Also: Always ask for an itemized bill. Medical billing is notoriously complicated and rife with errors. An itemized bill includes the billing codes of all care received. If something is off between these codes and the care provided, contesting your bill can yield changes.
“I didn’t come into this knowing how to be a role model,” Kaling says. “That’s been kind of a fun part of this, helping young women who are pretty different than the way that I was at 24, 25.”The world of basketball is one that Kaling has long been a fan of. Growing up in Boston, she would watch Celtics games with her dad: “My dad and my mom are both immigrants and one of the ways that my dad decided he was going to be an American citizen was by embracing the sports here.”
Before she moved to Los Angeles, Mindy Kaling grew up in Boston and was a Celtics fan. (Feb. 25)Kaling visited the Lakers’ facility, where she saw players likealong with “their enormous lockers.”
“That mystique will never be broken for me,” she says. “We know now a little bit more about how the sausage is made, but it’s still just as exciting.”Kaling hopes to pass on the family’s favorite sport to her three children: daughters Katherine and Anne and son Spencer.
“LA culture and the Lakers is so different than any other city,” said Kaling. “I became a Lakers fan and I want my kids to be able to root for the team that they grew up around.”
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In a story published May 22, 2025, about recent aircraft tragedies, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of a small plane crash in Boca Raton, Florida. The crash happened April 11, not May 16.This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.
Talks aimed at settling a strike between train engineers and New Jersey’s huge commuter railroad resumed Saturday and are set to continue Sunday, New Jersey Transit CEO Kris Kolluri said.The locomotive engineers’ strike began Friday at the rail system with 100,000 daily riders and left commuters either working from home or