Amid Cinco de Mayo celebrations, a tax on Mexican tomatoes looms
Guacamole has been spared from tariffs for now. But salsa may not be so lucky.While President Trump put threatened tariffs on Mexican avocados on pause,…
Trump says he doesn’t know if he backs due process rights
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview…
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries rips Trump budget cuts
RANCHO MIRAGE — One day after President Trump proposed a budget that would deeply slash the federal government, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Saturday vowed…
Indigenous activists see Trump’s Columbus Day rhetoric as cause for advocacy
Last week, President Trump announced he won’t recognize Indigenous Peoples Day and will bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes” — another sign some Native…
NPR stations targeted for cuts by Trump have provided lifelines to listeners during disasters
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After Hurricane Helene devastated Asheville, N.C., the sound coming from open car windows as residents gathered on a street at the top of a…
Column: Another Big Lie: RFK Jr. wants to make America healthy again
What do you think would happen, I asked my daughter, a nurse practitioner who works in addiction medicine, if Narcan, the drug that reverses opiate…
President Trump brands his opponents as ‘communists’
For years, President Trump has blamed “communists” for his legal and political troubles. Now, the second Trump administration is deploying that same historically loaded label…
Authorities search for missing man after kayak capsized on the American River
Authorities were searching Saturday for a kayaker who fell into the water along the American River near Auburn, Calif., the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said.The…
Mexico’s president has notched big wins but has work ahead
On a recent Friday morning, President Claudia Sheinbaum stood inside Mexico’s presidential palace during her daily morning news conference and was asked by one of…
Musk’s bid to make SpaceX site a Texas city is approved
McALLEN, Texas — The south Texas home of Elon Musk’s Southern California-born rocket company, SpaceX, is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic…
Digital billboards have nearly tripled along California freeways — and state officials are proposing more
Reporting from Sacramento — Once a rare sight, electronic billboards that flash new ads every few seconds have sprouted up by the hundreds along California freeways in…
Trump draws criticism with AI image of himself as the pope ahead of the papal conclave
NEW YORK — President Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope as the mourning of Pope Francis continues and just days before the…
L.A. federal prosecutors resign over plea offer to deputy, sources say
Several federal prosecutors — including the chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section — have submitted their resignations following a plea deal offered…
U.S. agrees to settle suit over police shooting of Ashli Babbitt during Capitol riot
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has reached a preliminary agreement to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt over her shooting by an…
Buffett says U.S. shouldn’t use ‘trade as a weapon’ like Trump tariffs
OMAHA — Investor Warren Buffett told thousands of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders Saturday that the United States shouldn’t use “trade as a weapon” and anger the rest of…
Judge blocks Trump order targeting law firm
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked a White House executive order targeting an elite law firm, dealing a setback to President Trump’s campaign of…
Mayor Bass said her office’s budget will be cut. The numbers tell a different story
When Mayor Karen Bass spoke about budget cuts during her State of the City address — before she even mentioned laying off city employees —…
For Republicans, breaking up is hard to do
For Republicans, breaking up is hard to do Source link
Column: The ‘USA’ brand was 250 years in the making. It took just 100 days to trash it
Ken Griffin, one of Republicans’ billionaire donors who’d convinced themselves that President Trump wouldn’t do some things he campaigned to do, finally got it right…
Half a century on the beat, and thank you very much
The Bard of Los Angeles was waiting for an elevator when I arrived at the office one day in 2002. Columnist Al Martinez and I…