By DEB RIECHMANN WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that trade talks between China and the U.S. were continuing in a “very congenial manner” despite new tariffs the U.S. imposed Friday on $200 billion in Chinese imports and Beijing’s vow to retaliate. In a series of blustering morning tweets, Trump also claimed the new…
By ANDREW MELDRUM JOHANNESBURG — The ruling African National Congress is coasting to a comfortable lead in South Africa’s presidential and parliamentary elections with 83% of the vote counted, but the tally shows the party getting less support than five years ago amid deep anger over government corruption. The ANC, led by President Cyril Ramaphosa,…
California education officials have agreed on a sweeping new framework for sex education in the classroom, sparking intense debate about whether some of the proposal’s teacher material is too graphic and explicit. The guidance is meant for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, and though…
Mark Dorsey’s grandmother first suspected a problem with his hearing when he was a baby. The family lived near what was Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino; jets routinely roared overhead, but the baby never reacted to the noise. Alarmed, Dorsey’s mother did what a lot of parents in that situation…
The California bullet train project, for much of the past decade, enjoyed no more important partner than the U.S. Department of Transportation. DOT was supplying the state with billions of dollars in grants, showering the project with political affection and later making repeated amendments to…
It was one of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s most dramatic pledges in his sweeping “Green New Deal” for Los Angeles: “We will have zero days of unhealthy air quality by 2025.” The goal, it turns out, was not as ambitious as it sounded. Rather than using current federal health standards, the mayor’s plan…
It was 45 minutes into his lecture when the rabbi pulled out an AR-15. “Who thinks, by show of hands, that we should be carrying more guns in shul?” Rabbi Raziel Cohen asked the crowd at a Westside Chabad synagogue Wednesday night, during an active-shooter seminar organized in the wake of the deadly…
On Mother’s Day, 1942, the Los Angeles Times recognized Thelma B. England on Alhambra. Her son Ensign John C. England died at Pearl Harbor aboard the battleship Oklahoma.
Nikolai Greco, 11, didn’t know what he was in for when he walked onto the field of Cal State Fullerton’s Titan Stadium Thursday afternoon, May 9. But everything clicked for him when he glanced at a ball signed by the players and coaches of the school’s men’s soccer team. Defender Sam Molz, left, applauds as…
He was charged by a herd of 200 elephants, escaping only with the help of a flatbed truck, and was once knocked unconscious by a surly chimpanzee named Mr. Moke, who punched him “square between the eyes.” But neither incident compared to the time a 22-foot anaconda swallowed his arm, up to the…
