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Calexico (United States) (AFP) - Thousands of people voted to elect Raul Urena to Calexico council, hoping the young politician would bring a fresh approach to the California border city's long-standing problems with unemployment, crime and deprivation. But when Urena started pushing ideas popular with progressives across the United States, some voters changed their minds. The fact that Urena also took to wearing a dress and high heels to council meetings left some of them feeling duped. Urena, who uses she/her pronouns, sees transphobia in an effort to recall her in a referendum on Tuesday. B...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Newly released video shows US police shooting dead a kidnapped teenage girl they had been tasked with rescuing, in a chaotic incident on a busy California highway. Savannah Graziano, 15, was gunned down as one deputy called her away from her gun-toting father, who had killed her mother a day earlier and abducted his daughter. The episode unfolded in September 2022 when officers in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, began chasing the vehicle Anthony Graziano was driving with Savannah in the passenger seat. Footage filmed by a California Highway Patrol helicopter and...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Fast food workers in California on Monday hailed a pay raise that takes their minimum wage to $20 an hour, even as firms warned of likely price increases in an already expensive state. Staff flipping burgers or filling burritos at large chain restaurants will now be guaranteed one of the highest base rates in the country. "It'll help me breathe a little easier in terms of paying my rent and even buying groceries," said Angelica Hernandez, who works at a McDonald's in Los Angeles. "In all of my 19 years working in this industry... maybe 25 cents would be the max (raise) that...
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Cottonwood (United States) (AFP) - In his rural California barbershop, Woody Clendenen proudly displays "Trump 2020" and "Make America Great Again" caps alongside rodeo posters, references to the US Constitution, and a double-barreled shotgun. For this conservative businessman from Cottonwood, four hours north of liberal bastion San Francisco, Donald Trump is the obvious -- in fact, only -- choice for president come the November election. "Nobody can argue that things weren't better when he was in there, versus now with Joe Biden," the 57-year-old tells AFP. "Interest rates were low. Fuel was ...
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Huntington Beach (United States) (AFP) - Like most Republican voters casting their vote Tuesday in Huntington Beach, California, Tom Jones is delighted at the thought that Donald Trump could soon be the party's presidential nominee. While Trump cannot mathematically seal victory, a sweep of the 15 US states and one territory voting on Super Tuesday would pretty much leave Nikki Haley out for the count. "He's transparent. He has a lot more integrity than she does," says Jones, 61, a professional athlete. Trump's four criminal indictments, his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, hush money p...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A powerful storm lashing California on Monday has left at least three people dead and caused devastating mudslides and flooding, after dumping months' worth of rain in a single day. More than ten inches (25 centimeters) of rain was recorded in one part of Los Angeles County in 24 hours of downpour, with no letup forecast in the coming days. Mountainsides collapsed in the tony Hollywood Hills area, burying cars and damaging houses, while in nearby Beverly Glen, a mudslide knocked one home off its foundation. The house's contents -- including a piano -- were swept onto the ro...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - California police said Monday that the slaying of six people whose bodies were found in the desert appeared to be related to a dispute over drugs and that five people had been arrested. The corpses -- all of which had fatal gunshot wounds and some of which had been burned -- were discovered on a dirt road around 50 miles (80 kilometers) outside Los Angeles, surrounded by bullet casings. No attempt had seemingly been made to hide them. Officers in San Bernardino County received an emergency call last Tuesday from one of the men who had been shot, said Sergeant Michael Warwic...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Huge surf was battering the US West Coast on Friday, with forecasters warning of more danger ahead after a rogue wave swept pedestrians off their feet and swamped a hotel. Rollers as high as 30 feet (nine meters) were expected to lash parts of California and Oregon as a powerful storm capped a year of wild -- and often wet -- weather for the region. Ventura County, just north of Los Angeles, took a walloping on Thursday, with several people hurt. Video footage showed the dramatic moment a huge wave overtopped a sea wall in Ventura city, knocking several bystanders off their...
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Alpharetta (United States) (AFP) - The leaders of two of the largest US states went head-to-head Thursday in a prime-time debate offering contrasting views of how the deeply-polarized nation should be run -- and a preview of how the 2028 White House race might look. Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom, his counterpart in Democratic California, have been hammering each other for years over their vastly differing outlooks but the at times bad-tempered debate marked their first in-person clash. The pair represent almost one in five Americans -- California is the largest US s...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - In an industrial wasteland in Los Angeles, Kreigh Hampel is uprooting California buckwheat with a pitchfork to find out how much lead it has absorbed. The plant's delicate white and pink flowers belie an astonishing cleaning power, which scientists think could be harnessed to get rid of dangerous pollutants -- and even recycle them. "That's the miracle of life," enthuses 68-year-old Hampel, who is volunteering on the project. "Plants really can do this work and they know how to do it, they've done it so many times over millions of years," he says. The experiment is part of ...
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