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Los Angeles Times-Todays News: 4.23.2022

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WAR IN UKRAINE

Ukraine fends off Russian attacks as Mariupol, Odesa take pounding. Top U.S. officials to arrive

A man watches a burning car after Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III will visit Kyiv on Sunday, in what would be the highest-level delegation dispatched by President Biden since the war began.

Can Russia win the battle for Ukraine’s battered east?
Orange County father’s child custody case complicated by war in Ukraine
Families at mercy of Russian troops in a Ukrainian town’s bombed cultural palace

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HOUSING

Huntington Beach, CA - April 22: A view of a home for sale at center of photo, 20821 Catamaran Ln. in Huntington Beach, listed at $1,199,000 Friday, April 22, 2022. The median home price in Orange Count has reached $1 million for the first time in history. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

$1-million milestone: Orange County median home price hits seven figures

Orange County becomes the first Southern California county to boast a median home price that hits that pricey mark.

Mortgage rates are rising. Will that slow our out-of-control housing market?
A step-by-step guide to buying your first home

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JAN. 6 INSURRECTION

UNITED STATES - MARCH 18: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts his weekly news conference in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on Friday, March 18, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

What the GOP’s muted response on the McCarthy tapes means for the Republican Party

Will House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s comments affect his hopes to someday become House speaker? A big test will come when he speaks today at the California Republican Party Convention in Anaheim.

Chabria: I went to the trucker convoy. It was scary, but not for the reason you think

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L.A. TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

Orange County Poet Laureate Natalie J. Graham speaks with Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate, talk at the The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC on Saturday, April 23, 2022. ( Photo by Nick Agro / For The Times )

Amanda Gorman talks poetry, the pandemic and 405 traffic on first day of L.A. Times Festival of Books

Lit City: The everything guide to literary L.A.

Rep. Adam Schiff, Véronique Tadjo and Paul Auster among winners of book prizes

How to make the most of the Festival of Books this weekend

El castellano seduce a los amantes de la literatura en el regreso del Festival de Libros

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Huntington Beach, CA - April 5: Two buoys mark the location of intake and outflow pipes currently used by the AES Huntington Beach Energy Center, and is the proposed site of the Poseidon Desalination Plant, which would draw ocean water through the existing intake pipe. In the background is neighboring residential community, Edison Community Park, Edison High School, ASCON toxic State superfund cleanup site, the proposed Magnolia Tank Farm Lodge, restaurants, and retail, upper right, the Huntington Beach Wetlands, middle right, and Huntington State Beach. Photo taken Tuesday, April 5, 2022. The partially retired Huntington Beach Generating Station consists of four generating units but only unit 2 is still in commercial operation as a legacy unit and has an extension to operate through the end of 2023, issued by the California State Water Boards. Unit 2 runs to support peak demands and has a net output capacity of 225 megawatts. The 644 MW combined cycle gas turbine generator, shown in blue and white, began operation on June 25, 2020. Environmental groups have fought Poseidon, arguing that it is privatizing a public resource, has failed to adapt an old proposal to new state ocean protections from killing sea life and that the company is trying to fill a need that doesn't exist, uses too much natural gas energy. Environmental justice activists say water rates could be raised as much as $6 per month. Supporters say ocean desalination as an inexhaustible, local supply for a region that imports much of its water from increasingly unreliable, distant sources. Another stumbling block for Poseidon is state requirements to mitigate the project's harm to the marine environment. Poseidon would draw 106 million gallons a day of seawater through the huge offshore intake pipe, which would be screened, and use reverse osmosis membranes to rid the seawater of salt and impurities. That process would produce 56 million gallons a day of brine concentrate - roughly twice as salty as the ocean - which would be dumped back into the Pacific via a 1,500-foot discharge pipe equipped with outfall diffusers to promote mixing and dilution. The intake and discharge operations will take a toll on plankton, which plays a crucial role in the marine food chain, killing an estimated 300,000 microscopic organisms a day. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Drought boon or boondoggle? Critics blast Poseidon desalination plan as crucial vote looms

After more than a decade of controversy, plans to build a desalination plant in Huntington Beach face a critical vote.

As drought hammers Mono Lake, thirsty Los Angeles must look elsewhere for water
LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 21:. Entire blocks are packed with homeless encampments on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) LA homeless

L.A. County homeless deaths surged 56% in pandemic’s first year. Overdoses are largely to blame

How many California lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines? Scientists have an answer

Marymount California University in Rancho Palos Verdes to permanently close Aug. 31

The smell of financial distress surrounds cancellation of the Gilroy Garlic Festival

A cougar passage rises over a deadly Southern California freeway

O.C. man accused of anti-LGBTQ threats to bomb Merriam-Webster over definition of ‘girl’

Abcarian: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard — It’s hard to root for either one

LONE PINE, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 25, 2017: Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, tribal historic preservation officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation stands in the middle of the dusty, saline Owens Lake March 25, 2017. With a season of record snowfall in the Sierras, the Owens Valley is preparing for possible floods when everything starts melting (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times ).

Owens Valley tribes honor a legacy of ‘beauty and suffering’ with historic site nomination

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CALIFORNIA LIVING

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. -- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019: Downtown Los Angeles seen from the 110 Freeway in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 17, 2019. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
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5 hikes in SoCal for people who just really love trees

A person looks at the top of a mountain where a heart beats for her.

L.A. Affairs: It felt like a date — but was it?

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EDITORS’ PICK

Cinematographer Peng Wang holding a camera.

His Hollywood dreams lured him from China. He was killed during a USC student film shoot

New details emerge about the USC film production where a student died in an off-road vehicle crash.

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ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS

Actor Nicolas Cage from, "The Unbearable Wight Of Massive Talent," poses for a portrait at the LA Times Photo Studio

Nicolas Cage explains what’s real in the surreal world of ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’

Review: Cage admirably abides ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’
LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 19: Percussionist Joseph Pereira solo performance of William Kraft's "Encounters I," during an L.A. Phil Green Umbrella concert. at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Swed: The world lost 6 revolutionary composers in one year. How L.A., and only L.A, is paying tribute

Bill Murray allegedly behaved inappropriately on his latest film. It’s not new territory

Cynthia Plaster Caster, artist known for rock-star penis sculptures, dies at 74

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SPORTS

An artist’s rendering of the proposed Angel Stadium development.

Angel Stadium land sale clears final hurdle with housing agency settlement

Dual failures to double-up Orioles in sixth dooms Angels in 5-3 loss
Los Angeles Dodgers' Mookie Betts hits a home run against the San Diego Padres.

Mookie Betts and Max Muncy start heating up in Dodgers’ win over Padres

Five questions: USC enters its spring game with sky-high hype and anticipation

Plaschke: HBO’s ‘Winning Time’ gets some things about Showtime era right — but not Jerry West

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VISUAL STORYTELLING

Olives hanging from a branch.

What the ‘California’ label on your olive oil means

Today, you can find California olive oil in stores across the country. The product is highly sought out by connoisseurs for its pungency and pepperiness.

Food fight over olive oil sparks larger debate about the California brand
Los Angeles, California-April 1, 2022-Diane Berol, far left, stands by as the casket of her husband John Berol is buried at sea. "As a professional boat captain who has sailed around the world, I'm a semi-radical environmentalist," said his wife, Diane Berol. "I said to John, 'When we die we have to do the most ecological disposal of our bodies as possible.'" "We wanted to make the best decision for the future of life on the planet." (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Yes, anybody can be buried at sea. Why people pick the ocean as their final resting place

IRPIN, UKRAINE-APRIL 21, 2022-At the cemetery in Irpin, Ukraine, the body of Nickolay is covered by graveyard workers. Lyudmila Goncharenko buried her husband, Nickolay Goncharenko, age 63, who was killed when Russians opened fire on the car as they were trying to escape. She was held by the Russians for 20 days before being allowed to evacuate in humanitarian corridor. Victims of the violence committed by Russian forces continue to be buried in the area Irpin, Ukraine on April 21, 2022. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Ukrainians prepared as Russia begins eastern offensive: A photojournalist’s perspective

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WORLD & NATION

FILE - A torn front page ad shows incubent President Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen as the environmental group Extinction Rebellion takes part in a three-day demonstration against what they call France's inaction on climate issues, in the district of Porte de Saint Denis in the center of Paris, France, Monday, April 18, 2022. French President Emmanuel Macron is in pole position to win reelection Sunday, April 24, 2022 in France's presidential runoff. Yet his lead over far-right rival Marine Le Pen depends on one major uncertainty: voters who decide to stay home. A victory in Sunday’s runoff vote would make Macron the first French president in 20 years to win a second term. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Macron had edge in seeking reelection, but Le Pen within reach

A victory by Emmanuel Macron in Sunday’s runoff would make him the first French president in 20 years to win a second term.

This undated photograph handed out by French military shows three Russian mercenaries, right, in northern Mali. Russia has engaged in under-the-radar military operations in at least half a dozen countries in Africa in the last five years using a shadowy mercenary force analysts say is loyal to President Vladimir Putin. The analysts say the Wagner Group of mercenaries is also key to Putin's ambitions to re-impose Russian influence on a global scale. (French Army via AP)

Russian mercenaries are Putin’s ‘coercive tool’ in Africa

South Africa’s Durban still recovering from deadly floods

Rio’s Carnival parade returns after long pandemic hiatus

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