PHOENIX - The news baseball waited for all winter finally broke Tuesday morning, minutes before the Los Angeles Dodgers began their first full-squad workout of 2019 at a frigid Camelback Ranch. Manny Machado, the four-time All-Star infielder last see

CUCUTA, Colombia - For the beleaguered people of Venezuela, this Colombian border town has served for years as a kind of safety valve - a way station en route from their reeling homeland, or a place to score food, medicine and other basics no longer

WASHINGTON - The return of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to presidential politics this week will test how much the Democratic Party has truly shifted to the left as well as gauge the resilience of a self-proclaimed democratic socialist candidate whose

TEMPE, Ariz. - The Los Angeles Dodgers own a television channel that provides year-round coverage of the team, but that channel is unavailable in much of the Los Angeles market. The Angels soon could get year-round coverage too, on a channel already

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to go to court to challenge President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border, either on its own or in conjunction with other government agencies. On a 1

LOS ANGELES - The fate of California's high-speed rail project was cast into further doubt Tuesday when the U.S. Department of Transportation announced plans to cancel $929 million in grant funds, a move that some viewed as political payback. The act

LOS ANGELES_David Singleton went on his official visit to UCLA with Jules Bernard, lived with him in the campus dorms over the summer and now rooms with him in an off-campus apartment. The Bruins' backcourt of the future has been nearly inseparable .

There was a moment, however fleeting, when documentary filmmaker Ken Burns thought a change of pace might be in order after more than a decade of emotionally draining, logistically nightmarish work on his 10-part, 18-hour exploration of the history a

"The NASA Archives: 60 Years in Space" by Piers Bizony, Andrew Chaikin and Roger Launius; Taschen (468 pages, $150) ___ Jules Verne's space dreams began with a gun. A big one. In his 1865 sci-fi novel "From the Earth to the Moon," Verne spins a yarn

Black people are better dressers than white folks. At least that's what my Grandma Ada always taught me. As a colored girl growing up in the early '60s in Virginia, I loved eavesdropping on Grandma's conversations as she connected the dots of life. H

PHOENIX - Two days after Manny Machado waved the final, feeble swing of the 2018 World Series, Justin Turner pointed his car toward Dodger Stadium. He lives in Los Angeles during the offseason, so the drive was not far, and the idea of wallowing disg

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Before he was elected governor, Gavin Newsom was instrumental in legalizing marijuana for recreational use in California. Now, as he settles into office, he faces the challenge of fixing a system that has been slow to bloom. News

American Airlines has just banished two of the most annoying aspects of flying out of Los Angeles International Airport: traffic gridlock and the long security screening line. But it won't be cheap. In the latest effort by the airline industry to cat

WASHINGTON - As a provocative Republican operative and former adviser to President Donald Trump, Roger Stone has always described his political strategy as "attack, attack, attack." But when Stone went on Instagram to harshly criticize the federal ju

Quite a few people were unhappy with a column I wrote in which I suggested that the film academy's recent decision to present Oscars in four categories during the commercial break was not a cataclysmic crime against cinema. Those who were not busy si

In early 2018, a deputy assistant administrator in the EPA, Clint Woods, reached out to a Massachusetts toxicologist best known for pushing a public health standard suggesting that low levels of toxic chemicals and radiation are good for people. "I w

TEMPE, Ariz. - A few hours before the Los Angeles Angels assembled Monday morning for their first full-squad workout of the spring, their best player rummaged through a clubhouse closet. He removed some of what he found, wiggled inside and shut the d

As hard-luck stories go, this one was a doozy. It was a letter from a woman identifying herself as Janetta Hames, "a wife, mom and grandma from Texas." She says she volunteers at her church and at her youngest daughter's school. Her son is in the Coa

Here's what we've learned over the last week in the NHL: ___ GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT Anaheim Ducks backup goaltender Ryan Miller tied John Vanbiesbrouck's record for the most NHL wins by an American-born goalie with a victory over the Wash

Entertainer Charo and her family are mourning the unexpected death of her husband, Kjell Rasten, who died by suicide on Monday. He was 78 (not 79, as other outlets have reported). "Yesterday, Kjell, my husband of forty years and the love of my life,

LOS ANGELES - Fear of playing with a potential gaping hole in the defense caused the Los Angeles Rams to spend about $42 million on franchise-tagged players the last three seasons. In 2016 and 2017, former cornerback Trumaine Johnson earned nearly $3

LOS ANGELES - He could have been the angriest man at Dodger Stadium. Instead, he was the most elegant. Don Newcombe, who died Tuesday, was a monument in a fedora, history with a sport coat, a legend bearing a pocket square. Even when his memory was f

Tyson Fury on Monday veered sharply away from a rematch to fight Deontay Wilder in the spring. The unbeaten lineal heavyweight champion signed a co-promotional deal with Top Rank and its broadcast partner ESPN, the companies announced. "Fury has alig

We found her in a ditch a few steps away from the rusted border fence on the east side of Nogales, Ariz., an inch-and-a-half laceration on her swollen forehead. She came from Guerrero, one of the most violent states in Mexico, and could not remember

When people buy plane tickets, they have to select a "gender" option: male or female. But those two categories don't cover everyone, so some major airlines are planning to offer more choices. Airlines for America and the International Air Transport A

When the three generations of the Haven clan - eight members in all - gather for a family get-together, no one has to travel very far. The patriarch and matriarch - Clayton, 84, and Sharon, 76 - live on the ground floor of a 1910 apartment building i

WASHINGTON - Bowing to bipartisan concerns in Congress, President Donald Trump retreated Tuesday from his plan to create an independent space force in the Pentagon, proposing instead to consolidate the military's space operations and personnel in the