Los Angeles Times2 min read
Clippers Were Simply Bad In Blowout Loss To Atlanta Hawks
Bad. Bad. Bad. There really was no other way to describe the unsightly basketball the Clippers played Sunday night during a disheartening 110-93 loss to an underwhelming Atlanta Hawks team at Crypto.com Arena. That the Clippers got down by 29 points
Los Angeles Times5 min read
Column: Cal-Mex Is Having A Moment In New York. But How Does It Taste?
NEW YORK — When I'm in New York, the thing I love to do more than anything is eat. Slabs of roast pork, skin as brittle and sweet as toffee and bathed in vinegar garlic sauce at Dominican spots in Washington Heights. Cheesy, cheap pizza slices in Mid
Los Angeles Times5 min read
Why Your Favorite Streaming Shows Are Showing Up On Old-fashioned TV
In the late 1990s, NBC ran a promotional campaign with the slogan, "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you," aimed at boosting summer reruns of such hits as "Mad About You" and "Frasier." Updated for 2024, the line would be, "If you haven't streamed
Los Angeles Times6 min read
He Built A Mini-Disneyland In His Backyard — And You Can Walk Through It This Spring
LOS ANGELES — The castle is immaculate, its gold etching regal and its towers a bold shade of sky blue. The band at its gates plays no real instruments, but the musicians look dapper and at the ready. Before it all sits an elongated train station, a
Los Angeles Times4 min read
California Unlikely To Meet Landmark Goals For Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
LOS ANGELES — California is poised to fail to meet its ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goals by the end of the decade unless it can triple its efforts to reduce carbon emissions statewide, according to a critical new report. Although the state has
Los Angeles Times4 min read
Bill Plaschke: No Anthony Davis? Struggling Lakers Have No Chance If He's Out
It was a forearm to the eye. It was a punch to the gut. It was routine contact on a routine drive. It was an extraordinary symbol of a season skidding. In the final minutes of the first quarter of the Lakers' nationally televised showdown with the Go
Los Angeles Times1 min read
Woman Flees Police Chase In Venice Beach, Drives Into Ocean With Two Dogs
A dramatic police chase ended in the ocean late Saturday night after a woman, with two dogs in the backseat, drove her car straight into the waves just south of the Venice pier. About 11:21 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers attempted to pull
Los Angeles Times8 min read
California Sikhs Are Driving A Separatist Movement. India Calls Them Terrorists
STOCKTON, Calif. — This farming city in the Central Valley has made headlines for its financial struggles and its annual asparagus festival. But thousands of miles away in India, it is a symbol of terrorism. To hear the Hindu-dominated media and gove
Los Angeles Times10 min readWorld
Israel’s Religious Right Has A Clear Plan For Gaza: ‘We Are Occupying, Deporting And Settling’
YITZHAR, West Bank — Carrying planks of plywood, a group of Israeli settlers pushed past soldiers guarding the barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip and quickly got to work. Within minutes, the young men had erected two small buildings — outposts, they
Los Angeles Times3 min read
Editorial: California’s Rat Poison Bans Aren’t Working. Wild Animals And Pets Are Still Dying
For at least a decade, California has tried to restrict the use of rat poison so it stops killing all manner of creatures besides rats. So far, it hasn’t worked. When a wild animal preys upon a rat that has ingested anticoagulant rodenticide, it can
Los Angeles Times5 min read
LA's Oaxacan Community Rallies After Wildfire Devastates A Region Of Mexico Famed For Its Mezcal
The photos and videos began flooding in Feb. 27. In a region of Oaxaca famous for its flavorful mezcal, a wildfire was raging dangerously close to the town of San Lucas Quiaviní. Massive plumes of smoke choked the horizon as the flames drove toward t
Los Angeles Times4 min read
'It Can Be Galvanizing.' How Dodgers' Korea Trip Could Help Bond Their New-look Team
SEOUL — As soon as the question was asked, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts grabbed at the translator listening device sitting in front of them, eager to hear how new teammate Shohei Ohtani would answer. Before the Dodgers' first full workout in Sout
Los Angeles Times4 min read
Gary Klein: Aaron Donald Used His Strength, Mind And Humor To Power A Bigger-than-football Persona
LOS ANGELES — The Rams’ 2023 season had ended. An emotional defeat in an NFC wild-card game at Detroit closed a successful run for star defensive lineman Aaron Donald and his mostly younger teammates. Disappointment coursed through the visiting locke
Los Angeles Times2 min readCrime & Violence
Southern California Councilman Caught Peeing On Door Outside A Bar Resigns
LOS ANGELES — A councilman who went No. 1 has been 86'd from his post. Crescenta Valley Town Council Member Chris Kilpatrick resigned from office after surveillance video showed him and another man urinating outside an LGBTQ+ bar in downtown Los Ange
Los Angeles Times5 min read
Amid Board Squabbles, Angel City Seeking New Owner For Controlling Stake Of Franchise
LOS ANGELES — Angel City, the most valuable franchise in the history of U.S. women's sports, might soon have a new controlling owner after its board hired a New York investment bank to manage a sale of the NWSL club. The team's four principle owners
Los Angeles Times4 min readCrime & Violence
Editorial: San Francisco Voters Rejected The Removal Of Two Judges. It’s A Win For Independence In The Court
San Francisco voters made national news in the March primary election by adopting two ballot measures that until recently would have been unthinkable in their famously liberal city. The measures to expand police powers and require drug testing of wel
Los Angeles Times4 min read
Dylan Hernández: Yoshinobu Yamamoto's Success Rooted In A Willingness To Change
OSAKA, Japan — Yoshinobu Yamamato did what? In the underground parking lot of Kyocera Dome after a recent exhibition game, Orix Buffaloes pitching coach Masafumi Hirai chuckled when recalling how he reacted to hearing that Yamamoto reported to spring
Los Angeles Times4 min read
New Rooms, Tours, Activities: Queen Mary Is Royal Again, Long Beach Says. But At A Whopping Cost
LOS ANGELES -- Repairs for the Queen Mary have cost the city of Long Beach more than $45 million over the last eight years, according to city records obtained by The Times, a hefty bill as the city looks to keep the historic ship on a fledgling path
Los Angeles Times2 min read
Shohei Ohtani Defers Question About His Wife, Japanese Basketball Player Mamiko Tanaka
LOS ANGELES — Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani surprised most everyone when he announced Feb. 29 on Instagram that he had gotten married. He provided no other details, not even his wife's name, on social media and when he spoke to reporters later that
Los Angeles Times5 min readCrime & Violence
Sophisticated 'Burglary Tourists' Fly From South America To Rob Wealthy Homes, LAPD Says
LOS ANGELES — In the desert around Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday, police officers hunted for a member of an international heist ring suspected of swiping jewels and luxury goods from homes across Los Angeles. Using helicopters and drones, they event
Los Angeles Times2 min readCrime & Violence
Good Samaritan Stabbed To Death While Trying To Quell Altercation Between His Neighbors
LOS ANGELES — A man trying to rescue a neighbor from a violent assault in a Westminster apartment complex was stabbed to death early Saturday morning, authorities said. Alvaro Martin-Perez, 48, was trying to intervene in a dispute between roommates w
Los Angeles Times6 min read
One Far-right Leader Ousted. Another Barely Hangs On. Is Northern California County Rejecting MAGA Politics?
LOS ANGELES — Shasta County voters have booted from office a key figure in the county’s hard-right shift, even as the fate of a second far-right crusader on the powerful Board of Supervisors still hangs in the balance. Patrick Jones, a former chair o
Los Angeles Times2 min read
Climate Change Protesters Disrupt Jeremy Strong's Broadway Play 'An Enemy Of The People'
A trio of climate change protesters disrupted a Broadway preview of "An Enemy of the People" on Thursday night in what some audience members — including critics — initially thought was a scripted moment. The disruption came during an immersive town h
Los Angeles Times2 min read
A United Airlines Plane External Panel Discovered Missing After Oregon Flight
A section of a United Airlines aircraft was discovered missing upon inspection Friday afternoon in Southern Oregon, adding to a growing list of mishaps for the airline. United Airlines Flight 433 took off from San Francisco and successfully landed 90
Los Angeles Times4 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Commentary: AI Doesn’t Have All The Answers — Especially This Election Season
With primaries underway, and voters returning in the fall for a high-stakes presidential election, it is likely that many people will be — knowingly or unknowingly — using artificial intelligence platforms to answer questions of where, when and how t
Los Angeles Times5 min readCrime & Violence
Judge Rules Fani Willis Can Continue To Lead Georgia Trump Case
A judge ruled Friday that Fulton County Dist. Atty. Fani Willis can continue to lead the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump as her romantic relationship with her lead prosecutor did not amount to a direct confli
Los Angeles Times2 min read
Rams Superstar Aaron Donald Announces He'll Retire
LOS ANGELES — Aaron Donald, one of the greatest defensive linemen in NFL history, announced his retirement Friday. Donald, who will turn 33 in May, is a three-time NFL defensive player of the year. He amassed 111 sacks in 10 seasons for the Rams aft
Los Angeles Times2 min read
Fox News Sued By Family Of Ukrainian Producer Who Died Covering Russian Invasion
The family of a producer who was killed while covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Fox News, saying the network's negligence resulted in her death. The wrongful death suit filed Thursday in New York court by the parent
Los Angeles Times5 min read
Review: 'Manhunt' Takes Some Liberties To Depict The Real-life Chase For Lincoln's Killer
Abraham Lincoln — perhaps you've heard of him? Sixteenth president of the United States, assassinated five days after the end of the Civil War at Ford's Theatre. John Wilkes Booth. Sic semper tyrannis. Well, I don't know what they're teaching in scho
Los Angeles Times3 min read
Kanye West Barely Performs In Headlining Set At Rolling Loud
LOS ANGELES — Whatever Kanye West was paid to headline the first night of this weekend's Rolling Loud California festival, it was easy money. Onstage for about an hour Thursday evening with Ty Dolla Sign — his partner on the chart-topping "Vultures 1
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