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The high-security federal jail known as the Metropolitan Correctional Center, near Foley Square in Lower Manhattan, has housed some of New York’s highest-risk federal defendants. Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug kingpin known as El Chapo, has resided there since January.

NASHVILLE – Yeah, that guillotine was tight on Hector Sandoval, and yeah, the UFC Fight Night 108 winner gave himself a bit of a jolt when he slammed head first into the canvas to escape it.Filed under: Featured Videos, News, UFC, Videos

I saw two movies yesterday. One of them, David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story,” which opens in July, is among the most exhilaratingly original films I’ve seen in a while. The other, Adam Leon’s “Tramps,” an amiable but insubstantial adolescent romantic adventure, opens today—sort of. Some people might say that it doesn’t open at all, because it isn’t being released in movie theatres but, rather, online only, on Netflix. Both movies are freestanding, non-serial, complete, and integral dramas that run about an hour and a half each. Читать дальше...

A group of 40 congressional Democrats and Republicans said Monday they will support a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown if that budget comes without any partisan strings attached. The Problem Solvers Caucus announced their official position to support a “clean” spending bill with approval from more than 75% of the bipartisan group — […]

Team Trump has come up with a hostage strategy: approve money for a border wall or the health care system gets it.

Ilie Nastase may have retired from tennis 32 years ago, but he appears to be still more than living up to his old nickname “Nasty.” The 70-year-old Romanian, a two-time grand slam winner and former world No. 1, was provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Sunday from all of its events for his […]

I am by no means a licensed mental health professional. Nor do I particularly think that "diagnosis by video" is an appropriate thing. That said, I think there needs to be a discussion about Donald Trump's mental acuity.

Jang Yeong-jin never loved his wife. Throughout their marriage, he felt guilty and confused, ashamed that he was, in his words, “ruining one woman’s life.” Jang did not hear the word “homosexual” for the first 37 years of his life, saying he had no concept of what it meant, something not unusual in his native […]

When I was 26 years old and living in South Africa, I was offered a job that required me to live in the United States. It should have been good news. I had hoped for this job offer for months. But there was a problem: I did not want to leave my partner, whom I had met in South Africa eight months before.

Monday again, already? Does it ever stop?

We were under the impression that un- & anti-social media had made the whole "web-log" thing anachronistic, but, to adjust an aphorism, "The present day blogger refuses to die." Here's evidence thereof, short & sweet for today:

Digby: Bad for him, worse for everyone else.

BLCKDGRD offers a web-log round-up of his own.

War in Context quotes Bill McKibben on the Trump Admin. & the planet.

From Sky Dancing, the March For Science. Читать дальше...

Cassini is the most sophisticated space probe ever built. Launched in 1997 as a joint NASA/European Space Agency mission, it took seven years to journey to Saturn. It’s been orbiting the sixth planet from the sun ever since, sending back data of immense scientific value and images of magnificent beauty.

I spoke to Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, the co-authors of the new book Option B, about why they came together to write the book, the first steps to recovering from a traumatic setback, the latest research on resilience, being a good friend in tough times and their best advice.

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AEG has inked a long-term booking and concert promotion agreement for the historic Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, the former home of the first...

For President Trump, is getting funding for a border wall worth shutting down the federal government? I'm Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

New classrooms under construction at a charter school in Pacoima mark a moment of truce — even mutual respect — in a hot and cold war between charters and the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Top corporate bosses who failed to change a flawed system before it went out of control. Mid-level executives who pushed workers too far. Bank regulators who for years were blind to warning signs.

Short sellers are betting against Tesla and Elon Musk. Here's seven reasons why.

Welcome to California Inc., the weekly newsletter of the L.A. Times Business Section.

Seldom has an effort to alter Los Angeles’ governing blueprint been as clever and underhanded as Charter Amendment C, a little-noticed measure on the little-noticed May 16 city ballot that would change how police officers are disciplined for misconduct. Seldom have city officials been so sly in...

Shoppers were welcomed with an oversized armchair as part of a broadband publicity stunt.

Lupita Nyong'o and Rihanna have admitted they want to star in a movie together, after fans pitched a movie plot for them both on Twitter.

Lupita Nyong'o and Rihanna have admitted they want to star in a movie together, after fans pitched a movie plot for them both on Twitter.

'Glee' actress Lea Michele hinted a song on her new album 'Places' is about her late boyfriend Cory Monteith, who died of a drugs overdose in 2013.