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Beverly Hills, CA - September 08: An aerial view of "The One Bel Air", a 105,000-square-foot mansion with a sky deck and putting green, night club, several swimming pools, a 50-seat theater, a four-lane bowling alley and more by Nile Niami of Skyline Development and designed by Paul McClean (McClean Design). The One is shown by court-appointed receiver Ted Lanes, who now controls the property and is in charge of finding a buyer and paying off the lenders and other creditors, gives a tour of The One, the 105,000 square foot house on sale in Bel Air. This is apparently the largest home for sale in the United States. The developer Nial Niami "listed" it for $500 million but got into financial trouble and was foreclosed upon by Don Hankey. Photo taken in Bel Air on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021 in Beverly Hills, CA. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Developer Nile Niami floats last-ditch plan to retain control of The One mega-mansion

The Bel-Air mega-mansion ‘The One’ sold at auction, but the bid is not yet court-approved. Developer Nile Niami hopes he can get investors to buy it.

Built on a bluff, the estate comes with a four-bedroom villa, swimming pool, spa, cabana and meditation deck.

‘Yellowstone’ actress Barret Swatek shoots for $99.5 million in Malibu

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) at a campaign rally for Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in Cumming, Ga.

Column: Proof the IRS targets the poor for tax audits while leaving millionaires alone

SHENZHEN, CHINA - NOVEMBER 28: Workers put up scaffolding on a building owned by the contract manufacturer Foxconn International Holdings Ltd on November 28, 2010 in Shenzhen, China. According to the US Commercial Service, Shenzhen is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Home of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the headquarters of numerous technology companies, the now bustling former fishing village is considered southern China's major financial centre. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

China locks down Shenzhen amid COVID surge, sending supply chain ripples

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FILE - The Activision Blizzard Booth is shown on June 13, 2013 the during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, for $68.7 billion to gain access to blockbuster games including Call of Duty and Candy Crush. The all-cash deal will let Microsoft accelerate mobile gaming and provide it building blocks for the metaverse, or a virtual environment. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Diller’s options bet on Activision investigated by U.S., report says

FILE - The BBC sign outside the entrance to the headquarters of the publicly funded media organisation in London, July 19, 2017. Russians could face prison sentences of up to 15 years for spreading information that goes against the government’s position on the war in Ukraine. The move on Friday March 4, 2022, came as Russian authorities blocked access to foreign media that publish in Russian reports. The blocks affect the BBC, the U.S. government-funded Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and Latvia-based website Meduza. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Russia to punish ‘fake’ war news, blocks Facebook and Twitter

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission building, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, in Washington. (AP Andrew Harnik)

SEC scrutinizes NFT market over potentially illegal crypto token offerings

Un hombre abre la aplicación TikTok en su teléfono el 21 de julio de 2020, en Islamabad, Pakistán. (AP Foto/Anjum Naveed, File)

California attorney general announces investigation into TikTok’s impact on children

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East Los Angeles, CA - October 26: An aerial view of Whittier Blvd. and Arizona Ave. in East Los Angeles Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Why it’s been so hard to kill Article 34, California’s ‘racist’ barrier to affordable housing

An aerial view of The One

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Assemblyman Chris Ward, D-San Diego, held a press conference to announce his bill to reduce housing speculation.

Assembly bill would tax house flippers, those who sell homes a few years after buying

A large apartment is advertised for rent at the corner of California Boulevard and Oakland Avenue on October for 7, 2019 in Pasadena, California. Landlords say state rent caps may force them to raise rents more frequently.(Gina Ferazzi/Los AngelesTimes)

Proposal would limit how L.A. landlords can screen potential renters

WEST HILLS, CA - MARCH 4, 2022 - - Rose Liebermann, 71, left, and her daughter Natasha Gershon, 36, in their home in West Hills on March 4, 2022. Liebermann recently opened her property tax bill and immediately felt dizzy. The amount she owed on her West Hills home was almost four times higher than her previous home in Granada Hills where she had lived for more than 30 years. "This bill, when I saw it, I said 'this can't be real,'" said Liebermann, a clinical social worker. It wasn't supposed to be that way. Proposition 19, narrowly approved by California voters in 2020, gave older homeowners a property tax break when they move. Specifically, it allowed those 55 and older to blend the taxable value of their old home with the value of a new, more expensive home they purchase, resulting in significant property tax savings. But in Los Angeles County, delays at the assessor's office have left older property owners, like Liebermann, facing steep tax bills that must be paid while they wait for their applications to be approved. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Older homeowners face hefty tax bills as L.A. County struggles to implement 2020 tax law

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Benjamin Hall, a Fox News correspondent, has been injured while reporting in Ukraine.

Fox News correspondent is injured while reporting in Ukraine

The network says Benjamin Hall is being treated in a hospital but has scant details.

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FILE - This June 19, 2017 file photo shows a person working on a laptop in North Andover, Mass. Cybercriminals shifted away from stealing individual consumers’ information in 2020 to focus on more profitable attacks on businesses. That's according to a report, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, from the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit that supports victims of identity crime. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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Most Americans’ Social Security numbers have been exposed in one database breach or another. As a result, Social Security numbers are sold by criminals on the dark web for just a few dollars.

LOS ANGELES, CA - February 06: Landlord and architect Alexis Navarro stands in front of his "Casita L.A.," a new ADU he designed in East L.A. in the carport of an existing 3-unit property Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021 in Los Angeles. Navarro designed and built the 500-square-foot ADU over five months for $95,000. He designed it to be open and flexible, especially with the adjacent houses and no exterior views. The design appropriates the Mid-Century Post and Beam system of a high ceiling but using conventional wood-frame construction to lower the cost and ease of building. The open floor plan was meant to provide options for flexible uses with only the bathroom as a closed space. Moveable partitions, curtains or furniture for privacy could be used to divide into various combinations of uses according to the lifestyle, needs or size of family. An abundance of daylight thru skylights and opaque glass windows, adds to the openness of the small space. Low cost alternatives for plumbing, electrical and kitchen accessories helped to meet the budget goal of less than $100,000. Energy conservation strategies include high ceilings with openable skylights to create an airflow to release the hot air to the outside. Large glazing clerestory windows face towards the north orientation and on the south exposure there are no openings to reduce the heat load. The raw concrete floor adds to the temperature stability of the house in the summer. Ariel Gomez-Hernandez and John Velasco and their dog, Lando, are renting the unit for $1,650 right now, and they are both working from home. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Building an ADU? What you need to know about rent control

FILE - In this April 22, 1952 file photo a gigantic pillar of smoke with the familiar mushroom top climbs above Yucca Flat, Nev. during nuclear test detonation. A defense spending bill pending in Congress includes an apology to New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and other states affected by nuclear testing over the decades, but communities downwind from the first atomic test in 1945 are still holding out for compensation amid rumblings about the potential for the U.S. to resume nuclear testing. (AP Photo,File)

Cold War L.A. could have been a nuclear target. One response: the fallout shelter

FILE - Credit cards as seen Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. Getting and maintaining good credit can feel like a long, hard journey. It’s not always easy to understand why your score changes. Start by checking your credit reports — you’re entitled to get them for free — and disputing errors if you find them. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

How a new credit card can help your credit score

A motorist pauses at a gas station displaying higher gasoline prices at a Chevron station downtown Los Angeles Friday, Feb. 18, 2022. Gas prices are up nearly 40% from a year ago and more than 6% over the past month, according to AAA. Suspending the federal tax of 18.4 cents a gallon would not offset the price increases that occurred recently as Russia threated Ukraine. And there is no guarantee that energy companies would pass all of the savings on to consumers. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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A family pack up and evacuate as a brushfire get closer to their home in Ventura, Calif., on Dec. 5, 2017.

If you live in a fire-prone part of California, this road map can help you save on insurance

LOS ANGELES, CA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015 - Uber cars drop off passengers at LAX Terminal One. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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FILE - This April 13, 2014, file photo, shows the Internal Revenue Service headquarters building in Washington. A federal judge says it's likely that Microsoft was trying to avoid or evade paying U.S. taxes and is ordering the company to hand over financial documents from more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

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