WASHINGTON — Senators were sworn in at 1 p.m. Wednesday for their third impeachment trial in four years, this time of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas. Three hours later, they had voted along party lines to dismiss both counts agains

"Based on a true story" — why do we care? Does it matter whether the events of a dramatic work "really happened," or sort of happened, more or less in the way we're being told? Is it a come-on to prurient interests, when the subject is dark or sensat

LOS ANGELES — Former CBS President Leslie Moonves will pay $15,000 to settle a Los Angeles city ethics complaint over his role in an alleged cover-up of sexual assault accusations against him. The city’s Ethics Commission unanimously approved the set

American life expectancy started dropping even before the pandemic. It’s a critical barometer of our nation’s health and a sign that all is not well in the U.S. Much of the increase in preventable, premature death is attributable to drug overdose, w

“Sex and the City” is now one of Netflix’s most-watched shows as it settles into its new streaming home. Since the series’ April 1 debut on the platform, a whole new audience — many of whom weren’t born when the show premiered on HBO in 1998, changin

Uri Berliner, the veteran NPR journalist who publicly accused his employer of liberal bias, has resigned from the network. Berliner posted a message Wednesday on the social media platform X with his resignation letter to the public broadcaster's chie

Rumors of the Sundance Film Festival's possible exit from its longtime home in Park City, Utah, rolled throughout the event earlier this year. Now the nonprofit Sundance Institute, which puts on the event, has announced it is starting the process of

For comedian Heidi Gardner, a recent "SNL" sketch that focused on two "Beavis and Butt-Head" look-alikes was "really special" — cracks and all. The "Saturday Night Live" star said in an interview published earlier this week that losing her composure

Right place, right time, with an eye for opportunity, a commitment to economic growth for all, and a will to get things done. That’s entrepreneur Kameale Terry, co-founder of ChargerHelp, a Los Angeles startup. She’s tackling a modern problem — the s

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 4 in 10 renters in Los Angeles County have worried about losing their homes and becoming homeless in the last few years, according to the results of a new survey from UCLA. A similar share have worried that they or their famil

LOS ANGELES — On Monday, the Dodgers celebrated the remarkable life and enduring impact of Jackie Robinson, the stories now handed down among the generations. Robinson died 52 years ago. With each passing year, we are increasingly fortunate to hear f

At the 2016 Republican National Convention, when I told Donald Trump's "God whisperer" Paula White that he referred to her as his pastor, she said she was his spiritual adviser — as if that were some sort of "get out of jail free" card for her. And y

Olivia Munn is sharing her emotional reaction to her double mastectomy and explaining how seeing her body for the first time post-surgery was a “shock to [her] system.” Munn said in a new interview that while her doctors assured her that she looked “

LOS ANGELES -- For the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, it has been nearly three decades of court fights, painstaking forensic accounting, detective work and, ultimately, frustration. The goal: Make O.J. Simpson pay. A civil court

LOS ANGELES — Authorities are looking for a group of up to 20 people suspected of committing a string of what Los Angeles police are calling "flash robberies," during which a large group descends on a store, steals merchandise, then runs out. The rob

Kate Beckinsale appears to be out of the hospital and back home after a monthslong medical issue. The English actor was all smiles and back to her irreverent self in an Instagram series posted Tuesday. While the "Underworld" star didn't directly stat

Mookie Betts continued his opening-month rampage with a career-high-tying five hits, and a struggling bullpen closed the game with six scoreless innings to lead the Dodgers to a 6-2 victory over the Washington Nationals in front of a sellout crowd of

"Crazy Rich Asians" will soon come to Broadway, years after author Kevin Kwan's bestseller jumped from page to screen in a watershed moment for Asian representation in Hollywood. Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures revealed on Wednesday that director Jon M

WASHINGTON — Senators were sworn in Wednesday for their third impeachment trial in four years, this time of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas. Three hours later, they had voted along party lines to dismiss both counts against Mayorkas

You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Joe Biden's dispensing of student debt relief. It's not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits in

With their life savings, childrens' college funds and their own retirement prospects at stake, most people probably view investing in stocks as a serious business. Now and then, however, the markets produce comedy gold. Hello, Trump Media & Technolog

Bestselling author Sophie Kinsella revealed Wednesday that she was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022 and since then has undergone surgery, radiation and chemotherapy to treat the aggressive disease. The "Confessions of a Shopaholic" series scribe,

PHOENIX — When a group of crossover voters was asked during a focus group about Vice President Kamala Harris, their assessments were brutal: If she is helping Biden, you don't see it. She rubs me the wrong way. She was picked because she is a demogra

LOS ANGELES — Dodgers right-hander Landon Knack recovered from a brutal two-run, three-hit, 28-pitch first inning in his big league debut to blank the Washington Nationals on one hit over the next four innings and keep the Dodgers within striking dis

LOS ANGELES — Drake has finally dropped his Kendrick Lamar diss track. Or has he? Over the weekend, a track titled "Push Ups (Drop and Give Me 50)" sent rap fans into a frenzy, thinking that Drizzy had taken his alleged rap beef with Lamar and recent

The Kings lost a game they needed to win Monday, falling to the Minnesota Wild 3-1 at Crypto.com Arena to muddy the team’s playoff outlook with one game left in the regular season. The loss, the Kings’ first at home in nine games, leaves them with a

LOS ANGELES — After 20 years, 21 Academy Awards and 18 Emmys, socially conscious film production company Participant is shutting down. The Culver City company told its employees Tuesday morning that it would be winding down operations. In a letter t

California has some of the nation’s highest electricity rates, and power bills are rising fast. That’s a problem because it makes it harder for people to afford switching from fossil fuels to clean electric cars and appliances that are essential to c

Now that federal investigators say they have solved the Mystery of the Missing Millions, Shohei Ohtani can focus entirely on baseball matters. Such as whether his team can actually win a World Series. These Dodgers are what they were expected to be —

LOS ANGELES — CBS Television Studios has ordered a new daytime drama developed under its partnership with the NAACP, the network announced on Monday. "The Gates," which is scheduled to premiere in January 2025, is the first greenlighted project to co