Senior aide Jared Kushner and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham were among those spotted disembarking Air Force One. After shaking hands with a group of supporters, Mr. Trump climbed aboard a helicopter for a short trip to Santa Monica Airport, from which a motorcade carried him to the Montage Beverly Hills, where he met with LA 2028 committee officials.

An affiliate of investment firm Rockwood Capital has paid $65.7 million for the 1930s-era Telephone Building in Santa Monica. Verizon maintains a condominium stake in the creative office property. The seller, DivcoWest Real Estate Investments, had acquired the 58,000-square-foot building three years ago for $52 million. The most recent sale ...

Frieze is here to let the art world know that L.A. is cool (but you already knew that) Santa Monica’s getting a beachy new late-night pizza spot, Surfer Rose A block of Highland Park is transforming into 1970s New York next weekend for a free screening and party Nicolas Party has turned Hauser & Wirth into a pastel wonderland Here's a peek ...

Baron Funds, the asset management firm founded by Ron Baron (Trades, Portfolio), disclosed this week that its top five position boosts for the fourth quarter of 2019 were in GDS Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ:GDS),

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – President Donald Trump Tuesday pardoned Los Angeles billionaire businessman and philanthropist Michael Milken, who served two years in prison in the early 1990s for insider trading and then went on to found the nonprofit Santa Monica-based Milken Institute. FILE — Michael Milken speaks during the Milken Institute ...

TMZ reports that Scott was rushed to a local hospital after suffering a heart attack on February 11 in her Santa Monica home. She died at the hospital on Friday surrounded by loved ones. "She loved what she did,” her sister Shaun told the celebrity news outlet. “She would get stopped on the street often and people would recognize her ...

Reflecting the Santa Monica institute’s focus, the program of the 2020 Middle East and Africa Summit featured sessions on health, global diseases, education and the environment. The event marked the latest manifestation of the 73-year-old Los Angeles resident’s decades-long commitment to philanthropy. It began before he pleaded guilty to ...

The newspaper says more than 1,000 workers have been laid off by Uber since May 2019, but workers at the company’s office in Santa Monica were not affected by the most recent round of layoffs. Uber has not released a statement about the layoffs.

The company’s support office in Santa Monica was unaffected, as well as larger support offices in other cities in the US. Uber has more than 27,000 employees. In the fourth quarter, Uber reported a total revenue rise of 37% to $4.07 billion and its net loss widened to $1.1 billion from a loss of $877 million the year before. Uber’s shares ...

Uber Technologies Inc. has closed one of its offices in Los Angeles, putting 80 employees out of work. The ride-hailing giant shuttered a customer support office in downtown last Thursday with no prior notice to the staff there.