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People snatched off the streets. Residents in hiding. This is the past week in Los Angeles. Hermanita Conchita was tending to her stand on Monday afternoon, selling pupusas and fruit outside her home in the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, when she saw two suspicious cars pull up. “I said, ‘That’s immigration!’ and everyone […]
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After possibly the most expensive jewelry heist in U.S. history, Brink’s went after the victims. Jean Malki was carefully wrapping up a necklace containing more than 25 carats of fancy yellow diamonds, a rare Australian-mined Lightning Ridge black opal, and a deep-magenta Burmese ruby after a long day of sales at the International Gem & […]
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There’s only one other person who knows what it’s like to be in Gavin Newsom’s shoes. “I don’t have old wounds,” said Gray Davis speaking from his Beverly Hills home, but “it’s sort of an annoyance to have to think back to something that was not my fondest moment.” Recall efforts like the one facing […]
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John Weaver used his power to get jobs for young men he allegedly harassed. His colleagues were warned. Alex Johnson was a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing a career in politics, when he first heard from John Weaver, the legendary Republican operative living nearby. It started with a direct message on […]
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Read this article in The New York Magazine» Ashli Babbitt did not hide her far-right political views. Outside her San Diego bungalow, located blocks from the beach, she flew both an American flag and a QAnon flag emblazoned with a giant Q and the acronym WWG1WGA, for “Where we go one, we go all.” She plastered her SUV with […]
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At first, Angela Marsden was worried about uploading the video she had taken because she didn’t want people to mistake her for an anti-masker. But she felt the hypocrisy she was seeing around California’s latest coronavirus lockdown was too much to bear. Marsden owns a Los Angeles restaurant, the Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill, which […]
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The rate of COVID-19 infections in Montana is among the highest anywhere on the globe, and more than 320 Montana residents have died from the virus in the month of November. After weathering a mild spring with few infections, the state and its neighbors are experiencing crushing infection rates that are maxing out hospital resources for the ill. St. Vincent’s […]
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As California emerged from a statewide lockdown due to the coronavirus earlier this year, the top Republican in Orange County made a novel argument against wearing masks to protect against COVID-19. “[CDC guidelines say] don’t put masks on dogs or, you know, your pets,” said Michelle Steel, the Republican chair of the Orange County Board […]
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