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When he resigned as defense secretary last December, Jim Mattis thought it might take two months to install a successor. That seemed terribly long at the time.
Seven months later, the U.S. still has no confirmed defense chief even with the nation facing potential armed conflict with Iran. That's...
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Thomas Adès’ “Inferno,” the first half of what will eventually be a full-length Dante ballet, makes an uproarious heaven of hell. An equal-opportunity score, it offers wry reasons for celebrating our vices — be we among the selfish, gluttonous, suicidal, deviant, papally pretentious; be we illicit...
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Rookie Matt Thaiss hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the eighth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels completed a three-game sweep of the Seattle Mariners with a 6-3 victory on Sunday.
Mike Trout left the game before the third inning due to right calf tightness, but the Angels (48-46) kept rolling...
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Harsh words over the delivery to Turkey of a sophisticated Russian anti-aircraft system poured in Saturday, even as Moscow continued to deliver parts to an air base just outside the capital of Ankara.
The shipments to the Murted air base began Friday, despite the threat of sanctions from Washington...
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Turn on Alonzo Fontenette’s highlights and you’ll see several clips of him rising over a defender to make a catch.
“Nobody can compete with me in a jump ball,” Fontenette said. “Nobody can put their hands on me. I’m just a complete receiver.”
Fontenette’s highlight reel from his sophomore season...
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San Francisco restaurants are no longer allowed to offer customers plastic utensils or disposable food accessories with their orders.
If customers would like chopsticks, napkins, beverage lids and sleeves, stirrers and straws, they will have to request them with their purchase. That goes for takeout,...
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In the near future, some time in 2023, Metro’s Purple Line will disembark its first passengers at a station across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Renzo Piano-designed BCAM building. Those passengers will emerge onto Wilshire Boulevard to find a Los Angeles that has been...
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Officials have issued a heat advisory for most of the Los Angeles County valleys and mountains, as well as the Inland Empire, where triple-digit temperatures are forecast through the weekend.
The advisory is in effect through Sunday for the Santa Clarita, San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys, with...
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When Loraine Lundquist came out on top in the June primary for a Los Angeles City Council seat, her supporters crowed that she had done it despite being outspent.
Lundquist, a college educator focused on environmental issues, spent roughly $300,000 in her campaign and garnered hundreds more votes...
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Mike Trout is on a tear, making a statement with both bat and glove during what could be a third MVP season. Shohei Ohtani is taking advantage of his batting only campaign, showcasing prodigious power and sparking a lively offense.
But when the Angels return home from the All-Star break Friday...
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The Los Angeles City Section baseball all-star team is earning lots of respect in Chicago, earning a spot in Thursday’s championship game of the GEICO City Series after a 10-0 win over New York on Tuesday.
Pitcher Vincent Esparza from Granada Hills Kennedy threw five shutout innings, striking out...
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Twenty-three Democratic candidates are vying to be the party’s nominee for president — that is, if we’re counting just the more prominent ones — now that California Rep. Eric Swalwell has dropped out of the race. Here are the 17 men and six women aiming to face off against President Trump in 2020:
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Fernando Tatis Jr. homered twice and had four RBIs and Manuel Margot also homered Sunday and the San Diego Padres rolled into the All-Star break on a three-game winning streak after a 5-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Joey Lucchesi held the Dodgers in check into the seventh inning while...
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Sudan's pro-democracy movement on Saturday abandoned plans for marches next week, after it reached a power-sharing deal with the ruling military council following a weeks-long standoff over the role of the army in the transition.
Both sides agreed on Friday to form a joint military and civilian...
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Bears and moose are seeking relief in garden sprinklers. Stores are out of ice. Kids are lamenting the cancellation of Independence Day fireworks — not that pyrotechnics show up all that well anyway under the midnight sun.
Anchorage, and much of Alaska, is shattering temperature records amid a...
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A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld an injunction barring the Trump administration from using military funds to pay for a wall along the southern border.
In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Trump was likely to lose his appeal and the injunction by a district...
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Marshae Jones, an Alabama woman who was indicted for the death of a fetus after she was shot in the stomach during a fight, will not be prosecuted for manslaughter.
In an extraordinary case that has drawn widespread national scrutiny, Jones, 28, was arrested last week after a grand jury charged...
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The first thing John Stevens did when he was fired by the Kings was drive to Bakersfield.
It wasn’t because he needed a long trip to decompress. Stevens’ youngest son, Nolan, is a forward for the San Antonio Rampage, and Stevens made the drive to catch his game against the Bakersfield Condors....
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Tommy La Stella was placed on the injured list because of a right-tibia fracture Wednesday, an injury that will knock the Angels infielder out of Tuesday’s All-Star Game and sideline him for eight to 10 weeks.
La Stella, who is batting .300 with 16 homers and 44 RBIs, suffered the injury when he...
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