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Voters in a dozen states head to the primaries and caucuses as front runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump remain poised for big nights. Here's five things to watch on Super TuesdayA breakdown of how Super Tuesday delegates are awardedPhotographer trying to cover protests is tackled at a Donald...

In something that has become a rite of spring, Yasiel Puig is standing in front of his locker, smiling and nodding, making a case why the upcoming season will be better than the last.

Reckless behavior could cost Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) his law license and derail the career of his attorney girlfriend, Kimberly Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), on “Amarillo,” Episode 203 of AMC’s “Better Call Saul.”

When comedian Chris Rock took to the Dolby Theatre stage to start the Oscars telecast Sunday night, the track “Fight the Power” by rap group Public Enemy played in the background. That same song, used by Spike Lee to cap his seminal film “Do the Right Thing,” also played at the end of the show...

A Newport Beach commission on Tuesday will discuss whether the city should enforce leash and dog-waste regulations along a county-owned beach adjacent to the mouth of the Santa Ana River.

For millions of young adults who make up the largest and best-educated generation in American history, coming of age in the wake of the Great Recession has been particularly painful.

Whatever their results, the spate of primaries and caucuses aptly known as Super Tuesday will be a major milestone in the 2016 presidential campaign. After a preliminary round of contests waged one state at a time, voters in 13 states will simultaneously indicate their preferences for a nominee...

At last August's Monterey Car Week, Bugatti president Wolfgang Durheimer said his company was preparing to unveil a car that would be faster, more powerful and more luxurious than any in the world -- better in every way than its Veyron, already considered to be the fastest and most powerful production...

This week, the City Council will consider a proposal to raise electricity and water rates for homes and businesses in Los Angeles. The plan would increase the typical residential customer's monthly Department of Water and Power bill incrementally each year so that at the end of five years it would...

As Los Angeles County officials consider new rules on raves Tuesday, the coroner has determined that an Ecstasy overdose caused the death of an 18-year-old UCLA student who attended a rave at the county fairgrounds in Pomona last summer.

To the editor: I have never been so disgusted with the city's response to homelessness as when I read about the eviction of individuals from their “tiny houses.” ("L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless," Feb. 25)

In 2007, my organization produced a documentary called “Hillary: The Movie” and tried to put it on TV. The name of our nonprofit? Citizens United.Our name, of course, has become synonymous with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that followed in 2010. And ever since it unfairly has become the...

To the editor: The problem with the Academy Awards is the awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences should exist, but the awards shouldn't. ("What did you expect from Chris Rock -- he skewers everyone on diversity," Opinion, Feb. 29)

While the media has reported on nearly every minutia of the ongoing litigation between Apple and the FBI, we seem to have lost sight of the bigger picture.

Is Joe Scarborough having his Colonel Nicholson moment?That's what I wondered Monday morning as I watched the host of MSNBC's “Morning Joe” insist that Donald Trump's inability and unwillingness to simply and plainly denounce the Ku Klux Klan in a Sunday CNN interview was “disqualifying.”For those...

To the editor: The article reporting that Los Angeles County spends $233,600 per year for each young person it detains exposes the troubling disconnect between social science research and the county's budget priorities. ("L.A. County spends more than $233,000 a year to hold each youth in juvenile...

Good morning. It is Tuesday, March 1. Google’s self-driving cars aren’t perfect. An accident report finds one of the cars struck a bus in Mountain View as it attempted to change lanes. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State:

To the editor: As with every fairy tale, the article ends with the inevitable fact that presidential popularity and power will fade with time once Donald Trump — in this scenario newly elected as president — is faced with reality: that he is not the anointed king or dictator and that the America...

Wael Alagha was curling up for the night on the cold ground outside a freeway rest stop. He had a black ski jacket and blanket to shield him from the night’s cold, but still shivered slightly.

In the roughly six months since the Food & Drug Administration gave its blessing to the marketing of flibanserin, a prescription treatment for low libido in premenopausal women, the average patient taking the newly minted medication should have had three additional satisfying sexual events.

Retired cop Bruce Everitt displays a Confederate flag in his frontyard, patrols the neighborhood in a golf cart to watch for suspicious strangers and dons a "Make America Great Again" hat to proclaim his support for Donald Trump.

For most folks, this is just another Tuesday. But in the world of politics, this is Super Tuesday, the biggest day of balloting in the 2016 presidential race.

Diane Tavenner scanned the list of names a staffer at Summit Preparatory Charter High School had just handed her. She began to cry. They weren't happy tears.

A single, instantly updated list of registered voters in California became reality on Monday, as two final counties plugged in to an electronic database mandated by a federal law enacted in the wake of the contentious 2000 presidential campaign.

A kidnapping suspect who led police on a winding pursuit across Orange County on Monday managed to slip away on foot, ending an hours-long standoff near a Newport Beach park.