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LOS ANGELES — Days after a Pomona artist told reporters that he altered the Hollywood sign to read “HOLLYWeeD,” Los Angeles Police detectives say they plan to submit their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for possible prosecution. LAPD Officer Liliana Preciado said Wednesday that investigators were “talking to a person” in […]

DALLAS — Former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson reached an agreement late Tuesday with the oil giant’s board of directors to sever his financial ties with the company. The agreement, which includes an independently managed trust prohibited from investing in Exxon, is intended to free Tillerson from ethics conflicts before his confirmation hearing as

WASHINGTON — Is Donald Trump going wobbly on repealing Obamacare, one of his signature campaign pledges? A series of vague statements Wednesday that Republicans “must be careful” and that the law will “fall of its own weight” suggested that he might be having second thoughts. Backtracking on that pledge, not only one of his biggest

WASHINGTON — Democrats might defy a newly imposed ban on recording video from the floor of the House of Representatives, a rule change that Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver charges is aimed at punishing lawmakers like himself for staging a gun control sit-in last year. House Republicans voted on Tuesday to impose fines of $500 to

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a one-paragraph order, telling Florida prosecutors and judges for the second time in three months that the state’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional and “cannot be applied to pending prosecutions.” It comes one day after the chief judge for Seminole and Brevard counties, John Galluzzo,

Donald Trump may be the first U.S. president with no prior political or military experience, but clues from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg suggest he might not be the last. Zuckerberg has regularly publicized his New Year’s resolutions in recent years—learning Mandarin, running 365 miles, reading 25 books—and 2017’s involves doing a tour of the U.S.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bracing for an adversarial relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, the California Legislature has selected former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to serve as outside counsel to advise the state’s legal strategy against the incoming administration. The unusual arrangement will give Holder, leading a team of attorneys from the firm Covington

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate Wall Street attorney Jay Clayton to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, transition spokesman Sean Spicer said Wednesday. Clayton, a partner with New York-based global law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, would take over for Mary Jo White, who announced in November she would step down at the

People attending the inauguration may find themselves catching a contact high when thousands of people start smoking joints at the National Mall while President-Elect Donald Trump takes his oath of office on Jan. 20. The DC Cannabis Coalition will host a protest at the inauguration, during which members of the organization will reportedly pass out