Roozbeh Farahanipour sat within the blue-green glow of his Westwood restaurant’s 220-gallon saltwater aquarium and frightened about Iran, his voice accented in anguish. It was Sunday morning, and the homeland he fled a quarter-century in the past had been bombed by the U.S. navy, escalating a battle that started 9 days earlier when Israel sprang a shock assault on its perennial Center Japanese foe. “Anger and hate for the Iranian regime — I have it, but I try to manage it,” mentioned...

Share by way of Shut further sharing choices “What happened here was a tragedy,” Vance instructed reporters. “You had people who were doing the simple job of enforcing the law, and you had rioters, egged on by the governor and the mayor, making it harder for them to do their job.” Bass, who was not invited to fulfill with Vance, dismissed his description of what has unfolded in Los Angeles during the last two...

WASHINGTON — The day after immigration raids started in Los Angeles, Rep. Norma Torres (D-Pomona) and three different members of Congress had been denied entry to the immigrant detention facility contained in the Roybal Federal Constructing. The lawmakers had been making an attempt an unannounced inspection, a typical and long-standing observe below congressional oversight powers. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stated too many protesters had been current on June 7 and officers...

Greater than a dozen non secular leaders from an array of faiths marched to the steps of the Federal Constructing in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday evening, flowers in hand, calling for an finish to the federal immigration raids they are saying have torn households aside and resulted in racial profiling. Firstly of the procession in Plaza Olvera, Rev. Tanya Lopez, senior pastor at Downey Memorial Christian Church, recounted how final week she watched as plainclothes federal brokers...

For years on this columna, I’ve repeatedly posed a easy problem to Archbishop José H. Gomez: Rise up for Los Angeles, as a result of L.A. wants you. The top of the biggest Catholic diocese in america has largely stood athwart the liberal metropolis he’s purported to minister since he assumed his seat in 2011 however particularly because the COVID-19 pandemic. He has railed towards “woke” tradition and refused to satisfy with progressive Catholic teams. When the Dodgers in 2023 honored...

A long time in the past, Pete Wilson did one thing uncommon. The U.S. senator got here house to run for California governor. The trail to energy usually goes the wrong way, with governors buying and selling the statehouse for the (perceived) affect and status of being considered one of simply 100 members of a membership that fancies itself — not so humbly or exactly — as “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” Wilson bucked that sentiment. “It is a much more difficult role,” he mentioned...

After almost per week of protests in Los Angeles towards latest federal immigration enforcement sweeps within the metropolis, President Trump doubled down on his administration’s efforts to detain and deport immigrants with out documentation, claiming they’re a key voting bloc in Democratic cities. In a Fact Social publish on Sunday, Trump stated Los Angeles and “other such cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use illegal aliens to expand their voter base,...

Eric Bauman, a gruff and tireless political operative who led two of California’s strongest Democratic organizations earlier than resigning amid misconduct allegations, died Monday. His household stated in a press release that Bauman died at UCLA West Valley Medical Middle after an extended sickness. He was 66. Born within the Bronx to an Military physician and a registered nurse, Bauman went to navy college and moved to Hollywood simply earlier than he turned 18. He turned a nurse and met...

The ninth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday questioning each President Trump’s choice to deploy federal troops to Los Angeles and the courtroom’s proper to assessment it, teeing up what’s prone to be a fierce new problem to presidential energy within the U.S. Supreme Courtroom. A panel of three judges — two appointed by President Trump, one by President Biden — pressed exhausting on the administration’s central assertion that the president had practically limitless...

Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to wage conflict on unlawful immigration the likes of which the USA has by no means seen. His first huge marketing campaign — launched towards Los Angeles and its surrounding communities, in fact — has proceeded with predictably disastrous outcomes. Components of Southern California are below occupation by the Nationwide Guard and Marines, as Trump and his allies attempt to paint the protests towards deportations as an rebel fueled by Mexican “invaders”....

“The president keeps talking about a foreign invasion,” Flores informed me Thursday. “He keeps trying to paint us as the other. I say, ‘No, you are dealing with Americans.’” California’s estimated 1.8 million undocumented immigrants who’ve lived amongst us for years, for many years, who work and pay taxes right here, who’ve despatched their American-born kids to colleges right here, have all of the obligations of residents minus lots of the rights. Sure, technically,...

She was attending her first protest, pushed to be seen with hundreds of others at a “No Kings” demonstration Saturday morning in El Segundo, desperate to make a press release. However she was there for her father, as effectively. The signal she held aloft as automotive horns honked in assist stated: “I’m speaking for those who can’t.” Her father would have cherished to hitch her, Jennifer informed me. However with ICE raids in Los Angeles and arrests by the lots of in latest days, her...

Giovanni Garcia pulled as much as a dusty intersection in South Gate and scoped the scene. It was quiet, simply of us strolling house from work, however Garcia was amongst a number of individuals drawn there in hopes of bearing witness to one of many federal raids which have unfolded throughout Los Angeles County in current days. Simply minutes earlier than, a number of Instagram accounts had posted alerts warning that white pickup vehicles with inexperienced U.S. Customs and Border Safety...

WASHINGTON — Miles of fencing and concrete obstacles lace the nation’s capital forward of President Trump’s navy parade alongside the Nationwide Mall on Saturday night time — an occasion meant to rejoice the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Military, however which additionally coincides with the president’s birthday. The occasion is anticipated to attract tons of of 1000’s of attendees, the Secret Service stated, drawn to the uncommon spectacle of navy {hardware} and...

Brian Gavidia was at work on West Olympic Boulevard in Montebello at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday when he was informed immigration brokers have been outdoors of his office. Gavidia, 29, was born and raised in East Los Angeles and fixes and sells automobiles for a dwelling. He mentioned he stepped outdoors. And noticed 4 to 6 brokers. Inside seconds, he mentioned, considered one of them — sporting a vest with “Border Patrol Federal Agent” written on the again — approached him. “Stop right there,”...

Lunging males are perceived as harmful. In an America that has lengthy weaponized descriptions of how males of coloration look and transfer to justify use of pressure, that’s very true of darkish males lunging at white girls. For these of you who don’t watch Fox and different right-wing media, I’ll fill you in on how Noem’s description performed out. Padilla, the Trumpian model of the story now goes, obtained what he deserved: He busted right into a press convention uninvited, they...