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» U.S. blocks full U.N. membership for Palestinians
18/04/24 15:39 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The United States vetoes the latest Palestinian bid for full membership in the United Nations.

» Google fires 28 employees who protested Israel cloud contract
18/04/24 11:48 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The protests, organized by the No Tech for Apartheid campaign, raised concerns about Google and Amazon's $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government and military called Project Nimbus.

» Opinion: Is Arizona's abortion ban a return to the 19th century? No, it's actually worse
18/04/24 06:30 from L.A. Times - Commentary
William T. Howell, who copied the 1864 law from California, was a progressive by the standards of the state Supreme Court that resurrected his statute.

» Did USC set 'very bad precedent' by canceling valedictorian speech over safety threats?
18/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Campus administrators nationwide struggle to uphold principles of free expression amid pressure from those who claim speech, or potential speech, can subject students to harm.

» Op-Comic: The Mideast, an unsolved puzzle
18/04/24 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
For Iranian artist Nasrin Sheykhi, bombs, missiles and guns blot out any hope for a solution in the conflicted Middle East.

» Calmes: The hush money trial has only just begun, but it's not a good look for Candidate Trump
17/04/24 18:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
The goings-on inside and outside Manhattan criminal court won't win the scowling, puffy-faced former president the voters he needs.

» Opinion: USC got it wrong in canceling valedictorian's speech. Here's what the school should do now
17/04/24 16:47 from L.A. Times - Commentary
The university should let Asna Tabassum speak at its graduation ceremony. It shouldn't have caved to pressure from those upset by her support for Palestinians.

» Senate rejects impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas
17/04/24 14:59 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Alejandro N. Mayorkas, a Cuban immigrant who grew up in California, is the first U.S. Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years.

» Opinion: After divorce, a miscarriage and career false starts, my L.A. life surprised me
17/04/24 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
A string of failures and heartbreaks gave way to the second chances I needed.

» Abortion ban has supercharged Arizona politics. What will GOP legislators do?
17/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
As abortion politics and policy clash in Arizona and threaten to sway the swing state, GOP lawmakers scramble to address the issue amid fallout from a ruling reviving an 1864 ban.

» This trans author toured red-state libraries. What she found might surprise you
17/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Diana Goetsch spent months visiting red-state libraries to do presentations on the freedom to read. Would she be recognized, or clocked as transgender?

» Abcarian: A disconcerting crime wave in L.A.'s Venice, caught on camera
16/04/24 16:15 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Thanks to cameras, a Southern California restaurateur helped police identify the suspect in the brutal assault of two women near the Venice canals.

» Supreme Court casts doubt on obstruction charges against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters
16/04/24 12:15 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Supreme Court conservatives questioned whether the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act can be used to prosecute those who attacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

» Goldberg: For Israel and Ukraine alike, U.S. support is proving unreliable and inadequate
16/04/24 06:15 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Biden urged Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from retaliation against Iran even though its attack appeared to defy the president's own warning after Oct. 7.

» Damage found inside Glen Canyon Dam increases water risks on the Colorado River
16/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Newly discovered damage in Glen Canyon Dam would require releasing less water at low reservoir levels — a problem that increases water risks in the Southwest.

» The abortion debate is giving Kamala Harris a moment. But voters still aren't sold
16/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Vice President Kamala Harris has failed to win over a majority of voters or convince them that she is ready to step in if Biden, the oldest president in history, falters.

» Column: Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes
16/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Republicans criticizing Biden's student debt relief plan took millions of dollars in pandemic relief loans and never paid them back. But they say that's different.

» Opinion: The decline in American life expectancy harms more than our health
16/04/24 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
This alarming trend, which began before COVID, fuels a deadly cycle of a sick workforce and weakened economy.

» Granderson: How can evangelicals like Mike Johnson tolerate Trump?
16/04/24 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
The former president has proved that he doesn't have to abide by any moral code to get ahead.

» Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL's Mars Sample Return mission
15/04/24 15:54 from Los Angeles Times - World News
NASA's administrator says the agency is committed to the mission to bring samples of Mars back to Earth -- just in less time and for less money. How it will pull that off remains to be seen.

» Litman: Trump's antics didn't stop his New York hush money trial. Here's why he'll keep them up
15/04/24 15:31 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The former president can be expected to stick to his political strategy despite its legal risks and Judge Juan M. Merchan's lack of patience for it.

» Biden administration gives California $45 million to help recently arrived migrants
15/04/24 14:35 from Los Angeles Times - World News
California is receiving a slightly larger share of a federal program earmarking $300 million nationwide for migrant-assistance programs.

» 'Rust' armorer Hannah Gutierrez sentenced to 18 months in prison
15/04/24 14:32 from Los Angeles Times - World News
A New Mexico judge excoriated the 26-year-old Arizona woman, who loaded Alec Baldwin's gun with five dummy rounds and one lead bullet, which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021.

» News Analysis: Can both sides declare victory in Iran-Israel clash?
15/04/24 14:09 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Can U.S. officials and other world leaders persuade Israel and Iran to avoid dragging the Middle East into a wider war?

» Q&A: Yes, Trump could be elected president as a convicted felon
15/04/24 12:52 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Donald Trump faces multiple criminal charges, but a conviction would not legally prevent him from serving as president — in theory, even from jail.

» 'Miracle' weight-loss drugs could have reduced health disparities. Instead they got worse
15/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Ozempic and other drugs raised the possibility of reversing the country's obesity crisis. Doctors are frustrated that they've made health disparities worse.

» Column: Joe Biden's empathy was his superpower in 2020. Can he find it again in 2024?
15/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
President Biden, in an election battle with Trump, touts the economy. Democratic strategists say the message is missing Biden's big strength: empathy.

» Opinion: Don't want Biden or Trump to have so much power? Maybe the U.S. needs a poly-presidency
15/04/24 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Some of America's founders thought having only one president would make America too much like a monarchy. Perhaps they were right.

» Trump's trial is about more than sex and money. It's about what presidents 'can get away with'
15/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Donald Trump's hush money trial is about more than Stormy Daniels and sex. It "will shape not just what future presidents will do but whether or not they'll get away with it."

» Opinion: Why it's hard to muster even a 'meh' over Trump's New York criminal trial
14/04/24 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Trump may not be convicted of a felony in the New York 'election interference' case, and if he is, it probably won't shake up the presidential race.

» 'Nobody saw this coming'; California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu
14/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
As the avian flu continues to threaten poultry farms and wildlife, are factory farms a sitting duck?

» Calmes: Donald Trump inspires yet another profile in cowardice
14/04/24 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
One after another, American institutions have spinelessly bowed to Trump's power. The latest GOP invertebrates run a foundation meant to honor President Gerald R. Ford.

» Abcarian: Never forget — Nicole Brown Simpson's murder redefined our understanding of domestic violence
14/04/24 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Her death proved that domestic violence can happen to anyone, and showed how little protection the police and society provided against O.J. Simpson's abuse.

» Opinion: Can you beat this epic commute? Take the 10 to the 86 to the 111 to the 8 ...
14/04/24 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
'SNL' had it right. California's a big state and we think nothing of driving it — and obsessing over which routes to take — end to end.

» Iran launches airstrikes toward Israel in retaliatory move, boosting chance of wider conflict
13/04/24 16:57 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel in a significant escalation of regional conflict amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Israel says it intercepted the 'vasty majority.'

» Trump's untruths pile up. Biden gets facts wrong too. Do voters care?
12/04/24 14:02 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Trump said he talked to a crime victim's family. Her sister denied it. And the fact-checkers went off on the former president, again.

» U.S. bracing for potential Iranian response to attack attributed to Israel
12/04/24 12:31 from Los Angeles Times - World News
U.S. officials say Iran appears to be lining up a series of potential retaliations against Israel.

» Builders may fight 'impact fees' that fund municipal projects in California, Supreme Court rules
12/04/24 10:23 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The Supreme Court says home builders in California may challenge the fees commonly imposed by cities and counties to pay for new infrastructure.

» Opinion: In Utah, the Capitol really is the people's house
12/04/24 08:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Every day, parachutists, protesters, presidents and posers show up on the front lawn, and at the front door of Utah state government.

» Opinion: My son was killed with a gun. Like too many California parents, I don't know who did it
12/04/24 06:30 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Low homicide clearance rates help perpetuate gun violence. Legislation under consideration in Sacramento would help more families reopen cold cases.

» 'Every day, we're dying.' In Ukraine, defeat was unthinkable. Has that changed?
12/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Could Ukraine lose the war? Once nearly taboo, the question hovers in Kyiv, but Ukrainians believe they must fight for their lives against Putin's troops.

» Ukrainians contemplate the once unthinkable: Losing the war with Russia
12/04/24 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Could Ukraine lose the war? Once nearly taboo, the question hovers in Kyiv, but Ukrainians believe they must fight for their lives against Putin's troops.

» Opinion: How Rodney King helped O.J. Simpson win a not-guilty verdict
11/04/24 19:35 from L.A. Times - Commentary
After the King beating and the 1992 riots, the LAPD forfeited the city's trust. It isn't surprising that jurors would have their doubts about the case the department built against O.J. Simpson.

» Column: Presidential foundation was too scared to honor Liz Cheney, so he quit in disgust
11/04/24 17:56 from Los Angeles Times - World News
David Hume Kennerly quit the Gerald Ford Foundation board when the group refused to honor Liz Cheney because, Kennerly says, it's afraid of Donald Trump.

» Why feds say Shohei Ohtani is a 'victim': Interpreter allegedly paid gambling debts pretending to be Dodger
11/04/24 17:53 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Federal authorities said evidence supports Dodger Shohei Ohtani's claims he was unaware of alleged illegal gambling by his interpreter and a victim of bank fraud. He can play ball.

» TSA found more than 1,500 firearms on airline passengers in first 3 months of 2024
11/04/24 14:47 from Los Angeles Times - World News
A majority of the guns found were loaded, according to the TSA.

» Opinion: As a pregnant law professor in Arizona, I fear the abortion ban
11/04/24 13:45 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Voters in our state may repeal the ban, so I'm anticipating the November election with hope and fear in equal measure.

» Dianne Feinstein made history. Now she could get honored with a post office?
11/04/24 11:47 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The proposal to name a San Francisco post office after the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein struck some as unbefitting the gravitas of her half-century career in politics.

» Coastal salmon fishing banned for a second year amid steep population declines
11/04/24 11:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Officials have decided to ban salmon fishing on the California coast for a second year. Salmon populations have dropped after the state's last drought.