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The federal government’s Boeing E-4B Nightwatch — a military aircraft known, somewhat alarmingly, as the “Doomsday Plane” — touched down at Los Angeles International Airport this week, in what may be the famed aircraft’s first-ever LAX landing. Aviation enthusiasts spotted the plane Thursday on its approach to LAX. It is billed by the U.S. Air…

A federal judge in New York has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s move to freeze $10 billion in child-care funds in five Democrat-led states including California. The ruling Friday afternoon capped a tumultuous stretch that began earlier this week when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told California officials and those in Colorado,…

In what might be the most decisive critique yet of President Trump’s remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Opera’s board approved a resolution on Friday to leave the venue it has occupied since 1971. “Today, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation agreement with…

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized images after global pushback from users and governments. Late last month, some users began tagging Grok on Musk’s social media platform X with prompts such as “put her in a bikini” to generate nonconsensual images of real people…

Rep. Julia Brownley, a Democrat who has represented swaths of Ventura and Los Angeles counties for more than a decade, announced Thursday that she would not seek reelection. “Serving our community and our country has been the honor of my lifetime. Every step of this journey has been shaped by the people I represent, by…

A day after a woman in Minneapolis was killed by an immigration federal agent, clergy leaders and advocates gathered on the steps of the downtown Los Angeles federal immigration building to honor her and denounce the killing. Holding printed photos of Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot in the head by a federal immigration agent,…

Who knew that by “America First,” President Trump meant all of the Americas? In puzzling over that question at least, I’ve got company in Marjorie Taylor Greene, the now-former congresswoman from Georgia and onetime Trump devotee who remains stalwart in his America First movement. Greene tweeted on Saturday, just ahead of Trump’s triumphal news conference…

President Trump on Wednesday withdrew the United States from 66 international organizations and treaties, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In a presidential memorandum, Trump said it is “contrary to the interests of the United States to remain a member of, participate in, or otherwise…

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are returning to Washington this week confronting the fallout from the stunning capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — and familiar complaints about the Trump administration deciding to bypass Congress on military operations that have led to this moment. Democratic leaders are demanding the administration immediately brief Congress. Republican leaders indicated over the weekend…

WASHINGTON — A highly confidential CIA assessment produced at the request of the White House warned President Trump of a wider conflict in Venezuela if he were to support the country’s democratic opposition once its president, Nicolás Maduro, was deposed, a person familiar with the matter told The Times. The assessment was a tightly held CIA product…