Blanche doesn’t rule out payments to violent Jan. 6 rioters as he defends $1.8B fund
WASHINGTON — Acting Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche on Tuesday wouldn’t rule out the possibility that people who carried out violence during the...
Tennis great Billie Jean King graduates from Cal State L.A. 65 years after enrolling
Long before Billie Jean King won dozens of Grand Slam tennis titles, founded the Women’s Tennis Association, became part owner...
Top LAUSD academic chiefs leaving as test scores rise and FBI raid sidelines Carvalho
The top two Los Angeles school district administrators in charge of instruction during the recent rise in test scores are...
Man dies after car plunges 500 feet off Highway 1 cliff onto beach
A man died after his car plunged nearly 500 feet off a Highway 1 cliff near Santa Cruz on Monday,...
OpenAI avoided a costly court loss to Elon Musk, but neither side is unscathed
After prevailing in its court fight with Elon Musk, OpenAI — the ChatGPT maker valued at $852 billion — remains...
Fast-track ‘alumni’ boom: how short courses at Harvard and Stanford became big business
Achieving alumni status at an institution like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School or Stanford used to mean years spent...
Security guard’s ‘heroic’ actions saved others in San Diego mosque attack, officials say
SAN DIEGO — The Islamic Center of San Diego is mourning three people killed in Monday’s attack, including a security guard praised...
Sandy fire growth stalls overnight, evacuation warnings lifting in Ventura County
Lighter winds and cooler temperatures allowed firefighters to slow the growth of a fire in Simi Valley that forced tens...
Forced treatment and jail: Spencer Pratt’s pledges to end homelessness stir up mayor’s race
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt says he wants to get tough. The reality TV personality contends that the root...
‘Brutal’: Growing tribe of jobless techies is stuck in Silicon Valley’s new reality
Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year. But things...
Billionaire Tom Steyer’s $192.4-million self-funded California gubernatorial bid shatters records
Billionaire Tom Steyer, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, as of Monday has donated a record-shattering $192.4 million of...
Conor Oberst doesn’t do nostalgia. Anger is his motivation
Conor Oberst was still a boyish 24-year-old from Omaha when he dropped the pair of albums that took his band...
City Council progressives snub Raman, endorse Bass in L.A. mayor’s race
Three members of the Los Angeles City Council’s progressive bloc are throwing their support to Mayor Karen Bass in her...
As Gustavo Dudamel prepares to leave L.A. Phil, his love affair with L.A. isn’t over
On the second weekend of May, Gustavo Dudamel gave the New York Philharmonic a salsa shock. He gleefully brought the...
Spencer Pratt’s Make L.A. Great Again acolytes and their dark vision of the city
If anyone needs the axiom “Tell me who you’re with, and I’ll tell you who you are” whispered to them...
