WASHINGTON — Fallout from President Trump’s historic gamble to strike Iran’s nuclear amenities reverberated throughout the Center East Sunday, as Washington braced for an unpredictable response from a cornered however decided Islamic Republic. Whereas the Iranian authorities downplayed the impression of the U.S. assault, noting the depths of its nuclear know-how constructed over a long time of examine, U.S. army officers mentioned its precision strikes in opposition to Iran’s three...

The variety of rescues within the wilderness areas round Mt. St. Helens hold going up — and the actions of a few of these earlier than they name for assist have drawn criticism as reckless. One man, 21, kayaked over a waterfall, struggling a spinal damage. A 54-year-old girl glissaded down Mt. St. Helens — sliding down a snow-covered slope — and suffered a head damage when she struck a rock. Every of these rescues in Could, in a distant, mountainous county, required six-hour efforts. And...

BEIRUT — Final month, President Trump stood within the palatial ballroom of the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh, and rebuked America’s misadventures within the Center East. As Saudi officers and U.S. enterprise leaders appeared on, Trump stated that too lots of his predecessors had been “afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins.” “In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than...

The ninth U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals determined Thursday to go away troops in Los Angeles within the fingers of the Trump administration whereas California’s objections are litigated in federal court docket, discovering the president had broad — although not “unreviewable” — authority to deploy the army in American cities. “We disagree with Defendants’ primary argument that the President’s decision to federalize members of the California National Guard … is completely...

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza — Like “Squid Game.” That’s how residents describe it, invoking the dystopian TV present when recounting the deadly gauntlet that getting assist in famine-haunted Gaza has turn into. “It’s a death race. The faster, the stronger, the luckier — they’re the ones who might survive, might reach the food,” stated 30-year-old Mohammed al-Shaqra. “It feels like we’re animals, racing for a box of supplies as if our lives depend on it. And they do.” Ever since Israel sidelined the...

The railroad tunnel wherein John Doe #135 was discovered had spooky graffiti and a darkish mystique, the sort of place children dared one another to stroll by at night time. Individuals referred to as it the Manson Tunnel — the cult chief and his disciples had lived close by on the Spahn Film Ranch — and somebody had spray-painted HOLY TERROR over the doorway. By June 1990, occult-inspired mayhem had turn into a typical theme within the Los Angeles mediasphere. The serial killer...

MEXICO CITY — The motion could also be on the streets of Los Angeles, however fallout from the immigrant protests is roiling politics in Mexico at a fragile second — days earlier than Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is anticipated to fulfill President Trump of their much-anticipated inaugural face-to-face encounter. Sheinbaum has been on the defensive since Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem — at an Oval Workplace occasion in Trump’s presence — accused the Mexican president on Tuesday...

“The Future of Sports Is Here: We are on a mission to redefine superhumanity through science, innovation and sports.” An unabashedly formidable aim, or at the very least selection of phrases. But “redefining superhumanity” isn’t sufficient for the Enhanced Video games, a start-up that plans to carry an Olympic-style competitors subsequent yr in Las Vegas. The enterprise additionally seeks to “reinvent sports with science.” Translation: Not simply enable performance-enhancing medicine...

BEIRUT — Iran and Israel traded air raids and ballistic missile barrages in a single day and into the night Sunday, with neither aspect displaying any inclination to again down from an escalating grudge match between the 2 longtime enemies. The combating, which got here after Israel launched withering assaults Friday decapitating Iran’s high navy management and hitting its nuclear infrastructure, killed at 128 folks in Iran on Friday and Saturday and wounded practically 1,000 others, based...

Brian Gavidia had stepped out from engaged on a automotive at a tow yard in a Los Angeles suburb Thursday, when armed, masked males — carrying vests with “Border Patrol” on them — pushed him up towards a steel gate and demanded to know the place he was born. “I’m American, bro!” 29-year-old Gavidia pleaded, in video taken by a buddy. “What hospital were you born?” the agent barked. “I don’t know, dawg!” he mentioned. “East L.A., bro! I can show you: I have my f—ing Real ID.” His buddy, whom...

After she was assaulted by her romantic accomplice in 2000 whereas residing in Los Angeles County, Maria Gutierrez Saragon turned to a household pal who mentioned he might assist her safe immigration papers. As a result of she had been the sufferer of against the law, the pal mentioned, he might assist her receive authorization to remain within the U.S. Whereas it’s true that immigrant crime victims qualify for particular advantages in some cases, the promise to get Gutierrez Saragon...

Regardless of a stinging rebuke from a federal decide Thursday, army forces deployed in Los Angeles will stay below presidential management via the weekend, organising a collection of high-stakes showdowns. On the streets of Los Angeles, protesters will proceed to be met with platoons of armed troopers. State and native officers stay in open battle with the president. And within the courts, Trump administration legal professionals are digging deep into case legislation searching for archaic...

A important listening to is underway in federal court docket over President Trump’s deployment of the Nationwide Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles. “We expect an order from the court making clear what’s lawful and what’s unlawful, and part of that is making clear that the deployment of the National Guard by Trump is unlawful,” California’s lawyer basic, Rob Bonta, advised The Occasions on Wednesday. “He might just strike down that deployment,” Bonta added, “returning the National Guard...

SEOUL — It’s been a season of authorized woes for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. His short-lived declaration of martial legislation on Dec. 3 first landed him in entrance of the Constitutional Courtroom — which eliminated him from workplace later that month — after which within the Seoul Central District Courtroom, the place he’s now being tried on expenses of riot. There’s additionally the group of 105 irate residents suing Yoon for emotional damages associated to...

OXNARD, Calif. — At 6 a.m. Wednesday, Juvenal Solano drove slowly alongside the cracked roads that border the fields of strawberry and celery that cloak this fertile expanse of Ventura County, his eyes peeled for indicators of hassle. An eerie silence hung over the morning. The employees who would sometimes be shuffling up and down the strawberry rows have been largely absent. The entry gates to many space farms have been shut and locked. Nonetheless, Solano, a director with the Mixteco...

Sensing a confrontation, Márquez mentioned, he raised his press credential and “kept yelling press, press, press,” whilst he turned and started working in the wrong way. He barely made it a number of toes earlier than he felt a stinging ache as first one foam spherical, then one other slammed into his buttocks and his again. “They just unloaded,” he mentioned of the deputies. “I got hit and whatnot but I’m glad I was there to document it,” he mentioned. The incident was one among dozens...