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US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she’d died_lus

Family of Jessie Peterson, 31, spent a year searching for her before learning hospital had shipped body to storage facility Jessie Peterson’s family spent a year searching for her after they were told that she had checked herself out of…

The evolution of Kamala Harris: from activist in pigtails to presidential candidate_l

The daughter of civil rights activists has an unbroken history of working to change ‘anything that wasn’t right’, friends say It was the first week of July. News of the presidential election had been mired, for eight days, in alarming…

Los Angeles wants a ‘no-car’ Olympics in 2028. Is it possible?

City officials are looking at the 1984 Games held in Los Angeles for inspiration for moving people. Composite: AP Karen Bass, the mayor, pledged to make the Games car-free, but the sprawling city’s public transit falls far behind that of previous…