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Thousands of foreign fighters have bolstered the ranks of militant groups in Syria and Iraq in recent months, according to U.S. officials, driving fresh concern about potential terrorist plots aimed at the United States or its allies.
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A crackdown on smuggling rings bringing thousands of Central American children to the U.S. has resulted in 192 arrests and the seizure of $625,000 in U.S. bank holdings, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced.
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There may be no more self-abasing profession than politics.
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Northern California woman accused of killing another husband
An El Dorado County woman once accused of killing her second husband was arrested this week on suspicion of murdering husband No. 3.
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An El Dorado County woman once accused of killing her second husband was arrested this week on suspicion of murdering husband No. 3.
Roman Polanski, a director who has had extensive personal experience with a justice system he and supporters believe wronged him, will make a movie about another exceptionally high-profile trial: the Dreyfus affair. Polanski will direct “D,” a political thrill
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Los Angeles Times bestsellers (hardcover) for Feb. 28, 2010
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The what-might-have-been genre
Mysteries and thrillers hinge on basic questions: whodunit, whydunit and the dreaded had-I-but-known. Then there's what-might-have-been, which is the domain of thrillers that recount alternate histories. Instead of fashioning chaos out of...
'The Godfather': A restoration offer they couldn't refuse
Fans who pick up the recently announced "The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration," due out from Paramount Home Entertainment on DVD and Blu-ray on Sept. 23, are likely to see things in the 1972 Mafia saga and its two sequels they've never...
Roman Polanski???s attorneys may have helped provoke his arrest by complaining to an appellate court this summer that Los Angeles prosecutors had never made any real effort to arrest the filmmaker in his three decades as a fugitive, two sources ...
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Kevin Robert Harris II, a 21-year-old black man, died on Sunday, Sept. 20, after he was shot in the 3300 block of West 11th Place in Inglewood, according to the Los Angeles County coroner. Harris, of Westchester, was sitting in ...
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L.A.'s Skyline to Get Gehry Touch
Architect Frank O. Gehry will design a 40- or 50-story skyscraper next to his iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as other elements of the $1.8-billion complex planned along Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, officials said...
Post-auction, an uproar in the Craftsman clan
It was the auction the Craftsman community couldn't stop talking about. In December, Sotheby's auction house put up a rare collection of furnishings and accessories from historic homes designed by the brothers Charles and Henry...
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