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BALTIMORE — As far as textbook wins go, the Dodgers performance Tuesday was pretty close.

Troopers at the Texas border were ordered to push children back into the Rio Grande and failed to provide water to asylum seekers in extreme heat conditions, according to an an email sent by a Department of Public Safety trooper, and first reported by the Houston Chronicle.

Tensions rose Tuesday between the Southern California hotel operators and their striking workers during the first bargaining session since intermittent walkouts began July 1. Hotel representatives accused the union of failing to bargain in good faith, and Unite Here Local 11 vowed more strikes at hotels across Los Angeles and…

BALTIMORE — A few weeks before the All-Star break, Mookie Betts called J.D. Martinez.

LOS ANGELES — Any other year, don't go near James Harden.

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution Tuesday declaring that Israel is not a “racist state,” effectively rebuking Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who said Saturday that it was.

LOS ANGELES — Aaron Donald wears No. 99 on his Rams jersey.

LOS ANGELES — Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was in Los Angeles 10 days ago. But he wasn't checking out the hotel or scouting the training facilities ahead of his team's upcoming visit.

Our long summer vacation is a relic from an agricultural past when kids were needed for seasonal work on farms — or so we’ve been told. Since that’s no longer the case, we should lay the three-month summer break to rest, right?

With a conservative majority on the bench, the recent Supreme Court ruling to strike down affirmative action was widely expected. One unexpected twist, however, was an inconspicuous footnote exempting military academies from the drastic change.

In February, after yet another court decision stalling sorely needed housing development, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that California’s landmark environmental law is “broken.”