For the last year, Los Angeles political leaders have searched for a way to upgrade the downtown Convention Center without also delivering cuts to core services. The city’s budget team …
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Assembly Speaker Rivas and brother sued by staffer who was fired
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesA recently fired California Legislature staff member filed a lawsuit this week against Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas claiming that the lawmaker and his brother, Rick, retaliated against her for reporting …
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Newsmax sues Fox News, alleging anti-competitive tactics to suppress rivals
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesUnderdog conservative channel Newsmax is challenging Rupert Murdoch’s dominant Fox News in court. Newsmax sued Fox News parent firm Fox Corp. Wednesday, accusing Murdoch’s television company of anti-competitive behavior designed …
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Voters have spurned rich candidates for California governor, U.S. Senate
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe rich, to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, are different. In California, they lose a lot of very expensive, very high-profile political races. Over the past 50-plus years, a half-dozen fabulously …
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House committee releases some Justice Department files in Epstein case
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it had received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine …
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8 killed and 50 hurt in Chicago over weekend as Trump plans deployment
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesCHICAGO — Eight people were killed and 50 others were wounded over the Labor Day weekend in dozens of shootings in Chicago, where President Trump has seized on crime to try to …
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ICE interviewing parents hoping to reunite with unaccompanied migrants
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesMcALLEN, Texas — President Trump’s administration has started requiring parents looking to reunite with their children who crossed into the U.S. alone to show up for interviews where immigration officers may question …
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I got COVID and can’t smell. But RFK Jr.’s vaccine policies still stink
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesFor five years, I dodged every bullet. I don’t know how I managed to beat COVID-19 for so long, even as family, friends and colleagues got hit with the coronavirus. …
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3 teens committed ‘satanic’ murder. Why is only one still in prison?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesIt was a July evening when Elyse Pahler, 15, sneaked out of her bedroom in the Central Coast town of Arroyo Grande, planning to get into some mischief. A boy …
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Trump wants to ax affordable housing grant; rural areas will be hurt
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesHeather Colley and her two children moved four times over five years as they fled high rents in eastern Tennessee, which, like much of rural America, hasn’t been spared from …