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“You must be my ride,” David Byrne said, hopping off his bicycle as he pulled up in front of a West Hollywood hotel. “Want some juice? I didn’t drink any of it — it just spilled while I was riding over.”

Four years ago, a group of owners started on their vision to build LAFC from the ground up. On Sunday, it culminates with the first game in their state-of-the-art stadium.

That a tiny market for conversion therapy to “cure” homosexuality still exists today is deeply sad, even infuriating. But here’s the question: If a competent adult knows the most devastating critiques, and wants to pay for it anyway, should California law thwart him or her?

On Tuesday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was on L.A.’s skid row touring a women’s shelter and praising Los Angeles for its ambitious efforts to end homelessness. On Wednesday, Carson proposed new laws that could make it much more difficult to do just that.

For years, Nicaraguans seemed to tolerate the growing authoritarianism of President Daniel Ortega in exchange for stability and growth. That pact is now crumbling.

Palms are non-native trees planted by property developers to lure Easterners looking for tropical climes. It's the "big cone spruce" that is uniquely our own.

It was inevitable that legislators in Sacramento would join the debate over free speech on college campuses. It isn’t just that California has seen dramatic examples of censorship through violence, such as the rampage by 150 black-clad agitators in Berkeley last year that led to the cancellation...

To the editor: As a parent getting ready to send her 17-year-old daughter from an inclusive and culturally diverse high school to a university, I worry about racism on college campuses. (“After blackface incident, minority students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo say they don't feel welcome,” April...

To the editor: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s call for increased rent control is inspired, I’m sure, by the dual motivations of his political ambitions and a sincere desire to help solve the housing shortage. But rent control is the wrong solution.

To the editor: Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt objects to the citing of research that he says is not fully transparent. His position reflects a catastrophic ignorance both about how science works and how rules on access to patient records protect individual privacy. (“Trump’s...

This weekend Ashley McBryde is set to play one of country music’s biggest stages — and shortly before one of its biggest stars — at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, an experience she describes as a “rite a passage” for any country artist looking to make her mark.

The Senate Judiciary Committee appeared an island of civility Thursday as Democrats and Republicans politely debated and voted 14 to 7 to approve bipartisan legislation intended to prevent President Trump from firing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III without cause.

When the law came for him after 40 years of hunting, he was doing a woodworking project in his garage.

Mary Hawley takes the widely used drug Humira for her rheumatoid arthritis. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars a year, but for nearly a decade Hawley has been assisted with discount coupons from the drug’s manufacturer, AbbVie.

For more than 200,000 years, Neanderthals successfully occupied the cold, dark forests and shores of Europe.

“This is an issue that’s not going away.”

So says Edward Stack, the chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc., whose retail chain is among the private-sector firms tightening their gun-control restrictions — and pressing for such curbs nationwide — in the absence of similar action by Congress.

North and South Korea say they will jointly push for talks with the United States and also potentially China to officially end the 1950-53 Korean War, which stopped in an armistice and left the Koreas still technically at war.

If China and the United States continue their charge into a full-on trade war, few regions will be as vulnerable to the resulting economic turbulence as Southeast Asia.

Caesar, born on June 1, 1977, weighed 7 pounds when John Malmin took the image above. His name came from the word “caesarean.”

Immigration officers in the United States operate under a cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans.

The Golden Knights’ 7-0 demolition of the San Jose Sharks in the opener of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series was a clinic on how to succeed in today’s NHL.

Cleveland was a pass. The New York Giants had other needs. Same for the New York Jets. The Browns went with a different defensive back. Denver, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Chicago and San Francisco all said “no” too.