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Rachel Malarich faces a pressing task: overseeing the planting of 90,000 trees over the next two years in Los Angeles, home to the largest urban forest in the United States. As the city’s first forest officer, the veteran arborist needs to boost the tree canopy by at least 50% in shade-starved low-income areas by 2028. […]

Scott Sternberg’s Entireworld brand is popping up at downtown L.A.’s Million Dollar Theater for a three-week flurry of film, food, fashion and fun that kicks off with a free daylong marathon repeat screening of “Groundhog Day” on Dec. 7. Dubbed the Million Dollar Pop Up Shop, it’s cinephile Sternberg’s latest effort to generate buzz for […]

The Boy Scouts of America has mortgaged one of the most spectacular properties it owns, the vast Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, to help secure a line of credit as the financially strapped organization faces a growing wave of new sex-abuse lawsuits. The BSA said Friday that it has no plans to sell the […]

PABLO, Mont. —  Atty. Gen. William Barr announced a nationwide plan Friday to address the crisis of missing and slain indigenous people as concerns mount over the level of violence that community faces. Barr announced the plan, known as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, during a visit with tribal leaders and law enforcement officials […]

HONG KONG —  The campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University looks like a bomb blast site covered in graffitied pro-democracy slogans. Nearly every inch of ground is blanketed in broken glass, strewn bricks, water bottles, umbrellas, gloves, nails, clothing and chairs. Chemical smells and industrial odors hang in the air. A crudely-built brick wall serving as […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand —  The Pacific people of Bougainville on Saturday began voting in a historic referendum to decide if they want to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea. The referendum runs over two weeks and is a key part of a 2001 peace agreement that ended a brutal civil […]

When it comes to his behaviour on the race track, Max Verstappen takes no prisoners, believing the end justifies the means. Admired for his speed and incredible ability, Verstappen has taken F1 by storm since he graduated to Red Bull Racing last season, winning his maiden Grand Prix victory in his first race with the […]

[The following passages are excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s history of humanity, Mirrors (Nation Books).] Stalin He learned to write in the language of Georgia, his homeland, but in the seminary the monks made him speak Russian. Years later in Moscow, his south Caucasus accent still gave him away. So he decided to become more Russian than […]

The Obama administration on Friday announced that it had formed a “core coalition” to fight the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), “We need to attack them in ways that prevent them from taking over territory, to bolster the Iraqi security forces and others in the region who are prepared to take […]

Uruguay’s ex-president Tabare Vazquez was declared on Sunday the winner of the country’s presidential election, an outcome that is expected to keep in place implementation of historic marijuana reform. Vazquez’s win marks a continuation of power for the leftist Broad Front coalition. Reuters reported: “Center-right opposition candidate Luis Lacalle Pou quickly conceded defeat after three […]