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.
LAPD is searching for an assailant suspected of fatally shooting three homeless people over a few days.
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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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.
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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USC hires UCLA defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn to run its defense following Alex Grinch’s midseason dismissal.
Apayauq Reitan is the first out transgender woman to complete the legendary Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska.
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