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Hollywood, CA - August 15: A homeless man waits for transportation to housing as Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe program employees along with the Los Angeles Sanitation Bureau clean up homeless encampments along Hollywood Blvd. and Gower Street on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024 in Hollywood, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

The under-the-radar proposal to end homelessness in Los Angeles for $20 billion

Homelessness spending in Los Angeles must more than double to $2 billion a year to end sleeping on the streets in the city, according to a draft report by housing officials
RANCHO PALOS VERDES-CA-SEPTEMBER 13, 2024: Former President Donald J. Trump speaks at a press conference at his Trump National Golf Course on Friday, September 13, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Trump says he would withhold California fire aid unless Newsom ‘signs those papers’

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Yosemite National Park-The National Park Service announced via Instagram on Wednesday that the historic Wawona Hotel will close Dec. 2 to allow the agency to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the hotel complex. (National Park Service)

Yosemite’s Wawona Hotel, age 168, will close indefinitely for ‘intensive’ checkup

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 31: A large X logo is visible on the roof of X headquarters on July 31, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Just over 48 hours after a large X logo with bright pulsating lights was installed on the roof of X headquarters in San Francisco, workers dismantled the structure on Monday morning. The city of San Francisco opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the structure and residents in neighboring buildings complained of the sign's bright strobe lights. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

‘A stab in the back.’ How Elon Musk’s decision to move X from San Francisco is stirring mixed emotions

REDLANDS, CA - SEPTEMBER 9, 2024: The out-of-control Line fire burns in the San Bernardino National Forest above homes of Lugonia Avenue on September 9, 2024 in Redlands, California. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

‘He did not light that fire’ says mother of man charged with starting California wildfire

California remains in puzzling earthquake ‘drought’ despite recent shaking

In closely divided Nevada, Harris and Trump battle for economic hearts

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Bentonville, Arkansas - October 14, 2023: (Editors special note: This is a special assignment for the IT team. DO not use images for other stories or share with Getty before their project has been published.) Following the Southwest Dog Auction - dogs in cages are being transported inside a packed white van in Bentonville, Arkansas. (Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times)
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Inside California’s brutal underground market for puppies: Neglected dogs, deceived owners, big profits

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LOS ANGELES-CA-APRIL 19: Senior activist David Rosenstein, with Their Act, seated in a rocking chair attends a climate rally and march with Ann Bartz (2ndL) Jeff Olmstead (C) and Monica Sena at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday April 19, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevork Djansezian/For The Times)

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A man walks at a second hand clothes dump site at the Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, on November 15, 2023. Kantamanto market is vast, spanning over 20 acres in the heart of Accra's business district, its stalls dominated by used clothing and shoes from the West and China. Its traders import a staggering 15 million garments a week, according to the OR Foundation environmental group. But roughly 40 percent of each bale ends up as waste, they say, dumped in landfills and often washed into the ocean, causing a public health crisis and harming the environment. Ghana became the world's largest importer of used clothing in 2021, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) data site, with garments worth $214 million shipped mostly from China, the United Kingdom and Canada. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP) (Photo by NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Los Angeles, CA - August 28: Stop motion shoot in the office for fast fashion at Los Angeles Times building on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

The great paradox in retail: Great prices but bad-for-the-planet fast fashion

Women search for used clothes amid tons discarded in the Atacama desert, in Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile, on September 26, 2021. EcoFibra, Ecocitex and Sembra are circular economy projects that have textile waste as their raw material. The textile industry in Chile will be included in the law of Extended Responsibility of the Producer (REP), forcing clothes and textiles importers take charge of the waste they generate. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2024. The seven-year-old Brazilian environmental activist has spent years collecting garbage in the waters of Copacabana beach and teaching conservation methods to other children. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

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Brentwood, CA, Sunday, April 14, 2024 - Josiah Edwards leads a group Sunrise Movement protesters near VP Harris' Brentwood home calling on her to urge President Biden to declare a climate emergency. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Climate warriors fighting some of the ‘greatest crises humanity has ever seen’

TOPSHOT - This image grab taken from AFPTV footage shows two environmental activists from the collective dubbed "Riposte Alimentaire" (Food Retaliation) hurling soup at Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" (La Joconde) painting, at the Louvre museum in Paris, on January 28, 2024. Two protesters on January 28, 2024 hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food", an AFP journalist said. It is the latest attack on the masterpiece in the French capital's Louvre museum, after someone threw a custard pie at it in May 2022, but it's thick glass casing ensured it came to no harm. (Photo by David CANTINIAUX / AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by DAVID CANTINIAUX/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

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Los Angeles, CA - April 29: Avroh, Maya and Maryam, left to right, are three young plaintiffs who have sued the EPA, and poses for a portrait near the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California where a hearing for the lawsuit took place on Monday, April 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

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SOUTH PASADENA-CA-JULY 16, 2024: Fabienne Hadorn, co-founder of Arroyo Nature School, an outdoor-based program for preschool-aged kids, left, reads to the children in South Pasadena on July 16, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 22: A tlayuda filled with chorizo, with a side of blood sausage seasoned with mint grown in the garden, at Poncho's Tlayudas on Friday, September 22, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Shelby Moore / For The Times)
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LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 20 2023: A Taco Combo plate from Saucy Chick / The Goat Mafia in Los Angeles, CA. From Left to right is the Rotisserie Taco, a Birria Taco, and a Charred Haldi Cauliflower Taco. (Oscar Mendoza/LA Times)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 - Wei Xiong Liang, 62, center, his son Andy Liang, 18, white hoody-back to camera, and other residents stand outside their fire damaged apartment along 800 N. Bunker Hill Ave. in Chinatown on September 13, 2024. The fire started at a vacant three-story apartment building under construction and spread to nearby apartment buildings. Around 30 apartment tenants are displaced by the fire. According to L.A.F.D. Captain and Pio Adam VanGerpen, one person is in critical condition after being rescued from the raging fire and two firefighters suffered injuries. 130 firefighters battled the blaze which started at 3:34 a.m. The apartment building and the 3 story building where the fire started were red tagged. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

City officials ignored neighbors’ warnings in Chinatown. Then fire erupts at abandoned construction site

WRIGHTWOOD CALIF SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 - San Bernardino County firefighters work to save a home from the Bridge fire burning in Wrightwood on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. The Bridge fire has carried more that 40,000 acres and is at 0% containment. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Wrightwood stunned by Bridge fire destruction: ‘Never believed it would happen’

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Simon Sutton, 14, and his stepmom Summer Stagg react during a presidential debate between Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a watch party hosted by the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club at the Academy on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)

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Bakersfield, CA - March 01: Cows enter the milk barn for milking at a Kern County dairy Tuesday, March 1, 2022 in Bakersfield, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Three more California dairy herds infected with H5N1 bird flu

Kona, Hawaii-Sept. 30, 2022-At the Kanaloa Octopus Farm, efforts are being made to breed octopus for human consumption. Paying visitors are allowed to visit the octopus in captivity and put their hands in the tanks to let the octopus approach. Octopus are considered highly intellegent. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

California is poised to ban octopus farming

TRABUCO CANYON CALIF SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 - A firefighting helicopter battles the Airport fire, dropping retardant near Santiago Peak on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. The Airport fire has charred more than 9,000 acres. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Southern California is suddenly besieged by fire. Experts say fall will be worse

Supporters cheer as Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Fiserv Forum during a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Documentary director Lana Wilson moves on from profiles of Taylor Swift and Brooke Shields to a handful of New York City psychics, themselves looking to bond.
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Landon Knack gets knocked around by Braves as Dodgers’ pitching woes grow

Landon Knack, who the Dodgers might be forced to rely on for quality innings in a potential October run, struggles in 6-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves.
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Orange County, California September 10, 2024- A house burns from the Airport Fire in El Cariso Village along Ortega Highway Tuesday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

Photos: Fires ravaging California after heat wave

SAN CLEMENTE, CA SEPT. 6, 2024 - Hawaiii's John John Florence is carried off the sand after beating Brazilian Italo Ferreira during the Lexus WSL Finals at Lower Trestles in San Clemente on September 6, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

John John Florence and Caitlin Simmers crowned as surfing’s world champions in Lexus WSL Finals

Las Vegas, Nevada, Sunday, September 1, 2024 - USC Trojans defensive end Lorenzo Cowan (37) makes a confetti angel on the field after a 27-20 win over the LSU Tigers in the Modelo Vegas Kickoff Classic at Allegiant Stadium. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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PARIS, FRANCE July 28, 2024-USA battles for gold and silver medals in the epee at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France Sunday(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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The Times obtained scores of dog export records, law enforcement and animal control investigative files and federal inspection reports.

 Bentonville, Arkansas - October 14, 2023: (Editors special note: This is a special assignment for the IT team. DO not use images for other stories or share with Getty before their project has been published.) Following the Southwest Dog Auction - dogs in cages are being transported inside a packed white van in Bentonville, Arkansas. (Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times)

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KOTA BUNGA, INDONESIA-AUG. 26, 2024-Cahaya, 27, who requested to use a pseudonym, was first married at age 14 to a boy from her village. When he divorced her three years later, she turned to temporary contract marriages with Arab tourists to make money. Kota Bunga, a resort in near Indonesia's Puncak mountain pass, is a popular travel destination for tourists from the Middle East. It is also well known as a place for contract marriages with Indonesian women, who collect the dowries as a means of income. (Kaleb Sitompul / For the Times)

Sex tourism in Indonesia sells itself as Islamic temporary marriage

Saudi sex tourists are buying weeklong marriages to young women in Indonesia. Though officially illegal, the practice is an economic lifeline for villages. For the women, it’s ‘torture.’
Flanked by Chilean investigative police, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori gives a "thumbs–up" sign as he leaves the Chilean investigative police academy in Santiago, Chile, Monday, Nov. 7, 2005. Fujimori was arrested in Chile Monday on charges at home involving corruption and massacres, as he attempted to return to Peru to run for re–election after five years as a protected exile in Japan. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)

Alberto Fujimori, populist Peruvian president swept up in scandal, dies at 86

Protesters attempt to break into a room in the Senate as lawmakers weigh the government's proposed judicial reform, which would make judges stand for election, in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Controversial judicial overhaul passes as protesters break into the Mexican Senate

GAZA, ISRAEL-Sept. 9, 2024-A polio vaccine campaign is underway in Gaza. Medical staff and parents at a vaccination site in Khan Younis. (Bilal Shbair / For the Times)

In Gaza, battling an old scourge: Will polio vaccine campaign succeed?

This undated family photo provided by the International Solidarity Movement on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, shows Aysenur Ezgi Eygi of Seattle. (Courtesy of the Eygi family/International Solidarity Movement via AP)

U.S. urges ‘fundamental changes’ by Israeli military after American activist shot dead in the West Bank

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