The vice president’s comments and actions have some diplomats questioning his ability to navigate global crises.

Earlier this month, in the cold morning hours, a 911 call reported a fire in a large apartment building on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.

A new frontrunner has emerged in California’s wide-open race for governor. Conservative commentator Steve Hilton now leads the field with 17%, followed by Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican, who are tied at 14%, according to an Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics survey of 1,000 likely voters released Wednesday. […]

From “Trump” to “Russian” to “dentist,” the only way to gaze into the Epstein-files abyss is through a keyword-size hole.

Elizabeth Jennings started out as a Movement poet: Philip Larkin praised her “steady, calm, precise voice” and “skill at marrying metre to natural word-order”, while Kingsley Amis admired her “spareness of style” and “coolness of tone” and even described her as “the star of the show”. This may come as a surprise to those familiar […]

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As I have mountains of reading to be done in a very short time, I decided to escape far from home in the hope of making some inroads into the large pile of books – not so much on a writer’s retreat, more like a reader’s retreat. In my case, this has meant a heavy […]

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Back in February 2010, the radio show State of the Re:Union, created by Al Letson, produced an award-winning episode looking at civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. The episode was called “Who Is This Man?” because while Rustin was not well known, his work supported the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. Rustin was a man […]

A woman who was shot in the face with a less-than-lethal round by a police officer while attending a protest in downtown Los Angeles plans to file an excessive force lawsuit. On Jan. 30, Jasmin Lamos, 25, was among a large group of demonstrators who gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center to speak out against […]

Amid reports that the Los Angeles Unified School District is facing an $877 million deficit for the next school year, board members convened at the downtown headquarters Tuesday for a vote on potentially laying off thousands of employees. If approved, notices of termination will start going out to workers as soon as next month, KTLA’s Angeli Kakade reported. Service Employees International […]

After a brief break early Tuesday, another powerful winter storm is moving into Southern California in the evening. This comes on the heels of the cleanup currently underway in the Southland from the last storm. This round of rain is expected to stick with the region for about 12 hours, KTLA’s Vera Jimenez says. You […]