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Three of the country’s most powerful judges met in Pasadena on Wednesday for a rare conclave that could rewrite the legal framework for President Trump’s expansive deployment of troops to cities across the United States. The move to flood Los Angeles with thousands of federalized soldiers over the objection of state and local leaders shocked…

The matcha drinks at Kin Bakeshop are so popular that some customers wait hours for their fix. The little Santa Barbara cafe was going through more than four pounds of the Japanese tea on its busiest days when it started getting tough to get a reliable supply. This summer, the matcha dealer called to say…

Alan Kirshner, a youth chess tournament organizer and political science professor, had for years been evasive when asked if he’d ever seen a chess “prodigy.” That changed when he first saw San Mateo’s Daniel Naroditsky, then a first-grader, in action. “It was apparent from the way he concentrated and was focused, but was relaxed at…

An estimated 7 million Americans turned out Saturday to peacefully protest against the breakdown of our checks-and-balances democracy into a Trump-driven autocracy, rife with grift but light on civil rights. Trump’s response? An AI video of himself wearing a crown inside a fighter plane, dumping what appears to be feces on these very protesters. In…

MEXICO CITY — For decades, Colombia and the United States have been devoted allies, sharing military intelligence, a robust trade relationship and a multibillion-dollar fight against drug trafficking. Now that is all at risk as the U.S. ramps up deadly airstrikes off Colombia’s coast and the leaders of both nations trade scathing verbal attacks. President Trump called…

WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if “habitual drug users” lose their gun rights under the 2nd Amendment. The Trump administration is defending a federal gun control law dating to 1968 and challenging the rulings of two conservative appeals courts that struck down the ban on gun possession by any “unlawful user” of…

There are many stresses that come with being an LGBTQ+ youth: fear, isolation, bullying, feeling as if the world hates you, loved ones pressuring you to change. Those realities come into sharper view in the first release of findings from an ongoing study by the Trevor Project to track the mental health of about 1,700…

JERUSALEM  — Israel launched airstrikes Sunday in Gaza after what it said was a Hamas attack on its forces, adding to the two-year-old war’s death toll and rattling a delicate U.S.-brokered ceasefire that had brought a measure of relief to the beleaguered enclave. The day descended into finger-pointing as each side accused the other of violating…

LAS VEGAS — Aaron Mahan is a lifelong Republican who twice voted for Donald Trump. He had high hopes putting a businessman in the White House and, although he found the president’s monster ego grating, Mahan voted for his reelection. Mostly, he said, out of party loyalty. By 2024, however, he’d had enough. “I just saw more…

When millions of demonstrators took to the streets in June for “No Kings Day” — depicting President Trump as a wannabe monarch intent on violating American democratic norms — it was still fairly early in his administration. The immigration raids in Los Angeles were just getting under way and Trump had deployed military troops to…