One such example: e-scooter company Bird, which is reducing company headcounts as it braces for financial instability heightened by COVID-19. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company is laying off about 30 percent of its employees, according to a company memo obtained by TechCrunch. The internal memo reportedly cites Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden ...

Some of Wahoo’s closings were simply due to slow business in Marina del Rey, Santa Monica and at Irvine Spectrum Center. The company also closed an international eatery in Japan. “You hate to close stores, but there’s nobody around,” Lam says. It’s not like the open restaurants are doing well either, Lam admits. Sales run roughly one ...

New York City-based Rent the Runway has five retail stores, in San Francisco and Santa Monica, California, Chicago, New York City and the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. Store associates were informed of the closings during a Zoom call late last week, per The Verge. The company said on the call that all of its teams would be impacted in ...

Mitchell Englander, who represented parts of the San Fernando Valley on the City Council, agreed to plead guilty to accepting bribes.

"The T.A.M.I. Show" (1964). Save for the Beatles, this revue in Santa Monica, Calif., captured the hot pop flavors of the moment, with the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Lesley Gore and arguably the most electrifying performance ever on film by James Brown. The Rolling Stones regretted that they had to follow the Godfather of Soul.

Officials closed California's 280 state parks to vehicular traffic, citing overcrowding. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area closed its extensive trail system in Los Angeles County. “This was the first time that we saw across Southern California our iconic beaches and trailheads, the parks that define who we are, the views ...

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Los Angeles County recorded five more coronavirus deaths on Sunday, bringing the total to 37 as the virus continued to spread.

AstraZeneca today announced that IMFINZI® (durvalumab) has been approved in the US as a 1st-line treatment for adult patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) in combination with standard-of-care (SoC) chemotherapies,

Conan O'Brien enjoyed his remaining down time, with the 56-year-old TV host seen biking around his neighborhood of Santa Monica on Friday.