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ICYMI: Bernie Sanders Tells L.A. Crowd To Drop 'The Old Rules'
Palm trees out in Santa Monica. (Photo by Eric Demarcq via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
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- Bernie Sanders dropped by the Ace Hotel on Sunday to speak on the "new political world."
- Milo Yiannopoulos (a.k.a. the master of the trolls) has lost his six-figure book deal after he'd made some "jokes" about pedophilia.
- Bono met up with Mike Pence. It was like a poor man's version of Elvis-meets-Nixon.
- Another photo gallery about a bygone era of Los Angeles? Why not? Here's L.A. in the fabulous '70s.
- The Russian ambassador to the United Nations has died unexpectedly in New York City.
- A woman in Fullerton was arrested on suspicion of setting up to 28 fires since September.
- Julia Child shows you how to make French onion soup:
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