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Middle-class Americans are bearing the brunt of the rise in health insurance deductibles and medical bills. That’s helped widen the country’s political divisions.
A faction within MS-13 used gruesome tactics to kill seven people in the L.A. area since 2017, prosecutors said.
The necessity of stockpiling supplies became more pronounced after twin earthquakes rocked Southern California, yet many people still fail to prepare, experts say.
The first day of President Trump’s long-threatened ICE raids didn’t result in the large numbers of arrests some had expected.
Kamala Harris leads all Democratic challengers among California donors of $200 or more, but her home-state advantage narrowed in recent months.
The 62-year-old drug lord was brought to the U.S. to stand trial after he twice broke out of Mexican prisons.
Los Angeles County social workers are under fire again over the suspicious death of a Palmdale boy whose family had previously been investigated after serious allegations of abuse.
After complaints that the ShakeAlert app failed to warn users of the Ridgecrest quakes, officials will lower the notification threshold. But there are risks.
Visitors to the Lakers’ posh training center in El Segundo enter through oversized glass doors and are greeted by large rotating photos on three vertical flat screens framed in gold.
Like thousands of Central American parents seeking asylum in the United States, Patricia panicked when, after she and her son crossed the Rio Grande into Texas last year, U.S. border agents took the boy away.
Regal L.A. Live is introducing a French movie theater technology that enhances the onscreen action with five LED side panels in the auditorium.
A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer’s, even if you’ve inherited genes that raise your risk for the dementia-causing disease.
Nine days after the Houston Astros’ Jake Marisnick flattened Angels catcher Jonathan Lucroy on a home-plate collision, Marisnick was hit by a pitch leading to a partial bench-clearing altercation.
Apollo 11: 50 years since the moon landing
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As the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing approaches, the women who helped America’s early space efforts reflect on their often unheralded roles — and the indignities they endured.
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The passage of half a century has blurred many of the reasons that the United States was able to accomplish what seemed like science fiction: the July 20, 1969, landing of Apollo 11 on the moon.
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Hear from the women who put a man on the moon
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A cornucopia of space race documentaries greets the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.
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History may be wrong about what Neil Armstrong said after landing on the moon. Acoustics researchers think it was, “That’s one small step for a man.”
Housing and Homelessness
A coalition of skid row advocates accused Los Angeles of wanting to give the bulk of skid row over to luxury housing developers, ignoring the thousands of people living in tents and shelters in the blighted downtown district.
Whereas L.A. has focused (unsuccessfully) on trying to create long-term affordable housing, New York has focused on creating temporary shelters.
Homeless people should have a legal right to shelter and a legal obligation to utilize it.
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See, hear and interact with world-class authors, celebrities, chefs and newsmakers as they discuss their books and tell their stories.
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To deal with a surge in asylum seekers, Trump is trying to rewrite federal law and impose terms unilaterally on Mexico and Guatemala. The asylum system does have problems, but that’s not the solution.
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David Runciman, a politics and history professor at Cambridge University, talks about his book “How Democracy Ends”.
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Trump’s latest asylum ban will make problems at the border worse and encourage people entering the country illegally to hide.
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Las nuevas investigaciones médicas revelan que los buenos hábitos reducen el riesgo de la enfermedad
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El sábado habría sido el cumpleaños 28 de Tyler Skaggs.
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En el calor de la exitosa temporada de verano, Walt Disney Co. se está apoderando de los cines con lanzamientos como “Toy Story 4" y versiones en vivo de “Aladdin” y “The Lion King”.
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May 3 was like any other Friday night at La Cañita, a beach-themed bar and restaurant in a working-class neighborhood near downtown Mexico City.
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When I first visited Kenton Stacy at the Veterans Affairs hospital in La Jolla, I knew his wife, Lindsey, would be there.
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Late last year, I showed up at a gurdwara on a mission. A gurdwara is a Sikh temple.
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The “Spirit” music video includes clips from Disney’s “Lion King” remake starring Beyoncé and Donald Glover.
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From SoCal’s finest this week, roots music from Leslie Stevens, a brash Guns N’ Roses cover from Grand Canyon and Van Halen vis a vis the Bird & the Bee.
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What’s on TV Wed., July 17, 2019
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Why author Laila Lalami chose the Mojave desert as the setting for “The Other Americans,” the latest read of the Los Angeles Times Book Club
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The incident was reported near UCLA’s campus at Westwood Boulevard and Le Conte Avenue
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After nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water seeped into a dry creek bed near Bakersfield, the cleanup continues.
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A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was reported Tuesday evening at 7:29 p.m.
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon at 1:11 p.m. near Livermore, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Shaquille O’Neal once promised to kiss the cheese-covered feet of any coach whose team made it to the NBA Finals four out of five years. Steve Kerr has done it. Is the bet still on?
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They rally to take the lead against Phillies in top of the ninth only for Kenley Jansen to blow the save in the bottom of the ninth in loss.
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The Angels take it to the Astros early to win 7-2 in a game that featured cleared benches.
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Republicans Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Fred Upton of Michigan, Will Hurd of Texas and Susan Brooks of Indiana, who is retiring, all voted to condemn Trump’s remarks.
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Joe Biden is going on the offensive, hoping that establishing his center-left credentials will win over primary voters.
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Rep. Al Green is seeking to capitalize on a growing sentiment for impeachment in the wake of Trump’s racist tweets over the weekend.
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Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the independent-minded jurist whose bright bow ties and courteous manner symbolized an old-fashioned style of integrity, died Tuesday after suffering a stroke a day earlier.
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A small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz entered Iranian waters and turned off its tracker three days ago.
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A gunman opened fire inside a restaurant in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Wednesday, killing at least one Turkish diplomat working at Ankara’s consulate, Turkey’s state-run news agency and Iraqi media said.
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The House voted to condemn President Trump’s tweets directed at four congresswomen, but the divisiveness hasn’t stopped there.
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North Korea suggested it might call off its 20-month suspension of nuclear and missile tests because of summertime U.S.-South Korean military drills that the North calls preparation for an eventual invasion.
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Pollinators play an important role in our ecosystem. Here’s how to care for them while getting rid of the predators in your garden, like dreaded stink bugs.
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What’s happening in health and wellness right now.
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West Adams may not be an Instagrammable L.A. hot spot by most influencers’ standards — and that’s exactly why it’s so charming.
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Talk about star power. Mt. Wilson has an amazing history. Up here, astronomers first measured the Milky Way and discovered the universe was expanding. Go see the distant stars for yourself and expand your universe as well.
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Neuralink, the Elon Musk-backed company seeking to build brain implants to communicate with machines, unveiled the microscopic products it has been developing since 2017 and said it hopes to begin trials on human patients by the end of next year.
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In addition to selling its own products, Amazon also allows third-party retailers to sell their goods through its site. Last year, more than half of the items sold on Amazon worldwide were from third-party sellers.
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At $31 million, the Bel-Air estate of late soap opera producer William J. Bell was the priciest home sold in L.A. County in June
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The Trump administration urged a federal appeals court to put on hold an order that would force Qualcomm Inc. to change how it licenses its patents.
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Eat tacos and Japanese food, watch film premieres and concerts, or get active with hiking and boogie boarding at Southern California events.
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Discount cruises to Mexico with AdventureSmith Explorations
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The Rhone River city in the Provence region snagged the top honor in Cruise Critic’s annual destination popularity contest.
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Massive snow seemed destined to keep the Sierra resort open into deepest summer, but it will miss the record for longest season.
