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A string of bulletins marked “URGENT” flashed across Merrick Garland’s computer screen on the fourth floor of the Justice Department.

A 44-year-old man was shot and injured by police Tuesday night after he flashed a firearm at officers outside a hotel in Ontario, officials said.

Southern California home sales jumped higher in February with a 9.1% gain compared with last year, partly because of an increase in sales for mid- to high-range houses, according to real estate data released Wednesday.

President Obama's nomination of federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court led some pundits to declare that Republicans would be hard-pressed to oppose him. After all, Garland is seen as a moderate and exceptionally sharp, and his near 20-year tenure on the Court of Appeals...

One of the big breakouts at this year’s SXSW Film Festival is “Don’t  Think Twice.” And one of the most potent aspects of the film is its broadside against “Saturday Night Live.”Just don’t call it a broadside to its director.Mike Birbiglia’s movie — starring improv comics, about improv comedy,...

SAN FRANCISCO — There's a huge conference coming to Silicon Valley, hosted by one of the biggest names in technology.

You didn't think the locket and the cake were the only way Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris were going to mark their first anniversary, did you? Heavens no: TSwift and the DJ, whose real name is Adam Wiles, have also jetted off to a tropical vacation, where there's apparently enough scantily-clad...

The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release March 16, 2016 Rose Garden 11:04 A.M. EDT

Federal Reserve policymakers on Wednesday held a key interest rate steady and signaled there would be no more than two small hikes this year — half what they had earlier estimated — amid lower economic growth forecasts.

The World Baseball Classic is back. Soon enough, the red, white and blue rejections will be too.

President Obama has selected Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to fill Justice Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat. Garland's name has been mentioned for the nation's highest court since the late 1990s and he is considered to be one...

About the only people who thought Harvard-Westlake could win two state playoff games without their leading scorer, freshman Cassius Stanley, were probably the players themselves and their first-year coach, David Rebibo.

A few more takeaways after the Kings completed a short tour through the Central Division, beating Chicago and Dallas on consecutive nights and outscoring the Blackhawks and Stars by a combined 10-2.

Manager Dave Roberts does not expect injured starter Hyun-Jin Ryu to pitch in a Cactus League game this spring, and he referred to Ryu’s goal of a big-league return in May as “unrealistic.” Roberts was unsure when Ryu will be ready to appear for the Dodgers this season.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man who reportedly pantomimed holding a gun with both hands as deputies investigated a call of an armed robbery in the florence-Firestone area Wednesday morning, authorities said.

The battles reached full speed on “The Voice” on Tuesday night, with the contenders stepping up their performances in hope of sticking around and the coaches swooping and sneaking in to steal.

An off-duty law enforcement officer shot and killed a suspected robber at the officer's Apple Valley home Wednesday morning, authorities said.

In the pursuit of the things that matter most in life, “half measures avail us nothing,” states an adage that Bruce Springsteen seems to have had in mind when he made “The River,” the 1980 double album he’s revisiting on his new tour, three dozen years down the line.

Missouri still can't declare a Republican winner in Tuesday's primaries as votes remain within a half percentage for Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. If absentee ballots don't reveal a winner, a candidate could call for a recount.Five takeaways from Tuesday's primariesDonald Trump won Florida, North...

In a powerful statetment about basketball in Southern California, all 24 teams left in the Southern California Regional playoffs for boys and girls are from the Southern Section and will play for regional titles on Saturday at The Pyramid and Colony High.

CBS Corp. is poised to exit the radio business that it helped create.

Eighty-eight years ago, the company's founder, William S. Paley, bought the nascent Columbia Broadcasting System, and those radio stations became the nucleus of a budding broadcast empire.

But on Tuesday, CBS Chairman and Chief...

Charter Communications' proposed $67-billion takeover of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks is nearing the home stretch with federal officials poised to approve the deal in the coming weeks.

President Obama has chosen a nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, setting up a showdown with Senate Republicans, who have vowed to block any nomination Obama makes. Obama's aim is to tilt the court to a liberal majority for the first time in a generation.What we know so far:The...

A defense attorney representing convicted murderer Daniel Wozniak will have until the end of April to file a brief asking the court to throw out the jury's death penalty verdict.

Because the CIF is anticipating a sellout for Saturday's Open Division Southern California Regional final between Chino Hills and Bishop Montgomery, it has made that game at The Pyramid in Long Beach a separate ticket.