» You must have a premium archive subscription on NewsBlur to have RSS feeds for folders.
30/03/25 15:51 from 1. World-2 from mikenova (19 sites)
You must have a premium archive subscription on NewsBlur to have RSS feeds for folders.
» Barabak: America has gotten ruder. Starting at the very top
30/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
A new survey finds that a plurality of Americans say the country has become less civil since the COVID-19 pandemic. That's hardly surprising given the profane and boorish example set by President Trump.
» California-Mexico border, once overwhelmed, now nearly empty
30/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Trump's immigration crackdown has slowed migrant crossings to a near halt. Humanitarian aid groups, with few people to serve, are closing down operations at the border.
» Is Taiwan the happiest place in Asia?
30/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Taiwan has surpassed Singapore as the happiest place in Asia, according to the World Happiness Report. But what do residents think?
» White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say
29/03/25 21:24 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Adam Schleifer, a longtime financial fraud prosecutor, was dismissed from the U.S. Attorney's office in L.A. on Friday. He was pursuing charges against the former CEO of Fatburger, a Trump supporter, for alleged financial fraud.
» 'Misguided mission': Senators blast detaining migrants at Guantanamo
29/03/25 12:55 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was among a delegation of senators who visited the migrant detention operation at Guantanamo.
» Contributor: It is not faith that divides us
29/03/25 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
'Certainty is the great enemy of unity,' according to a speech in the film 'Conclave.' 'Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.' Americans need that message.
» Kristi Noem, Trump's secretary of Homeland Security, meets Mexican president
28/03/25 21:13 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Noem talks with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her team at the National Palace, Mexican media reported, but no details were immediately available on what they discussed in the two-hour meeting.
» Granderson: Why isn't the El Paso mass shooter facing the death penalty?
28/03/25 16:15 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Texas plans to execute two others this year. There's a conspicuous difference between their cases and this mass murderer's.
» Supreme Court faces Guantanamo test again: Does president's power have limits?
28/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Trump and his lawyers say federal judges must stand aside
» Contributor: It's no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life
28/03/25 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
The Elon Musks of the world might want us to believe that Starlink is the true wave of the future, but we will be using underwater cable systems for at least the next three decades.
» The most important part of the ocean you've never heard of
28/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world's largest seagrass fields and the planet's most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.
» Trump's DOJ to investigate L.A. County Sheriff's Department over long waits for gun permits
27/03/25 22:29 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The DOJ said it is likely that wait times for concealed carry permits are "unduly burdening, or effectively denying" 2nd Amendment rights for Angelenos.
» Trump executive order targets the Smithsonian over 'divisive, race-centered ideology'
27/03/25 22:23 from Los Angeles Times - World News
President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of monuments taken down because of their celebration of racist figures.
» Contributor: Can Hegseth ever regain the trust of the troops?
27/03/25 19:01 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Far more is needed than just updating 'loose lips sink ships' to 'Signal oops kill troops.' Can the secretary of Defense show that he has changed?
» Contributor: The 'Signalgate' theories may be entertaining, but they're probably not correct
27/03/25 19:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Why was a journalist added to a war-planning group chat? Occam's razor suggests it was an accident.
» Mexico races to stall or evade Trump's 25% auto tariffs
27/03/25 17:51 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Mexico is working to stall or reduce Trump's 25% tariff on foreign-made autos. Canada denounced Trump's executive order but Mexico is taking a more subdued approach.
» RFK Jr. makes sweeping cuts in federal health programs, including CDC, FDA
27/03/25 11:07 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced sweeping cuts in several federal health agencies.
» Contributor: 'Bring back American manufacturing'? It's alive and stronger than ever
27/03/25 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
The number of workers in manufacturing has declined, but not because America stopped making things. It's because we got incredibly good at making things.
» Contributor: The woes of 'attention capitalism' are new, but the cure is ancient
27/03/25 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Attention is a muscle that requires building. This could be seen as the central task of education.
» Deadly, drug-resistant fungus CDC calls 'urgent threat' is spreading in hospitals
27/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
There are new signs that a dangerous fungus is once again on the move. Candida auris is a type of yeast that can cause life-threatening illness.
» These departments investigating Elon Musk have been cut by DOGE and the Trump administration
27/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Elon Musk has benefited from his close alliance with Donald Trump, as the president has ousted federal officials who had overseen departments investigating the billionaire's multiple companies.
» Op-comic: A personal case against eliminating the penny
27/03/25 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
President Trump said he would direct the Treasury to stop making pennies. I immediately thought of my late grandmother.
» Major bridges across California need probes to determine risk of a catastrophic collapse, authorities say
26/03/25 18:40 from Los Angeles Times - World News
A year after the Baltimore bridge collapse, a report calls for an assessment of several California bridges.
» Hamdan Ballal's 'No Other Land' co-directors skewer film academy for silence on attack, detainment
26/03/25 16:35 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Israeli journalist and 'No Other Land' filmmaker Yuval Abraham alleges the academy, which oversees the Oscars, 'felt no need to respond' to the recent attack on his co-director Hamdan Ballal.
» Supreme Court upholds ban on untraceable 'ghost guns' that are made from parts kits
26/03/25 10:31 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Supreme Court, siding with the police, rules that handmade guns can be restricted under federal law.
» Democrats call for resignations as Trump officials downplay Signal chat security breach
26/03/25 09:56 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others in the Trump administration denied that the information he shared in a Signal chat that included a journalist was classified.
» Contributor: Why liberals should celebrate the end of diversity statements at UC
26/03/25 06:01 from L.A. Times - Commentary
The Trump administration's horrific war on higher education evokes the McCarthyist purges of the mid-20th century. But diversity statements are just another loyalty oath.
» Convicting 'gun moll' Barbara Graham was a famous win for L.A. prosecutors. Did they cheat?
26/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
A new book by former L.A. prosecutor Marcia Clark raises questions about the tactics used to convict Barbara Graham, the brassy "dice girl" who in 1955 was executed at San Quentin for the murder of a Burbank widow.
» Democrats target four California GOP members of Congress in effort to retake control of the House
26/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Four California Republicans in the House of Representatives are on the target list of a prominent Democratic group preparing for the 2026 election.
» L.A.-China flight diverted, delayed for hours after pilot forgets passport
25/03/25 20:48 from Los Angeles Times - World News
United Flight 198 left LAX on Saturday bound for China but was diverted to San Francisco because the pilot "did not have their passport onboard."
» Glowing blue spiral over Europe dazzles and perplexes. There's an explanation familiar to SoCal
25/03/25 20:14 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Videos posted on the X showed a blue orb in the night sky that was visible in the U.K., France and other countries.
» U.S. officials used Signal to share war plans. What is the messaging app and is it safe?
25/03/25 18:57 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Experts say Signal is the most secure messaging app. Even top U.S. officials use it. Should you?
» Hiker plummets 100 feet off California coast, desperately clings to life above ocean rocks
25/03/25 18:02 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The hiker and a companion had wandered off the remote 53-mile hiking path that follows the northern California coastline of redwoods and black sand beaches when one of them fell 100 feet.
» Column: Congress wants to impeach judges instead of doing its job
25/03/25 16:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The first branch of government should stop or empower Trump's use of the Enemy Aliens Act. Instead, Congress chooses to heckle from the cheap seats.
» 'No Other Land' co-director Hamdan Ballal, bloodied and bruised, released from Israeli custody
25/03/25 14:56 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Palestinian 'No Other Land' filmmaker Hamdan Ballal is free, less than a day after Israeli military and police forces detained him following a brutal attack by settlers.
» Contributor: The heroes of the resistance are stepping up
25/03/25 12:42 from L.A. Times - Commentary
The Trump administration is playing a losing game of whack-a-mole trying to silence the growing chorus of critics.
» Barbara Lee has avid fans in Oakland mayor's race. But Loren Taylor is making it a contest
25/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Oakland voters have a provocative choice in next month's special election for mayor, as longtime former Rep. Barbara Lee faces off against Loren Taylor, a scrappy politician 31 years her junior.
» Contributor: The culture of shhh — what my Nazi legacy taught me about silence
25/03/25 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
My grandfather was a Nazi. The U.S. may have absolved him as a fellow traveler, but I'm still left to wrestle with generational guilt.
» Arellano: Near death, Pope Francis rallied back. We need his voice more than ever
25/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Francis rejected all trappings of sovereignty and cult of personality. Instead, he has lived and preached what Jesus commanded his followers to do in the Sermon on the Mount, which might as well be the Communist Manifesto nowadays.
» 'No Other Land' filmmaker Hamdan Ballal detained by Israeli forces after he was allegedly attacked by settlers
24/03/25 18:14 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was beaten by Israeli settlers and detained Monday, according to his co-director.
» Trump called Tiger Woods a 'true legend.' Now golfer is dating Vanessa Trump, president's ex-daughter-in-law
24/03/25 15:32 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Golfer Tiger Woods says he's in a relationship with Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of President Trump who divorced Donald Trump Jr. in 2018.
» Trump lawyers urge Supreme Court to block San Francisco judge's order to rehire workers
24/03/25 12:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
President Trump's lawyers urged the Supreme Court to block a judge's order requiring the government to 'immediately' rehire 16,000 federal employees.
» Contributor: Remember when it was the right that got outraged over 'banned words'?
24/03/25 06:00 from L.A. Times - Commentary
Now the left is making a lot of the same critiques, noting that this time the dystopian directive comes from the top of the federal government.
» Trump wants to rein in federal judges. One California Republican is already working on it
24/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Just as President Trump is facing multiple cases in court aimed at curtailing his presidential powers, Rep. Darrell Issa introduced a bill to rein in federal judges.
» 'They have never broken the law': An O.C. couple's deportation is part of a trend, advocates say
24/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
An Orange County couple was deported to Colombia after living in the U.S. for decades with no criminal record.
» An O.C. couple's sudden deportation sends shock waves: 'They have never broken the law'
24/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
An Orange County couple was deported to Colombia after living in the U.S. for decades with no criminal record.
» South Korean court reinstates suspended prime minister but is silent on impeached President Yoon
24/03/25 00:24 from Los Angeles Times - World News
Han Duck-soo was reinstated as acting president Monday. He was handed the reins to the country after President Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law, was impeached.
» News Analysis: Trump consistently frames policy around 'fairness,' trading on American frustration
23/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
President Trump and his allies consistently frame his policy agenda around the concept of fairness, which experts say is a potent political message in America right now.
» They were called gang members and deported. Families say their only crime was having tattoos
23/03/25 06:00 from Los Angeles Times - World News
The families of two Venezuelans deported to El Salvador say the Trump administration wrongly branded them as Tren de Aragua gang members.