A federal judge has found that L.A. city officials doctored records in a case over homeless camp cleanups latimes.com/california/sto…

Thrilled to share that Mobituaries is nominated in not one, but TWO categories in this year's The Webby Awards! Please show your support and vote now: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/…

Joyce was a tough lady. Gone too soon.

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Op-Ed: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilation (via L.A. Times Opinion ) latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Today, CPJ, Freedom House, @freedomofpress, Human Rights Watch, Knight First Amendment Institute, and RSF in English call on U.S. President Joe Biden to act immediately and decisively to promote the conditions for safe and unrestricted reporting on the hostilities in Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon.

The Israel-Gaza

I got to talk to Mo Rocca about the old-timey old-movie accent, which sounds more foreign every decade although it wasn't precisely British! Great fun. iHeartRadio iheart.com/podcast/1119-m…

NEW MOBIT: Death of That Way They Used To Talk In Movies podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mob…

“She wouldn't've been Peggy Lee without this heartache.”

In a new episode of “Mobituaries,” CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 correspondent Mo Rocca joins Holly Foster Wells on an intimate journey (with never-before-heard audio) to her grandmother Peggy Lee’s childhood home. podcasts.iheart.com/9s5Fuu07?sid=h…

Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson … John Adams and Thomas Jefferson … Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funicello.

Famous People who Died on the Same Day.

It’s the Season 4 premiere of Mobituaries! With special guest @AndersonCooper. Listen now! podcasts.iheart.com/died-on-the-sa…

48% of all single homeless adults are 50 or older.

41% of this group first became homeless after 50.

🔗 homelessness.ucsf.edu/CASPEH

#CAHomelessnessStudy #CASPEH #homelessness #aging

Mo Rocca has done a beautiful, moving podcast about my first significant other, my beloved Timothy Scott, who passed away 35 years ago next week…

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Bananas we eat today are not the same kind our grandparents grew up eating.

Today’s variety is a bland successor of the yesteryear. Mo Rocca talks with banana expert Dan Koeppel about the history of the fruit — and sings with legend André De Shields. bit.ly/3GIx61U

During the Cold War, a 5th-grader from Maine wrote to the leader of the USSR with a simple plea for peace.

Mo Rocca tells the story of the “Littlest Diplomat” and how she became a powerful symbol of shared humanity on both sides of the Iron Curtain. bit.ly/3GIx61U

If you’re someone who loves dogs who love classic literature, this brand new episode of Mobituaries is for you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mob…

When LA forcibly evicted 200 homeless people from an encampment at Echo Park Lake, officials assured park residents they'd be moved into permanent housing within a year.

A year later, the number actually inside permanent housing is abysmally low.

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After forcing thousands of families from their homes, City of Santa Monica is now offering 100 displaced families a chance at affordable apartments. 'It's nowhere near enough to make up for what has happened in our country for centuries' #GreaterLA
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As I told friends this morning, I heard the news at dawn with two feelings: Tremendous relief he was no longer in pain and then a wave of grief. azcentral.com/story/news/ari…

I spent the last two weeks down a retail-theft rabbit hole, trying to figure out if the shoplifting surge is real and why news coverage of it is so bizarre (and, honestly, so bad). theatlantic.com/health/archive…

New York City will become the first city in the U.S. to open a legally sanctioned supervised injection site for people who use drugs. trib.al/r9aG8lh

Antelope Valley High School teacher Barron Gardner heard the same thing “over and over and over” from his Black students. They were disciplined by staff & detained by LA County Sheriff’s deputies on campus differently than other kids.

He believed it. But he needed proof. THREAD