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If you’ve spent time in the San Fernando Valley, it would be easy to view the overhead electrical transmission lines that stretch for more than 20 miles simply as essential wallpaper of modern living.

Partisan "gerrymandering", as the process is sometimes called, has a long tradition in US politics – one that frequently creates oddly shaped constituencies that stretch for miles to include, or exclude, voters based on their political affiliations, all with the goal of giving one party an electoral majority.

It has been a brutal stretch for L.A. restaurants.

We’re nearing the home stretch for kiddie summer movies, moms and dads.

It’s been a turbulent stretch for McDonald’s, with public health scandals, policy reversals — and now, a boycott.