A reindeer was spotted running across lanes of the southbound 5 Freeway in the San Fernando area early Saturday morning, briefly snarling traffic as Caltrans crews worked to keep the animal out of harm’s way. The unusual scene unfolded around 6:40 a.m., when drivers noticed Caltrans vehicles slowing traffic and blocking lanes on the freeway. […]

The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to place a “black-box” warning—a high-danger label only used to flag risk of death, severe harm, or incapacitation—on Covid vaccines, CNN has reported.  According to the Friday CNN report, the initiative to include the warning—part of a range of efforts by Trump administration health officials to limit […]

The Transportation Security Administration is forwarding passenger lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to detain and deport travelers while denying them the chance to challenge the process, according to documents obtained by the New York Times. A Times report Friday revealed that information furnished by TSA provided the basis of ICE’s high-profile detention […]

The man accused of killing his wife and the mother of their three kids in Lancaster and dumping her body in the Angeles National Forest is now back in U.S. custody after being extradited from Peru, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials announced Friday night. Jossimar Cabrera, 36, was taken into custody at Los Angeles International […]

New details have been released surrounding a crash that left three people dead in Panorama City Friday night. Los Angeles Fire Department crews responded to the 9300 block of North Woodman Avenue, near Terra Bella Street, just after 9:30 p.m. Friday. Authorities found three people who were pronounced dead at the scene. A 35-year-old man […]

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers, in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant link has been found between rising temperatures and […]

Today, about seven million people will watch what is known as “America’s game” — the Army-Navy football contest. It has been played since 1890, and, since 1898 has never been cancelled.

If writing photo-captions is a challenge (as I explained in my last post), proofreading a forthcoming book is an exercise in humiliation. It brings you face to face with your egregious errors, your inconsistencies, your sloppiness, and your overconfidence in your own memory. And that’s even when the pages have already been scrutinized by half […]

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