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Aug 29, 2025
In a filing Friday, the federal public defender's office in Los Angeles argued acting U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli should be removed because he is unlawfully occupying his post.
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Aug 29, 2025
South Korean president avoided a 'Zelensky moment,' but unresolved issues with the U.S. still loom large.
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Aug 29, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom is having teams from the California Highway Patrol begin policing in more cities. Is it a variation of Trump's National Guard deployment, or something else?
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Aug 29, 2025
As ICE detainees top 60,000, some detention centers stack mattresses on the floor
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Aug 29, 2025
TVs, gold bars, cocktails and up to 70 new food items each week: South Korea's convenience stores are not like ours.
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Aug 28, 2025
President Trump's border advisor told reporters Thursday that federal authorities planned to increase immigration raids in Los Angeles and other so-called 'sanctuary cities,' with Chicago likely the next target.
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Aug 28, 2025
He came to Los Angeles 33 years ago. Now a man sent back to Mexico and his wife faced an impossible decision. Should she and their U.S. children join him in Mexico? Or stay in Inglewood?
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Aug 28, 2025
President Trump said he wanted the death penalty used in all murder cases in Washington, D.C. It's an order that is less about crime than consolidating his control.
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Aug 27, 2025
U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla's name has emerged in recent days as a potential new entry in the 2026 race to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom. He demurred on Wednesday when asked when he planned to mount a campaign, saying he was solely focused on passing the special election in November.
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Aug 27, 2025
The action is in keeping with the Trump administration's efforts to loosen regulations that govern the environment.
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Aug 27, 2025
Responding to allegations by former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said investigators have found no evidence that sitting Mexican politicians or military commanders are collaborating with the cartel.
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Aug 27, 2025
Lebanon's often-fractious press corps was united in anger this week over comments by Tom Barrack, the U.S. special envoy to Syria, who warned journalists against 'animalistic' behavior and told them to 'act civilized.'
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Aug 27, 2025
Large majorities of California Democrats and unaffiliated voters said the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction under Trump. Many Republicans said the opposite.
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Aug 27, 2025
Sigal Chattah, an election denier with a history of inflammatory remarks, makes no secret of her partisanship and fealty to Trump. She's one of several U.S. attorneys installed through an end run.
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Aug 27, 2025
This 95-year-old retired watchmaker has spent decades trying to uncover the backstory — a possible Kennedy connection — of a clock he found online in 1999.
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Aug 26, 2025
William Pulte has referred claims of mortgage fraud against New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James, California Sen. Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor.
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Aug 26, 2025
The president's comments were worth about as much as anything else he has said on the subject, which is almost nothing.
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Aug 26, 2025
The U.S. would be better off investing in enforcement at the border and cooperation with Mexico City rather than deploying the Navy.
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Aug 26, 2025
California voters are uncertain about who should be the state's next governor, according to a new Los Angeles Times/UC Berkeley poll. Termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom has more support from the state's voters than former Vice President Kamala Harris does in the 2028 presidential race.
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Aug 25, 2025
Trump's order could ultimately result in cuts to federal grants and contracts with Los Angeles County, where courts use cash bail only in the most serious criminal cases.
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Aug 25, 2025
Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada built the Sinaloa cartel into the world's most powerful drug trafficking organization. He pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges, raising the possibility he could help U.S. authorities investigate corrupt officials in Mexico.
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Aug 25, 2025
Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada built the Sinaloa cartel into the world's most powerful drug trafficking organization. He is set to plead guilty to federal charges, raising the possibility he could help U.S. authorities investigate corrupt officials in Mexico.
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Aug 25, 2025
Two Israeli strikes on a Gaza hospital killed at least 20 people, including five journalists, on Monday, two weeks after strikes killed six other journalists.
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Aug 25, 2025
Gaza has become a measure of where leaders' loyalties lie. Rep. Pete Aguilar and other Democrats are failing the test.
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Aug 24, 2025
In the last week, with lightning speed, the nation's foremost political leaders have jettisoned any pretense of political fairness in favor of an all-out partisan war for power.
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Aug 24, 2025
A miscalculation allowed a small blaze to roar out of control last month, destroying a historic lodge and other buildings on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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Aug 24, 2025
The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to confirm that immigration agents have 'reasonable suspicion' to stop and question Latinos whose occupations draw many undocumented workers.
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Aug 23, 2025
A federal judge in California ruled that the Trump administration is not allowed to cut funding to Los Angeles and other places with "sanctuary" policies that limit cooperation on immigration enforcement.
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Aug 23, 2025
T-Visa applications have outpaced previous years, despite an increased risk of removal or detention
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Aug 22, 2025
A day after denying release for his younger brother, Erik, a California Parole Board ruled that Lyle Menendez should also remain in prison for gunning down his parents with a shotgun in 1989.
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Aug 22, 2025
Charles Munger Jr., who backed the creation of an independent redistricting commission, donated $10 million to oppose California Democrats' effort to redraw congressional districts.
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Aug 22, 2025
The number of immigrants arriving in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in 50 years. Trump policies played a big role, experts say.
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Aug 22, 2025
A mother detained in an ICE raid on a California cannabis farm says she was given a choice: fight the deportation in court — and be separated from her children — or agree to voluntarily return to Mexico with her daughters. She chose to leave but already dreams about returning to the U.S.
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Aug 21, 2025
Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents. State parole officials reviewed Erik's case Thursday, with his brother's hearing set for Friday.
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Aug 21, 2025
President Trump threw his support this week behind a massive project to turn an Apache sacred site outside Phoenix into one of the world's largest copper mines.
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Aug 21, 2025
Supreme Court sides with Trump on cutting government grant programs involving diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Aug 21, 2025
The Trump administration is set to weigh in on whether the hallucinogenic compound psilocybin should be moved into a less restrictive class of drugs under federal regulations.
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Aug 21, 2025
President Trump's incomplete deal with Armenia and Azerbaijan carries only a slim hope of resolution for a deep-rooted conflict.
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Aug 20, 2025
One of the world's tallest trees, located in Oregon's Coast Range mountains, somehow caught fire and is continuing to burn. The extent of damage to the Doerner Fir is not yet clear.
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Aug 20, 2025
Despite supporting independent redistricting, former President Obama endorsed California Democrats' proposal to redraw the state's congressional districts to counter efforts by President Trump and GOP state leaders to push mid-decade partisan gerrymandering.
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Aug 20, 2025
Despite supporting independent redistricting, former President Obama endorsed California Democrats' proposal to redraw the state's congressional districts to counter efforts by President Trump and GOP state leaders to push mid-decade partisan gerrymandering.
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Aug 20, 2025
Four Venezuelan men recount their deportation from the U.S. In El Salvador, they were told, 'Welcome to the real hell — no one leaves here unless they're dead.'
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Aug 20, 2025
California Republicans pressed Democrats over the transparency and cost of the proposed redistricting measure.
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Aug 19, 2025
Julio César Chávez Jr., son of the legendary Mexican boxer, has been deported to Mexico, where authorities say he faces charges of organized crime affiliation and arms trafficking.
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Aug 19, 2025
The president should emphasize U.S. willingness to continue to sell weapons to Ukraine if no peace deal is reached.
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Aug 18, 2025
California Democrats introduced a legislative package to call a special election in November to redraw the state's congressional districts to counter GOP efforts in other states.
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Aug 18, 2025
Trump emphasized his 'love' for the Ukrainian people and his commitment to provide security guarantees for Kyiv in an ultimate peace settlement with Russia.
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Aug 18, 2025
Trump's action comes after his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, where the Russian leader told him that mail-in ballots led to his electoral defeat in 2020, Trump said.
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Aug 17, 2025
Officials in Mexico's Zacatecas state obtained temporary visas to allow elderly parents of undocumented workers to enter the United States to reunite with children they had not seen in decades.
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Aug 16, 2025
COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC's recommendation that they receive booster shots.
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Aug 16, 2025
The Marine Mammal Protection Act is just one of the keystone U.S. environmental laws under attack by the Trump administration.
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Aug 16, 2025
The administration will try anything to change the conversation away from Trump's connections to the child-sex-trafficking operation.
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Aug 16, 2025
Achieving a peace agreement is an even higher bar than the ceasefire that has eluded the Trump administration in recent months.
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Aug 16, 2025
The question is whether Putin will be able to sustain Trump's goodwill when the war continues grinding on.
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Aug 16, 2025
President Trump has long demonized "blue" cities like Los Angeles, Washington and New York, claiming their leaders have allowed crime and blight to worsen.
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Aug 16, 2025
President Trump has long demonized "blue" cities like Los Angeles, Washington and New York, claiming their leaders have allowed crime and blight to worsen.
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Aug 15, 2025
California Democrats released proposed congressional redistricting maps as their fight with Trump and Texas escalates.
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Aug 15, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on the right track, but words are not enough to stop the group's affiliates from fomenting violence.
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Aug 15, 2025
Trump said Putin would face 'economically severe' consequences if negotiations in Anchorage fail to yield progress toward peace in Ukraine.
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Aug 15, 2025
Before the summit, Trump said Putin would face 'economically severe' consequences if negotiations in Anchorage fail to yield progress toward peace in Ukraine.
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Aug 15, 2025
Trump said Putin would face 'economically severe' consequences if negotiations in Anchorage fail to yield progress toward peace in Ukraine.
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Aug 15, 2025
Immigration raids have slowed since a federal judge temporarily barred agents from targeting people solely based on race, language, vocation or location. But some higher-profile sweeps have returned at Home Depot locations, where migrant laborers often look for work.
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Aug 15, 2025
Immigration raids have slowed since a federal judge temporarily barred agents from targeting people solely based on race, language, vocation or location. But some higher-profile sweeps have returned at Home Depot locations, where migrant laborers often look for work.
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Aug 15, 2025
Immigration raids have slowed since a federal judge temporarily barred agents from targeting people solely based on race, language, vocation or location. But some higher-profile sweeps have returned at Home Depot locations, where migrant laborers often look for work.
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Aug 15, 2025
Far from ICE raids in Los Angeles and other cities, the Trump administration's war on illegal immigration involves high-tech drones, which monitor the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Aug 15, 2025
Far from ICE raids in Los Angeles and other cities, the Trump administration's war on illegal immigration involves high-tech drones, which monitor the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Aug 14, 2025
Lawyers for Mirta Amarilis Co Tupul, 38, filed the lawsuit earlier this month to stop her imminent deportation to Guatemala.
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Aug 14, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on President Trump ahead of their high-stakes summit in Alaska, while Trump expressed optimism ahead of the talks.
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Aug 14, 2025
Democrats launched a campaign urging California voters to approve new congressional districts aimed at countering efforts by President Trump to boost the number of Republicans in Congress.
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Aug 14, 2025
The Jordanian air force C-130 Hercules cargo plane banked in a slow arc over the Mediterranean, pointing its nose toward Gaza for its approach — the final stage of the intricate ballet that is dropping aid over the war-ravaged enclave.
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Aug 14, 2025
Teens quit or went on strike across the country to protest abysmal work conditions. A-TEAM was such a disaster that the federal government never tried it again.
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Aug 13, 2025
Roberto Salazar, long sought in connection with the shooting of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Juan Escalante, was returned to the U.S. by Mexican authorities on Tuesday along with several high-ranking cartel members.
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Aug 13, 2025
President Trump issued an order banning federally funded benefits for undocumented immigrants. California and other states are fighting the ban in court.
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Aug 13, 2025
If President Trump deploys troops to other American cities, experts say it would be a clear departure from founding principles and invite a legal challenge.
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Aug 13, 2025
If President Trump deploys troops to other American cities, experts say it would be a clear departure from founding principles and invite a legal challenge.
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Aug 12, 2025
After court battles led to unfavorable rulings on ICE tactics, birthright citizenship and other issues, the Trump administration appears ready to continuing pushing the limits of what judges will tolerate.
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Aug 11, 2025
President Trump is mobilizing National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to fight street crime. In doing so, he is tying crime to minorities, an old tactic that infuses policing with racism.
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Aug 11, 2025
A Pew Research Study found that 73% of adults have experienced one or more online scams. Experts provide tips on how to avoid them.
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Aug 11, 2025
Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif, 28, drew millions of followers on social media and emerged as one of the top voices in the Arab world for his chronicling of the war in Gaza.
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Aug 11, 2025
Trump is invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act that places the Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control.
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Aug 10, 2025
L.A.'s water management system discards billions of gallons of rainwater that might be reused. Can 'sponge cities' help us?
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Aug 10, 2025
California arrests lag behind states such as Texas and Florida, because those states started with more arrests. They also have a stronger record of cooperation.
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Aug 10, 2025
California arrests lag behind states such as Texas and Florida, because those states started with more arrests. They also have a stronger record of cooperation.
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Aug 10, 2025
The Trump administration has suspended $584 million in grants at UCLA over what the U.S. Department of Justice has described as the school's 'deliberate indifference' to Jewish students' civil rights.
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Aug 10, 2025
Los Angeles knows how to weather a crisis — or two or three. Angelenos are tapping into that resilience, striving to build a city for everyone.
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Aug 09, 2025
Trump's struggle to get Russia and Ukraine to a negotiating table, let alone to secure a ceasefire, has grown into a fixation for him.
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Aug 09, 2025
Yarmouk, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, was once the de facto capital of the Palestinian diaspora. It was devastated during Syria's civil war. Now, after the fall of strongman Basha Assad, it faces an uncertain future.
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Aug 08, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislative and congressional members stood with Texas state lawmakers in their opposition to President Trump's plan to redraw voting maps to hold on to power in the midterm election.
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Aug 08, 2025
Says new Trump directive won't result in U.S. strike on Mexico
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Aug 08, 2025
The Trump administration has proposed the University of California pay more than $1 billion to settle antisemitism charges and restore frozen grant funding at UCLA. Newsom says the state will sue.
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Aug 07, 2025
The National Maritime Services is auctioning off the $300-million-plus Amadea, which currently sits in a San Diego harbor, with a bid deposit starting at $10 million.
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Aug 07, 2025
The Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court to free up its mass deportation efforts across Southern California, seeking to end a judge's ban on 'roving patrols.'
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Aug 07, 2025
Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright indicated on CNN that the administration could alter previously published federal climate reports.
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Aug 07, 2025
A powerful, deep-pocketed force in California politics endorsed redrawing the state's congressional maps to counter President Trump's effort to push GOP states, notably Texas, to increase his party's numbers in Congress in next year's midterm election.
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Aug 07, 2025
The number of arrests of undocumented immigration in the Los Angeles area appears to have dropped significantly since June.
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Aug 07, 2025
The number of arrests of undocumented immigration in the Los Angeles area appears to have dropped significantly since June.
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Aug 07, 2025
The number of arrests of undocumented immigration in the Los Angeles area appears to have dropped significantly since June.
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Aug 06, 2025
An immense solar-plus-storage power plant in the desert is now pumping out inexpensive clean electricity at full bore.
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Aug 06, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom says California would seek to redraw its congressional districts to help Democrats if Texas goes through with a similar plan to boost Republicans.
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Aug 06, 2025
Attorneys and their clients are racing to submit opposition to the legal actions. In one case, the government sought to recalendar proceedings against a man who was dead.
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