Letters to Sports: A 49er worthy of recognition in Los Angeles
Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section share their thoughts on Eric Sondheimer covering high schools for 49 years, the Dodgers and UCLA game…
Longtime Crenshaw football coach Robert Garrett misses his second game
Crenshaw High has started its football season 2-0 but has done so without longtime head coach Robert Garrett. Terrance Whitehead has been serving as interim…
Emails show DeSantis administration blindsided county officials with plans for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in…
‘Treacherous’: L.A. County sheriff oversight chair’s exit exposes rift
When a top official responsible for oversight of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced recently that he is being forced out of his position,…
‘Are you from California?’ Political advisor said he was detained at airport after confirming he’s from L.A.
Veteran Los Angeles political consultant Rick Taylor said he was pulled aside by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents while returning from a trip abroad,…
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet resigns
President Trump got his way Friday, just not on his terms. Two weeks after Trump said he fired the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery director, Kim…
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles halts transgender care
Under mounting pressure from the Trump administration, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will shutter its longstanding healthcare program for trans children and young adults this summer,…
The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous U.S. president
WASHINGTON — For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected — from the era of quills and parchment to boxes of paper to the…
Jamie Lee Curtis just wanted an AI ad removed, not to become the ‘poster child of internet fakery’
Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t expect to be at the forefront of the artificial intelligence debate in Hollywood. But she didn’t have a choice. The Oscar-winning…
President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the…
Jennifer Aniston’s alleged stalker charged in car crash at her home
A Mississippi man faces up to three years in prison after he allegedly stalked and harassed Jennifer Aniston for more than two years, culminating in…
Iowa governor sues the Des Moines Register to stop request of emails she claims are protected
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa’s governor on Friday sued the Des Moines Register over the newspaper’s open records request, asking the court to validate her office’s withholding…
Veterans Affairs asks employees to report ‘anti-Christian bias’ for investigation by new task force
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs is establishing a task force to investigate employee reports of alleged anti-Christian bias among their colleagues, part of a broader…
‘It is time for you to leave’: DHS mistakenly notifies U.S. citizens
WASHINGTON — One night this month, Los Angeles immigration attorney Harriet Steele opened her email to a notice from the Department of Homeland Security. “It is time…
Ex-Costa Rica president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias says U.S. revoked his visa
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — Former Costa Rica President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias says the U.S. government’s unexplained cancellation of his visa won’t stop…
DOGE official is taking a leadership role at USAID
WASHINGTON — A senior official at Elon Musk’s White House advisory team is taking a leadership role at the U.S. Agency for International Development, giving Musk’s so-called…
Doug Kiker, garbage man who aced ‘American Idol,’ dies at 32
Douglas Kiker, the “American Idol” contestant known as the “Singing Garbage Man,” has died, his sisters announced this week. He was 32. “It is with…
Top U.S. health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees
WASHINGTON — Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human…
Was Bass incommunicado while returning from Ghana? Or is her office withholding texts?
When flames erupted in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was more than 7,000 miles away, on a diplomatic mission to…
Aides to Karen Bass received weather warnings before she flew to Ghana
The day before Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass left for Ghana, her aides received an email from the city’s Emergency Management Department warning of a…