How Hollywood helped build airports and air travel industry
Long before paparazzi shots at LAX and complaints about celebrity private jet usage, Hollywood — and Los Angeles — played a key role in the growth of aviation. Everyone knows…
Contributor: Clear a path for sweeping urban experiments such as California Forever
Earlier this fall, the Silicon Valley dreamers proposing to build a 400,000-person city and manufacturing hub on rangeland 50 miles northeast of San Francisco released a detailed rendition of their…
Eli Lilly slashes obesity drug price by up to 20%
Eli Lilly & Co. is cutting the price for introductory doses of its weight-loss drug Zepbound again, as competition heats up with rival Novo Nordisk A/S. Starting Monday, the lowest…
Tattoo ink moves through the body, killing immune cells and weakening vaccine response
Tattoo ink doesn’t just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even…
2026 World Cup draw: How to watch, teams and how it works
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Former Brazilian soccer player Cafu takes part in the 2022 World Cup draw in Qatar. (Hussein Sayed / Associated Press) The draw is the procedure used to assign…
Why are California’s Indian truck drivers disappearing during the holiday rush?
It is supposed to be the busiest time of year for the Roadies trucking company, but dozens of its trucks sit idle — unlikely casualties of a surprise scrutiny of…
Lakers try to fight the boredom of seventh straight win
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Lakers guards Luka Doncic, left, and Austin Reaves, right, have become a dynamic scoring duo. (Jessie Alcheh / Associated Press) Doncic is, by Redick’s estimation, “one of the…
Rare art from Disneyland’s artisans revealed in new exhibit
Walt Disney Co. likes to resurrect a famous Walt Disney quote saying that the empire was “started by a mouse.” But when it comes to Disneyland, its theme park that…
Tom Stoppard appreciation: Writer reinvigorated the comedy of ideas
Tom Stoppard, dead? Surely, someone has made a hash of the plot. Yes, he was 88, but the Czech-born, British playwright, the true 20th century heir to Oscar Wilde, would…
Gabriela Jaquez scores 29 as UCLA women defeat Tennessee
It might seem hard to imagine, watching the pure stroke and true form that provides Gabriela Jaquez such steady success from beyond the three-point arc. But there was a time…