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The tech sector in Los Angeles has taken off in the shadow of Silicon Valley, but now it is looking to its more famous and successful sibling in the north for lessons on how not to grow.

Do politics define us, why Americans pay more for cannabis than Canadians, and in the NFL, this team offers the best return on investment.

A divide arose between President Trump’s initial acceptance of Saudi Arabia’s response to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and senators in both parties who stepped up calls for sanctions and pressed the administration to do its own investigation.

Since handing over the reins at Morgan Stanley, John Mack has been working with financial-technology startups, dabbling in bitcoin and watching as Wall Street gives way to a mellower brand of finance.

Amazon.com Inc., battling Google for voice-assistant supremacy, is accelerating efforts to make Alexa more useful, offering developers incentives to add games, enhance AI skills.

Viacom is rebooting MTV’s “The Real World” franchise for Facebook, the latest sign that the cable-TV giant has stopped fighting the growing dominance of digital players like Netflix and is instead producing shows—and soon movies—for them.

Faced with insurgent violence and daunting logistical problems, Afghans cast ballots in parliamentary elections seen as a test of the government’s progress toward political stability in a country beset by a 17-year war.

For most of the last two decades, the share of women participating in the U.S. labor force was in decline. Thanks to a strong economy, that long-running trend shows signs of reversing.

Eighteen nations including the U.S. and China agreed to sign up to guidelines governing potentially dangerous encounters by military aircraft, a step toward stabilizing flashpoints but one that leaves enough wiggle room to ignore the new standards when a country wants.

Beijing is trying to kick its habit of using big-ticket stimulus spending on infrastructure, a turning point from a growth model that has left many Chinese cities adorned with empty high-rises and underused highways.

A Southern California boatman puts in hours each week to prepare for the U.S. Gondola Nationals.

As IPO proposals value Uber at an eye-popping $120 billion, auto makers are racing to gain ground in everything from car sharing to driverless technology. At stake: who will control the future of transportation.

An exacerbated workforce crunch for makers of warships, jet fighters and cybersecurity systems is forcing them to resort to workarounds to finish Pentagon orders.

A parliamentary by-election defeat is seen leading to increased pressure on Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative government.

At some point, Frans Hals’s large ‘The Van Campen Family in a Landscape’ was cut into pieces that found their way into different collections; now, they have been brought back together.

The U.S. military is considering sailing ships through the Strait of Taiwan, sending a message to the Chinese about its right to travel those and any international waters, two U.S. officials said.

21st Century Fox has tapped AMC Networks executive Charlie Collier to become CEO of entertainment for the new “Fox” entity that will be formed when the company completes its pending sale of assets to Walt Disney.

Saudi Arabia early Saturday acknowledged for the first time journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul, capping weeks of uncertainty over the fate of the Saudi government critic.

The Californian seeks to raise costs for the hoi polloi in other states.

The Affordable Care Act’s federal exchange system for insurance was breached and about 75,000 consumer files compromised, the Trump administration said Friday.

Gov. Phil Murphy fancies Trenton as a new Sand Hill Road.

A much-needed review to allow more storage and less waste.

Macedonia’s parliament approved a constitutional revision bringing a decades-old dispute with neighboring Greece one step closer to a resolution that would unblock the country’s membership to NATO and the EU.

A Democratic challenger with a smash-mouth style seeks to flip a suburban Illinois district Hillary Clinton carried in 2016.

They want to campaign on national issues, but voters are focused on progressive failures closer to home.