A climate-saving lithium mine could doom an endangered desert flower
Two scenes. Two storytellers. Two visions for a climate-altered American West. On an overcast spring morning, I hopped…
Intel 4004 to NVIDIA Blackwell: 50 Years of 217M-Fold Computing Leap
In 1971, a fingernail-sized chip with 2,300 transistors revolutionized technology. Today, NVIDIA’s Blackwell AI GPU houses 208 billion…
With canine massages and ‘pawdicures,’ L.A. dogs get 5-star treatment
It’s no secret. Los Angeles loves dogs. Everywhere you go is crawling with dogs, and they are living…
In-N-Out’s eastward move left Southern Californians with a sour taste
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Why everybody refuses to believe crime is falling, even though it is
Homicides in Los Angeles are on track to hit a nearly 60-year low. Property crime across California dipped…
Air and Space Center features slides, revealing view of space shuttle
Along with the stars on Hollywood Boulevard and the Universal Studios theme park, a new celestial attraction is…
L.A.’s daily life feels remade by President Trump’s ICE raids
It might be hard for outsiders to realize how pervasive the Trump administration’s immigration raids feel here in…
The Dallas Mavericks have no European players for the first time in 30 years
The last time the Dallas Mavericks roster featured no European players, the year showed 1995, according to my…
Salvador Bagüez, The Times’ first Latino superstar with ‘the soul of an artist’
There are multi-talents, and then there was Salvador Bagüez. Hollywood used him as a bit actor in 1950s…
The forgotten man who was California’s original king of deportation
He sent federal immigration agents into Southern California communities, farms and workplaces vowing to drive “illegal aliens” back…