Guy Scott, who is white, becomes Zambia's president with death of Sata

Guy Scott, famous in Zambia for his jocular, outspoken – and sometimes undiplomatic – tongue, became the nation's acting president Wednesday, sub-Saharan Africa's only current white head of state. Scott took office after the death of President Michael...

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Carowinds' Fury 325 joins an elite club of world's tallest coasters

The $30-million Fury 325 coming to Carowinds in 2015 will be among the fastest, tallest and longest roller coasters in the world. Set to debut in spring 2015, the 325-foot-tall giga coaster will fly over and under a new entrance plaza planned for the...

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Fiat to spin off Ferrari

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is parting ways with its high-end subsidiary brand Ferrari. The global auto giant announced in London on Wednesday that it will hold an initial public offering to sell off 10% of the legendary Italian marque and distribute...

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Reward offered in road rage killing of Oakland mother of four

Police have offered a $30,000 reward in the case of an Oakland mother of four who was gunned down in a road rage incident after leaving a grocery store. Oakland police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are seeking the public's help with finding 30-year-old...

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USC football morning report: Penalty problems

Stat of the day: With 8.8 penalties per game, USC ranks 118 out of 125 major college football teams. Seven of the 20 most-penalized teams are in the Pac-12 Conference. USC plays Washington State on Saturday at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Wash. ...

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Small aircraft to take to Palm Springs' streets for Parade of Planes

Small airplanes will taxi down Palm Spring's streets on Thursday in an annual Parade of Planes that begins a three-day aviation expo in the desert city. Pilots who attend Aviation Expo 2014 can drive their planes from the airport to the Palm Springs...

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The shame of Mississippi, where racism and stupidity killed Obamacare

From Politico and Kaiser Health News comes this jaw-dropping look at Mississippi, the national graveyard of the Affordable Care Act's promise. "There are wide swaths of Mississippi where the Affordable Care Act is not a reality," Conner Reeves, who...

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Woman in NYC counts getting more than 100 unwanted catcalls in one day

Britney Spears is getting her own holiday. Nov. 5 has been declared Britney Day on the Las Vegas Strip. [People] Catcalls are still a hazard for women walking around New York. To prove the point, a woman walked the streets of the city for 10 hours,...

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'Once Upon a Time': Family ties drive action in 'Breaking Glass'

There's a two-way mirror, ongoing reconciliation (SwanQueen mishaps) and a look back at Emma during her teen years in the "Breaking Glass" episode of "Once Upon a Time." A box of items from Emma Swan's childhood brings back memories. In a '90s Minnesota,...

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Home of the Day: New design aesthetic in Westwood

Sitting 18 stories above Westwood, this new offering at the Carlyle Residence pairs a polished contemporary design with jetliner views stretching as far as the Santa Monica Mountains. Interiors by Cantoni include samples from the designer's Dress Code...

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A brilliant start to Esa-Pekka Salonen's L.A. Phil residency

Esa-Pekka Salonen returned Friday night to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for his annual fall residency with the orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall. This time, he really returned. He is once more an Angeleno, having moved from London back to Santa...

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Child is being tested for Ebola in New York, was recently in Guinea

A child who had recently been in the Ebola-affected nation of Guinea took ill in New York City on Sunday night and is being isolated at a hospital, health officials said Monday. The child was being tested for Ebola, and results were expected by the...

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Gear: Recoil Winders untangle your cords and cables

Cords and cables will come and go, but they will always get tangled, except if you have Recoil Winders. Recoil Winders, little spring-loaded double disks look like elongated yo-yos, but work to manage the myriad wires that go with our electronic devices....

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Wow Air plans no-frills flights between Iceland and Boston, Baltimore

Low-cost carrier Wow Air will begin flying between Reykjavik and the East Coast with connections to European cities in the spring. Airfares start at $99 each way. Wow's announcement last week sait it would begin round-trip flights five days a week between...

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South African prosecutors to appeal Oscar Pistorius verdict, sentence

South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority will appeal the controversial murder acquittal of Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius and his five-year sentence for the lesser crime of culpable homicide. The decision to appeal was announced Monday and follows...

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49ers' Vernon Davis parts ways with condo in Marina del Rey

San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis has sold a condominium unit in Marina del Rey for $822,000. The condo, found on the 11th floor of the Cove Residences building, features an open floor plan with an updated kitchen, a living/dining area, two...

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Itzik Harani a fantastic guide on once-in-a-lifetime tour of Israel

Certified guide Itzik Harani recently took me and a friend on a tour of a lifetime that covered modern and historical sites in Israel such as Tel Aviv, new and old Jerusalem, Masada, Golan Heights, Tiberius, the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea, Akko, etc....

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Exit of Guerrero state governor seen as too little in Mexico

The government of President Enrique Peña Nieto is hoping that Thursday's removal from office of the governor of Guerrero state will lower the explosive tension roiling the nation over the Sept. 26 disappearance of 43 college students. But Gov. Angel...

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Soaring SpaceX, Isaacson on Wikipedia, Asimov on creativity, and more

Here's your supplemental weekend reading list (for when you've finished your Times.) Elon Musk's SpaceX is perhaps the most remarkable entrepreneurial success story in recent times. Quartz tells how SpaceX leapfrogged NASA to "become a serious space...

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Nas wraps 20 years of rapping with 'Time Is Illmatic'

Nasir Jones' rise from the housing projects of Queensbridge in New York to the top of the rap game is at the center of the film "Nas: Time Is Illmatic." The documentary celebrates the 20th anniversary of the prolific emcee's debut, "Illmatic," widely...

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USC's Williams, Utah's Orchard put spotlight on defensive lines

USC's Leonard Williams is regarded as one of the most productive defensive lineman in college football. Williams won't be the only disruptive force on the field Saturday night when the No. 20 Trojans play No. 19 Utah at sold-out Rice-Eccles Stadium...

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From Foyles to Hatchards, slip between the covers of London bookshops

My geeky teenage years were filled with escapes to this city's bookstores. Most weekends were spent leaning against their bookcases and reading seemingly a little bit of everything, from Russian short stories to picture books about steam trains. I was...

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John Lautner's Silvertop sells for above asking price

The John Lautner-designed Silvertop, also known as the Reiner-Burchill Residence, has sold in Silver Lake for $8.55 million -- 14% above the asking price of $7.5 million. The property was on the market 20 days before it went into escrow. Embodying...

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Football: Lavell Thompson puts best foot forward at South Gate

Lavell Thompson is arguably one of the premier players in the Los Angeles City Section. The senior running back from South Gate proved as much Friday night against East Los Angeles Garfield. His effort, however, came up a tad short. The 5-foot-7, 185-pounder...

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Disney and Segerstrom firing up their organs this weekend

Southern California has a spectacular, if quirky, standing in the organ world. First Congregational Church of Los Angeles on Wilshire boasts the biggest organ in the world, with more than 20,000 pipes.  The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove has...

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USC freshman Viane Talamaivao already has memories at Utah

Viane Talamaivao will play at Utah for the first time Saturday. But the USC freshman already has memories from Rice-Eccles Stadium. "I have baby pictures of me in that stadium," said Talamaivao, an offensive lineman whose uncle, Pene Talamaivao, ...

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'Citizenfour' a compelling look at Edward Snowden's actions

Be afraid. Be very afraid. This in essence is the message of "Citizenfour," Laura Poitras' highly anticipated documentary on Edward Snowden's decision to expose the National Security Agency's ravenous appetite for clandestinely collecting the personal...

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'23 Blast' plays well but doesn't score

The football drama "23 Blast" tells a story that wouldn't make it past a pitch meeting if it weren't based in fact: how Kentucky high schooler Travis Freeman (Mark Hapka) lost his sight overnight after a severe infection but continued to play football...

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Menifee councilman arrested in city park, D.A.'s office says

A Menifee councilman was arrested Thursday in a city park by investigators with the Riverside County district attorney's office, but prosecutors declined to say what he was arrested on suspicion of. Thomas Fuhrman was arrested at Wheatfield Park, said...

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'Bronies': When men love 'My Little Pony' too much

Nothing in "Bronies: The Musical," at the Third Street Theater, is as hard to credit as the existence of bronies: adult, primarily male fans of "My Little Pony." If bronies are real — and according to the Internet, they are — then our very standards...

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Lured by Verizon into giving up cellphone privacy

Eric Purtell, who has been a Verizon Wireless customer for nearly a decade, had every reason to think the company was rewarding his loyalty. A recent email told Purtell that he'd already accumulated almost 41,000 rewards points simply by using his cellphone....

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Flawed 'Camp X-Ray' still exposes truths in war on terror

One thing director Peter Sattler gets right in the new film "Camp X-Ray" is the way life can entrap even without prison walls. Pvt. Cole, a young soldier played by Kristen Stewart, joins the Army to escape small-town Florida and ends up guarding Ali,...

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Clayton Kershaw edges Mike Trout as Sporting News player of year

For the second time this week, Clayton Kershaw was honored as the major league player of the year. The Sporting News announced Kershaw as its winner Thursday, two days after Baseball America did the same. Kershaw edged Mike Trout for the Sporting News...

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Texas: $2,900 for dinner and a swig of rare 50-year-old Scotch

To hear Ryan Roberts tell it, Balvenie Fifty, Cask 4567 had "something different about it." Whatever made this 1963 Scotch whiskey remarkable -- how the barrel was put together or a quirk in the aging? -- the manager at Cullen's restaurant in Houston...

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Is Portugal ready for its moment? If George Mendes' 'My Portugal' has its way

Cookbook shelves are overflowing with books about Spanish cuisine, Italian cuisine, French country cooking and even Greek taverna cooking. But Portuguese? Thin pickings. But now comes a new book by George Mendes, chef of Aldea Restaurant in New York...

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Five takeaways from Clippers' preseason victory over Suns

Five takeaways from the Clippers' 108-105 win over the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday: 1. Though the Clippers have one exhibition game left Friday night against the Portland Trail Blazers at Staples Center, Chris Paul and Blake Griffin clearly are ready...

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Home of early film star Lewis Stone was part of 500-acre Valley ranch

The country retreat of early film star Lewis Stone is on the market in the Valley Glen area at $1.799 million. The City of Los Angeles Landmark No. 793, which recalls the days of San Fernando Valley ranching, changed hands last year for $1.6 million...

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BP breaks new ground in PR, issuing a PR release about its PR release

Evidently feeling some heat over a corporate press release that somehow found its way into Politico Magazine masquerading as an "opinion" op-ed, BP took the unusual step Wednesday of issuing a corporate press release about it. If you're counting, that's...

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Kat Von D's tattoo shop High Voltage damaged in fire

An early morning fire ripped through a West Hollywood strip mall Thursday, causing damage to Kat Von D's famed tattoo parlor High Voltage. About 50 firefighters battled the blaze, which was reported just after 4 a.m. in the 1200 block of North...

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Mortgage rates sink; 30-year averages 3.92%, Freddie Mac says

The lowest mortgage rates of the year sank a bit lower this week, with Freddie Mac reporting that lenders were offering 30-year fixed loans at an average of 3.92%, down from 3.97% a week ago. The average rate for a 15-year loan also ratcheted down,...

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