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Clouds of dust swirled around the Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale as a massive helicopter hovered over a tank of wildfire retardant, dropped a long snorkel from its belly and sucked up 3,000 gallons of bright pink material in just about 90 seconds.

LOS ANGELES — The union representing Hollywood actors is poised to strike and join writers on picket lines in back-to-back walkouts for the first time since 1960, widening the labor conflict that has roiled the film and TV industry.

Emily Blunt says she is ready for a change of pace after numerous Hollywood projects — including Christopher Nolan's upcoming "Oppenheimer" — cut into her personal life in recent years.

LOS ANGELES — Inside the Mayk.It app, I don’t have to work hard to sound nearly perfect.

Leon (Thomas Schubert), the exasperated — and exasperating — young writer at the heart of the superb German drama "Afire," has a mesmerizingly punchable scowl. It's a scowl that rarely leaves your memory, since it so rarely leaves his features: a full-lipped mouth that hangs contemptuously half-open; eyes that glare…

SAN DIEGO — Jill Ellis showed up for lunch wearing a track suit and a warm smile.

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation lost Dustin May because of a season-ending elbow injuryin mid-May, Tony Gonsolin due to an ankle injury for all of April, Julio Urías to a hamstring strain for six weeks of May and June, Noah Syndergaard to a bruised earned-run average (7.16)…

LAS VEGAS — They all stood, the fans who sold out Thomas & Mack Center on Friday night, as Victor Wembanyama jogged onto the court. That the game meant nothing, that the rosters were made up mostly of dreamers whose hopes eventually will be unfulfilled, meant nothing.

EUGENE, Ore. — For much of the last year Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the world record-holder in the 400-meter hurdles, has left the track and field world wondering what her potential could be over the same distance without the hurdles in her way.

SEATTLE — The Oakland Athletics plan to play the 2024 season at the Oakland Coliseum, the final year under their lease. They plan to open their new stadium in Las Vegas for the 2028 season.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Megan Rapinoe’s soccer career has unfolded largely on her terms, so it made sense that it should end that way, with the two-time world champion and 2019 FIFA player of the year announcing Saturday that this season will be her last.