The Los Angeles City Council is hiking the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 an hour. It will turn out to be a five-diamond mistake. The vote wasn’t even close. By a 12-3 margin, the Council decided to give a raise to workers they don’t employ and bloated payrolls that will have…
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By Daniela Sirtori | Bloomberg The union representing Starbucks baristas plans to go on strike for five days from Friday after a final-stage bargaining session reached an impasse, the group said. Starbucks Workers United said its members are planning to walk out in unionized stores across Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle. The union, which represents…
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By ANTHONY SANFILIPPO The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Anze Kopitar and Kevin Fiala scored two goals each, and the Kings scored four goals in the third period to rally past the Philadelphia Flyers, 7-3, on Thursday night. Warren Foegele added a goal and an assist for the Kings, who won for the eighth time in…
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DALLAS — Norman Powell scored 29 points, James Harden added 24 and Ivica Zubac had 21 points and 15 rebounds as the Clippers beat a short-handed Dallas Mavericks team, 118-95, on Thursday night in the Mavericks’ first game this season playing without star guards Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. Doncic sat out with a left…
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INGLEWOOD — Quarterback Justin Herbert threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes and the Chargers overcame a halftime deficit to seize a 34-27 victory over the Denver Broncos on Thursday night at SoFi Stadium. The victory all but assured the Chargers of an AFC wild-card berth. Herbert rallied the Chargers from a 21-13 halftime deficit to a…
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In the 12 years since Austin Tice was abducted in Syria, his family and his coworkers at McClatchy have grieved at his absence, despaired at silence from the Syrian government and prayed that promises from three U.S. presidents would turn into actions that brought Austin home. Now, more than any moment since he was taken…
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By Ryan Sabalow | CalMatters The year 2025 is shaping up to be a confusing one for Californians unlucky enough to buy a new or used car that turns out to be a clunker. Starting Jan. 1, car buyers who purchase a faulty vehicle will have to navigate a new version of California’s “lemon law”…
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FULLERTON — Hiea-Yoon Kang, suspended from coaching the U.S. Olympic and national artistic swimming teams, continues to coach young athletes at Fullerton College, a location she has tried to keep secret for months, while being investigated by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for allegedly routinely physically, emotionally and verbally abusing swimmers for more than a…
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LOS ANGELES — Early in the season, New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner seemed to be struggling. Or, at least by the standards that he set in his first two seasons, after each of which he was named a first-team All-Pro. He gave up a career-high 97 passing yards on six targets in Week 2,…
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FBI agents arrested a Chino Hills man Thursday on federal charges that he allegedly acted as a political operative for the People’s Republic of China while serving as a campaign manager for a local official elected in 2022 to a city council in Southern California. Neither the local politician nor the city they were elected…
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