While preparing thousands of meals for people affected by the earthquakes in Venezuela, as well as for rescuers and relatives of those still missing, chef Olivier de Belleroche also listens to the stories of those who refuse to give up the search.

One mother told him she only wanted to recover “a little piece” of her son so she could give ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Over the past decade, the LAPD has received thousands of complaints accusing officers of targeting people solely because of their race, ethnicity or other form of outward appearance.

Only one has been fired for it.

The now-former officer, Edgar Garcia Cancino, was part of a San Fernando Valley anti-gang unit whose members were ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — COVID-19 is on the upswing in California and across a swath of the West and the South, a sign that the virus may be starting its seasonal summer uptick.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that COVID is growing in California, Texas, Florida, Missouri, Alabama, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Hawaii...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For more than a quarter-century, a lawsuit settlement from a case brought in Los Angeles federal court has dictated conditions for children held in immigration detention.

But now, the long-standing settlement — which set minimum standards for housing, education and medical care for migrant kids in federal custody, while ...Read more

Companies accused of recklessly marketing and distributing prescription opioid painkillers are paying roughly $58 billion to settle lawsuits over their role in fueling the addiction crisis. It’s a pot of gold eyed by addiction treatment providers, companies creating the latest opioid-related products, and government officials struggling to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump headlined a scaled-down White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Friday, three months after the original event was cut short by a gunman who allegedly sought to assassinate the president.

“Tonight we come back to answer that heinous attack with unwavering resolve,” Trump told hundreds of assembled ...Read more

April Walker, a San Diego resident, was observing federal immigration agents in a Target parking lot in April when she said they boxed her in and pointed a camera at her face and license plate.

She said she never provided her driver's license and the agents only moved their vehicles and allowed her to leave after she called 911. Five days later...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is running for mayor against incumbent Karen Bass, seized on significant decreases in street homelessness in her district Friday while blasting increases citywide.

Street homelessness — people living outdoors or in their vehicles — went down by 49% in Raman's district compared...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has fined Lineage Logistics for what it called "unsanitary and nuisance" conditions at the company's fire-damaged Boyle Heights warehouse, where residents have for weeks faced rats, swarms of flies and the smell of rotting food.

The agency, which issued its first citation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats are demanding that the Trump administration release billions in funding for energy projects after a top Energy Department lawyer conceded in court filings that the only reason they were canceled is that they were in “Blue States.”

That concession by Jeffrey Novak, DOE’s principal deputy general counsel, came in ...Read more

MIAMI — Four South Florida men found guilty in May of conspiring with ex-Colombian soldiers to assassinate Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, will be sentenced in early February 2027, according to a Miami federal judge’s order on Friday.

All four face up to life in prison.

U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Becerra pushed back the original ...Read more

Engines were switched and a tropical storm had moved along, so SpaceX was able to launch the Starship and Super Heavy rocket on its 13th suborbital test mission on Friday night.

The heavy-lift rocket lifted off at 6:51 p.m. EDT from SpaceX’s Texas launch site Starbase with a successful booster separation that sent the upper stage Starship on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed his U.K. counterpart to host a summit with other nations on protecting maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, as pressure builds on President Donald Trump to reopen a waterway shuttered by the war with Iran.

Hegseth and Britain’s new defense secretary, Wes Streeting, spoke by phone on ...Read more

BOSTON — The Trump administration has appealed a federal judge’s ruling to dismiss a Department of Justice lawsuit challenging the City of Boston’s sanctuary protections for illegal immigrants.

President Donald Trump’s DOJ filed an appeal to a May 28 order from U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin that granted the city’s motion to...Read more

NEW YORK — The man accused of screaming “Allahu Akbar” before stabbing two strangers, including an Asian man and a Jewish resident, in a bloody broad-daylight spree on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, was arrested on attempted murder charges Friday — but only one of the attacks was considered a hate crime, officials said.

Raul Morales, 51...Read more

April Walker, a San Diego resident, was observing federal immigration agents in a Target parking lot in April when she said they boxed her in and pointed a camera at her face and license plate.

She said she never provided her driver's license and the agents only moved their vehicles and allowed her to leave after she called 911. Five days later...Read more

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent letters to three Kansas City-area cities this week calling for the repeal of their conversion therapy bans, citing a U.S. Supreme Court case to call the local ordinances unconstitutional.

The letters were sent Thursday to the mayors and council members of Prairie Village, Roeland Park and Lawrence, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Trump administration has agreed to drop its subpoena ordering the University of Pennsylvania to release the names of Jewish people on its campus, marking what seems to be a victory in the Ivy League school’s battles with the federal government.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has said “it will not take any ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday the United States was “locked and loaded” for major new strikes on Iran, but added he had not yet made a decision on whether to go ahead with them while the two sides were in talks.

Trump made his comments at the White House as the U.S. and Iran have exchanged nearly two full weeks of ...Read more