79 m. ago New California law aims to improve school nutrition by phasing out some ultraprocessed foods

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law phasing out certain ultraprocessed foods from school meals

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3 h. ago Disneyland guest dies after riding Haunted Mansion attraction at California park

It was not immediately clear what caused the guest’s death

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3 h. ago Here's a look at California's five most destructive wildfires

The Palisades Fire was the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles to date and among the five worst in California’s history

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6 h. ago Florida man charged with starting Palisades fire that killed 12 people

Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly started the blaze that destroyed 6,800 buildings in one of Los Angeles’s most destructive firesA 29-year-old man has been arrested and charged with igniting the fire that became the devastating Palisades blaze, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 structures in one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history.Jonathan Rinderknecht was arrested near his Florida residence on federal charges of destruction of property by means of fire, acting US attorney for the central district of California, Bill Essayli, announced on Wednesday. No motive was presented. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Man charged with starting Palisades fire that killed 12 people

Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly started blaze that destroyed over 6,800 structures in CaliforniaA 29-year-old man has been arrested and charged with igniting the fire that days later became the devastating Palisades blaze, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 structures in one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history.Jonathan Rinderknecht was arrested near his Florida residence on federal charges of destruction of property by means of fire, acting US attorney for the central district of California, Bill Essayli, announced on Wednesday. No motive was presented. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago The MacArthur Foundation's 'genius' fellows: The full 2025 class list

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7 h. ago This year's MacArthur Foundation's 'genius' award winners hold a mirror up to our world

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7 h. ago Manager of famed California bar claiming to be nation’s first topless establishment is shot dead

Mark Calcagni, 60, was found dead after being shot in the street in Santa Rosa last week

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7 h. ago That’s me in the £45m Hockney! The man in the masterpiece relives sitting for David back in the heady LA party days

It was a landmark moment in queer art, painted when homosexuality was illegal in California. As this famous painting of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy goes under the hammer, the surviving sitter looks back‘Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!” Laughter explodes down the line from California. “It was a very long time ago!” says the painter Don Bachardy. His voice is high and rasping. Listening to him, you could be forgiven for thinking that the late Truman Capote was still with us. As for what happened “a very long time ago”, Bachardy is referring to the parties he threw with his partner, the British novelist Christopher Isherwood. Their home in Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica, was a salon thronged by movie stars and writers as well as Bachardy’s fellow artists.“Yes, we had a good time back then, but you can’t expect me to remember exactly who was here!” he says. It’s a fair point. Isherwood has been dead for almost 40 years and Bachardy, who is 91, suffers from some of the conditions that ...

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8 h. ago Authorities to announce 'significant development' in probe of California’s Palisades Fire

Federal officials and Los Angeles police plan to announce a “significant development” related to the criminal investigation into last January’s deadly Palisades Fire

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9 h. ago Brit marathon swimmer survives double shark attack by fighting off 'pure muscle' Great White which started biting him off California coast

Chris Murray, 50, was attempting to swim the 20 miles between Catalina Island and the Los Angeles County coast before the terrifying encounter took place..

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9 h. ago Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on ‘Hermione’s handbag’

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug deliveryThe Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who created revolutionary porous materials that can harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide from industrial facilities and remove toxins from water.Susumu Kitagawa, of Kyoto University, Richard Robson, of the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, of the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Another day, another Meghan gaffe: Now the Duchess is mocked for embarrassing jam fail while cooking at home

Meghan was seen posing candidly in the kitchen of her Montecito mansion in California, using canning equipment to pull a jar of jam out of a large saucepan on the stove.

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11 h. ago Meghan Markle is mocked for sharing a picture of herself holding her jam equipment upside down while cooking at home

Meghan was seen posing candidly in the kitchen of her Montecito mansion in California, using canning equipment to pull a jar of jam out of a large saucepan on the stove.

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13 h. ago Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on porous materials

Trio honoured for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug deliveryThe Nobel prize in chemistry 2025 has been awarded to three scientists for developing revolutionary porous materials for applications ranging from gas storage to drug delivery.Susumu Kitagawa, at Kyoto University, Richard Robson, at the University of Melbourne, and Omar Yaghi, at the University of California, Berkeley, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Motorists lift helicopter off trapped paramedic after crash on California highway

Three people have been left critically injured following the helicopter crash

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14 h. ago Netflix’s monstrous Ed Gein series is lurid exploitation dressed up as a serious drama | Richard Lawson

Ryan Murphy’s questionable universe of serial killer tales reaches its lowest point with a morally dubious look at a grave-robbing murdererThough the first season of the anthology series Monster, produced for Netflix by Ryan Murphy, had its lurid aspects – a hunky, lustily filmed Jeffery Dahmer (Evan Peters) doing wicked things in the night – it did, admirably, try to focus as much attention on the victims of Wisconsin’s most notorious serial killer as it did on the man doing the murdering. Season two of the series turned away from that drab gloom and focused, with at least some sensitivity, on the sensational trials of the Menendez Brothers in sunny California.Season three, the Ed Gein Story, returns to midwest murk and, especially in its early episodes, makes far less of an effort to do anything other than grimly titillate. The show’s thesis makes some sense: Ed Gein, who murdered at least two people and stole the bodies of many more from their graves, was an object of intense fas...

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14 h. ago Katie Porter nearly storms out of CBS interview: ‘I don’t want all this on camera’

Former congresswoman running to replace term-limited Gavin Newsom angered by question about how she plans to win over Golden State’s Donald Trump voters

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18 h. ago Violent drug gang threatens US tourists and Kash Patel in terrifying message after raids and weapons seizures

Extraordinary banners have been erected in Baja California responding to recent raids and weapons seizures conducted by the FBI.

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20 h. ago Mormon son accused of murdering parents and housekeeper 'before buying sex toys'

Camden Nicholson, 34, is accused of murdering his parents, Kim and Richard Nicholson, and their housekeeper, Maria Morse, in their California mansion on Valentines Day in 2019

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