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The riskiest place for a natural disaster in the U.S.? You're living in it, L.A. | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-04/watch-out-la-feds-calculate-riskiest-safest-places-in-us | 2021-01-02T15:07:53 | Having lived her life in Los Angeles, Morgan Andersen knows natural disasters all too well. In college, an earthquake shook her home hard. Her grandfather was affected by recent wildfires in neighboring Orange County.
“It’s just that constant reminder, ‘Oh yeah, we live somewhere where there’s natural disasters and t... |
Pakistan arrests key militant on terror financing charges | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-02/pakistan-arrests-key-militant-on-terror-financing-charges | 2021-01-02T11:01:35 | Pakistan’s security forces on Saturday arrested an alleged leader of the militant group that was behind the bloody 2008 Mumbai attacks in India.
An official with the Pakistani counterterrorism police, Shakil Ahmed, said that Zaikur Rehman Lakhvi was seized in the eastern city of Lahore on terrorism financing charges.
... |
In graying Italy, the old defy biases laid bare by the pandemic | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-02/in-graying-italy-the-old-defy-biases-laid-bare-by-pandemic | 2021-01-02T10:01:27 | From his newsstand at the bottom of two hilly streets in Rome, Armando Alviti has been dispensing newspapers, magazines and good cheer to locals from before dawn till after dusk nearly every day for more than half a century.
“Ciao, Armando,” his customers greet him as part of their daily routine. “Ciao, amore [love],... |
Biden's pick to lead Treasury made $7 million in speaking fees from financial firms, tech giants | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-01/bidens-pick-to-lead-treasury-made-over-7m-in-speaking-fees | 2021-01-01T18:48:53 | President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to be Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, collected more than $7 million in speaking fees over the last two years from major financial firms and tech giants including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Google, according to disclosure forms filed as part of her nomination.
Yellen’s was among ... |
Iraq team working to neutralize mine found on oil tanker | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-01/iraq-team-working-to-neutralize-mine-found-on-oil-tanker | 2021-01-01T12:53:47 | An Iraqi explosives-handling team is working to neutralize a “large” mine discovered on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf and evacuate its crew, authorities said Friday.
The statement came a day after two private security firms said sailors feared they had found a limpet mine on the MT Pola, a Liberian-flagged tanker... |
U.K. in 'eye of the storm' amid surging new coronavirus cases | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-01/uk-in-eye-of-the-storm-amid-surging-new-coronavirus-cases | 2021-01-01T11:37:13 | British medics warned Friday that hospitals around the country face a perilous few weeks amid surging new coronavirus infections that have been blamed on a new variant of the virus.
A day after the U.K. posted a record 55,892 new infections and another 964 coronavirus-related deaths, concerns are mounting about the im... |
North Korea's Kim Jong Un thanks people in rare New Year's letter | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-01/north-koreas-kim-thanks-people-in-rare-new-years-cards | 2021-01-01T11:09:21 | North Korean leader Kim Jong Un thanked the public for their trust and support “in the difficult times” and wished them happiness and good health in his first New Year’s Day cards sent to his people.
Kim usually gives a televised speech on Jan. 1, but he is widely expected to skip it this year since he will address t... |
Thousands celebrate New Year's Eve in Vegas despite virus | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-01/despite-virus-thousands-celebrate-new-years-eve-in-vegas | 2021-01-01T09:41:27 | Thousands of revelers were on the casino-lined Las Vegas Strip Thursday despite a plea from Nevada’s governor that people reconsider their plans to go out and celebrate New Year’s Eve amid the pandemic.
While shopping, gambling, drinking yard-long frozen cocktails and gawking at the sights and lights, most everyone w... |
Brazil scrambles to approve coronavirus vaccine as pressure mounts | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-01/brazil-scrambles-to-approve-virus-vaccine-as-pressure-mounts | 2021-01-01T09:01:57 | Brazil, a nation proud of its role as a regional leader in science, technology and medicine, finds itself falling behind its neighbors in the global race for immunization against a pandemic that has already killed nearly 200,000 of its people.
Latin America’s largest nation, long heralded for its domestic vaccine deve... |
Changes, challenges: The not-so-secret life of pandemic pets | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-31/changes-challenges-the-not-so-secret-life-of-pandemic-pets | 2020-12-31T18:56:03 | Olivia Hinerfeld’s dog, Lincoln, and Kate Hilts’ cat, Potato, have something in common: They both like to interrupt Zoom calls as their owners work from home.
“Sometimes it’s better to preemptively put him on your lap so he can fall asleep,” says Hilts, a digital consultant in the Washington, D.C., area.
Jealous of t... |
2020 is finally ending, but New Year's revelries are muted by virus | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-31/2020-finally-ending-but-new-years-revelries-muted-by-virus | 2020-12-31T10:03:29 | This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget.
Australia will be among the first nations to ring in 2021 because of its proximity to the International Date Line. It is a grim end to the year for New S... |
China gives conditional approval to first domestic COVID vaccine | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-31/china-oks-1st-homegrown-vaccine-said-to-be-79-3-effective | 2020-12-31T08:54:17 | Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a COVID-19 vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.
The two-dose vaccine is the first approved for general use in China. The go-ahead comes as the country has begun to vaccinate 50 million people before the Lunar New Year holiday i... |
Principal Joe Clark, who inspired the film 'Lean on Me,' dies at 82 | https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-12-30/principal-joe-clark-who-inspired-film-lean-on-me-dies | 2020-12-31T07:20:50 | Joe Louis Clark, the bat- and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said. He was 82.
At crime- and drug-ridden East... |
In new playground Dubai, Israelis find parties, Jewish rites | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-31/in-new-playground-dubai-israelis-find-parties-jewish-rites | 2020-12-31T07:07:14 | It was a scene that just a few months ago would have been unthinkable. As Emiratis in flowing white robes and headdresses looked on, the Israeli bride and groom were hoisted on the shoulders of skullcap-wearing groomsmen and carried toward the dance floor, where dozens joined the throng swaying and singing in Hebrew.
... |
New director appointed to lead California Employment Development Department | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-30/new-director-appointed-to-lead-california-employment-development-department | 2020-12-31T01:37:23 | Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday appointed Rita L. Saenz to oversee the state’s unemployment benefits department, which has been overwhelmed by claims during the coronavirus pandemic and has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in phony claims, including to prison inmates.
Saenz, 71, will be director of the Employme... |
Colorado Guardsman has 1st reported U.S. case of virus variant | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-30/colorado-guardsman-has-1st-reported-us-case-of-virus-variant | 2020-12-30T20:51:52 | The first person in the U.S. known to be infected with a new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus was identified Wednesday as a Colorado National Guardsman who had been sent to help out at a nursing home struggling with an outbreak. And health officials said a second Guard member may have it, too.
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China clamps down on research into coronavirus origins | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-31/china-clamps-down-in-hidden-hunt-for-coronavirus-origins | 2020-12-30T19:31:18 | Deep in the lush valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats that carried the closest known relative to the coronavirus.
The area is of intense interest — it may hold clues to the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has killed more than 1.8 million people worldwide — but has b... |
Restoring longleaf pines, keystone of once vast ecosystems | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-31/restoring-longleaf-pines-keystone-of-once-vast-ecosystems | 2020-12-30T15:36:20 | When European settlers came to North America, fire-dependent savannas anchored by lofty pines with footlong needles covered much of what became the southern United States.
Yet by the 1990s, logging and clear-cutting for farms and development had all but eliminated longleaf pines and the grasslands beneath where hundr... |
'Columbo,' 'Murder, She Wrote' co-creator William Link dies | https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-12-29/columbo-murder-she-wrote-co-creator-william-link-dies | 2020-12-30T02:10:37 | William Link, who co-created the hit series “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote” and made 1970s and ’80s TV movies about social issues then largely shunned by television, has died. He was 87.
Link died of congestive heart failure Sunday in Los Angeles, his wife of more than 40 years, Margery Nelson, said in a statement T... |
Trump lashes out at GOP after override vote on defense bill | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-29/trump-lashes-out-at-gop-after-override-vote-on-defense-bill | 2020-12-29T20:11:49 | President Trump lashed out at congressional Republicans on Tuesday after the House easily voted to override his veto of a defense policy bill.
A total of 109 Republicans, including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a member of GOP leadership, joined with Democrats on Monday to approve the override, which would be the first of ... |
New U.S. dietary guidelines: No added sugar for kids under 2 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-29/new-us-dietary-guidelines-no-candy-cake-for-kids-under-2 | 2020-12-29T19:02:17 | So much for celebrating baby’s first birthday with cake and ice cream. The first U.S. government dietary guidelines for infants and toddlers recommend breast milk only for at least the first six months of life and absolutely no added sugar for children under age 2.
“It’s never too early to start,” said Barbara Schneem... |
BNP Paribas Open postponed until later in 2021 | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-12-29/tennis-bnp-paribas-open-postponed-until-later-in-2021 | 2020-12-29T18:09:10 | The 2021 BNP Paribas Open won’t be held in March at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden as scheduled, but tournament organizers said in a news release Tuesday they hope to stage the event later in the year.
The 2020 edition of the tournament was among the first sports events affected by the growth of the COVID-19 pandemic... |
Judge rejects Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's bail bid | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-28/judge-rejects-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwells-bail-bid | 2020-12-28T23:50:32 | A judge rejected a $28.5 million proposed bail package for Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Monday, saying her incarceration is necessary to ensure she faces trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for the late financier to sexually abuse.
U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan in Manhattan rejected the proposed... |
Sex offenders can qualify for early parole, California Supreme Court rules | https://www.latimes.com/metro/story/2020-12-28/california-supreme-court-sex-offenders-early-parole | 2020-12-28T20:11:23 | The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that inmates who have been convicted of nonviolent sex crimes may be eligible for early parole consideration as part of a ballot measure that nearly two-thirds of voters approved of four years ago.
“The initiative’s language provides no indication that the voters intended to a... |
Armando Manzanero, Mexican ballad singer and composer, dies at 85 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-28/mexican-singer-composer-armando-manzanero-dies-at-85 | 2020-12-28T15:31:41 | Mexican ballad singer and composer Armando Manzanero died at the age of 85, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday.
Manzanero was hospitalized in recent weeks with COVID-19 and at one point was on a ventilator.
But his manager, Laura Blum, said he died at a Mexico City hospital of complications fr... |
Hezbollah doubled its precision-guided missiles in a year | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-27/hezbollah-doubled-its-precision-guided-missiles-in-a-year | 2020-12-27T22:40:17 | The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said Sunday that his group now has twice as many precision-guided missiles as it had a year ago, saying Israel’s efforts to prevent it from acquiring them has failed.
Hassan Nasrallah, in an end-of-year interview with the Beirut-based Arabic Al-Mayadeen TV, said his group has the cap... |
Wars and instability pose vaccine challenges in poor nations | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-27/wars-instability-pose-vaccine-challenges-in-poor-nations | 2020-12-27T21:38:45 | Arifullah Khan had just administered another polio vaccine when the gunfire blasted from the nearby hills.
“It happened so suddenly. There was so much gunfire, it felt like an explosion,” he said, recalling details of the attack five years ago in Pakistan’s Bajaur tribal region near the Afghan border.
A bullet shatt... |
Gingerbread monolith appears — then collapses — on San Francisco hilltop | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-27/gingerbread-monolith-delights-san-francisco-on-christmas-day | 2020-12-27T08:53:18 | In true pop-up-art fashion, a nearly 7-foot-tall monolith made of gingerbread mysteriously appeared on a San Francisco hilltop on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day.
The three-sided tower, held together by icing and decorated with a few gumdrops, delighted the city on Friday when word spread about its existence... |
Roger Berlind, Tony-winning Broadway producer, dies at 90 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-26/roger-berlind-tony-winning-broadway-producer-dies-at-90 | 2020-12-26T19:06:46 | Roger Berlind, a producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals and the winner of 25 Tony Awards, has died. He was 90.
He died Dec. 18 at his home in Montana. His family said cardiopulmonary arrest was to blame, the New York Times reported.
The Brooklyn-born Berlind enjoyed a four-decade career that boosted th... |
1,000 migrants stranded, freezing amid heavy snow in Bosnian camp | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-26/migrants-stranded-heavy-snow-bosnia-camp | 2020-12-26T18:42:12 | Hundreds of migrants were stranded Saturday in a squalid, burned-out tent camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina as heavy snow fell in the country and winter temperatures suddenly dropped.
Migrants at the Lipa camp in northwestern Bosnia wrapped themselves in blankets and sleeping bags to protect against the biting winds in the ... |
Dig of Pompeii fast-food place reveals tastes from AD 79 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-26/mallard-to-go-dig-of-pompeii-fast-food-place-reveals-tastes | 2020-12-26T17:17:37 | A fast-food eatery at Pompeii has been excavated, helping to reveal dishes that were popular for the citizens of the ancient Roman city who were partial to eating out.
Pompeii Archaeological Park’s longtime chief, Massimo Osanna, said Saturday that while some 80 such fast-food places have been found at Pompeii, it is... |
Millions face new U.K. virus restrictions; border chaos eases | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-26/millions-face-new-uk-virus-restrictions-border-chaos-eases | 2020-12-26T16:42:32 | Millions of people in the U.K. faced tough new coronavirus restrictions Saturday, with Scotland and Northern Ireland demanding tighter measures to try to halt a new variant of the virus that is believed to spread more quickly.
Northern Ireland went into a six-week lockdown and in Wales, restrictions that were relaxed ... |
British double agent George Blake dies in Russia at 98 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-26/british-double-agent-george-blake-dies-in-russia-at-98 | 2020-12-26T13:44:21 | George Blake, a former British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union, has died in Russia. He was 98.
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, known as SVR, announced his death Saturday in a statement, which didn’t give any details. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences, ... |
'Unprecedented' mail volume delays Christmas gifts | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-26/unprecedented-mail-volume-delays-christmas-gifts | 2020-12-26T10:01:54 | Some who mailed holiday presents weeks early this year found they didn’t act early enough as Christmas arrived with their gifts stuck in transit.
The U.S. Postal Service said on its website that it was “experiencing unprecedented volume increases and limited employee availability due to the impacts of COVID-19.”
Aust... |
After early success, South Korea sleepwalks into coronavirus crisis | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-26/after-early-success-s-korea-sleepwalks-into-virus-crisis | 2020-12-26T09:03:46 | South Korea had seemed to be winning the fight against the coronavirus: Quickly ramping up its testing, contact-tracing and quarantine efforts paid off when it weathered an early outbreak without the economic pain of a lockdown. But a deadly resurgence has reached new heights during Christmas week, prompting soul-searc... |
A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2020-12-28/a-sudan-in-transition-presents-first-ever-film-for-oscars | 2020-12-26T07:10:23 | Nearly two years after the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, Sudan is taking steps to rejoin the international community from which it was long shunned. That includes its film industry.
For the first time in its history, Sudan has a submission for the Academy Awards. Produced by a consortium of European and Egypti... |
4 pregnant women among 20 migrants dead in Tunisia sinking | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/4-pregnant-women-among-20-migrants-dead-in-tunisia-sinking | 2020-12-25T16:49:50 | Four pregnant women were among 20 migrants whose bodies were found off Tunisia’s coast after their smuggling boat sank, Tunisian authorities said Friday, as search efforts continued for 13 others believed missing.
Nineteen of the 20 migrants who died in Thursday’s sinking were women, according to Mourad Torki, the cou... |
No time to rest: EU nations assess Brexit trade deal with U.K. | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/no-time-to-rest-eu-nations-assess-brexit-trade-deal-with-u-k | 2020-12-25T15:31:56 | The fast-track ratification of the post-Brexit trade deal between the U.K. and the European Union got underway on Christmas Day as ambassadors from the bloc’s 27 nations started assessing the accord that takes effect in a week.
At Friday’s exceptional meeting, the ambassadors were briefed about the details of the draf... |
Judge delays execution of the only woman on U.S. death row | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/judge-delays-execution-of-only-woman-on-us-death-row | 2020-12-25T14:02:58 | A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss also vacated an order from the director ... |
Pope's Christmas Day plea: Make COVID-19 vaccines available for everybody | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/pope-on-christmas-vaccines-for-all-needy-vulnerable-first | 2020-12-25T13:08:01 | Pope Francis made a Christmas Day plea for authorities to make COVID-19 vaccines available to all, insisting that the first in line should be the most vulnerable and needy, regardless of who holds the patents for the shots.
“Vaccines for everybody, especially for the most vulnerable and needy,” who should be first in ... |
Ivry Gitlis, a violinist who spanned genres, dies at 98 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/ivry-gitlis-a-violinist-who-spanned-genres-dies-at-98 | 2020-12-25T11:46:29 | Ivry Gitlis, an acclaimed violinist who played with famed conductors, rock stars and jazz bands around the world and worked to make classical music accessible to the masses, has died in Paris at 98.
France’s culture minister announced his death Thursday, hailing him as “a magnificent performer, a generous musician” wh... |
A pandemic Christmas: Churches shut, borders complicated | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/a-pandemic-christmas-churches-shut-borders-complicated | 2020-12-25T11:19:02 | Curfews, quarantines and even border closings complicated Christmas celebrations Friday for countless people around the globe, but ingenuity, determination and imagination helped keep the day special for many.
In Beijing, official churches abruptly canceled Mass on Christmas Day. China’s capital was put on high alert... |
With 'green growth strategy,' Japan aims to be carbon free by 2050 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/japan-adopts-green-growth-plan-to-go-carbon-free-by-2050 | 2020-12-25T09:30:48 | Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in about 15 years, the government said Friday, in a plan to achieve Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s ambitious pledge to go carbon-free by 2050 and generate nearly $2-trillion growth in green business and investment.
The “green growth strategy” urges utilities to bolst... |
Virus magnifies the solitude for the elderly at Christmas | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/virus-magnifies-the-solitude-for-the-elderly-at-christmas | 2020-12-25T08:35:10 | Rosa Otero prepares her dinner for another nightly meal in solitude.
This pandemic Christmas Eve has turned what should be a preciously scarce moment to spend time with her family into yet another daily installment of her life as a widow who lives alone.
Otero, 83, normally travels across Spain from her small, tidy ... |
Trump golfs in Florida as COVID relief hangs in the balance | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-24/trump-golfs-in-florida-as-covid-relief-hangs-in-the-balance | 2020-12-25T02:27:42 | After tossing a grenade that threatens to blow up a massive COVID relief and government funding bill and force a government shutdown in the midst of a pandemic, President Trump spent his Christmas Eve golfing in Florida.
Failure to agree on the bill could deny checks to millions of Americans on the brink.
Trump had n... |
Coronavirus dampens Christmas joy in Bethlehem and elsewhere | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-24/coronavirus-dampens-christmas-joy-in-bethlehem-and-elsewhere | 2020-12-24T19:58:40 | Bethlehem on Thursday ushered in Christmas Eve with a stream of joyous marching bands and the triumphant arrival of the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, but few people were there to greet them as the COVID-19 pandemic and a strict lockdown dampened celebrations in the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
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Mexico starts giving COVID-19 vaccine, first in Latin America | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-24/mexico-starts-giving-first-shots-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine | 2020-12-24T19:07:03 | An intensive care nurse in Mexico City on Thursday became the first person in Latin America to receive an approved COVID-19 vaccine.
Mexico began administering the first 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in a broadcast ceremony in which Maria Irene Ramírez, 59, got the first shot under the watchful eyes of m... |
Retailers brace for a flood of returns from online shopping | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/retailers-brace-for-flood-of-returns-from-online-shopping | 2020-12-24T17:24:01 | A huge surge in online shopping during the pandemic has been a savior for retailers, but it comes at a price.
Shoppers are expected to return twice as many items as they did during last year’s holiday period, costing companies roughly $1.1 billion, according to Narvar Inc., a software and technology company that mana... |
Pakistan court orders release of man charged in Daniel Pearl killing | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-24/court-orders-release-of-man-charged-in-daniel-pearl-killing | 2020-12-24T09:29:46 | A provincial court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl freed, his defense lawyer said.
The Sindh High Court’s release order overturns a decision by Pakistan’s top court that Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key suspect in Pearl’s slaying, should remain in ... |
Parents convicted in 2009 'balloon boy' hoax are pardoned | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-23/parents-convicted-in-2009-balloon-boy-hoax-pardoned | 2020-12-24T08:01:42 | A couple convicted of criminal charges in the so-called balloon boy hoax that fascinated the country more than a decade ago were pardoned Wednesday by the governor of Colorado.
Richard and Mayumi Heene reported their 6-year-old son had floated away in a homemade UFO-shaped silver helium balloon in 2009.
Dozens of e... |
Tony-nominated Broadway star Rebecca Luker dies at 59 | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-12-23/tony-nominated-broadway-star-rebecca-luker-dies-at-59 | 2020-12-23T21:17:23 | Soprano Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony nominated actor who starred in some of the biggest Broadway hits of the past three decades, died Wednesday. She was 59
Her death was announced by her husband, veteran Broadway actor Danny Burstein, who said in a statement “our family is devastated. I have no words at this momen... |
'Cheer' star Jerry Harris pleads not guilty to child porn, sex charges | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-23/cheer-star-pleads-not-guilty-to-child-porn-sex-charges | 2020-12-23T17:29:18 | “Cheer” star Jerry Harris has pleaded not guilty to federal child pornography charges and allegations that he solicited sex from minors at cheerleading competitions and that he persuaded teenage boys to send him obscene photographs and videos of themselves.
Harris, 21, of Naperville was indicted earlier this month on ... |
If you got federal help to buy health insurance, plan now for tax season | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-25/insurance-shoppers-plan-now-to-trim-next-springs-tax-bill | 2020-12-23T14:48:25 | An unpleasant tax surprise may be lurking next spring for some people who bought health insurance this year on the Affordable Care Act’s coverage marketplaces.
The problem centers on income, or what shoppers think they will make.
People can get help from the government to buy coverage, depending on their income. But ... |
Consumer spending drops 0.4% in first decline since April | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-23/consumer-spending-drops-0-4-first-decline-since-april | 2020-12-23T13:50:55 | U.S. consumer spending fell 0.4% in November, the first decline since April, as Americans confronted a newly resurgent virus.
The November decline followed a 0.3% gain in October and even bigger increases starting in May, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, as the country emerged from a pandemic lockdown that ... |
Review: 'Sylvie's Love': A Black romantic drama for the ages | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-12-23/sylvies-love-review-tessa-thompson | 2020-12-23T13:30:39 | Dancing to the ebb and flow of its seductive and period-specific soundtrack, “Sylvie’s Love,” from writer-director Eugene Ashe, a former recording artist, displays conventional, yet swoon-worthy steps. The classically conceived romantic saga, spanning several years in late 1950s and early 1960s Harlem, offers a comfort... |
Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky to appear closest to one another in centuries | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-21/jupiter-saturn-merging-in-night-sky-closest-in-centuries | 2020-12-21T14:22:39 | Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century.
Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between the two largest planets in our solar system aren’t particularly rare. Jupiter passes its neighbor Saturn in their respective lap... |
Large car bomb kills 9 in Afghan capital, official says | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-20/official-large-car-bomb-kills-9-in-afghan-capital | 2020-12-20T11:02:17 | A car bomb blast that rocked Afghanistan’s capital Sunday morning killed at least nine people, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.
Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi told reporters that the attack wounded around 20 others, including a member of parliament, Khan Mohammad Wardak. Andarabi said the lawmaker was in ... |
Nepal president dissolves Parliament; elections next spring | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-20/nepal-president-dissolves-parliament-elections-next-spring | 2020-12-20T10:13:00 | Nepal’s president dissolved Parliament on Sunday after the prime minister recommended the move amid an escalating feud within his Communist Party that is likely to push the Himalayan nation into a political crisis.
Parliamentary elections will be held April 30 and May 10, according to a statement from President Bidya... |
Israel begins coronavirus inoculation drive as infections surge | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-20/israel-begins-virus-inoculation-drive-as-infections-surge | 2020-12-20T10:02:00 | Israel on Sunday began its coronavirus inoculation drive, aiming to vaccinate some 60,000 people a day in a bid to stamp out the illness that is once again surging among its population.
The country will first immunize health workers, followed by the elderly, high-risk Israelis and those 60 and older. Israel says it ha... |
Rockets hit U.S. base in Afghanistan; no casualties reported | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-19/rockets-hit-us-base-in-afghanistan-no-casualties-reported | 2020-12-19T12:21:52 | Five rockets were fired at a major U.S. base in Afghanistan on Saturday, but there were no casualties, NATO and provincial officials said.
The rockets hit Bagram Airfield, said Wahida Shahkar, spokeswoman for the governor in northern Parwan province.
Shahkar said that 12 rockets were placed in a vehicle and five of ... |
Fire kills 9 COVID-19 patients at hospital ICU in Turkey | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-19/hospital-fire-kills-9-covid-19-patients-at-icu-in-turkey | 2020-12-19T11:39:10 | A fire broke out Saturday at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southern Turkey after an oxygen cylinder exploded, killing nine people, the health minister said.
The state-run Anadolu news agency said the fire broke out at the privately run Sanko University Hospital unit in Gaziantep, 530 miles south... |
New York Film Critics Circle names 'First Cow' best movie of 2020 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-19/first-cow-named-2020s-best-film-by-new-york-film-critics | 2020-12-18T21:32:35 | The New York Film Critics Circle on Friday voted Kelly Reichardt’s western fable “First Cow” the best film of 2020, while also giving special honors to Spike Lee and the art-house distributor Kino Lorber for their roles in a movie year deeply marred by the pandemic.
The film critics, assembling virtually, gave their t... |
Pence and top congressional leaders receive COVID-19 vaccines | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-18/pence-wife-karen-get-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-injections | 2020-12-18T13:19:59 | Vice President Mike Pence became the highest-ranking U.S. official to receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday in a live-television event aimed at reassuring Americans the vaccine is safe. He celebrated the milestone as “a medical miracle” that could eventually contain the raging pandemic.
Conspicuousl... |
With Trump silent, reprisals for hacks may fall to Biden | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-18/with-trump-silent-reprisals-for-hacks-may-fall-to-biden | 2020-12-18T11:07:32 | All fingers are pointing to Russia as the source of the worst-ever hack of U.S. government agencies. But President Trump, long wary of blaming Moscow for cyber attacks, has been silent.
The lack of any statement seeking to hold Russia responsible casts doubt on the likelihood of a swift response and suggests any reta... |
Members of Sackler family behind OxyContin attest to its role in opioid crisis | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-17/family-behind-oxycontin-attests-to-its-role-in-opioid-crisis | 2020-12-18T02:01:48 | Two owners of the company that makes OxyContin acknowledged to Congress on Thursday that the powerful prescription painkiller played a role in the opioid epidemic, but they stopped short of apologizing or admitting wrongdoing.
“I want to express my family’s deep sadness about the opioid crisis,” David Sackler, whose f... |
Stocks reach record highs as investors hope for stimulus | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-17/stocks-reach-record-highs-as-investors-hope-for-stimulus | 2020-12-17T22:10:12 | Major U.S. stock indexes climbed to new highs Thursday as investors remained optimistic that Washington will deliver another round of financial support for the economy and as a COVID-19 vaccine continues to be rolled out to the public.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 0.6%, with technology and healthcare stocks po... |
Google sued by 38 states for alleged abuse of search dominance | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-17/38-states-file-anti-trust-lawsuit-against-google | 2020-12-17T18:15:32 | A bipartisan coalition of states sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google, alleging broad antitrust violations in the online search market, marking the third U.S. case against the search giant in two months.
The lawsuit, led by eights states including Colorado, Iowa and New York, marks the latest escalation of the antitrust battle... |
Biden picks North Carolina's Michael Regan to lead EPA | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-17/biden-transition-cabinet-epa-michael-regan | 2020-12-17T17:59:28 | President-elect Joe Biden has picked an experienced but not widely known state regulator, Michael Regan of North Carolina, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
Regan, who is head of North Carolina’s environmental agency, was one of several contenders whose name emerged only in recent days. Biden’s pick was con... |
U.S. jobless claims rise to 885,000 amid resurgence of virus | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-12-17/coronavirus-jobless-unemployment | 2020-12-17T13:36:13 | The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose again last week to 885,000 as a resurgence of coronavirus cases threatens the economy’s recovery from its springtime collapse.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of applications increased from 862,000 the previous week. It showed that nine... |
Op-Ed: How to be an effective altruist when giving to charities | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-12-17/effective-altruism-charity-psychology-morality-donation | 2020-12-17T12:00:19 | This pandemic year, filled with fear and illness, has been a relentless assault on the human spirit. But the well of human kindness runs deep, especially in the holiday season when people open their hearts and wallets to charities in need.
But which charities deserve our support? The effective altruism movement, which... |
Self-immolation persists as grim form of protest in Tunisia | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-17/self-immolation-persists-as-grim-form-of-protest-in-tunisia | 2020-12-17T09:01:08 | In his old life, Hosni Kalaia remembers strolling the streets of his hometown of Kasserine in central Tunisia with confidence. He flashed his heavy gold bracelets and rings, and puffed out his chest, broad and sculptured from regular workouts.
Today, Kalaia hides his face from the world behind dark sunglasses and bene... |
U.S. plans new charges in 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-17/new-charges-lockerbie-airline-bombing | 2020-12-17T05:44:36 | The Justice Department plans to unseal new charges in the coming days in connection with the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, according to a person familiar with the case.
The bombing of Flight 103, whose victims included dozens of American college students, spur... |
U.S. angling to secure more of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-16/us-angling-to-secure-more-of-pfizers-coronavirus-vaccine | 2020-12-17T03:36:29 | U.S. officials say they’re actively negotiating for additional purchases of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine after passing up a chance to lock in a contract over the summer because it was still unclear how well the shots would work.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and special advisor Dr. Moncef Slaoui also ... |
Joe Biden and Mike Pence will receive COVID-19 vaccine soon | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-16/joe-biden-and-mike-pence-will-receive-covid-19-vaccine-soon | 2020-12-17T00:49:43 | President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence are set to receive the COVID-19 vaccine soon.
According to two transition officials familiar with the matter, Biden will receive the vaccine publicly as soon as next week. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss it... |
Health officials track safety issues as COVID-19 vaccines roll out | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-16/health-officials-track-safety-as-covid-19-vaccines-roll-out | 2020-12-16T21:41:38 | As COVID-19 vaccinations roll out to more and more people, health authorities are keeping close watch for any unexpected side effects.
On Tuesday, a health worker in Alaska suffered a severe allergic reaction after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Doctors already knew to be on the lookout after Britain reported ... |
Biden introduces former primary rival Pete Buttigieg as his Transportation pick | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-16/biden-introduces-ex-rival-buttigieg-as-transportation-pick | 2020-12-16T17:28:38 | President-elect Joe Biden introduced former Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday as his nominee for Transportation secretary, calling the 38-year-old ex-mayor “a new voice, with new ideas determined to move past old politics.”
Buttigieg, who served two terms as mayor of South Bend, Ind., would be the ... |
Homelessness is Day 1 focus for new L.A. council members Raman, Ridley-Thomas | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-15/homelessness-new-la-council-members-raman-ridley-thomas | 2020-12-16T03:23:23 | Los Angeles’ newest City Council members, Nithya Raman and Mark Ridley-Thomas, put forward proposals aimed at addressing homelessness at their first council meeting Tuesday, signaling the crisis will be a priority for both politicians.
Raman, who represents a district stretching from Silver Lake to Sherman Oaks, intro... |
San Francisco board rebukes naming hospital for Facebook CEO | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-15/san-francisco-board-rebukes-naming-hospital-for-facebook-ceo | 2020-12-16T01:05:43 | Supervisors in San Francisco overwhelmingly approved a resolution Tuesday condemning the naming of the city’s public hospital for Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, in 2015, after the couple gave $75 million toward a new acute care and trauma center.
The nonbinding resolution does no... |
Over-the-counter COVID-19 test will soon be available in U.S. | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-15/over-the-counter-home-test-for-covid-19-gets-us-green-light | 2020-12-15T21:40:25 | The first home test for COVID-19 that doesn’t require a prescription will soon be on U.S. store shelves.
U.S. regulators Tuesday authorized the rapid test, which can be conducted entirely at home. The announcement by the Food and Drug Administration represents another important — though incremental — step in efforts t... |
Fashion mogul Peter Nygard arrested in Canada on sex charges | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-15/fashion-mogul-peter-nygard-arrested-in-canada-on-sex-charges | 2020-12-15T21:39:49 | Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard was arrested on charges alleging he sexually abused women and girls after luring them into his orbit with opportunities in fashion and modeling over the last 25 years.
Nygard, 79, was detained after a Winnipeg, Canada, court appearance Tuesday following his Monday arrest by Canadian... |
U.S. COVID-19 deaths top 300,000 just as vaccinations begin | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-14/us-covid-19-deaths-top-300-000-just-as-vaccinations-begin | 2020-12-14T21:07:38 | The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 300,000 Monday just as the country began dispensing coronavirus vaccinations in a monumental campaign to conquer the outbreak.
The number of dead rivals the population of St. Louis or Pittsburgh. It is equivalent to repeating a tragedy on the scale of Hurricane Katrina every da... |
U.S. sanctions NATO ally Turkey over Russian missile defense system | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-14/us-sanctions-nato-ally-turkey-over-russian-missile-defense | 2020-12-14T20:59:32 | The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on its NATO ally Turkey over its purchase of a Russian air defense system, in a striking move against a longtime partner that sets the stage for further confrontation between the two nations as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.
The extraordinary ste... |
Trump says he's nixing plan for early vaccinations at White House | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-13/white-house-other-top-officials-to-get-early-vaccine-access | 2020-12-14T04:09:12 | President Trump said Sunday that he was reversing an administration directive to vaccinate top government officials against COVID-19 while public distribution of the shot is limited to front-line health workers and people in nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
Trump made the announcement hours after his admin... |
Former aide accuses New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-13/former-development-aide-accuses-cuomo-of-sexual-harassment | 2020-12-13T20:59:24 | A former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is now running for Manhattan borough president accused him of sexual harassment in a series of tweets Sunday, saying he made inappropriate comments about her appearance.
Lindsey Boylan tweeted that the Democratic governor “sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, an... |
Hundreds of Nigerian students missing after attack on school | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-13/hundreds-of-nigerian-students-missing-after-attack-on-school | 2020-12-13T19:23:41 | Hundreds of Nigerian students were missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s northwestern Katsina state, police said, while the president said the military was in gunfights with bandits in a forest as it tried to find the students.
The Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked... |
The Brexit deadline approaches. Is there hope left for a deal? | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-13/deadline-comes-knocking-is-there-hope-left-for-brexit-deal | 2020-12-13T09:27:45 | Facing yet another self-imposed Brexit deadline Sunday, the chief negotiators from the European Union and United Kingdom were making last-ditch efforts to bridge differences on a trade deal that have proved insurmountable for the better part of the year.
The EU’s Michel Barnier and Britain’s David Frost were already ... |
Hunter Biden subpoena seeks information on Burisma, other entities | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-12/hunter-biden-subpoena-seeks-info-on-burisma-other-entities | 2020-12-13T05:33:23 | A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden’s son.
The breadth of the subpoena, issued Tuesday, underscores t... |
Barcelona concert tests use of same-day COVID-19 screening | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-12-13/barcelona-concert-tests-use-of-same-day-covid-19-screening | 2020-12-12T22:45:39 | Eager for a live music show after months of social distancing, more than 1,000 Barcelona residents gathered Saturday to participate in a medical study to evaluate the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus screening to safely hold cultural events.
After passing an antigen screening, 500 of the volunteers were randomly... |
Trump loses one Wisconsin case while arguing another one | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-12/trump-loses-wisconsin-case-while-arguing-another-one | 2020-12-12T21:30:13 | President Trump lost a federal lawsuit Saturday while his attorney was arguing his case before a skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court in another lawsuit that one justice said “smacks of racism” and would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters in the state’s most diverse counties.
U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig... |
American Legion, Pelosi joining calls for VA chief's ouster | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-12/american-legion-pelosi-joining-calls-for-va-chiefs-ouster | 2020-12-12T21:21:23 | The nation’s largest veterans organization and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday joined the growing calls for the ouster of President Trump’s Veterans Affairs chief, who is under fire after a government audit found he acted unprofessionally, if not unethically, in the handling of a congressional aide’s allegation... |
New Orleans stage and screen actor Carol Sutton dies at 76 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-12/new-orleans-stage-and-screen-actor-carol-sutton-dies-at-76 | 2020-12-12T20:37:38 | Actor Carol Sutton, a fixture on stages in her native New Orleans who built a steady career on the big and small screens, including roles in the 1989 comedy “Steel Magnolias” and the TV series “Queen Sugar,” has died of complications from COVID-19, according to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. Sutton was 76.
“The wo... |
Biden's fractured foot is healing as expected, his doctor says | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-12/doctor-says-bidens-fractured-foot-is-healing-as-expected | 2020-12-12T18:58:31 | President-elect Joe Biden’s fractured foot is on the mend, his doctor said Saturday.
Biden made the drive from his Delaware home to a Philadelphia hospital for a special CT scan that was able to obtain a “weight-bearing” image. His doctor, in a statement released after the visit, said the small fracture was “healing a... |
Loss of 'snowbirds' amid pandemic another hit to U.S. tourism | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-13/loss-of-snowbirds-amid-pandemic-another-hit-to-us-tourism | 2020-12-12T18:11:47 | This is the first winter in five years that Steve Monk and his wife, Linda, haven’t driven to Arizona from their home in Prince Albert, Canada.
They typically leave to hunker down in the warmer climate for six months. They could fly, skirting travel restrictions at the border, but they’d rather “freeze their buns off... |
What’s in store when the electoral college meets | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-12/explainer-whats-in-store-when-the-electoral-college-meets | 2020-12-12T17:23:30 | Voters cast their ballots for president more than a month ago, but the votes that officially matter will be cast Monday. That’s when the electoral college meets.
The Constitution gives the electors the power to choose the president, and when all the votes are counted Monday, President-elect Joe Biden is expected to h... |
Mystery surrounds absence of Algeria leader treated for COVID-19 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-12/mystery-over-absence-of-algeria-leader-treated-for-covid-19 | 2020-12-12T11:03:19 | Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune marks a year in office Saturday, but he is nowhere in sight since his evacuation to Germany more than six weeks ago for COVID-19 treatment.
The president’s office issued a statement on Nov. 30 saying Tebboune had left a “specialized” medical facility, was continuing his convales... |
Italy's staggering COVID-19 death toll poses uncomfortable questions | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-12/italys-staggering-virus-toll-poses-uncomfortable-questions | 2020-12-12T09:55:14 | Italy could soon reclaim a record that nobody wants — the most COVID-19 deaths in Europe — after the healthcare system again failed to protect older people and the government delayed imposing new restrictions.
This wasn’t supposed to happen. Italy was the first country in the West to be slammed by COVID-19 and, after... |
U.S. executes Louisiana truck driver who killed 2-year-old daughter | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-11/us-executes-louisiana-truck-driver-who-killed-daughter-2 | 2020-12-12T02:05:35 | The Trump administration continued its unprecedented series of postelection federal executions Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head against a truck’s windows and dashboard.
Alfred Bourgeois, 56, was prono... |
Zodiac Killer cipher is solved 51 years after it was sent to newspaper | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-11/zodiac-cipher-solved-51-years-after-it-was-sent-to-newspaper | 2020-12-11T23:16:57 | A coded letter mailed to a San Francisco newspaper by the Zodiac serial killer in 1969 has been deciphered by a team of amateur sleuths from the United States, Australia and Belgium, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.
The cipher is one of many sent by a killer who referred to himself as Zodiac in letters sen... |
Biden unveils top picks with deep Obama administration ties | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-11/biden-unveils-top-picks-with-deep-obama-administration-ties | 2020-12-11T20:12:22 | President-elect Joe Biden on Friday introduced five top picks for his new administration, drawing on leading names from the Obama White House while also tapping an Ohio congresswoman and a congressional committee veteran.
Appearing at the afternoon event were Susan Rice, Biden’s choice for director of the White House ... |
Congress passes one-week funding bill to avert government shutdown | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-11/government-funding-bill-stopgap-shutdown-coronavirus-relief-bill | 2020-12-11T18:47:46 | Congress has passed a bill to fund the government for another week, giving lawmakers time to reach agreement on a new coronavirus relief bill.
The Senate approved the funding extension by voice vote on Friday. The House had passed the same bill on Wednesday.
But prospects for passage of an emerging $900-billion COVID... |
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