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LONG BEACH-CA-FEBRUARY 3, 2021: A shopper passes by a group holding signs in support for Food 4 Less workers at the grocery store on South Street in North Long Beach on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. Food 4 Less workers, city leaders and local labor advocates hold a news conference to call on Kroger Co., the parent company of Food 4 Less and Ralph's, to keep stores open and condemn the company's actions to close two of its locations in the city because of the city's emergency ordinance for $4 per hour in temporary hazard pay. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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‘An untenable work environment’: Grocery workers brace for Omicron surge

Food retailers expect record-breaking sales during the week of Christmas. Workers managing the holiday bustle are worrying about infections.
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Flying is already miserable this year. Is Omicron going to make things worse?

COSTA MESA, CA -- MAY 15: A Nordstrom employee delivers merchandise to a customer waiting in their vehicle at curbside pickup outside Nordstrom at South Coast Plaza on Friday, May 15, 2020, in Costa Mesa, CA. South Coast Plaza has joined the list of outlets offering contact-free pickup for customers amid the coronavirus pandemic. Customers remain in their auto while their items are put in their car's trunk. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Retail’s battle with COVID actually saved its stores

FLE - The New York Stock Exchange operates during normal business hours in the Financial District, Oct. 13, 2021, in New York. Wall Street is getting off to a solid start Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021 after three days of losses. The S&P 500 is up 0.9% in the early going, the Nasdaq is up 1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.1%. Small-company stocks rose more than the rest of the market, a signal that investors were feeling a bit more optimistic about the economy. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, file)

Stocks end higher on Wall Street, breaking three-day slump

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This May 4, 2021, photo shows a sign outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington. The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of three Washington Post reporters who covered the federal investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign, the newspaper said Friday, May 7. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Google and Meta win U.S. security agency backing for Pacific cable

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Column: Amid holiday scam warnings, I’m contacted by a holiday scammer

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Christmas season is also catfishing season. Don’t fall for a romance scam

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In 2021, play became a way to think about life

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 18: Juan Alcantara, left, intern/trainee, Sal Miranda, supervisor, and Lee Kwok, solar installer supervisor, of GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit, install solar panels that will generate 5 kilowatts of energy at a low-income home in Watts on Friday, June 18, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. A total of 15 327 watt panels were placed on the roof. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Real Estate newsletter: California eyes big housing changes

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Spotify unveils sprawling podcast hub in downtown L.A.

HIGHLAND, CA - JUNE 18: A for-sale sign is seen on a home next to the San Andreas Fault on June 18, 2017 in Highland, California. An earthquake early warning system, under development by U.S. Geological Survey in partnership with several major universities to give the public in California, Oregon and Washington critical seconds of notice to move or duck for cover before a major earthquake hits, may abruptly end with a Trump proposal to cut all funding for it in the upcoming budget. If federal support is allowed to continue, a version of the $38.3 million ShakeAlert system would begin before the end of 2018. The annual cost to operate system for the West Coast would be $16.1 million. Scientists maintain that a massive quake on the southern portion of the San Andreas Fault in the range of 7.8 magnitude is inevitable and long overdue, and will cause widespread devastation in Southern California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

In Southern California, a slight slowdown in the housing market still means record prices

CULVER CITY, CA - DECEMBER 9, 2021 - Valet Betre Tsegaye takes up luggage to a room in the lobby of The Shay hotel in Culver City on December 9, 2021. The Shay hotel is located in a mix-use complex called Ivy Station that also has offices and apartments. Los Angeles hotels are reaching the same occupancy that they had before the pandemic started as travelers return to the region. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Tourists are back: L.A. hotel bookings reach 100% of their pre-pandemic levels

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EL SEGUNDO, CA - JANUARY 22, 2020 - AT&T facility in El Segundo. Since AT&T acquired El Segundo based DirecTV nearly 5 years ago, the service has hemorrhaged customers and now AT&T is increasingly distancing itself from the old school satellite model in favor of internet delivery. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

AT&T sells Xandr ad business to Microsoft for $1 billion

AT&T Inc. agrees to sell its Xandr division to Microsoft Corp. after giving up on its dream of becoming a major player in online advertising.

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FILE - Web pages used to show information for collecting unemployment insurance in Virginia, right, and reporting fraud and identity theft in Pennsylvania, are displayed on the respective state web pages, on Feb. 26, 2021, in Zelienople, Pa. The Secret Service said it has seized more than $1.2 billion while investigating unemployment insurance and loan fraud and has returned more than $2.3 billion of fraudulently obtained funds by working with financial partners and states to reverse transactions. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

$100 billion stolen in pandemic relief funds, Secret Service says

U.S. Secret Service says nearly $100 billion or more has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses, unemployed.

Outbreak at SpaceX yields 132 coronavirus cases; company says number dates to September

California rethinks nursing home funding after ‘appalling’ COVID-19 death toll

Abuela Rosa led her family to the middle class. In the face of COVID, they protect her legacy

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FILE - This Aug. 11, 2019 file photo shows Visa credit cards in New Orleans. U.S. consumers increased their borrowing in September 2020, helped by the first gain in the category that covers credit cards in seven months. The Federal Reserve Reserve reported that total borrowing rose by $16.2 billion in September, rebounding after a drop of $6.9 billion in August. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - MAR. 2, 2019. A homeless man findfs a dry spot on the sidewalk to sleep along Wall Street in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, Mar. 2, 2019. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

How to help unhoused Angelenos during the colder months

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EL SEGUNDO-CA-MARCH 13, 2017: Danny Dumas, left, packages food for a DoorDash deliverer at Mendocino Farms in El Segundo. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 4, 2019 file photo, a Planned Parenthood clinic is seen in St. Louis. Missouri's only abortion clinic will be able to keep operating after a state government administrator decided Friday, May 29, 2020, that the health department was wrong not to renew the license of Planned Parenthood's St. Louis facility. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Planned Parenthood L.A. was hacked. What it means, and what you can do

Two bottles of Purell hand sanitizer sit on the shelf at Harrold's Pharmacy in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Wednesday, March 4, 2020. (Mark Moran/The Citizens' Voice via AP)

Don’t throw away money. What to do with your FSA at the end of the year

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