Producer Cathy Schulman on ‘The Idea of You’ and the state of Hollywood
Despite her success, film producer Cathy Schulman has never exactly had an easy go of it in Hollywood. Even having won the best picture Oscar…
Nuclear waste storage could roil Nevada U.S. Senate race
More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, near an idyllic beach…
Climate change is a star in some of Hollywood’s most popular movies
I never saw the 2017 film “Justice League.” But if I had, I would have been treated to a scene in which Batman (Ben Affleck)…
Closing California prisons should be the easiest budget cut
California is facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit that will require lawmakers and the governor to make painful decisions. Nobody wants less funding for their child’s…
W. Virginia and North Carolina’s transgender care policies discriminate, judges rule
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain healthcare for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled…
Column: Biden’s big campaign promises come with a warning label
WASHINGTON — For two weeks, former President Trump has been cooped up in a Manhattan courtroom on charges that he falsified records to conceal payments to…
Saying the stakes could not be higher, Newsom to speak at Vatican climate summit
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking his climate change advocacy overseas next month to the epicenter of Catholicism, where he was invited to speak at…
In Orange County, election skepticism could sway key Congress races
Alex Lopez doesn’t contest that Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. His concern lies with how those results came to be. “By the numbers?…
Inside the head-spinning week of Trump’s legal drama
NEW YORK — Even by Donald Trump’s standards, it was a dizzying week. The first criminal prosecution of a former president began in earnest with opening…
Rams trade in Round 2 to draft another Florida State defender
The Rams started Day 2 of the NFL draft Friday by addressing their defensive line, selecting Florida State tackle Braden Fiske with the seventh pick…
17 states sue over rules entitling workers to time off for abortion
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Republican attorneys general from 17 states have filed a lawsuit challenging new federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations…
Arizona indictment of Giuliani and Meadows follows long racist history
I’ve lived and/or worked in 10 states scattered across the country. Arizona was and remains the most complicated. The same state that elected the first…
Alabama lawmakers advance bill that may lead to librarian prosecution
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the…
Trump’s bad week shows his new reality
WASHINGTON — Former President Trump’s tough week showed as well as any to date why he is facing a new and unprecedented reality as a presidential…
Chargers’ top pick Joe Alt fits with Jim Harbaugh’s philosophy
Malik Nabers would’ve been a Hollywood pick. The same with Rome Odunze, the other top receiver who was available. The Chargers went in another direction…
It’s time to declare Israel a rogue state | Israel War on Gaza
Another day, another tragedy in Gaza. At the time of writing, rescuers were pulling bodies out of the rubble after an Israeli air strike on…
California battery storage grows rapidly, but blackouts still a risk
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted…
Here are the 32 coal plants still powering the American West
Over the last two decades, 21 coal-fired power plants have shut down across the Western U.S. Twenty-one down, 32 to go. Those numbers are based…
Arizona charges Meadows, Giuliani, 16 more in 2020 election fraud case
PHOENIX — An Arizona grand jury has indicted Mark Meadows, who served as former President Trump’s chief of staff, and former Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani,…
Arizona House votes to repeal the state’s near-total abortion ban
PHOENIX — A proposed repeal of Arizona’s near-total ban on abortions has won approval from the state House, clearing its first hurdle two weeks after a…