Crowds come out in force for Bernie Sanders' comeback rally in Queens
NEW YORK — Bernie Sanders leaped back onto the campaign trail Saturday with a rowdy political rally aimed at reassuring supporters unnerved by the 78-year-old’s recent heart attack — and with a lot of encouragement from an unexpected place. The candidate competing with Sanders to lock down the Democratic Party’s most progressive voters, Sen. Elizabeth Warren…
Trump used to call presidential executive orders 'power grabs.' Not anymore
WASHINGTON — It wasn’t too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as “power grabs” and a “basic disaster.” He’s switched sides in a big way: In each year of his presidency, he has issued more executive orders than did President Obama during the same time span. He surpassed Obama’s third-year total just recently.…
USC safety Talanoa Hufanga leaves victory with injury
With its depleted defensive backfield already dealing with injuries to all three of its starting cornerbacks, USC may have also lost its top safety Saturday night. Talanoa Hufanga, who leads USC in tackles per game and has generally been one of the Trojans’ best defenders this season, left in the second quarter, following a collision…
NBA preview: Plus-ones are the rage, from L.A. to Brooklyn
The way the NBA’s summer went, the 2019-20 season looked like it would play out almost biblically. Two by two, they’ll march toward the end goal. In Los Angeles, there will be the one-browed big man and the King in one Staples Center locker room and a pair of rangy two-way wings in the other.…
Racing! Rick Hammerle gets a new job
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as Santa Anita suffers its second racing fatality of the meeting. It seems the racing industry can’t get enough of Rick Hammerle, the former director of racing at Santa Anita. After being dismissed by Tim Ritvo, who was then running Santa…
Ask Sam Farmer: Are the days of the open-air NFL stadium numbered?
Have a question about the NFL? Ask Times NFL writer Sam Farmer, and he will answer as many as he can online and in the Sunday editions of the newspaper throughout the season. Email questions to: sam.farmer@latimes.com Do you think the days of the open-air NFL stadium are numbered? Seems like the closed or retractable…
Dedication of Tujunga intersection to Armenian American author sparks controversy
The dedication Saturday of an intersection in Tujunga to Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan, who wrote extensively about the Armenian immigrant experience in California, sparked controversy between some in the community who claimed it would overshadow the corner’s existing historical significance and others who believed the opposition was grounded in discrimination. After the Los Angeles…
Founder and CEO of embattled Inspire charter schools resigns
SAN DIEGO — The founder and Chief Executive of the embattled Inspire charter school network has resigned, Inspire officials have announced. The resignation of Herbert “Nick” Nichols on Friday comes after seven county superintendents, including those from Los Angeles and San Diego counties, officially requested a state fiscal agency to audit the Inspire network for potential…
Du Tu Le, beloved Vietnamese poet who came to U.S. as a refugee, dies
Du Tu Le, a towering literary figure in Vietnam and in the cities and towns across America where the waves of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants settled after the fall of Saigon, has died at his home in Garden Grove, leaving behind 77 volumes of poetry — one for each year of his life. Though he…
Review: At Antaeus in Glendale, 'The Abuelas' opens a family secret. Cue the tears
Stephanie Alison Walker’s “The Abuelas,” now at Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale, is the kind of play that makes staff dramaturgs earn their keep: so much history to contextualize. A standalone companion to Walker’s “The Madres,” which ran last year at Skylight Theatre, “The Abuelas” dramatizes the repercussions of Argentina’s “dirty war” of 1976-83, when…