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Los Angeles, CA - June 27: Gritz N Wafflez owner Jurni Rayne at Gritz N Wafflez in Los Angeles Thursday, June 27, 2024. High interest rates have affected consumers and small businesses. Gritz N Wafflez is a brunch diner, started two years ago by owner Jurni Rayne. She began with a ghost kitchen offering delivery service, and moved to this location, 1.5 miles west of the Staples Center, about a year ago. It'll be moving again this fall to a bigger space in Koreatown as the restaurant has become very popular. She says she might have moved even sooner had interest rates and financing been more favorable. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

High interest rates are hurting people. Here’s why it’s worse for Californians

The surge in borrowing costs hasn’t been a knockout blow for consumers and small businesses, but the pain is real and very personal.
A house burns on Platina Road at the Zogg Fire near Ono, Calif., on Sunday, Sep. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

State Farm seeks major rate hikes for California homeowners and renters

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2014, file photo Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks in Washington. President Donald Trump has visions of establishing by the final months of his second term—should he win one—a “National Garden of American Heroes” that will pay tribute to some of the prominent figures in the nation’s history, including Justice Scalia, that he sees as the “greatest Americans to ever live.” The president unveiled his plan Friday, July 3, 2020, during his speech at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, S.D. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

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Sierra Club workers vote to authorize strike amid layoffs, allegations of mismanagement

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2017 photo, Martin Shkreli is interviewed on the Fox Business Network in New York. A judge rejected the request of the convicted pharmaceutical executive to be let out of prison to research a coronavirus treatment, noting that probation officials viewed that claim as the type of “delusional self-aggrandizing behavior” that led to his conviction. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Column: Ex-’pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli claims he launched a crypto coin with Barron Trump. Where’s the evidence?

A family from Kentucky picks up a yellow Rivian truck at the Rivian factory in Normal, Illinois.

Irvine-based EV maker Rivian gets $5-billion lifeline from Volkswagen

LA PUENTE, CA-September 28, 2023-Poultry workers working at a plant in La Puente just before U.S. Marshalls assist with serving a search warrant at the plant in La Puente, California on September 28, 2023. Indigenous Guatemalan poultry workers, including children as young as 14, had been employed in the plants.(Courtesy Department of Labor)

Meat processing plant fined nearly $400,000 over child labor violations

FILE - This Oct. 16, 2012, file photo, shows a portion of the UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s campus in Minnetonka, Minn. The nation's biggest health insurer is expanding a program that passes rebates from drugmakers directly to the people that use their medications. UnitedHealthcare said Tuesday, March 12, 2019, that next year, all of its new, employer-sponsored healthcare plans must give point-of-sale discounts to consumers when they pick up medications. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Column: This huge insurer got caught breaking a law protecting contraceptive access, but its fine is a joke

Smart & Final workers strike amid accusations of retaliation

Former Ace Hotel in downtown L.A. reopens as ‘Airbnb on steroids’

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Hollywood crew members reach tentative deal with major studios

IATSE, the union advocating for Hollywood crew members, and the AMPTP, which represents the top studios, have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract.
Alec Baldwin outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office in Santa Fe after a shooting on the set "Rust."

Judge denies Alec Baldwin’s motion to dismiss ‘Rust’ case, allowing trial to proceed

President Joe Biden, right, speaking during a presidential debate with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

CNN Biden-Trump debate draws 51.3 million TV viewers, a major drop from 2020

Abbey Lee as Marigold and Kevin Costner as Hayes Ellison in "Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter One."

Box office: Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon’ gamble grosses soft $800,000 in Thursday previews

Netflix adds stages to New Mexico production hub as part of major expansion project

Al Michaels returns to the Olympics — as the AI voice of Peacock

A24 valuation jumps to $3.5 billion with new funding round

Whoever wins the Biden-Trump debate, CNN hopes to claim victory

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SANTA MONICA CA - MAY 10, 2024 - Dr. Peter Diamandis participates in a zoom meeting while receiving a therapeutic plasma exchange treatment at the Neurological Associates clinic in Santa Monica on May 10, 2024. Diamandis, entrepreneur, futurist, technologist, says the procedure is like an oil change for your body. Diamandis, a New York Times Bestselling Author and the founder of over 25 companies. He is the Founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation. In the last few years, he has turned his attention to the fast-growing longevity movement, directing millions of dollars into anti-aging research and experimenting with cutting-edge therapies in an attempt to live longer and healthier. "No one wants to be 150 drooling in a wheelchair," he says. "Life is short until you extend it," is his motto. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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LOS ANGELES CA APRIL 30, 2024 - Figueroa Eight, a 41-story apartment tower designed by one of L.A.'s most prominent architects, features a rooftop saltwater pool with furnished cabanas and poolside bar in downtown Los Angeles. This luxury residential building is coming to market at a time when downtown is suffering from a loss of office tenants, fear of crime and persistent homelessness. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
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SANTA MONICA, CA - APRIL 5, 2024 - - Shoppers make their way into the 99 Cent Only store in Santa Monica on April 5, 2024. The stores will be closing soon. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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‘Owning Manhattan’ is Ryan Serhant’s latest mash-up of reality drama and luxury real estate

Ryan Serhant speaks about jumping from Bravo to Netflix, navigating reality TV drama as a boss and why even money-strapped viewers can’t get enough of luxury real estate.
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San Francisco, California-There is a home for sale at 30 North View Court in San Francisco for $488,000, but the problem is you can't move in for the next 29 years, when the rental contract of the occupant expires. (Google Maps)

A house under $500,000 in the Bay Area? The catch is there’s a tenant until 2053

The Post Fire burns through the Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area in Lebec, California, on June 16, 2024. The fire has grown to 4,400 acres, with evacuation orders in place for Gorman, Pyramid Lake and Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area, according to the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service at Los Padres National Forest. (Photo by DAVID SWANSON / AFP) (Photo by DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)

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HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 13, 2024 - A house for sale at 5008 Lemon Grove Avenue in East Hollywood on June 13, 2024. As home prices decline in the Hollywood area, home prices are rising city-wide. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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