LOS ANGELES — A plan by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to put up to 800 new tiny homes this year on its West Los Angeles campus drew an immediate rebuke from veterans who won a federal court order requiring the agency to build thousands of new units of temporary and permanent housing there.

"I don't think that's suitable at all," ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles school officials warned this week of impending staff reductions — including likely layoffs — as they grapple with steadily falling enrollment and a three-year budget projection that ends with a deficit.

The budget uncertainty is exacerbated by ongoing Trump administration moves that threaten California school ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Another hiker has died while attempting to summit the highest peak in the contiguous U.S., marking the third reported death on Mount Whitney this season.

The hiker was reported missing Monday after failing to descend the mountain and reunite with a hiking companion, who had decided the prior afternoon to turn around early due to...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Sunday before last, Blake DeBok snowmobiled out to nine wild horses he was told were stranded in deep snow north of Mammoth Lakes.

“As soon as I saw them, it really confirmed that they were in a very serious situation,” the Bishop resident said.

Two horses were dead when he arrived, including a foal that appeared ...Read more

After a year of ongoing measles outbreaks that have sickened more than 2,400 people, the United States is poised to lose its status as a measles-free country. However, the newly appointed principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ralph Abraham, said he was unbothered by the prospect at a briefing for ...Read more

Kim Kardashian's fashion brand must pay $200,000 to settle allegations that it overcharged customers over a five-year period.

The Hollywood-based loungewear and shapewear brand Skims Body improperly charged New Jersey customers sales tax from 2019 through 2024 even though most clothes are exempt in the state, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After the LAPD response to a 2020 protest outside the mayor's mansion led to an excessive force lawsuit, attorneys representing the Police Department insisted they had turned over all relevant evidence.

But then lawyers for the plaintiffs — activists from Black Lives Matter-L.A. — found footage recorded on the officers' body...Read more

The number of people reported killed in Iran’s protest crackdown has surged as rights groups continue to verify suspected fatalities, with the United Nations warning the total could be more than 20,000.

The U.S.-based Human Rights Activist News Agency said it’s verified 4,902 deaths during the unrest that erupted in late December, according...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An unprecedented number of immigrants in federal detention are going to court in Minnesota to challenge their arrests — and many of them are winning.

Since Operation Metro Surge started on Dec. 1, a total of 344 immigrants filed cases challenging their detentions, according to a Minnesota Star Tribune review of federal ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — St. Paul resident Skot Rieffer patrols a day care every morning and afternoon in St. Paul, keeping a lookout for ICE. Like many who have joined in community efforts, he’s sad and exhausted.

“I wanted a reason to smile right now,” said Rieffer, 38, who co-owns the northeast Minneapolis bar Bumbling Fools Mead.

On Jan. 17, ...Read more

When a “Make America Healthy Again” summit was held at the posh Waldorf Astoria in Washington, the line of attendees stretched down the block.

The daylong, invitation-only event in November featured a who’s who of MAHA luminaries. Vice President JD Vance attended, as did Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the ...Read more

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ill. — Bill Rosborough and his son Jon stopped their pickup truck near a 40-acre cornfield and pointed to a white PVC pipe that rose 5 feet from the snow-covered ground on a windy December afternoon.

The Rosboroughs farm this land and placed the pipe to mark the spot where an oil well once stood.

“I don’t even know that ...Read more

In a win for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, a recent court ruling has cleared the way for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to resume using states’ Medicaid data to find people who are in the country illegally.

The case is ongoing. But for now, immigrants — including those who are in the country legally — will ...Read more

Following the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in an operation in which several Cuban security officers died protecting him, Donald Trump joined a long line of U.S. presidents who over the decades anticipated the collapse of Cuba’s communist government.

“Cuba gives protection to Venezuela, and Venezuela gives Cuba money ...Read more

On a March 2023 afternoon in Caracas, the corridors of power in Venezuela’s government were shifting beneath the surface. Tareck El Aissami, once the regime’s top power broker and a man long accused by Washington of narcotics trafficking, had vanished from public view. His fall—swift and opaque—created a dangerous void in the structure ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — A high school designed for teenagers who are recovering from drug or alcohol abuse has the green light to open in the St. Louis area this fall.

The Missouri Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to approve three “recovery high schools,” a decision set in motion by legislation signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe in July. The other...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Trump administration and other Republicans argue the surge of federal immigration agents to Minnesota is necessary in part because of “sanctuary” laws protecting unauthorized immigrants.

And with tensions high over the federal immigration crackdown, many in the national and local GOP are pushing Gov. Tim Walz and ...Read more