Firefighters conduct a back-burn operation along CA-168 during the Creek fire as it approaches the Shaver Lake Marina on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) We absorb the images — the charred remains of a homeowner’s paradise, a sweeping natural vista left blackened by towers of […]
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Lindsey,* a pit boss at the Cosmopolitan hotel on the infamous Las Vegas Strip, gets nauseous every night she hits the casino floor to begin her shift. Some maskless patrons wander around the casino nightly—as if the threat of coronavirus doesn’t exist—while others […]