Video: Documenting L.A.’s Surge in Immigration Arrests
Jennifer Medina, a political reporter at The New York Times who is based in Los Angeles, speaks with a witness who recorded an immigration raid near a Home Depot. Source link
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Explosion at a California fireworks warehouse sets off massive blaze and forces evacuations
Clouds of smoke rise following explosions at a firework storage warehouse in Esparto, California, United States, July 1, 2025, in this screengrab taken from a social media video. | Photo Credit: Reuters An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in rural Northern California caused a massive fire, sending thick plumes of black smoke into the air … Read more
Private plane with 6 onboard crashes in Pacific Ocean near California
A twin-engine transport aircraft, Cessna 414, carrying six people, crashed in the Pacific Ocean near the coast of San Diego, California on Monday as the US Coast Guard and other rescue teams launched a search operation, news agency Reuters reported. Quoting the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the report said that the plane crashed on … Read more
Assisted dying: California man invites BBC to witness his death
Fergus Walsh Medical editor Camilla Horrox Global health producer BBC This is the last picture of Wayne with his wife Stella (right) and children Emily and Ashley (left), taken on the day of his death It’s 10am, and in a little over two hours, Wayne Hawkins will be dead. The sun is shining on the … Read more
Why Are Dolphins and Sea Lions Washing Up Dead on Southern California Beaches?
Adam Fox grabbed the nets and the cage from the back of his pickup truck. Something in the sand was disturbing the iconic Southern California scenery at the Santa Monica Pier on Friday morning. A sea lion washed up on the beach just north of the Ferris wheel. It was alive but gravely ill and … Read more
Opinion | Why Is Gavin Newsom Seeking Common Ground With the Right?
I was open to the idea behind Gavin Newsom’s new podcast, in which the California governor has been breaking out of his political bubble to talk at length with right-wing media stars such as Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon. Democrats need to get better at speaking to people who don’t share their assumptions and at … Read more
Opinion | There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk
Democrats have a problem that runs deeper than the 2024 election. They have a problem that runs deeper than Elon Musk’s assault on the government. Look at the places they govern: strongholds like New York and Illinois and where I’m from, California. They’re losing people. [CLIP: Since the pandemic started, California is seeing an exodus, … Read more
Gavin Newsom Splits With Democrats on Transgender Athletes: ‘It’s Deeply Unfair’
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, embarking on a personal post-mortem of the failures of his Democratic Party, suggested this week that the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports was “deeply unfair.” The comments by Mr. Newsom, who has backed L.G.B.T.Q. causes for decades and was one of the first American elected officials to officiate … Read more
He Went to Jail for Stealing Someone’s Identity. But It Was His All Along.
In a beige-walled courtroom in eastern Iowa, a man who has been William Woods for his entire life faced a man who had been known as William Woods for much of his. That hearing on Friday brought an end to what prosecutors called “a Kafkaesque plot that resulted in the false imprisonment, involuntary hospitalization and … Read more
Trump is touring Pacific Palisades. Altadena residents wonder why not them.
President Trump mused on Friday about shutting down the Federal Emergency Management Agency, saying that states could do a better job at responding to disasters. “When you have a problem like this, I think you want to go, whether it’s a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it,” Mr. … Read more