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SoCal’s new Harry Potter train ride attracts fans, concerns local LGBTQ+ rights activists
The Hogwarts Express has arrived in Perris, Calif. The Southern California Railway Museum has temporarily turned into Platform 9 3⁄4 to host “Harry Potter: A Hogwarts Express Adventure.” The one-hour theater performance takes place on a moving train and features singalongs, spellcasting and House cheers. Tickets cost between $72.25 and $93.25 per passenger. The experience…
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Costco’s organic chicken isn’t what it seems
Organic chicken costs on average more than twice as much as conventional chicken, and people buy it in part because they believe that the animals are given a much better life. Key takeaways Consumers expect animals on organic farms to be treated better, but a new investigation found a Costco organic chicken supplier severely neglecting…
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Ali Najmi is too sleazy and conflicted to be Mamdani’s chief judge-picker
Ali Najmi is suing the city over the Central Park carriage crash — a clear conflict of interest with his work as the head of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s judicial-nominations board. Yes, Romanch Mahajan’s family has every right to an attorney in their case over their 18-year-old son’s fatal fall from a runaway Central Park horse…
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How India’s Young Faced Down Modi
Neha Bora, an Indian student leader, who was on a hunger strike for 23 days during the recent youth protests in India addresses the press in New Delhi on July 25, 2026. —Arun Sankar-AFP via Getty Images A botched medical entrance exam, a judge’s slur, and a young Indian student in Boston turning to satire…
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No, You Probably Shouldn’t Lease Your iPhone
Apple has spent more than a decade tending to its thriving walled garden of products. Outgoing CEO Tim Cook’s core legacy at the company was turning it into a subscription service, where devices and services sync and communicate seamlessly, locking customers in. Apple Upgrade is the latest iteration of that vision. On Tuesday, Apple announced…
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We asked, you answered: Meet L.A.’s new favorite birthday cake
This is the story of a birthday cake, or rather, the pursuit of a birthday cake. The best birthday cake. One single favorite celebration cake to represent sprawling, diverse Los Angeles. Let me backtrack. Earlier this year the Los Angeles Times Food team began obsessing about birthday cake, what it meant to different people, and…
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The primary pitting an 80-year-old progressive against an insurgent the left loathes
The prototypical Democrat vulnerable to a primary this year has been old, in Washington a long time, and vulnerable from the left. But in Massachusetts, there’s a race that’s scrambling that formula. Sen. Ed Markey is 80, and he’s been in Congress for 50 years. But he’s been a stalwart ally of progressives; he was,…
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Bully tactics come back to bite Hegseth — now begging for help he can’t get: report
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is running into a brick wall as he begs U.S. allies for support, according to a new report. After months of browbeating European nations to join his Iran war, Hegseth is now desperately seeking their assistance—only to discover that his previous bullying has consequences, Politico reported Wednesday. The Defense Secretary is…
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The Hidden Cost of Stress at Work
—cyano66—Getty Images According to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Americans work more hours per year than those in similar countries. Working is, in a sense, an American pastime. Work brings benefits, but it also brings costs. Many jobs are stressful or physically demanding, imposing a toll on both mental and physical…
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More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Last year, when the novelist Laura Brooke Robson began writing Love Is an Algorithm—a love story between the cofounder of an AI dating app and a musician trying to survive in the age of large language models—she took extra care not to sound like AI herself. She wrote sentences she doubts she would have attempted…