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WASHINGTON —  The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly reaffirmed that the U.S. government should recognize the century-old killings of 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide. The resolution, which is not legally binding, marked the first time in 35 years that either chamber of Congress labeled as genocide the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the…

ISTANBUL —  Turkey’s foreign ministry said that it summoned U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield on Wednesday over two resolutions passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Turkish ministry said in a statement that it rejects the nonbinding House resolution to recognize the century-old mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. The bill passed 405-11.…

WASHINGTON —  A State Department foreign service officer will tell House impeachment investigators Wednesday that former national security advisor John Bolton cautioned him that Rudolph W. Giuliani “was a key voice with the president on Ukraine,” and that this could complicate U.S. goals in the Eastern European country. The testimony from Christopher Anderson makes clear that…

A sore shoulder had made Anthony Davis a doubtful starter for the Lakers on Tuesday but he gave it a go and was cleared just before the game, a decision he followed up by playing a powerful first quarter against Memphis. Davis collected all five of the Lakers’ offensive rebounds and nine of the 13…

Click:Tea powder packing machine Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we do our second special edition of the week. OK, let’s get back to the entries with the Breeders’ Cup races on Saturday. $1 million Filly & Mare Sprint (fillies and mares 3 and up, 7…

Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news. LAFC After the most successful regular season in MLS history, the playoff run LAFC figured would take it to a title ended prematurely in a 3-1 loss to the Seattle Sounders in the Western Conference final, played before an unhappy crowd of more…

When Lorenzo Hernandez was attending Huntington Park High, he was fascinated with the Garfield-Roosevelt football game — from the enthusiasm of the fans, to the sheer size of the band and drill teams arriving on multiple buses at East Los Angeles College, to the pride of the players walking onto the field in their school…

Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson has called on the city to suspend the approval process for new shops selling cannabis products, arguing that the latest round of the licensing process was “compromised” by some people gaining early access to the application system. In a letter to the Department of Cannabis Regulation, Wesson urged…

Authorities have released the identity of a second woman killed when a wildfire tore through a mobile home park in Riverside County this month. Hannah Labelle, 61, of Calimesa died after the Sandalwood fire erupted Oct. 10, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Tuesday. Her remains were found inside the Villa Calimesa Mobile Home Park.…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Oct. 30, and I’m writing from San Francisco International Airport (and Santa Rosa, Calistoga and Petaluma, earlier in the day). Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter Time collapses in the long shadow of the Kincade fire. Days have passed since the first scream of…