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Aggressive, audacious, bristling with risk. That describes Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk. It also describes the pay plan Tesla’s board of directors wants to grant him.

Here’s a look at what roughly $650,000 buys right now in the Orange County cities of San Juan Capistrano and Anaheim and in unincorporated Silverado Canyon.

Looking for ways to ward off the inevitable “I’m bored” comment from kids or grandkids on spring break soon? Here are 10 ideas — a range of cultural activities slated for the Los Angeles area.

Uncertainty reigns in the White House.

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McMaster and Commander in Chief

After firing his secretary of State this week, President Trump is preparing another White House shake-up, this time moving toward replacing national security advisor H.R. McMaster. The timing remains unclear, and...

Gardeners have been patiently waiting for this moment in time.

Some call it the start of spring. The rest of us call it the start of tomato season.

Tomatomania, which bills itself as the world's largest heirloom tomato seedling sale, pops up this weekend in Encino.

Expect all kinds of gardening...

Perched above Beverly Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue, a cherry red billboard commands attention. In chunky white letters, a message is written to the city.

President Trump’s election victory over Hillary Clinton seemed to herald a new era for border security and immigration enforcement. But his polarizing and occasionally ignorant comments about immigrants have handed his adversaries a convenient pretext for stymying compromise on immigration reform:...

In the fall of 1607, a blacksmith named James Read was sentenced to hang for striking a representative of King James I in the Jamestown colony in Virginia. But at the top of the ladder that led to the gallows, he offered up details about a supposed mutiny in the making. Shortly thereafter, he was...

The police and FBI are searching for a bomber who left three packages that exploded at homes in Austin, Texas, this month, killing two and injuring two others. Their work won’t be easy. Violent crimes inflicted on strangers are known to be the hardest to solve. If the Austin case fits the pattern...

Weedmaps may have positioned itself as Yelp for pot shoppers, but state regulators say there is a crucial difference: The bulk of the businesses in Weedmaps’ directory are illegal, even under state law. That’s undermining one of the primary goals of Proposition 64, which was to extinguish the black...

Just below the surface of the roiling debates about how and why our country got into its current predicament, a radical movement is afoot. Sometimes called “the intellectual dark web,” it lives largely on the internet, but it isn’t the dark web of anonymous cybercrooks you’ve probably heard of....

Everybody’s heard of the My Lai massacre — March 16, 1968, 50 years ago today — but not many know about the man who stopped it: Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot. When he arrived, American soldiers had already killed 504 Vietnamese civilians (that’s the Vietnamese count; the U.S. Army said...

To the editor: Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, California’s two Democratic U.S. senators, should support the rule of law by rejecting the nomination of President Trump’s pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel, who presided over the torturing of detainees at a “black site”...

The top televised soccer action from Europe this weekend will feature Manchester United trying to salvage its season in the FA Cup quarterfinals, Juventus hoping to extend its hard-won lead in Italy’s Series A and Atletico Madrid starting a last-ditch sprint to catch Barcelona in Spain.

When Greg Berlanti first read the script for “Love, Simon” he found the teenage coming-of-age dramedy at once “heartfelt and smart and funny.”

To the editor: I was struck by the appearance of two excellent articles in the Sunday print edition of the Los Angeles Times.

To the editor: Evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist Marlene Zuk’s article misses the point almost entirely. (“There's nothing inherent about the fact that men outnumber women in the sciences,” Opinion, March 11)

In the days since Stephen Hawking's death, obituaries have described him as being "confined" or "chained" to a wheelchair, as someone who "overcame" his disability and succeeded in spite of it.

An innovative pedestrian bridge being built at Florida International University was put to a “stress test” before it collapsed over traffic, killing six people and sending 10 to a hospital, authorities said.

President Trump’s nomination of Mike Pompeo as secretary of State probably augurs the end of the 2015 accord that has blocked Iran from building nuclear weapons, an agreement praised by world powers but detested by Trump — and by Pompeo, a notable hawk on the Islamic Republic.

Wells Fargo & Co. failed to notify some customers about its $142-million class-action settlement over its unauthorized accounts scandal — an error that could give customers more time to participate in the deal but contribute to months of delay in receiving payments.

This image appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Jan. 5, 1956, as part of the Know Your City photography series. The original caption reported:

In theory, Democrats hoping to win back congressional control have two of their best shots in California, where two Republicans are retiring from racially diverse districts that have been trending against the GOP.

Judging by the look on his face, the most surprised person in the arena was Anze Kopitar.