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California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced Sunday that he would not run for California governor, a decision he said was grounded in his belief that his legal efforts combating the Trump administration as the stateβs top prosecutor are paramount at this time in history. βIn this moment, my place is here, on the front lines,…
HOUMA, La.Β βΒ For nearly 50 years, James Blanchard has made his living in the Gulf of Mexico, pulling shrimp from the sea. Itβs all he ever wanted to do, since he was around 12 years old and accompanied his father, a mailman and part-time shrimper, as he spent weekends trawling the marshy waters off Louisiana. Blanchard…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ After President Trump ordered strikes that led to the capture of Venezuelaβs president, NicolΓ‘s Maduro, celebrations erupted in Venezuelan communities across the U.S. But for many of the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants facing possible deportation, their relief and joy were cut by the fear about what comes next from an administration that has…
The federal governmentβs Boeing E-4B Nightwatch β a military aircraft known, somewhat alarmingly, as the βDoomsday Planeβ β touched down at Los Angeles International Airport this week, in what may be the famed aircraftβs 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 administrationβs 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 Trumpβs remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Operaβs board approved a resolution on Friday to leave the venue it has occupied since 1971. βToday, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation agreement with…
Elon Muskβs 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 Muskβs social media platform X with prompts such as βput her in a bikiniβ 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. βServing 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 βAmerica First,β President Trump meant all of the Americas? In puzzling over that question at least, Iβve 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 Trumpβs triumphal news conference…