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Trump signs are placed on the seats at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times) Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 111 days until the election and man, what do you even say at this point? Like most of us, I am happy that Donald Trump was not seriously injured … Read more

Students demonstrating over the war in Gaza at UCLA in April. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) The Anti-Defamation League has gotten into the defamation business. Founded in 1913 to combat anti-Jewish bigotry, the ADL was once respected for its civil-rights work. Now, amid nationwide protests over what the U.N. special rapporteur and others have … Read more

A man plays tennis in Venice Beach during a warm July afternoon. Many people’s fears of getting COVID are easing. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) COVID is continuing to rise this summer, and its spread is being aided by people who are still going to work or traveling while sick. “Certainly, people are trying … Read more

Tarhjia Easterly, 54, right, lives with her daughter Jasmine Phillips, 36 and her 4-year-old grandson in a room at 5700 S. Hoover St. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times) Daviell McKinley and her neighbors say they have not had hot water in months at their building in South L.A. There is mold in the bathrooms and … Read more

MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump weighed choosing Sen. Marco Rubio as his running mate before ultimately selecting Sen. JD Vance as his pick for vice president on Monday, a source familiar with his deliberations told The Post. A Trump campaign staffer also confirmed Monday the top three candidates were Vance (R-Ohio), Rubio (R-Fla.) and … Read more

Earth is in the danger zone, but we’re not out of hope just yet. Researchers look out from the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as the sun sets over sea ice in the Victoria Strait along the Northwest Passage in July 2017. Parts of the Arctic are warming four times faster than the rest of the … Read more

Award-winning journalist and the author of “Generation Kill,” Evan Wright, has died. He was 59. Wright died by suicide at his home in Los Angeles on Friday, according to the County Medical Examiner’s Office. His widow, Kelli Wright, also confirmed his death to his former publication, Rolling Stone, on Sunday. 5Author and journalist Evan Wright … Read more

“There’s this sort of cultural expectation that students will put up with substandard living conditions at high prices because that’s just what students do,” Tobias Gurl says. Student Tobias Gurl with the trap holding a dead rat he pulled out from next to the stove in his kitchen in the McGill student housing apartment he … Read more

President Biden on stage at the Democratic National Convention in August 2020, shortly before he was officially named the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. (Associated Press) As more Democrats call for President Biden to step aside before the Democratic National Convention, the 81-year-old president has responded with a clear message: I’m not going anywhere. “I … Read more

MSNBC MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” returned to television Tuesday morning without an immediate mention of the program being pulled off air following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The left-leaning station pulled its morning talk show off the air on Monday following the assassination attempt on Trump over fears that one of its anti-Trump guests would … Read more