As the marijuana industry celebrates the passage of an initiative legalizing recreational marijuana in California, more sobering news came from local elections, where voters in 37 counties and cities — including Long Beach, San Diego and San Bernardino — approved ballot measures imposing separate...
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, Dec. 14, and here’s what’s going on around California: TOP STORIES Tree die-off The surreal scene in California’s forest, where 102 million trees have died: The die-off has hit the southern half of the Sierra Nevada — Fresno and Tulare counties — especially hard. The...
For half a decade, U.S. Atty. Debra Wong Yang was the last person corporations would want to hear from if they were operating at the edge of the law. Now, she’s the first person they might call to defend that kind of accusation, as top crisis manager for one of the premiere corporate litigation...
Vladimir Putin must feel as if he’s won the lottery. His government made a modest investment in cyberespionage against Hillary Clinton, a candidate he roundly disliked, and it paid off, big league. Never mind the flap over whether the Russian president aimed to put Donald Trump in the White House;...
With the official announcement that he will nominate Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson as secretary of State — and reports that he will soon tap former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas as Energy secretary — Donald Trump has all but completed the assembly of his proposed Cabinet. “Proposed" is...
Citing security concerns, the Lakers changed plans and decided not to stay at a Donald Trump-branded hotel in New York City on Tuesday and Wednesday nights for their game Wednesday against the Brooklyn Nets, a team spokesperson said. A source with knowledge of the team's decision, who spoke on...
Trump's attack on CIA analysis of Russian hacking raises national security concerns Dec. 13, 2016, 7:26 p.m. This is our look at President-elect Donald Trump's transition and the outgoing Obama administration: Tensions erupt between Trump and the CIA over Russia's hacking during the 2016 campaign.Trump...
Essential Politics: The backstory to California's new water deal in Congress, another candidate joins the race to replace Rep. Xavier Becerra Dec. 13, 2016, 7:14 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: It...
Essential Politics: The backstory to California's new water deal in Congress, another candidate joins the race to replace Rep. Xavier Becerra Dec. 13, 2016, 7:14 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: It...
Wells Fargo & Co. was sanctioned Tuesday by federal regulators who determined the bank has not done enough to ensure it could continue operating smoothly and without a taxpayer bailout after a bankruptcy. In the wake of the financial crisis, regulators required the nation's largest banks to come...
Trump's attack on CIA analysis of Russian hacking raises national security concerns Dec. 13, 2016, 7:26 p.m. This is our look at President-elect Donald Trump's transition and the outgoing Obama administration: Tensions erupt between Trump and the CIA over Russia's hacking during the 2016 campaign.Trump...
Major U.S. stock indexes set records again Tuesday as energy companies continued to climb following international deals that will cut oil production. Big-name technology companies such as Apple and IBM also traded higher as the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 19,900 for the first time....
Republican Gov. John Kasich signed a bill Tuesday imposing a 20-week abortion ban while vetoing stricter provisions in a separate measure that would have barred the procedure at the first detectable fetal heartbeat. Kasich acted on both proposals the same day they landed on his desk. The so-called...
Essential Politics: The backstory to California's new water deal in Congress, another candidate joins the race to replace Rep. Xavier Becerra Dec. 13, 2016, 7:14 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: It...
Essential Politics: The backstory to California's new water deal in Congress, another candidate joins the race to replace Rep. Xavier Becerra Dec. 13, 2016, 7:14 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: It...
An undercurrent of amusement has been detectable in some of the news coverage of Donald Trump’s recent market-moving tweets, as though it serves big companies right to have a few billions stripped off their market values because the president-elect is holding them to account. But it’s no laughing...
Essential Politics: The backstory to California's new water deal in Congress, another candidate joins the race to replace Rep. Xavier Becerra Dec. 13, 2016, 7:14 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: It...
Essential Politics: The backstory to California's new water deal in Congress, another candidate joins the race to replace Rep. Xavier Becerra Dec. 13, 2016, 7:14 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: It...
Trump's attack on CIA analysis of Russian hacking raises national security concerns Dec. 13, 2016, 7:26 p.m. This is our look at President-elect Donald Trump's transition and the outgoing Obama administration: Tensions erupt between Trump and the CIA over Russia's hacking during the 2016 campaign.Trump...
Essential Politics: The backstory to California's new water deal in Congress, another candidate joins the race to replace Rep. Xavier Becerra Dec. 13, 2016, 7:14 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: It...
To the editor: I read former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright’s piece thinking that someone with his credentials could adequately explain what was wrong with President Obama’s position on terrorism. Unfortunately, he failed in that endeavor. Obama has explained in great detail why he does not use...
To the editor: President-elect Donald Trump’s dissembling, blustery reply to the CIA’s definitive findings of prolonged hacking by Russia is blatantly self-serving and irrational. (“Trump digs in on Russia, setting up conflict with his own party's Washington leaders,” Dec. 12) Trump’s crude sleight...
Essential Politics: The backstory to California's new water deal in Congress, another candidate joins the race to replace Rep. Xavier Becerra Dec. 13, 2016, 7:14 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: It...
Essential Politics: The backstory to California's new water deal in Congress, another candidate joins the race to replace Rep. Xavier Becerra Dec. 13, 2016, 7:14 p.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: It...
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry holds the Department of Energy in such low regard that he famously couldn’t even remember it was on his list of federal agencies to eliminate altogether. Now Donald Trump has chosen Perry to run it, according to multiple news reports. In Perry, Trump would have another...
Popular interest in fleeing to Canada after the election of Donald Trump may have ebbed since a surge of inquiries crashed Canada’s immigration website on election night. But one Internet advocate and entrepreneur is still treating the idea seriously, and taking serious steps to follow through....
I’m Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don’t want you to miss today. TOP STORIES Trump Takes on the GOP, CIA and PRC Donald Trump campaigned on a vow of “America First,” but international affairs have taken the spotlight as Inauguration Day is just...
Both the outgoing Obama administration and the leaders of the incoming Congress recognize that there must be a full accounting of whether the Russian government engaged in cyberwarfare designed to influence the recent presidential election. The odd man out is President-elect Donald Trump, who continues...
The volte-face began on election night. Donald Trump had already tucked both Ohio and Florida under his belt, and Pennsylvania was looking promising. As the pundits realized that it was Hillary Clinton, not Trump, who had a “difficult path” to an electoral majority, there was first disbelief; then,...
Mayor Scott Burto recalls the days of good-paying jobs, plenty of them, at the paper mills along the Black River. Today, the mills and the jobs are nearly all gone, casualties of foreign competition. But hope for a new boom is teasing the locals, and it has nothing to do with paper. The nation’s...
Trump's attack on CIA analysis of Russian hacking raises national security concerns Dec. 13, 2016, 7:26 p.m. This is our look at President-elect Donald Trump's transition and the outgoing Obama administration: Tensions erupt between Trump and the CIA over Russia's hacking during the 2016 campaign.Trump...
A South Los Angeles street will get an environmentally friendly face-lift, and new rain gardens and cisterns soon will appear at homes across Los Angeles County thanks to a $4-million settlement reached late last month. The agreement comes more than eight years after a pair of environmental advocacy...
San Diego County’s Roman Catholic bishop and Tijuana’s archbishop were among hundreds who gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday to pray for relief from war and safety for those fleeing persecution worldwide. With a fence separating them, Bishop Robert McElroy, Archbishop Francisco Moreno...
China issued its strongest condemnation yet of President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, after he hinted his administration might toss aside four decades of U.S. policy recognizing Taiwan as part of China. The country’s Foreign Ministry warned that any damage to that principle could rupture diplomatic...