Earthquake response strains Colombia’s new government and rescuers as they race against the clock
PEREIRA, Colombia — The search for survivors in the rubble of Colombia’s powerful earthquake grew more desperate on Wednesday, two days...
Toyota recalls hundreds of thousands of cars for broken indicators
Toyota is recalling about 655,000 of its Camry vehicles globally, the automaker confirmed Tuesday, due to a display error that...
Sources: Mark Walter has no plans to sell Dodgers after unloading Lakers
If Mark Walter is selling one of the crown jewels of Los Angeles sports, is he about to sell the...
Record home prices and high mortgage rates send buyers to the sidelines
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed again in July as record prices and the highest mortgage rates in a...
Powerball jackpot jumps to $1 billion. Here are the odds of winning the big prize
The Powerball prize has hit $1 billion for Wednesday night’s drawing, the highest jackpot of the year. Powerball draws occur...
Hundreds of California stonecutters fall ill with deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need’
Latino men who cut artificial-stone countertops in California are falling ill from an incurable and deadly lung disease at an...
State lawmakers seek tougher rules for industrial facilities after Boyle Heights fire
SACRAMENTO — Two state lawmakers from Los Angeles want tougher penalties for disasters caused by industrial companies after a massive fire in...
Bob Iger, Joshua Kushner to buy Lakers from Mark Walter’s ownership group for $12 billion
What a difference a year makes. Less than a year after Dodgers owner Mark Walter bought the Lakers for a...
435 arrests, $12 million in OT, few lessons learned: LAPD issues report on ICE protests
A new LAPD report released Tuesday blamed poor planning and coordination for issues with the department’s response to protests that...
Inflation cools, but gas and grocery pain persists for voters
Inflation slowed last month and a measure of underlying price pressures also cooled, suggesting higher oil and gas prices from...
Senator ‘deeply troubled’ by utility threats
The chair of the California Senate’s utilities committee said Tuesday that he was “deeply troubled” by electric company executives’ recent...
The week’s bestselling books, August 9
Hardcover fiction 1. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf: $30) A “tradwife” influencer suddenly wakes up in the brutal world...
Google co-founder Sergey Brin spending more than $100 million fighting California wealth tax
The fight over a proposal to tax the assets of California billionaires to fund healthcare is getting more expensive. Google...
He was an ‘expert’ on the Tupac Shakur murder mystery. Now he’s on trial for killing rapper
For nearly three decades, a onetime Compton gang leader named Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been one of the most...
Inside David Ellison’s desperate fight for Warner Bros.
In less than a month, Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison has exhibited a dizzying range of emotions as the...
