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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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Sex Education Gets Legal

Comments (0) | Birth rates, California, California, change, early teen births, Health, Health, Investigative Reports, LAUSD, Law, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Science, sex, sex education

Joy Hahn
Contributor

Sex education is not standardized in classrooms across the United States, but research shows that whether it’s taught effectively, if at all, can have a strong impact on young people’s health and drastically change their lives. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

LIVE STREAM: Watch L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti Sign Minimum Wage Increase Into Law

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Setting up at Martin Luther King Jr. Park. Max Schwartz / Neon Tommy.

Max Schwartz, Gigi Gastevich
Civic Center Bureau Chief

The ordinance will raise the minimum wage in L.A. to $15 an hour by 2020.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Small Business: Where Minimum Wage Hits A Wall

Comments (0) | Business, California, costs, economy, employees, employers, Eric Garcetti, finance, impact, income, jobs, labor, Law, Los Angeles, minimum wage, Opinion, profit, raise, salary, small business, standoff, workers

Amanda Wokciechowski
Contributor

How do businesses absorb the cost of a minimum wage increase - and can they?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

No Room At The Table: America's Bans On Feeding The Homeless

Comments (0) | 2014, America, arrest, California, charity, coalition, community, cooking, criminalization of food sharing, diversity, economy, Food, Health, holiday, holidays, human rights, Law, legislation, Los Angeles, National, poverty, Psychology, society, thanksgiving, trending, youth homelessness

Ft. Lauderdale legislation against feeding the homeless clearly isn't stopping Arnold Abbott. (@youngestbrother/Twitter)

Christine Walsvick

L.A. is one of many cities trying to make it a crime to feed the homeless.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Daniele Watts Controversy Brings Up Issues Of Race, Gender And Sexuality

Comments (0) | black female stereotypes, Commentaries, Danièle Watts, female sexuality, Film and TV, Law, Los Angeles, Pop Culture, TMZ

“If you’re not threatened with death, does that mean you’re not presenting a valid civil rights issue?”

Jessica Moulite
Staff Reporter

How does race, gender and sexuality relate to the law?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Midterm Election Primer: California Proposition 47

Comments (0) | California, California, Crime, elections, Law, midterm elections, politics, prison, Prop 47, Proposition 47, three strikes law

Prop. 47 will be on the midterm election ballot Nov. 4 (Olivia Niland/Neon Tommy)

Olivia Niland
Web Producer

Prop. 47 would reduce certain crimes, including shoplifting and personal drug use.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Thirst For Power: Lawmakers Behaving Badly During Drought

Comments (0) | #OneDayDirtier, California, Central California, conservation, Department of Water and Power, drought, DWP, government, inland empire, l.a., Law, Los Angeles, norcal, officials, Opinion, politics, riverside, SoCal, Southern California, water, water conservation, water crisis, water laws, water restriction

Marisa Zocco
Contributor

Come on, lawmakers. Time to set an example and let those lawns go yellow.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

The Fight For Jahi McMath's Life

Comments (3) | Baylor College of Medicine, Benioff Children's Hospital, brain dead, brain death, Chris Dolan, ethics, Health, hospital, Jahi McMath, Law, lawsuit, lawyers, medical ethics, medicine, MRI, National, tonsillectomy, UCSF, University of California SanFrancisco

(@SFChronicle/Twitter)

Jenny Di
Staff Writer

Declared dead a year ago, Jahi McMath’s parents say she’s still alive.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Ex-Sheriff's Deputies Sentenced in Obstruction of Justice Case

Comments (2) | breaking news, conspiracy, court, death sentence, FBI, jail, Justice, Law, legal, Los Angeles, obstruction, prison

The US Court House, Los Angeles (Priyanka Deo/Neon Tommy)

Priyanka Deo
Staff Reporter

A federal judge gave jail time to six former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies for obstructing with a federal civil rights investigation.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

'Yes Means Yes' Assault Bill Introduced

Comments (0) | bill, California, campus, case handling, colleges, consent, laura yin, Law, prevention programs, public and private, sexual assault, sexual assault prevention, state funding, students, universities, yes means yes

Sanika Bhargaw
Staff Reporter

 The California State Senate passed Bill 967.

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