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“Inside Out” and Charlie Kaufman's “Anomalisa” were among 16 movies that have been submitted for consideration in the animated feature Oscar race, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday.

We gotta keep searchin', searchin' …

Getting nervous are you? Concerned Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman’s search for a new manager is spanning the entire globe and a few galaxies far, far away?

He’s looking at ex-managers (Kirk Gibson, Ron Roenicke, Bud Black, Bob Geren),...

Katy Perry is roaring loudly on top of Forbes' 2015 list of the highest earning women in music.

Depending on where you are in life, a trip to Las Vegas can mean very different things. It's your 21st birthday? Party time, bottle service and Gatorade. Celebrating an anniversary? Tom Ford, a suite and a steady supply of Champagne. A nice, quiet dinner in Vegas with ample time for reflection...

Jason Magaña always wanted to go to college to become an engineer.

But as a senior at Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles last year, he was enrolled in graphics, a class he already had passed and would not help him graduate. What he needed to graduate was economics. He also had two “home...

Calling the achievement gap facing minority students in schools “the civil rights issue of our time,” former Los Angeles mayor and potential gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa endorsed sweeping changes to California schools at a Capitol rally Thursday.

USC receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is not the only Trojans starter who could be sidelined against Arizona on Saturday night because of injury.

Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, a Polish general and communist-era leader who played a key role in imposing martial law in 1981 but eight years later also took part in talks that allowed for a peaceful transition to democracy, died on Thursday in Warsaw. He was 90.

In a scene from the new documentary "Song of Lahore," master flutist Baqir Abbas stood on his rooftop, a newspaper report of his musician friend's murder in his hand. Extremist Muslims had shot to death the guitar teacher, a looming threat for all Pakistani artists.

Forfeits for ineligible players keep coming fast and furious in Southern Southern football.

Authorities say four people are dead including the gunman who opened fire at a home in central Maine.

I'm Christina Bellantoni, the Essential Politics host today. Let's get started. Subscribe to the newsletter One month from now, California Gov. Jerry Brown, a cast of state lawmakers, a billionaire environmental activist and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be mixing it up at the United Nations...

Airbnb won a crucial battle this week in San Francisco, defeating a hotly contested measure that would have imposed new restrictions on its rapidly growing business helping travelers book rooms or whole homes for short stays.

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough), who once spoke about her own abortion on the House floor, will serve on a newly formed House select committee investigating claims that Planned Parenthood profited from providing fetal tissue to researchers. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) named...

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) and 42 members of Congress are asking Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch for a full Justice Department investigation into whether there is a pattern behind several Chinese American scientists being arrested in the U.S. on espionage charges.

Gov. Jerry Brown has been getting quite cranky lately when anyone belittles a pet project, especially his proposed water tunnels.

India power plant: In the Oct. 15 Section A, an article about the impacts of a coal-fired power plant in India said that the village of Amlohri was two miles west of the Sasan plant. Amlohri is two miles west of a Sasan coal mine. Also, the article said that in May, the All India Power Engineers...

Doc Rivers was cheery about an hour before his team played its archrival. The Clippers coach jokingly told a tightly bunched scrum of reporters to make way so that he could reach his designated spot and say something controversial.

The way things have been going lately for the Ducks, they might want to roll Ryan Kesler in bubble wrap for their next game.

GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL PLAYOFFS

DIVISION I

First round, Monday, 7 p.m.

#16 Sun Valley Poly at #1 Carson

#9 San Pedro at #8 Los Angeles Hamilton

#12 Van Nuys at #5 Taft

#13 Garfield at #4 Granada Hills

#14 Wilmington Banning at #3 Palisades

#11 South Gate at #6 Narbonne

#10 Cleveland at #7 Bell

#15 Monroe...

Police in Claremont arrested a teenage boy Wednesday on suspicion of slaying his sister.

The reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors beat the Clippers, 112-108, in a game that had 17 lead changes and included  double-figure leads by both teams.

The fallout from Volkswagen's emissions-cheating scandal intensified Wednesday, as investors dumped the company's stock and a credit rating firm downgraded its debt. European regulators demanded that VW speed up its investigation into the cheating, while the company halted sales of seven models...

"Hamilton," which began off-Broadway at the Public Theater and is now happily ensconced at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre, where tickets are fetching a Russian oligarch's ransom, is the most important American musical to come along since "Rent."

Gloria Steinem

What: Gloria Steinem on her memoir, "My Life on the Road," in conversation with Melissa McCarthy

When: 7 p.m. Nov. 12

Where: The Theatre at Ace Hotel, 929 S. Broadway, Los Angeles

Cost: $34.50 to $250

Info: www.acehotel.com/losangeles/theatre www.booksoup.com