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Surprise your special someone on a romantic Valentine’s Day cruise that visits Italy's southern shores.

Here’s a look at what roughly $1 million buys right now in the Orange County communities of Anaheim Hills; Northwood, in Irvine; and Las Flores, in southern O.C.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Dec. 15, and here’s what’s happening across California:

The Times’ NFL writer, Sam Farmer, examines this week’s matchups. Lines according to Pregame.com (O/U = over/under). Last week’s record 11-5 (.688); season 137-71 (.659). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer predicted, the record against the spread last week would have been 8-8 (.500); season...

To the editor: The article fails to mention an incredibly important fact with regard to churches and their right to preach politics from the pulpit. (“Religious leaders question why Republican tax plan would allow churches to endorse candidates,” Dec. 12)

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The fundamental idea behind the new Fred Segal store in West Hollywood is to take people on a “treasure hunt.”

L.A.'s new North Pole - it's in Century City - offers VIP access, high-tech parking and $17,500 luggage.

The FCC voted to end its rules on net neutrality, but that didn’t end the fight.

To the editor: UC Riverside philosophy professor Eric Schwitzgebel not only fails to cite the “spiritual” meaning of the letters on the dreydl (note the correct Yiddish transliteration), he also does not point out that such meaning is a relatively new rationale for the gambling values on the medieval...

Gang injunctions, pioneered in Los Angeles, are civil court orders that restrict the behavior of people whom police identify as gang members. When they are employed wisely, they can be useful tools to protect neighborhoods from the fear and intimidation perpetrated on them by criminal street gangs....

President Trump recently announced his decision to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Where is J. William Fulbright when we need him? Or if not Fulbright, perhaps Robert M. La Follette or George W. Norris. Personally, I’d even settle for William Borah or Burton K. Wheeler.

While sales of beauty injectables such as Botox continue to rise, there are other cosmetic treatments available, including vampire facials, for those seeking to smooth fine lines and wrinkles before the upcoming Golden Globes, Grammys and Academy Awards.

This last year has been a dangerous one for journalists around the globe — a record 262 men and women are imprisoned because of the nature of the work they do, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. It’s part of a disturbing trend of attacking and undermining institutions that exist...

Was Hillary Clinton’s defeat in last year’s election in large part the fault of the male journalists recently outed as sexual harassers? This increasingly popular theory — advanced by, among others, New York Times opinion writer Jill Filipovic and late-night television talk show host Samantha Bee...

If, sometime in the new year, a dinner guest arrives at your home and presents you with a hostess gift of cannabis flower — a jar of Kosher Kush indica to be specific — what bottle of wine might you serve it with? If you’d attended a recent wine and cannabis pairing dinner at Gracias Madre in West...

Claudia and Francisco Alvarez had what they thought was a perfect situation in the mountains west of Calistoga in Napa County.

Rolling Loud (Dec. 16-17 in San Bernardino), with its global tour model, is one of a growing wave of hip-hop festivals. How streaming is helping a genre traditionally shunted into expensive clubs or second-tier venues with crazy security become a mainstream festival phenomenon.

The holidays can be an especially sweet time of year, particularly for those of us who love to bake. This is the season to have fun in the kitchen as we gather with parents, grandparents, children or friends, sharing memories and passing on traditions while we stock up on festive cookies and family favorites to share with those closest to us. Timeless as these rituals may be — combining butter and sugar with eggs and flour, carefully shaping and baking each creation — there is a powerful magic behind this seemingly simple chemistry. Читать дальше...

For Tina Johnson, Roy Moore’s defeat is just beginning to sink in.

Johnson, one of the women who accused Moore of sexual misconduct as he ran for U.S. Senate in Alabama, had never voted before Tuesday.

Watching returns with family and friends in Gadsden, Ala., she was nervous about Democrat Doug...

The crowd was seething with frustration.

“We want to go inside!” one man yelled. “They told us when Raqqah is liberated we can go home.”

Some of the U.S.-backed fighters who drove Islamic State militants from the Syrian city in October tried to reason with him. It’s not safe, they said. Scores...

Outside Paris’ magnificent Grand Palais, just off the Champs Elysees, theatergoers stood in the drizzle to see “Singin’ in the Rain.”