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  • Editorial: Another year, another broken promise to curb air pollution from L.A. ports

    Editorial: Another year, another broken promise to curb air pollution from L.A. ports

    Southern California air quality regulators are reneging on their promise to enact long-delayed rules to curb health-damaging and planet-warming pollution from the ports of L.A. and Long Beach by the end of this year. In doing nothing once again, the South Coast Air Quality Management District has failed to do its only job, cowering in…

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  • Column: Kamala Harris should run for governor -- if she wants to solve California's problems

    Column: Kamala Harris should run for governor — if she wants to solve California’s problems

    SACRAMENTO —  Kamala Harris could make history as the first woman and person of color to be elected California governor. But she’d need to really want the job. She couldn’t see it as merely a consolation prize after losing the presidential election to Donald Trump. Nor could she view it as a stepping stone back to…

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  • Labor boosted California Democrats by not talking like Democrats

    Labor boosted California Democrats by not talking like Democrats

    SACRAMENTO —  Democrats have a growing problem with union members and working-class voters, a building block that’s been foundational to their political success. Lorena Gonzalez, head of the California Labor Federation, thinks she has at least a partial solution. “We’ve got to listen to them,” she said, “and not talk about things that do not play…

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  • Patrick Soon-Shiong's controversial shakeup at the L.A. Times

    Patrick Soon-Shiong’s controversial shakeup at the L.A. Times

    Patrick Soon-Shiong had become accustomed to making the news. He was the doctor and medical technology innovator who built a fortune, the striving South African immigrant who bought a piece of the Lakers and the L.A. billionaire who brought the Los Angeles Times back under local control when he purchased it in 2018. But none…

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  • Jamie Foxx hit in the face with a glass at Mr. Chow

    Jamie Foxx hit in the face with a glass at Mr. Chow

    Jamie Foxx required medical attention after getting hit in the face with a glass while celebrating his birthday at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills on Friday night. “Someone from another table threw a glass that hit him in the mouth,” a spokesperson for the actor said in a statement to The Times. “He had to…

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  • A first-ever tornado warning was issued for San Francisco County early Saturday

    A first-ever tornado warning was issued for San Francisco County early Saturday

    A first-ever tornado warning was issued for San Francisco County early Saturday as thunderstorms and wind gusts of up to 60 mph swept through the region, officials said. “Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building,” a National Weather Service advisory warned on social media.…

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  • Pelosi has hip replacement surgery at U.S. military hospital in Germany after fall

    Pelosi has hip replacement surgery at U.S. military hospital in Germany after fall

    WASHINGTON —  Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had hip replacement surgery Saturday at a U.S. military hospital in Germany after falling while at an event in Luxembourg with other members of Congress. Pelosi, 84, “is well on the mend,” said Ian Krager, a spokesman for the San Francisco Democrat, in a statement. Pelosi thanked the staff…

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  • After CEO's killing, San Francisco police gave FBI a tip about suspect’s identity

    After CEO’s killing, San Francisco police gave FBI a tip about suspect’s identity

    NEW YORK —  The day after a masked gunman killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City, police in San Francisco gave the FBI a potentially valuable tip about the identity of the suspect: He looked like a man who had been reported missing to them the previous month, Luigi Mangione. San Francisco police provided…

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  • Commentary: Homes are out of reach in L.A. County's middle-class towns

    Commentary: Homes are out of reach in L.A. County’s middle-class towns

    Everyone wanted to come to California — that was the generational backdrop of my parents and grandparents. Then, in the 1950s, housing was so abundant that a family of rural Norwegian immigrants could scrape together $8,500 to buy (yes, buy, not rent) the bungalow in Glendale where I spent much of my childhood. Now, according…

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  • Recent wildfires have primed Malibu, Santa Monica Mountains for more

    Recent wildfires have primed Malibu, Santa Monica Mountains for more

    A red glow illuminated the valley behind the Brunel family’s Malibu home around 11 p.m. Monday. The fierce Santa Ana winds blowing dry desert air over the mountains and out to sea had already triggered public safety power shutoffs. The family, whose previous home was destroyed by the 2018 Woolsey fire, knew it was a…

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