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The debt limit has been raised 76 times since 1962. It now stands at $16.4 trillion, a level the government will hit as early as mid-February. http://lati.ms/h2HVz- ActivityRecent
Los Angeles Times created NFL Slam with Mark & Sam: Week 17 Preview. - Today's reader photo from our Southern California Moments project. Submit your entries here: http://lat.ms/SSfTZ6
- January 22, 1973, was a busy news day. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died that afternoon at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas. Earlier, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe vs. Wade that women had a constitutional right to an abortion. The T...imes late final that day – printed before Johnson’s death – led with Roe v. Wade and included some odd unrelated photos.
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- January 22, 1973, was a busy news day. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died that afternoon at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas. Earlier, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe vs. Wade that women had a constitutional right to an abortion. The Times late final that day – printed before Johnson’s death – led with Roe v. Wade and included some odd unrelated photos.
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Is the Prius a "status" car? That's one reason one expert gave for its edging out the Civic as the top dog on California roadways. Join in the live video chat or watch at your leisure.Los Angeles Times shared a link.
Which is more important -- if either is at all -- when it comes to "live" performance: authenticity or perfection?- Today’s front page:
• Files show Mahony tried to conceal abuse
Documents from the late 1980s show that Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and another archdiocese official discussed strategies to keep police from discovering that children were bein...g sexually abused by priests. http://lat.ms/Vi2KJW
• In Obama's inaugural speech, a sweeping liberal vision
The president calls for action on climate change and equal rights for gays, but offers few specifics. Those may be outlined in next month's State of the Union address. http://lat.ms/UhVpan
• Gay Californians take heart in Obama's call for equality
He brought the issue of gay marriage 'into everyone's home, whether they like it or not,' one man says. But despite the thrill, many note Obama didn't risk doing so before his reelection. http://lat.ms/WkC8CU
• Congo's chairmen of the boards
Owners of the wooden bicycle known as a chikudu couldn't be much prouder of the primitive vehicles, which carry massive loads and put food on the table. http://lat.ms/UQcZkTSee More
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Join us at 10 a.m. PT for a live video discussion about the President's speech. If you've got an opinion or comment, bring it. You can participate in the chat, too.Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
Today's Column One: Owners of the wooden bicycle known as a chikudu couldn't be much prouder of the primitive vehicles, which carry massive loads and put food on the table.- A company sells ID cards to online reviewers to help them get better service at hotels and restaurants. The implied threat of a bad review smacks of a shakedown, David Lazarus writes in his latest consumer column.
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Influenza Sorbet is no flu cure, but owner Jeni Britton Bauer says the ice cream flavor inspired by a drink her grandmother made for her as a kid is intended to make you feel better.Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
Over the weekend, a team of researchers from UC Berkeley said it was exploring yet another way that lack of sleep may affect us: by making it harder for us to appreciate our loved ones.Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
Obama's call to give gay people equality "under the law" intensifies supporters' optimism that the White House will argue for same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court.Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
Do you want to sell a product you've developed in your home kitchen?
A Fountain Valley woman's class will help cottage food entrepreneurs digest state rules to get started.Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
"For him to get on TV and say he was a cheat and a fraud for all of his seven Tour wins, that took a hell of a lot of courage,” said Betsy Andreu, a determined critic of Armstrong’s who is the wife of his former Tour de France teammate and close friend Frankie Andreu. “He’s broken, and that’s sad.”- Today's reader photo from our Southern California Moments project. Submit your entries here: http://lat.ms/SSfTZ6
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Mike Williams, an entrepreneur who had lost everything, met Dr. Jong Chen after being brutally beaten. Drawing on Williams' street smarts, they've teamed up to produce molded, durable survival pods.- From the archives (April 12, 1967): Martin Luther King Jr., during a press conference at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, responded to criticism of his anti-Vietnam War activities. He told reporters that "until we get rid of this [Vietnam] war," national problems of poverty, slums and urban blight cannot be solved.
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Photos: John Carrick / Los Angeles Times![Photo: From the archives (April 12, 1967): Martin Luther King Jr., during a press conference at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, responded to criticism of his anti-Vietnam War activities. He told reporters that "until we get rid of this [Vietnam] war," national problems of poverty, slums and urban blight cannot be solved.
More photos of Dr. King: http://lat.ms/zERLYt
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Breaking: Documents from the late 1980s show that Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and another archdiocese official discussed strategies to keep police from discovering that children were being sexually abused by priests.Los Angeles Times shared a link.
Miss out on Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco's stirring "One Today?" Read the poem in its entirety here.- Today’s front page:
• Allies press GOP over immigration
Business, religious and other conservative groups are lobbing lawmakers to create a path to legal status.
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... • Latino donors find their voice
Democrats use the inauguration to seal ties with a rising class of fundraisers. The Futuro Fund brought in more than $30 million for the president's reelection, and introduced a new group of donors into national politics.
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• Brown seeks to reshape California’s community colleges
The governor wants to limit the credits students can accrue at two-year schools and fund them based on courses completed.
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• Disillusioned by Syria’s revolution
Many educated, middle-class Syrians who had embraced the opposition now feel alienated by its drift toward extremism — and are aligned with neither side.
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• Unlikely pod-ners in a venture for assistance.
A homeless inventor crossed paths with a generous doctor after being brutally beaten. They’ve teamed up to produce molded, durable survival pods.
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Join us on Tuesday for a live interactive chat at 10 a.m. PT. You can weigh in on the poetry and prose of the presidential inauguration.Los Angeles Times shared a link.
President Obama's second inaugural ceremony is happening now.
Are you watching? What are you hoping to hear?- News alert: The Baltimore Ravens will play the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl.
The Ravens scored 21 unanswered points and held the New England Patriots scoreless after halftime to win, 28-13, in the AFC championship game. They will play the NFC champion 49ers on Feb. 3 in New Orleans.
The Baltimore victory sets up a game between coaching brothers Jim Harbaugh of the 49ers and John Harbaugh of the Ravens. Los Angeles Times shared a link.
The intimate ceremony was a quirk of the calendar and an adherence to tradition. The 20th Amendment to the Constitution states that a president’s term ends at noon on Jan. 20. When that date falls on the Sunday, presidents have delayed the public ceremony a day and opted for a simple swearing-in at the White House.Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
Should healthcare workers be required by the government to get a flu shot? How about by their employers?Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
Are the experts right? Hmmm... Or are they lying about lying?- As is tradition, each member of the Stanley Cup-winning team is allowed to retain hockey's Holy Grail for a day.
Los Angeles Times Photography, Video and Multimedia tagged along on the cup's extended road trip with the 2012 champion Kings: http://lat.ms/UXRzRb
As father and son moments go, it can't get much better than this for King center Colin Fraser and Calder at Sylvan Lake in Alberta, Canada.
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- Our Classic Hollywood page looks back at Billy Wilder, director of "The Apartment," "Some Like it Hot" and other classics with a great image found in our archives.
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And if you're more interested in today -- here's our interactive Oscar ballot that will also let you track your Facebook friends' choices: http://goo.gl/UjwQB
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What do you think of TSA's decision to remove body scanners from airports? Is it a matter of privacy trumping safety?Los Angeles Times shared a link.
Lance Armstrong said tonight he is undergoing psychological therapy and trying to find a way to get on with his life.
"I feel ashamed,” he said. “Yeah, this is ugly stuff."- Video interviews with L.A.’s mayoral candidates:
In preparing to endorse a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, The Times’ editorial board invited each of the eight candidates who qualified for the ballot to discuss their plans and aspirations for the city.
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Late Friday, there were reports that the militants had offered to trade two captive American workers for two extremist figures jailed in the United States, including Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric convicted in 1995 of plotting to bomb landmarks in New York.Los Angeles Times shared a link.
Chris Christie, whose political hug of President Obama in the wake of Hurricane Sandy raised Republican hackles, has now criticized the NRA for its anti-gun control ad that referenced the president's two daughters.- Q: What would you do with a man who refuses to use a deodorant, seldom bathes, and doesn’t even own a toothbrush?
A: Absolutely nothing.
From our Pauline Friedman Phillips (aka Dear Abby) obituary: http://lat.ms/11D9TpO
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The hope, according to Hooters Chief Marketing Officer Dave Henniger, is that customers view the revamped store as “the ideal environment to kick back and relax after work, get together to watch their favorite sports team and enjoy a delicious meal with their family.”Los Angeles Times shared a link.
NFL fans: Join us in a few minutes for a live video chat.- Today’s front page
· Algeria raid puts a lawless region in the spotlight
Algiers says 45 hostages, including Americans, escaped the gas field seized by militants. But later reports paint a grimmer picture. http://lat.ms/11CTtxq
· Seeki...ng to harness Obama's campaign resources for a second term
An ambitious new political organization is being built out of the machine that propelled the president back into office, with the hope of supporting his policy objectives. http://lat.ms/XfzjSO
· Texas talk is losing its twang
Fewer Texans are speaking in the traditional dialect, as urbanization, pop culture and an influx of newcomers have conspired to displace the local language. http://lat.ms/Vbrgfx
· Pauline Friedman Phillips dies at 94; original 'Dear Abby'
Phillips, writing as Abigail Van Buren, dispensed wry, no-nonsense advice to newspaper readers around the world for over 40 years. Her identical twin also wrote an advice column, as Ann Landers. http://lat.ms/11D9TpO
· L.A. mayoral candidate Jan Perry hopes her plain talk will resonate with voters
The councilwoman, ousted from her coveted downtown district because of a political feud, acknowledges that her frankness carries risks. http://lat.ms/XfkUWRSee More
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"She doesn't fit in a box," one campaign consultant says. "African American, Jewish, pro-business Democrat who's had her ups and downs with labor — it's kind of an interesting one-person coalition."Los Angeles Times shared a link.
Fewer Texans are speaking in the traditional dialect, as urbanization, pop culture and an influx of newcomers have conspired to displace the local manner of speech.Los Angeles Times shared a link.
In an interview today, Bob Swartz said his son Aaron "was hounded to his death by a system and a set of attorneys that still don’t understand the nature of what they did. And they destroyed my son by their callousness and inflexibility.”Los Angeles Times shared a link.
Lance Armstrong tells his story to Oprah. Are you watching? Do you see him as a sympathetic figure or a villain?- Today's reader photo from our Southern California Moments project. Submit your entries here: http://lat.ms/SSfTZ6
- Happy 71st birthday to the World’s Greatest.
Nov. 11, 1977: Muhammad Ali takes a playful poke at sportscaster Howard Cosell as Ann Landers plays referee on Nov. 11, 1977, at a dinner honoring six “Outstanding Chicagoans of Today.”
More classic Ali photos: http://lat.ms/A2ChIR
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Pauline Friedman Phillips, who as Abigail Van Buren -- "Dear Abby" — for more than 40 years dispensed advice to newspaper readers worldwide on everything from snoring spouses to living wills, has died.Los Angeles Times shared a link.
In November, Huell Howser announced his retirement from "California's Gold," the show he had launched in 1990. He was a private person who rarely talked about his personal life and didn’t speak publicly about his struggle with cancer.Los Angeles Times shared a link.
OK, warning: This may be hard to swallow as a treatment, but it is serious and it's finally emerging as more than a fringe treatment.
"It's a strange concept to use stool, which has always been looked on as something dirty," said Dr. Law...rence Brandt, a gastroenterologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York who has conducted transplants for 14 years but wasn't involved in the study. "We're entering a very exciting new chapter in medicine."See MoreLos Angeles Times shared a link.
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Flights are canceled as electrical and power problems continue to plague the Dreamliner jets.Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
Notre Dame coaches were told before the team took the field for the game against Alabama.Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
Limiting background check loopholes is central to President Obama's proposals to curb gun violence. Supporters hope it will gain some GOP votes and improve the odds of further measures.Los Angeles Times shared a link via HootSuite.
Yemen's young Nobel Peace Prize laureate believes there's no going back after the revolution that ousted President Saleh. Not for women and not for the country.Los Angeles Times shared a link.
President Obama says his response to gun-control opposition will be to try to mobilize public support, including from those who live in places "where the tradition of gun ownership is strong" -- such as rural areas.
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