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New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Cuomo appears during a news conference about the COVID-19 vaccine at the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Dec. 3, 2020, left, and CNN anchor Chris Cuomo attends the 12th annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on Dec. 9, 2018. CNN said it had reinstated a prohibition on Chris Cuomo interviewing or doing stories about his brother. The policy avoids a conflict of interest or at the very least the appearance of one. (Mike Groll/Office of Governor of Andrew M. Cuomo via AP, left, and Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

CNN fires Chris Cuomo after law firm probes involvement in brother’s harassment scandal

The prime-time host and brother of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was suspended Tuesday pending further review. Now he’s gone permanently.

Tech giants enlist mom and pop shops as antitrust allies
Tight labor market is making Santa Claus scarce this year
Legal experts on Alec Baldwin’s risky ABC News interview: ‘It’s really a no-upside situation’

California
Planned Parenthood L.A. was hacked. What it means, and what you can do
Business
Stocks slump after murky jobs report as markets swing
Business
Don’t throw away money. What to do with your FSA at the end of the year
Business
Inflation, supply chain, wages: Rising threats loom over small businesses
Business
U.S. adds 210,000 jobs in November as unemployment rate falls to 4.2%
Real Estate
Publishing heiress asks $43 million for Bel-Air trophy estate

LOS ANGELES, CA - November 29 2021: Lincoln Riley is announced as the new head football coach.

Real Estate newsletter: Trojans coach needs a new home

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‘I need my girlfriend off TikTok’: How hackers game abuse-reporting systems

Los Angeles, California-Nov. 15, 2021- Cargo ships are backed up waiting to unload in the Port of Los Angeles And Port of Long Beach on Nov. 17, 2021. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Is the ports logjam really getting better? The numbers don’t tell the whole story

Features and Projects

California is reopening. Here’s what that means for you
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Back to the office: Bracing for the return of in-person work
Here’s the full coverage of our Golden Globes investigation and the aftermath

Technology

An area where travelers can request an Uber ride at LAX.

Uber agrees to pay $9-million California settlement on sexual assault reporting failure

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 25, 2019: BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti had to layoff employees earlier this year as the company aimed to tighten expenses and increase revenue on April 25, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. The staff is in the midst of organizing a union.(Gina Ferazzi/Los AngelesTimes)

BuzzFeed News workers walk off the job to protest contract talks

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 09: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks during a press event at CES 2019 at the Aria Resort & Casino on January 9, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 11 and features about 4,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 180,000 attendees. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

Square changes name to Block in nod to new businesses

HAWTHORNE, CA - MAY 01: Delivery vans leave Amazon warehouse facility in Hawthorne. Hawthorne, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Amazon accused of underreporting COVID cases contracted at work

Columnists

Michael Hiltzik
Commentary on economics and more from a Pulitzer winner

Column: This proposed ballot measure would make you pay for the ag industry’s water inefficiency
Column: Raking in profits, Moderna denies government scientists credit for the COVID vaccine
Column: There’s a right way and a wrong way to think about inflation. Here’s a right way

David Lazarus
Consumer affairs news and opinion from an award-winning journalist

Column: Soaring insulin prices reveal clout, and greed, of healthcare middlemen
Column: Wells Fargo found another way to abuse customers. Then I called them on it
Column: She was billed $809 for a boot for her broken foot. Amazon charges $80

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Real Estate

Modern and boxy, the three-story home ascends to a rooftop deck with a kitchen and hot tub.

Tyra Banks tries to sell her fifth Pacific Palisades home for $7.895 million

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 18: David Aldana works on an Accessory Dwelling Unit being built on Katherine Guevara and David Guevara Rosillo's property in West Adams on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. They are participating in a new initiative called Backyard Homes, where participating homeowners receive help building a ADU in their backyard and in exchange they agree to rent the mini home to a low-income Section 8 resident. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

Facing housing crisis, L.A. voters back duplexes in single-family neighborhoods

USC’s new hire Lincoln Riley needs a house. What’s on the market for a top football coach?

TEJON RANCH, CA AUGUST 06, 2018: The oak studded mountain tops of the Blue Ridge Range of Tejon Ranch; a small portion of the 90% of protected area of Tejon Ranch set aside for permanent preservation in exchange for environmental groupsâ€™ promise not to oppose development. At stake is the 12,000 acre proposed master planned community named Centennial on the flat grassland of the ranch off Highway 138, if approved, would bring in up to 19,333 residences, a mix of single-family, multi-family and apartment units, with a business park and open space around their periphery. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Environmental group and Tejon Ranch agree on plan to build 19,300 zero-emission homes

Limits on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac loans raised to nearly $1 million in some markets

Company Town

Alec Baldwin sits opposite George Stephanopoulos for an interview

Alec Baldwin does not believe sabotage led to ‘Rust’ shooting

The actor also told ABC News he does not expect to be criminally charged in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Did Alec Baldwin pull the trigger? ‘Rust’ camera assistant says: ‘Guns don’t just go off.’
Golden Globes group’s chief diversity officer says the HFPA is ready to ‘do the work’
As BuzzFeed nears SPAC deal, news employees stage walkout
United Talent Agency looks to buy gaming, digital media companies with new SPAC

The Pandemic Economy

An international arrivals lobby is deserted at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Japan’s NHK national television said the country’s transport ministry on Wednesday, Dec. 1, requested international airlines to stop taking new reservations for all flights arriving in Japan until the end of December. (Miyuki Saito/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan retracts ban on new flight bookings after criticisms

Japan says it has retracted a ban on new incoming international flight bookings to defend against the new variant of the coronavirus.

Pfizer, U.S. sign $5-billion deal for 10 million treatment courses of COVID-19 pill

Thanksgiving air travel is expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, TSA says

For Subscribers

Is your company secretly monitoring your work at home? Since COVID, the practice has surged

How your employer can keep track of your work at home

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PG&E to pay $125 million in fines and penalties under Kincade fire settlement

Photos: Black Friday brings out diehards for the start of the #Christmas shopping season
Black Friday lacks luster as pandemic shopping habits stick
California holds 70% of the country’s priciest ZIP Codes for home buyers

Black job applicant sues company for discrimination over hairstyle
Trial to determine if requiring women on boards is legal
The American West went through climate hell in 2021. But there’s still hope

Autos

High gas prices are hitting heavy-duty pickup owners hard. Here’s what they’re saying
Apple hits the accelerator on autonomous car project
Bob Bondurant, race car champion who taught the stars how to drive fast, dies

Personal Finance and Guides

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Business

Here’s why you have many different credit scores

There are many different scoring formulas, resulting in different credit scores. Also, the tax implications of giving away your money.

Ships with smokestacks belch smoke into the air in a scene at San Pedro Harbor

L.A.’s port could have been in Santa Monica. Here’s how San Pedro won out

Loans to highly leveraged companies can quickly implode.

How to pay back your college debt, painlessly

Lenders were supposed to tell you about pandemic debt relief. What if yours didn’t?

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2015 file photo, Hello Barbie is displayed at the Mattel showroom during the North American International Toy Fair in New York. The toy records and stores conversations between kids and their dolls to improve speech-recognition technology and help its makers create more relevant automated responses for kids. Parents concerned about privacy can review and delete those conversations by visiting a website. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Is your Christmas present spying on you? How to assess gifts’ privacy risks

How to find (and survive) a Buy Nothing group

Explaining Hollywood: Your child wants to act. What do you need to know?

Where should you keep your estate planning documents?

Want to quit your job but can’t right now? How to cope while you plan next steps

The best side hustles for musicians and music lovers

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2013 file photo, a sheet of uncut $100 bills makes the way through the printing process at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Associated Press reporter Ken Sweet borrowed $15,000 through a peer-to-peer loan, a rapidly expanding piece of the $3.4 trillion market for consumer debt, which includes credit cards and auto loans. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Which retirement option is better: Lump sum or monthly payout?

LONG BEACH, CALIF. - DEC. 16, 2020. A cashier helps a customer at the checkout stand in the Von's grocery store iin Long Beach on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

Millions of workers now face a vaccination mandate. How to tell if you’re one of them

Business person in a suit holding his hands clasped on the table on a business meeting in a cafeteria.

How a fee-only financial planner differs from a fee-based one

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‘The One’ could go up for auction in January. Come with $250 million

Features and Projects

‘Everything is sky high’: Higher prices, barer tables for many at Thanksgiving this year
Photos: After a one-year hiatus, L.A. Auto Show returns to the Convention Center
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For Subscribers

Where’s my order? Tracing one container through a broken global supply chain
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They’ve been stuck for months on cargo ships now floating off Southern California. They’re desperate

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How COVID-19 changed Pico Boulevard: Take a ride with us

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