The drive between Costa Mesa and south Los Angeles County on the 405 Freeway just got a whole lot faster — if you’re willing to pay the toll. New express lanes opened Friday.
Israel bombs Gaza and Hamas aims rockets at Israel as top U.S. diplomat departs region. But now-expired truce saw scores of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners freed.
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With a Keith Haring carousel and a Jean-Michel Basquiat Ferris wheel, Luna Luna aims to show the world that amusement parks should be taken seriously as an art-driven space.
Court documents reviewed by The Times show that the closure is tied to a simmering family dispute and debts over the restaurant, which Daniel Navarro bought in 2019.
LAPD is searching for an assailant suspected of fatally shooting three homeless people over three days.
The tragedy of AI is not that it stands to replace good journalists, but that it takes every gross, callous move made by management to degrade the production of content — and promises to accelerate it, columnist Brian Merchant writes.
Din Tai Fung opened a new behemoth location in Glendale, with plans to debut at Downtown Disney next year and open its first East Coast location in New York. What’s the secret to soup dumpling success?
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Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has died at age 93. She was the first woman to ascend to the high court.
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Cirque du Soleil was a scrappy Montreal startup when it first landed in Las Vegas 30 years ago. Today, its shows are featured at casinos up and down the Strip, which it helped build into a global entertainment destination.
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Nearly all the world’s nations finalized the creation of a fund to help compensate countries struggling with loss and damage from climate change.
Gerry Turner may have been too good to be true, and Leslie Fhima’s reaction to their breakup and reunion on the finale of “The Golden Bachelor” was a refreshing sight on reality TV.
The Dodgers appear to be waiting for this offseason’s two biggest dominos, Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, to fall before making any other major moves.
Apayauq Reitan is the first out transgender woman to complete the legendary Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska.
The recent hostage-for-prisoner swaps between Hamas and Israel have focused attention on the number of Palestinian minors imprisoned by Israel.
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