The New York criminal trial of former President Donald Trump is well underway, and recent testimony has shined a spotlight on an often-maligned practice of journalism: "catch-and-kill." The practice, while having been used for years, has seen a resurgence in the headlines after testimony in the Trump trial by David Pecker, the former publisher of the tabloid magazine the National Enquirer. While generally looked down upon by reporters at major news organizations, catch-and-kill journalism — and the overall practice of paying sources for stories — remains commonplace in the tabloid...

Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger showed off his handyman skills Tuesday when he posted a video of himself filling in what he said was a pothole that was wreaking havoc with drivers in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood. But the pothole reportedly wasn’t a pothole at all, but rather a permitted service trench created by the local gas utility. “This location is not a pothole,” a spokesperson for the City of Los Angeles told NBC Los Angeles. “It’s a service trench that relates to active, permitted work being performed...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The “giant pothole” that Arnold Schwarzenegger said he recently filled on a street in his Los Angeles neighborhood was actually a trench that had been dug for utility work, according to the city. Southern California Gas Co. had covered the trench with temporary asphalt that was to be replaced with a permanent surface, the Los Angeles Department of Public Works said in a statement. “We have notified the Gas Company of the issue and the need for them to maintain the site pavement until their permanent...

There's a fresh patch of asphalt on Mandeville Canyon Road in Brentwood thanks to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his crew. The action hero and his team filled what they believed to be a pothole in his neighborhood after getting tired of waiting for the city to fix it themselves. "I thought that's great," said cyclist Casper Caspian. "He's a man of the people." However, after his gracious act, the City of Los Angeles somewhat clapped back at the former governor saying it was in fact not a pothole but...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger called out SoCalGas Thursday over his viral "pothole" fix after the utility company responded to the repair. Earlier this week, the former California governor said his neighborhood had been waiting weeks for the reported pothole to be fixed. So he got his hands on some Quikrete and did the work himself with help from his team. NOTE: The video above is from a previous report. However, the Los Angeles Department of Public Works said it wasn't really a pothole, but a service trench that...

Movie star and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made headlines earlier this week by personally filling in a pothole near his Los Angeles home. Except it wasn’t a pothole, the city said, but rather a service trench used by utility company SoCal Gas. The former governor tweeted out a video Tuesday showing him and a few others filling in a large hole on a street in Brentwood. In the post, Mr. Schwarzenegger said that the hole had bothered his wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood for weeks. “Today, after the whole neighborhood...

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is in trouble, but for the strangest of reasons. The drama started Tuesday when Schwarzenegger posted a video to Twitter showing him filling in an ostensible giant pothole in a Los Angeles community. Seems like a nice deed, no? And indeed, in the video above a motorist stops by to thank Schwarzenegger. Plus, the deed has prompted massive praise for him from social media. Granted, it has also prompted massive criticism for the city. The city claims the pothole wasn’t actually a pothole. Huh? “This...