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LOS ANGELES — A battle is being waged at the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station near downtown Los Angeles. The weapon of choice? Loud classical music.

LOS ANGELES — In 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved an ambitious two-year plan to close the dungeon-like Men's Central Jail. The idea was to decrease the number of people in custody countywide by several thousand and shut down the aging…

NEW YORK — New York City on Tuesday was bracing for the unprecedented indictment of a former president, as Donald Trump was scheduled to face charges in a Manhattan courtroom after being indicted by a grand jury.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump will be arraigned Tuesday in New York, with new details expected about charges he faces stemming from an alleged 2016 hush money scheme and potentially other matters.

Fame is simple for Scottish pop star Lewis Capaldi.

Ever since the premiere of its eye-catching trailer during the Super Bowl, “Air” has been generating a lot of positive buzz.

LOS ANGELES — I grew up in a Spanish-speaking home in Echo Park. On my mother’s one day off a week from her restaurant, we’d go to matinees at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. We rarely saw people like us on the screen, but on TV I watched “I Love Lucy”: finally,…

’Tis the season for hand-wringing over the fiscal condition of Social Security.

ESPAÑOLA, N.M. — The caretaker at the hillside cemetery braced against the cold and walked among the graves. Crosses cast shadows on bunched flowers. A strand of tinsel gleamed from a bare tree. He looked over the rows and shut the gate, his face red, his hands small and coarse.

LOS ANGELES — Clicking on BoyMeetsCongress.com leads to the campaign website for Ben Savage, the star of a similarly named 1990s network sitcom who is now running for Congress to represent part of Los Angeles County.

Last fall, just blocks from my apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a gang of neo-Nazis gathered in Harvard Square on a Sunday afternoon. Videos showed a group of masked white men shouting, spitting, cursing homophobic slurs and chest-thumping at students. They were part of the Nationalist Social Club, a local neo-Nazi…