Newsletter You’re reading the L.A. on the Record newsletter Sign up to make sense of the often unexplained world of L.A. politics. Enter email address Sign Me Up You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Soon, the most powerful Los Angeles County politician won’t be the mayor of L.A. It won’t…
A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a potential summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder to get, and more expensive, for many Americans, some health experts warn. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this…
The worst thing “Saturday Night Live” could have done on an episode featuring rising character actor Walton Goggins, who was hosting for the first time, was play it safe. Though many new fans may know him from his recent turn on Season 3 of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” Goggins has spent a career playing misfits,…
As CBS-owner Paramount Global enters mediation this week to resolve President Trump’s $20-billion “60 Minutes” lawsuit, one question looms: How much should the company pay to settle a dispute that 1st Amendment experts have deemed frivolous? Paramount’s board during an April 18 meeting agreed on parameters for a possible settlement with Trump, according to two…
