LAUSD’s first day of school: coffee cake, new algebra books, chess and looming layoffs

Academic gains and hope power LAUSD into a new school year amid the looming pain of planning for thousands of layoffs.

Senator ‘deeply troubled’ by utility threats

The chair of the California Senate’s utilities committee said Tuesday he was “deeply troubled” by electric company executives ...
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Justin Chang

Justin Chang is a former film critic for the Los Angeles Times. He won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in criticism for work published in 2023. Chang is a film critic for the New Yorker and NPR’s “Fresh Air” ...
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An overnight Ukrainian blitz damages Russia’s Black Sea naval stronghold, Zelensky says

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Overnight Ukrainian missiles and drones in a “unique” blitz battered Russia’s Black Sea stronghold of Novorossiysk ...
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Hundreds of California stonecutters fall ill with deadly disease ‘for a product we do not need’

Latino men who cut artificial-stone countertops in California are falling ill from an incurable and deadly lung disease at an alarming rate, a new study finds. These workers are developing silicosis, ...
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Powerball jackpot jumps to $1 billion. Here are the odds of winning the big prize

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred The Powerball prize has hit $1 billion for ...
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Anaheim exhibition explores the early relationship between animators and live-action actors, animals

In the early days of Disney, animators studied actors, animals and props in hopes of accurately representing their movements in the cartoons they were drawing for the big screen. While there are no ...
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Earthquake response strains Colombia’s new government and rescuers as they race against the clock

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A 7.4 magnitude earthquake in western Colombia has killed at least 181 people, injured thousands and immediately ...
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U.S. Space Force Awards $615 Million for Space-Based Sensing and Targeting

El Segundo’s U.S. Space Force command has awarded a second task order of three initial firm-fixed-price other transaction authority agreements totaling $615 million under the Space-Based Sensing and ...
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Bob Iger, Joshua Kushner to buy Lakers from Mark Walter’s ownership group for $12.5 billion

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Less than a year after Mark Walter bought the ...
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435 arrests, $12 million in OT, few lessons learned: LAPD issues report on ICE protests

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred A report issued Tuesday by the LAPD detailed ...
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Live updates: Bob Iger, Joshua Kushner agree to buy Lakers for $12.5 billion

The news comes less than a year after Dodgers owner Mark Walter bought the Lakers for a record-breaking sum of $10 billion. Walter has been at the center of a federal loan investigation. Kushner, the ...