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Project Roomkey: Lessons learned from a massive program to save the lives of homeless people
LOS ANGELES — The state program that provided private hotel and motel rooms for homeless people during the COVID pandemic improved healthcare for thousands and provided valuable lessons for how shelters could better serve their clients, a two-year study has found.
The study released Monday by the research and consulting firm Abt Global ...Read more
Former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti returns from India for Milken conference
LOS ANGELES — A little more than a year after leaving Southern California for New Delhi, former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti returned home for a packed schedule of panels at the Milken Institute Global Conference.
This is Garcetti's second trip back to Los Angeles since he was confirmed to serve as U.S. ambassador to India in March 2023, ...Read more
Isolated storms today, potentially severe weather tonight
ATLANTA — Brace yourself for potentially severe storms across metro Atlanta late tonight into Thursday.
It’ll be a warm day, with morning temperatures already in the 70s. It’ll be humid and breezy, but most of us should stay dry through the first half of the day. There’s just a 30% chance of storms through the afternoon.
“But any one...Read more
US pauses arms shipment to Israel over Rafah invasion plans
The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over concerns about a potential military offensive on the Gazan city of Rafah, which President Joe Biden opposes, according to a senior administration official.
The delivery was supposed to contain 3,500 bombs, split roughly evenly between 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) and 500-pound explosives, the ...Read more
'Essentially a gas station,' fishy feast draws sea lions to Pier 39 in numbers not seen in 15 years
They're big, loud and smelly — and they have taken over San Francisco's touristy Pier 39.
In recent days, some 1,100 to 1,200 anchovy-breathed, blubber-bodied sea lions have been counted flopping on and around the docks, Harbormaster Sheila Chandor said Tuesday. That's the highest number recorded in 15 years.
The pinnipeds — who are ...Read more
Brazil floods wreak historic devastation, with more rain coming
Catastrophic floods continue to paralyze the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, with four-fifths of the state — home to 11 million people — affected following torrential rainfall. And more rain is on the way, complicating recovery efforts.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 95 people had died, 131 were missing and 159,000 had been ...Read more
Ossoff effort to combat online sexual abuse of children becomes law
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff strengthening requirements for internet providers and websites to submit reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children when they suspect a child is being sexually exploited online.
Ossoff, a Democrat from Atlanta, championed ...Read more
How 19th-century Spiritualists ‘canceled’ the idea of hell to address social and political concerns
Between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, drivers pass a billboard on Interstate 71 that has achieved some internet fame.
Since 2004, a black sign has risen from this flat stretch of highway declaring “HELL IS REAL.” The H in “Hell” is painted in red, a color Christians have long associated with sin and Satan.
The ...Read more
Justice Sotomayor’s health isn’t the real problem for Democrats − winning elections is
It almost sounds like a bad joke: What did the 78-year-old male senator say to the 69-year-old female justice?
“RETIRE!”
That’s effectively what happened recently when U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut suggested that Sonia Sotomayor – the first Hispanic and third woman Supreme Court justice – retire so that...Read more
What early 2024 polls are revealing about voters of color and the GOP − and it’s not all about Donald Trump
By the end of winter 2024, the return of Donald Trump to the top of the GOP presidential ticket has revealed a surprising trend in the former president’s base of support: his increasing popularity among Black and Latino voters.
Several polls suggest as many as 23% of Black voters and 46% of Latino voters could cast their ballot for ...Read more
Arizona’s now-repealed abortion ban serves as a cautionary tale for reproductive health care across the US
When the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on April 9, 2024, that the state’s Civil War-era law banning nearly all abortions was enforceable, it brought into stark reality the potential impacts of leaving reproductive rights up to the states to regulate, and the related consequences for women’s health.
The ruling, set to go into effect ...Read more
10 songs from 10 bands playing the Cruel World festival in Southern California
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Cruel World returns to the rolling greens of Brookside at the Rose Bowl on Saturday, and with it the music of the '80s — new wave, goth, post-punk, and more — returns to life anew.
Recent Rock Hall of Fame inductees Duran Duran headline the festival this year, with Blondie, another Hall of Fame act, on the main stage ...Read more
Chicago police officers injured or killed while off duty highlight choice to grant on-duty benefits
CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department and its pension board have now each determined that former Officer Danny Golden was performing official police duties just before he was shot and paralyzed outside a bar in the Beverly neighborhood nearly two years ago.
It’s a decision that came months after Golden applied for on-duty disability ...Read more
'Transformative': More college programs are slowly coming into prisons
When the U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that federal Pell Grants would become available to incarcerated college students, lawmakers and state corrections agencies scrambled to adjust statutes and step up potential partnerships with universities.
But nearly a year later, colleges and agencies are recognizing the steep ...Read more
Missouri has one of the worst drug problems in the country, national study says
A recent study revealed that the drug crisis in Missouri is one of the worst in the United States.
Personal finance website WalletHub analyzed statistics from many sources, like the U.S. Census Bureau, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The study found that ...Read more
Do dying people have a 'right to try' magic mushrooms? 9th Circuit weighs case
Do dying patients have a "right to try" illegal drugs such as psilocybin and MDMA if they might alleviate end-of-life suffering from anxiety and depression?
That question is now before one of the nation's highest courts, with a Seattle-based palliative care physician appealing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration decision barring him from ...Read more
Bird flu is bad for poultry and dairy cows. It's not a dire threat for most of us -- yet
Headlines are flying after the Department of Agriculture confirmed that the H5N1 bird flu virus has infected dairy cows around the country. Tests have detected the virus among cattle in nine states, mainly in Texas and New Mexico, and most recently in Colorado, said Nirav Shah, principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and ...Read more
Can't install your own solar panels? Some areas let you join a community project
For four generations, Steve Wine’s family has tended a 600-acre farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, raising steers and growing corn, soybeans and alfalfa. The farm has struggled in recent years with rising costs and slumping crop markets, leaving Wine to question the operation’s viability.
In a bid to sustain the farm, Wine will begin ...Read more
World extends run of heat records for an 11th month in a row
April was the Earth’s 11th consecutive month of record-breaking heat, with warmer weather already sweeping across Asia and a hotter-than-usual summer expected in Europe.
The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said last month’s temperatures globally were 1.58C (2.8F) above historical averages and marked the hottest April on...Read more
Newsom backs bill to add more affordable housing for California's poorest residents
After pledging to hold local governments accountable for solving homelessness, Gov. Gavin Newsom is throwing his support behind a bill that would require cities and counties to plan for potentially hundreds of thousands of new affordable homes for California’s very poorest residents by 2040.
The requirement would be part of the every-eight-...Read more
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