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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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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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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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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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Damon Lindelof and Tara Hernandez weren’t thinking about humanlike chatbots or hallucinating algorithms when they hatched the idea for a TV series about a powerful artificial intelligence that entranced users around the world. It was early…
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A 26-year-old Home Depot employee in Pleasanton was fatally shot this week when he confronted a shoplifter inside the hardware store, according to Alameda County officials. Blake Mohs, 26, who worked as a “loss prevention employee” at the…
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Elliot Grainge, who recently signed hip-hop sensation Ice Spice to his 10K Projects record label.(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Last summer, over sushi at Nobu in Malibu, Elliot Grainge convinced the hottest rapper in the world…
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On its first test flight Thursday morning, SpaceX‘s massive, uncrewed Starship rocket — considered key to the future of U.S. human space exploration — roared off the launch pad and soared into the south Texas sky for a few minutes but…
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By rejecting Berkeley’s ban on natural gas lines in new buildings, a federal appeals court has thrown into doubt dozens of similar prohibitions across California, including in Los Angeles. But what does it mean for you?The ruling won’t stop…
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