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On paper, California’s “top two” open primary made sense: When one political party dominated an election, the weaker party could support a consolation moderate. This seemed especially beneficial for Republican voters in statewide races. The GOP was plummeting into irrelevance. Rather than a lefty...

California voters are being asked to weigh in on new borrowing, new government restrictions and a drought-friendly tax break on the statewide primary ballots that will be counted June 5. There are five propositions in all, a small menu of proposed laws all written by the California Legislature....

A Beverly Hills real estate developer was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge of bribing a Los Angeles County employee in exchange for a government lease worth $45 million, federal law enforcement officials said. Arman Gabaee, 57, provided the employee approximately $1,000 a month over a six-year...

It’s the biggest infrastructure project in state history, but the California bullet train gets hardly any attention on the campaign trail. The leading candidates for governor have said little publicly about how they would fix dire problems in the $77-billion mega-project that has already overrun...

USC football coach Clay Helton was paid about $2.6 million during his first season leading the program in 2016, according to the school’s federal tax return for that fiscal year. Helton coached the Trojans to a Rose Bowl victory over Penn State to end that season with a 10-3 record. In February...

Miracles only last so long. The sixth inning of the sixth Dodgers loss in a row proved that. In the top of the inning, as if possessed by a ghost from seasons past, the offense arose for a four-run, game-tying rally. In the bottom of the frame, the reverie ended when Pedro Baez served up a game-deciding...

The Dodgers plan to reincorporate a pair of left-handed pitchers into their roster on Saturday against Washington, with Rich Hill scheduled to make his start despite a blister issue and reliever Tony Cingrani expected to leave the disabled list where he has been recovering from shoulder inflammation....

There’s a single bright spot in the otherwise dreary, uncomfortably exploitative study in degradation that is “Dark Crimes,” a Polish-British-American co-production retracing the sordid goings-on in a shuttered Krakow sex club. That would be the unexpected presence of an effective Jim Carrey as...

“Carter & June,” written and directed by Nicholas Kalikow, is a wacky, Southern-fried heist comedy; a neon-saturated “Bonnie & Clyde” heavily influenced by “Pulp Fiction.” Small town low-life Carter (Michael Raymond-James) teams up with June (Samaire Armstrong) along with assorted eccentrics to...

Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the appointment of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. The milestone has emboldened White House critics of the probe to declare, as Vice President Mike Pence did on NBC News, that “it is time to wrap it up.” Never mind that the Mueller investigation...