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Contraception policy may not be the biggest target of the anti-science right wing — climate change and evolution probably rank higher — but it’s the field in which scientific disinformation has the most immediate consequences for public health.

It’s been 16 years since Naomi Watts first knocked our socks off in David Lynch’s “Mulholland Dr.,” the kind of dream showcase that an actor can count herself lucky to encounter once in a lifetime. It’s no knock on her talent to suggest that she has never had a role as rich, extreme or demanding...

Teju Cole's latest work is a blend of text and image that adds up to more than the sum of its parts

Boxing has gained one notable advantage by moving to the fringes of our cultural landscape: The average sports fan knows nothing about it.

A blimp, likely used to provide aerials of the Erin Hills golf course, site of this year’s U.S. Open, crashed near the course on Thursday.

For better or worse, and in some cases both, American wine drinkers are in thrall with the Blend. The wines, composed of three, four, five or more unidentified and often disparate red varieties, emblazoned with flashy names and at times lurid identity systems, represent one of the fastest-growing...

Hours after two Los Angeles Police Department cruisers were stolen and then crashed in separate pursuits in South L.A., police were at a loss to explain the matter Thursday morning.

In his brilliant new essay collection, “Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American ’70s” (Bloomsbury, 208 pp.), the film critic Charles Taylor draws on 15 undersung B-movie gems to assemble a vivid and expansive cultural history of that tumultuous decade....

Around 100 truck drivers and warehouse workers serving the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports plan to launch a strike starting Monday — their 15th strike in the last four years.

Jurors in comedian Bill Cosby’s trial on sexual assault charges told the judge Thursday they are deadlocked and can’t reach a verdict.

The Trump administration is suspending two key rules from the Obama administration that were intended to protect students from predatory for-profit colleges, saying it will soon start the process to write its own regulations.

A senior U.S. naval commander insisted Thursday that American policy on the South China Sea has not shifted, despite uncertainty about President Trump’s response to Chinese militarization of the disputed waters.

An examination of Julio Urias’ sore left shoulder showed no structural damage, but the Dodgers have shut down Urias to allow time for the inflammation in the joint to subside. Manager Dave Roberts indicated there was no timetable for Urias’ resumption of a throwing program and said that the pitcher...

Baseball player-turned-television analyst Jim Edmonds and his wife, “Real Housewives of Orange County” personality Meghan King Edmonds, have sold their home in Newport Beach for $2.998 million.

THEATER

Capsule reviews are by Philip Brandes (P.B.), F. Kathleen Foley (F.K.F.), Margaret Gray (M.G.), Charles McNulty (C.M.), Daryl H. Miller (D.H.M.) and David C. Nichols (D.C.N.).

Congress returned to work Thursday with fresh hopes of improving the civil discourse after a gunman opened fire in an apparently partisan-inspired shooting of Republican lawmakers at baseball practice.

There’s nothing like an ice-cold treat to keep you cool as the temperatures rise. We’ve compiled a dozen great popsicle recipes, from Rosio Sanchez’s coconut paletas to blueberry and lavender pops — as well as some fun frozen cocktail recipes. There’s nothing like a frozen mojito on a stick.

The NCAA has suspended Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino for five Atlantic Coast Conference games following its sex scandal investigation.

The question going in to this year’s U.S. Open is how tough the Erin Hills course would play. No one knew.