Election day is a week away and so far more than $14 million has been pumped into the L.A. County district attorney race between incumbent Jackie Lacey and challenger George Gascón.
Lacey’s campaign is boosted primarily by law enforcement unions.
The Assn. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs has led the way, joined by contributions from unions representing rank-and-file city police officers and state corrections officers. latimes.com/projects/la-di…
A majority of the money backing Gascón has come from wealthy individuals.
Some have funded past efforts to reform California’s criminal justice system and have backed progressive challengers to local prosecutors in other major cities. latimes.com/projects/la-di…
In recent weeks, Gascón's supporters have outpaced the coalition backing Lacey, and the challenger has taken a fundraising lead. latimes.com/projects/la-di…
At the start of the eighth inning of the Dodgers’ title-clinching win last night, Justin Turner unexpectedly left the game. After the game, news broke that Turner had tested positive for the coronavirus.
More than 6.8 million people ages 18 to 29 have voted early or by mail in the national election, a 2 ½-fold increase over their voting level at this point four years ago.
Reporter @mollymotoole spent more than three years reporting the story of a man from Nepal who died, then came back to life. Initially obsessed with solving the mystery of a resurrection, she found herself on a quest for a larger darker truth. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
She found that Saudia Arabia’s push for modernization relies on a labor pipeline from South Asia to the Persian Gulf that reduces workers to expendable, indistinguishable bodies. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
The workers, from Nepal, India, the Philippines, and across Asia, work under Saudi Arabia’s system of kafala. The legal status of migrant workers is tethered to employers. Rights groups, labor experts and international organizations call the system abusive and exploitative
SpaceX, having established a formidable reputation in rocket launches, is starting to roll out what it hopes will be an even more muscular arm of its business: broadband internet service.
A Texas school district and other local-government entities are already using the internet service. Now, the service is being offered to a select group of individual consumers.
Under the test, initial service for the U.S. and Canada is aimed to start this year, with “near global coverage of the populated world” set to occur in 2021. latimes.com/business/story…
Our spoooky, scaaaary mixtape includes songs by Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Halsey, Post Malone and more. We even have a Spotify playlist: latimes.com/entertainment-…
There are some pretty cool online celebrations taking place!
Some include comedians, magicians and, um, strippers. There's something for everyone! latimes.com/entertainment-…
Election workers eyeball voter signatures on ballots one by one, comparing the loop of an “L” or the squiggle of an “S” against other samples of that person’s writing.
In an election marked by uncertainty, the signature verification process represents one of the biggest unknowns: whether a system riddled with vulnerabilities will work on such a massive scale.