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A United Airlines Boeing 757-200 lost a wheel during takeoff at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, the airline confirmed. United Flight 1001, carrying 174 passengers and seven crewmembers, from LAX to Denver departed shortly after 7 a.m. “The wheel has been recovered in Los Angeles, and we are investigating what caused this event,” said United spokesperson Anousha Rasta. According to FlightAware, the jet landed safely in Denver at 10:51 a.m. local time. No injuries were reported on the aircraft or the ground, Rasta said, without sharing exactly where the wheel was found. Boeing’s 757-200 has four wheels on each main landing gear and two on the nose gear. In March, a United Airlines Boeing B777-200 jet traveling from San Francisco to Osaka, Japan, lost a tire during takeoff and was forced to make an emergency landing in Los Angeles. The tire slammed into cars in an airport employee parking lot.

California will impose permanent water restrictions for the first time in history after the state’s Water Resources Control Board approved a long-debated policy. The policy, dubbed Making Conservation a California Way of Life, is intended to permanently decrease statewide water use so that water reductions during droughts aren’t as severe.  The new policy was prompted by legislation signed by former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2018. Retail water suppliers, not individual households or businesses, will now be required to reduce their water use by close to 30% over the next 15 years. Suppliers who do not follow the new guidelines will face $10,000 daily fines. Los Angeles County captured 96 billion gallons of water during storm season Supplies will have to find ways to encourage their customers to reduce their water usage, such as imposing restrictions or promoting the use of low-flow appliances. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the cuts will not be based on a one-size-fits-all method but on a formula that weighs several factors, including the area’s past water consumption, climate, and land use. Some areas, like the Bay Area, won’t see dramatic

McDonald’s says “everyone’s favorite sandwich is back” on the menu nationwide. Two years after its debut, McDonald’s says both the Smoky BLT Quarter Pounder with Cheese and the Smoky BLT Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese will return. The sandwiches, which will be available for a limited time while supplies last, include a quarter-pound beef patty, American cheese, Applewood Smoked Bacon, tomato, shredded lettuce and a “special, smoky BLT sauce” on a toasted sesame seed bun. Why a popular fast food chain doesn’t serve the item it’s named for “Get ready to experience a sweet and tangy, savory and garlicy sauce that has a lingering smokiness,” said the McDonald’s Menu Spotter. The sandwiches will be available starting on July 10. McDonald’s officials have acknowledged that their customers want more value from the fast food chain as inflation pushes the cost of everything – including Big Macs – higher. A recent fast food study found that McDonald’s had the fifth-highest average meal price at $7.57, a 22% increase over 2022 ($6.21). The most expensive was Five Guys, at $20.84, a 13.7% increase over the 2022 average. In

The intense, early-season heat wave broiling much of the Western U.S. has already set several records but is forecast to continue for another week, bringing triple-digit temperatures and compounding health and wildfire concerns across California and surrounding states. “It’s unprecedented heat — take this very seriously,” said Dan Berc, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Las Vegas. “It’s not normal, this is excessive heat. … We’re talking 10 to 12 degrees above normal for the hottest part of the year.” Officials have attributed several deaths to the severe heat. Among them are a motorcyclist who died Saturday in Death Valley National Park and four suspected heat-related deaths in the Portland, Ore., area. Las Vegas on Sunday smashed its all-time high temperature by three degrees, hitting 120 for the first time since record-keeping began in 1937, according to the weather service. Several record highs were set this weekend across California, including in the eastern deserts, Antelope Valley and the state’s northwest corner. Officials say the temperatures are eye-popping on their own, but the number of days topping 100, 110 or 115 degrees is also remarkable —

Book Review The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA By Jesse KatzAstra House: 320 pages, $28If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The crime shook Los Angeles in 2007: A gang member, Giovanni Macedo, approached street vendor Francisco Clemente and fired five times. Clemente was gravely wounded, and one of the bullets intended for him struck 23-day-old Luis Angel, killing the infant. In “The Rent Collectors,” Jesse Katz examines the events of that day to ask whether a killer like Macedo can be redeemed. (Astra House) Readers expecting the sort of true-crime story that treats murder as a sui generis individual act will find a much different narrative here. Instead, Katz has constructed an ethnography of the crime, locating it within the intricate lacework of history, geography, policing and politics that the crime was knotted to. (Eric Nazarian) Katz, who spent 24 years covering stories for both the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles magazine, brings his formidable skills to mapping the territory of Macedo’s crime. It happened

To Danny Trejo, the people who hurled water balloons at him during a Fourth of July celebration in Sunland-Tujunga are “bullies” and “cowards” who racially targeted the Latino screen legend and his friends. “I’m sad. I’m just sad that there’s still people like from the ‘50s and ‘60s that still feel the same way,” he said about the incident to TMZ, “because no one else was targeted.” The “Machete” star and Trejos Tacos restaurateur, 80, opened up about his experience in the water balloon incident and the subsequent brawl that went viral during the holiday. A fight broke out Thursday during a parade hosted by a local Rotary Club, where Trejo was a guest. Trejo and his friend, Mario Castillo, were among the people driving down the parade route in a white convertible low-rider on Foothill Boulevard. The vehicle came to a stop after someone threw a water balloon at the car, according to the video shared on social media, and the “From Dusk Till Dawn” actor stepped out to confront a group of attendees on the sidewalk. He would not have left his vehicle

Bhad Bhabie reportedly posted graphic footage of herself allegedly being abused by her ex-boyfriend and the father of her child, Le Vaughn. Fans circulated screen recordings online after the videos were deleted from the rapper’s Instagram story shortly after they were posted Sunday. Instagram users took to the comments on some of her previous posts to express concern. In the clips, security camera footage appeared to capture Bhad Bhabie — real name Danielle Bregoli — being forcibly slammed to the ground by a man she identified as Vaughn. Another video showed the man pushing Bregoli to the ground and shoving her with his knee. “This man think he gonna take my daughter from me!! Say what ever you want but tryna take my baby is crazy,” she reportedly wrote. Bregoli, 21, shared close-up images of injuries to her face, including a swollen and bruised eye. It’s unclear if the injuries were from the incidents in the videos. In another screenshot, Bregoli reportedly wrote that she and Vaughn, who is also an entertainer, had not been together since May. She later added that she loves Vaughn

Questions on neurologist’s White House visits spark heated exchange over Biden’s health – CBS News Watch CBS News White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got into a tense back-and-forth with members of the media Monday over questions about a Parkinson’s expert reportedly visiting the White House multiple times over the last year. It was not clear whether the expert was consulting about President Biden’s health or not. The briefing was the third straight briefing dominated by questions on the president’s health following his debate with former President Donald Trump. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Washington — Voters in recent weeks have begun to hear the name “Project 2025” invoked more and more by President Biden and Democrats, as they seek to sound the alarm about what could be in store if former President Donald Trump wins a second term in the White House. Overseen by the conservative Heritage Foundation, the multi-pronged initiative includes a detailed blueprint for the next Republican president to usher in a sweeping overhaul of the executive branch. Trump and his campaign have worked to distance themselves from Project 2025, with the former president going so far as to call some of the proposals “abysmal.” But Democrats have continued to tie the transition project to Trump, especially as they find themselves mired in their own controversy over whether Mr. Biden should withdraw from the 2024 presidential contest following his startling debate performance last month. Here is what to know about Project 2025: What is Project 2025? Project 2025 is a proposed presidential transition project that is composed of four pillars: a policy guide for the next presidential administration; a LinkedIn-style database of personnel who could serve

Raúl Mondesi is a free man. The former Dodgers outfielder had been on house arrest since a 2017 conviction for embezzlement of public funds associated with his role as mayor of his Dominican Republic hometown, San Cristóbal. A Dominican court ruled Friday that Mondesi’s original sentence of six years, nine months in prison had been satisfied by the duration of the house arrest. In 2017, in addition to the prison sentence, he was ordered to pay a $1.3 million fine for defrauding more than $6 million and was barred from holding public office for 10 years. Three of Mondesi’s staff members also were sentenced. Mondesi, 53, was a mercurial figure as a ballplayer, a tremendous talent who invited comparisons to Roberto Clemente but who was prone to emotional outbursts and flouting rules with the Dodgers and five other teams during his 13-year career. One of seven children raised by his mother, Martina, in a tiny home in San Cristóbal, he vowed to buy a new house for his mother after signing a one-year, $435,000 contract with the Dodgers after winning the Rookie of the Year

(Vera Nieuwenhuis / Associated Press) July 8, 2024 12:13 PM PT Catchers who play high school softball are about to join catchers who play high school baseball in wearing a listening device in the ear to receive instruction from their coach. The softball rules committee for the National Federation of State High School Assns. has approved a new rule allowing coaches to use one-way electronic device for communication with the catcher starting in the 2025 season. A similar rule allowed use of the communication devices this past season in high school baseball. Coaches are prohibited from using the device “to communicate with any other team member while on defense or any team member while on offense” and the coach cannot use the device “outside the dugout/bench area.” More to Read Get our high school sports newsletter Prep Rally is devoted to the SoCal high school sports experience, bringing you scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Eric Sondheimer is the prep sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

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Trump edges Biden in new CBS News poll Trump gets edge over Biden nationally after first 2024 presidential debate, CBS News poll shows 03:39 The Republican National Committee’s 2024 platform, approved by its platform committee and released Monday, is influenced heavily by presumptive presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump , and in a change from prior years, it backs the rights of states to make their own abortion laws. The 2016 RNC platform mentioned the word ” abortion ” 35 times and backed a constitutional amendment to ban abortion: “[W]e assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed,” the RNC’s 2016 platform said. “We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to children before birth.”  The Republican Party did not release a platform in 2020. And the 2024 platform only mentions the word once.  “We proudly stand for families and life,” the 2024 platform says. “We believe that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

How Biden is fighting calls to step aside – CBS News Watch CBS News President Biden is hoping to combat continued calls from several Democrats for him to drop out of the 2024 presidential race after his poor debate performance against former President Donald Trump. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes is following Mr. Biden’s moves to quiet the criticism. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

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