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Over the last decade, the Los Angeles Police Department sent employees to Israel to train or be trained by the country’s counterterrorism experts on at least nine occasions. But officers who attended these training sessions and dozens of other overseas seminars and conferences routinely failed to document what they learned or keep track of who…

Welcome to Black History Month, 2026 style. President Trump posted a video Thursday to his social media site that contains animated images depicting former President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. The White House took down the post Friday, and after first calling it nothing more than a meme, they dubbed it a…

WASHINGTON — President Trump shared a short video clip on social media late Thursday depicting former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes, drawing immediate public backlash that the White House characterized as “fake outrage.” The image, which Trump posted on his official Truth Social account around midnight, was included toward the end of…

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader John Thune warned Thursday that Congress is not close to an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security, signaling that another short-term extension may be the only way to avoid a shutdown as Democrats demand “nonnegotiable” ICE reforms ahead of the Feb. 13 deadline. The Republicans are increasingly looking to punt…

It started out as a routine night for Nancy Guthrie. At around 5:32 p.m. Saturday she left her home in the hills north of Tuscon to have dinner at the home of a family member. She took an Uber to the dinner but was driven home by family, officials said. The 84-year-old mother of NBC…

Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings posted a tearful video Wednesday in which they pleaded for the return of their mother, Nancy Guthrie, and asked her possible kidnapper to communicate with them. “We live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know, without a doubt, that she is alive…

Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez celebrated what he called a “Mass for Peace” at Our Lady of the Angels on Wednesday, stopping just short of a direct appeal to the Trump administration to draw down its aggressive immigration enforcement efforts as protesters gathered blocks away. “We are united with everybody in our country praying…

Tulsi Gabbard’s political journey has been anything but straightforward. As a teenager, she worked for her father, a prominent anti-gay activist, and his political organization, which opposed same-sex marriage. In 2002, she was elected to Hawaii’s House of Representatives, becoming — at age 21 — the youngest person to serve in the Legislature. Gabbard was…

President Trump recently called Colombia’s leader, Gustavo Petro, a “sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.” Petro, meanwhile, has labeled Trump a murderer and compared him to Adolf Hitler. But on Tuesday, the two leaders made nice — mostly — in a closed-door meeting at the White House that…

MINNEAPOLIS — For weeks, administrators at this charter high school have arrived an hour before class, grabbed neon vests and walkie-talkies, and headed out into the cold to watch for ICE agents and escort students in. Lately, fewer than half of the 800 sudents show up. “Operation Metro Surge,” the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to…