Dozens of California National Guard troops under President Trumpβs command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of an appellate courtβs order to be gone by noon Monday. Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped. But video taken outside the Roybal Federal Building downtown…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations. A leader of a citrus growers association is kidnapped and killed after refusing mob demands for a cut of profits. Enraged peasant farmers fed up with paying graft turn on cartel thugs in a bloody showdown. In…
When word came of Rob Reinerβs senseless death, America fell into familiar rites of mourning and remembrance. A waterfall of tributes poured in from the twin worlds β Hollywood and politics β that the actor, director and liberal activist inhabited. Through the shock and haze, before all but the sketchiest details were known, President Trump…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ President Trumpβs chief of staff is defending herself after granting an extraordinarily candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair in which she offers stinging judgments of the president and blunt assessments about his administrationβs shortcomings. The profile of Susie Wiles, Trumpβs reserved, influential top aide since he resumed office, caused a scandal in Washington and…
During the first days of the January firestorms, Los Angeles became a case study in what can go wrong with emergency alerts and evacuations. In Pacific Palisades there was chaos Jan. 7 as people in the foothills tried to flee, only to hit traffic gridlock. Then when the Eaton fire erupted in Altadena, evacuation orders…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Four House Republicans broke with party leadership on Wednesday to join Democrats in overriding the GOP majority and forcing a vote on extending healthcare tax credits β a defection that underscores the partyβs growing vulnerability on economic issues ahead of next yearβs midterm elections. The healthcare tax credits, which were central to the fight that…
Christian Turner is a mandarin’s mandarin. His appointment to the most glamorous posting in the UK diplomatic service is a victory for the Sir Humphreys over the politicians. After the disaster and humiliation of Peter Mandelson‘s demise over his links to Jeffrey Epstein, it always made sense to appoint a scandal-free career diplomat as his…
It is too late to investigate whether Nigel Farage broke election law on spending at the general election, Essex Police has said. The Reform UK leader had been referred to the police following claims by a former member of his campaign team that the campaign to get Mr Farage elected in Clacton last year overspent….
Foreign Office data has been compromised by hackers, a minister has confirmed to Sky News, but he said the government is “fairly confident” that no individual data has been accessed. Trade minister Sir Chris Bryant told Sky’s Mornings with Jones and Melbourne that the government first became aware of the hack in October, and was…
A worried mother working miles away from her family frantically tries to get her three children out of harmβs way as an out of control fire ravages their community. Firefighters do everything they can, but strong winds are working against them to make the destruction go from bad to worse. This scenario is reminiscent of…