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The Mercury’s Politics and the News
Letters to the Editor: How we the people are letting Trump destroy our democracy by Kevin Spera When I first joined The Mercury, I was surprised and disappointed by how much we focused on...
world
Afrobeats: The New Grammys Category
The Grammys are considering adding an Afrobeats category to the nomination mix. That, of course, would be welcome news in a year when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave Grammy voters...
national
Los Angeles Times to Close Printing
The Times' downtown L.A. printing facility will shut down in 2024, ending more than 40 years of operations at the once-proud newsroom of the nation's most influential newspaper. The Los Angeles Times said Friday...
europe
Joe Biden warns about the impact of the Trump administration’s energy policy
Biden's energy policies hurting US, Europe: Here's the fix In a new op-ed at the Financial Times, former vice-president Joe Biden warns about the impact of the Trump administration’s energy policy, which he says...
health
The New Year Is Not a New Year’s Resolution
Column: Campaigns flood us with reductive racial rhetoric. How can we push back? The new year is an opportunity to begin with a clean slate and to embrace a new year of good health....
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Beyoncé is the World’s Most Successful Pop Star
New music? A fashion show? Rihanna's putting in work, work, work, work for resurgence of her brand, no matter what anyone says. And it's not easy: she's not just a fashion goddess, but a...
entertainment
San Pedro-Pescadores Beach officials ask Malibu to stop approving growth in the city-county boundary as a buffer zone
Crude emails reveal nasty side of a California beach city's crusade to halt growth in a neighbor that isn't The San Pedro-Pescadores Beach Municipal Code provides that a city can ban growth in an...
politics
The Chevron Gas Station on Broadway is gone, never to return.
California's gas-car phaseout brings turmoil to mom-and-pop gas stations At the corner of Broadway and Crenshaw in the Oakland hills, in one of the oldest gas stations in Riverside County, there are no pumps....
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Serena Williams’s Tumblr Page Has Been a Role Model for Women
How Serena Williams rewrote the playbook for female athletes juggling motherhood and sport The former tennis star and mother of three has helped bring the issues of athletic competition and motherhood out of the...
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The White American Public is Not Used to Watching Black Tennis Players Tell Black Players to Leave Their Sport
US tennis star feels some people don't want Black players to succeed. Juan Martin del Potro and Andy Roddick are among the few Black players to reach the top 200 in the world, while...