Dispatches

On Thursday the Catholic Church in California scored a significant legal victory regarding the right of Catholic hospitals to refuse certain medical procedures.

National election will be seen as expressing the Taiwan people’s dissatisfaction with its relationship with mainland China.

Stricter laws and quicker removals of criminal foreigners cannot replace a societal debate.

Netflix true crime series exposes systemic questions about our criminal justice system.

Investors both in the United States and overseas were still shaking from a week destabilized first by sharp exchanges between Iran and Saudi Arabia over an executed Shiite cleric and then by major plummets on China’s stock markets that led to trading being halted twice.

North Korea’s claimed test of a hydrogen bomb this week had one immediate casualty: the Stalinist outpost’s already strained relationship with its largest and most important neighbor, China.

In Guatemala the arrests of 18 former military officials on charges of human rights violations were detailed on Jan. 6.

Supporting the president’s “modest” proposals, Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell wrote, they represent “first steps in correcting gun laws so weak that they are ludicrous.”

When it comes to precipitation, Angelenos are easily excited.