rn Fire safety warning as millions work from home to stem spread of Covid-19 By www.london-fire.gov.uk Published On :: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:45:33 Z Firefighters are issuing urgent #StayHomeStaySafe advice as millions of people enter their first full week of working from home amidst the Coronavirus pandemic Full Article
rn Brigade response to Government announcement on further steps to reform the building safety system By www.london-fire.gov.uk Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 18:59:35 +0100 A Government announcement on further steps to reform the building safety system has been welcomed by London Fire Brigade, but senior firefighters also have concerns it has not gone far enough Full Article
rn London Fire Brigade issues warning after cooking fire on ITV’s This Morning By www.london-fire.gov.uk Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:57:45 +0100 MasterChef’s John Torode narrowly avoided disaster after a tea towel placed near to a stove caught alight during his cooking segment on ITV’s This Morning. Full Article
rn Dirty money piling up in L.A. as coronavirus cripples international money laundering By www.latimes.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:11:43 -0400 With storefronts closed, supply chains in disarray and the global economy in peril, money laundering schemes are hobbled and cash is piling up in L.A., the city's top drug enforcement official said. Full Article
rn 3 million coronavirus masks arrive in California as part of quiet deal with Chinese company By www.latimes.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 23:28:43 -0400 In all, the state received some 3 million surgical masks made by BYD, a company known for building electric vehicles with an assembly plant in Los Angeles County. Full Article
rn California attorney general sues gas trading companies, alleging price manipulation By www.latimes.com Published On :: Mon, 4 May 2020 15:06:02 -0400 California on Monday sued two gasoline trading firms, alleging they took advantage of a 2015 refinery explosion in Torrance to improperly drive up the price at the pump. Full Article
rn Kern County city gets hit with triple whammy: Lockdowns, oil slump and prison closing By www.latimes.com Published On :: Wed, 6 May 2020 08:00:04 -0400 A small oil town in Southern California is pummeled by the economy during the coronavirus outbreak and economic downturn Full Article
rn A California law may help travelers recoup money they've lost By www.latimes.com Published On :: Wed, 6 May 2020 12:00:39 -0400 An L.A. woman was to fly from LAX to Toronto and back. The airline canceled the flight. It won't give her a refund nor will the booking agency. Full Article
rn Ronald Birtcher, who helped build modern-day Orange County, dies at 89 By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 15:41:39 -0400 Along with Henry Segerstrom and Donald Bren, he helped make the OC more cosmopolitan. Full Article
rn California effort will employ restaurant workers to provide meals for seniors amid coronavirus crisis By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:37:13 -0400 The program will provide $66 a day per senior in funding for daily meals. Newsom said the effort will launch immediately, focused on seniors who are at risk for COVID-19 or have limited income. Full Article
rn California to provide more food benefits for schoolchildren during the coronavirus crisis By www.latimes.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:34:57 -0400 Newsom says low-income families will receive $365 per child to buy food to make up for the loss of free and reduced-priced lunches provided by schools. Full Article
rn Tasting-menu gem Auburn closes for good, the latest restaurant casualty of the coronavirus shutdown By www.latimes.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:33:05 -0400 Chef Eric Bost's Melrose Avenue restaurant opened just 13 months ago. Full Article
rn This couple turned their taqueria into a food bank By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 10:00:35 -0400 Revolutionario North African Tacos has become a food bank feeding Asian American and African American seniors and L.A.'s skid row. Full Article
rn Patricia Bosworth, actor turned celebrity biographer, dies of coronavirus By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 15:53:17 -0400 Patricia Bosworth, an actor who went on to chronicle lives including Jane Fonda's, Marlon Brando's and her own, died from coronavirus. She was 86. Full Article
rn Review: A western romance novel about a brawling Texas fiddler pulls its punches By www.latimes.com Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:44:19 -0400 Paulette Jiles delighted with her convention-breaking western romance, 'News of the World.' Her follow-up, 'Simon the Fiddler,' is just old-fashioned. Full Article
rn How language can destroy or rebuild, per Times Book Prize fiction winner Ben Lerner By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:30:20 -0400 The author of "The Topeka School," winner of the 2019 Times Book Prize for fiction, speaks on poetry, debate, citizenship and crisis homeschooling. Full Article
rn Journal the pandemic and those weird grocery store trips — with help from Michelle Obama By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:40:16 -0400 Writer turns to guided journal for Michelle Obama's "Becoming" to grapple with anxiety and cabin fever during coronavirus crisis. Full Article
rn Review: A dark corner of California's migrant history, illuminated in a debut novel By www.latimes.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:07:06 -0400 Rishi Reddi's "Passage West" plumbs an important story of Indian immigrant farmers, but isn't quite up to the task as fiction Full Article
rn Bookshop.org earns more than $1 million for indie bookstores By www.latimes.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:30:47 -0400 Earlier this week, Bookshop.org hit $1 million in earnings that will go to bookstores endangered by the coronavirus outbreak. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to stop calling California a 'nation-state' By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 06:00:50 -0400 Gov. Newsom has taken to calling California a "nation-state" when discussing its efforts to fight the coronavirus. Constitutionally, that's not true. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: How will Newsom protect Calfornia if other states end coronavirus restrictions? By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 06:00:39 -0400 Trump can't 'reopen' the economy, but Republican governors can follow his lead. If they do, Newsom must continue to protect Californians. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus kills the delusion that government should be like a business By www.latimes.com Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:00:38 -0400 Trump justifies his actions on coronavirus by saying he's a businessman who doesn't like having a lot of employees. But government is not a business. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: Treat clean energy like fossil fuel by giving it plenty of government money By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 06:00:25 -0400 Clean energy wants a level playing field with fossil fuels and nuclear power. It needs government funding for that to happen. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: State governors, listen to your mayors who don't want to reopen By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:00:19 -0400 State preemption has been used against local governments on a number of issues; it would be a mistake for that to happen now amid coronavirus fears. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus stirs readers' patriotism — for California By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:00:48 -0400 A call to split the U.S. into separate republics based on our deep political divisions draws support from readers. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: Stubborn enough to go see the poppy bloom? At least stay on the trails By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 06:00:43 -0400 Publishing photos of maskless tourists romping in poppy fields does not help the cause of social distancing. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: Newsom's right. Crowding beaches in a pandemic is not your birthright as a Californian By www.latimes.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:44:31 -0400 Calls to open all beaches because Californians have a right to them are silly and dangerous. Gov. Newsom is making the right call. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: Start reopening California by rationing access to beaches and trails By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 5 May 2020 06:00:02 -0400 Californians feel hopeless, so some are protesting. The solution is to limit access to public spaces without completely closing them. Full Article
rn Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus protesters turn the American flag into a symbol of selfishness By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 5 May 2020 06:00:16 -0400 The people waving the American flag at lockdown protests are using it as a symbol of selfishness. Full Article
rn That dramatic 'Marriage Story' speech that Laura Dern makes? Here's how it came about By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:00:11 -0500 As a divorce lawyer in 'Marriage Story,' Laura Dern calls out societal bias against mothers. She helped craft the speech with writer-director Noah Baumbach. Full Article
rn Can 'Parasite' parlay the international Oscar into a best picture prize? By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:30:29 -0500 If an international film, like 'Parasite,' wins best picture, it only seems fair that a different film, like 'Pain and Glory,' gets the international Oscar. Full Article
rn How I learned to stop worrying and ... ahem ... love the Oscars' best picture choice By www.latimes.com Published On :: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 08:00:54 -0500 We can't control what wins best picture at the Academy Awards. Can we control our emotions when our favorite movie doesn't win? Full Article
rn How Netflix's 'I Lost My Body' turns animation on its head, with the story of a severed hand By www.latimes.com Published On :: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 09:30:58 -0500 The team behind Netflix's unique adult animated feature "I Lost My Body" celebrates their Oscar nomination, and redefining what's possible in animation. Full Article
rn Elton John picks up his second original song Oscar, this one with Bernie Taupin By www.latimes.com Published On :: Sun, 9 Feb 2020 22:47:48 -0500 It's only fitting that Elton John shares the Oscar song award with Bernie Taupin for "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from "Rocketman," the movie largely about their 50-year collaboration. Full Article
rn Ava DuVernay, Sandra Oh and others celebrate 'Parasite's' historic Oscar win By www.latimes.com Published On :: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 01:29:57 -0500 Ava DuVernay, Olivia Munn and Jon M. Chu were among the celebs celebrating "Parasite's" historic win for best picture at the 2020 Oscars. Full Article
rn Sign of the times: 'Ford v. Ferrari' producer Peter Chernin will make Netflix movies now By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 21:52:49 -0400 Peter Chernin, producer of the Oscar-nominated 'Ford v. Ferrari,' strikes a movie deal with Netflix. Full Article
rn Pyramid house in Malibu sells to former Warner Bros. executive By www.latimes.com Published On :: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 15:58:31 -0400 Malibu's offbeat pyramid house has sold to a former Warner Bros. executive for $2.02 million. Full Article
rn Warner Records chief Aaron Bay-Schuck eyes a deal above the Sunset Strip By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:38:36 -0400 Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO of Warner Records, is asking $5.9 million for his stylish architectural abode in Hollywood Hills. Full Article
rn Remains of Sèbastien Izambard's Malibu estate that burned listed for $4.5 million By www.latimes.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:37:22 -0400 The site of French singer-composer Sébastien Izambard's Malibu home, which was destroyed in the 2018 Woolsey fire, is for sale at $4.5 million. Full Article
rn NBA players, referees to wear black band honoring David Stern By www.jpost.com Published On :: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:24:46 GMT The Dianne and David Stern Foundation philanthropy included a number of Jewish causes, according to Inside Philanthropy. Full Article nba philanthropy David Stern
rn Boris Johnson names his newborn after doctors who saved his life By www.jpost.com Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 16:19:18 GMT Nicholas was a nod to Nick Price and Nick Hart - two doctors who the couple have praised for saving Johnson's life at St Thomas' hospital last month. Full Article United Kingdom Boris Johnson Baby England
rn Kiss frontman Gene Simmons learns of his Holocaust survivor mother’s life By www.jpost.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 02:40:06 GMT Kiss frontman Gene Simmons said his mother almost never spoke about her Holocaust ordeal, including time in Nazi camps. Full Article Holocaust Holocaust survivors gene simmons hollywood jews holocaust child survivors
rn Coronavirus: 100 million European air passenger journeys 'lost' during pandemic By www.independent.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-15T15:43:00Z Heathrow, previously the busiest airport in Europe, did not even make the top three on 14 April Full Article
rn Richard Branson says 'Virgin Atlantic needs government loan to survive' By www.independent.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-20T11:50:00Z Airlines around the world are asking for support Full Article
rn 'Self-isolate for two weeks': What a new government quarantine policy for arrivals to the UK could mean By www.independent.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-26T13:40:00Z At present there are no health checks on passengers arriving at British ports and airports Full Article
rn Former Abta board member warns of 'zombie travel companies' – and threatens to sue holiday firms By www.independent.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-27T09:41:10Z Refund row intensifies as London ski company claims any customer who declines a 'Refund Credit Note' loses financial protection Full Article
rn Coronavirus: Foreign Office indefinite travel warning branded 'absurd' By www.independent.co.uk Published On :: 2020-04-30T09:25:59Z Exclusive: 'The FCO has to alter this Orwellian nonsense, and it must become country-specific,' said Paul Goldstein, owner of a camp in Kenya Full Article
rn France quarantine will not apply to Britons after diplomatic u-turn By www.independent.co.uk Published On :: 2020-05-04T07:26:00Z 'People entering French territory from European countries (EU/Schengen and United Kingdom) will not be affected by the quarantine measure,' says French consulate Full Article
rn Coronavirus: 'UK aviation is facing a death spiral', pilots' union warns By www.independent.co.uk Published On :: 2020-05-04T20:42:00Z Balpa calls on government to bring in a moratorium on job cuts Full Article
rn British Airways says no 'meaningful' return to service before July By www.independent.co.uk Published On :: 2020-05-07T06:41:55Z 'We will adapt our operating procedures to ensure our customers and our people are properly protected in this new environment,' said Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive Full Article