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Chinese Embassy officials on Saturday said they had dispatched staffers to assist victims of a tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah that killed four people and left 27 others on board critically injured.
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A magnitude 3.2 earthquake 11 miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., was recorded Saturday at 8:19 a.m. PDT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. -
Giovanni Bolla’s tiramisu is helping him pay his rent, thanks to his daughter’s social media campaign
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A look at California stories from the last week, including Trump’s visit to Los Angeles and San Francisco
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The Black Keys made tickets to their Wiltern show nontransferable to third-party vendors, leaving fans who bought tickets from sites such as StubHub turned away at the doors.
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California Resources Corp. owes Seal Beach more than $9 million, according to the city. Officials say CRC needs a local business license for the company’s slant drilling operation. The oil company strongly denies that assertion.
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L.A. County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey’s office said it found insufficient evidence to pursue a fraud case related to L.A. Councilwoman Martinez’s fundraising activities.
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An outsider who previously ran the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Folt is the first woman to hold the post. She takes the helm as the private university is trying to recover from years of scandal.
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Global climate strike hits Los Angeles with crowds of students speaking against global warming.
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Thirteen Camp Pendleton-based Marines detained in a human smuggling probe in July are facing a variety of related charges under military law, the 1st Marine Division said Friday.
Times Investigations
Daniel Morris’ record of dishonesty illustrates the type of important evidence about law enforcement misconduct that was long kept secret in California.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has called for a review of all Native American companies in its minority contracting program in response to a Times investigation.
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An internal investigation at UCLA uncovered key elements of William “Rick” Singer’s college admissions scheme in 2014.
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The L.A. Times finds the Trump administration appears to be violating U.S. law in implementing the Remain in Mexico policy, officials and lawyers warn.
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The Department of Homeland Security stored sensitive data from BioWatch on an insecure website where it was vulnerable to attacks by hackers, records show.
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California culture, news and politics
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City Beat: Moments in the life of L.A.
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Skelton has covered government and politics for The Times since 1974.
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President Trump’s plan to get homeless people off L.A. streets is to eliminate layers of regulation to make it easier and cheaper to build more housing. But it’s too simple to link that approach with that of his liberal antagonists in California.
The debate over whether to fund a 64-unit homeless housing complex in Chatsworth will now head to the Los Angeles City Council.
Council President Herb Wesson says “anti-displacement zones” would cover the entire city of Los Angeles, but how they would work is far from clear.
L.A. City Councilman John Lee has come out against a rare proposal to build homeless housing in his San Fernando Valley district. The debate follows a closely watched campaign that revolved, in part, around warring views of the homeless crisis.
L.A. County’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to draft an amicus brief that urges the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a challenge to Martin vs. City of Boise.
A week after hearing about federal officials swinging through a vacant office building close to Los Angeles International Airport, Hawthorne officials and residents are still confused. The office building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Amid California’s housing crisis, Airbnb pledges $25 million to support affordable housing and small business in the San Francisco Bay Area, L.A. County.
California legislators passed a statewide cap on rents but didn’t take major action to increase the supply of housing this year.
As President Trump heads to California for two days of fundraising, his administration is reportedly still considering clearing homeless encampments and moving people into government-owned facilities.
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Climate & Environment
Greta Thunberg and other young activists visit the United Nations to urge Secretary-General Antonio Guterres into action against climate change.
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Amazon workers have spent this year urging CEO Jeff Bezos take more urgent steps on climate change. They’re a key reason Amazon’s environmental footprint is under scrutiny.
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Corporate sustainability efforts are sometimes framed as acts of altruism — but for big businesses, protecting the environment is often good for the bottom line.
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California’s unique authority to set its own tailpipe emissions standards has made the state an environmental leader and irked the Trump administration.
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Walkouts are taking place worldwide Friday calling for action on climate change in a youth-led movement for renewable energy and carbon-neutral goals.
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After decades of tax breaks, wind and solar have been deployed widely enough for manufacturers and developers to become efficient and drive down costs.
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Senior Montebello school officials misled investors about serious financial and management problems when they marketed $100 million in school construction bonds, the SEC alleges.
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USC’s decentralized fiscal system makes the top goal a constant search for cash. It’s contributed to USC’s successes and — mightily — to its failures.
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University of California President Janet Napolitano announced she will resign. Here’s a look back at her tenureMore Coverage
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A magnitude-3.4 earthquake was reported Wednesday at 10:23 a.m. 14 miles from Fortuna, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude-3.8 earthquake was reported at 11:11 a.m. Monday 27 miles from Coachella and 32 miles from Indio, Calif.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was registered at 2:48 a.m. Saturday nine miles offshore from Huntington Beach.
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A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported Thursday evening at 11:50 p.m. Pacific time 11 miles from Soledad, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A Los Angeles judge has rescinded sanctions against two prosecutors whom she said had failed give defense lawyers evidence in a case against a Mexican megachurch leader charged with child rape and human trafficking.
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A California appeals court on Friday rejected the Manson follower’s latest bid for release from prison.
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A San Diego judge ordered a 20-year-old man to stand trial on charges of murder and three counts of attempted murder in the April shootings at a Poway synagogue.
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California’s labor force is shrinking, but the state continues to add jobs. Unemployment remains low at 4.1%
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The secretary, who was in San Francisco and Los Angeles this week with President Trump, reportedly said that single-sex shelters should be able to reject transgender people.
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Democratic donor Ed Buck’s arrest, long sought by activists, sparks questions of why the process took so long.
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Electronic devices were plugged into a series of outlets in the Conception’s galley. Those outlets are a focus of the investigation into the deadly dive boat fire that killed 34.
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Bald eagles are choosing to nest close to human activity, but no one knows why.
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The Black Keys made tickets to their Wiltern show nontransferable to third-party vendors, leaving fans who bought tickets from sites such as StubHub turned away at the doors.
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A California appeals court on Friday rejected the Manson follower’s latest bid for release from prison.
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Ed Buck, the Democratic donor who was recently accused of running a drug house in West Hollywood where two men have died, faces a federal criminal case in connection with one of the overdoses.
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The group’s harmony-laden recordings of politically minded songs by Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger ushered them to the top of the sales charts in the 1960s.
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Laws & Policy
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President Trump’s attorneys argued that California can only impose “procedural” election rules, not one as sweeping as disclosure of tax returns.
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Trump’s authority to revoke California’s waiver from federal clean air rules rests on a very shaky legal foundation.
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With bills to protect employment rights, student athlete pay, abortion services and renters, the 2019 California Legislature turned in a very progressive record.
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One question invariably asked over lunch around the state Capitol is: “How do you think Newsom is doing?”
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L.A. officials are revoking an agreement that has long allowed a local group to use an old firehouse on Crenshaw Boulevard, spurring an outpouring of protest from the group and its supporters.
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