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Netflix, HBO Max and others are investing in Spanish-language content to target U.S. Latinos and Latin American markets.
Blue Origin did not disclose the winner’s name following the live online auction, but their identity will be revealed soon.
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Consulting, tutoring and virtual assistant gigs are among the flexible and well-paid side hustles that retirees might want to pick up. Here’s how to find them.
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Wall Street closed out a mostly listless week Friday with a wobbly day of trading that helped nudge the Standard & Poor’s 500 to its third straight weekly gain.
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A Times report on the many-layered history of Latinos in Hollywood, the low representation figures and what TV and movie creators are doing about it.
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A Hollywood rookie and an Oscar-nominated producer trade notes on the hurdles they’ve encountered trying to bring Latino stories to the screen.
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Latinx audiences, key to the success of “Fast and Furious,” are Hollywood’s most dependable customers. Now they’re helping movie theaters bounce back after COVID-19. Will they be rewarded?
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Staffers across 11 Southern California newsrooms, including the Orange County Register, voted Friday to unionize.
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A Highland Park man, who says he hasn’t smoked for 25 years, was told by Hertz to pay a $400 fee after workers claimed they smelled cigarettes.
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The San Pedro Fish Market, beloved by generations of Latino families and lately by Instagramers, needs to relocate. The owner has big plans to expand.
A water tower-turned-house comes to market, a rapper lands in the valley, and a Dodgers co-owner lists a historic haunt in a busy June market.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 0.5% and is on track for its third straight weekly gain.
How did the FDA got browbeaten into approving an Alzheimer’s drug that may not work?
Features and Projects
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Some of us are hoping that a year of remote work will lead to greater job flexibility. Others can’t wait to get out of the house.
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Richard Montañez has for years told a story of how he dreamed up Flamin’ Hot Cheetos while working as a Frito-Lay janitor. The archival record, former employees and Frito-Lay itself say otherwise.
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The HFPA has come under pressure for not having any Black members as well as allegations of ethical and financial lapses raised in a Times investigation.
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved legislation making the cryptocurrency bitcoin legal tender in the country, the first nation to do so.
Here’s how to opt out of Amazon Sidewalk, which automatically shares Echo and Ring users’ internet connections with their neighbors.
The White House has dropped Trump-era executive orders to ban TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks.
Fastly, the company hit by a major outage that caused many of the world’s top websites to go offline briefly, blamed the problem on a software bug.
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ProPublica’s tax investigation shows why billionaires should be taxed on their wealth.
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David Baltimore was quoted as finding a ‘smoking gun’ for the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins. He wishes he hadn’t said that.
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Republicans and conservatives think that just invoking Fauci’s name is enough to validate their COVID-19 claims, but they’re wrong
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It may cost as little as $100 to manufacture a hearing aid. The list price is typically in the thousands of dollars (and not covered by most insurance).
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Basepaws, a Los Angeles company, has introduced a genetic test it says can improve feline dental care. Not all experts are convinced it works.
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A solar-power company sold a 25-year contract to a 91-year-old California woman. After she died, the company refused to cancel her contract.
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Mask-optional workplaces are almost here, as long as a proposal from California’s workplace safety agency gets final approval. Here’s what would change.
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A gold palace aims for an Orange County price record, and two athletes make moves during a busy week of luxury real estate deals.
The California workplace safety board suggested it will move to allow fully vaccinated employees to stop wearing masks while on the job, even around those who are not vaccinated.
The long-promised change will take effect Tuesday, the same date as the state’s full economic reopening, and bring the state into alignment with the CDC’s COVID-19 guidelines.
L.A. County could be at herd immunity by summer’s end, says Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, but ‘we have a lot of people not vaccinated still.’
Alameda, Napa, San Diego, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties have moved into the yellow tier as part of California’s last reopening update.
A California safety board recommends relaxing workplace safety rules, including mask requirements, for people vaccinated against COVID. Here’s more.
Lumber prices quadrupled, leading to sticker shock — and some stalled and canceled projects — for homeowners and developers.
In Sunset Beach, an 87-foot water tower remodeled into a one-of-a-kind home is on the market for $4.95 million.
Here are some pros and cons of accepting a $1 house deal that requires taking care of an infirm relative. Also: figuring out when to claim Social Security retirement benefits.
Skateboarder Ryan Sheckler just wrapped up a sale in his hometown of San Clemente, shedding the coastal home in an off-market deal for $3 million.
Polo G, the rapper behind the hits “Pop Out” and “Rapstar,” just shelled out $4.885 million for a mansion with a custom garage in Chatsworth.
Company Town
Legal analyst returns to the network for the first time since exposing himself during a Zoom session with New Yorker staff.
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Hollywood has largely erased Muslims from our screens, but when they appear the same violent tropes are used. Riz Ahmed wants to change that.
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The Warner Bros. Studio Tour will start from a new building with classic Hollywood memorabilia and new superhero- and Harry Potter-themed interactive exhibits.
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An exclusive deal with European pay-TV provider Sky is restricting HBO Max ‘s ability to expand as it tries to catch up with Netflix and Disney+ .
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Warner Bros. angered Hollywood with its decision to put movies in theaters and on streaming service HBO Max simultaneously. It now faces a turning point as the studio’s parent company prepares its film strategy for the streaming age. In the background, a new owner: Discovery.
More California Business
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Adel Hagekhalil could bring a new direction to the Metropolitan Water District as climate change strains supplies.
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The Queen Mary in Long Beach needs $23 million in immediate repairs to keep it from potentially capsizing, according to court documents and inspection reports.
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Jobs will come back and the state’s economy will recover faster than the nation’s, a UCLA forecast says, led by consumer spending, tech jobs and home-building
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On June 15, Disneyland and California Adventure will admit out-of-state visitors for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut the theme parks.
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Through Dec. 31, restaurants, bars, breweries and wineries will be able to continue to serve alcoholic drinks in areas like sidewalks and parking lots.
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A California workplace safety board recommends ending mask rules for workers if everyone in a room is vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Four more counties — Marin, Monterey, San Benito and Ventura — move into the least restrictive yellow tier of California’s COVID-19 reopening roadmap.
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Officials from California, New York and other states urged the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to allow California to set its own automobile tailpipe pollution standards, an action that would reverse a Trump administration policy and could help usher in stricter emissions standards for new passenger vehicles nationwide.
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With pickups outselling passenger cars in the U.S., Ford is betting big on the proposition that lovers of big, noisy trucks can be sold on the virtue of electric motors.
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The used car market has been roiled by a once-in-a-generation set of circumstances brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Personal Finance and Guides
Housesitting comes with responsibilities, but it can help stretch your vacation budget. Here’s how to find gigs.
Grounded by the pandemic, I returned to the air and fell in love, if briefly, with basic economy, a different parking lot and wailing children.
IRAs, Roth IRAs, Roth 401(k)s — wading into retirement’s alphabet soup can be daunting. Here’s some help. Also, a son’s sudden death leaves financial questions.
Jobs at camps, resorts and national parks are rarely highly paid. But they often come with free or discounted meals, housing and adventurous activities.
It may be July before ACA exchanges reflect tax credits to make insurance free for those getting unemployment benefits in 2021. But there’s other help.
Want PPP loan forgiveness? Here’s a look at the application process and tips on what small businesses can do to improve their chances.
The application deadline for the last round of PPP loans is May 31 or when money runs out, whichever comes first. Most of the money is already gone.
Can your employer require you to get vaccinated against COVID-19? Can your boss make you go back to your workplace mid-pandemic? Can you sue?
Contributing to a Roth IRA is an excellent way for young people to build wealth, and the earlier they can start, the better.
Love remote work? Here are expert tips for how to negotiate a permanent work-from-anywhere arrangement with your boss.
Starting this year, grandparents get extra incentive: their 529 plans are ignored by federal financial aid formulas.
Here are some insights into how employees and bosses can agree on remote work arrangements that work for everyone involved.
You might not need to fork over any money to file your taxes online. Here are websites that let you file for free as the May 17 IRS filing date nears.
More Business News
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JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company, says it paid the equivalent of $11 million to hackers who broke into its computer system.
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Stocks championed by hordes of online retail investors, the “meme” stocks as they have become known, were volatile once again.
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Sellers of everything from trash bags to cereal perform rhetorical backflips to avoid admitting they’re making their products more expensive.
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The pipeline’s sponsor says it is pulling the plug on the project after Canadian officials failed to get the U.S. to reinstate the company’s permit.
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To commemorate the Lakers and Dodgers winning titles in 2020, Los Angeles streetwear brand Born X Raised releases its City of Champs collection.
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U.S. stock indexes meandered to another uneven finish Tuesday after spending much of the day swaying between small gains and losses.
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The fuel transportation company’s chief executive defends his decision to authorize a multimillion-dollar payment to ransomware hackers.
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With the Discovery merger looming, Warner Bros.'s film bosses talk about how “Project Popcorn” has done so far.
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A conflict over housing for the homeless has engulfed many in Arcadia and showcased the power of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans.
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Numerous websites were unavailable Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at cloud service company Fastly.
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Dodgers co-owner Bobby Patton is asking $15 million for his Los Feliz home where comedian W.C. Fields lived in the 1940s.
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Stocks gave up some of their recent gains Monday, though the selling eased toward the end of the day, leaving the major indexes mixed.
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Officials have quietly deployed a mobile app relying on facial recognition technology to collect data on asylum seekers before they cross the border.
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Small-space living doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice style or succumb to clutter.
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Las Vegas nearly ground to a halt during the pandemic. Casinos and restaurants are set to return to full capacity Tuesday, but many hospitality workers wonder whether they’ll ever make up their losses.
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A family-run tortilla factory in Boyle Heights is in danger of closing amid an eminent domain dispute with the city over relocation fees for its tortilla machines.
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New design showcases iconic arches from the original bridge
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The San Pedro Fish Market, beloved by generations of Latino families and lately by Instagramers, needs to relocate. The owner has big plans to expand.
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Richard Montañez has for years told a story of how he dreamed up Flamin’ Hot Cheetos while working as a Frito-Lay janitor. The archival record, former employees and Frito-Lay itself say otherwise.
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The One, a 100,000-square-foot mega-mansion in Bel-Air, may be headed for foreclosure as developer Nile Niami owes more than $110 million in outstanding loans.
