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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs charged with sex trafficking by force, racketeering

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San Francisco District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin waves to supporters at a kickoff event for his mayoral campaign at Portsmouth Square in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, Saturday, April 6 2024. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

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A man carries an AI-generated image of former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump carrying cats away from Haitian immigrants, a reference to falsehoods spread about Springfield, Ohio, during a campaign rally for Trump at the Tucson Music Hall in Tucson, Arizona, September 12, 2024. (Photo by Rebecca NOBLE / AFP) (Photo by REBECCA NOBLE/AFP via Getty Images)

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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, June 5, 2020, in Washington. White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow, left, and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, top right listen. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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MORENO VALLEY, CA - AUGUST 9, 2023: Cal Fire Scott Slumpff monitors computer screens which depicts views of wildfire camera systems throughout the state of California at the Southern California Geographic Area Coordination Center on August 9, 2023 in Moreno Valley, CA. The agency is using AI to help monitor the camera systems.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Visalia, CA - October 12: Water flows from an underground well to irrigate an orchard on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021 in Visalia, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A decade after signing of California groundwater law, major challenges remain

Scientists were expecting to find an intermediate-mass black hole at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397, but instead they found evidence of a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there. New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have led to the first measurement of the extent of a collection of black holes in a core-collapsed globular cluster. This is an artist's impression created to visualize the concentration of black holes at the center of NGC 6397. In reality, the small black holes here are far too small for the direct observing capacities of any existing or planned future telescope, including Hubble. It is predicted that this core-collapsed globular cluster could be host to more than 20 black holes.

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Ojai, CA - June 10: Laura LaRue at home with her 16-month-old daughter Lasca on Monday, June 10, 2024 in Ojai, CA. Laura, 32, is a single-mom and former model raising her daughter in a former school bus. She went from living in a cabin on her mom's ranch to an off-grid trailer in Carpinteria, to a school bus with a newborn baby. During the pandemic, she started her natural tie dye business, Ride or Dye Ojai. "It's very chill and it's not that crazy at all," she says of the baby-proofed bus. "It's baby heaven." (Ryan Schude / For The Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - June 05: Reies Flores, a career and technical education agriscience teacher walks through the gardens during an after school "Web Club" at Sotomayor Arts & Sciences Magnet in Los Angeles Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Teachers Reies Flores and Arturo Romo run a campus-based farm and sustainable arts program rooted in climate knowledge. More than a decade in the making, the farm now has cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, fruit trees, native plants, flowers, vegetables, berries, etc. on a slice of land wedged between railroad tracks and the high school football field. There is farm-to-table cooking, composting, animal husbandry, greenhouse sciences, habitat restoration, and coordination with the cafeteria to reduce food waste across the campus. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES-CA-AUGUST 29, 2024: Students including Wyatt Gaines, right, water the green onion, basil and kale seedlings they planted in the garden at 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles on August 29, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - June 05: Student Michelle Chan, 16, holds baby turkeys during an after school "Web Club" at Sotomayor Arts & Sciences Magnet in Los Angeles Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Teachers Reies Flores and Arturo Romo run a campus-based farm and sustainable arts program rooted in climate knowledge. More than a decade in the making, the farm now has cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, fruit trees, native plants, flowers, vegetables, berries, etc. on a slice of land wedged between railroad tracks and the high school football field. There is farm-to-table cooking, composting, animal husbandry, greenhouse sciences, habitat restoration, and coordination with the cafeteria to reduce food waste across the campus. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Silver Lake, CA - June 04: Fifth grade teacher Brittany Jefferson teaches at her Jefferson Citizens of the World Charter School class on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 in Silver Lake, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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LAWNDALE, CA - JUNE 27, 2024 - Eddie Cortes, a horticulture specialist and groundskeeper at ECHS, right, eats a freshly picked cumquat as students Jasmin Rodreiguez, left, and Julian Garcia, both 16, prepare to eat there's at the Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale on June 27, 2024. Cortes was talking about the high vitamin C content in the cumquat grown on campus. The high school is a sustainable campus with fruit trees, which the students have planted, chickens and a hyper-environmental curriculum. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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El Segundo, CA - July 18: Science Desk Intern Noah Haggerty holds cards as he plays with other environmental reporters an environmental board game at Los Angeles Times Headquarters on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in El Segundo, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - April 21: Edward Humes in the Los Angeles Times Portrait Studio at the Festival of Books in Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES-CA-APRIL 19: Senior activist David Rosenstein, with Their Act, seated in a rocking chair attends a climate rally and march with Ann Bartz (2ndL) Jeff Olmstead (C) and Monica Sena at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday April 19, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevork Djansezian/For The Times)

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A man walks at a second hand clothes dump site at the Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, on November 15, 2023. Kantamanto market is vast, spanning over 20 acres in the heart of Accra's business district, its stalls dominated by used clothing and shoes from the West and China. Its traders import a staggering 15 million garments a week, according to the OR Foundation environmental group. But roughly 40 percent of each bale ends up as waste, they say, dumped in landfills and often washed into the ocean, causing a public health crisis and harming the environment. Ghana became the world's largest importer of used clothing in 2021, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) data site, with garments worth $214 million shipped mostly from China, the United Kingdom and Canada. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP) (Photo by NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Los Angeles, CA - August 28: Stop motion shoot in the office for fast fashion at Los Angeles Times building on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

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Women search for used clothes amid tons discarded in the Atacama desert, in Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile, on September 26, 2021. EcoFibra, Ecocitex and Sembra are circular economy projects that have textile waste as their raw material. The textile industry in Chile will be included in the law of Extended Responsibility of the Producer (REP), forcing clothes and textiles importers take charge of the waste they generate. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2024. The seven-year-old Brazilian environmental activist has spent years collecting garbage in the waters of Copacabana beach and teaching conservation methods to other children. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

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Brentwood, CA, Sunday, April 14, 2024 - Josiah Edwards leads a group Sunrise Movement protesters near VP Harris' Brentwood home calling on her to urge President Biden to declare a climate emergency. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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TOPSHOT - This image grab taken from AFPTV footage shows two environmental activists from the collective dubbed "Riposte Alimentaire" (Food Retaliation) hurling soup at Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" (La Joconde) painting, at the Louvre museum in Paris, on January 28, 2024. Two protesters on January 28, 2024 hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food", an AFP journalist said. It is the latest attack on the masterpiece in the French capital's Louvre museum, after someone threw a custard pie at it in May 2022, but it's thick glass casing ensured it came to no harm. (Photo by David CANTINIAUX / AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by DAVID CANTINIAUX/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

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Los Angeles, CA - April 29: Avroh, Maya and Maryam, left to right, are three young plaintiffs who have sued the EPA, and poses for a portrait near the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California where a hearing for the lawsuit took place on Monday, April 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

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SOUTH PASADENA-CA-JULY 16, 2024: Fabienne Hadorn, co-founder of Arroyo Nature School, an outdoor-based program for preschool-aged kids, left, reads to the children in South Pasadena on July 16, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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