In tandem with some charities in the area, L.A. Unified is essentially running a collection of food banks.

As anticipated, the NBA suspended its draft lottery and combine indefinitely amid the ongoing coronavirus shutdown.

USC suspends spring football practice Thursday because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Trojans held their first practice on Wednesday.

USC offensive tackle Austin Jackson has long envisioned being drafted by the NFL. Even during the coronavirus epidemic, he's ready to hear his name called.

In these frightening times, I am struck by the heroic and merciful acts I first encountered as a young child behind barbed wire.

Angels pitcher Griffin Canning will begin the season on the disabled list after experiencing elbow soreness following his first spring start.

The IIHF announces it is canceling this year's women's hockey championships in Canada because of the coronavirus outbreak.

As the coronavirus outbreak has worsened in the past week, sporting events and teams such as San Jose Sharks and Columbus Blue Jackets have started to shutter their doors to the general public.

The NHL hopes to complete its season after suspending play because of the coronavirus, but playing into the middle of the summer creates complications.

The 2020 men's hockey world championships have been canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Joe Castiglione saw his first baseball game in the Bronx.

As the country and sports world confronted the fast spreading of COVID-19, Dodgers officials Wednesday said the organization remained unsure how it will proceed with its season.

The Dodgers and Angels curtail travel of scouts in what typically is a busy time of year evaluating college and high school prospects.

Surprisingly, they didn’t do it years ago due to traffic.

Joe Castiglione saw his first baseball game in the Bronx.

The Pac-12 men's basketball tournament, and all other conference sporting events, have been canceled amid the growing coronavirus outbreak.

The NCAA is giving spring sports athletes whose 2020 seasons were majorly disrupted by the coronavirus another year of eligibility.

The acceptance of national letters of intent for NCAA Division I and II sports has been suspended until at least April 15.

Former UCLA backup quarterback Austin Burton is transferring to Purdue, he confirmed Monday.

Holocaust survivor Rachmil 'Ralph' Hakman spent three years at Auschwitz-Birkenau as a teen. He then spent decades teaching others about the atrocities.

Irene Hirano Inouye, a prodigious fundraiser who led the nation's premier Japanese American museum in Los Angeles and built bridges across cultures and countries, has died.

Some patients who have recovered from coronavirus infection are suffering lasting damage, including liver damage, heart damage and blood clotting problems.

A study shows roughly 4% of L.A. County residents have contracted COVID-19, suggesting it might be less fatal locally than originally believed.

A former LAUSD teacher says that realities of sanitation in the district made closing schools absolutely necessary.

California public schools are likely to be closed for the remainder of the school year, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday to anxious parents and educators.

One man wore plastic gloves and a face mask as he pulled up in a pickup to receive school-packed meals for his children.

It isn't for lack of trying by teachers that some students aren't able to fully access the LAUSD's online learning curriculum.

Austin Beutner has moved quickly to confront the coronavirus crisis in L.A. schools. But the emergency will continue even after the virus fades away.

Laid-off Broad museum staffers, most of them part-time, will remain on payroll through Friday; the curatorial team will remain in place.

Smoking continues to be the top cause of fatal fires in the home, London Fire Brigade warns as 'Stoptober' launches.

The COVID-19 shutdown is affecting the flow of essential Oaxacan ingredients to L.A.

An LAUSD teacher who once campaigned against Austin Beutner gives the superintendent credit for his leadership during the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a full-blown disaster, but if shortages mean Americans eat less meat as a result, then so be it.

The fact that Trump refuses to wear a mask, a precaution meant to protect other people, is evidence of his lack of empathy.

"Did you know this is the 'Pretty Woman' hotel?" a publicist asked Dr. Amani Ballour.

In Sausalito, a World War II-era balloon barge fashioned into a houseboat once owned by poet Shel Silverstein is asking $783,000.

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons said his mother almost never spoke about her Holocaust ordeal, including time in Nazi camps.

Nearly 200 Romanian agricultural workers flown from Bucharest to London Stansted in first of series of flights to plug gap in workforce

The airline had applied for £715m government bail-out but was refused

The airline is continuing to fly as it seeks fresh investment

In 2017, 939 people were killed by vehicles running red lights, according to AAA. The numbers are rising at a far higher rate than overall U.S. highway fatalities.

The £500,000 donation by England's centrally-contracted players is equivalent to a three month 20 per cent pay cut.

POPE BENEDICT is "making Francis' life a misery" as rumours of a major row between the two Vatican titans continue to boil, an expert has warned.

For a while now many European governments have resorted to austerity measures to deal with the recession and financial crises affecting them. This may have either been by choice, or pressured from the outside.

However, as has been warned countless times, excessive austerity rarely works. Furthermore, focusing on debts and deficits appears to miss the point that the economic problems were caused by a collapse in markets and banking sector in particular, resulting in less revenues for governments; not necessarily an excessive overspend by governments.

Some of the policies being forced through even when evidence appears to show they do not work lead many to think that austerity and structural adjustment policies are being ideologically pushed for — just as they were on most of the developing countries for almost 2 decades with devastating results.

Indeed, in the US, investigations have found billionaires pouring hundreds of millions of dollars on campaigns to fix the debt making it appear as a grassroots movement. Fixing the debt of course happens to leave the elite less affected, so it works to their advantage to push for something like that.

Without more focus on appropriate economic growth, there is a real risk in going backwards, and even undermining democracy.

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HOWEVER idyllic the destination, some things are always the same. You're going to get sunburnt - even if you lather on the factor 50. At one point you will long for a British cup of tea. And that scavenging local wildlife - such as the obligatory one-eyed cat - are always a reliable constant.

Rafael Nadal expressed his worry this week that there may not be any more tennis in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Novak Djokovic has reduced the gap to Roger Federer's record significantly over the past two years.

Jeff the Chef Foods Ltd is recalling a variety of Chicken Parmo and Doner Kebab products because they have been labelled with a ‘use by’ date of 1 April 2020 or 2 April 2020 instead of 1 March 2020

Co-op is recalling Chicken and Stuffing Sandwich due to the possible presence of metal. The possible presence of metal makes this product unsafe to eat.

Mizkan Euro Ltd is recalling Branston Pickle products because they may contain pieces of plastic.