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Disney buys Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion
Darth Vader and George Lucas (R) onstage during Spike TV's "SCREAM 2011" awards held at Universal Studios on October 15, 2011 in Universal City, California. Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images Walt...
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Next president may have to make Supreme Court decisions
People gather outside the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012. Credit: David Goldman/AP With four of the nine Supreme Court judges in their 70s, it’s likely that one or more of them will be hanging up...
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What cities can learn from Hurricane Sandy
Atmosphere in Times Square following Hurricane Sandy on October 30, 2012 in New York City. Credit: John Lamparski/Getty Images Superstorm Sandy is on the move, leaving a wake of destruction along the...
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Chinese think tank calls for China’s ‘one child’ policy to be eliminated
This picture taken on September 13, 2012 shows a family riding an electric-tricycle along a street in Tianjin. China's elderly face increasing uncertainty three decades since the one-child policy took...
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POLL: When political punditry turns Facebook friends into foes
A participant at a Tea Party Express rally displays a sign critical of the Obama administration on April 13, 2010 in Albany, New York. The Tea Party Express will head to Boston on Wednesday where the...
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POLL: When political punditry turns Facebook friends into foes
A participant at a Tea Party Express rally displays a sign critical of the Obama administration on April 13, 2010 in Albany, New York. The Tea Party Express will head to Boston on Wednesday where the...
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Sandy leaves cell companies with no answers and customers with no bars
People recharge their cell phones and computers at a police supplied generator in Rockaway Beach after Superstorm Sandy swept through on October 31, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City. At...
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Measure J aims to start the engines on public transportation
Measure J hopes to extend half-cent transportation sales tax passed by Measure R last year. Credit: Corey Moore/KPCC In 2008, Los Angeles County voters approved Measure R, a half-cent sales tax...
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What happens if the election is a dead heat?
Liz Poole, whose first experience with politics was campaigning for President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a child, fills in her ballot during early voting at the Black Hawk County Courthouse on September...
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Candidates feeling the heat in swing state of Florida
U.S. President Barack Obama (R) stands on stage with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (L) and moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS at the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center...
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Los Angeles moves forward on four new tax proposals
Los Angeles City Hall Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The Los Angeles City Council is one step closer to putting a half-cent sales tax proposal on the March 2013 ballot. Council President Herb...
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Southern California power companies help restore East Coast grid after...
Police gather to tell a man to put out the road flare he found and was using as an impromptu flashlight while walking with friends in front of a darkened Flatiron Building in a section of Manhattan...
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Follow the candy: some families prefer to relocate for Halloween
Pavle Matic, age 3, hugs the pumpkin carved by his father. Credit: TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images For most of us as kids, Halloween meant fanning out into the nearby streets to pester our neighbors for...
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Jeff Goldblum leads an onstage 'Seminar' at the Ahmanson
Actor Jeff Goldblum, known for films like Jurassic Park and Independence Day, visited the KPCC studios on Thursday. Credit: Maya Sugarman/KPCC Lovers of literature and the inner workings of the minds...
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Detroit firefighters feel the 'Burn'
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 22: (L-R) Detroit Fire Commissioner Don Austin, firefighter Brian Crowder, Fire Chief Craig Dougherty, Sergeant Jeff Urbas, firefighter Christopher Palm and firefighter Charles...
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FilmWeek: Flight, Wreck-It-Ralph, This Must Be the Place and more
Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Larry is joined by KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan from dearhenrysheehan.com, Lael Loewenstein from Variety and Charles Solomon from amazon.com to review the week’s...
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California schools skip federal grants due to lack of union support
Credit: Getty Images The Los Angeles Unified School District is going ahead with their application for federal grant money from Race to the Top, without the essential support of the teachers union....
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Bloomberg Businessweek boldly claims, 'It’s Global Warming, Stupid'
Jacquie Ayala (L) and Amanda Lawrence stand in a flooded street as they and others call on the presidential candidates to talk about their plans to fight climate change on October 18, 2012 in Miami...
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Election 2012 intensifies in its final day
Voters prepare to cast their ballots at the North Miami Public Library after standing in line on November 1, 2012 in North Miami, Florida. Voters are complaining about hours long waits in line to cast...
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OC election roundtable
Credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty ImagesThe GOP has long held the lion’s share of registered voters in Orange County, but, as in all of California, that number is declining. The OC is now 41% red, 31%...
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