The Los Angeles City Council is moving with unusual speed to a Wednesday vote that would impact unhoused people of the city latimes.com/homeless-housi…
The vote is to consider revisions to the city’s anti-camping law that would allow authorities to remove homeless camps anywhere in the city if they first offer shelter as an alternative to living on the street. latimes.com/homeless-housi…
The proposed change in the law would effectively prohibit anyone from camping in public anywhere in the city if authorities offer shelter as an alternative.
This was supposed to be the year that California finally did something about its epidemic of homelessness. But the pandemic has disrupted plans latimes.com/homeless-housi…
“Are we going to let her die of neglect right in front of our eyes?”
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.