MIAMI — Since Alligator Alcatraz’s closure in June, Florida’s emergency managers have committed almost half a billion more dollars toward arresting, detaining and deporting immigrants, promising at least $1.4 billion in disaster funds to the vendors who’ve built the state’s detention lockups and carried out its immigration crackdown, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After LAPD recruitment officers were accused of making racist, sexist and homophobic comments — some of which were caught on tape — department leaders promised to look into whether they improperly disqualified any police applicants.

More than a year and a half later, the city is still waiting on the report.

But the contents...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two law firms behind the bulk of claims in L.A. County's $4-billion sex abuse settlement have had their payouts delayed pending probes, leaving many clients who expected life-changing sums stuck in limbo.

The first checks from the settlement — the largest of its kind in U.S. history — were supposed to start going out this ...Read more

For most of his 92 years, Wendell Berry farmed his Lane’s Landing homestead in Henry County, Kentucky, using methods that embraced the land. He preferred draft horses to diesel-powered tractors and used crop rotation and manure fertilizer to naturally nurture his fields.

The widely revered poet-farmer, who wrote passionately about ...Read more

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband reaffirmed British control over the Falklands, pushing back against renewed efforts by Argentine President Javier Milei to press longstanding claims to the South Atlantic island chain.

“The U.K.’s position on the Falkland Islands is unwavering,” Miliband wrote in a statement on social media. “The Islands ...Read more

CHICAGO — In the parks, at the lakefront and beyond, swarms of mosquitoes, flies and other bugs are chasing away Chicagoans trying to enjoy the last breaths of summer. More so than in previous years, insects have been pervasive — and it’s no coincidence why.

Bugs, mosquitoes in particular, thrive and breed in hot, wet conditions, which ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nearly 6,000 homeless people could be forced to move when security officials impose expansive security perimeters in advance of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, researchers estimated in a new study.

That estimate comes from social scientists at UCLA and USC, who said they published what they acknowledged was a rough ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Here is how Hurricane Marie could affect Labor Day weekend in Southern California:

Impacts

Forecasters expect a 6- to 8-foot south swell, bringing strong surf and rip currents to beaches and a chance of rain, thunderstorms and a return to muggy weather as thousands of people flock to the coast to celebrate the long weekend.

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Oil was on track for a weekly surge as renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran heightened concerns about prolonged disruptions to energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz.

Brent edged lower to around $95 a barrel on Friday, but was still up about 6% for the week, while West Texas Intermediate was under $91. A flare up in fighting has ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The lawyer for a Guinean man who has lived legally in the United States for nearly 20 years asked a federal judge to free him from ICE detention on Thursday, even as government attorneys described plans to proceed with his deportation.

Mamadou Fadel Cherif, 56, was arrested by immigration officers as he left his West Oak Lane ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When the “green wash” of legalized marijuana was sweeping across California a decade ago, one local official tried to style himself as a gatekeeper for the new industry.

Ricardo Pacheco, a Baldwin Park city council member at the time, began meeting with other elected officials and new marijuana sellers, offering his services...Read more

In the thick of his competitive reelection race in Michigan, Republican Rep. Tom Barrett joined Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a sprawling 400-acre apple orchard, farm, and winery. They touted Trump administration efforts to improve the American diet, including the removal of some artificial dyes from processed ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One person was killed and four others injured after a 91-year-old woman drove her car into a group of pedestrians in a Trader Joe's parking lot near the Grove on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded at 1:21 p.m. to a report of a vehicle crashed into a stand in a parking lot near the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump named Adam Telle as acting secretary of the U.S. Army, elevating the current assistant secretary overseeing civil works following the resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

Telle will assume his new post “effective immediately,” the president announced in a post on his Truth Social platform ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago’s Catholic archbishop, two orders of Catholic nuns and other plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to block the state from enforcing a controversial Illinois law set to take effect next week that would let doctors prescribe medication to help terminally ill patients end their lives.

It’s the latest legal challenge ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A new round of lawsuits related to the alleged hidden-camera recordings of nude or semi-nude lifeguards and park aides has been filed in Orange County Superior Court — more than doubling the number of accusers pursuing civil litigation against a former high-level supervisor accused of placing the device and a state park ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An ICE agent has been arrested on federal charges for his alleged actions tied to the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge.

Christian Castro was taken into custody in Texas on Thursday night, according to Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, after a federal grand jury indicted ...Read more

PITTSBURG, Calif. — A Pittsburg police officer and a man suspected of a felony were both shot and wounded during a struggle inside the Police Department on Thursday afternoon, forcing a shutdown of both city hall and the adjoined police station, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

The officer, who has not been publicly identified, ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Matt Bevin was arrested by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office Thursday, according to local 911 dispatchers.

More information wasn’t immediately available. Officials at the Bourbon County jail didn’t respond to request for comment.

Bevin had been wanted for months after failing to disclose financial records as ...Read more