Shohei Ohtani is hitting .150 with no homers since August, but Dave Roberts is keeping him in the lineup anyway as the Dodgers face elimination down 0-2 in the NLCS. Ohtani says he's still not fully healthy but insists his mechanics are close to clicking.
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A 2-point poll lead isn't really a lead once you factor in the margin of error. Here's what to actually watch as Democrats emerge as favorites for the House and within reach of the Senate, and why state-level polling quality has quietly gotten worse.
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Her house survived the Palisades Fire. Her insurance didn't: the California FAIR Plan spent 18 months stonewalling her smoke-damage claim, leaving her to rebuild with a $200,000 federal loan while Liberty Mutual drops her other coverage entirely.
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Bass and Raman clashed on live TV over Inside Safe's price tag, LAPD leadership and whether Karen Bass controls the city's homelessness response alone. Raman wants police chief Jim McDonnell gone; Bass says replacing him now would wreck Olympic security planning.
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L.A. County just won a 310-9 vote to strip the region's homeless authority of its annual count and federal funding duties, after HUD suspended the agency over financial mismanagement. A federal judge still has to approve the handoff, with two more key roles still up for grabs.
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Mayor Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman faced parishioners at a packed Westlake church forum, fielding stories of ICE-driven job losses and a MacArthur Park turned, in one resident's words, unrecognizable. Raman pledged to boost immigrant legal defense funds beyond the $1.5 million Bass initially tried to cut.
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SoFi Stadium's owner has put $750,000 into a campaign to defeat Inglewood's four-term mayor, records show, while rival billboard interests fund a separate $2.5 million effort on the same ballot. The fight traces back to a voided city contract and a years-long court battle over stadium money.
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More than 465 Teamsters Local 952 members walked off county jobs Tuesday, threatening delays to road repairs, flood channel maintenance and landfill operations across Orange County. Union officials say bargaining stalled for months after talks began in 2025; the county says it has contingency plans to limit disruptions.
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Hollywood Burbank Airport's new terminal opens Tuesday after more than a decade and $1.3 billion in construction, still with just 14 gates but a lot more space. The entrance has also moved, and arrivals now get indoor baggage claim and one central security checkpoint.
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Nine oceanfront properties evacuated after waves broke through Long Beach's boardwalk bulkhead, and eight buildings across 13 addresses got red-tagged as too dangerous to enter. Crews are racing to brace the barrier with sandbags and a crane before tides hit nearly 8 feet Sunday.
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LA Unified's AI crackdown is already drawing skepticism from the people closest to it. One USC professor calls blanket bans misguided, a student compares it to the district's phone ban, and says peers haven't stopped using phones either.
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Jane Kim wants public disaster insurance. Ben Allen wants the industry, officials and fire experts at one table. California's next insurance commissioner will decide how the state's homeowners, renters and drivers pay after a decade of catastrophic wildfires, and these two candidates don't agree on the fix.
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Hurricane Rachel tore a gap in the Peninsula's last sea wall, flooding streets and leaving one home near collapse. Crews packed roughly 1,000 sandbags into the breach as inspectors red-tagged two buildings and tides approach 8 feet through the weekend.
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Two obscure ballot measures could quietly kill California's billionaire tax before it takes effect, and even the political science professors explaining it admit the fine print makes their heads spin.
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Mayor James Butts skipped his own reelection forum, leaving an empty chair onstage while five challengers tore into his 15-year record on housing, policing and city finances. They agreed on term limits, a forensic audit and evening council meetings, and one even floated an Elon Musk-style traffic tunnel to fix stadium gridlock.
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The Education Department is going after LAUSD, claiming its gender policies hide students' identities from parents in violation of federal privacy law. LAUSD says it wasn't even aware of the filing, and federal officials haven't spelled out what the enforcement action actually involves.
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A single Illinois billionaire has put $17 million behind California's voter ID measure, helping supporters outraise opponents by $11 million with a month to go. Republicans see Prop. 39 as a dry run for tightening voting rules nationwide.
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Residents reporting bloody noses and pneumonia symptoms want proof of what ammonia leaked from the Lineage warehouse fire. Advocacy groups are now suing the EPA and Los Angeles after officials allegedly stonewalled public records requests, one closed within 24 hours.
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Andy Pages' bases-loaded single in the seventh broke a 1-1 tie, and the Dodgers closed out Atlanta 4-1 to take the NLDS 3-1. Tyler Glasnow walked five but allowed just one hit, and Atlanta finished the series 0 for 18 with runners on base via walk.
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A state watchdog agency says LAUSD could run out of reserves by the end of next school year, pinning a "high" insolvency risk on overspending, falling enrollment and rising salary and special education costs. The teachers union calls the analysis overly austere, arguing it punishes the district for paying educators more.
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