Arrests of undocumented immigrants have dropped considerably throughout the Los Angeles area two months after the Trump administration launched its aggressive mass deportation operation, in accordance with new figures launched Wednesday by Homeland Safety. Federal authorities advised The Occasions on July 8 that federal brokers had arrested 2,792 undocumented immigrants within the seven counties in and round L.A. since June 6. Homeland Safety up to date that quantity Wednesday, indicating...

Rich first-time political candidate Stephen J. Cloobeck is spending $1.4 million on tv advertisements beginning Tuesday — the primary barrage of cable and broadcast messaging that Californians will seemingly be bombarded with in subsequent yr’s governor’s election. Cloobeck’s marketing campaign declined to preview the 30-second advert on Monday, however the candidate confirmed the scale of the advert purchase. Public data of promoting purchases present that Cloobeck purchased house in each...

WASHINGTON — Federal immigration authorities are trying to shortly deport an Arizona girl who has lived within the U.S. for practically 30 years, in what her legal professionals are calling the primary take a look at of a federal legislation holding that longtime immigrants can’t be eliminated till they’ve had an opportunity to plead their case earlier than a choose. Attorneys for Mirta Amarilis Co Tupul filed a lawsuit Saturday evening in U.S. district courtroom in Arizona and are...

CELAYA, Mexico — On a sunny spring day final 12 months, a younger legal professional named Gisela Gaytán kicked off her marketing campaign for mayor on this gritty Mexican metropolis. Beneath her shirt she wore a ballistic vest. Celaya had grow to be the epicenter of a bloody cartel conflict, with one of many highest murder charges on the planet, and an area police pressure that appeared powerless to cease it. “We must recover the security that we so long for,” Gaytán, 38, wrote on social...

President Trump as soon as known as Rupert Murdoch “my very good friend.” However the 94-year-old media baron, whose fortunes have risen in tandem with Trump’s political ascent, has became an unlikely foe. Trump has bristled over a Wall Avenue Journal report that he allegedly despatched a suggestive letter to intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein for his fiftieth birthday in 2003. Trump denied sending the message, calling it a “fake,” and final month he filed a $10-billion defamation swimsuit...

For months, candidates within the race to turn out to be California’s subsequent governor had waited for a pivotal query to be settled: Will former Vice President Kamala Harris run or not? With Harris’ announcement this week that she’s out, a brand new query arose: Who’s the front-runner now? Due to Harris’ star energy, the reply is much from easy. For months, different candidates noticed their marketing campaign planning and fundraising undercut by the likelihood she would run, that means...

Authorities information confirmed the U.S. economic system added 73,000 jobs in July — far fewer than anticipated — and issued revised numbers for the prior two months that confirmed solely 19,000 jobs have been created in Might, and 14,000 in June, amid widespread uncertainty over President Trump’s tariff insurance policies and deep cuts to authorities employment. The unemployment numbers got here a day after Trump signed an govt order rising tariffs on 66 nations, additional roiling a...

SANTA FE, N.M. — It’s 30 seconds earlier than his huge rodeo experience, and Julian Apodaca appears like he needs to vanish beneath the large brim of his white cowboy hat. He’s staring down at his boots, tugging at his decrease lip, rubbing at his teary eyes. Traditional tales from the Los Angeles Instances’ 143-year archive Julian’s father, a former junior bull-riding champion, has a hand on every of his 5-year-old son’s shoulders. “It’s OK, hijo,” Vince Apodaca...

MEXICO CITY — Lately, the far proper has been remarkably organized, with leaders from far-flung international locations sharing advisors, methods and speaking factors. The Conservative Political Motion Convention, a gathering of right-wing activists and elected officers that began in the USA, has gone world, internet hosting mega-events in Brazil, Argentina and Hungary. Overseas leaders, together with Argentina President Javier Milei and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, have raced the...

The way forward for Latino historical past is in peril. President Trump’s proposed 2026 funds, which is presently below congressional assessment, might halt plans for the Smithsonian Nationwide Museum of the American Latino to increase on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, D.C. As a substitute, the FY26 funds requests $5.8 million to fund and revert again to a Smithsonian Latino Middle mannequin, which shares U.S. Latino historical past and tradition collections, applications and academic...

SEOUL — Since taking workplace in January, President Trump has expressed an curiosity in restarting talks with Kim Jong Un, whom he met for a collection of unsuccessful denuclearization summits in 2018 and 2019. However throwing chilly water on the newest hopes of a Spherical 2 is none aside from Kim Yo Jong, the highly effective youthful sister of the North Korean chief. “Any attempt to deny the position of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state which was established along with the existence...

WASHINGTON — The Israeli authorities is defending a prime army officer who dismissed photographs of ravenous Palestinians as “fake” over the weekend, regardless of President Trump stating Monday that he believes the images are actual. The rupture comes amid rising worldwide strain on Israel over dire circumstances within the Palestinian enclave, and as two Israeli human rights teams, in a primary, characterised the Israeli operation in Gaza as a genocide. In latest days, images and movies of...

HUAJÚMBARO DE GUADALUPE, Mexico — The cortege wound its method up a mud path, previous well-appointed houses offering a distinction to the rock-strewn lane resulting in the hilltop cemetery. This group within the central Mexican state of Michoacán is dwelling to about 1,500 folks, a lot of whom make a residing planting corn, plums, peaches and different crops that lower symmetrical rows by means of the verdant hillsides — now glistening an emerald inexperienced, the bounty of latest rains....

EL PASO, TEXAS  — Juan Ortíz trudged by means of 100-degree warmth alongside the U.S.-Mexico border, weighed down by a backpack filled with water bottles that he deliberate to go away for migrants making an attempt to cross this rugged terrain. Solely there hadn’t been many migrants of late. When Ortíz began water drops on this particularly harmful stretch of desert close to El Paso practically two years in the past, he generally encountered dozens of individuals making an attempt to achieve...

In a brazen transfer, Republicans in Texas have got down to redraw the state’s congressional map — an effort to spice up President Trump and the GOP within the 2026 midterm elections. That might imply scrapping the political strains drawn by an impartial residents fee, which voters created practically twenty years in the past to take line-drawing away from the state’s politicians. Chabria: I agree that the Vegas odds are on the facet of this tit-for-tat being nothing greater than a partisan...

SWEIDA, Syria — The primary video opens with Hosam Saraya, a 35-year-old Syrian American and 7 different members of his household, strolling in a procession down a avenue, their palms positioned on the shoulders of the particular person in entrance of them, escorted by gunmen sporting fatigues and waving assault rifles. One of many gunmen says, “We gave you safe passage,” whereas others shout spiritual slogans. One other video shot on July 16 cuts to Saraya and his family kneeling in the...