The city of Lynwood is close to approving a measure that would allow businesses to grow medical marijuana within city limits. If it gains final passage, the southeast city of 70,000 would be among the first in Los Angeles County to issue such permits. On a 3-1 vote, the City Council on Tuesday...
The A&E network has announced that it is pulling a reality show about the Ku Klux Klan, which was set to air next month, after executives discovered that outside producers for the series paid members of the group for their participation. The network said that “Escaping the KKK,” a series about...
The first woman president was supposed to make history by accumulating such deep experience that few could deny her ability to serve as commander in chief. Hillary Clinton did that, and lost. Now women politicians and those working to elect them — Democrats and Republicans alike — are sifting through...
The Obama administration portrayed its historic decision to allow U.N. condemnation of Israeli settlement-building as a way to finally and emphatically demand a stop to the activity. But the move may backfire by hardening positions, both in the right-wing Israeli government and in the incoming...
To the editor: Doyle McManus writes as if the opponents of Donald Trump like me question his legitimacy as president-elect. Not so. I fully accept that an unfit con man has been voted in as president, and it strengthens my resolve to fight him. (“Why we should ‘normalize’ Trump,” Opinion, Dec....
To the editor: Abdulfattah Alkhaled wonders at the conclusion of his piece whether any acts of “barbarism” get under President Obama’s skin. I’m guessing the horrors of Aleppo, Syria, have gotten deep under Obama’s skin, as does the prospect of involvement that could eventually lead to the loss...
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, The Times’ letters editor, and it is Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016. Happy holidays to all our Opinion subscribers; I truly thank you for the time you spend each week catching up on The Times’ commentary. Now, let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion. Subscribe to...
The cleanup of thousands of lead-contaminated homes near a closed Vernon battery recycler has been at a standstill for months, with regulators arguing they cannot remove tainted soil from any properties until a yearlong environmental review is completed next summer. But legal experts, county health...
The California High-Speed Rail Authority quietly approached federal officials in July to discuss an ambitious solution to its most pressing problem, one that has hung over the project for more than five years. The state does not know where to find all of the $64 billion it will cost to get the...
First, there was Reader’s Digest. Then there were CliffsNotes. More recently, SparkNotes joined the quick-read category. For you, dear reader, we have the Hot Property newsletter — the year-round gift that keeps on giving. Here we condense the labor of a week or more into easy-to-digest bites....
Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris announced new criminal charges Friday against the operators of classified ad website Backpage.com, accusing them of laundering earnings from escorts as well as pimping children and adult women on their websites. The charges come two weeks after a Sacramento judge threw...
Donald Trump shook up long-standing international security norms Friday by reportedly suggesting a renewed arms race, a day after he tweeted that the United States should “greatly strengthen and expand” its nuclear weapons capability. Trump’s meaning was sufficiently cryptic, perhaps deliberately...
President Obama has signed legislation that, by striking a single word from longstanding U.S. nuclear defense policy, could heighten tensions with Russia and China and launch the country on an expensive effort to build space-based defense systems. The National Defense Authorization Act, a year-end...
In a dramatic departure from long-standing U.S. practice, the Obama administration on Friday stepped aside and allowed the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a violation of international law. Traditionally, the United States has...
SERIES Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks It’s up to the titular Time Lord to save the day once again in the conclusion of this six-part series that used animation to re-create some long-lost 1960s-era episodes of the venerable British sci-fi drama. 11 p.m. BBC America SPECIALS Huntington Park...
Donald Trump shook up long-standing international security norms Friday by reportedly suggesting a renewed arms race, a day after he tweeted that the United States should “greatly strengthen and expand” its nuclear weapons capability. Trump’s meaning was sufficiently cryptic, perhaps deliberately...
Trump's transition teams asks State Department to identify programs that sought to help women Dec. 23, 2016, 2:28 p.m. This is our look at President-elect Donald Trump's transition and the outgoing Obama administration: Trump's transition team asks State Department to detail programs that helped...
Wall Street traders sometimes root for year-end “Santa Claus rallies,” but on Friday, hardly a creature was stirring as stocks finished slightly higher on the quietest full day of trading in more than a year. Healthcare companies brought in most of the gains. Major U.S. indexes stayed in a narrow...
An editor whom I greatly respect believes essays about media coverage holes — “The press isn’t paying enough attention to this thing I care about!” — do not generally make for engaging reads. She’s right, of course. There are too many things that are undercovered, and too many that are overcovered;...
At least one participant at the upcoming presidential inauguration will care more about how clearly the speeches will be heard than about anything said that day. JBL speakers will be used to swear in Donald Trump, just as they were at President Obama’s two inaugurations. JBL makes more than 3,000...
Essential Politics: 'Calexit' group opens Russian embassy, California members of Congress lobby Trump Dec. 23, 2016, 11:26 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: Leaders of an effort to split California...
Many Americans may feel as if Santa came a month and a half early to fill their stockings with a yuge lump of coal. The remarkably acrimonious campaign and Donald Trump’s surprising win continue to leave such a deep mark on the American psyche, it’s easy to forget the other notable people and events...
A Chinese state newspaper on Friday accused a trade advisor picked by President-elect Donald Trump of “anti-China alarmism” and warned both sides would suffer if commerce is disrupted. The China Daily editorial was more forceful and openly critical of economist Peter Navarro than China's foreign...
Essential Politics: 'Calexit' group opens Russian embassy, California members of Congress lobby Trump Dec. 23, 2016, 11:26 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: Leaders of an effort to split California...
Essential Politics: 'Calexit' group opens Russian embassy, California members of Congress lobby Trump Dec. 23, 2016, 11:26 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: Leaders of an effort to split California...
Trump's transition teams asks State Department to identify programs that sought to help women Dec. 23, 2016, 2:28 p.m. This is our look at President-elect Donald Trump's transition and the outgoing Obama administration: Trump's transition team asks State Department to detail programs that helped...
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...
To the editor: Like the vast majority of Latinos, I am not a supporter of Donald Trump. But for Los Angeles city and county leaders to use $5 million in taxpayer funds for the legal defense of the undocumented is mind-boggling. It is overreaching decisions like this one by mega-liberals that awoke...
To the editor: Jonah Goldberg wrote that “not since Nixon have we had a leader less beholden to a fixed ideology.” Yet, when we see who his choices for cabinet positions are, we see nothing but ideologues. (“Is Trump the kind of Republican Obama said he wanted?” Sept. 20) Consider a few: Sen Jeff...
When Donald Trump refused to release his tax returns during the presidential campaign, it was an affront to transparency and long-held tradition. But it wasn’t illegal, just suspiciously secretive. Trump’s excuse that he was being audited was just that: an excuse. There’s no law that would have...
Prosecutors have declined to file charges against a vocal critic of the Los Angeles City Council who submitted a card during a public meeting with racially incendiary drawings, including a burning cross. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said the card submitted by Encino attorney...
There are Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson boulevards in Los Angeles, Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive in Manhattan and Gerald Ford Drive in Rancho Mirage. Now, state Sen. Anthony Portantino has introduced a resolution to name a portion of the 134 Freeway that runs from Glendale and into...
Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to build two giant tunnels to send Northern California water southward moved a step closer Thursday to final state and federal decisions, with the state's release of a 90,000-page environmental review supporting the $15.7 billion project. Brown's administration is pushing...
As voting returns signaled Donald Trump’s win on election night last month, billionaire investor and Trump supporter Carl Icahn heard the news that stock-market futures were plunging in response. Futures essentially are bets on how the market will open the next day, but Icahn figured prices would...
Essential Politics: 'Calexit' group opens Russian embassy, California members of Congress lobby Trump Dec. 23, 2016, 11:26 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: Leaders of an effort to split California...
Essential Politics: 'Calexit' group opens Russian embassy, California members of Congress lobby Trump Dec. 23, 2016, 11:26 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily look at California political and government news. Here's what we're watching right now: Leaders of an effort to split California...
Mr. I-Don’t-Settle-Lawsuits received the go-ahead this week to settle his lawsuits over alleged fraudulent practices by Trump University. U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego issued an order giving preliminary approval to a settlement agreed to by Trump’s lawyers last month. According...
The days of stay-at-home mothers are behind us, says a new report from the Center for American Progress, which analyzed national labor data and found that, across the country, the share of moms who financially support their families continues to grow. Nearly two-thirds of American moms these days...
Over a career in elected public office lasting more than 46 years, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has seen campaigns from the rudimentary, family-run effort that first launched him unexpectedly to the U.S. Senate as a 29-year-old to the sophisticated, data-driven juggernaut that helped elect him and...
Jared Kushner appears to be ready to pick up sticks and move to Washington, D.C., with his wife Ivanka Trump to become an adviser (either officially or unofficially) to his father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, and there’s at least one piece of Manhattan he wants to shed before he goes:...