The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective list, giving our reporters a chance to write about something that brought joy, discontent, or curiosity. Happy holidays. Whether it’s AI-generated music artists debuting on the Billboard charts, music labels courting TikTok virality, Grammy-nominated […]

New York City’s redesigned outdoor dining program is too expensive and too bureaucratic for many small, diverse, neighborhood establishments across the five boroughs to participate in. The result has been lost revenue for small businesses, reduced worker hours, job cuts, lower tax revenue, and fewer opportunities for people to dine outdoors in their own communities.

The parents of a 15-year-old boy are suing a school in Studio City after their son was fatally pinned between two vehicles in the school’s parking lot. On June 4, Cosmo Silverman, 15, had just completed his last day of freshman year at Campbell Hall, a private Episcopal school. Just after 3 p.m., as he […]

A body was discovered in the Fountain Valley area of the Santa Ana River on New Year’s Day. Orange County Fire Authority crews received reports of a body spotted in the river near Warner Avenue and Harbor Boulevard just before noon. Around 60 firefighters from the Fountain Valley and Costa Mesa fire departments responded to […]

A Los Angeles hospital needs help identifying an injured patient. The male patient is around 60 years old, according to the Los Angeles General Medical Center.  He has been hospitalized since Dec. 29. Workers did not disclose the nature of his injuries or the circumstances surrounding his hospitalization. He stands 6 feet tall and weighs […]

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, police said. Authorities did not immediately have an exact count of the deceased. The Crans-Montana resort […]

For the incoming Mamdani administration to boost its affordability agenda, it must renew enforcement efforts to expose frauds against the city and recover millions of stolen taxpayer dollars. One key and neglected ingredient: whistleblowers.

I have always been a bit ambivalent about having a birthday on January 1. It was certainly a wonderfully convenient date when you were asked (as you often were back in school) to provide your age “in years and months”: no struggling with the maths, like there was for those unfortunates with the bad luck […]

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