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WOODLAND HILLS, CA - DECEMBER 13: A memorial for slain doctor Hamid Mirshojae is set up in the parking lot of the Warner Plaza Medical Clinic in Woodland Hills, CA. Photographed on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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Best of 2024: Our picks for the top TV shows, movies, music, books, art and theater

‘Dune: Part Two’ and ‘Anora.’ Beyoncé, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan. ‘The Vince Staples Show’ and ‘The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.’ ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and ‘Waiting for Godot.’ Our critics share their favorites of 2024.

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California

Boyle Heights, CA - February 08: Mariachi musician Ramiro Arana-Beserra, 56, who has been playing his violin at Mariachi Plaza de Los Angeles for 38 years and living in his RV for 3 years on street next to the plaza, heads back to his RV after checking out one of tiny homes he will move into Thursday in the Boyle Heights Tiny Home Village, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony by LA Councilman Kevin de Leon. The project sits on a city-owned lot and marks the third Tiny Home Village in Council District 14. A number of mariachis who became homeless because of the pandemic will be among those living at the village. Photo taken in Boyle Heights Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. to boost pay for nonprofits at its homeless shelters

The City Council increased its provides to nonprofit groups that deliver homeless services, in an attempt to keep them from pulling out of more than a dozen sites.

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 12, 2024 - - LAPD officers Daniel Vidal, from left, Richard Castro and Nick Velasco, from the Rampart Division, detain a man for smoking fentanyl in public while working their beat in MacArthur Park in the Westlake District on December 12, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Simi Valley teen charged with possessing child pornography, using a minor for sex acts

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Ventura County man who beat 4-year-old daughter into a coma sentenced to life in prison

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World & Nation

Toronto, Canada-December 5, 2024- Pedestrians walk by Canada merchandise being sold in the city's Chinatown neighbourhood, one of the largest Chinatowns in North America. In a challenging post-COVID economy with skyrocketing housing costs, anti-immigration sentiment in Canada appears to be rising. (Laura Proctor / For the Times)

Housing crisis, economic woes and Trump: How Canada turned against immigrants

Canada was long viewed as a beacon for immigrants. But record levels of migration here in recent years have triggered widespread backlash.

Trucks cross the International Bridge from Mexico into the United States, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Mexico cracks down on drugs and migrants. Will it be enough to stop Trump tariffs?

Anti government fighters stand on top of a Syrian army jet after they took over a military airbase near the central city of Hama, on December 6, 2024. Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's rule, their Islamist leader said in an interview published on December 6. In little over a week, the offensive has seen Syria's second city Aleppo and strategically located Hama fall from Assad's control for the first time since the civil war began in 2011. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP) (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel targets Syrian military bases and arsenals before new leaders can take them over

Syrian citizens wave the revolutionary flag and shout slogans as they celebrate during the second day of the take over of the city by the insurgents in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

In post-Assad Damascus, a mix of joy and trepidation

Participants tear a banner representing the flag of the ruling People Power Party during a rally to demand South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment in front of the headquarters of the ruling People Power Party, in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahnn Young-joon)

The biggest question in South Korea: Who is running the country?

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