© Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS The investigation continues into the origin of the Camp fire, which some say started with a faulty PGA wire in Pulga, Calif. WASHINGTON — Pummeled by fires, drought and floods, California’s Democratic primary voters put fighting climate change at the top of their…

Homelessness Los Angeles County saw disease outbreaks and 1,000 homeless deaths last year. | 12.5.2019 10:25 AM Media Contact & Reprint Requests HD Download More than 2,500 homeless individuals sleep on the streets of the 53-square-block Skid Row area in downtown Los Angeles. "Skid row is the worst…

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Kapil Gupta Jan 8 · 3 min read We are about to enter the human mind. I will take you to a few select regions. And to some secret compartments. If you look for the mind, you will not find it. It is invisible. But it is functioning right beneath your feet. As I said the word feet, the image of feet…

(Thomas Peter/Reuters) A special Morning Jolt today, as I try to run through a long but by no means complete list of good news from the past year that was astoundingly under-reported and discussed, particularly when compared to presidential tweets, discussions of which pop culture offerings weren’t…

PARIS (AP) — Paris police fired tear gas at demonstrators Thursday as the Eiffel Tower shut down, France’s high-speed trains stood still and tens of thousands marched nationwide in a strike over the government’s plan to overhaul the retirement system. At least 87 protesters were arrested in the…

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court may be on the verge of expanding gun rights for the first time in nearly a decade. What's surprising is how it got there. The court on Monday will hear a challenge to an obscure New York City rule that set such rigid restrictions on transporting legally owned guns that…

Climate scientists are speaking out against grossly exaggerated claims about global warming. Getty Environmental journalists and advocates have in recent weeks made a number of apocalyptic predictions about the impact of climate change. Bill McKibben suggested climate-driven fires in Australia had…

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN Business) Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has capped a whirlwind tour of Africa by pledging to move to the continent for several months in 2020. Dorsey said in a message on the social media platform that he didn't know where he would be living, but he planned to spend up to…

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New York (CNN Business) A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet. Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligence and a field of mirrors to reflect so…

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a movie about how startling it is to be brought back to an open-heartedness that most of us spend our lives unlearning. Lacey Terrell / TriStar Pictures Matthew Rhys and Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019). A friend of mine once told me…

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Skip Navigation Keep Me Logged In Tech Published Fri, Nov 15 201911:49 AM EST Updated Fri, Nov 15 20192:53 PM EST @lauren_feiner Key Points Google has changed its search algorithm to alter search results in ways it has publicly denied in the past, a new investigation from The Wall Street Journal…

WASHINGTON - Former president Barack Obama on Friday urged Democrats running for the White House not to lurch too far left in their pursuit of the nomination, while at the same time seeking to quell concerns in the party about its 2020 hopefuls and the messy primary season to come. The comments -…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists who scanned the skies above dozens of U.S. cities have made a surprising discovery about the smog that's suspended over Los Angeles: one of its key ingredients isn't disappearing as fast as it once did. The finding may help explain why the once-steady…

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In the blackness of space billions of miles from home, NASA’s Voyager 2 marked a milestone of exploration, becoming just the second spacecraft ever to enter interstellar space in November 2018. Now, a day before the anniversary of that celestial exit, scientists have revealed what Voyager 2 saw as…

8 Shares Morning Markets: Yesterday news broke that Accel put $200 million into 1Password. The deal, however, wasn’t all primary. News that Accel had invested $200 million into the erstwhile-bootstrapped 1Password landed this week with a bang. The story was picked up by a host of folks , including…

California More drought coming? Most of California once again ‘abnormally dry,’ monitor shows By Jared Gilmour November 14, 2019 12:44 PM How drought hurts the economy and food supply Drought affects the economy and agriculture in major ways. This video includes interviews with people impacted by…

Paris (AFP) - Imagine a world where storms inundate coastal megacities, entire species become extinct in the blink of an eye, and conflicts are fought over dwindling natural resources. Not so difficult in 2019, perhaps. After a year of devastating extreme weather and worldwide unrest over the…

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November 4, 2019 I’d just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We’re monkeys on a rock flying through space who’ve decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn’t stop at names. We’ve made up countries and kings, customs, and…

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Alliance for SoCal Innovation Nov 8 · 3 min read At our recent Alliance advisory board dinner, Larry Sonsini (Advisory Board chair and the evening’s host) asked the group how to best unlock the potential of SoCal’s innovation ecosystem so that it performs in line with its potential (i.e. the mission…

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Beginning in October, the total number of jobs on the site plummeted from a high of nearly 91,600 opportunities in October to just 63,000 as of this week. A decrease in opportunities was found across all UpWork categories The drop coincides with new laws meant to protect workers UpWork's stock price…