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Browning was a leading Victorian poet known for his dramatic monologues. In 1846, he secretly married Elizabeth Barrett, whisking her away from her despotic father to Italy. Barrett was already a famous poet, but Browning's poems—such as "Fra Lippo Lippi" and "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"—gained recognition slowly. Long after his beloved wife's death, his novel in verse about a murder, The Ring and the Book, finally earned him wide acclaim. In 1890, he became the first dead man to do what?

Talk about a sweet gesture. A line of DC Comics superhero chocolate bars is coming, but before you can get your hands on them, Hershey’s is first giving them out to workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.

France's former 94-year-old president Valery Giscard d'Estaing is accused of sexually assaulting a German reporter.

The cocktail includes three antiviral drugs and a different drug that boosts natural immune system chemicals.

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LAUSD's decision to temporarily shut down schools causes an enormous disruption. And it's not clear how helpful the move will be in slowing coronavirus spread.

More scandal in the Orange County Sheriff's Department shows the department — like all sheriff's departments — should have independent civilian oversight.

Public health experts are urging people to stay home to avoid spreading coronavirus. But that means some people could end up losing their homes.

Congress can and should do more to combat a coronavirus downturn — including a $1,000 UBI check to every citizen.

Soap is restricted and hand sanitizer is contraband at correctional facilities. We need to stop admitting people accused of low-level crimes.

Just when President Trump started to rise to the challenge of leading a nation through the coronavirus pandemic, he slips back to his old, tired tricks.

Inglewood can help solve the first-mile last-mile problem of public transit in a big way.

We're all in this together. It's far better for society if folks choose to help their fellow humans rather than rip the last roll of toilet paper from their hands.

Los Angeles wants to move thousands of homeless people inside. But is crowding indoors actually less dangerous than letting them stay on the streets?

Amid a public health emergency, it's unconscionable for California to allow dozens of state-owned homes to stay empty.

With 40 million kids home from school, what's being done to make sure students are learning?

President Trump and Congress should keep climate change in mind as they prepare economic aid packages for businesses and industries.

The Supreme Court makes it easier for states to convict mentally ill defendants.

It's not the government takeover that many Californians wanted for the fire-starting utility, but the deal Gavin Newsom struck with PG&E should help.

Closing trial courts to the public and postponing non-essential proceedings during the covid19 emergency makes good sense as a public health measure but shuts the public out of proceedings that under normal circumstances are rightfully accessible. Constitutional rights of criminal defendants are protected not just by the right to counsel but also by public scrutiny of hearings, judges, prosecutors and other public officials. Many problems would have been avoided if only courts would embrace televised proceedings and modern communications technologies.

A pandemic threatens participation in the ultimate act of citizenship.

It's legitimate to worry that the steps we're taking to contain the coronavirus are causing unnecessary damage to the U.S. economy. But the damage that the disease would cause if it isn't contained would be far worse.

The stimulus plan passed the Senate. Now it's up to government to get the money flowing quickly and transparently.

Some states are using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to cut off abortion access. That's unacceptable.

The Los Angeles City Council is rushing a major law that would dictate how businesses rehire workers after layoffs.

With the U.S. now leading the world in COVID-19 infections, it's time for the nation to stay at home.

There's never a good time for a pandemic, but it's hard to imagine a worse time than in the middle of the decennial census.

A federal judge was right to order the Trump administration to move faster to release detained migrant children from conditions that put them at risk for COVID-19.

The last thing L.A. County needs during a coronavirus pandemic is a turf battle between the sheriff and the Board of Supervisors.

What's worse than power shutoffs during the coronavirus quarantine? An unplanned outage that sparks a wildfire.

It's especially galling that the Trump Administration chooses this very moment, in a pandemic, to rollback car emission standards.

Wait. Now maybe we should wear facemasks? The evolving, and sometimes puzzling, guidance for Americans to stop the spread of COVID-19 infections.

City elections typically drew 15% turnout. In the March primary, the seven City Council races on the ballot drew, on average, more than 30% turnout.

Communing online is a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Some of the most effective strategies at containing the coronavirus are also the most intrusive. Can we adopt them without damaging our liberties?

The 1918 pandemic has lessons for the 2020. Namely, we got through it. And social distancing works.

The president must drop his opposition to 'globalism' in the interests of public health

As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, only a few areas are breaking down the numbers of infections and deaths by racial and ethnic groups.

Sanders leaves the presidential race with some major accomplishments.

Who needs the federal government when you have the world's fifth-largest economy taking charge?

Cutting off asylum-seekers isn't the only controversial policy issue President Trump has forged ahead with under the guise of fighting COVID-19.

There's no place and precious little time for this kind of shameless obstructionism during a pandemic that is particularly ravaging older impoverished people already racked with medical problems — like the ones who would have been cared for at the Ayres Hotel.

The coronavirus epidemic has superheated the issues confronting colleges and their students in ways that will reverberate for years, if not forever.

Mountain lions in southern California are endangered by rat poison and development. Time to protect them.

Christy Smith is the voice we need in California's 25th Congressional District to help guide the nation through the coronavirus crisis.

There's plenty of lightly used street space available that could be dedicated to exercise and the pursuit of fresh air.

The definition of "essential" necessarily varies by jurisdiction, and those definitions necessarily are controversial and subject to dispute.