What I learned from covering California’s homeless since 1980
In 1980, I reported on Sacramento’s “public inebriates.” Most of them, a few hundred in all, lived in flophouse hotels. But some slept “in the…
Love Island set for biggest shake-up in history to mark decade of ITV hit show
Love Island producers are said to be prepared to quadruple their weekly budget to secure a new setting, with one property in Portugal’s picturesque Algarve…
A decade of documenting more than 63,000 migrant deaths shows that fleeing is more lethal than ever
More than a decade ago, the death of 600 migrants and refugees in two Mediterranean shipwrecks near Italian shores shocked the world and prompted the…
Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after Chibok abductions | Armed Groups News
Lagos, Nigeria – In the decade since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 students at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok,…
ITV Britain's Got Talent star Rosie O'Sullivan's life now decade since show after 17 stone weight loss
Rosie O'Sullivan was a contestant on Britain's Got Talent just over a decade ago and reached the semi-finals, with her having continued to perform in…
Trader Joe’s raises banana prices for first time in 20 years
Inflation has hit Trader Joe’s famously affordable bananas. The Monrovia-based grocery chain confirmed Monday it had raised the individual cost of bananas for the first…
Classical American pianist Byron Janis dies at 95
NEW YORK — Byron Janis, a renowned American concert pianist and composer who broke barriers as a Cold War-era culture ambassador and later overcame severe arthritis…
California behind on goals for reducing greenhouse gases
Wind turbines rise above an array of solar panels at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Tree Wind Farm and Solar Power Plant…
Retiring Aaron Donald didn’t just lead Rams, he was the Rams
For years he had remained hidden, lost underneath a giant helmet, buried in a defensive line. He was a star who behaved like a stunt…
Hopeless Records celebrates 30 years of pop-punk, metalcore and indie music
Just a few years before he founded Hopeless Records in his early 20s, Louis Posen thought he saw a future for himself in the film…
This artist plasters pink sheep across L.A. as a symbol of queer joy
It began with a quote by Alexander McQueen: “I am the pink sheep in the family.” In 2013, L.A.-based contemporary street artist Ricky Sencion read…
Ukraine recovery and reconstruction: $486 billion over the next decade
Reconstruction and recovery in war-torn Ukraine is projected to cost $486 billion over the next decade, up from $411 billion estimated a year ago, a…
Opinion: Blocking Ukraine aid is no way to put America dirst
For Presidents Day, the House is taking two weeks off. But first the Republicans who misrule the place honored their favorite president by blocking desperately…
Jon Stewart tells why he returned to ‘Daily Show’: ‘It’s not just the election’
Jon Stewart will make his much anticipated return to “The Daily Show” on Monday night — a weekly hosting gig he will continue through the…
California Latinos have become more skeptical of undocumented immigrants. What changed?
For the last quarter century, Democratic politicians in California have operated under the maxim that the more laws enacted to protect people in this country…
Opinion: Is Steve Garvey, or his California campaign, for real?
Many years ago, I interviewed Steve Garvey’s ex-wife, Cyndy, whose memoir had just been published. She’d spent years as a lonely, resentful baseball wife wrongly…
At Birch Society headquarters, looking for roots of conspiracy theory in U.S.
APPLETON, Wis. — The decades fall away as you open the front doors. It’s the late 1950s in the cramped little offices — or maybe the…