Not many take the time to recognize the city’s brilliance and beauty hiding in plain sight. Consider this issue a starting point for sustained looking.
Amazon said it will buy MGM, acquiring popular franchises such as ‘James Bond’ and ‘The Pink Panther.’
A new CDC report on “breakthrough” infections in people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 finds that just 2% of such cases result in death.
U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the unlikely possibility that they lead to a Chinese lab.
The vote, seen as a setback for Exxon’s leadership, comes amid a growing push to grapple with climate change and pivot away from fossil fuels.
The suspect set his own house on fire, then drove to a Valley Transportation Authority union meeting and began shooting, officials said.
The funds will instead flow to antigang initiatives, universal income programs, homeless services, education and jobs initiatives and more.
CHP is investigating if the suspect is responsible for about 80 shootings across Southern California that left commuters frightened.
Water-cannon gangsters, booze-soaked vice dens: How 1939’s ‘Battle of Santa Monica Bay’ brought down L.A.’s floating casinos.
Hollywood execs once dismissed the idea of mass interest in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, but the success of HBO’s Emmy-winning series breathed life into a raft of documentaries.
The Getty Center, which has been closed since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reopens to the public.
The Lakers won Game 2 against the Phoenix Suns because Anthony Davis flipped the script. The goat in opening loss was stellar in evening the series.
In a new study of children in hospital ICUs, pain levels fell and oxytocin levels rose after they were read a lighthearted story for 30 minutes.
Here’s why Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela’s magical 1981 season still inspires us today.
Latino Life
Rancho Humilde Records, headquartered in Downey, has become a trailblazer in Latin music by giving traditional Mexican corridos a hip-hop makeover.
Noriega, stepping down as director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, talks about the importance of Chicano history and whether Ben Affleck should play him in the movies.
Dulce Garcia, a DACA recipient, got permission to leave the U.S. and come back so that she could help asylum seekers in Tijuana.
Even as Biden administration officials call Title 42 a ‘source of pain,’ they’re defending the Trump-era pandemic policy.
Vaccination rates are especially low among Latino men. Misinformation, fear and busy schedules all play a role, experts say.
Must Reads
Lauren London reflects on acting, Nipsey Hussle, Black L.A.
As the University of California confronts record demand for admission, lawmakers are considering a plan to cut in half the share of nonresident students to make more room for locals.
Disneyland Imagineers anticipated criticism of the inclusion of ‘true love’s kiss’ in its Snow White ride redo. How they worked to empower Snow White.
A riveting new series examines how African American chefs shaped the nation’s tastes.
Her Agent Dana Scully and now the formidable Iron Lady aside, Gillian Anderson is actually a little goofy.
It’s Emma Stone vs. Emma Thompson in this often-dazzling if ultimately confused live-action origin story for one of Disney’s most iconic villains.
Luka Doncic has 39 points to offset a big night from Kawhi Leonard, who had 41, and Paul George in a 127-121 Dallas win on Tuesday at Staples Center.
Top UCLA tennis player Abbey Forbes is focused on the NCAA tournament, but her mind is never far from her brother Luke, who has leukemia.
It had been three years since Yovanna Guzman watched her son Geovanny Hernandez play baseball until this spring. A glimpse inside their special lives.
It’s been a year since George Floyd’s tragic death, and the Rams’ Robert Woods and Jordan Fuller see positive signs of change but also say more is needed.
Podcasts
Belarus’ president defends his diversion of a passenger plane carrying a dissident activist who was later arrested, a move that has sparked outrage.
The Mexican government says a private building project is destroying part of the outskirts of the ancient ruin site of Teotihuacán, near Mexico City.
The Virginia Republican was elected to the Senate in 1978 and served five terms. He was Elizabeth Taylor’s sixth husband until 1982.
Investigators found that a clamp deactivated the emergency brake on the cable car, which went careering down the mountainside after a cable snapped.
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