Miller Sanford (Los Angeles Times illustration; photos by Francine Orr; Al Seib; Deborah Vankin / Los Angeles Times) Hi — I’m Deborah Vankin, a wellness writer for the L.A. Times. I’m not sure about you, but 2025 has been a whopper of a year so far. Especially since the fires in January forced us indoors, robbing us … Read more
Flyers showing the names, pictures, and phone numbers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have surfaced in a Southern California neighborhood. Multiple federal law enforcement sources confirmed to Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin that anti-ICE activists, who have been interfering with ICE operations in the Los Angeles area in recent days, have now started putting up posters … Read more
Freddie Jenkins’ mother attended what is now the last standing African American schoolhouse in Mount Pleasant, S.C., in the 1930s. (Logan Cyrus / For The Times) Five years before the first shots of the Civil War rang out from the harbor here in 1861, alderman Thomas Ryan and a business partner opened Ryan’s Mart at … Read more
A North Carolina teen was brought to tears, screaming in disbelief, and needed to be held up by court officers after he was told by a judge he would be charged as an adult for murder. Sean Simpson, 16, was charged with first-degree murder last month for allegedly shooting Zaquavious Dawkins, also 16, on Jan. 26 … Read more
The Netflix building on Sunset Boulevard. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images) Four years ago, Netflix was faced with a formidable challenge to its dominance. Competitors including Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros. Discovery invested billions of dollars to chip away at Netflix’s market share by launching splashy shows on their own streaming … Read more
With long hair curling, Oscar Wilde-like, over his collar, playwright Tom Stoppard enters the sleek dining room of a midtown hotel, an otherworldly presence in the midst of Manhattan bustle. The contrast is drawn even more starkly when, 40 minutes into an interview, the acclaimed playwright is joined by Marc Norman, the writer and producer … Read more
“We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action,” President Trump said to cheers. (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images) At the center of his foreign policy vision, Donald Trump has put “America First,” a phrase with an anti-Semitic and isolationist history going back to the years before the U.S. entry into … Read more
At least 46 people were shot, including 20 killed, at an El Paso Walmart on Saturday. (AFP/Getty Images) A visibly shaken Beto O’Rourke condemned the availability of weapons of war after 20 people were shot to death by a gunman in his hometown of El Paso. “Keep that shit on the battlefield,” he said at … Read more
Joshua, 28, moved from Los Angeles to Seoul 11 years ago to begin his K-pop journey as one of 13 members of the global superstar group Seventeen, which performs at L.A.’s BMO Stadium this weekend. (Pledis Entertainment) Joshua didn’t expect an “L.A. accent” pop quiz when he signed on to Zoom for an interview from … Read more
Audrey Meadows, revered as the feisty Alice Kramden opposite Jackie Gleason’s garrulous bus driver Ralph in television’s comedy classic “ The Honeymooners,” has died. Meadows died of lung cancer at 8:50 p.m. Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, hospital spokesman Ron Wise said Sunday. Relatives said she was 69. Meadows had concealed the terminal illness for … Read more
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