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The humble date holds a special significance for Muslims as well as farmers in Southern California’s Coachella Valley -- considered the date capital of the United States
After COVID-19 patients died in hospitals, nurses helped handle their belongings, which they knew would be precious to family members.
A California lumber town has repeatedly bounced back from adversity —fires, economic downturns, COVID-19. Like the town, Chase Kirby is a survivor.
We seem to be on the cusp of returning to normal life, but for many people, transitioning back to Before Times is proving to be a lot more fraught than we expected.
With supreme confidence and politically incorrect bluster, businessman Dan Pena made a fortune. He prods and pokes his students to do the same.
After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, close physical contact has become anything but routine. Here are some stories of first post-vaccine hugs.
First routine, then forbidden and now cherished, hugs have come to symbolize the next phase of the pandemic
Though Pollo Campero has dozens of outlets in the U.S., travelers returning from Central American bring loads of its fried chicken — a literal taste of home.
A flourishing subgenre of YouTube channels features North Korean refugees telling how they fled the authoritarian government and how they’ve adjusted.
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Members of the #KHive respond with venom when they think someone has dismissed or insulted the vice president.
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Though large gatherings are not allowed due to COVID-19 guidelines, the traditional Asian meal of hot pot still provides comfort to many, just in smaller groups.
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Nearly 2,000 travel nurses are deployed across the state to help with COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Wet sweatshirts. Toddler shoes. A line of Scripture. These are some of the things left behind by migrants making their way across the Rio Grande.
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With COVID-19 vaccines becoming more and more available, it’s hard for some people not to feel left out.
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From the front lines of an intensifying mental health crisis, she shouldered 12 months of anxiety, isolation and fear. To endure it, she baked.
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Researchers are getting serious about understanding a disease patients call “long COVID.” Its symptoms include aches, fatigue, sleep problems and brain fog.
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The forced homecoming of students because of COVID-19 has been painful for those whose families do not know of or reject their LGBTQ identities.
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Although chaplains are primarily tasked with supporting hospital patients and their loved ones, the pandemic has thrust them into new territory: caring for the caregivers.
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When LaVar Ball moved to Chino Hills to start a family, he found a planned community that matched his own ambition. A fascinating relationship ensued.
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Tens of thousands of North Korean women have been trafficked into forced marriages in China and give birth to stateless children. The mothers face a fraught choice between their children or their freedom, a choice that continues to haunt many.
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Some readers see Doni Chamberlain and her website as a defender of civil society; others in Shasta County reject her as a liberal ‘laughingstock.’
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For the sickest of the COVID-19 sick, ECMO has become a final option.
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A year after Los Angeles fans saw their final games due to COVID-19, teams prepare to welcome them back.
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Southern California is used to bouncing back from earthquakes, wildfires and other disasters, but COVID-19 brought crisis upon crisis — “cascading collective trauma,” some scientists called it.
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Orange County will close mass vaccination sites at the Anaheim Convention Center, OC Fair & Event Center, Soka University and Santa Ana College.
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The owner of the Old Corner Saloon in San Joaquin County is arrested after allegedly selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards to undercover agents.
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A ‘slimmed down’ version of the state fair may return later this year, organizers say.
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Albert Pujols was the best player in baseball when the Angels signed him in 2011, but he couldn’t match his accomplishments from his St. Louis days.
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Daft Punk sampled Eddie Johns’ “More Spell on You” on their hit “One More Time.” Johns, who has struggled with homelessness, was never paid or credited.
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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.
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If ‘drought’ means a period of dry years followed by a return to the norm, California is not in drought. The current climate is the norm.
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Try an easy hike in Malibu, Pacific Palisades or Joshua Tree. Or help clean up the L.A. River, go moon bathing or check out a mountain lion mural.
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This weekend is essentially the Super Bowl of boxing, and for people of Mexican heritage in the U.S., those fights are a communal experience.
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