Your morning catch-up: Trump's team is losing...to the L.A. Public Defender, Trump rejects science and more big stories

Your morning catch up: A (water) truth teller in the state's heartland, 2026 Oscar nominations and more big stories.

Your morning catch up: New news from old Santa Barbara, Warner Bros. rejects Paramount’s hostile bid and more big stories.

Your morning catch up: Santa Monica is the latest city to pay reparations, Santa Ana winds to hit SoCal and more big stories.

Your morning catch-up: Artists combat ICE raids, delays coming to airports and more big stories

Your morning catch up: The Dodgers' United Nations path to World Series title, thousands find food banks as SNAP benefits lapse and more big stories.

Your morning catch-up: An arsonist allegedly started the Palisades fire, Disneyland raises ticket prices (again) and more big stories.

Your morning catch-up: California says goodbye to coal, trash fees will surge for L.A. residents and more big stories.

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Two months after the Palisades fire, customers of Malibu businesses have been displaced or blocked by restrictions on Pacific Coast Highway. Restaurants and shops tell the world they're open for busin...

They voted for Donald Trump for president, but now they're losing government jobs. They wonder why Trump and Elon Musk aren't focusing on real waste and inflation.

Betty O'Meara helped make the Malibu Cinema a gem for Hollywood stars and regular folks. When the Palisades fire came, she refused to evacuate, dying in the home where she had lived for more than 50 y...

Betty O'Meara helped make the Malibu Cinema a gem for Hollywood stars and regular folks. When the Palisades fire came, she refused to evacuate, dying in the home where she had lived for more than 50 y...

Times reporter James Rainey ventured back to see if his childhood home in Malibu was still standing, while he reflected on 'Old World Malibu.'

Steve and Colton Foster may have saved 10 homes by ignoring fire evacuation orders in Pacific Palisades. Now they're nurturing fire refugees and residents who stayed in the neighborhood near the Getty...

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on his plans to shake up the newspaper and build for the future.

Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on his plans to shake up the newspaper and build for the future.

Trump has given two entrepreneurs a mission to make the government more efficient. It's unclear how Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would accomplish that.