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Sep 17, 2026

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."

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Sep 17, 2026

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.

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Sep 17, 2026

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.

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Sep 17, 2026

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.

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Sep 17, 2026

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.

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Sep 17, 2026

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.

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Sep 16, 2026

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.

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Sep 16, 2026

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.

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Sep 16, 2026

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.

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Sep 16, 2026

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.

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Sep 16, 2026

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.

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Sep 16, 2026

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.