Photographs and Text by Devin Yalkin and Vice Cooler Mayor Karen Bass criticized Kristin Crowley for sending firefighters home before a blaze devastated the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.

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Set in 1980s South Korea, Lee Chang-dong’s book “Snowy Day and Other Stories” hangs in the shadow of the violent Gwangju massacre. By Camille Bromley Camille Bromley is a writer and editor ...

China has embraced a plea deal system, but lawyers and scholars fear that it is being abused to further erode individual ...

In Karen Thompson Walker’s latest novel, “The Strange Case of Jane O.,” a patient’s unusual symptoms suggest metaphysical mysteries. By Leah Greenblatt Leah Greenblatt is an editor at The ...

By Shawn Hubler Reporting from Los Angeles The former Los Angeles fire chief lashed out publicly at Mayor Karen Bass on Tuesday, telling the City Council that the mayor had made “multiple false ...

By Karen Zraick Reporting from the Morton County courthouse in Mandan, N.D. The opening week of the landmark trial of Greenpeace in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer over the Dakota ...

Linh Pham for The New York Times Supported by By Damien Cave Damien Cave reported from Dong Nai Province, where the U.S. military sprayed nearly 1.8 million gallons of Agent Orange during the ...

By Karen Weise Karen Weise has covered Amazon ... and even sexual — relationships with A.I. personas. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, claiming copyright ...

By Karen Zraick Environmental groups that fought bruising courtroom battles with the first Trump administration are steeling themselves for another round amid a barrage of executive orders ...

By Karen Zraick Organic farmers and environmental groups sued the Agriculture Department on Monday over its scrubbing of references to climate change from its website. The department had ordered ...

By Karen Zraick Environmental groups filed a ... according to a questionnaire obtained by The New York Times. Vaccines and Autism: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning ...