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The campaign to unionize Trader Joe’s workers has officially claimed a victory in the company’s home state. An Oakland store on Thursday became the first Trader Joe’s in California to unionize.Workers at the store, located in the Rockridge…
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WASHINGTON —  Like many Californians, Peter Diamandis grew frustrated in recent years by the “craziness” of constant wildfire alerts he’s received.But unlike most, he had a Rolodex full of wealthy benefactors and politicians, and a solution…
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MEXICO CITY —  When Blanca Lilia Ibarra was a reporter in the 1980s, getting information on the workings of the Mexican government depended on who you knew.“That information is only given to national outlets,” a press secretary told her in…
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MEADOW, TX —  Dozens of public school students spend their lunchtime with a guitar-playing Baptist minister, bowing their heads in prayer under a tree by the school playground. English classes read Shakespeare and Steinbeck, avoiding works…
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Oprah Winfrey has amassed an impressive collection of Montecito real estate over the last two decades.But the media mogul’s latest headline in the luxury community is not about a house, but a wall — one that neighbors fear might reroute…
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In December 2018, Celia Harms sat down in her San Mateo home to write a letter. Over the course of more than 900 words, she told a story that would become familiar to parents from San Diego to Texas to Indiana: Her son had gone to Mexico,…
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What’s the dirtiest word in financial policy?My vote goes to “bailout.” The term evokes giveaways to the most undeserving of fat cats, people who accept “responsibility” for financial crises as long as that doesn’t involve…
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WASHINGTON —  Colombia’s first leftist leader held talks Thursday with President Biden at the White House, touching on sharp differences over how to fight drug trafficking while seeking common ground on ways to end the humanitarian and…
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Knott’s Berry Farm is bringing back its chaperone policy.The policy will take effect Saturday as Knott’s Berry Farm says it deals with “increasing incidents of unruly and inappropriate behavior” that are plaguing the theme park…
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Celebrities and other VIPS across the world— including Bill Gates, the pope and Hillary Clinton — were devoid of official checkmarks Thursday afternoon as self-dubbed Twitter chief twit Elon Musk’s promised purge of legacy Twitter…
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