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How LeBron James and the Lakers are planning to end Denver's dominance against them

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The Nuggets have beaten the Lakers eight consecutive times, but LeBron James and Darvin Ham know what they must do to defeat Denver in the playoffs.

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San Francisco sues Oakland over plans to change name of airport

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San Francisco's city attorney says changing the name of Oakland International Airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport would be trademark infringement.

Sydney Sweeney's team fires back at producer who said 'she's not pretty' and 'can't act'

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Sydney Sweeney's rep called out Carol Baum for 'unjustly' disparaging a fellow female producer after Baum said that Sweeney's film 'Anyone But You' was 'unwatchable.'

Column: The salmon industry faces extinction — not because of drought, but government policies and politics

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State and federal government policies that favor farms have done far more damage to the salmon fishery than drought, another sign that California's water rights need rethinking.

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Dickey Betts, guitarist and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, dies 80

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Dickey Betts, a founding member and guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band, died Thursday of cancer and COPD, his family announced. The musician was 80.

Calexico resoundingly ousts town's first transgender mayor and a council ally

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Calexico's first transgender mayor and a City Council ally were recalled by a hefty margin. The election pitted the town's established old guard against young progressives looking to upend the status quo.

Motorists delayed by Golden Gate Bridge protest might get 'restitution,' San Francisco D.A. says

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San Francisco D.A. said people affected by a Golden Gate Bridge protest Monday might be entitled to restitution, but it's not clear what that may be.

Netflix's password-sharing crackdown is paying off as profits beat Wall Street's forecast

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Netflix on Thursday released its first-quarter earnings, which topped analyst estimates in terms of subscriber additions and profit.

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O.J. Simpson was cremated in Las Vegas this week. Funeral plans are still in the works

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There are no plans for a public memorial, the executor of O.J. Simpson's estate says. His remains will be given to his children, in accordance with his wishes.

U.S. blocks full U.N. membership for Palestinians

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The United States vetoes the latest Palestinian bid for full membership in the United Nations.

Fifth person arrested in killing of 51-year-old Long Beach veteran

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A fifth person has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Mario Morales-Moreno earlier this month, according to authorities.

Dodgers fan pulled switcheroo after catching a 'hated Padre' homer. Why did he keep the ball?

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Dodgers fan Renan Zuniga was caught on national TV pulling a switcheroo with a home run ball hit by Padres' Manny Machado. The ball was important to Zuniga.

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UCLA's defense suffers huge blow with star lineman Jay Toia entering transfer portal

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Top defensive lineman Jay Toia announced his decision to enter the transfer portal, a significant blow for the UCLA defense.

Judge rules against attempt to get Bob Baffert-trained horse into 2024 Kentucky Derby

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The attempt to allow Bob Baffert to run a horse in this year's Kentucky Derby was denied in a ruling on Thursday.

Editorial: Speaker Mike Johnson's Ukraine aid bill is better late than never

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House Speaker Mike Johnson does the right thing allowing vote on separate Ukraine aid bill despite threats from hard-liners in his conference.

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'The Witcher' to end with Season 5 on Netflix

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'The Witcher' is ending after its upcoming Season 5. The fourth and fifth seasons will be filmed back to back.

L.A.-based social video platform Triller acquired by Hong Kong company

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Triller has long lagged rival TikTok in the social video market, but the company got a boost of interest in 2020, after former President Trump suggested he'd consider banning TikTok.

California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water

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California has set a limit for the toxic heavy metal hexavalent chromium in drinking water. Advocates have called for a stricter limit, warning of health risks.

Ye reportedly suspected of battering a man who allegedly grabbed Bianca Censori

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Rapper Ye, fka Kanye West, is reportedly under investigation by Los Angeles police after allegedly punching a man who touched his wife, Bianca Censori.

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Review: In the well-researched 'We Grown Now,' a family hangs tough in Chicago's projects

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Writer-director Minhal Baig mounts a sensitively directed drama about life in Chicago's Cabrini-Green, where pride and violence both found a foothold.

Ashanti and Nelly confirm they're engaged and having a baby, baby, baby, baby, baby

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Ashanti and Nelly confirmed months of pregnancy rumors in an ad for their diagnostics company. The R&B star also separately confirmed that they're engaged.

David Fincher talks us through the off-screen torture of making 'Seven'

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Known for his perfectionism, the director has sweetened his dark 1995 thriller (only slightly) for an Imax version, debuting at the TCM Classic Film Festival.

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Google fires 28 employees who protested Israel cloud contract

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The protests, organized by the No Tech for Apartheid campaign, raised concerns about Google and Amazon's $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military called Project Nimbus.

Review: Long before Bond, 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' kicked off British covert ops

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Director Guy Ritchie isn't subtle but supplies this lesser-known chapter of spycraft with verve and a cast that includes Henry Cavill and Eiza González.

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Wednesday's high school baseball and softball scores

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High school baseball and softball scores from across the Southland for April 17.

Newsom calls for increased oversight of local homelessness efforts

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The call to ramp up accountability is the latest example of Newsom pointing at local governments for the failure to lessen homelessness, which has only worsened in his tenure.

Signatures roll in for tough-on-crime ballot measure to reform California's Proposition 47

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A coalition backing a tough-on-crime statewide ballot initiative to toughen penalties for retail theft and some drug offenses on Thursday submitted more than 900,000 voter signatures backing the measure, a strong indicator that it may come…

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Opinion: Is Arizona's abortion ban a return to the 19th century? No, it's actually worse

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William T. Howell, who copied the 1864 law from California, was a progressive by the standards of the state Supreme Court that resurrected his statute.

A mysterious photographer of the Civil War, under a new microscope

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In the ambitious book 'Double Exposure,' the Old West photographer Timothy O'Sullivan becomes a little more famous but no less obscure.

Column: What's behind those 'Shame on you' billboards in the Coachella Valley

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The billboards have become such a part of the region's life that Bea Gonzalez, a Desert Community College board trustee, recently told me she's used to having strangers stare at her before asking if she's that woman.