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30 million people under heat alerts as western US swelters
Las Vegas matched its all-time record of 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47.2 Celsius), according to the National Weather Service (NWS) -- a temperature recorded in the...
Los Angeles - the nation's most populous county - has emerged as the latest US epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, topping 7,000 COVID hospitalisations for the first time Monday.
By mid-November, the daily infection rate per 100,000 Latinos was 274 new cases, compared to 125 among white people, according to county health data adjusted for age to make comparisons more meaningful.
The man, named in local media as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, was riding his bicycle when Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies tried to stop him for an unspecified vehicle code violation on Monday afternoon.
Health fears, uncertainty and a second wave of coronavirus cases have meant few movie producers braving a return so far - with some heading elsewhere or even overseas.
Los Angeles has begun to reopen facilities from beaches and golf courses to restaurants and retail businesses offering curbside pick-up services, but lags behind other parts of California.
Thousands of firefighters were racing against the clock to gain control of two major fires -- the Kincade Fire in northern California and the Getty Fire, west of Los Angeles.
The so-called Getty Fire broke out overnight near a major freeway and quickly spread south and west, scorching 500 acres (202 hectares) and sending people fleeing in the dark.
The blaze also forced the closure of a major highway and several roads.
Nikki Bella feels like a "free spirit" since moving to LA and throwing herself into the dating scene.
The 37-year-old star has been invited to perform at the glitzy awards bash in Los Angeles on 24 February.
These delicacies are among some 80 items featured at the Disgusting Food Museum that opened in Los Angeles On Sunday, aiming to expose visitors to different cultures and foods and what we may all be eating in the future.
Hot dry winds expected to blow until Tuesday whipped up the flames and heightened the urgency of evacuation orders, officials said.
Two blazes collectively called the Mendocino Complex burnt in Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties, about 145 km north of San Francisco.
More than 38,000 people remained under evacuation orders on Sunday in and around Redding, a city of 90,000 people about 257 km north of the state capital Sacramento.
The man, 28 and not named by police, went out of the store and was surrounded by police.
They gave little indication of the horrors police would find in their tract home in Riverside County east of Los Angeles, family members and authorities said.
Police made the discovery after a 17-year-old girl escaped the house in Perris, about 113 km east of Los Angeles.
Odom collapsed in a nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning.