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1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Adam Nagourney |Jesus Jimenez |Jesús Jiménez

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles officials brimmed with confidence a decade ago as they urged the International Olympic Committee to make the city the first in the U.S. to host the Summer Olympics since 1996. “Follow the sun,” they said in the official bid for the Games in 2015. Los Angeles promised terrific weather, a $1 billion Olympic Village to house athletes, a state-of-the-art transit system that would allow for a car-free Olympics and a ready-to-go network of stadiums and arenas.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Adam Nagourney |Jesus Jimenez |Jesús Jiménez

2 hours agoWhy did the California Senate shunt a cost-cutting housing bill? Last month, RAND, a prominent think tank based in Santa Monica, published an exhaustive study on housing costs that devastatingly proves how …8 hours ago‘Not even remotely normal’: New concern over Trump’s rambling speeches, posts“On any given day, Donald Trump is just an endless stream of addled nonsense,” says Chris Hayes. Alexi McCammond and Faiz Shakir join to discuss.

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Jesus Jimenez |Jesús Jiménez

For years, animal-rights advocates have pushed for the elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo to be moved to an animal sanctuary. But in Southern California, even the elephants have celebrity backers. One elephant in particular, Billy, has gotten some extra love from Cher. “Billy doesn’t deserve this,” the singer said in an interview Thursday.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jesus Jimenez |Loren Elliott

A lawsuit is seeking to stop Los Angeles Zoo officials from shipping their two surviving elephants to another zoo in Oklahoma. Cher and other advocates want them to go to an animal sanctuary. Billy the elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo this month. The 40-year-old pachyderm has been at the zoo since 1989. Credit... For years, animal-rights advocates have pushed for the elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo to be moved to an animal sanctuary.

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jesus Jimenez |Soumya Karlamangla

The primary transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area was forced to shut down all trains on Friday morning because of a computer problem, sending commuters scrambling to find alternatives with little notice. Bay Area Rapid Transit, which transports more than 170,000 passengers on weekdays throughout much of the region, said service had been suspended because of a "computer networking" problem. Riders were searching for alternatives, from car pools to local bus services and ferries.