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Molly McGrath is laser-focused on a job no advanced democratic society ought to require: Making sure properly registered voters do not lose their right to cast a ballot on election day because of new, stringent ID requirements they may not even know exist.

Donald Trump's victory in his native New York on Tuesday was huge, as the candidate would say. Next week's primaries in five other Northeastern states will probably be good for Trump, too. From Connecticut to Pennsylvania and Maryland, “New York values” aren't an epithet; it's Trump's main rival,...

The shocking and brutal attack by two terrorists on a San Bernardino County health department holiday party last year left 14 people dead, dozens wounded and countless Americans feeling more threatened than they have in years. Now, federal lawmakers are considering a bill that responds to one of...

Proposition 50, the sole measure on the June 7 ballot, grew out of an extremely bad year for the California Senate.It was 2014, and one veteran lawmaker — Sen. Roderick D. Wright (D-Inglewood) — had been convicted in January of voter fraud and perjury for lying to voters about living in his district....

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He’s not just the most famous writer in human history – out of all 100 billion of us ever to live on this planet, he’s one of the most famous people. William Shakespeare died exactly 400 years ago, in the same English town where he was born. His contemporary, the playwright Ben Jonson, said he...

Imagine a full year, or two, during which a nation’s old people die but no new people are born. Picture an elementary school with empty first- and second-grade classrooms. Look further ahead to the years no new workers join the labor pool.How would a two-year collapse in the birth rate rattle a...

Twenty-three dogs, including 20 puppies that were packed in a nearly airless crate and initially thought to be dead, were seized over the weekend at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in a smuggling attempt in which one man was arrested.

After nearly four years of renovations at a cost of close to $66 million, the historic John Anson Ford Theatres complex in the hills of the Cahuenga Pass will be taking its bow, with a public reopening set for July.

A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning six miles from Idyllwild, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:41 a.m. PDT at a depth of 8.1 miles.

Trump and Clinton take the wins in the New York primary April 20 2016, 5:05 AM Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump secure wins in New York's primaries and take a stronger stance in the race for the nomination.Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic primary in New York, says the nomination "is in sight"Donald...

LeEco, the Chinese company behind the secretive Gardena automaker Faraday Future, unveiled its first mainstream model car Wednesday in Beijing: a sleek, white four-door electric sedan with suicide doors called the LeSEE.

Santa Ana Mater Dei announced on Tuesday that softball Coach Tia Meza will become the school's athletic director effective July 1 and Athletic Director Phil Bellomo will be moving into a new position of Director of Facilty and Venue Management.

Sex, evil, love, royalty, murder, magic - William Shakespeare delivered it all to us, and 400 years after he died, he's still rocking our worldview. Shakespeare scholar Ron Rosenbaum figures out the staying power of the man from Stratford-upon-Avon. Find the full archive of "Patt Morrison Asks"...

The rare yellow-billed cuckoo is a shy, slender, long-tailed bird that migrates from Central America in spring to breed in streamside forests that once thrived throughout Southern California.

With his films "Once" and "Begin Again," Irish filmmaker John Carney went some way toward revitalizing the movie musical, giving that classic grace and romance a contemporary spin. His latest film, "Sing Street," now playing in Los Angeles, is something new again, a personal, semi-autobiographical...

It wasn't quite Little Coachella in Little Tokyo. But as if out of nowhere, more than 1,000 hip-hop fans, some wearing Kanye West T-shirts, descended on the Aratani Theatre. A few had arrived as early as noon on Saturday and waited in the hot sun for a 7:30 p.m. concert.

The latest incident highlighting complaints of police abuse in Egypt started with a cup of tea.

The relocation of the Changzhou Foreign Languages School to a new 153-acre campus last fall was supposed to mark a bright new era for the private institution, where many of the 2,500 seventh- through 12th-grade students aspire to attend college abroad.

Two women were removed from a JetBlue Airways plane for reportedly staring at a flight attendant.

A nonprofit group has filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and the City Council over a developer's plan to build a 27-floor apartment tower along a residential street in Koreatown.

A U.S. Coast Guard crew was combing the waters off Manhattan Beach late Tuesday and planned to continue through Wednesday morning, searching for a 25-year-old swimmer who was believed to have been swept into the sea.

Ducks goaltender Frederik Andersen used his head Tuesday to stop a blistering slap shot by Nashville defenseman Shea Weber. His teammates used their heads in a different way, staying out of scrums and maintaining their composure well enough to rein in the Predators and get back into a playoff series...

The Ducks avoided falling into a three-game deficit in their best-of-seven-games series against the Predators, winning 3-0 Tuesday night in Nashville.

Donald Trump roared to a huge victory Tuesday in New York's Republican primary, delivering a much-needed chance to reset his presidential campaign and retake the upper hand in the fight for the GOP nomination.