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L.A. restaurants thought it couldn’t get any worse. Then 2025 happened

In late October the owners of one of the city’s best pizzerias took to social media, begging for help: Ronan needed an immediate influx of customers to stay afloat, and…

CBS News correspondent accuses Bari Weiss of ‘political’ move in pulling ‘60 Minutes’ piece

A “60 Minutes” story on the Trump administration’s imprisonment of hundreds of deported Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador was pulled by CBS News Editor-In-Chief Bari Weiss shortly before it was…

James Ransone dead: Star of ‘The Wire,’ ‘It: Chapter Two’ was 46

James Ransone, a character actor who played an impulsive, drug-dealing dockworker in the iconic HBO series “The Wire” and later appeared in horror films “Sinister” and “It: Chapter Two,” died…

The Times’ top 25 high school basketball rankings

A look at The Times’ top 25 boys’ basketball rankings for the Southland after Week 5. Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week 1. SIERRA CANYON (8-1): Headed to Oregon…

Neither Newsom nor Harris will lead to a winning Democratic Party

Dec. 16, 2025 8 AM PT To the editor: The daily emails I receive from the Democratic Party asking me to renew my membership by sending money demonstrate the party’s…

The Times’ 2025 football player of the year: Trent Mosley

Everyone seemed to know in the first quarter of the Southern Section Division 1 final at the Rose Bowl what Santa Margarita High was going to do again and again…

Complete coverage: The Times' 2025 All-Star high school football team

Santa Margarita receiver Trent Mosley is the Los Angeles Times’ prep football player of the year. A look at the 24-player team plus back of the year, lineman of the…

The week’s bestselling books, Dec. 21

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Source link

The Times’ 2025 All-Star high school football team

A look at the Los Angeles Times’ 24-player All-Star high school football team for the 2025 season: OFFENSE Quarterback: Luke Fahey, Mission Viejo, 6-0, 185, Sr. — The Ohio State…

Rob Reiner’s artistic legacy was rooted in empathy and connection

I think about Rob Reiner almost every time I put on my socks. I am old enough to remember the famously hilarious (and largely improvised) bit from “All in the…