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Campaign 2016 updates: Nearly 95% of who gave to Trump's rivals are sitting out the general election

Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:16:00 PDT

Campaign 2016 updates: Nearly 95% of who gave to Trump's rivals are sitting out the general election Sept. 30, 2016, 4:16 a.m. Donald Trump heads to Michigan on Friday, while Hillary Clinton swings through Florida. About 95% of donors who gave to Donald Trump's primary rivals have chosen to sit...

They gave to Trump's GOP rivals. Now 95% are sitting out the general election

Seema Mehta, Anthony Pesce and Maloy Moore — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:16:00 PDT

It's been one year since Russia began bombing in Syria, and there may be no end in sight

Mansur Mirovalev — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:10:00 PDT

One year ago, Russian planes started dropping bombs on war-torn Syria.

The airstrikes, which began Sept. 30, propped up Syrian President Bashar Assad’s collapsing government, which controlled an ever-shrinking area of the country after more than four years of civil war.

Dozens of warring groups...

Nuremberg's lesson 70 years later: Evil isn't just immoral, it's illegal

David Scheffer — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:00:00 PDT

Seventy years ago this weekend, an international military tribunal here rendered judgment against 22 senior Nazi defendants for the most systematic global assault on national sovereignty and civilians in the history of humankind.

Courtroom 600 in the Palace of Justice seized the world’s attention...

Sam Farmer's NFL picks for Week 4

Sam Farmer — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:00:00 PDT

The Times’ NFL writer, Sam Farmer, examines this week’s matchups. Lines according to Pregame.com (O/U = over/under). Last week’s record 7-9 (.438); season 31-17 (.646). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer predicted, the record against the spread last week would have been 6-10 (.375); season...

Shimon Peres: The last Israeli Jeffersonian

Daniel Gordis — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:00:00 PDT

Two weeks before his death on July 4, 1826, Thomas Jefferson penned his last public letter, explaining that he was too weak to join the festivities marking 50 years since 1776. Despite his frailty, he took pains to assert that what he and his fellow revolutionaries had accomplished had more than...

How 'Miss Peregrine' and 'X-Men' writer Jane Goldman became Hollywood's billion-dollar woman

Rebecca Keegan — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:00:00 PDT

Perhaps it was the time her father brought a VHS tape of David Lynch’s surrealist cult film “Eraserhead” to watch at her 10th birthday party. Or maybe it was when she accosted a magazine editor as a teen, trying to get a job – and succeeded, opting to become a reporter instead of going to college....

Teen arrested in South Carolina school shooting due in court

Associated Press — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:45:00 PDT

A judge will decide whether authorities can continue holding a teenager arrested after a school shooting that left two students and a teacher wounded and a tiny South Carolina community coping with the aftermath.

The juvenile who authorities say is also suspected of fatally shooting his father...

They gave to Trump's GOP rivals. Now 95% are sitting out the general election

Seema Mehta, Anthony Pesce, Maloy Moore — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:00:00 PDT

Most of Donald Trump’s Republican presidential primary rivals have come around to his candidacy, but their donors are staying away.

Nearly 95% of those who first gave to his GOP primary opponents are sitting out the general election, and of those who are still giving money, many are lining up behind...

The strange tale of how a Galifianakis-Wiig comedy, from the director of 'Napoleon Dynamite,' sat on a shelf for a year

Josh Rottenberg — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:00:00 PDT

Some Hollywood directors would be sent into an emotional tailspin if their movie was yanked from the schedule and put on the shelf just weeks away from its release. Agents would be screamed at. Therapists would be called. But Jared Hess is not built that way.

Late last summer, Hess’ caper comedy “Masterminds”...

The tech world's new key to productivity? A $5,900 chair

Tracey Lien — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:00:00 PDT

Che Voigt believes his company has solved problems that have plagued the working world since the advent of typing.

It’s a solution to hunched backs, stiff necks and tight shoulders. It’s a workstation that, with a push of a button, transitions from a standing desk to a seated table to a fully...

El Cajon police shooting sparks battle over release of video

Richard Winton, Sarah Parvini, Corina Knoll — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:00:00 PDT

Last month, San Diego law enforcement agencies came together to write what they described as the nation’s first countywide policy on the release of video recordings showing police shootings.

Several high-profile shootings caught on video over the last few years have prompted the news media and...

The complicated, ugly legacy of the 1915 'Birth of a Nation'

Jeffrey Fleishman — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:00:00 PDT

D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” plays as a strange and troubling artifact, a grainy, flickering work of artistic brilliance whose images are at once breathtaking and repugnant.

With sweeping shots and intimate close-ups, the 1915 silent film heralded the future of cinema, but its abhorrent...

Soaring prescription drug prices also sickening for pets

David Lazarus — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:00:00 PDT

Art Weber’s 5-year-old, Whitney, has a serious allergy to bee stings, so he and his wife are among the many people who shell out roughly $600 annually for a two-pack of EpiPens.

Whitney, however, isn’t a little girl. She’s a beagle that could go into shock without a prompt dose of life-saving epinephrine.

...

Ed Harris talks 'Westworld,' working with wife Amy Madigan, and how he made Mickey Mantle mad

Sarah Rodman — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:00:00 PDT

When Ed Harris hits the screen in “Westworld,” premiering Sunday on HBO, it won’t be the veteran actor’s first time working in the world of Michael Crichton. The New Jersey native’s first film role was in the sci-fi writer-director’s 1978 film, “Coma.” He played “Pathology Resident #2.” “I was...

At a marijuana conference, the Republican lawmaker's hat said it all: 'Make Cannabis Great Again'

Robin Abcarian — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:00:00 PDT

I couldn’t find a single person at the State of Marijuana Conference ’16 on the Queen Mary this week willing to predict anything other than success for Proposition 64, the measure that could legalize cannabis in California for adult recreational use.

Polls continue to show that almost two-thirds...

They gave to Trump's GOP rivals. Now most of these donors are sitting out the general election.

Seema Mehta, Anthony Pesce, Maloy Moore — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:00:00 PDT

Most of Donald Trump’s Republican presidential primary rivals have come around to his candidacy, but their donors are staying away.

Nearly 95% of those who first gave to his GOP primary opponents are sitting out the general election, and of those who are still giving money, many are lining up behind...

It's official: Rosetta's long journey with comet 67P has officially ended

Deborah Netburn — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 02:30:00 PDT

The Rosetta mission to catch up with a speeding comet, land a space probe on it and follow it as it flies past the sun has officially come to an end.

Early Friday morning, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta orbiter committed operational suicide when it deliberately smashed onto the surface of...

For the record

Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:05:00 PDT

Police shooting: In the Sept. 29 Section A, an article about a police shooting in El Cajon, Calif., gave the age of the man killed, Alfred Olango, as 30. Police later released information that shows Olango was 38.

If you believe that we have made an error, or you have questions about The Times’...

Dodgers rookie Julio Urias makes case to Dave Roberts

Associated Press — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:00:00 PDT

The Dodgers checked off three important boxes in a 9-4 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday night, pounding left-handed pitching, regaining the edge they lost since Sunday’s division-clinching victory and keeping their hopes for home-field advantage in the first round alive.

But one significant...

Canada puts stunning end to World Cup with two late goals

Helene Elliott — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 22:50:00 PDT

It was a familiar sight, Canada’s best hockey players standing with their arms draped around each other’s shoulders as their anthem played and their flag rose to the rafters to honor their supremacy at yet another major tournament.

They grinned and sang with as much relief as gusto, appreciating...

Football: Thursday's scores

Eric Maddy — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:52:00 PDT

Thursday, September 29th

SOUTHERN SECTION

MISSION VALLEY LEAGUE

El Monte 37, Pasadena Marshall 19

PACIFIC LEAGUE

Burbank 63, Glendale 7

NONLEAGUE

Crean Lutheran 46, Capistrano Valley Christian 6

Irvine University 32, Adelanto 0

Los Amigos 33, Saddleback 14

Pacific 52, Bloomington 6

San Dimas 41,...

Parents are convicted of abusing their infant daughter to the point of death

Matt Hamilton — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:50:00 PDT

Suffering marked the short life of Savannah Lucero, who never lived to see her first birthday.

When she was found dead in 2013, the 4-month-old was malnourished, with skull fractures, broken ribs and bruised lungs.

Her liver was lacerated and she had several brain injuries, prosecutors said.

On...

YouTube star is accused of vandalism after saying he was attacked near a WeHo gay club

Matt Hamilton — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:30:00 PDT

A YouTube star who said he was brutally assaulted by three men in West Hollywood faces charges that he vandalized a car before filing a false police report about being attacked, authorities said Thursday.

Los Angeles County prosecutors allege that Calum McSwiggan, known by thousands of fans for...

'It sounded like a bomb': New Jersey train crash kills 1, injures more than 100

Barbara Demick and Matt Hansen — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 21:30:00 PDT

Investigators are examining why a packed commuter train barreled into a train station at such a high speed that it flew onto the platform and knocked down a ceiling, leaving one person dead and more than 100 injured.

The crash took place at the Hoboken Terminal, just across the Hudson River from...