How is Wall Street reacting to the government shutdown?; LA Mayor Eric Garcetti looks back at his first 100 days in office; Shutdown puts scientists' Antarctica research on ice; Downtown LA's Grand Park celebrates its 1st anniversary; Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Canadian writer Alice Munro, plus much more.
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Wall Street executives have been warning of catastrophe if the U.S. defaults on its debt, but the stock market doesn't seem to reflect that.
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• 4:40
The effects of the U.S. government shutdown have now reached the most remote outpost in the world. This week, the National Science Foundation announced it's shutting down its science program in Antarctica.
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• 6:20
The state's health insurance exchange, Covered California, is now a little more than a week old. As folks are enrolling, they find themselves with a lot of questions.
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Director Lucas Rivera said programming at the park will put it on par with the Getty Center and the Natural History Museum. But many visitors on a recent weekday said if it wasn't because they had business nearby, they would not be there.
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• 9:11
In 2006, "Water & Power" won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for outstanding new play. Now Montoya has turned it into a film of the same name.
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• 9:23
It's Thursday and that means it's time for State of Affairs, our look at politics and government throughout California. To help us with that we're joined in studio now by KPCC political reporters Alice Walton and Frank Stoltze.
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• 4:22
In just over a month, voters in Albuquerque will decide whether to ban late-term abortions. It promises to be a contentious fight. Yesterday, the state's attorney general said the proposed ordinance would be unconstitutional and unenforceable.
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• 1:37
It's time to dip into the Comment Box to find out what you have to say about the work we're doing.
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• 6:48
Tuesday marked Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti's 100th day in office. One-hundred days isn't a lot of time for an elected official to get much done, but it's enough time to gauge how people feel about the job he's doing.
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Today the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Alice Munro, a Canadian writer known for her contemporary short stories.