Music
BET publishes Usher’s full lifetime achievement award speech after it ‘inadvertently muted’ the R&B icon during the 2024 BET Awards. Here’s a full transcript.
July 1, 2024
Letters to the Editor
Local interest in the Huntington Beach Public Library is soaring, but the city’s conservative Council members want to give it an overhaul because of politics.
Nov. 3, 2023
Opinion
Why couldn’t college administrators allow the play to be performed and let students engage in robust critique afterward?
Nov. 12, 2023
Science & Medicine
The NIH’s acting director has paused — some say killed — a planned initiative on health communications and misinformation. Some fear the agency has censored itself for political reasons.
Aug. 7, 2023
Movies
The relationship drama ‘Passages,’ starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos, will be released unrated after receiving an NC-17 from the MPA.
July 19, 2023
The backlash began when antiracist education threatened the illusion of white innocence. It will continue to spread.
May 23, 2023
Hollywood Inc.
Newsmax had complained without evidence that DirecTV’s actions were driven by a disdain for conservatives, which El Segundo-based DirecTV denied.
March 22, 2023
Congressman Mike Gallagher met with Hollywood executives, including Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, and Silicon Valley leaders such as Apple CEO Tim Cook, to discuss their companies’ business ties with China.
April 11, 2023
California
At the nation’s largest community college district, student journalists say administrators have restricted them from covering public events.
May 24, 2023
Watch L.A.
June 23, 2023