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Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a costume designer

What does it take to dress characters in a film a or television show, and how do you get started if storytelling through clothing is your passion? Hollywood costume designers explain.

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Train robberies — great or pedestrian — are nothing new in California

Here’s a strategy to avoid going broke in retirement

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA--NOV. 26, 2018--Employes of Walker Workshop, an architectural firm, will soon be offered a new savings program called CalSavers. CalSavers is a new program that will offer individual retirement accounts to California workers. Employees at the firm include project manager Sean Gaffney, left, and studio director, Charles Chambers, center. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

Don’t have a 401(k) through work? Californians have CalSavers and other options

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Your health insurance says, ‘Claim denied.’ How to fight back

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How the body’s immune system tries to fight off COVID-19

How to help a stranger on the street in a mental health crisis

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Redondo Beach, CA - January 06: Boxes of iHealth COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test kits, provided by the state of California, are ready for parents to pick up, at Tulita Elementary School, as positive COVID-19 cases spike with the spread of the Omicron strain, in Redondo Beach, CA, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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5 things to know about ordering free COVID tests

The federal website providing free at-home COVID-19 tests is open for orders. Here is how to order the tests, and what you need to know.

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