SACRAMENTO — Are California Democrats comfortable relating to defending minors from intercourse trafficking? It’s a query that has prompted chaos within the state Capitol for greater than per week. However actually, it’s a query Republicans have been asking — and answering with a convincing sure — for years. On the danger of stating the plain, I’ll let that California has a number of the hardest legal guidelines in opposition to intercourse trafficking within the nation, together with...

WASHINGTON — When immigration brokers not too long ago started conducting welfare checks on youths who had arrived on the border unaccompanied by their mother and father, advocates grew alarmed, fearing the tactic was a canopy to focus on the minors, their grownup sponsors and probably others for deportations. Tales of those unannounced visits popped up across the nation — brokers who tried to achieve entry to 2 elementary colleges in Los Angeles; brokers who confirmed up “five deep and...

SEOUL  — As South Koreans put together to elect a successor to ousted former president Yoon Suk Yeol, a courtroom ruling in opposition to front-runner Lee Jae-myung has thrust the nation — which has been below interim management for the final 5 months — into additional uncertainty. Yoon, who was impeached for declaring martial regulation in December, was faraway from workplace final month, triggering a snap election that will likely be held June 3. Since then, the nation has been led by a...

AMMAN, Jordan — The message was contrite however direct. “I’m heartbroken. If you’re receiving this letter, I’m letting you go — effective immediately.” Performed in DOGE’s chainsaw-signature type, the cuts have disrupted the lives of journalists each in Alhurra’s Center Jap bureaus and its Virginia headquarters, leaving them with no severance or compensation. Dozens who had permits to work within the U.S. are not sure if they will stay in America. The Committee to Shield Journalists, which...

A former burger chain CEO below federal indictment on gun and fraud prices now faces one other accusation: Allegedly spreading “smears” that reached the White Home via conservative pundits, resulting in the prosecutor who was dealing with his case getting fired. The most recent declare was leveled by Adam Schleifer, previously an assistant U.S. legal professional in Los Angeles, in a submitting final week with the Benefit Methods Safety Board, which handles wrongful termination appeals from...

Amid a wave of unprecedented tariffs, nervousness is working excessive for truck drivers like Helen, who makes her dwelling delivering cargo containers from the Los Angeles and Lengthy Seaside harbors to warehouses and different clients round Southern California. After a powerful begin to the yr, the variety of jobs has began to slide in current days and truck drivers have heard stories predicting a pointy decline in incoming cargo for Might and June. Helen, a 38-year-old mom of three,...

Three and a half years after the deadly taking pictures on the “Rust” set in New Mexico, Alec Baldwin’s western film is lastly being launched. Baldwin by chance shot the movie’s 42-year-old cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, in the course of the movie’s manufacturing on Oct. 21, 2021. She died that day, a tragedy that sparked investigations, quite a few lawsuits and two prison trials. Viewers will have the ability to stream “Rust” for $14.99 on Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video and different...

On Monday, after consulting with medical professionals, 10 college students at Occidental Faculty launched a starvation strike, hoping to attract consideration to their long-standing calls for for the faculty to divest from weapons producers with ties to Israel because the struggle in Gaza continues. And on this new season of protest, they’ve tacked on further calls for, calling on Occidental to bolster protections for worldwide college students amid the Trump administration’s sweeping...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Navy officers stoop to examine slim inexperienced cannons alongside the Saigon River. Development gear whines as employees erect towering bleachers in a downtown park. Fighter jets and helicopters roar above town in observe drills. For weeks, Vietnam has been making ready this metropolis for the anniversary of a defining second within the nation’s historical past: On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese forces stormed the Presidential Palace in Saigon, the governing...

Supporters of President Trump and counter-protesters converged in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills on Sunday in a small however raucous confrontation that included a efficiency from a pro-Trump punk rock icon and remarks from a disgraced ex-congressman. At a rally aimed toward encouraging voters to go away the Democratic Get together, former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz portrayed the Republican Get together as “patriotic and joyful” whereas denigrating the opposition as “angry and lonely.” “They...

KASHEESH, Syria — It was the final day of principal images, and the day-time photographs would start in a brisk however brilliantly sunny morning in Kasheesh, a tiny village ensconced within the forested mountains of northwest Syria. Although the solid and crew of the tv collection “Al-Batal,” or “The Hero,” had been completely satisfied to be wrapping up, there was a tinge of tension. For months, the drama taking place elsewhere within the nation had imposed itself on set: First the...

At a listening to in Boston in March, U.S. District Decide Myong J. Joun requested attorneys for a coalition of states what they stood to lose if he didn’t instantly intervene to dam tons of of tens of millions of {dollars} in Trump administration cuts to instructor coaching applications nationwide. “Your Honor, the situation is dire,” California Deputy Atty. Gen. Laura Faer responded. “Right now, as we speak, our programs across the state are facing the possibility of closure and...

WASHINGTON — In each authorities constructing and federal courthouse, within the places of work of boutique nonprofits and the world’s largest legislation corporations, in excessive faculties and most cancers wards, there’s a palpable sense that the nation has modified — all inside President Trump’s first 100 days again in workplace. White Home officers are hailing the milestone this week, proclaiming that, in his preliminary dash, the president has already achieved a lot of what he had...

MEXICO CITY — The invention in March of a “death ranch” in western Jalisco state sparked a nationwide outcry: Some labeled it “Mexico’s Auschwitz” after civilian searchers discovered charred bones and what gave the impression to be makeshift crematoria. Piles of deserted footwear, backpacks and clothes turned vivid symbols of Mexico’s disaster of the disappeared, now formally numbering greater than 120,000 vanished people, most presumed victims of organized crime. This...

The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of six early childhood organizations, together with one in California, sued the Trump administration Monday to halt the dismantling of Head Begin and restore cuts to this system, alleging that the actions required congressional approval. The lawsuit, filed within the Western District of Washington, additionally alleged that the administration’s directive to strip this system of range, fairness and inclusion efforts is “unconstitutionally vague,”...

President Trump dropped an govt order this week about “sanctuary cities,” of which California has many. To not point out we’re a sanctuary state. Alone, that order ought to seize the eye of cities resembling Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento, the place the dedication to defending our immigrant neighbors, no matter documentation, is robust. However stack it with a number of different latest Trump strikes, and we have now what guarantees to be a summer season stuffed with...