Bill Gates doesn’t regret his controversial climate memo
Last week, Bill Gates published a 17-page memo on his personal website that critics said pitted climate and public health efforts against each other, when they should instead be working…
Mexican President presses charges against man who groped her on the street
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was strolling through her city’s capital this week, heading from one government office to another, when she stopped to take selfies with a…
4 takeaways after Proposition 50’s big win in California
Proposition 50’s big win Tuesday night is a political earthquake that is being felt nationally. Here are four takeaways: 1. Trump’s toxicity in California Proposition 50 supporters tried to make…
Yungblud on Ozzy, Aerosmith and bringing sequins back to rock
Four hours or so before he’s due onstage at the Hollywood Palladium, Yungblud is bouncing around one of the venue’s dressing rooms with live-wire intensity to spare. Tonight is the…
Ethan Hawke on ‘The Lowdown,’ making a ‘Black Phone 3’ and more
Ethan Hawke has always been an actor full of surprises. In the course of his prolific career, he’s veered from prestige drama to quirky comedy to full-on horror, embracing each…
The week’s bestselling books, Nov. 9
Hardcover fiction 1. The Black Wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books: $30) The latest mystery in the Armand Gamache series. 2. Heart the Lover by Lily King (Grove Press: $28)…
Stuck in traffic? Google Maps has a smarter AI assistant for you
Drivers navigating traffic on their morning commutes will be able to do much more than just find directions and the nearest gas station on Google Maps. In the coming weeks,…
Proposition 50 is a short-term victory with a big downside
One of the great conceits of California is its place on the cutting edge — of fashion, culture, technology, politics and other facets of the ways we live and thrive.…
At L.A. Public Library literary salon, Rick Atkinson offers hope
For a historian who writes about war, Rick Atkinson is surprisingly optimistic. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former journalist — who recently released the second volume in a trilogy of…
Bungled warnings hit weary Eaton and Palisades fire victims like ‘a sucker punch’
After everything endured by victims of the Eaton and Palisades fires, they didn’t need yet another indignity, another gut punch, another reason to throw their heads back and scream. But…