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Walgreens has already closed twelve stores in the San Francisco area and now will close five more. The company has described the city's rampant shoplifting as "organized retail theft." Over the last two years, progressive cities like San Francisco have declined to prosecute cases of shoplifting, which has only emboldened thieves.

A coalition of groups has sued the city and county of Los Angeles, California, to force the housing of homeless people living on the notorious stretch known as Skid Row. A federal judge ordered the city to act, but the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals has just overturned the order.