56+ min ago   (453+ words) While it’s common to gloss over, even celebrate, enemy combatants’ deaths, it’s much harder for most of us to dismiss civilian deaths, to believe they’re either warranted or otherwise acceptable. But this isn’t a given — and there is reason to…...

58+ min ago   (1016+ words) Earlier this month, as I was reporting a column about the unceremonious deportation to the U.K. of the immigrant-hating, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, the world got word that a true political giant, Gloria Steinem, had died. Ten years ago, Yiannopoulos made…...

58+ min ago   (1670+ words) DELANO, Calif. — The rows of candies and nuts at the Guadalajara Meat Market — tamarindo con chile, seasoned pistachios, spicy paletas — sat mostly untouched as customers filtered through this carniceria in the late afternoon heat. “You see a lot of people…...

58+ min ago   (1695+ words) California prison towns made a grim bargain decades ago. They built their economies around an industry that relied on an ever-growing prison population, mostly from California’s major metropolitan areas. Then, about 15 years ago, legislators changed sentencing laws in ways that…...

58+ min ago   (868+ words) I predict you’re going to hate this column. Which means you’ll love it. As an embarrassingly large number of readers often remind me, I own the Pulitzer Prize for Pitiful Prognostication. Beginning with that fateful moment 25 years ago when I…...

58+ min ago   (1410+ words) Gavin Newsom, the California governor who loves to heckle Donald Trump and talk about the “big swings” he’s taken at policy while in office, is now a lame duck. Within a few short months, he will be termed out of…...

58+ min ago   (1392+ words) More than 300,000 Los Angeles voters who cast ballots for losing candidates in the mayoral primary are up for grabs in the Nov. 3 runoff between Karen Bass and Nithya Raman, and their decisions could determine who will lead the city for…...

14+ hour, 4+ min ago   (498+ words) KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s King Oyo Nyimba, who was once the world’s youngest monarch, was buried Saturday amid an acrimonious succession dispute that has rocked the royal family and gripped the nation. The traditional monarch, who ascended the throne of Uganda’s…...

12+ hour, 32+ min ago   (534+ words) PHOENIX — A judge who ruled 13 years ago that Latinos were racially profiled in then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdown in Arizona has rejected a bid to end the court’s supervision of the Sheriff’s Office. Maricopa County failed to show that the…...

15+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1091+ words) The U.S. Justice Department failed to secure felony convictions against most of the 102 protesters arrested in Los Angeles and three other major cities last year on charges of assaulting federal authorities — a record far below the norm in federal assault prosecutions....