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NBC’s morning TV franchise has become adept at leveraging the network’s coverage of the Olympic Games. Every two years viewers can count on emotional athletes and their families and friends stopping by the remote set of the program on the Olympics site to share the glory.

With multiple projects in the works, Jordan Peele, the Oscar-nominated writer-director-producer of "Get Out," plans to remain squarely in the genre field. And he's not opposed to "expanding" the world of that film.

After more than a decade of out-of-town ownership, the Los Angeles Times could once more be locally owned, this time by a billionaire immigrant with a track record of immense success and dizzying — if sometimes unfulfilled — ambition.

The latest old show to be resurrected for a new generation is Bravo's Emmy-winning "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," later, and presently, just "Queer Eye." The series took off from the premise that (some) gay men might have something to teach (certain) straight people about self-presentation and...

Stocks rebounded, but worries abound.

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Economic Rocket Fuel — Handle With Care

President Trump has said that the Republican tax cuts would add rocket fuel to the economy, but rocket fuel can create a very wild ride. Some analysts say this week’s stock market gyrations reflect the extra...

Costume designer Mark Bridges earned his third Oscar nomination last month for his work on “Phantom Thread,” the Paul Thomas Anderson film that explores the strict and intricate dynamics of a 1950s couture fashion house and its inhabitants.

After Toyota issued a 2016 recall to fix a key electronic component on its Priuses, one of California’s largest dealers said the cars were still coming in after overheating and leaving drivers stranded in traffic.

Unlike the Emmys, Grammys and Tonys, the Oscars arrive at the end of a loooong season of speeches and industry self-congratulation. Various guild awards have already offered plenty of clues about how academy members might vote and, in many cases, all that’s left to do is engrave the trophy with...

By conventional Hollywood standards, “Get Out” shouldn’t be an Oscar darling. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is usually averse to horror movies, and almost never rewards films that come out early in the year. What’s more, the academy typically favors industry stalwarts, not first-time...

USC, known nationally for its aggressive fundraising operation, saw contributions tumble in the second half of 2017, a period in which scandals roiled its medical school.

Believe it or not, I want the California Republican Party to do well. I agree with nearly none of their platform, and their troglodytic elected officials are only good for internet memes and scary bedtime stories.

The Interior Department gave final approval 17 months ago to a massive planning document that, among other things, designated nearly 400,000 acres of desert in Southern California for wind, solar and geothermal energy production. The plan capped eight years of work, nearly a dozen public meetings...

To the editor: Reading columns like Steve Lopez’s “There's only one fix for L.A.'s traffic nightmare — we all have to pay up,” and letters in the Los Angeles Times on public transportation, I get the impression that it is an alien environment for many readers.

Donald Trump is a Rorschach blot on the office of the presidency. Some people look at him and see a dangerous authoritarian. Some see a leader too weak to be authoritarian. Some see a weak leader who nonetheless has an authoritarian heart. And that's just the people who don't like the guy.

To the editor: The journalists risking their lives in Mexico are no less heroic than soldiers on the front lines of battle. It shames our country that we are not doing more to offer asylum to these brave men and women. (“Journalists are fleeing for their lives in Mexico. There are few havens,”...

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney once likened government regulations to a “slow cancer,” an attitude he shares with many of President Trump’s appointees as well as the man himself. So it’s hardly surprising that, in his new part-time role as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection...

Los Angeles school board member Ref Rodriguez is scheduled to be back in court Wednesday over charges that he made illegal donations to his campaign in 2015.

Maria Barrancas self-deported to Mexico with her partner and their two children. Now, she struggles to find her place in her native country.

The verdict is in: Food deserts don’t drive nutritional disparities in the United States the way we thought. Over the past decade, study after study has shown that differences in access to healthy food can’t fully explain why wealthy Americans consume a healthier diet than poor Americans.

To the editor: Richard Nixon’s legacy is larger than Watergate. (“Who's worse, Trump or Nixon?” Opinion, Feb. 5)

To the editor: We must end the vicious cycle of homelessness, debt and jail through creative strategies, as demonstrated by the success of ImagineLA, a program that provides permanent solutions to family homelessness.

Los Angeles Police Commissioner Sandra Figueroa-Villa talks about the fraught task she and her fellow commissioners face.

The survey exhibition "Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth" opens its only U.S. stop at the Broad this week. The Times gets a sneak peek during the installation of one of the exhibition's standout pieces, "Three Flags."

Debate over sexual misconduct in politics and a comparison of conservative bona fides dominated a boisterous forum Tuesday among the three top Republican candidates for California governor.

After years of toiling against the surveillance state, sounding alarms about privacy and warning of Orwellian law enforcement overreach, civil libertarians now find their talking points have been hijacked.