Los Angeles International Airport has reported at least 400 confirmed cases, including 233 among TSA staff, but airport officials say the outbreak hasn't affected services. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

California's strawberry fields may not be forever. Could robots help?

Climate change, new regulations, drought: It's getting harder to grow strawberries in California. One robotics startup is betting on a revolutionary change. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Study Finds That Mozart Music Makes You Smarter

Those who hope to seem smarter by listening to Mozart may be on to something. At least temporarily. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Compared with its ancestors, the latest Omicron subvariant, BA.5, may have an enhanced ability to create a numerous copies of the coronavirus once it gets into human cells. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Slice of Life: Pizza Orders Soar in D.C. (1991)

a quick read on the state of world affairs, one need only look at pizza deliveries to the Pentagon, White House and CIA. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Pregnant, Homeless and Living in a Tent

In an encampment above the Hollywood Freeway, nothing about Mckenzie Trahan's future is certain. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

20 years ago, a dramatic North Hollywood shootout changed the course of the LAPD

It began as just another gorgeous L.A. day. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Musk backed a boast of 0 'self-driving' Tesla crashes, data show otherwise

Tesla's CEO has claimed a perfect record for the safety of his company's robot-driving system. A public crash-reporting database contradicts him. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

The man who played Hollywood

The ex-fiance of reality star Lala Kent faces the collapse of his company amid a trail of lawsuits, civil fraud charges and allegations of abusive behavior. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

A billion pounds of California almonds stranded at ports amid drought

As almond growers use increasingly scarce and expensive water to irrigate this year's crop, over a billion pounds of nuts remain stranded in port. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Six indicted in cryptocurrency and NFT fraud schemes that made $130M

The four cryptocurrency fraud cases announced by federal prosecutors this week include the single largest NFT scheme charged to date. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Q&A: Carver Mead revolutionized computers. Can he do the same for physics?

Microelectronics pioneer Carver Mead of Caltech explains his journey from computer technology to fundamental physics. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Coronavirus threat in California worsens due to BA.4, BA.5

Subvariants BA.4, BA5 are ultra-contagious and capable of reinfecting those who have survived earlier Omicron infection | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

L.A. restaurant was excited to open. Then the graffiti and protests started

Dunsmoor, an upscale new restaurant in L.A.'s Glassell Park neighborhood, was hit with protests and “Gentrification Is Genocide” graffiti on opening night. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California and its social fabric

Recurring drought and rising temperatures have already begun to alter the landscape of California and the American Southwest, researchers warn. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Data breach exposes private info of all California concealed-carry permit owners

The California Department of Justice suffered the breach as part of the launch of an online dashboard, authorities said. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

One man’s fight to end California’s ban on ferrets

In nearly three decades of ferret activism, Pat Wright has gone to jail, run for political office, lobbied legislators, collected thousands of signatures and battled decades of rejection and apathy. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

LAPD treatment of journalists denounced, again, after abortion rights protest downtown

Independent journalist Tina-Desiree Berg was standing on a sidewalk filming the arrest of an abortion rights protester in downtown Los Angeles on Friday night when a police officer hit her on the side of the head. Berg, a regular chronicler of L.A.(latimes.com) | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now

Bored & Hungry is a magnet for fans of Bored Ape NFTs and other crypto projects. But with prices cratering, the Long Beach burger joint no longer lets customers use crypto as payment. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Maury Povich, king of daytime, takes a final bow

Inside a studio in Stamford, Conn., a man and a woman were at each other's throats. Tashima and her live-in boyfriend, Darnell, were battling after he accused her of infidelity during their three-year relationship, including sleeping with the mailman.(latimes.com) | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Holding Trump accountable — and disqualifying him from future office — would not be a partisan act, but one needed to preserve the republic. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

As water crisis worsens on Colorado River, an urgent call for states to ‘act’

The federal government is telling seven states to make plans for drastically cutting water use along the Colorado River within two months. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1M per apartment to build

At least seven low-income housing developments funded by the state have eclipsed more than $1 million per apartment to build in the last two years. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Home sellers are cutting prices as buyers pause 'The market is not the same'

In a significant shift in the market, fewer homes are going into escrow, inventory is rising and sellers are increasingly cutting their asking prices. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Airtaxis are aiming to be in Los Angeles by 2028

Electric air taxis are coming to Los Angeles. The city and FAA will decide if this is a grand new era in transportation or a small novelty for the rich. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

We’ve only scratched the surface of how bad the crypto crime wave has gotten

Bored Ape heists. Feds seizing stolen Ethereum. NFT insider trading. The crypto crime wave is real and it's gotten worse. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Behind the Scenes of a Bank Takeover by FDIC (1986)

A tired Paolo Tolian had one last chore. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Data likely show Teslas on Autopilot crash more than rivals

The government plans soon to release data on collisions involving vehicles with autonomous or partially automated driving system that will likely single out Teslas for a disproportionately high number of such crashes. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Air quality worsens as drought forces California growers to burn abandoned crops

As San Joaquin Valley growers set fire to uprooted vineyards and orchards amid the worsening drought, residents complain of increased air pollution. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Major water cutbacks loom as shrinking Colorado River nears ‘moment of reckoning

As the Colorado River water shortage worsens, major cutbacks are needed to reduce most perilous risks, a federal official tells senators. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Google and Facebook blocking wind farm because it will raise their electric bill

An Iowa wind farm complex backed by Warren Buffett would be one of the biggest renewable energy projects in the country. But big-name tech giants warn it could drive up electricity costs. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Supreme Court: 4th Amendment void within 100 miles of coast

The conservative majority says federal agents cannot be sued for excessive force and unreasonable searches unless Congress authorizes such claims. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

California aims to slash insulin prices

Newsom wants to spend $100 million to make insulin affordable to millions with diabetes under a new generic drug label, CalRx. What will it cost? | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

My grandmother opened a restaurant in Echo Park in 1951. The rest is history

The Nayarit Restaurant's authentic Mexican food, diverse clientele and ripple effect helped make L.A., and Echo Park, what it is today. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress' (2018)

Facebook Inc. is disputing a New York Times report about how it shares data with device makers including Apple, Amazon and Samsung. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Texas border militia stops migrants and shoots video of kids

Members of Patriots for America, a militia group in Texas, are not legally allowed to stop or question migrants. They say they ask for permission. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Pay People to Quit Having Kids (1999)

Instead of paying people to have children, why don't we pay people not to have them? | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Ban on Gas Stoves is the end of Korean BBQ in L.A

Chinese and Korean chefs in Los Angeles are worried that a ban on future gas stoves may alter their kitchens forever. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Profiles of people living in homeless encampments, rarely what you’d expect

Three men who have been staying in the tent city outside the Venice library branch talk about how they came to be there and how they see their futures. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Why do so many LA apartments come without refrigerators?

Why do tenants have to bring their own refrigerators to rent apartments in Los Angeles? | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Quality assurance workers at Activision Blizzard subsidiary unionize

Nineteen workers at Activision Blizzard-owned Raven Software voted to form the Game Workers Alliance. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Why don’t regulators stop Elon Musk from breaking the law?

How does Elon Musk get away with his shenanigans? Because regulators are intimidated. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

California’s economy may seem healthy. Just wait for the next recession

The state’s dependency on tax revenues from the rich and the continued health of the tech economy make it vulnerable in the event of a downturn. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Why California needs more water than ever to end its drought

The added heat from global warming has made drought-stricken lands extra-dry. It will take more precipitation than usual to end it. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 1 year ago

Silvio Micali on Where Crypto Is Headed

Silvio Micali's work helped make secure internet communications possible. Now Silvio Micali is focused on making a blockchain that's faster, more secure and less energy-intensive than bitcoin. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 2 years ago

Decision looms for controversial Poseidon desalination plant

After more than a decade of controversy, plans to build a desalination plant in Huntington Beach face a critical vote. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 2 years ago

California promised to close its last nuclear plant. Gov Newsom is reconsidering

Delaying the closure of Diablo Canyon would mark a shift for nuclear politics as the climate crisis worsens. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 2 years ago

Bias, far-right sympathies among California law enforcement going unchecked

A state audit of five law enforcement agencies in California found unchecked bias and support for far-right extremist groups among officers. | Continue reading


@latimes.com | 2 years ago