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OLYMPICS
Sep 14, 2017
IOC formally awards Paris 2024 Olympics, LA 2028 Games
Paris was awarded the 2024 Summer Olympics and Los Angeles was handed the 2028 edition on Wednesday, as the International Olympic Committee broke with decades of tradition to vote on a unique double allocation.
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WORLD / Society
Aug 17, 2017
Baltimore 'quickly and quietly' removes four Confederate statues after deadly Virginia rally
Baltimore removed four monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy before dawn on Wednesday, working quickly so the city could avoid protests like the one organized by white nationalists that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2017
Musk tweets he got verbal OK to start work on New York-Washington underground 'hyperloop'
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday said he had received "verbal" approval to start building a high-speed underground transport system linking New York and Washington that could cut travel time between the cities to about half an hour.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jul 21, 2017
Linkin Park singer Bennington found dead in apparent suicide
Chester Bennington, the lead singer of rock band Linkin Park, was found dead on Thursday at his Southern California home in an apparent suicide, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office said.
OLYMPICS
May 12, 2017
Olympic bid inspectors get full LA experience
The International Olympic Committee's evaluation commission got the full Los Angeles experience on Thursday, playing basketball at the Staples Center, hitting Santa Monica beach and negotiating the city's notorious traffic.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Apr 22, 2017
Tsubasa Watanabe: Model mixes punk with fashion on the runways of New York
At her first test shoot in Los Angeles, Tsubasa Watanabe was surprised by the outfit the photographer was asking her to wear: Hanging from the fingers of his outstretched hand was a pair of thong underwear.
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 22, 2017
'La La Land': Sometimes we need a trip to la-la land
La-la land: the mental state of someone who is not aware of what is really happening, and a nickname for the American entertainment industry centered on Los Angeles. These two meanings bleed into each other in director Damien Chazelle's multi-Oscar-nominated musical, "La La Land," which is about a state...
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BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2016
California gas leak spotlights shoddy regulation of nation's aging underground infrastructure
Long before a natural gas storage well sprung a disastrous leak near Los Angeles, utilities and national industry groups were raising alarms about the danger of aging underground storage infrastructure.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 31, 2015
Beverly Hills fined for not conserving enough water in drought
Upscale Beverly Hills is among four California cities where water utilities have been fined for not forcing residents to conserve enough water during California's unrelenting four-year drought, officials said on Friday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 11, 2015
Art heist in LA replaces Warhol prints with fakes
Nine original Andy Warhol prints were quietly stolen from a Los Angeles movie business and replaced with fakes in an art heist that went undetected for years, police and court documents showed on Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 28, 2015
Honorary Oscars to go to Spike Lee, Gena Rowlands, Debbie Reynolds
Director Spike Lee and actresses Gena Rowlands and Debbie Reynolds will receive honorary Oscars for their filmmaking legacies, the organizers of the world's most coveted movie awards said Thursday.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 13, 2015
Who's behind the 96 million 'shade balls' rolled into LA's reservoirs?
Shade balls?
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 29, 2015
Los Angeles joins San Francisco in banning large-capacity gun magazines
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban the possession of large-capacity gun magazines on Tuesday, following San Francisco to become the second major city in California to take that step.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jul 10, 2015
Despite protests, Cosby's Walk of Fame star to stay but other honors scrutinized
Bill Cosby's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will not be removed, organizers said on Thursday, but other honors given to the beleaguered comedian came under assault in the face of mounting sexual abuse allegations against him.
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WORLD
May 21, 2015
LA diner famed for Space Age 'Googie' architecture saved from threat of demolition
A Los Angeles diner celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th-century Space Age-style Googie architecture was granted historic monument status by city officials on Wednesday, protecting it from the threat of demolition.
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JAPAN
May 20, 2015
Japanese-American arts group seeking funds to upgrade LA theater
A Los Angeles-based Japanese arts group called Wednesday for business and government to support their efforts to revitalize a local theater that has staged performances for the Japanese community in the United States for decades.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 15, 2015
P-22, the celebrity cougar, leaves lair under L.A. house
A mountain lion with his own Facebook fan page that triggered a media storm by hiding in the crawl space under a Los Angeles house has left its urban refuge, wildlife officials said on Tuesday.
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WORLD
Mar 6, 2015
Actor Harrison Ford injured in small-plane crash in Los Angeles
"Star Wars" star Harrison Ford was seriously injured on Thursday when the actor crashed his vintage plane on a Los Angeles golf course shortly after taking off from a local airport, a source told Reuters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Dec 26, 2014
U.S. moviegoers trumpet free speech as 'Interview' opens to sell-out cinema crowds
"The Interview," the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 cinemas across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing sell-out audiences in many theaters where outspoken patrons said they were championing freedom of expression....

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