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19 August 2024

  • A firefighter works to extinguish a spot fire

    ‘Exceptionally difficult’: grueling wildfires test the resolve of US crews

    Thousands of firefighters are deployed as an all time record for acres burned – and it’s only August. Now some worry about the long months ahead

18 August 2024

  • women in ballgowns stand on stage with silhouettes of disney princesses above them

    Honey, I lost the kids: is generation Z done with Disney?

    The company’s recent fan convention was conspicuously lacking in young people, but it has plans to re-enchant them
  • a hiker in red using cables to climb up a steep mountain

    The number of hikers visiting US national parks is increasing. So is the challenge of keeping them safe

    The death of a young woman falling from the famous – and ever more popular – Half Dome in Yosemite ignites debate
  • Graphic image of what looks like a watercolor black-and-white portrait of Kamala Harris.

    The evolution of Kamala Harris: from activist in pigtails to presidential candidate

    The daughter of civil rights activists has an unbroken history of working to change ‘anything that wasn’t right’, friends say

16 August 2024

  • Man in navy suit gives press conference at hardware store

    California governor signs crime bill to crack down on shoplifting and car theft

  • a group of people recover a long dead fish, some swimming and one on a kayak

    ‘Strange and mysterious’: rarely seen, 12ft-long oarfish found in waters off San Diego

  • a large yellow construction vehicle lowers a scooper into the sand on a beach

    Beach battle in Malibu as billionaire accused of stealing sand for $30m home

  • A side-by-side image of men running at an Olympics games and cars along a highway

    Los Angeles wants a ‘no-car’ Olympics. Can the city of drivers turn a corner?

15 August 2024

  • Man hugs woman as people hold up signs of victim

    Los Angeles police arrest four suspects over killing of actor Johnny Wactor

    General Hospital star, 37, was shot dead in downtown LA in May after interrupting men taking car’s catalytic converter
  • close-up of man wearing camouflage

    Gun owned by infamous LA officer found amid $1m robbery investigation

    Two men charged with robbing luxury watch had firearm of Christopher Dorner, who killed four people and died in 2013
  • A firefighter walks towards a huge wildfire.

    Hotter than ever
    How AI is revolutionising how firefighters tackle blazes and saving lives

    Fire chief Phillip SeLegue now uses tech every day to predict a blaze as much as a week in advance

14 August 2024

  • man wearing grey suit and patterned tie with boxes and envelopes to his left

    Jury hears case against ex-politician accused of killing Las Vegas reporter

    Elected official Robert Telles pleaded not guilty to murder of Jeff German, who had written stories critical of him
  • a person holds a Palestinian flag aloft behind a row of law enforcement officers

    UCLA can’t allow protesters to block Jewish students from campus, judge rules

    Ruling marks first time a US judge has gone against a university over demonstrations against Israel-Hamas war
  • man who is Scott Peterson wearing red top and blue mask stands next to US flag

    Scott Peterson says he’s an ‘a-hole’ for cheating on slain wife but maintains innocence

    In first on-camera remarks in decades, Peterson, convicted in 2004 of murder, denies killing his pregnant wife

13 August 2024

  • man wearing black suit and striped tie gestures behind podium and microphone

    ‘We know who built this country’: Walz courts union workers in first solo event

  • ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 5 AND THEREAFTER - In a Feb. 17, 2016 photo, the Idaho State Police Forensic Services lab tests for DNA samples. The submission of rape kits for DNA collection is left entirely up to law enforcement discretion and the submission rates vary widely among police departments in Idaho. A bill proposed by Rep. Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, this legislative session would change how sexual assault kits are tracked by all law enforcement agencies in Idaho and could provide some general explanations as to why some may go untested. The bill is currently working its way through the Statehouse. (Idaho Press-Tribune via Idaho State Police via AP)

    DNA links 1986 murder of California woman to convicted serial killer

12 August 2024

  • a grand building with arches

    ‘No-car Games’: Los Angeles readies for its 2028 Olympics closeup

  • city skyline at night

    Earthquake with 4.4 magnitude strikes Los Angeles amid warnings of aftershocks

  • An American Black Bear.

    California teacher shocked to find bear enjoying a snack in classroom

  • rows of people sitting in auditorium

    ‘How Disney adults recharge their magic’: inside Disney’s epic – and expensive – superfan event

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