For the first time in this presidential campaign, the two major parties' nominees took turns – on the same stage – talking about veterans and military issues.

This week, the salacious and often-maligned Gawker.com permanently went dark.

This Monday isn’t just a celebration of the American labor movement.

People are beginning to pick up the pieces in San Bernardino County but fire season is far from over.

For the last two decades in Los Angeles, your football plans have either included the Bruins or Trojans, high school teams or little league. Maybe some sort of fantasy league. What it hasn’t included is the Rams, or any professional football team. And that changes tomorrow. Officials are expecting a packed house at the Coliseum to see a pre-season NFL game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. And the owners of the team are banking on that 20-year omission, nostalgia, and team fervor to score for many years to come.

The Democrats and the Republicans now officially have their nominees, and we’re seeing exactly how they plan to eviscerate each other in the public realm. It’s part humor, part social media, part 140-character diatribe.

You can call California the conservative media’s piñata.   It gets smacked over and over again about its so-called anti-business climate, high taxes and an overall liberal mantra.

Here in L-A, we remember police brutality well, witnessed by the lens of camera, and the awful aftermath.