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President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson walking across the South Lawn outside the White House in 1961.
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Biden predicts fair election, uncertain it will be peaceful
Western N.C. faces lack of basic needs and uncertain future
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Western N.C. faces lack of basic needs and uncertain future
For-Profit Schools Leaving Students Jobless and in Debt
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Season 2024 Episode 97
SoCal Matters
For-Profit Schools Leaving Students Jobless and in Debt
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Treasury official on jobs report and overall economy
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Treasury official on jobs report and overall economy

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Local Stories

A child wearing sneakers and gray sweatpants and a sweatshirt spins on a gym floor with his right leg up in the air as other children stand around him, looking on.
California Spent Nearly $1 Billion To Boost Arts Education. How Are Schools Spending It?
In the foreground, a sign is attached to a pole and reads "Special Enforcement Zone," describing that no person shall sit, like, sleep or allow items to remain in the public right of way or risk removal. In the background, a person walks down a street instead of the sidewalk, which is full of blue tarps covering homeless camps.
L.A.'s Anti-Camping Law Cost At Least $3 Million and Permanently Housed 2 People
A group of California Gig Workers wearing black T-shirts with the organization's logo on it stand in front of a courthouse carrying signs about Prop 22 and raising their hands in the air.
SoCal Matters
California Supreme Court Appears Hesitant To Overrule Voters on Gig Worker Law
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Ballot Brief
California Is on Track for Another Record Year Spent on Lobbyists
A blonde woman wearing a light grey skirt suit stands with her back to the camera as she holds a sheet of paper and addresses a panel at the front of a courtroom
California Passed a Law To Stop 'Pay to Play' in Local Politics. After Two Years, Legislators Want to Gut It
An oil pump painted white with red accents stands mid-pump on a dirt road under a blue, cloudy sky with a green, grassy slope in the background.
Stop Saving the Planet?
California’s First Carbon Capture Project: Vital Climate Tool or License to Pollute?
Gray industrial towers and stacks rise up from behind the pitched roofs of warehouse buildings against a gray-blue sky, with a row of yellow-gold barrels with black lids lined up in the foreground to the right of a portable toilet.
California Isn't on Track To Meet Its Climate Change Mandates. It's Not Even Close.
A row of cows stands in individual cages along a line of light-colored enclosures, placed along a dirt path under a blue sky dotted with white puffy clouds.
A Battle Is Underway Over California’s Lucrative Dairy Biogas Market
A Black woman with long, black brains wears a black Chicago Bulls windbreaker jacket with red and white stripes as she stands at the top of a short staircase in a housing complex and rests her left hand on the metal railing. She smiles slightly while looking directly at the camera.
Los Angeles County Is Testing AI's Ability To Prevent Homelessness
A close-up of a rusty white sign with blue text that reads "CAUTION HIGH PRESSURE GAS PIPELINE" and "BEFORE EXCAVATING IN AREA CALL TOLL FREE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY" and a toll-free number, alongside a SoCalGas logo in blue. In the background is a chain link fence, a leafy tree, and a paved road on a gloomy day.
SoCalGas Could Pay Penalty for Claiming Its Natural Gas Was 'Renewable'
Multi-colored shipping containers sit on large container ships under gray-and-yellow striped cranes in an industrial-looking port with a gray sky in the background
The Port of Los Angeles Promised to Measure Pollution; Its Equipment Keeps Breaking
Women strikers wear purple and hold black and yellow signs that read in large block print "PATIENT CARE IS IN CRISIS" and "PATIENT NEEDS NOT CORPORATE GREED"
Kaiser Strike Begins as 68,000 Employees Stage Walkout at California Hospitals

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