Los Angeles Hotel Strikes Continue After 7 Months

Union workers who have battled dozens of Southern California hotels for new contracts are squaring off with an unlikely holdout: an airport hotel owned by the pension fund of a fellow union. Unite Here Local 11, which represents housekeepers and other hotel workers, has been waging intermittent strikes across Los Angeles to pressure hotel operators … Read more

Startup K2 Space raises $50 million to build monster satellites

K2 Space co-founders Karan Kunjur and Neel Kunjur at the company’s facility in Torrance, California. Credit: K2 Space Los Angeles-based startup K2 Space raised $50 million in new funding as the company works to build monster satellites to match the massive rockets that are coming to market.  Nearly two years since founding, K2 co-founders and … Read more

Trader Joe’s appeals loss in trademark lawsuit against union

Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images Trader Joe’s is asking a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s scathing dismissal of the grocery store chain company’s lawsuit that alleged trademark infringement by an employee labor union in selling merchandise on its website. The appeal, filed Thursday, comes nearly a month after the … Read more

U.S. engineer contacted China before stealing missile tech

A deactivated Titan II nuclear ICMB is seen in a silo at the Titan Missile Museum on May 12, 2015 in Green Valley, Arizona.  Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors charged an engineer who worked at a Los Angeles-area company with stealing trade secret technologies developed for use by the U.S. government … Read more

Shoppers deal with holiday debt

Pedestrians walk by an advertisement for Klarna. Daniel Harvey Gonzalez | In Pictures via Getty Images When she started shopping for the holidays late last year, Kiki Andersen was struggling to buy her loved ones gifts. So she turned to a novel solution to get through the season: Buy now, pay later.  The 31-year-old comedian … Read more

The 10 fastest-growing jobs in the U.S.—many are remote, can pay over $100,000

Jobseekers could see a more cautious, competitive labor market in 2024 as employers slow hiring and hand out smaller raises — but some roles offer brighter prospects than others. Chief growth officer, sustainability analyst and artificial intelligence consultant are among the most in-demand roles companies are hiring for in the U.S., according to new research … Read more

Doja Cat’s Mother Claims Son Abused The Rapper In New Court Docs

The mother of rapper-singer Doja Cat has filed a restraining order against her son with claims that he has been abusive, according to multiple reports. According to court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Jan. 12, Deborah Elizabeth Sawyer, 62, is seeking a restraining order against her 30-year-old son Raman Dalithando Dlamini for … Read more

Radio shows surprising resilience in changing media world

Airline passengers between flights patronize the iHeartRadio facility at Denver International Airport in Denver on Jan. 19, 2014. Robert Alexander | Archive Photos | Getty Images It’s a familiar refrain: “Legacy media is dead” — unless you’re talking about radio. Despite being one of the oldest media formats, dating back to the 1890s, radio has … Read more

Car Theft In Downtown LA Is Up 300 Percent Over Ten Years

Downtown Los Angeles experienced the highest spike in vehicle theft over the past ten years in comparison to all other bureaus of the city, up more than 300 percent when compared to 2013. Obviously a lot has happened over the last 10 years, including that whole global pandemic that thrust millions into instability, and vehicle … Read more

Pig butchering scam results in four indictments, two arrests: DOJ

Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Federal prosecutors have disrupted a so-called pig-butchering scheme that cost victims more than $80 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. Four men have been indicted and two arrests have been made in one of the most sweeping enforcement actions yet on a type … Read more