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Here's an easy Las Vegas spring break choice: the Palazzo or the Venetian? Both offer a $150 resort credit for a three-night stay this spring.

Goodbye, Boss; hello, Biebs.

Less than 24 hours after Bruce Springsteen ended his much-discussed three-night stand at the Los Angeles Sports Arena (which closed the joint for good late Saturday night), Justin Bieber took the stage at Staples Center on Sunday to kick off an extended engagement no...

President Obama will press for concessions on human rights from Cuban leader Raul Castro here on Monday, but he also hopes to plant seeds for something he considers more powerful than official statements: economic reforms to empower Cubans.

Glass walls disappear with the push of a button at this newly constructed contemporary home  above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood Hills West. Natural elements, minimalist design and refined urban details create a sexy, screen-worthy home ready for its close-up.

Nasir Dogru says his son must have been important. He has often seen the 18-year-old on local Kurdish television channels, his smiling face flashing across the screen.

President Obama recently proposed a $1.8 billion emergency funding package to assist federal agencies in managing the Zika outbreak abroad and preventing it from spreading domestically. Stopping or slowing this mosquito-borne disease, which has now been reported in more than 20 Latin American countries...

When neighborhood activists and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation unveiled a ballot initiative in November that would have slapped a two-year moratorium on major developments and a permanent freeze on taller, more densely populated buildings in most of Los Angeles, this page urged Mayor Eric Garcetti...

Political attention across the United States is inevitably fixated on this year's extraordinary presidential primaries. But there is another vote, taking place across the Atlantic, that may yet have real bearing on America's future.On June 23, the United Kingdom will decide whether it should remain...

I'm Davan Maharaj, editor of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

Good morning. It is Monday, March 21. Congratulations to the Granada Hills Charter High School Academic Decathlon team. It won the state championship this weekend, which means the team can defend its national title next month in Anchorage. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State:

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton speak on U.S. relations with Israel before lobbying group AIPAC on Monday. Donald Trump's campaign is turning Latino activists in Arizona democratThe summer's Republican convention protests will come from racial tension, rioters and a scarred Cleveland Video shows...

Chinese authorities have recovered a massive haul of smuggled python skin worth $48 million, Chinese media reported on Monday, highlighting the scope of an international black market trade in the scaly, patterned material.

Fatima Rezai's journey to Greece took 40 days and 40 nights. From Afghanistan's Ghazni province she and her family trekked to Iran, then Turkey, took a boat to Samos, Greece, and then another to Piraeus.

In her articles, books and screenplays, Nora Ephron wrote with wit and candor about the most intimate of topics — her divorce, her parents' alcoholism, her small breasts.

In movie theaters this past weekend, a reluctant teen hero led a rebellion comprising an implausible clan of oppressed but likable young iconoclasts. Together they rose up around their chosen one to fight their government's evil social engineering.

Richard Estrada, born in the United States, experienced his share of bigotry as a teen. He felt pressure not to speak Spanish. His white high school classmates in Tucson taunted him as "Rico Suave," the name of a 1990 Spanglish hit by an Ecuadorean singer.

Yasuhisa Toyota has done it again.

The Japanese acoustician became an international sensation with the 2013 opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall, his first assignment outside of Asia. Since then, his firm, Nagata Acoustics, has endowed many of the most notable new concert halls in the U.S. and Europe...

Bruce Springsteen looked out on Saturday's sold-out crowd at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. They were all witnesses for the last show to be performed there. "This is it!" he shouted. "They're expecting us to tear it down tonight."

This summer, parallel swarms of Republican supporters and left-wing activists will descend on downtown Cleveland for what could be the most turbulent presidential nominating convention since the 1960s.

This is not, at first glance, a very Trump-like place.

A tidy village in Germany's wine country, Kallstadt is home to modest people, modest houses and an open, welcoming attitude toward outsiders — immigrants, tourists and oenophiles alike.

It is also home to people who claim an ancestral relationship...

In recent years, Afro-Cuban intellectuals have started gathering in a cramped Havana apartment to discuss a topic long considered off-limits in Cuba: race.

Cam Edwards moved to this historic town full of old tobacco warehouses along the Appomattox River to trade city life for a 40-acre farm with room for his family and a few heritage hogs.

“There’s this narrative,” said America Ferrera, “about young women not being inspired by Hillary. And that’s just not the case.”

Just over a year ago, Baldwin Park Mayor Manuel Lozano filed for a restraining order against one of his most vocal critics.

I'm Christina Bellantoni, your Essential Politics host through Thursday.