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This marmot study’s got money troubles
Looking for some marmot content? Try OnlyFans or, rather, OnlyMarms. Researchers at a UCLAaffiliated marmot research lab launched an OnlyFans account to post videos of marmots captured in the wild as a way to help generate funding for their work and...
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MLK HOSPITAL TACKLES FUNDING CRISIS
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Willowbrook is the main emergency medical care option for hundreds of thousands of South Los Angeles residents, but space is so tight that many patients are treated in large metal-frame tents on the pavement...
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A global milestone for California solar power
California hit a major milestone in May, generating more than half its electricity from the sun in what is believed to be a global first, according to an analysis of federal data. “California has had a wealth of solar growth in the last five years,”...
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ATTACKS BY IRAN, U.S. DIM PEACE HOPES
CAIRO — The United States and Iran each fired barrages of missiles Thursday, as the pattern of backand-forth strikes took hold again and hope for an end to the five-month-long war faded. Following a few days of respite, fears of a wider war have...
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A surprising twist in return-to-office effort
Los Angeles video gaming company Riot Games abandoned its return-to-office requirements in January, and surprisingly, more of its employees have been showing up at work. Two years of dictating that everyone commute into work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays...
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WILDFIRE RAGES IN FRANCE
A Dash aircraft flies over a massive blaze near Martignas-sur-Jalle, France, on Tuesday.
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Muggy conditions make summer heat unbearable
It’s not your imagination: This summer has been unusually sticky in Los Angeles, with humidity levels making conditions feel more like the Deep South than Southern California. As summer heat settles over the Southwest, it changes the circulation in...
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L.A.’s perilous game of water pipeline triage
The Los Angeles water system is so old — and money for replacements is exceedingly scarce — that officials are left playing a dangerous game of triage. They know huge swaths of the system are in desperate need of replacement. But with limited time and...
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Soaring oil prices add new pocketbook stress
Already feeling pinched since the start of the Iran war, consumers are likely to feel more pain ahead as oil prices pushed past $100 a barrel Thursday amid renewed fighting and military strikes that have left global oil supplies stranded in the Middle...
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RETURN ENGAGEMENT
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts speaks as players, staff and President Trump listen during a visit in the Rose Garden of the White House to mark the team’s second consecutive World Series title.
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Climate change could redraw state’s wine map
It was Labor Day 2017, and the remote thermometer at McIntyre Estate Vineyard in Monterey County’s Santa Lucia Highlands was registering a noontime temperature Steve McIntyre couldn’t quite believe: 104 degrees. McIntyre jumped in his car, hoping the...
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A NEW LOW IN STATES’ WATER CRISIS
Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the country’s two largest reservoirs, have fallen to their lowest combined levels on record, a grim marker in the deepening water crisis across seven states that depend on the Colorado River. The two reservoirs are now lower...
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Southland facing a triple threat of heat, humidity and high surf
Southern California will face a triple threat this week of dangerous heat, muggy weather and, along the coast, hazardous high waves. “We’re looking at an at least several days — if not longer — heat event, which can really be concerning,” said...
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Mexican fishermen also target of U.S. boat strikes
LA CRUZ DE HUANACAXTLE, Mexico — Before dawn one morning in mid-February, two boats carrying eight fishermen set out from Mexico’s Pacific coast. They never returned. The drug traffickers who had hired the men to help them smuggle cocaine said the...
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Water main rupture is L.A.’s worst in years
The massive Sunset Strip trunk line rupture was L.A.’s worst in years, spilling 17 million gallons of water and forcing the closure of Sunset Boulevard for at least several days. Closures are in place on Sunset Boulevard from San Vicente...
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SUNSET UNDER WATER
Workers view a broken water main at Sunset Boulevard and Holloway Drive in West Hollywood that sent water gushing, closing many streets and highlighting L.A.’s aging infrastructure.
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DEATH IN DEEP, CHOPPY S.F. BAY WATERS
They set out to sea — passing under the Golden Gate Bridge and across the San Francisco Bay to Angel Island — for a memorial service to honor a loved one. But the voyage 20 family members and friends embarked on Tuesday turned into a tragedy as they...
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Where currents of art and activism cross
Yo-Yo Ma closed his eyes as he drew a bow slowly across his cello, playing the first notes of the Catalan lullaby “The Song of the Birds.” But this venue wasn’t like any vaulted concert hall he had toured globally. At Maywood’s Riverfront Park, Ma was...
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Trump says toll coming for strait passage
DUBAI — The U.S. announced a new round of strikes on Iran on Monday, hours after President Trump said that the United States is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and, in a seeming policy reversal, will charge other ships for safe...
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50-YEAR-OLD COASTAL ACT IN DANGER
An oil rig looms offshore as a surfer paddles off Santa Barbara County. The Trump administration is threatening to undo decades of shoreline protections in the state, Steve Lopez writes.
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THAT’S A WRAP FOR WORLD CUP IN L.A.
Spain fans celebrate after their team defeated Belgium 2-1 in a World Cup quarterfinal Friday, the last match of the tournament held at SoFi Stadium, played in front of another sellout crowd.
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RENEWED FIGHTING IMPERILS U.S.-IRAN CEASEFIRE
DUBAI — The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting U.S.allied countries in an exchange of fire that threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Middle...
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A Gaza father’s dire search for a dead son
GAZA CITY — Yusef al-Zaharnah’s eyes were transfixed on the excavator’s bucket as its claws scooped into the rubble, hoping its fresh load would end nine grueling months of uncertainty and allow him to fully grieve. Once it disgorged its haul,...
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ALLIES IN ANKARA
PRESIDENTS Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey meet Tuesday in Ankara, where they are attending a NATO summit. Turkey wants to regain access to the U.S. F-35 program.
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L.A. County’s unexpected boomtowns
When residents and business owners began talking about creating a city in the Santa Clarita Valley nearly three decades ago, few could have imagined the demographic juggernaut the region would become. Back then, it was a far-flung collection of four...
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Pontiff asserts authority on world matters
ROME — Pope Leo XIV began a summer break on Sunday, capping a whirlwind finale to the first half of 2026 in which he emerged as a powerful global statesman on issues including artificial intelligence and war and flexed decisive papal muscle to govern...
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WHAT DO 250 YEARS MEAN TO YOU?
‘Until we learn to stand up for ourselves and be honest, our country’s going downward.’ BILLY ALCH, SKID ROW What 250 means: I feel like it means growth; it represents that we’ve kept it going, and we as people have evolved and been able to work...
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Trump recasts America 250th to celebrate him
— Small towns across America had big plans to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial this weekend. Local historical societies scheduled town square readings of the Declaration of Independence, hired bands to play patriotic tunes, organized parades...
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D.C.’s July 4 facelift raises some eyebrows
WASHINGTON — As America’s 250th birthday arrives this weekend, President Trump’s mark is clearly visible on Washington. Visitors to the nation’s capital are being met with cranes hanging over the White House and construction at the site of the...
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BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP IS UPHELD BY THE SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Constitution’s promise that all those born in the country are citizens of the United States, regardless of the status of their parents. In a 6-3 decision, the justices rejected President Trump’s...
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Justices allow late-arriving mail-in ballots
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday dealt a surprise setback to the GOP and upheld state laws that allow for counting mail ballots that are postmarked by election day but arrive later. The 5-4 decision in a Mississippi case rejects a Republican...
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POLICE SEARCH
for survivors in La Guaira, Venezuela. The death toll approached 1,000 Friday.
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Venezuela races to find earthquake survivors
Rescue workers and civilians scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble Thursday as Venezuela struggled to recover from a pair of earthquakes that toppled scores of buildings, leaving at least 188 people dead and thousands homeless, resulting in...
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The drying headwaters of the Colorado River
GRANBY, Colo. — High in the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud in what were once spongy meadows. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the mountains have remained largely snowless....
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Fire draws scrutiny to warehouse firm
With a fire burning at a Boyle Heights cold storage warehouse for a seventh straight day, scrutiny is growing over the operator of the massive facility and what sparked the blaze that has spewed bad air across the region. State regulators have...
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A big puzzle of a fire in Boyle Heights
To understand why it’s been so hard for firefighters to contain the blaze that has burned for six days at a Boyle Heights cold storage facility — and why it will still take days to snuff it — consider the mazelike terrain. The building, about the size...
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‘People just forgot about Olvera Street’
In April, an anonymous tip led Liliana Robertson, manager of Cielito Lindo, to a horrifying discovery: Employees appeared to be skimming cash from the nearly century-old Mexican American restaurant, an icon that’s welcomed visitors to Olvera Street for...
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A HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
Sisters Ailani Loving, 9, left, and Jaylin King, 21, pose at L.A.’s Leimert Park, among the many Juneteenth events held nationwide Friday. In Chicago, the Obama center opened to the public.
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UKRAINE STRIKES MOSCOW REFINERY
Ukraine struck a major Moscow oil refinery Thursday for the second time in a week, sending huge plumes of black smoke over the capital and disrupting hundreds of flights at its airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia’s fullscale...
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Soccer fans are united, defying skeptics
The run-up to the World Cup in Los Angeles was marked by anxiety over how immigration enforcement, travel restrictions and antiTrump backlash would affect the spirit and attendance of the games. But on the streets of L.A. over the last week, something...
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L.A. Zoo needs to evolve, grand jury says
A Los Angeles County civil grand jury report says the L.A. Zoo can’t continue operating the way it has been, citing deterioration of its facilities and rapidly declining membership. The grand jury urged city officials to create a new public-private...
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A vague deal with Iran leaves top questions unanswered
WASHINGTON — The terms of a deal to end President Trump’s war with Iran remained a secret on Monday as both sides claimed victory and the months-long conflict reached a nebulous end. The memorandum of understanding, providing a rough framework to...
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Iranians in L.A. see hints of hope with Cup
Iran’s World Cup team arrived in Tijuana last week bearing gold lapel pins on their jackets honoring the 168 victims, most of them schoolgirls, killed in a Feb. 28 U.S. missile strike on an elementary school in southern Iran at the outset of the...
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British artist became a Los Angeles visionary
David Hockney, the innovative and prolific British artist who arrived in Los Angeles in 1964, soon celebrating its sundrenched life and landscapes in colorful, wildly popular paintings, died Thursday at his home in London. He was 88. His death was...
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Soccer vs. angst as World Cup begins
In many ways, the most ambitious World Cup in history — which kicked off Thursday in Mexico City — has inspired more angst than anticipation, more fear than fervor. The competition, returning to North America for the first time in more than three...
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Saving pristine habitat after wildfire
SANTA ROSA ISLAND, Calif. — Just steps above a white sand beach with calm, turquoise waves, the effects of the largest fire in Channel Islands National Park history are particularly stark: Fields of island grasses and chaparral have been reduced to...
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The horrors underfoot around World Cup site
The highway from the Guadalajara city airport to downtown is newly paved and the city’s famous roundabout has gotten a $4-million face-lift. The city is abuzz with renovation projects as Guadalajara prepares to host four World Cup soccer matches in...
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State’s fire season is pushing into spring
California has seen an uptick in wildfires, from Siskiyou County to San Diego. Southern California has caught the brunt of the surge. Nearly a dozen fires have, together, consumed more than 26,000 acres of varied terrain in the region over the last...
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Fungi could be key to Joshua tree survival
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE — In the heart of the Mojave National Preserve, a scientist hunted for a baby Joshua tree that would never make it to adulthood. She parted some creosote branches to reveal a shriveled shrub, just ankle high. This doomed...
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Three killed in shooting at mosque in San Diego
SAN DIEGO — Three people were killed when two teenage suspects opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday morning in an attack that sparked widespread shock and condemnation. Police swarmed the center after receiving calls of an active...
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Border wall plows across Indigenous sacred sites
TECATE, Mexico — White sage burning, Norma Meza Calles gathers guests at a Mexican wellness resort into a semicircle facing Kuuchamaa Mountain and asks everyone to close their eyes and feel its presence. “This is sacred to us like a church for you...
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As its oil runs out, Cuba is turning to capitalists
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — To Fidel Castro and Cuba’s communist elite, private businesses were totems of capitalist evil. Now, with the country running out of food and fuel, the regime on the brink and anger spreading in the streets, it’s those private...
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Xi warns Trump against threat to bilateral ties
BEIJING — An extraordinary display of power and precision along Tiananmen Square greeted President Trump in Beijing on Thursday, kicking off a two-day summit with particularly high stakes for the Americans. It was not immediately clear what the two...
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Bass and Becerra lead poll on L.A., governor races
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass continues to hold the lead among likely voters in her bid for reelection, but not by a big enough margin to avoid a likely runoff with either Spencer Pratt or Nithya Raman, who are battling for second position, a new poll...
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L.A. streetlights shed their golden glow
Light and Los Angeles are intrinsically linked. It’s a light that elicits emotion and demands reaction. Filmmaker David Lynch said L.A.’s “muted golden sunshine” was the reason filmmakers flocked here. In the New Yorker, writer Lawrence Weschler...
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Beijing is taking note of U.S. stumbles in Iran war
BEIJING — The Trump administration has repeatedly framed the war in Iran as a quick, winnable fight, vowing to defeat the Islamic Republic “totally and decisively” — incomparable to the “dumb” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But from China’s...
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FINALLY, HELP AGAINST THE SLIDES
Officials in Rancho Palos Verdes will receive almost $2.3 million in federal funds for two landslide mitigation projects almost three years after the land shifts began expanding and accelerating. CALIFORNIA, B1
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A missile strike on a school, then overwhelming grief
Posters featuring the faces of the children and their teachers — often smiling — now line the boulevards and main square of Minab, a city that has been submerged in a state of perpetual mourning. They died in a missile strike on the Shajareh Tayyibeh...
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WORKING ON TIJUANA RIVER
A research team from UC San Diego studies the polluted waterway on the U.S. side in March. A coalition of experts, activists and politicians has unveiled a plan to clean up the river.
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65 years in the making: Rail backbone emerges
If a subway would work anywhere in modern Los Angeles, conventional wisdom said, it was along Wilshire Boulevard. In 1962, California’s thengovernor, Edmund G. Brown, stood in downtown L.A. in the shadow of a rotary drilling rig to support local...
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