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California voters are eager to know who won elections. Here’s why the answer is slow going
After the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral primary, developer Rick Caruso looked to have a surprising, and sizable, lead over then-U.S. Rep. Karen Bass. The morning after the polls closed, Caruso was ahead by 5 percentage points — 42% to Bass’ 37% — and the former Republican called the early results “a victory story.” But that…
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Does The Future of Climate Resilience Lie Beneath Our Feet?
—MoMo Productions—Getty Images We often look to the sky for climate solutions. We debate carbon markets, map wind patterns, and calculate atmospheric emissions. Yet one of the most transformative, sophisticated solutions to climate change available to us is not engineered in a laboratory—it is the living soil right beneath our feet. For far too long,…
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Why Apple Might Put Cameras Into Its Next AirPods
If you were to ding Apple’s privacy credentials in one move, you could do worse than to launch AirPods with cameras. Whether or not they come to market, all of Apple’s existing ubiquitous earbuds would become a question mark for everyone in their vicinity: Are they recording me right now? According to Bloomberg’s well-sourced Mark…
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Bombshell report alleges years of harassment against immigrant vendors in Riverside
Two code enforcement officers in the Inland Empire waged a years-long campaign of aggression against mostly immigrant street vendors, entering homes without warrants, engaging in fights and foot chases and improperly seizing people’s property, according to a bombshell report commissioned by the city of Riverside last year. The report, obtained by The Times through the…
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To make friends, join a club. To join a club, find an activity fair.
Caitlin Squier-Roper, 45, recently discovered an intriguing club on Instagram: Philly Cooks a Book, a monthly meetup where locals prepare and share an assigned recipe from a specified cookbook. She could’ve enrolled through the group’s social media and shown up to a meeting, dish in hand, not knowing a single soul. So she held off…
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Spencer Pratt and Zohran Mamdani should both follow this NY city’s housing lead
Insurgent Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt and New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani don’t agree on much. Pratt pledges to force homeless drug addicts into treatment; Mamdani aims to swell the “homeless services” budget to $4.2 billion. Pratt proposes a major increase in the LAPD’s ranks; Mamdani halted plans to hire thousands of new…
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Dataland defies expectations. But will L.A. embrace the world’s first AI arts museum?
“The system is the art,” says Refik Anadol during a recent tour of Dataland, the 25,000-square-foot immersive, environmental, generative, multisensory AI arts museum in downtown L.A. that represents the culmination of Anadol’s career thus far. Set to open later this month inside the stacked towers of Frank Gehry’s Grand LA, and in the context of…
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This hero is derailing Trump’s juggernaut
I started in radio news as a teenage reporter at WITL-AM/FM in Lansing, Michigan, then the number one station in the capital city. I began reporting from the Capitol and City Hall, and was writing and reading the morning newscasts within a year. The station owner was a hardcore Goldwater Republican, our news director was…
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‘Doo Doo Water and a Few Needles’: Inside the Mystery of the New York City Manhole Prowlers
In recent days, a fantastical question has captured the attention of New Yorkers and local tabloids: Who is popping in and out of manholes across the city, and what are they doing in the sewer system? On May 5, security footage showed three people wearing hip waders entering a manhole in Queens. Then, in the…
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Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit placed on list for lung transplant, palace says
Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant after a further deterioration of her health, the royal household said in a statement on Friday. The 52-year-old wife of Crown Prince Haakon, the heir to the Norwegian throne, was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in 2018, a chronic disease that…