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Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines the NFL conference championship games Sunday. Lines are according to FanDuel. Last week's record: 1-3 (Playoffs overall: 7-3). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer had predicted, the record against the spread last week also was 1-3 (Overall: 7-3).

LOS ANGELES — The Lakers will keep one of Orange County's best prep basketball players ever, signing Stanley Johnson to a two-year deal, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Los Angeles Times.

After igniting a social media firestorm by saying Taylor Swift “doesn’t write her own songs,” Damon Albarn dedicated a performance to the Los Angeles Times reporter who corrected him.

LOS ANGELES — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and a year after the Los Angeles Times asked public health experts and film exhibition industry leaders about its effect on attending movies safely, what has changed? We have seen new, more contagious variants. We have seen more incidents of resistance…

British singer Damon Albarn has apologized to pop superstar Taylor Swift after saying in a Los Angeles Times interview that the "Folklore" artist "doesn't write her own songs."

US federal agents on Thursday returned two ancient stone artifacts to representatives of the Iraqi government at the country's consulate in Los Angeles. Authorities said the artifacts, a fragment of a stone tablet inscribed with cuneiform characters and a hexagonal prism used to teach schoolchildren the cuneiform alphabet, are believed…

Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines this weekend's playoff matchups in the divisional round. Lines are according to FanDuel. Last week's record: 6-0. Using point spreads with the scores Farmer had predicted, the record against the spread last week also was 6-0.