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Signage outside the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, Jan 28, 2025. Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to release earnings figures on January 29. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Microsoft layoffs hit its Silicon Valley workforce

The technology company, headquartered in Washington, is cutting 122 workers in Silicon Valley. The layoffs heavily affected software engineering roles.

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2013 photo provided by the Nevada Department of Wildlife, Carl Lackey, a long-time Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist, and a dog named ''Rooster'' chase after a California black bear after it was captured and re-released to the wild in the Carson Range southwest of Carson City, Nevada. Wildlife biologists and forest rangers at Lake Tahoe and across the West have been preaching the mantra for decades: Don't feed the bears! But a new study by scientists at the University of Nevada suggests it's okay to feed the birds at least the mountain chickadees on a ridge that bears their name on the north shore of a lake near the California-Nevada line. (John Axtell/Nevada Department of Wildlife via AP, File)
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A woman’s grisly death inflames debate over how California manages problem black bears

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. MAY 14, 2025 - Ahead of Wednesday's City Council vote on a proposal to boost the city's minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to a nation's-high $30 an hour by 2028, airport,hotel and tourism workers rallied inside and outside City Hall in support of the measure on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for hotels, despite warnings from tourism industry

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2019, file photo, the logo of Google is displayed on a carpet at the entrance hall of Google France in Paris. Google users were briefly unable to access their Gmail accounts, watch YouTube videos or online documents when the internet giant’s services apparently suffered an outage on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Google settles lawsuit alleging bias against Black employees

Rendering of a planned 18-story, 395-room addition to the existing 24-story Hilton Universal City Hotel in Universal City.

Faced with a $30 minimum wage, hotel investors start looking outside L.A.

In America’s ‘salad bowl,’ farmers invest in guest worker housing, hoping to stabilize workforce

U.S. representatives sound alarm over slowing port activity

Amid Trump trade war, L.A. urged to hold off on wage hikes for tourism workers

Accused strike violator was subject to a ‘flawed’ and ‘improper’ discipline process, WGA trial chair says

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