Shares of Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) surged 35.5% in 2024, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. Alphabet entered 2024 under a cloud of skepticism regarding its competitiveness in the artificial intelligence (AI) races and amid pressure from antitrust authorities.
"That was where we lived. That's where we wanted to live for the rest of our lives," Neal Flesner, 48, a Pacific Palisades resident, told USA TODAY.
Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, on her relationship with the city, its mythology, and a reckoning with disaster.
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.
"Los Angeles has always been a boom town," wrote one of California's preeminent historians, Carey McWilliams, as local postwar prosperity took off in 1946 - even if it's "chronically unable to consolidate its gains.
Private jet records, compiled by Bloomberg News using aviation data platform JetSpy, provide a window into how nearby Mar-a-Lago — Donald Trump’s private Palm Beach club — has become a new center of power as the president-elect gleefully receives titans of industry ahead of his second term.
Thousands of homes in the Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other areas were destroyed in the fires. Many people in service jobs who took care of those homes, including housekeepers, landscapers, nannies and homecare providers for seniors, are now without work.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan stated in a blog post on Wednesday that Google and YouTube will donate $15 million to help the Los Angeles community and content producers affected by wildfires. TakeAway Points: Google and YouTube will donate $15 million to support the Los Angeles community and content producers harmed by wildfires,
LOS ANGELES - The hills are still ablaze, the smoke still aloft, but all those who have lost everything must nevertheless begin to answer a crucial question: What comes next? Some have chosen to double down on the California compact,
Striking images from devastating wildfires in southern California are all over social media. While many are real, some are fake.
Winds could threaten small signs of progress firefighters made over the weekend with the devastating Pacific Palisades Fire.
J.’s Emma Goss visited the L.A. Jewish communities as they observed their first Shabbat amid wildfire evacuations and heartbreaking loss.