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The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country.

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Sandra Cuffe

Freelance journalist based in Central America.

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Jeff Landa

I write, report and produce news stories and features about Los Angeles County. I also write about esports and video game culture. Contact me at jefflanda47[at]gmail.com

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Meghann M. Cuniff

I am a veteran legal affairs reporter in Southern California with an accomplished history of breaking news, investigations, long-form narratives and memorable trial coverage. I helped pioneer the use of …

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Audrey Bilger

President, Reed College

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Lauren Harvey

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Jinghuan Liu Tervalon (she/her)

Jinghuan Liu Tervalon is a runner, writer and advocate from the Los Angeles area.

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Latest Articles

2025 was Robby Hoffman’s year, but don’t call her an overnight success

Robby Hoffman was born into an audience. Growing up as one of 10 kids in a Hasidic Jewish family in Brooklyn, the comedian says she has always been most comfortable in a crowd.“I’ve always lived in very dense apartments or neighborhoods,” she says. “It feels very natural. I love being …
By Leila Jordan Berger
• Los Angeles Times

‘Acts of pure evil': Feds indict alleged members of child sex abuse network

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. This article contains descriptions of sexual violence. The 15-year-old girl was sitting in her bedroom when “Sociopath” and “Rohan” added her to a Discord chat that, several months later, would nearly end in her death. She …
By Clara Harter
• Los Angeles Times

Rob Reiner's son arrested on suspicion of homicide as more details emerge about shocking killings

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Rob Reiner’s son Nick was arrested on suspicion of murdering his parents after the Hollywood legend and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home Sunday.Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said …
By Clara Harter
• Los Angeles Times

Nick Reiner struggled with addiction and shared his recovery with the world. Now, he's accused of killing parents

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. You can find live updates to this developing story in this link.Nick Reiner spent years struggling with addiction and with help from his father, Hollywood legend Rob Reiner, told his story to the world.On Monday, Nick …
By Clara Harter
• Los Angeles Times

Dropout is the part-internet, part-studio streaming service that built its own comedy ecosystem

When Netflix launched the streaming era it had a simple promise: One place for everything. But when entertainment studios launched their own services, suddenly every major company wanted to be The Streamer, racing to fill their platforms with the most content possible to beat out competitors.Amid the chaos of the …
By Leila Jordan Berger
• Los Angeles Times

A child dies. Two men vanish. Police investigate secretive California religious group

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The ambulance siren blared down the quiet residential street where a 4-year-old boy was dying.When police and paramedics arrived at 1521 Latham St. in Colton, they had no clue they were entering the home of a …
By Clara Harter
• Los Angeles Times

Cheech Marin's museum legitimizes Chicano art and boosts the local economy

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. In 2022, the iconic L.A. comedian Cheech Marin opened an art museum with the hope of inspiring a Chicano art renaissance.“I looked around and said, ‘This could be the next big art town’ — because the …
By Daniel Eduardo Hernandez
• Los Angeles Times

Pali High football: A team of wildfire nomads searches for normalcy

Twenty-four days after the worst wildfire in L.A. history burned their stadium, members of the Palisades Charter High School football team stretched and twisted on a middle school field in Santa Monica. To the north, a sickly orange haze hung along the horizon, a reminder of the inferno that had …
By Daniel Miller
• Los Angeles Times

How the Inland Empire became key to música Mexicana's success

Not even a mini heatwave could deter thousands of Inland Empire residents from showing up to a local música Mexicana festival.On a Saturday afternoon in May, when the temperature peaked at 100 degrees, dozens of banda fans filed into an ever-growing line outside downtown Riverside’s John W. North Park as …
By Daniel Eduardo Hernandez
• Los Angeles Times

Meet the L.A. sisters ushering in a new era of YA literature

Annabelle Chang recommends books for a living. If you were to ask which one she finds most “criminally underrated,” she’d tell you it’s Katie Henry’s “This Will Be Funny Someday.”“It is truly one of my favorite books I’ve ever read, not just my favorite YA books, just one of my …
By Lauren Harvey
• Los Angeles Times

He was one of California’s most notorious Mexican outlaws. Now they ride in his honor

CANTUA CREEK, Calif. — For three days and 65 miles, the riders will travel through the heat and dust of the Central Valley to honor a man from the Gold Rush era who, depending on the point of view, was either a freedom fighter or a ruthless criminal.Their journey begins …
By Clara Harter
• Los Angeles Times

The Chicano artist melting ice blocks in Riverside has a bigger story to tell

Some SoCal residents spent their summer at the beach, or at their local rooftop pool; others spent it indoors, hiding from ICE agents. It’s why Riverside artist Perry Picasshoe spent his summer documenting the melting of 36 ice blocks on sidewalks across the Inland Empire.He traveled to nine locations, a …
By Daniel Eduardo Hernandez
• Los Angeles Times

8 swoon-worthy L.A. spots to celebrate Bookstore Romance Day

In 2019, Oregon bookseller Billie Bloebaum saw an author raise a question on X she had heard many times before: “Why should I support independent bookstores when independent bookstores don’t support romance?”“For a long time, and still somewhat to this day, independent bookstores have had a reputation as being not …
By Lauren Harvey
• Los Angeles Times

The Magic Castle's training program for kid magicians is like a real-life Hogwarts

Anja Steyn has three disparate loves: puzzles, horror movies and magic.And during her show at the Magic Castle two weeks ago, she not only predicted the horror film someone was thinking of — she produced an almost-finished puzzle of the movie poster, with the last piece in the unsuspecting audience …
By Lauren Harvey
• Los Angeles Times

'A state of emergency': How L.A. dance groups are pivoting amid steep funding cuts

Linda Yudin was sipping coffee with family and friends on May 3, the morning of her birthday, when they warned her not to check her emails.Later that afternoon, she learned why: Her dance company, Viver Brasil, had lost a $20,000 grant. It was among 30 Los Angeles arts organizations that …
By Lauren Harvey
• Los Angeles Times

They built their careers in network TV. Then they started a production company for the influencer age

Jeff Kmiotek, Michael Zinman and Andrew Watnick have been in unscripted TV production for decades. Kmiotek became a producer after working in a variety of unscripted formats including game and cooking shows and garnered an Emmy nomination for his work on “The Masked Singer.” Zinman has a background in visual …
By Leila Jordan Berger
• Los Angeles Times

Galaxy disciplines fans for rule violations while protesting team response to ICE raids

The Galaxy have banned a fan from the Angel City Brigade support group following the July 4 match at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson. The team has also restricted access for other fans accused of harassing the MLS team’s management.Bruce Martin, a 12-year Angel City Brigade member, was banned …
By Eduard Cauich
• Los Angeles Times

Justin Bieber’s ‘Standing on Business’: The biggest takeaways from ‘Swag’

Is it finally clocking to you? Justin Bieber is back.The 31-year-old singer surprise-released a new album, “Swag,” Friday after teasing fans the previous morning with a series of billboards and social media posts. Bieber’s first album since 2021’s “Justice,” the new music prompted an online frenzy and revived a devoted …
By Lauren Harvey
• Los Angeles Times

ICE seeks to deport Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr., alleges links to Sinaloa cartel

United States immigration agents have detained prominent Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. and are working to deport him, with officials saying he has “an active arrest warrant in Mexico for his involvement in organized crime and trafficking firearms, ammunition, and explosives.”Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested Chávez, 39, in …
By Eduard Cauich
• Los Angeles Times

Sabrina Carpenter reveals alternative album cover 'approved by God' amid backlash

While some interpreted the cover as cheeky and ironic — especially given the themes of the album’s first single, “Manchild” — others accused the former Disney Channel star of promoting sexist stereotypes and setting women‘s rights back decades.
By Lauren Harvey
• Los Angeles Times

While Dodgers wait to speak, Jaime Jarrín, Kiké Hernández and others support immigrants

Amid the Dodgers’ silence about federal immigration raids in Southern California, a familiar voice that has comforted immigrants for years emerged.Jaime Jarrín, the former Spanish-language voice of the Dodgers who captivated thousands of fans for decades and served as Fernando Valenzuela’s translator during Fernandomania, posted a message on his Instagram …
By Eduard Cauich
• Los Angeles Times

Women take center stage as Pointeworks aims to 'bring balance within the ballet world'

Sophie Williams’ decade-long dance career has taken her across the globe, from the English National Ballet in London to the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the Texas Ballet Theater, where she’s currently a member of the corps de ballet.Yet she can count on one hand the number of works she’s …
By Lauren Harvey
• Los Angeles Times

The downtown L.A. mural that was a prophetic backdrop to ICE street protests

As protesters swarmed downtown Los Angeles to denounce ICE raids in their communities and the deployment of the National Guard, a potent image kept flashing across television screens and social media: officers in riot gear facing off against flag- and sign-waving demonstrators in front of a strikingly resonant, red mural …
By Benjamin Hanson
• Los Angeles Times

Contributor: California's long history of National Guard overreaction to peaceful protesters

American history has the receipts. As we approach the 250th anniversary of this nation’s birth, it ought to be common knowledge that putting the National Guard into the center of turmoil is not to be taken at all lightly. Federalizing the California Guard to quell a supposed insurrection on the …
By Benjamin Hanson
• Los Angeles Times