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People gather at Senator Scott Wiener's election party at his campaign headquarters on election night in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

State Sen. Scott Wiener to succeed Pelosi in San Francisco House seat, as Chan concedes

Scott Wiener handed retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi a rare loss in her home city at the tail end of a historic, nearly 40-year run in Congress by defeating her handpicked successor.

SACRAMENT, CALIF. NOVEMBER 3, 2026 -- Xavier Becerra shakes hands with his supporters during the election night party in Sacramento, CA on November 3, 2026. (Andri Tambunan / For The Times)

Becerra prepares to take helm as governor with few political debts. But there’s questions about his agenda

BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 03: California Democratic Congressional candidate Randy Villegas hugs a supporter at his election night party on November 03, 2026 in Bakersfield, California. Villegas is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. David Valadao for California’s redrawn 22nd Congressional District—a Central Valley midterm swing district with a majority Latino population. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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City of Industry, CA. - November 02, 2026: Mail-in-ballots are inspected and tabulated at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center for the 2026 midterm election on Monday, Nov. 2, 2026 in City of Industry, CA.. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Democrats sweep California’s down-ballot races but one remains too close to call

Los Angeles, CA - October 20, 2026: LA City Attorney candidate Marissa Roy at City Hall, Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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ARCHIVO – En esta foto sin fecha, proporcionada por la Fiscalía de Estados Unidos, aparece Jonathan Rinderknecht. (Fiscalía de Estados Unidos vía AP, Archivo)

Palisades arson case: Second trial begins against man accused of sparking wildfire

Paul Pelosi arrives at the Pre-Grammy Gala on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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SILVER LAKE, CA - OCTOBER 16, 2026 - Television screenwriter and producer Vali Chandrasekaran, the husband of Los Angeles City Councilmember and mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, smiles while having his portrait taken in Silver Lake on October 16, 2026. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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This ‘Modern Family’ writer will be L.A.’s ‘first gentleman’ if Raman is elected mayor

Nithya Raman’s husband, Vali Chandrasekaran, wrote for the hit shows ‘Modern Family’ and ’30 Rock.’ The Harvard grad ‘loves the city more than me,’ Raman says.

MCFARLAND, CA SEPTEMBER 14, 2026 --- Stacks of trees ready for processing set next to mounds of wood chips and finer wood particles at Lignum Support in McFarland, CA. (Tomas Ovalle / For The Times).
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Volunteers paint the four crosswalks, which faded of an intersection near USC, in Los Angeles.
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Risking arrest, he paints illicit crosswalks across L.A. ‘We can’t wait any longer’

DANA POINT, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 23, 2026: Sylvia Caliendo, 61, center, of Lake Forest, gets assistance from Eric Munoz, left, deck hand, and Lee Hamm, 39, right, of Poway, while reeling in a dorado aboard the Dana Pride, out of Dana Wharf Sportfishing & Whale Watching, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, in Dana Point, California. Sportfishing is doing well this season due to the warm waters off the coast. A lot of species not normally seen this far north, or not normally seen in such numbers, are getting caught regularly, and sportfishing outfits are happy. (Gary Coronado / For The Times)
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El Niño shifts exotic sea creatures to Southern California’s coast. Here’s what anglers are seeing

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 - - Los Angeles mayoral candidate and city council member Nithya Raman, center, enjoys a light moment with The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action members at a "Latinos Con Raman" rally at La Cita Bar in downtown Los Angeles on September 18, 2026. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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Latino voters have shifted away from Karen Bass in L.A. mayor’s race, according to new poll

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Los Angeles, CA - November 03, 2026: LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman with her brother, Akash at her election night party at the Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
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Standing before L.A. mayoral candidate Nithya Raman was the coalition that made her unlikely rise happen, paralleling the one that made the Democratic Party’s takeover of the House and Senate possible.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 03: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman embraces with her brother Akash Raman during an election night event at The Greek Theatre on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Raman keeps widening her lead against Bass, closing in on becoming L.A.’s next mayor

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 04: A protest sign is seen near the White House the day after election day on November 04, 2026 in Washington, DC. Following the 2026 midterm elections the Democrats took control of Congress, winning a majority in the House and Senate, flipping several long term Republican held seats. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Lopez: Trump, who so bitterly divided us, was awful enough to unite us. At least temporarily

Los Angeles, CA. - October 05, 2026: Yes on 40 signs sit on seats at the "Ballots Over Billionaires" rally on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA.. Supporters of Prop. 40, which establishes a one-time wealth tax on billionaires, attend the "Ballots Over Billionaires" Rally. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Billionaire tax ballot measure trails; California voters reject voter ID

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 29, 2026: Los Angeles City Hall photographed on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. voters favoring sales tax hike for fire department and other city ballot measures

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Los Angeles, CA., November 5, 1942: Peggy Satterlee, left, actor Errol Flynn, center, with his attorney Robert E. Ford, right, at a preliminary hearing in a crowded Los Angeles courtroom on Nov. 5, 1942. 16-year-old Peggy Satterlee, charged that Flynn raped her on two consecutive nights on his yacht. (George R. Watson / Los Angeles Times)
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Errol Flynn had a penchant for underage girls. His trial barely tarnished him

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Incendiary comic Lenny Bruce inspired generations. During his brief life, L.A vice cops hounded him

20030209 (LA/B5,SF/B5) –– DEVASTATION: The St. Francis Dam after it collapsed and sent a 10–story wall of water through San Francisquito Canyon. 20030209 (VN/B3) –– AFTER: The dam after it collapsed in 1928, sending a 10–foot wall of water roaring through San Francisquito Canyon. 00–10–14(Valley) –– (2 Photos) The St. Francis Dam, above left, was completed in 1926 and held water brought south in the L.A. Aqueduct. Above right, the dam shortly after it collapsed in 1928, killing more than 450 people. 98–03–08 (Ventura) –– Little was left after the St. Francis Damcollapsed, sendingbillions of gallons of water down San Francisquito Canyon. FILE PHOTO This is all that was left of the St. Francis dam in San Francisquito canyon after it collapsed in 1928.
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William Mulholland brought water to L.A. He failed to stop a disastrous flood

FILE - Escorted by sheriff's deputies, Robert Blake is surrounded by a crowd of photographers and reporters as he gets into his attorney's car after his release from jail to await his murder trial, in downtown Los Angeles, March 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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He played an iconic cop on TV. Did Robert Blake get away with murder?

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Were the Zodiac killer and the Black Dahlia the same person? The devil is in the details

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Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda "Zero Hour" broadcasts which were beamed to American troops in the Pacific during the war, seems in a pensive mood as she looks through the bars of her cell in Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 28, 1945. Born in Los Angeles, 29 years ago to Japanese parents, she is awaiting trial for treason against the United States. (AP Photo)

This L.A. woman was jailed as a WWII traitor. How a pair of perjuries ensnared ‘Tokyo Rose’

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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Toting a tambourine, she built L.A.’s first megachurch. Then she suddenly disappeared

MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

A popular L.A. sheriff touted reforms in a troubled system. Then a young FBI agent showed up

Marvin Gaye, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician photographed in Los Angeles.

Inside the tragedy that silenced a soul legend: Marvin Gaye’s last fight with his father

FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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The assassination of RFK: An icon of hope, a hotel pantry and an ‘angry nobody’

Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

Homicidal cousins and the Hillside Stranglers case: A trial that nearly did not happen

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