Los Angeles Times
Poison already pushes cougars to the edge. Don't make it worse
California regulators are proposing rodenticide at more than 100,000 new locations statewide.
3 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Mattel debuts its first autistic Barbie with advocates' help
Mattel is releasing its first autistic Barbie doll.
2 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
You can blame me for all those em dashes in AI text
As an author, I love the device - a lovely little diversion from the main idea - but I never meant for it to go viral
4 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
LANGUAGE STUDY CAN PAY OFF FOR OLDER ADULTS
It’s a beneficial workout for your whole brain, even if you don’t become bilingual, a researcher says
3 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Finland teaches children media literacy
The battle against fake news in Finland starts in preschool classrooms.
3 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Push on Fed may affect investing
“Sell America” sentiment has rippled through markets after the Trump administration escalated its attacks on the Federal Reserve, fanning concerns over the central bank’s autonomy in setting interest rates.
3 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
LAPD arrests U-Haul driver accused of steering into protest
Police on Monday announced that the driver of a U-Haul truck that went through a protest against the Iranian government in Westwood over the weekend is being held without bail.
2 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Koepka back on PGA Tour under big financial penalty
Brooks Koepkais returning to the PGA Tour just five weeks after bolting from LIV Golf, agreeing to a onetime program for elite players that comes with a financial penalty that could rank among the largest in sports.
1 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
A defiant Fed chair stands up to White House
Powell says he won't back down on interest rates, accuses Trump of legal intimidation.
5 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Stafford sustained a finger sprain
Rams' star is expected to play against Bears after right hand struck defender's helmet.
2 min |
January 13, 2026
Los Angeles Times
Betts leads UCLA in rout of Nebraska
Taller, more physical Bruins dominate the Huskers defensively and on the boards.
1 min |
January 13, 2026
The New Yorker
SUBWAY VIGILANTE
Revisiting the New York shooting that defined an era
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
CONTAGION
A Broadway revival of Tracy Letts's “Bug.”
6 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
CONQUESTS
\"Magellan\" and \"The Testament of Ann Lee.\"
6 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
D.C. POSTCARD WATCH YOUR STEP
A complaint for negligence, recently filed in the District of Columbia, describes what it calls “The Longstanding Hole in the Sidewalk in front of the IRS building.” The document offers a capsule history of the six-inch-deep, eight-inch-wide circular void in the tax agency’s sidewalk. Around September of 2011, the hole was filled with cement. By the summer of 2015, the cement had been removed. Orange cones subsequently appeared around the hole. That November, D.C.’s Department of Transportation determined that the hole needed to be filled, “contingent upon funding and weather.” A month later, the department referred the hole-filling job to the feds. Cones remained around the hole, off and on, through 2017. Years passed. The cones disappeared, along with Presidential Administrations and the Bed Bath & Beyond franchise. The hole in the sidewalk remained.
2 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
BOOTS ON THE GROUND
There aren't many moments in Donald Trump's political career that could be called highlights.
4 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
Patrick Radden Keefe on Truman Capote's “In Cold Blood”
In 1972, on “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson asked Truman Capote about capital punishment. Capote had written, in unsettling detail, about the hanging of two killers, Dale Hickock and Perry Smith. Carson said, of the death penalty, “As long as the people don't have to see it, they seem to be all for it”; if executions occurred “in the public square,” Americans might stop doing them. Capote wasn't so sure. His hands laced together professorially, he murmured, in his baby-talk drawl, “Human nature is so peculiar that, really, millions of people would watch it and get some sort of vicarious sensation.”
3 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
CALL OF THE WILD
When calamity strikes in America's busiest national park, who comes to the rescue?
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
Kim's Game
It still feels strange not to start her day with the first milking.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
THE PICTURES PERIOD CORRECT
When Miyako Bellizzi was designing the costumes for “Marty Supreme,” the new Josh Safdie movie, she spent a lot of time thinking about Timothée Chalamet’s underwear. His character, Marty, a Ping-Pong champ from the Lower East Side, might have worn a one-piece union suit, the conventional male undergarment of 1952, when the movie is set. But boxers and briefs were just coming into style, and although most of Marty’s shabby wardrobe was likely a few years old, Bellizzi opted to put him in the newfangled undies. She explained her logic: “It’s kind of like how our grandmothers aren’t wearing thongs, but we are.” (She added, “And, to be honest, the union suit is not the greatest look, right?”)
3 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
MOM AND DAD: THE PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Mom, Dad, thanks for being on time this year. Dad, I can see by your T-shirt that it was a challenge. So you've already exceeded expectations.
3 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
HERE TO THERE DEPT. V.I.P. IN CHAINS
Whatever else you think about invading a country and capturing its President, there’s no getting around the inconvenience of imprisoning Nicolás Maduro in New York City. Maduro is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, near Industry City, in Brooklyn.
3 min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
ANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY: HEY THERE!
How WhatsApp took over the global conversation.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
POWER TRIP
As Secretary of State, Marco Rubio has become the unlikely executor of Trump's disruptive foreign policy.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
The New Yorker
UNDER THREAT
The Danes were America's most loyal ally. Now they feel targeted—and terrified.
10+ min |
January 19, 2026
Los Angeles Times
In Altadena, rage and a call for state probe
Residents demand accountability for 19 deaths and epic losses in Black enclave.
5 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
"Godfather' of Chicano art is on exhibit
Artist and author Rosemary Vasquez Tuthill remembers when her father, Emigdio Vasquez, asked her to pose for one of his paintings. She was a teenager and he asked her to remain still and hold a lit cigarette.
4 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
How ABC's 'Rookie' became a hit with teens
The success of a show about a cop in his 40s provides strong evidence of the importance of Tik Tok and other social media
3 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
State's first 2026 measles case is confirmed
Barely more than a week into the new year, the California Department of Public Health confirmed its first measles case of 2026.
2 min |
January 12, 2026
Los Angeles Times
HE'S L.A.'S MOVER AND SHAKER
Kroenke was the only NFL owner who could return the Rams to longtime home
5 min |