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The sun had yet to rise when Cesar Augusto Espinoza walked into Pershing Square just after 6 Sunday morning, but the plaza was already buzzing. Workers were getting ready for the big game.Tech staff did mic checks and tweaked the television…

Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León showed up for Tuesday’s council meeting nearly two hours into the proceedings, prompting council President Paul Krekorian to immediately call a recess.Council members walked out of the chamber as…

Since mid-November, Los Angeles Councilmember Kevin de León has been gallivanting around his Eastside district as if the past few months never happened.Instead of going on the citywide apology tour he vowed to do after a leaked racist tape…

The fight between embattled Councilman Kevin de León and an activist Friday night has heightened the simmering tensions in L.A. politics over the leak of racist audio that has rocked City Hall.De León — the only of the three council members…

Hours after drawing protesters’ ire with his first in-person appearance in two months at a Los Angeles City Council meeting, Kevin de León was involved in a fight with an activist Friday night, in an altercation at least partially caught on…

Councilmember Kevin de León showed up at the Los Angeles City Council meeting on Friday morning, appearing for the first time since fallout from a racist leaked audio tape roiled the city in mid-October.He walked into the council chamber…

Just down the street from Pamela and Valentin Marquez’s tidy two-bedroom home, next to an industrial strip where trains rumble through the night, is a park and playground with a walking path through oak trees.For decades, the couple, now in…

Germany and Bayern Munich star Leon Goretzka has slammed the Qatar World Cup ambassador over his homophobic comments. Earlier, Qatar ambassador Khalid Salman had called homosexuality a damage in the mind.  New Delhi,UPDATED: …

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to censure three current and former council members for their part in an incendiary conversation that contained racist remarks.The vote appeared to mark the first time that the City…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday said L.A. City Councilmembers Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo should follow Nury Martinez in resigning from their positions, two weeks after a leaked audio recording of the three participating in a…