Letters to Sports: Playing the blame game in USC-Notre Dame debacle
1 p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Bill Plaschke writes, “If the Trojans truly want to return to greatness, being selected for the CFP...
Winter storm hampers U.S. holiday travel across Northeast, Great Lakes
BOSTON — More than 1,000 flights were canceled or delayed across the Northeast and Great Lakes regions due to snow as thousands...
African regional bodies reject recognition of Somaliland by Israel
NAIROBI — Africa’s regional governance bodies on Saturday rejected the recognition of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation by...
Photos: An army of volunteers getting floats prepared for the 137th Rose Parade
The clock is ticking. And it’s all hands on deck as an army of volunteers get floats ready for their...
‘It’s just like your dopey friend’: Inside the Goodyear Blimp’s devoted fan base
When Lauren Richeson created the Goodyear Blimp Fan Club on Facebook in 2009, she expected only a few family members...
Where a Saudi company pumps desert groundwater, Arizona considers imposing limits
VICKSBURG, Ariz. — Lush green fields of alfalfa spread across thousands of acres in a desert valley in western Arizona, where a...
Yes, that was a tornado in Los Angeles on Christmas
A tornado did, in fact, spin through Los Angeles on Christmas, the National Weather Service confirmed, damaging a home and...
After a year of insults, raids, arrests and exile, a celebration of the California immigrant
What comes next is a mystery, but I’d like to share a note of appreciation as 2025 fades into history....
Is empathy saving America — or tearing it apart?
Growing up, my house backed up to a park with a teeter-totter, the kind that was little more than a...
How the CHP is drawing a flood of new recruits when the LAPD, other agencies struggle to hire
For all the talk of recruitment struggles at the Los Angeles Police Department and other law enforcement agencies nationwide, some...
Will we tell the American story, or just the founders’ fairy tales?
If you’re part of the 45-to-60ish crowd, chances are you grew up watching — and singing along to — “Schoolhouse...
Lawsuit accuses deputies at L.A. women’s jail of sexual abuse, watching inmates shower
A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of dozens of current and former inmates in Los Angeles County’s women’s jail claims...
‘Memory manipulation is inevitable’: How rewriting memory in the lab might one day heal humans
We often think of memories like the contents of a museum: static exhibits that we view to understand the present...
Lakers guard Austin Reaves out for at least a month because of calf injury
Lakers guard Austin Reaves will miss at least a month with a grade 2 strain in his left calf, the...
Rams star Puka Nacua on criticizing refs: I’ll ‘never let it happen again’
Rams players enjoyed the day off they got for Christmas, perhaps no one more than Puka Nacua. The previous week,...
