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Last week, a UC Regents working group released a proposed set of Principles Against Intolerance, created in response to a series of anti-Semitic incidents on UC campuses. On March 23, the Regents will vote on whether to officially adopt those principles. Controversially, the document not only condemns...

Last week, a UC Regents working group released a proposed set of Principles Against Intolerance, created in response to a series of anti-Semitic incidents on UC campuses. On March 23, the Regents will vote on whether to officially adopt those principles. Controversially, the document not only condemns...

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

Diving into a feisty debate over bias and free speech, University of California regents will vote Wednesday on whether anti-Zionism should be condemned as a form of discrimination with no place on campus.

Good morning. It is Wednesday, March 23. This intimate portrait of the late Elizabeth Taylor takes the audience right inside her longtime home. Here's what else is happening in the Golden State:

To the editor: The California Air Resource Board's plan to penalize Southern California Gas Co. for nearly 100,000 tons of methane pollution from the Aliso Canyon leak won't work as drafted. Following the worst gas leak in our country's history, the air board's proposed “offset” approach undermines...

To the editor: It is an incredibly sad reflection of the degradation of Israeli political discourse under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump could find supporters in Israel. ("Meet the Israelis praying for a Trump win," March 17)

To the editor: Kimball Taylor identifies the practical problems with Donald Trump's pledge that he “will build a great, great wall on our southern border.” He argues that it will be ineffective when migrants are coming here for economic reasons or fleeing political turmoil and will exact “a hefty...

To the editor: I'm a retired Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services employee who spent about five years in a crew that regularly cleaned up homeless encampments in the downtown area alleys. ("The fair way to handle the homeless and their belongings," editorial, March 17)

To the editor: While showing images of recently refreshed reservoirs in the northern part of the state, The Times was right to make sure its readers knew that California's drought isn't over. What you see at the surface — in lakes and rivers — can belie what's underneath. ("Reservoirs are getting...

Jeb Bush endorsed Ted Cruz in the GOP presidential race Wednesday, arguing that he was the best candidate to take on the party’s front-runner, Donald Trump.

SAN FRANCISCO — For all the lip service the technology industry pays about valuing diversity and equality, it has struggled to close the gender pay gap, according to new research from Glassdoor, a website where current and former employees anonymously review companies and management.

Here’s how Amanda Seyfried’s art world wish — to be transformed by Los Angeles artist Mark Ryden into a caricature-on-canvas “with blood trickling down my throat and me holding a dead cat” — came true. And where you can view the pop surrealist painting this weekend.

It should be common knowledge that Kent Nagano, who arrived in California this week amid his first U.S. tour as music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, is one of the world's most imaginative and important conductors.

President Obama could have visited any number of countries in South America.

Donald Trump rolled to another big victory Tuesday in Arizona, inching closer to the delegates he needs to capture the Republican presidential nomination without a contest at the party's national convention this summer.

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton won the Arizona primary, the biggest prize in Tuesday’s presidential nominating contests, while rival Bernie Sanders notched wins in the Utah and Idaho caucuses.

A Southern California Edison contractor was killed Tuesday when he was crushed between a construction crane and a trailer near the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, authorities said.

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's program at UCLA's Royce Hall on Sunday could easily have been mistaken for business as usual. There were two beloved Mozart concertos — the Clarinet Concerto in A major and Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor. But Jeffrey Kahane, in his penultimate year as music...

The blustery weather whipping much of Southern California is expected to continue overnight into Wednesday, weather officials said.

The official announcement that the NBA All-Star game was returning to Los Angeles in 2018 came amid jokes about a mayors' dunking contest and comments about the sunny weather.

Highlights of the Dodgers' 3-1 loss to the Kansas City Royals.

AT THE PLATE: The lone Dodgers run occurred when outfielder Rico Noel ripped an RBI double off Royals reliever Scott Alexander. Kansas City starter Chris Young walked three but did not give up a hit during 4 1/3 innings.

ON THE MOUND:...

Only one of the dozen underground gas storage facilities in California had no leaking gas wells or fixtures, according to tests required by state regulators in the wake of a well blowout in Southern California.

Three people, including two Los Angeles police officers, were injured Tuesday evening in a traffic collision in downtown L.A., authorities said.

The winds swirled and the stadium’s speaker system blared “Don’t Stop Believing” as Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations, met with a pack of reporters near the back entrance of the team’s complex at Camelback Ranch on Tuesday. The principal topic was Andre Ethier’s right...