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Work hard, play ball: Wiz Khalifa does shrooms, throws first pitch at Pirates game

Wiz Khalifa combined one of his favorite pastimes with America's favorite pastime while throwing the first pitch at Monday's baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Guardians.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023

Tom Cruise joined SAG-AFTRA negotiating session to talk AI and stunt workers

LOS ANGELES — Before actors and performers hit the picket lines last week, Tom Cruise joined a SAG-AFTRA negotiating session last month to support the union's proposals for more protections against artificial intelligence and better pay and safeguards for stunt workers.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023

With Hollywood on strike, Comic-Con is ‘back to basics.’ Here’s what to expect

LOS ANGELES — David Glanzer has seen his fair share of Comic-Cons, and looking out from the San Diego Convention Center, he still sees evidence of the bustle that swirls around the gathering of comic book, animation and genre fans each summer: Vendors were unloading materials and craftspeople were erecting…

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023

Mary McNamara: The studios thought they could handle a strike. They might end up sparking a revolution

LOS ANGELES — If you want to start a revolution, tell your workers you'd rather see them lose their homes than offer them fair wages. Then lecture them about how their "unrealistic" demands are "disruptive" to the industry, not to mention disturbing your revels at Versailles, er, Sun Valley.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023

Editorial: More accountability, less cluelessness needed from LAPD

More than two years after the Los Angeles Police Department’s reckless South Los Angeles fireworks detonation, the department continues to pile one error on another, revealing an ignorance of the laws it is supposed to enforce and ever-increasing estrangement from the public it is supposed to serve.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023

New evidence may back Menendez brothers' sexual abuse claims. But can it free them?

LOS ANGELES — It was never a question of whether they killed their parents.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023

Single homeless women in LA County suffer high levels of violence, new study finds

To help the more than 75,000 people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County, officials have long tailored their programs to the needs of subgroups, including veterans, families and the chronically homeless.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023

A filmmaker feared his subject had turned on him. So he staged his own murder

LOS ANGELES -- A man lies flat on his stomach on the floor of an apartment high above the La Brea Tar Pits.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023

Editorial: Newsom gun amendment is a non-starter, but it still has value

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed constitutional amendment on gun safety has two great things going for it. The first is that it aims to protect four popular and modest commonsense restrictions: a ban on assault weapons, mandated background checks on gun buyers, a waiting period before buyers can take possession, and…

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023

Jackie Calmes: I'm going to Barbie Land

It's my full-time job but wallowing in our broken politics can sometimes make for a dark world. Why wouldn't I look forward to going to Barbie Land and immersing myself in a fantasia of pink?

Los Angeles Times · Jul 19, 2023