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Until last year, the only people who saw the Hollywood Film Awards were the A-list recipients and their teams, movie studio executives and publicists, journalists and the waitstaff at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Like many blue states, California enthusiastically embraced Obamacare, signing up millions for health insurance. Now, it's venturing into a potentially costly and controversial new frontier of health policy: offering medical coverage to hundreds of thousands of people living in the country illegally.

Just grin, baby.

Three weeks into the NFL season, and the Oakland Raiders are riding high.

After getting blown out in their opener against Cincinnati, they roared back with victories over Baltimore and Cleveland to collect consecutive wins for the first time since 2012.

By topping the Browns, they...

Ken Jeong is known as a scene stealer, a hilarious satellite character who can outshine an Oscar nominee. But with the premiere Friday of his sitcom "Dr. Ken," the 46-year-old gravitates toward the center of a new comic universe of his own making.

As Pope Francis concluded his first tour of the U.S., another cultural conclave officially convened. Taking over for Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show," Trevor Noah became the last of the late-night host replacements.

Tom Steyer’s crusade to force politicians to confront climate change is well known, manifesting itself in millions of dollars of campaign funding, including the windfall he raised for Hillary Rodham Clinton recently in his San Francisco home.

Half a century ago, during a crowded Rose Garden ceremony, President Lyndon B. Johnson codified the nation’s commitment to the arts and humanities.

Afghan forces were going door to door in Kunduz on Friday searching for Taliban fighters who had overtaken the northern city earlier in the week before a U.S.-backed government counterattack appeared to have flushed out most of the militants.

Aptly titled in the passive voice, writer-director Ryan Jaffe's indie comedy-drama "This Is Happening" operates at such a negligible pace it barely qualifies as a moving picture. It's a bickering-siblings tale in which people do things and say things because it's in a script, rather than out of...

Like many women, Cynthia Blais loved her new fitness tracker. And like many women, she was embarrassed by how it looked.

Subscribe to the newsletter This is Susan King, veteran L.A. Times film writer and guardian of the Golden Age of Hollywood galaxy. Every Friday in my Classic Hollywood newsletter, I write about TV and movie milestones, notable births and deaths, screenings and events for the vintage lover, the...

ARLINGTON, Texas — The gravity of the situation couldn't weigh more heavily on the Angels on Thursday night after a 5-3 loss to the Texas Rangers in Globe Life Park pushed them to the brink of playoff elimination.

Neighbors at a sprawling apartment complex in Torrance thought it was odd a few years ago when they saw Chris Harper Mercer and his mother carrying black cases that they suspected held firearms.

Holding candles high in the air and singing "Amazing Grace," hundreds of Roseburg residents gathered at a city park for a candlelight vigil to mourn the community college's dead and wounded.

Many scientists have long blamed a single culprit in the sudden and violent mass extinction that took out the dinosaurs: an asteroid that came screaming out of the skies some 66 million years ago. But it turns out that this asteroid may have had an accomplice.

Hours after a gunman burst into a rural Oregon community college and opened fire Thursday, survivors were telling their stories of terror. At least nine people were killed and seven more wounded, authorities say. The attacker died in a gun battle with police.

It's a little early for Anaheim to feel like home to Carl Hagelin.

The Ducks winger hasn't been in town for a month yet, and he's staying in a hotel until he gets settled.

"There's no rush for me," Hagelin said. "But when you have the weather like this, you can't really complain."

It was slow for...

It would be the ultimate indignity for the Angels if Josh Hamilton, the left fielder they are paying $60 million over three years to play for the Rangers after his winter substance-abuse relapse and April trade to Texas, delivered a key hit to knock them out of the playoff race.

Narbonne, ranked No. 9 by The Times, looked lethargic, uninspired and hardly played like a defending City Section championship team in falling behind, 14-6, at halftime to Los Alamitos on Thursday night at Veterans Stadium.

As we head into the last weekend of the baseball season, there are three teams battling for the second and final AL wild-card spot — the Angels, Houston Astros and Minnesota Twins. (The Texas Rangers clinched at least a wild-card spot with their win over the Angels on Thursday and will win the...

Galaxy forward Giovani dos Santos has been called up by the Mexican national team ahead of the Oct. 10 CONCACAF playoff with the U.S. at the Rose Bowl.

Break out the chips and cold drinks but let Chris Dufresne handle the remote. The Times' national college football writer handicaps what's worth watching, and skipping, on the upcoming menu of games.

Thursday, October 1st

SOUTHERN SECTION

PACIFIC LEAGUE

Burbank Burroughs 48, Hoover 6

NONLEAGUE

Crean Lutheran 41, Capistrano Valley Christian 21

Glendora 29, Kaiser 24

Ocean View 14, Estancia 13

Ontario 35, Jurupa Valley 0

Rancho Alamitos 14, Loara 9

San Dimas 28, California 21

San Juan Hills...

What we know so far: At least 13 people were killed in the shooting. At least 20 people were injured. The shooting suspect, a 20-year-old man, is dead. He has not been identified. The shooting happened at Umpqua Community College around 10:30 a.m. Pacific time. The victims have been taken to several...

Southern California home builders Standard Pacific Corp. and Ryland Group Inc. expect to lay off about 10% of their newly combined workforce after the companies' $5.2-billion merger closed Thursday.