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Jessica Alba departs role as chief creative officer at Honest to pursue “new endeavors”

10Apr

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Jessica Alba departs role as chief creative officer at Honest to pursue “new endeavors”

Jessica Alba, who shot to fame in the James Cameron television series "Dark Angel," as well as films such as "Sin City" and the "Fantastic Four," will step down as chief creative officer at Honest Company, a personal care company that she founded.Alba will keep a seat on the company board, but Honest said that she will now focus on "new endeavors."The actress founded Honest in 2012 after she suffered allergic reactions to baby laundry detergents. The company went public in May 2021, with shares soaring 44% in their stock market debut. Honest Co. brand shampoo, conditioner, and beauty cleanser. Jessica Alba founded the personal care company in 2012 but is stepping down to focus on "new endeavors." Gabb...

Biden’s $3.1 Billion Train Ticket to Nowhere

2Jan

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Health

Biden’s $3.1 Billion Train Ticket to Nowhere

It didn’t get a lot of attention, but last month the White House awarded $3.1 billion to the California High-Speed Rail project. This was supposed to be a bullet train connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than three hours. Instead, its costs keep rising even as the state scales back the plan. Since 2008, when California voters authorized a $10 billion bond issue for the train, they’ve been sold a bill of goods.The original total estimated construction cost to taxpayers was $33 billion. That’s risen to at least $100 billion. The authority decided to offer service between San Francisco and Los Angeles in Phase I, then eventually extend the train service north to Sacramento and south to San Diego. Phase I was to have been completed by 2020. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company...

The Welfare-Industrial Complex Is Booming

31Dec

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The Welfare-Industrial Complex Is Booming

Dec. 31, 2023 11:23 am ETDrill into the nation’s 3.7% unemployment rate, and you’ll find a growing welfare-industrial complex beneath the seemingly strong labor market. Government, social assistance and healthcare account for 56% of the 2.8 million net new jobs over the past year, and for nearly all gains in blue states such as New York and Illinois.The tens of thousands of migrants pouring into big cities need to be tended to. So do the hundreds of thousands of drug-addled and mentally ill homeless living on the streets. Progressive government doesn’t do anything on the cheap. America’s welfare state has thus become a proverbial Big Dig, and it keeps getting bigger.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Electric Mandates Have California Truckers Charging Overtime

29Dec

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Electric Mandates Have California Truckers Charging Overtime

Dec. 29, 2023 12:52 pm ETCompton, Calif.Electric trucks are supposed to save the world, but they’re wasting Mike Stanley’s time. Mr. Stanley, a longtime trucker whose rectangular beard flows down to his chest, now leads operations in the main Los Angeles office of IMC, a Tennessee-based drayage trucking company that carries cargo to and from U.S. ports and rail yards. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Why the Noise of L.A. Helicopters Never Stops

29Dec

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Why the Noise of L.A. Helicopters Never Stops

The Jay Stephen Hooper Memorial Heliport sits on top of a brutalist brick-and-concrete building, the C. Erwin Piper Technical Center, across from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. It’s an area where trains, buses, and highways all converge, and where the sounds of helicopters coming and going are barely noticeable above the din of engines and the smell of exhaust. From the ground, the heliport is barely visible. The best view of it is nearby, from the Cesar Chavez Bridge, over the Los Angeles River, which, in this part of the city, is just a low stream of water in a giant concrete aqueduct. From there, looking over a rail yard, one can see the helicopters parked at an angle on the roof, and the blinking of video monitors inside of an observation tower. On a recent evening, just befor...

Cher asks Los Angeles court to give her control over adult son’s finances

29Dec

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Cher asks Los Angeles court to give her control over adult son’s finances

Cher has filed a petition to become a temporary conservator overseeing her son's money, saying the 47-year-old's struggles with mental health and substance abuse have left him unable to manage his assets, and potentially put his life in danger.The Oscar and Grammy winning singer and actor on Wednesday filed the petition in Los Angeles Superior Court that would give her temporary control of the finances of Elijah Blue Allman, her son with musician Gregg Allman.Cher's petition says that Elijah Allman is entitled to regular payments from a trust fund. But "given his ongoing mental health and substance abuse issues," she is "concerned that any funds distributed to Elijah will be immediately spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself and putting Elijah's life at risk,...

Kamar de los Reyes, “One Life to Live” actor, dies at 56

26Dec

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Kamar de los Reyes, “One Life to Live” actor, dies at 56

Kamar de los Reyes, a television, movie and voice actor best known for playing a gang member-turned-cop in the soap "One Life to Live" and a villain in the video game "Call of Duty: Black Ops II," has died in Los Angeles at 56, the family announced.De los Reyes died Sunday following a brief battle with cancer, according to a statement obtained by CBS News from Lisa Goldberg, a publicist for de los Reyes' wife, actress Sherri Saum.In "One Life to Live," de los Reyes starred as Antonio Vega, a former gang member who became a lawyer and then a cop, alongside Saum. In the popular video game "Call of Duty: Black Ops II," he played the villain Raul Menendez. He also had roles in Fox's "Sleepy Hollow," ABC's "The Rookie" and CW's "All American." FILE -- Actor Kamar De Los Reyes...

Mayim Bialik says she is out as host of “Jeopardy!”

16Dec

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Mayim Bialik says she is out as host of “Jeopardy!”

Mayim Bialik announced Friday that she is out as host of "Jeopardy!"In a post on social media, "The Big Bang Theory" star wrote: "I have some Jeopardy! news. Sony has informed me that I will no longer be hosting the syndicated version of Jeopardy!"The 48-year-old Bialik did not elaborate on what led up to her departure. She said she was "honored" to have received an Emmy nomination this year for outstanding host of a game show, and said she "was deeply grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of the Jeopardy! family." CBS News has reached out Sony Pictures Television, which produces "Jeopardy!," for comment, but has not yet heard back. Mayim Bialik on April 22, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. ...

Matthew Perry Died From Effects of Ketamine, Autopsy Shows

15Dec

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Matthew Perry Died From Effects of Ketamine, Autopsy Shows

Updated Dec. 15, 2023 6:44 pm ETMatthew Perry died from the acute effects of ketamine, according to an autopsy of the “Friends” actor released Friday.The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said the 54-year-old also drowned in his pool. It was a secondary factor in his accidental death on Oct. 28, the report said. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Why It Took 17 Years to Build 49 Housing Units in Los Angeles

13Dec

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Why It Took 17 Years to Build 49 Housing Units in Los Angeles

Listen to article(2 minutes)A Los Angeles nonprofit was given government land in January 2007 to build a few dozen units of affordable housing. They’re finally hoping to open the building next year. Lorena Plaza, a 49-unit development rising in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Boyle Heights in eastern Los Angeles, is taking longer to complete, a city official said, than practically any other residential building this size in the history of Los Angeles. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8