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More than two dozen Wikipedia editors allegedly colluded in a years-long scheme to inject anti-Israel language on topics related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Anti-Defamation League claimed in a bombshell report released Tuesday. The rogue editors, at least 30 of them, flooded one of the world’s most popular sites with “antisemitic narratives, anti-Israel bias, and … Read more

Voices Tom Chavez Deportation raids terrorized my family for decades — and we had papers I grew up believing I was the grandson of an undocumented immigrant. My mother, raised in an adobe home in New Mexico behind the county sewer system, would tell me and my siblings about the backbreaking work her father did … Read more

Voices Lanhee J. Chen California needs to think outside the blue box Perhaps Gov. Gavin Newsom was channeling his inner Republican when he hosted conservative commentator Charlie Kirk for an 81-minute interview on the debut of his new podcast last week. Indeed, much of what Newsom talked about was immediately cheered by the very partisans … Read more

The Whisky Hotel, an adults-only hotel whose wood-paneled interior is shown here, opened in Hollywood in March. (Luis Luque / Whisky Hotel) Can hotels legally ban children? With spring breaks starting momentarily and summer vacations not far away, the question is puzzling a wide scope of California travelers — parents booking their next family vacation … Read more

‘The only thing still left.’ Volunteers race to save Altadena’s vintage tiles from the bulldozers The team of masons, covered in dust and sweat, had been working in the ruins of the Altadena house for hours when a shout echoed across the wreckage. Volunteer Devon Douglas emerged from a pit of rubble that had once … Read more

His impressive basement saloon was like ‘Cheers’ — until it burned in the Eaton fire Before the January fires came, Brian Gardner had 300 Polaroids on the wall of his basement saloon, the Hye West Saloon of Santa Poco. He had bottles of booze too — well over 1,000, to be exact — but the … Read more

The isolation of the last year has given single people time to look inward, reflect and — in some cases — redouble their efforts to find a partner. (Ross May / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) There has been no shortage of single women seeking Evin Rose’s advice during the pandemic. A typical day for … Read more

In Europe, heaven is where the policemen are British, the mechanics are German, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian, and everything is organized by the Swiss. And hell is where the cooks are British, the policemen are German, the lovers are Swiss, the mechanics are French, and everything is organized by the Italians. … Read more

(Kay Scanlon / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) We have all suddenly and somewhat unwillingly been ushered into the age of the social video call. Yes, we’ve all been on a few video conferences for work here and there — a necessary evil of remote teams and global businesses. But this is the first time … Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs warned Kanye West about people trying to “end” them during a call from prison. “You be careful out there ’cause they definitely trying to end us,” the Bad Boy Records founder told West on the phone in footage obtained by the Shade Room Monday. “They can’t do it and they ain’t gonna … Read more