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WATCH: Lena Dunham, Matthew Lillard, Metallica: Here's what's trending
ABC News' Rocsi Diaz takes a look at what's buzzing in pop culture, including Dunham becoming a girl mom and Lillard saying he feels "ashamed" for acting in "Scream 7."
WATCH: August records warmest month on Earth: What to know
ABC News meteorologist Somara Theodore shares what this report is saying about why August was the warmest month ever recorded, and Ginger Zee has more on the effort to use drones to help make rain.
Commentary: The approaching El Niño is scary, but L.A.'s starred in this horror movie before
The thousands of square miles of mountain watershed around L.A. -- the San Gabriels and the San Bernardinos -- are as steep as roller coasters, and the rain funnels off them in tumults.
NBC4 chopper's final moments: A blaring alarm, loss of altitude and panic. Why did it crash?
The crash that killed three people on Tuesday night, including two NBC4 journalists, involved a single-engine AS350 B2 helicopter. Questions surround why it suddenly dropped from the sky.
WATCH: Spider-Man swings into box office history
"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" has now made more money in North America than any other movie in history, taking in more than $936 million so far.
More UC students are failing intro math courses as regents weigh reinstating SAT
As UC regents reconsider test-free admissions, faculty cite rising math failure rates while admissions officials report stable overall graduation rates.
Commentary: News helicopters are very L.A. It's a dangerous job
Los Angeles and airborne reporting were always a match made, if not in heaven, then a quarter-mile or so closer to it than the rest of us earthbound beings.
La Opinión, the chronicler of Latino life in L.A., reflects on a century of change
The paper celebrated its centennial milestone by publishing a series of 100-word columns.
They were the 'eyes and ears in the sky.' NBC4 helicopter crew were SoCal news veterans
On Tuesday evening, KNBC reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw flew together for the last time, before their NBC4 news helicopter crashed in Chatsworth.
New evidence shows that you are only slightly hotter than a T. rex
These cold-blooded killers were probably as warm-blooded as mammals, according to new research.
18-year-old Cal State Fullerton student dies after frat party
Anthony Joseph Blas was pronounced dead shortly after someone dropped him off at Providence St. Jude Medical Center around midnight, Fullerton police said.
Unrestrained: Inside L.A. County's system for issuing and enforcing restraining orders
The Times investigated how L.A. County issues and enforces restraining orders, finding a system that advocates and victims say is deeply flawed.


