Los Angeles Times - Near East

• newQuentin Tarantino, Leonardo DiCaprio surprise CinemaCon to tease 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
  Just a couple of months ago, it seemed as if Quentin Tarantino's Hollywood future could be in question. But at a major movie industry event here Monday night, the head of Sony Pictures feted the director as Hollywood royalty, declaring the filmmake…
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• newBlack people were lulled into thinking Starbucks was different — a safe space. We were wrong
  Starbucks is synonymous with the urban good life, an oasis where anyone with a few dollars can get a caramel macchiato and sit for hours writing, reading, talking or contemplating life. It’s cookie-cutter, but that’s the point — its thousands o…
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• newThe California governor's race has its own version of Trump. Let's not let history repeat itself
  Before launching his campaign for governor last year, Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach) was a fairly ordinary legislator. Republican, but not in a rabble-rousing kind of way, and seemingly willing to work across the aisle to get things…
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• newHomeowners shouldn't be punished for capturing rainwater. Vote yes on Proposition 72
  Proposition 72 is one of the easier questions on the June 5 ballot. Homeowners should be rewarded, not penalized, for collecting the rainwater that falls on their roofs and for using it on their landscaping to save precious tap water. This measure wo…
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• newGive paramedics the power to make better choices on behalf of vulnerable people
  If a person is intoxicated or suffering from a mental health crisis, a crowded hospital emergency room may not be the right place to get treatment. Yet homeless people are often taken there when they may just need a place to sober up or be seen by a…
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• newLarry King, digital pioneer at 84, on life, work, Trump's phone calls and his newest Emmy nominations
  A brief conversation with "communicator" Larry King, 84 and Emmy nominated once again.
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• newGreat political speechmaking isn't dead, it's just waiting for a new voice
  It is easy to despair of politics — witness the actions of President Trump and the gallery of narrow-minded populists taking power across the globe. In particular, political rhetoric, in these leaders’ hands, is in the dock, accused of fakery, fa…
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• newThe U.S. can send a message to North Korea by cutting its own nuclear arsenal by half
  To the editor: I’m thrilled that the North Koreans and the South Koreans are engaging in serious peace talks, and I am amazed that President Trump and CIA Director Mike Pompeo are also willing to support this effort. (“North Korea says it will s…
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• newWe can't move on from Jim Crow without acknowledging thousands of lynching victims
  To the editor: Thank you for shining a light on the effort of Bryan Stevenson and his Equal Justice Initiative to memorialize the more than 4,000 victims of lynching in this country. (“New lynching memorial in Alabama offers chance to remember and…
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• newWhen you're Wells Fargo, a $1-billion fine for recklessness is chump change
  To the editor: The Wells Fargo & Co. saga continues, with the bank most recently being penalized a whopping $1 billion. President Trump’s appointee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mick Mulvaney, boasted to his critics that this hu…
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• newCommercial genetic testing isn't for kids, says a medical geneticist
  To the editor: As a medical geneticist who has spent more than 40 years in practice at Kaiser Permanente and UCLA, I can appreciate people’s desire to learn as much as possible about their genetic endowment. (“Decoding your baby’s DNA: It can…
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• newIt makes no sense for California's pro-Trump farmers to continue supporting the president
  To the editor: It’s nice to be reassured by the politically conservative farmers in the parts of California that voted for President Trump that they no longer require immigrant workers in their fields, thus they will continue to swear fealty to the…
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• newThis engineered painkiller works like an opioid but isn't addictive in animal tests
  Sometimes forgotten in the spiraling U.S. crisis of opiate abuse is a clinical fact about narcotic pain medications: addiction is basically an unwanted side effect of drugs that are highly effective at blunting pain. Addiction, of course, is a parti…
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• newTrump's North Korea diplomacy won't change the regime
  Responding to reports that North Korea said it “no longer needs” nuclear tests, Jim Hanson, president of the generally pro-Trump Security Studies Group, credited President Trump. “No one was expecting anything to come of Trump’s fiery rhetor…
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• newEmbattled Wells Fargo to face protests and more calls for change at annual meeting
  Wells Fargo & Co.’s top brass will gather in Iowa Tuesday for the bank’s annual shareholder meeting — and they’ll be getting an earful from critics and advocacy groups over issues such as continued revelations of consumer abuses and the bank…
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• newRich dude with more money than sense launches another campaign to break California up
  The culture of disruption is getting out of hand. Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Bitcoin evangelist Tim Draper has revived his proposal to carve our fabulous state into smaller parts. His current proposal, Cal 3, is a minor improvement over h…
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• new'Poor but sexy' Berlin now home to soaring rents and rising tensions
  Thirty-two years after moving into her cozy one-bedroom apartment near Berlin’s city center, Brigitte Lustig is about to be evicted — a fate the 61-year-old never imagined in a city renowned for its cheap rents and bohemian spirit. “I was born…
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• newHow ‘Made in China 2025’ became the real threat in a trade war
  China unveiled its plan to dominate the world’s most crucial technologies with little international fanfare, another vague, guiding principle in the labyrinth of Communist Party bureaucracy. Three years later, it’s at the core of a trade dispute…
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• newBeyoncé's refusal to shrink her blackness made her Coachella showing revolutionary
  
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• newTrump and GOP lawmakers are making it easier for auto dealers to racially discriminate
  Senate Republicans have voted to allow car dealers to discriminate against black and Latino customers. Maybe I could have phrased that more delicately so as not to bruise sensitive conservative feelings. But why bother? In voting last week to repeal…
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• newTrump is pushing hard to reach NAFTA agreement, both with trading partners and with Congress
  With critical political deadlines fast approaching, the Trump administration is racing to strike a deal on a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement by early May — with an eye toward forcing a congressional vote on a new pact by the end of th…
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• newFrom the Archives: Evicted families live in car
  After World War II, Los Angeles experienced an acute housing shortage. Evictions grew. This photo accompanied an article in the Aug. 6, 1946, Los Angeles Times that reported: “If you are tired enough you can sleep anywhere.” The is the only reas…
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• newWith money tied up in court, California lawmakers try again with new plan to spend $2 billion on homeless housing
  
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• newNFL: 49ers GM says Reuben Foster’s future hinges on case
  General manager John Lynch said the San Francisco 49ers will be patient as linebacker Reuben Foster deals with domestic violence charges but stressed “if these charges are proven true, if Reuben indeed hit this young lady, he won’t be a part of…
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• newFor Walker Buehler, a solid start
  Did you hear him? The first major league start for the Dodgers’ ace of the future filled Chavez Ravine with a concerto of leather. Walker Buehler landed his fastballs in catcher Yasmani Grandal’s black glove Monday night with such a distinct sou…
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