Elizabeth Warren revises income disclosure from controversial coal case
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, under pressure to reveal more details of her income, released an accounting this week showing she made nearly $2 million over three decades as a legal consultant while she worked as a bankruptcy professor. The disclosures provide new information about a controversial case Warren handled in the 1990s, indicating that she earned…
Michael Cohen wants sentence trimmed for cooperating against Trump
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen wants his three-year prison sentence reduced as a reward for providing authorities information about alleged misdeeds by President Trump, according to court papers filed Wednesday in which he said his incarceration is “a powerful and humbling punishment.” Cohen claimed in the filings in federal court in Manhattan that his continuing cooperation…
'Chill Greta, Chill!': Trump criticizes Greta Thunberg after Time honor
WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection “ridiculous.” The Swedish teen has become a symbol of a growing movement of young climate activists after leading weekly school strikes in Sweden that inspired…
Kawhi Leonard is moved by stirring tribute, ovations in return to Canada
TORONTO — As every eye in Scotiabank Arena fixated on the four-sided scoreboard that hangs above the court, the lights went dark. They already showed the big dunks, the last-second victories, the memorable quotes. But no one needed to see this highlight. It’s the one burned in the mind of every Canadian basketball fan. The team’s…
Racing! Last racing week before Dec. 26
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we see how the whip issue is dealt with at the CHRB meeting. The big news on Thursday will probably not be the racing at Los Alamitos but the California Horse Racing Board meeting that precedes it. Most of the…
The Sports Report: Angels get Anthony Rendon
Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news. ANGELS So do you bat them Mike Trout–Anthony Rendon–Shohei Ohtani, or Rendon-Trout-Ohtani, or some other combination? That’s a good problem that Angels manager Joe Maddon will have next season, as the Angels agreed to a seven-year, $245-million deal with Rendon on Wednesday night…
Jared Dudley always ready to protect, and back up, Dwight Howard and the Lakers
When Magic forward Jonathan Isaac fouled Dwight Howard, a crowd of Isaac’s teammates were around him. Some scuffling ensued and suddenly Howard was surrounded. Enter Jared Dudley. “Dwight gets fouled a lot but Dwight fouls a lot, so it goes both ways, sometimes it’s going to be chippy,” Dudley said. “Sometimes they jack him up…
Newsletter: How the LAPD is trying to lower a language barrier
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, Dec. 12, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter On a September afternoon nine years ago, a man named Manuel Jaminez Xum was fatally shot by LAPD officers not far from MacArthur Park in the Westlake neighborhood of Los…
Earthquakes: 3.5 quake near Ridgecrest, Calif.
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 3:13 a.m. Thursday five miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred 28 miles from California City, 58 miles from Barstow, 61 miles from Tehachapi and 62 miles from Rosamond. In the past 10 days, there have been five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0…
I went to New Zealand to understand what a huge California earthquake would look like
I went to New Zealand on a long-planned vacation to see the setting for “The Lord of the Rings” movies and the mountain scenery. But as the earthquake reporter for the Los Angeles Times, I had another goal. I wanted to visit Christchurch, a seaside city on the South Island. For people in the seismic…