Month: November 2019

With Thanksgiving approaching, it’s time to charge into the holiday season. Fashion brands and local shopping centers want to get you in the mood as they celebrate with tree-lighting ceremonies and other festivities. Starting this week, some of your favorite Los Angeles and Orange County retailers will have holiday activities. Here are several to check […]

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L.A. Live has replaced Hollywood Boulevard as the bright, bejeweled bellybutton of Los Angeles. What’s your pleasure? High-stakes basketball? Red-carpet concerts? Stunning views? This downtown destination has them all. Maybe I’m biased, but I’d say it now rivals New York’s more-celebrated Times Square for things to do, places to go, celebrities to see. I’ll go […]

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If you have a plant-related class, garden tour or other event you’d like us to mention, email [email protected] — at least three weeks in advance — and we may include it. Send a high-resolution horizontal photo, if possible, and tell us what we’re seeing and whom to credit. Nov. 14 “Spines, Thorns, Prickles and Beyond”: […]

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GAZA CITY —  Israel said early Friday it has completed a series of airstrikes on targets linked to the Islamic Jihad militant group in Gaza after overnight rocket fire rattled a day-old truce. The Palestinian territory’s Hamas rulers, who kept to the sidelines of this week’s fighting, canceled the weekly protests they organize along the perimeter […]

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TOKYO —  Many of the protesters who had barricaded themselves in a Hong Kong university this week began to leave Friday after temporarily clearing a road they had blocked and demanding that the government commit to going ahead with local elections on Nov. 24. It wasn’t immediately clear why the protesters at the Chinese University of […]

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President Trump on Friday released the summary transcript of an April congratulatory call to Ukraine’s then-President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky. It is the latest salvo in the White House struggle to blunt Democrats’ contention that Trump abused the power of the presidency. The focus of the Democratic-led House impeachment inquiry has been on another call between Trump […]

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Amid energetic protests fueled by shared criticisms from people in the streets and opposition political parties that the nation’s political process is awash with fraud, the ruling government of Haiti on Friday cancelled national elections scheduled for Sunday by saying it could not guarantee the safety of voters. “Will Haiti’s long-suffering population ever see the […]

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