LOS ANGELES - LeBron James is not OK with what happened with the Los Angeles Lakers heading into the All-Star Break. He's not comfortable with the losing record they bring into the second part of the season. He's not happy that the turbo-boost he'll

UFC legend Georges St-Pierre will announce his retirement Thursday morning at Montreal's Bell Centre, officials connected to the event said Wednesday. The 37-year-old Canadian has been training occasionally during the last month at trainer Freddie Ro

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the Trump administration Wednesday against basing intermediate-range missiles in Europe, saying that Moscow would respond by deploying new weapons of its own that could directly target Washington. Alth

When Voyager II flew past Neptune in August of 1989 it revealed a complex system of 13 moons, six of which had never been seen before. Thirty years later, scientists say the space probe missed one. Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronom

CHICAGO - In little more than three weeks, "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett went from a sympathetic victim of a racist, anti-gay attack to an accused liar whose allegedly staged assault further roiled divisions across the country. Smollett, 36, was cha

LOS ANGELES - Several times after the final buzzer sounded this season, Clippers guard Patrick Beverley has walked straight from the court and into a weight room. There, wearing his game shorts, sneakers and a tank top, he lifts for 15 to 20 minutes.

Black people are better dressers than white folks. At least that's what my Grandma Ada always taught me. As a colored girl growing up in the early '60s in Virginia, I loved eavesdropping on Grandma's conversations as she connected the dots of life. H

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico - Last week, a caravan of 1,800 Central American migrants arrived in this isolated Mexican border city, where police ushered them into a makeshift government shelter at a shuttered factory surrounded by chain-link fence. As con

PHOENIX - Two days after Manny Machado waved the final, feeble swing of the 2018 World Series, Justin Turner pointed his car toward Dodger Stadium. He lives in Los Angeles during the offseason, so the drive was not far, and the idea of wallowing disg

Oscars producers have provided some clarity on who's doing what during Sunday's host-less Academy Awards telecast and enlisted a roster of diverse movie-lovers to do it. The fourth round of presenters was announced Wednesday and was billed as "eleven

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Before he was elected governor, Gavin Newsom was instrumental in legalizing marijuana for recreational use in California. Now, as he settles into office, he faces the challenge of fixing a system that has been slow to bloom. News

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday strengthened the rights of Americans to fight police seizures of vehicles and property, ruling the Eighth Amendment's ban on "excessive fines" applies to states and localities, not just the federal governme

American Airlines has just banished two of the most annoying aspects of flying out of Los Angeles International Airport: traffic gridlock and the long security screening line. But it won't be cheap. In the latest effort by the airline industry to cat

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California restaurants and stores would be prohibited from selling "Big Gulp"-style sodas and consumers would face taxes on sugar-sweetened soft drinks under bills announced Wednesday by five state lawmakers to address a "public

WASHINGTON - As a provocative Republican operative and former adviser to President Donald Trump, Roger Stone has always described his political strategy as "attack, attack, attack." But when Stone went on Instagram to harshly criticize the federal ju

Quite a few people were unhappy with a column I wrote in which I suggested that the film academy's recent decision to present Oscars in four categories during the commercial break was not a cataclysmic crime against cinema. Those who were not busy si

The bell has tolled for Le'Veon Bell's career with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said the team will not use the transition tag on Bell, meaning he'll be an unrestricted free agent when the free-agency signing period

In early 2018, a deputy assistant administrator in the EPA, Clint Woods, reached out to a Massachusetts toxicologist best known for pushing a public health standard suggesting that low levels of toxic chemicals and radiation are good for people. "I w

LOS ANGELES - California's wet winter has dumped at estimated 18 trillion gallons of rain in February alone. But much of it is simply going down the drain. In what has become a source of much concern in a state prone to droughts and water shortages,

Is there another outsider who yanked an unwilling political party further in his or her ideological direction in a shorter period of time than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)? I mean, other than Donald Trump. Back when he was polling in single digits at

PHOENIX - The news baseball waited for all winter finally broke Tuesday morning, minutes before the Los Angeles Dodgers began their first full-squad workout of 2019 at a frigid Camelback Ranch. Manny Machado, the four-time All-Star infielder last see

CUCUTA, Colombia - For the beleaguered people of Venezuela, this Colombian border town has served for years as a kind of safety valve - a way station en route from their reeling homeland, or a place to score food, medicine and other basics no longer

Judging from the dire warnings emanating from Republicans, the Cold War didn't end when the Berlin Wall fell. Boy, will historians be surprised. For example, witness President Donald Trump declaring during his State of the Union address, "Tonight, we

Amid growing worries about a slowing economy, Federal Reserve officials indicated at their meeting last month that they plan later this year to stop paring back a key stimulus program put in place in the wake of the Great Recession, according to minu

WASHINGTON - The return of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to presidential politics this week will test how much the Democratic Party has truly shifted to the left as well as gauge the resilience of a self-proclaimed democratic socialist candidate whose