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Eddie Nash, a UCLA sophomore, peered at his audience and then read the next question on the big digital screen.

There's a comforting feeling Angels fans have when Matt Moore is warming up for the penultimate inning. Then, when Carlos Estévez starts preparing to close out the game, it's all but over for the opponent. Moore has held scores 12 times and Estévez has converted all 12 for saves.

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles judge Wednesday rejected a controversial request by city officials that he order a local journalist to return a flash drive of police officers’ photographs after officials said they had included images of undercover officers in the collection by mistake.

LOS ANGELES — Washington has hired Michael Winger, the Clippers’ general manager since 2017, to oversee all of the organization’s basketball operations, a person not authorized to publicly discuss the hiring confirmed to The Los Angeles Times.

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday — a diminished figure in his party after a steady fall in polls in recent months, but still the top rival to former President Donald Trump.

Chas Newby, an English rock bassist and brief member of the Beatles in the early 1960s, died this week at 81.

Tabloids are reporting that Tom Hanks appeared to become "uncharacteristically frustrated" and "miffed" at the Cannes Film Festival — and Rita Wilson Cannes not even.

The world is reeling from the loss of music legend Tina Turner, who died after a long illness in her home near Zurich on Tuesday. She was 83.

LOS ANGELES — Ariana Madix, caught in the messiness of "Scandoval," recently packed up her belongings and moved out of the house she shares with ex-boyfriend Tom Sandoval — or did she?