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Protesters gather to denounce ICE, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, operations Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo Damian Dovarganes)

Los Angeles-area mayors demand that Trump administration stop stepped-up immigration raids

June 11, 2025 at 6:45 p.m.

Police arrested more than 20 people, mostly on curfew violations, on the first night of restrictions in downtown Los Angeles.

Ippei Mizuhara, former interpreter for Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, leaves federal court after his sentencing for bank and tax fraud on Feb. 6, 2025, in Santa Ana, Calif. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)

Baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter sentenced to nearly 5 years in sports betting case

February 6, 2025 at 11:13 p.m.

The former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in prison for bank and tax fraud after he stole nearly $17 million from the Los Angeles...

FILE – The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires

January 29, 2025 at 8:32 a.m.

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

FILE – Water is dropped by helicopter on the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon, Jan. 11, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer,File)

President Donald Trump targets California water policy as he prepares to tour LA fire damage

January 24, 2025 at 7:35 a.m.

As President Donald Trump prepares to tour wildfire damage in California, he’s zeroing in on one of his frequent targets for criticism: State water policy.

Hunter Biden, center, and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden, arrive in federal court for jury selection for his trial on felony tax charges Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Hunter Biden enters surprise guilty plea to avoid tax trial months after his gun conviction

September 5, 2024 at 4:18 p.m.

Hunter Biden has pleaded guilty to federal tax charges to avoid facing another criminal trial months after his conviction in a separate gun case.

FILE – Ippei Mizuhara, center, the former longtime interpreter for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star Shohei Ohtani, leaves federal court following his arraignment, Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in Los Angeles. Mizuhara is scheduled to plead guilty Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to bank and tax fraud in a sports betting case where he is expected to admit to stealing nearly $17 million from the Japanese baseball player. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

Ippei Mizuhara spoke for baseball star Shohei Ohtani. He also stole nearly $17M from him

June 4, 2024 at 7:57 p.m.

Baseball star Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter has pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud in a gambling case that stunned the sports community. Ippei Mizuhara entered his guilty plea Tuesday...

This March 18, 2020, photo shows a funeral that was affected by new rules put in place due to the coronavirus outbreak in Milwaukee. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers restricted gatherings to less than 10 people the day before. The coronavirus that's changed everything about our lives has dramatically changed the way we grieve for the dead, too.

Grieving and saying goodbye in the time of coronavirus

March 23, 2020 at 12:14 p.m.

Tucked deep in the obituary for Charles Recka was an announcement that a Mass celebrating his 87 years of life "will be held at a later date."

In this Dec. 3, 2019, photo, Mohammed Hafar checks the arrivals road while waiting for his daughter Jana Hafar's flight at JFK Airport in New York. Mohammed Hafar was part of a federal lawsuit filed in August of this year over the travel ban waiver process. "Every time I speak to her, she ask, 'When are they going to give me the visa?'" the elder Hafar said, recalling the days of uncertainty that took up the better part of this year. There was "nothing I could tell her, because nobody knows when." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

To overcome travel ban, some Americans taking cases to court

December 27, 2019 at 12:02 p.m.

The third version of the administration's ban took effect in December 2017, keeping citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and North Korea, and government representatives from Venezuela, from traveling...

‘Dreamer’ flight attendant detained for more than 5 weeks after flying Mexico route

August 22, 2019 at 10:47 a.m.

A Texas flight attendant enrolled in the government's program for "Dreamers" flew to Mexico for work and was stopped by immigration authorities who forced her to spend more than a...

In this June 27, 2018, photo, a small group of stay-at-home mothers, with children at their sides, work to organize an immigration rally in Portland, Ore. From left to right are Kate Sharaf, Lisa Carol Stiller, Erin Conroy and Caely Barrett.

Across country, moms outraged by family separations become protest leaders

August 22, 2019 at 4:25 a.m.

Immigrants who have spent years fighting to change the country's immigration system are getting newfound support from liberal activists, moms and first-time protesters motivated by a visceral narrative: President Donald...

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