After waging the hospital’s first strike in 40 years, more than 2,000 healthcare workers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and hospital management have ratified a new three-year labor agreement that includes higher wages and increased safety protocols. The agreement was announced late Friday, May 27. The employees — including clinical partners, transporters, foodservice technicians, environmental services
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It was the “wrong decision” not to storm the classroom where a gunman was holed up killing primary school children, a Texas official admitted. The extraordinary admission came on Friday at a highly-charged press conference in Uvalde, Texas, where parents have been demanding answers about why 19 students and two teachers lost their lives in
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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed up-and-coming pools filmmaker Sam Hayes for representation. Hayes soon will wrap post-production on his debut feature, Pools — a coming-of-age story about pool-hopping that he wrote, directed and produced, starring Odessa A’zion, Mason Gooding, Michael Vlamis, Ariel Winter, Tyler Alvarez, Francesca Noel and Suzanne Cryer. The film shot last summer in Chicago
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Details have emerged about a recently patched critical remote code execution vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine used in Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. The issue relates to a case of use-after-free in the instruction optimization component, successful exploitation of which could “allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of
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After a handful of unsuccessful tries, 17-year-old former American Idol star Caleb Kennedy has finally been released from jail on bond. The 17-year-old Roebuck, South Carolina native was charged with DUI resulting in death back in February, after driving his car off the road, striking and killing 54-year-old Larry Duane Parris as he was standing outside of his garage.
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A planned strike at two London Underground stations over the Jubilee weekend has been suspended. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at Green Park and Euston Tube stations had planned to walk out on 3 June in a row over allegations of bullying. However, the union said “significant progress” had since been
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Council President Nury Martinez and four other council members introduced a motion Wednesday aimed at streamlining the implementation of the city’s Mobility Plan, which was approved in 2015 to make Los Angeles more pedestrian-friendly by 2035 but has barely been implemented. The motion — co-introduced with council members Monica Rodriguez,
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A woman who alleges she suffered “foreign accent syndrome” after she was struck by a Hilton hotel shuttle bus in 2014 near Los Angeles International Airport can’t back out of the $85,000 settlement she accepted, according to the California Second District Court of Appeal. Laura Fettig alleges her attorney, Jared Gross, pressured her during a
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