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Essential Politics: California Legislature's session ends in the wee hours Sept. 1, 2016, 12:44 a.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. This year's legislative session finally closed out early Thursday morning after a long and busy day for...

Essential Politics: California Legislature's session ends in the wee hours Sept. 1, 2016, 12:44 a.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. This year's legislative session finally closed out early Thursday morning after a long and busy day for...

A bill to ban behind-the-scenes communications at the California Coastal Commission went down to defeat in the Assembly on Wednesday night after facing strong opposition from labor, business groups and development interests.

Essential Politics: California Legislature's session ends in the wee hours Sept. 1, 2016, 12:44 a.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. This year's legislative session finally closed out early Thursday morning after a long and busy day for...

Times journalists are annotating this speech. If you see a passage highlighted in yellow, you can click on it to see what we have to say about it. You can also highlight passages and leave your own comments. Speech as prepared per Donald Trump's campaign. Thank you, Phoenix. I am so glad to be...

Essential Politics: Live updates as California Legislature's session comes to an end Aug. 31, 2016, 9:32 p.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. This year's legislative session headed down to the final hours Wednesday night with a flurry of...

From the start, Donald J. Trump has predicated his campaign for the White House on fear and suspicion, racism and misogyny, and a remarkably light grasp of how the world — especially politics — actually works. He debates not with facts and analysis but with schoolyard taunts and unsupported braggadocio...

Essential Politics: Live updates as California Legislature's session comes to an end Aug. 31, 2016, 9:32 p.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. This year's legislative session headed down to the final hours Wednesday night with a flurry of...

Warm temperatures, low humidity and withered brush fed a wildfire in the rugged Orange County hills that charred 155 acres Wednesday as crews hustled to stop the spread of the flames. 

Second baseman Neil Walker was out of the New York Mets’ lineup for a fourth straight day and the team revealed Wednesday he has a herniated disk in his back.

A ninth-inning grand slam by Dodgers rookie Andrew Toles completed a furious comeback as the team split a doubleheader with the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday thanks to a 10-8 victory in the nightcap.

Campaign 2016 updates: Donald Trump continues vow to build wall and have Mexico pay for it Aug. 31, 2016, 8:48 p.m. Differing narratives have emerged over whether Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto discussed who would pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.Trump says in his big immigration...

Essential Politics: Live updates as California Legislature's session comes to an end Aug. 31, 2016, 9:32 p.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. This year's legislative session headed down to the final hours Wednesday night with a flurry of...

At a conservation summit on the southern shore of Lake Tahoe, President Obama on Wednesday pointed to the environmental degradation of the lake’s once-crystal-clear waters as proof of the damage caused by climate change and warned of the threat posed by Republican leaders who continue to deny its...

A combined 51 homers and 187 runs batted in were on the Angels bench for Wednesday’s 3-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Neither Mike Trout nor Albert Pujols were in the lineup as Angels right-hander Ricky Nolasco, taking full advantage of the shadows of a late afternoon start, pitched a four-hit...

As police continued examining evidence seized from Chris Brown’s home — including security camera footage — the R&B singer’s attorney insisted Wednesday on his client’s innocence and questioned the motives of the accuser, a dethroned beauty queen and aspiring actress.

A Simi Valley retiree was awarded $15.4 million in damages Wednesday after insurance giant MetLife was found liable for losses she suffered in an investment that turned out to be a Ponzi scheme.

Campaign 2016 updates: Donald Trump continues vow to build wall and have Mexico pay for it Aug. 31, 2016, 8:48 p.m. Differing narratives have emerged over whether Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto discussed who would pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.Trump says in his big immigration...

Campaign 2016 updates: Donald Trump continues vow to build wall and have Mexico pay for it Aug. 31, 2016, 8:48 p.m. Differing narratives have emerged over whether Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto discussed who would pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.Trump says in his big immigration...

A grand jury indicted a white former Atlanta police officer Wednesday on murder and other charges in the shooting of an unarmed black man.

Two decades have passed since an obsessed fan shot and killed Tejano music legend Selena.

Campaign 2016 updates: Donald Trump continues vow to build wall and have Mexico pay for it Aug. 31, 2016, 8:48 p.m. Differing narratives have emerged over whether Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto discussed who would pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.Trump says in his big immigration...

Former Antelope Valley College basketball Coach Newton Chelette has been named head coach at Paraclete.

Roger Tsien, the exuberant and resourceful UC San Diego researcher who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for helping to find a more effective way to peer inside cells and organisms, has died. He was 64.

The Angels demanded Wednesday that the city of Anaheim order additional study of a large-scale development planned for a site adjacent to Angel Stadium.