on April 4 with her husband Brian Austin Green and their baby boy Noah.
Fox reportedly dyed her hair for her upcoming role as April O’Neil in Michael Bay’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”
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Toyota has worked up a quick video detailing the brand’s involvement in the transportation of the Space Shuttle Endeavour last year. As you may recollect, the California Science Center ran into a hitch when it came to moving Endeavour from LAX to its new home. While most of the route would be covered by a robotically controlled transporter, one portion of the route directed the shuttle over an interstate. Unfortunately, the bridge across wasn’t designed to stand up to the weight of the shuttle and its motorized sled.
The Science Center would have to remove Endeavour from its transporter and place it on a lighter, non-motorized sled. That’s where longtime Science Center sponsor Toyota came in. As it turns out, the automaker had to prove to the California Science Center that a Tundra could actually tow the massive shuttle, so engineers put on a little demonstration with a stock truck pulling the equivalent weight over flat ground for the same distance. Once the Science Center was satisfied that the Tundra could pull it off, the move was green lit and the rest is history. Check out the short documentary below for yourself.
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
Rihanna jetted out of LAX on Sunday in wearing a comfortable-looking sweatsuit. We understand: Any time a long-haul flight is involved, our first instinct is to grab something with an elastic waist. But we were perplexed when we saw the superstar pairing her DKNY for Opening Ceremony hooded jumpsuit with pointy toe boots. Kinda defeats the purpose of being comfortable, no?
RiRi obviously was feeling the toll of the long trip because when she arrived in London, her outfit was decidedly less glamorous. She replaced her sexy boots with sneakers and added an oversized jacket for an extra layer of warmth.
Rihanna isn’t alone in her love for sweatpants. Her gal Katy Perry stepped out in New York City with beau John Mayer wearing Chanel sweats, and Jennifer Lopez has been flaunting her love for terry cloth for years.
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Kirsten Dunst and boyfriend Garrett Hedlund arrived at LAX yesterday to catch a flight in Paris. The duo landed at Roissy Airport today and made their way through the crowds with their luggage in hand. Kirsten and Garrett are joining the many stars in France for Paris Fashion Week, including Kanye West, Jessica Alba, and Jessica Chastain.
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
1:21 P.M. EST
MR. CARNEY: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for being here. As you can see, I have a guest with me today for the daily briefing. Secretary Janet Napolitano is here to speak with you about the effects of sequester — sequestration — if it is allowed to take place, what those effects would be on her department.
As you heard from Secretary LaHood last week from this podium and Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, over the weekend, the impacts of sequester will be felt if sequester takes place, in a variety of ways — in education and defense spending and transportation, air traffic control and the like, and certainly with regards to our homeland security.
So as we did with Secretary LaHood, I’d ask that you allow Secretary Napolitano to give a topper, some remarks at the top, then she’ll take questions from you specific to her. If you could hold questions that you expect I’ll be more appropriate to answer until we can allow the Secretary to leave and then I’ll take those questions.
And with that, I turn it over to Secretary Napolitano.
SECRETARY NAPOLITANO: Thank you, Jay. And I appreciate the opportunity to discuss the impacts of sequestration on the operations of the Department of Homeland Security. As a primer, DHS has a very broad mission and we touch almost every aspect of the economy. We secure the aviation sector. We screen two million domestic air travelers a day. We protect our borders, our ports of entry. We facilitate legitimate travel and trade. Last year, our CBP officers processed more than 350 million people and processed over $2.3 trillion in trade. We enforce the immigration laws. We partner with the private sector to protect critical infrastructure. We work with states and local communities to prepare for and respond to disasters of all types, like Hurricane Sandy, while supporting recovery and rebuilding.
Put simply, the automatic budget reduction mandated by sequestration would be disruptive and destructive to our nation’s security and economy. It would negatively affect the mission readiness and capabilities of the men and women on our frontlines. It would undermine the significant progress we’ve made over the past 10 years to build the nation’s preparedness and resiliency.
Perhaps most critically, it would have serious consequences to the flow of trade and travel at our nation’s ports of entry. We will have to begin to furlough customs and border protection officers who staff those ports. At the major international airports, we will be limited in accepting new international flights, and average wait times to clear customs will increase by as much as 50 percent. And at our busiest airports like Newark and JFK, LAX and O’Hare, peak wait times, which can reach over two hours, could easily grow to four hours or more. Such delays will cause thousands of missed-passenger …read more
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 (UPI) — Emad Burnat, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “5 Broken Cameras,” was detained by officials at Los Angeles International Airport.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West kissed on the balcony of their Rio de Janeiro hotel today. Kim was still sporting the sheer top she wore when she caught her flight out of LAX yesterday. She later changed into a blue dress that showed off her baby bump to grab lunch with Kanye.
Kim and Kanye are in Brazil just in time for the start of Carnival, which kicks off tomorrow and continues through Fat Tuesday. The festival will bring plenty of excitement for the couple, who already have a lot to look forward to with the upcoming arrival of their first child. Kim is due in July and has been open about her pregnancy since it was announced in December. She’s also shifting her priorities and reveals that Kanye is more important than her family in the upcoming episode of Kourtney & Kim Take Miami.
Despite being in different cities, Jennifer Lawrence (at Heathrow airport) and Emmy Rossum (at LAX) did have one thing in common: both took on one of our favorite Winter coat silhouettes – the always cool leather-sleeved coat – with jet-setting ease. Jennifer’s black version, adorned with gold buttons, proved very military-inspired, while Emmy kept herself warm in a navy coat with black leather sleeves. With this kind of mixed-media outerwear, you can style it two ways, and take it from these ladies on just how to do it. Jennifer completed her London look with gray ripped jeans, black booties, and a purple hat, and Emmy finished her outfit with faded blue skinny jeans, black ballet flats, and this Jimmy Choo chain-embellished bag ($1,795). Now, for the fun part: shop our editors’ picks below to get the same kind of cool leather-sleeved Winter look.
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With A Good Day To Die Hard due to explode into cinemas any second, we present the definitive A-Z of the Die Hard universe. Taking in all characters great and small, from Argyle to Zeus via the McClanes, the Grubers and those bloody Johnsons, this entire alphabet has blown up more helicopters, smoked more cigarettes and uttered the MF word more times than is strictly healthy. Yippee-Ki-Yay!
Jive-talking limo driver Argyle is John McClane’s exposition sponge in the first Die Hard movie, happy to sit back and drive his customer from LAX to Nakatomi Plaza while our hero conveniently fills us in on his profession, marital status and state of mind. He’s left to chill in the underground car park listening to Stevie Wonder until he rams the terrorists’ escape ambulance and saves the day. Hooray for Argyle, the real hero of Die Hard!
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies
The son of the former Los Angeles fire chief has been sentenced to a year in federal prison and fined $6,000 for heading a marijuana-smuggling ring in which he bribed security officers to get pot-filled suitcases on flights from LA to Boston.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 24-year-old Millage Peaks IV received the sentence Monday. He also was given three years’ probation.
Co-defendant Randy Littlefield is one of two former Transportation Security Administration officers who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the case. Littlefield received eight months in prison and three years’ probation. The other agent is awaiting sentencing.
Prosecutors say Peaks paid between $200 and $500 to get at least 10 shipments of pot through security at Los Angeles International Airport in 2010 and 2011.
Peaks’ father, Millage Peaks III, retired as LA‘s fire chief 2011.
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