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HOUMA, La.ย โย For nearly 50 years, James Blanchard has made his living in the Gulf of Mexico, pulling shrimp from the sea. Itโs 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…
WASHINGTONย โย After President Trump ordered strikes that led to the capture of Venezuelaโs president, Nicolรกs 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 governmentโs Boeing E-4B Nightwatch โ a military aircraft known, somewhat alarmingly, as the โDoomsday Planeโ โ touched down at Los Angeles International Airport this week, in what may be the famed aircraftโs 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 administrationโs 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 Trumpโs remake of the Kennedy Center, the Washington National Operaโs board approved a resolution on Friday to leave the venue it has occupied since 1971. โToday, the Washington National Opera announced its decision to seek an amicable early termination of its affiliation agreement with…
Elon Muskโs 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 Muskโs social media platform X with prompts such as โput her in a bikiniโ 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. โServing 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 โAmerica First,โ President Trump meant all of the Americas? In puzzling over that question at least, Iโve 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 Trumpโs 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 โcontrary to the interests of the United States to remain a member of, participate in, or otherwise…