From Los Angeles Times

  • 55 years after Reagan took on Berkeley, Newsom stays in the background amid roiling campus protests

    In May 1969 a National Guard helicopter hung over the campus of UC Berkeley, spraying protesters with what The Times then described as “heavy clouds of tear gas.” It was the sixth consecutive day of campus demonstrations over plans to develop the land known as “People’s Park.” An ambitious governor who would go on to become president had called in 2,300 National Guard troops and hundreds of Highway Patrolmen. They brought shotguns, rifles and bayonets. The problems, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan said...

  • Letters to the Editor: Republicans, it's OK to admit you were wrong about banning abortion

    To the editor: With Arizona repealing its 1864 abortion law, Republican legislators should repeat after me, even if they have to do it in the mirror in the privacy of their home: I am sorry. Like so many Americans, I thought that abortion surgery was entirely elective. I had no idea that so many confirmed pregnancies do not result in a live birth, and that many women need surgery in order to preserve their fertility or ensure they never reach death’s door. I regret that I did not meet with...

  • Dua Lipa, as 'SNL' host and musical guest, tries to give us everything

    Singer and songwriter Dua Lipa has performed her music on "Saturday Night Live" before, but for the first time, she pulled double duty as guest host and musical act. The sketch-heavy show didn't try to surround her with a bunch of cameos or five-timers jackets or anything gimmicky this week. Except for a "Weekend Update" appearance by Jerry Seinfeld, who was there to promote his new Netflix movie, "Unfrosted, and a musical introduction by actor and musician Troye Sivan, Lipa was mostly left to...

  • Granada Hills boys win City Section swim title; Granada Hills girls tie Palisades

    For the second straight year, the City Section girls' swimming championship was decided on the last event and again Granada Hills won it. Only this time the Highlanders had to share the title with Palisades, which rallied to take second place in the 400-meter freestyle relay by a mere 0.59 seconds Saturday, thanks to a blazing anchor leg by freshman Alexis Burrell. Palisades led the girls' standings by six points going into the relay, but Granada Hills picking up the 40 first-place points meant...

  • UCLA faculty protest at Hammer Museum gala, decrying treatment of pro-Palestinian students

    About 20 UCLA faculty members protested Saturday night outside the UCLA Hammer Museum's celebrity-heavy gala, calling for amnesty to be granted to pro-Palestinian students arrested on campus this week and demanding that Chancellor Gene Block resign immediately. As a well-heeled crowd in cocktail attire filed into the museum for the annual Gala in the Garden, sipping bespoke cocktails and noshing on small bites from passed trays, English Department professor Jonathan Grossman blamed Block for...

  • Tyler Glasnow dominates and Max Muncy hits three home runs in Dodgers' blowout win

    As much as it pained Kyle Snyder to see Tyler Glasnow traded from Tampa Bay to the Dodgers last December, the Rays pitching coach predicted the move would benefit the 6-foot-8 right-hander from Santa Clarita. “I genuinely think his best days are in front of him,” Snyder said in February. “He’s healthy. The injury that surfaced in 2019 was ultimately taken care of [with Tommy John surgery] in 2021. I would expect him to have his best years in the near-term and be as good a starter as there is in...

  • Loyola and Mira Costa win to set up Division 1 championship volleyball showdown

    Sean Kelly had just watched on TV his future team, UCLA, win the NCAA championship in men's volleyball, so the Loyola High senior was already in a jubilant mood taking the court against Newport Harbor on Saturday night in a match that would decide a spot in the Southern Section Division 1 championship match on May 11. Newport Harbor wasn't about to let Kelly and the Cubs celebrate without a battle. The Cubs dropped the first set, then rode 36 kills and four aces from the 6-foot-7 Kelly to win...

  • Cristian Olivera's goal isn't enough to save LAFC from loss to San José

    Rodrigues gave San José the lead in the fifth minute and the Earthquakes never looked back in a 3-1 victory over LAFC at Levi's Stadium on Saturday night. San José (2-8-1), which ended a five-match unbeaten run, jumped out to a 1-0 lead on defender Rodrigues' second goal of the season. Cristian Espinoza notched his sixth assist on Rodrigues' header from the center of the box to the bottom right corner of the net off a corner kick. Espinoza tallied another assist as the Earthquakes stretched...

  • Dave Roberts the latest to receive a Porsche from Shohei Ohtani

    Shohei Ohtani gifted new teammate Joe Kelly's wife with a new Porsche Panamera, a sports car with a sticker price between $100,000 and $200,000, when the Dodgers reliever agreed to give his jersey No. 17 to the two-way star after Ohtani signed a 10-year, $700-million deal with the Dodgers in mid-December. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts received a similar gift from Ohtani on Friday, but it was more of the gag variety, a mauve-colored model Porsche with a sticker price of between $100 and $200....

  • Mystik Dan wins the 150th Kentucky Derby by less than a nose

    The photo to determine the winner of the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby took a few minutes to post but to those involved it might as well have been hours. Mystik Dan, with a smart ride up the rail, had pulled to about a three-length lead with about a sixteenth of a mile to go. But Sierra Leone was coming fast on the outside and Forever Young was in between horses with a lot of finish. The lead kept getting smaller and smaller until it seemed to evaporate. Watching it live, the eye couldn’t...

  • Scores of starving brown pelicans found on Southern California beaches

    Scores of emaciated brown pelicans, too weak to fly, have been found on Southern California beaches in the last month and taken to an Orange County rescue center, according to its director. “We’re getting dozens of calls,” Debbie McGuire, executive director of the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, said on Saturday. “People are finding them in parking lots and their backyards.” The rescued pelicans, she said, “are coming in at half their body weight. They are also very...

  • UCLA defeats Long Beach State for second straight NCAA men's volleyball title

    UCLA players raised the NCAA championship trophy to each corner of the Walter Pyramid. While most of Long Beach State’s sellout crowd had emptied before the Bruins could begin their championship celebration, large swaths of blue-and-gold clad fans still remained. They chanted. "Back-to-back! Back-to-back!" Top-seeded UCLA defended its national championship with a four-set win over No. 2 Long Beach State in Walter Pyramid on Saturday. The Bruins won their 21st NCAA title in program history and...