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This year, the Golden Globes is off to a fresh start with new owners, a new network, a new host and new voters following an industry-wide backlash aimed at the group that ran the show for decades. A 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation detailing ethical lapses and a lack of diversity within the ranks of the scandal-scarred Hollywood Foreign Press Association led to the revamping of the small but influential not-for-profit organization. Last October, the Golden Globes announced the new list of voters for its 2024 ceremony, made up of 300 journalists from around the world, calling it the most di......

Manjelika Iseka left the Democratic Republic of the Congo decades ago, back when it was still called Zaire. She was only a few years old at the time and traveling with her grandparents. The family soon settled in San Diego. Then her grandparents died, and things took a turn. On Friday, she sat outside a blue tent on Eighth Avenue downtown. Other makeshift shelters could be seen in all directions, and she looked toward those inside. "They're just really scared because they have nowhere to go," Iseka said. San Diego's controversial new camping ban took effect this weekend, and police plan to beg......

Experts are keeping a wary eye on yet another COVID-19 variant, this one with 46 mutations. It was detected in France and showed up in a traveler who recently arrived from a three-day stay in Cameroon, French researchers said in a pre-print study published on medRxiv, which means it has not yet been peer-reviewed. While researchers were monitoring the strain to ascertain how infectious it is or whether it poses a danger, experts emphasized that its discovery alone was not cause for alarm. Moreover, it was noted even before omicron took over the world stage and “has been on our radar,” WHO inci......