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September 20, 2024, 9:31 a.m. Eastern time

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Amazon Joins Hollywood's Top Lobbying Group

The Motion Picture Association has been wooing the company for years. The addition gives the group a lot more muscle.

8 California Firefighters Injured When Their Truck Rolls Over on Highway

The firefighters were ending a 12-hour shift battling the Airport fire, one of the biggest blazes in California this year.

'Eh, Whatever.' Angelenos Shrug at Recent Quakes, Decades After the Last 'Big One.'

It has been a generation since Los Angeles had a major earthquake disaster. Even in an active seismic year, many residents say they refuse to become alarmist.

Asphalt Schoolyards Get a Shady Makeover

Schools across the country are adding trees, tent-like structures and water to their playgrounds as temperatures soar.

Harvey Weinstein Faces New Sexual Assault Charge in Manhattan

The disgraced Hollywood producer's 2020 sex-crime conviction was thrown out, but he will be retried on those charges as well.

California Mountain Towns Are Too Risky for Insurers, but Residents Want to Stay

In the San Bernardino Mountains, another wildfire has forced residents to flee, the latest reminder that they must accept the risks of climate change if they want to remain.

John A. Clements Dies at 101; His Research Saved Thousands of Babies

He identified the cause of a respiratory condition that was killing 10,000 infants a year in the United States. Then he helped design a drug that slashed those mortality rates.

JD Souther, Who Wrote Hits for the Eagles and More, Dies at 78

A central figure in the Southern California rock scene of the 1970s, he later had a regular role on the TV show "Nashville."

California Passes Election 'Deepfake' Laws, Forcing Social Media Companies to Take Action

The state joins dozens of others in regulating the A.I. fakery in ways that could impact this year's presidential race.

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