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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego are on opposite sides of the high-stakes debate over whether politicians who support abortion rights should be denied Communion.
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Five new deaths reported by the L.A. County Department of Public Health put the county near 24,000 COVID-related deaths since the pandemic began.
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Cal State San Marcos seeks restitution from Michael Schroder for first-class airfare, resort stays, lavish meals and other costs.
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The move is intended to give people who don’t have the time or technological resources to navigate online booking platforms a chance to get the shot.
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Video of the show posted to social media showed a crowd of about 1,000 people or more
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The deadly crash off Point Loma shows how decades of heightened border enforcement and recent pandemic policies drive people to riskier crossings.
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The ‘Zoom in a room’ option for in-person schooling — the format for high schools in Los Angeles and San Francisco — has failed to draw back the vast majority of students.
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Four other people suffered less serious injuries, officials said.
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Southern California is the world’s only place where all major schools of Buddhism are represented — and followers recently gathered for what’s believed to be the first time to offer healing against anti-Asian bias and other racial hate.
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A magnitude 3.7 earthquake was reported Saturday evening at 6:55 p.m. two miles from Redondo Beach, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Garcetti is in the running for a post in the Biden administration, just as L.A. emerges from the pandemic, confronts a homelessness crisis and faces huge issues around race.
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State officials attributed California’s historic population decline to the falling birth rate, deaths from COVID-19 and reductions in immigration.
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Cruz Reynoso, a child of migrant workers who worked in the fields as a child and went on to become the first Latino state Supreme Court justice in California history, has died.
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Though many courts were operating under restrictions because of the pandemic, courts received petitions for the orders at a greater rate than the year before.
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Speaking with The Times on Thursday, Jenner fleshed out some of her proposals on governing the fifth biggest economy in the world.
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“My father died in the 1918 flu,” my dad told me. Only later did we learn how the pandemic created enduring family secrets and mysteries.
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The ‘Zoom in a room’ option for in-person schooling — the format for high schools in Los Angeles and San Francisco — has failed to draw back the vast majority of students.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark focus the long battle between the medical establishment and the fat acceptance movement.
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Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has become one of the nation’s most influential public health figures while guiding California’s efforts during the pandemic.
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The promotoras program drops by neighborhoods to connect low-income families to services at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach.
With demand for COVID-19 vaccines waning, officials are closing some mass vaccination sites while doubling down on getting the reluctant inoculated.
Rida Hamida has received international attention for the vaccine/taco event and has taken it to mosques from San Diego to Sacramento.
Ending the COVID-19 pandemic will require at least some of us with brains to argue — sorry, have calm and reasoned conversations — with willful idiots.
The pandemic’s “shecession” could set back decades of progress on workplace equality, especially among Latina, Black and Asian women.
Sanctioned tent camps sprouted up in San Francisco at the beginning of the COVID pandemic and have become key to the city’s homelessness response.
It’s a mad commencement scramble to deliver some pomp to the Class of 2021. Universities are changing their plans the very week that wider reopenings are announced.
“We do need to work harder to ensure that there’s good information and easy access to vaccinations for our younger people,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said.
Orange County will close mass vaccination sites at the Anaheim Convention Center, OC Fair & Event Center, Soka University and Santa Ana College.
The owner of the Old Corner Saloon in San Joaquin County is arrested after allegedly selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to undercover agents.
A ‘slimmed down’ version of the state fair may return later this year, organizers say.
L.A. County is in the yellow tier of the state’s COVID recovery plan, allowing for the broadest reopening of the economy since the pandemic began.
There will be no LA Pride parade in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are virtual and charity events planned.
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A writer who took issue with his daughter’s AP U.S. history course went too far when he accused teachers of ‘deliberately trying to strip the past of relevance.’
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As L.A. County high schools reopen, teens are redefining back-to-school wardrobe, shedding their remote-learning loungewear for innovative looks.
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Officials abandon effort to extend the school year in the face of opposition from teachers and lukewarm parent support.
Housing & Homelessness
Sanctioned campgrounds to shelter homeless people are fine as a temporary measure only.
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Sanitation workers collected about 35 tons of trash while cleaning the remnants of a homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake, which the city is hoping to reopen by the end of this month.
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A federal judge ruled the CDC has no authority to declare a nationwide eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic. What does this mean for renters?
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With high housing prices driving people inland, a deep-seated fear has taken root in pockets of red California that they’re being invaded by liberals.
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We’re not losing high-income people fleeing California taxes, columnist George Skelton writes. More affluent people have been moving here than departing because they can afford our escalating costs of living.
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Vacation destinations have become primary homes during the COVID-19 pandemic as Lake Tahoe and Palm Springs see surges in population and housing costs.
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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake was reported at 9:35 p.m. Thursday one mile from Truckee, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The recently reopened Pasadena Central Library has closed due to seismic safety issues
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Mobile users in Washington state gained access to the earthquake early warning system’s mobile alerts, following California and Oregon.
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Earthquakes along strike-slip faults can cause tsunamis in certain contexts, a new model shows — and such faults exist right off parts of California.
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Hate crimes against Asian Americans had increased as of earlier this year in Los Angeles, according to a recent report by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino.
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He is remembered in the Latino community as a towering champion of civil rights who was also unfailingly humble and gracious
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Avalos’ mother and her boyfriend are accused of torturing the 10-year-old Lancaster boy for days before his death in 2018.
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An administrative secretary wins $60,000 in a sexual harassment lawsuit against a former San Diego County assistant sheriff who she claims groped her.
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An L.A. County Jail inmate is accused of striking an Asian American custody assistant, the Sheriff’s Department says.
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For the first time in its history, California’s population fell in 2020, underscoring larger trends that recently cost it a congressional seat.
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A bouquet of 25 roses is running between $30 and $60, one vendor said, compared to the more typical range of $16 to $30.
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Southern California air quality officials are imposing new rules on nearly 3,000 warehouses, citing increased pollution from diesel truck traffic.
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After more than a year, the Los Angeles City Council will convene in its downtown chambers next month.
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A focus on custom kicks and an early embrace by SoCal skaters helped him build a multi-billion-dollar brand.
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Mustafa Qadiri is suspected of misusing $5 million in pandemic relief loans to buy luxury sports cars, take lavish vacations and cover his personal expenses
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NASA is sharing sounds of its little helicopter humming through the thin Martian air.
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Sheriff’s Department says tactics used by deputy who appears in video to hold his gun to the head of a Black man during an arrest ‘are not taught.’
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Security camera footage shows two men breaking into a Placerville deli and running away with boxes of lottery tickets.
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California’s population decreased by 182,083 in 2020, officials announced Friday.
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With her husband and nine children, Juliette Paskowitz spent a lifetime chasing the perfect wave.
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“Our democracy is collapsing, and that’s dangerous for all of us because the void will be filled by carnival barkers, despots and authoritarians.”
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It’s been a surreal week on the recall campaign trail for those eyeing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s seat
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Federal appeals court rejects challenge to a California program that provides retirement savings for workers who don’t have a pension or 401(k).
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An Assembly panel recommended against creating a new department at a hearing where lawmakers noted a backlog of delayed claims has increased.
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L.A. hoping to supercharge economy by summer. But will tourists and office workers really return?
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Actor known as “Zach Avery” indicted on fraud charges in sprawling Hollywood Ponzi scheme
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In an unnamed and unheralded alley just south of Hollywood Boulevard, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton filmed scenes in some of their greatest films. It deserves recognition.
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A tidal wave of reopenings continues to wash over the state as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths recede.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers negotiated the provisions of the bill, which allows businesses to avoid paying state taxes on forgiven loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program and to deduct expenses paid for using the loan funds.
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Actor Zachary Horwitz collected $690 million from investors for movie deals the FBI says were fictitious.
