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LOS ANGELES — A wrinkled Northern elephant seal named Violet slid out of a crate and onto San Pedro’s Cabrillo Beach on a muggy morning in late August.

The pinniped pup looked around quizzically with large, black eyes...Read more

Three states this year have enacted laws that require or allow schools to use mobile, wearable, wireless or silent panic alarms to quickly summon emergency responders.

The new laws in Illinois, Virginia and West Virginia ...Read more

On a rural stretch of land in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, an open meadow filled with bright wildflowers, a memorial grove of trees and a giant boulder marks the spot where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, ...Read more

MS NOW wants to offer news viewers a break when they feel overwhelmed.

The Versant-owned progressive-leaning news outlet announced Tuesday that it has entered a partnership with Calm, the San Francisco company that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Erik and Lyle Menendez have been granted an early parole hearing after their denial last year.

The brothers, who are serving prison sentences for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents in Beverly Hills...Read more

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Standing ovations at film festivals are a rite: part appreciation, part obligation, part a need to stretch your legs after sitting for a couple of hours.

But for an audience to explode and roar their...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Paintings from the private collection of late music titan Clive Davis will be up for auction at Christie's.

Eight works from the collection will headline the 20th Century Evening Sale, the highlight of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is hiring private contractors to track down deported migrants who it claims owe the U.S. government hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid penalties, a move that will test how far...Read more

The Sept. 11 hero dubbed the “Man in the Red Bandana” was honored Tuesday with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump at a White House ceremony ahead of the 25th anniversary of the terror ...Read more

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Complete with a secret screening that had everyone guessing for days, a seismic revelation (which became a bona fide viral moment) and an unusually strong lineup of world premieres and smart replays, ...Read more

DETROIT — Motown icon Stevie Wonder has announced fall tour dates, including a pair of concerts at Detroit's Fox Theatre.

The tour marks the 50th anniversary of his 18th studio album, the Grammy Award-winning chart ...Read more

NEW YORK — Long-sought pivotal documents about the toxins swirling around ground zero after 9/11 were released to the general public Tuesday, showing NYC officials knew within weeks of the towers’ collapse that the air...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Caif. — Dana Williamson, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's onetime chief of staff, is seeking to delay her criminal sentencing date for political corruption because of health issues, according to documents filed...Read more

The Toledo Blade, long a leading news source in northwest Ohio and parts of southeast Michigan, is set to close at the end of this year if its owners can't find a buyer.

An executive with owner Block Communications ...Read more

California’s new, first-of-its-kind “DROP” program enabling residents to have personal information deleted by data brokers depends on companies that have frequently failed to follow privacy law already on the books, ...Read more

Retail employees in Los Angeles working irregular schedules, called in for shifts with just a few hours' notice, got some relief years ago in the form of a city law requiring large retailers to give them notice of their ...Read more

VENICE, Italy — When Skyler Gisondo turns up in “Primetime” as “Decoy Dan” Plum, an aspiring 23-year-old actor cast to play teenage bait for an unsuspecting pedophile, the camera can’t take its eyes off him.

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"Dang!," an amiably chaotic new adult animated comedy which premiered Tuesday on Netflix, tells the story of the Dangs, three Chinese American siblings living in New York City. Eunice (Poppy Liu, "Hacks") and older brother...Read more

Even had you never read Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities," or even known of its existence, the odds are good that you have somewhere encountered its much quoted opening and closing lines: "It was the best of times, ...Read more

Brent oil approached $100 a barrel, before paring some of its gains, after Saudi Arabia said operations at several energy facilities in the kingdom’s south were halted by attacks.

The global benchmark was near $99, ...Read more