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LOS ANGELES — Authorities investigating the crash in the Windsor Hills neighborhood that left five people dead are trying to sort out the actions and mindset of the nurse who prosecutors say plowed her Mercedes into the intersection. Investigators are still trying to get a full account of what brought Nicole Lorraine Linton, 37, to the corner of Slauson and La Brea avenues last Thursday ...

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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — America’s top diplomat on Wednesday was hoping to showcase the potential for democracy and climate action here in one of Africa’s largest countries. But backsliding reality got in the way. Within hours of U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo — as he repeatedly urged free, fair and “on time” presidential ...

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Joseph Cassara decided to head back to the emergency room when the pain made it unbearable to swallow. "I tried to eat a banana for breakfast," he said, "and it just felt like I was swallowing razor blades." Cassara, 33, was still waiting on the test results to confirm that he had monkeypox, but was suffering scorching fevers and gruesome lesions on his cheek and chin that felt as if they were ...

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A massive debris flow triggered by flash floods that followed a wildfire in Northern California is believed to have killed scores of fish along a 50-mile stretch of the Klamath River last week. Intense storms sent flood waters coursing through an area recently burned by the McKinney fire, pushing charred soil, rocks and trees into the river near Humbug Creek, said Craig Tucker, natural ...

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LOS ANGELES — In the city where the car is king, activists are pushing to claim strips of the biggest boulevards for bicyclists and walkers. Their fight has played out at Griffith Park, where streets were recently closed after a cyclist was killed. It spilled out along the steps of City Hall where advocates staged a die-in. And now, it could make its way to the ballot box in a vote that will ...

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Authorities in Northern California have arrested a 75-year-old Hawaii man in connection with the rape and killing of a teenager in Sunnyvale nearly 40 years ago, using forensic genealogy to zero in on the suspect from his family tree. Gary Ramirez was arrested Aug. 2 at his home in Makawao on the island of Maui, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office said Tuesday. Once extradited, ...

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LOS ANGELES — Southern California air regulators are investigating several facilities that sterilize medical equipment with a carcinogenic gas after preliminary monitoring confirmed their emissions may pose an elevated cancer risk to people who work nearby. After months of screening for chemical emissions near large commercial sterilizers in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, the South ...

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LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles City Council meeting erupted into chaos on Tuesday, with a public speaker climbing over a bench and onto the council floor to confront Council President Nury Martinez, prompting police to fill the chamber. Officers tackled a second member of the public on the council floor moments later, while activists screamed at police and at least one audience member attempted ...

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PRETORIA, South Africa — The gang rape of eight women — allegedly by illegal miners — has transfixed South Africa and encapsulated numerous evils plaguing this society all at once. The victims were models taping a program at a mining location when attacked. More than 100 men have been arrested in the assault, although not all charged. Many are from neighboring countries — most in Johannesburg ...

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WASHINGTON — Few specifics are known about what the FBI sought during Monday’s daylong search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. But one thing is clear: For federal investigators to seek a search warrant and conduct an unannounced search of the property while Trump was not present indicates they believe the evidence they sought was worth any expected political ...