Lifestyle
Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese pays $880 million to 1,353 sexual abuse victims
The agreement escalates the total accumulated by Los Angeles based sexual abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion
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Crime
New California laws prohibit firearm marketing to minors, target ghost guns
Adding to its catalog of some of the nation’s toughest gun laws, California will prohibit the gun industry from advertising firearms to minors under a new law signed last week
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Los Angeles South Central still recovering after being leveled by 2021 illegal fireworks explosion
On June 30, 2021, the Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad attempted to safely detonated an estimated 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks it seized in South Central inside an armored truck. The resulting explosion was felt for blocks, injuring 10 police officers and seven residents.
Entertainment
Universal fires woke employee after refusing to work while 'mourning' Roe v. Wade
'It's been hard to process how companies expect us to be productive while our rights are being stripped away,' wrote Michael Lopez
Crime
California governor pardons woman sentenced to life for allegedly killing her abuser
When Sara Kruzan was 16 in 1994, she killed a man that had allegedly abused her sexually for years and trafficked her for sex work
Culture
Independence Day! Americans, Californians defect to Mexico amid U.S. inflation
Our southern neighbor has become especially attractive to those fleeing California, already the second most expensive state to live in after Hawaii, due to high housing prices and rising crime
Entertainment
Top Gun: Maverick soars, 'Lightyear' limps, as summer movie box office reflects culture wars
Tom Cruise sequel that took 36 years to reach movie screens proudly displays a diverse cast but doesn't lecture about gender inequities or the Military Industrial Complex.
Business
Facebook phasing out Novi cryptocurrency system by summer's end
The cryptocurrency system was originally, partially launched by Facebook to support its abandoned stablecoin project, Diem, that the company determined was not workable earlier this year
Entertainment
Break out the champagne: Lindsay Lohan got married!
The sexy freckled film star took vows with her fiancé Bader Shammas in what the New York Post’s Page Six described as “an intimate ceremony, just hours before celebrating her 36th birthday.”
Entertainment
Release of the latest season of 'Stranger Things' crashes Netflix
A few minutes after the show’s release time, more than 13,000 users had complained to the California based streaming company about their inability to access the service.
Politics
California alerts CCW applicants whose names were leaked
The personal information of every Californian who was granted or denied a concealed and carry weapons (CCW) permit between 2011 and 2021 was exposed on a new state dashboard. California Attorney General Bob Bonta said he was “deeply disturbed and angered” by the blunder.
