Stiglitz Says U.S. Tax Bill Is the Worst He’s Ever Seen While Congress irons out the differences between the tax bills proposed by the House and Senate, taxpayers have been living in limbo, and putting year-end tax planning on hold. To see how the tax bills that passed each chamber would affect Americans across a […]
One by one, Frances Moore has watched friends and neighbors move into cars, tents and encampments. Many in crisis often turn to the 62-year-old Oakland woman, who provides free meals to the homeless, but she has found it increasingly difficult to hear their stories of displacement. That’s because she knows she could soon be next. […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A cooking fire at a homeless encampment sparked a wildfire last week that destroyed six homes in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, authorities said Tuesday, while the fifth-largest wildfire in California history burning northwest of the city kept expanding and kept thousands out of their homes. They are among […]
Several women have accused Norman Pattiz of sexual harassment.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ash fell like snow and heavy smoke had residents gasping for air Monday as a huge Southern California wildfire exploded in size again, becoming the fifth largest in state history and driving celebrities from a wealthy hillside enclave. Tens of thousands have fled their homes as flames churn through foothill towns […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A powerful flare-up on the western edge of Southern California’s largest and most destructive wildfire sent residents fleeing Sunday, as wind-fanned flames churned through old-growth brush in canyons and along hillsides toward coastal towns. Crews with help from a fleet water-dropping planes and helicopters saved homes as unpredictable gusts sent the […]
Chief Ken Pimlott of Cal Fire said more than 212,000 Californians had been evacuated over the last week. He said wind conditions could create more problems through the weekend and into next week. In the pre-dawn hours Friday, bleary-eyed men and women gathered in the parking lot of the Ventura County Fairgrounds to slip on […]
AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders have spent months promoting the myth that red low-tax states are subsidizing blue high-tax states because of the deduction for state and local taxes. An Associated Press Fact Check finds it’s actually the other way around. High-tax, traditionally Democratic states […]
In the hills above the Pacific Ocean, the world crossed a terrifying tipping point this week.As holiday music plays on the radio, temperatures in Southern California have soared into the 80s, and bone-dry winds have fanned a summer-like wildfire outbreak. Southern California is under siege. As the largest of this week’s fires skipped across California’s […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A jury on Friday sided with San Diego Comic-Con in a court battle with a rival pop-culture convention in Utah over rights to use the phrase “comic con.” The panel decided that Salt Lake Comic Con used the trademarked phrase without permission, though they didn’t do so willfully. The panel awarded […]
Flames blocked their entry to the barn. Additional officers arrived and were eventually able to rescue more horses, breaking padlocks on stalls in order to get them out. The department transported three horses to Pierce College nearby, where one was euthanized because its injuries were so severe. Southern California is one of the nation’s largest […]
Apple Inc.’s Jony Ive, a key executive credited with the look of many of the company’s most popular products, has re-taken direct management of product design teams. Ive, 50, was named Apple’s chief design officer in 2015 and subsequently handed off some day-to-day management responsibility while the iPhone maker was building its new Apple Park headquarters […]
“We are at war.” That’s how a Los Angeles spokesman phrased it when describing what it was like fighting the flames. Hundreds of firefighters “didn’t come to work this morning,” he said, “we came to war.” At one point engulfing an acre per second, the Thomas Fire was sparked just as Santa Ana winds gusting up to […]
FALLBROOK, Calif. (AP) — Flames were practically on top of Dick and Joan Marsala’s home when they got an urgent knock on the door and were told to leave. The couple, in their mid-80s, grabbed only a change of clothes and medications before fleeing Thursday through wind gusts and smoke as fire swallowed the row […]
That contrast has occurred this decade in the state, where years of drought were followed last winter by very wet weather that led to a bumper crop of grasses and other vegetation. That season was followed this year by more dryness: a hot, desiccating summer and fall that turned all the vegetation into tinder. Coupled […]
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The country’s first all-LGBT city council was sworn in this week in California, CBS Los Angeles reports. The history-making council’s newest members – Lisa Middleton, the first transgender person elected to a non-judicial office in California; and Christy Holstege, an attorney who identifies as bisexual – were sworn in during Wednesday night’s […]
Hurricane-force winds could make the already devastating wildfires even worse.
The wildfires in California’s North Bay area that started on October 8 and killed 44 people – “the most destructive and deadliest in our state’s history,” as the California Department of Insurance said on Wednesday – caused $9.0 billion in claimed losses so far. This is triple the $3 billion of claimed losses insurers reported a month ago. […]
Wildfires burned near and in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California, forcing thousands to evacuate.
This story is no longer being updated. For the latest on this fire, go here. Evacuations | School closures | Road closures | Map | Ask us your questions The largest and most destructive wildfire burning in Southern California expanded to 90,000 acres by Wednesday. Tuesday evening it jumped U.S. Highway 101, and by Wednesday morning it had nearly reached the […]
When the value of land rises, it’s generally not because of something the landowner has done. The resulting rents and other monetary gains, Adam Smith wrote in 1776, “are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own.” This made the landowner, Smith continued in […]
As housing costs rise, so does California homelessness, report shows Homelessness has shot up in California and elsewhere on the West Coast over the past two years, a federal report said Wednesday, as rising rents and other housing pressures forced more people from the margins onto the street. California’s homeless population went up 14 percent, […]
Fueled by warm, dry Santa Ana winds, wildfires have spread across southern California, blazing a path through major population centers. The largest, the Thomas Fire, has already cut through 65,000 acres as of this morning (Dec. 6), the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. According to USA Today, there has been no reported […]
This story is part of a series on the future of investing The big money on Wall Street is finally throwing its weight behind boardroom diversity. After years of fits and starts, mutual-fund giants including BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc. and State Street Corp. are embracing shareholder proposals to add more women and minorities as directors. […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A grand jury on Tuesday indicted on federal charges an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was acquitted last week of murder by a San Francisco jury, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was indicted on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and for […]
“This fire is very dangerous and spreading rapidly, but we’ll continue to attack it with all we’ve got,” the governor said in a statement. “It’s critical residents stay ready and evacuate immediately if told to do so.” The Thomas Fire spread with astonishing speed. The sheriff’s office received its first reports at 6:24 p.m. on […]
VENTURA, Calif. (Reuters) – A fast-moving wildfire whipped by hot, dry Santa Ana winds destroyed hundreds of homes in and around Ventura, California, on Tuesday as thousands of residents were forced to flee ahead of the flames. The blaze, dubbed the Thomas Fire, broke out on Monday evening in the foothills above Ventura. Winds quickly […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Rogue online gamers have designed, sold or used computer code to crush competitors playing the popular “Fortnite” survival video game, spoiling the experience and the creator’s profit potential, the game’s maker charges in a series of lawsuits. Cary, North Carolina-based Epic Games has sued three Americans and six foreign gamers from […]
Of the almost 50 companies that have permits to test autonomous vehicles in California, the most radical and mysterious member of this self-driving car club is Zoox. At long last, however, the startup with the funny name is ready to show some of what it has been up to on San Francisco’s streets. Founded in 2014, […]
Pending home sales in California, based on signed contracts, fell 2.6% in October compared to a year ago, the fourth month in a row of year-over-year declines, after having dropped 6% in September, 3.5% in August, and 2.6% in July. “A continued scarcity of housing inventory, which drove up home prices, may squeeze the market […]
Donald Trump has had some fun lately with Elizabeth Warren’s self-proclaimed Native American ancestry. “Pocahontas is not happy, she’s not happy,” he said of Warren a few weeks ago. He re-upped on Monday, telling NBC News that Warren “made up her heritage, which I think is racist.” As we know by now, Trump has routinely […]
As California prepares for the legalisation of recreational marijuana in 2018, one man is pushing for the state to become the first to decriminalise magic mushrooms. Kevin Saunders, a mayoral candidate for the city of Marina, just south of the San Francisco Bay, has filed a proposal that would exempt adults over the age of […]
President Donald Trump and his children are abandoning the Trump SoHo Hotel, an epically misbegotten and mismanaged project in lower Manhattan that sullied the family’s reputation even before it formally opened its doors in 2010. But — like visitors to the Hotel California (cue The Eagles) — the Trumps can check out of the Trump […]
DETROIT (Reuters) – Car manufacturers’ attempts to square what U.S. consumers want against the clean vehicles regulators and investors demand will be on display in Los Angeles this week at an auto show that has moved away from calling itself just an auto show. Automakers on Monday will begin previewing new models for the media […]
I lived in an apartment until I was 8, when my parents scraped together a down payment and bought a modest little house on a cul-de-sac, taking hold of a deed that was our ticket to the kingdom of suburban California royalty. Housing developments grew out of the dust all around us in eastern Contra […]
Elon Musk knows how to make promises. Even by his own standards, the promises made last week while introducing two new Tesla vehicles—the heavy-duty Semi Truck and the speedy Roadster—are monuments of envelope pushing. To deliver, according to close observers of battery technology, Tesla would have to far exceed what is currently thought possible. Take the Tesla Semi: Musk […]
