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Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to face charges in New York related to allegations of sexual assault, in what would mark the first criminal charges faced by the disgraced former movie mogul, sources familar with the case said Thursday. The sources said the case involved but not...

Burkina Faso informed Taiwan on Thursday it planned to establish diplomatic relations with China, leading Taiwan to break ties with the tiny West African nation and leaving just one nation on the African continent — Swaziland — in Taiwan’s camp. The decision by Burkina Faso means Taiwan is now...

Ian Cheney’s smile-inducing field trip documentary “The Most Unknown” experiments with a nifty idea: introduce scientists to each other through a global relay of encounters in an effort to find commonality of language and purpose as life’s big questions are explored. So when a wisecracking female...

World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman looked around the Oval Office on Thursday and was shaken by the moment of late heavyweight champion Jack Johnson finally receiving his full, posthumous pardon. “We’re so happy. It’s a victory for humanity, human equality and inclusion,” Sulaiman...

A woman has been arrested in connection with whose bodies were found stacked on top of one another in a house in Leimert Park. Nancy Jackson, 55, was arrested by LAPD South Bureau homicide detectives on Wednesday, hours after she was named a “material...

I heard “yanny.” This is, I know now, objectively wrong. In 2007, actor Jay Aubrey Jones was recorded pronouncing . Earlier this month, a high school student in Georgia named Katie Hetzel played that audio clip, but like me, she heard “yanny.” So she posted it...

Art openings around L.A., including bamboo baskets at Craft and Folk Art Museum and photography by George Rodriguez.

Ansel Adams, in the midst of a three-week promotional tour for his book “Yosemite and the Range of Light,” broke into laughter over a question about his famous nose. Former Los Angeles Times staff photographer Martha Harnett explained an unpublished caption on the back of the print: Photographer...

As a new poll found a majority of California voters want to repeal increases to the state’s gas tax and vehicle fees, Gov. Jerry Brown has begun campaigning to preserve them, arguing the sacrifice is needed to fix long-neglected roads and bridges and improve mass transit. Repeal of the higher taxes...