Audio of Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo speaking with labor leader Ron Herrera quickly became a new and incendiary issue in the Nov. 8 election.| Los Angeles Times
California would be the first U.S. state to mandate 100% zero-emission vehicles, though 15 countries have committed to phasing out gas-powered cars.| Los Angeles Times
Trump's authority to revoke California's waiver from federal clean air rules rests on a very shaky legal foundation.| Los Angeles Times
As rescue crews recovered victims of Israel’s strike on Beirut, Israeli warplanes launched a withering attack on Lebanon’s south amid fears of wider war.| Los Angeles Times
Israel bombs Gaza and Hamas aims rockets at Israel as top U.S. diplomat departs region. But now-expired truce saw scores of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners freed.| Los Angeles Times
Israel's military says it killed a Hamas commander in devastating strikes in Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza. Hospital chief describes 'waterfall of casualties.'| Los Angeles Times
U.S. military advisors are taking ground-war lessons from Iraq to talks with Israel. Whether Israel will take the advice is unclear.| Los Angeles Times
Israel’s preliminary analysis of the U.S. strike known as Operation Midnight Hammer has found the deployment of 'bunker buster' bombs inflicted widespread destruction on Iran's nuclear facilities.| Los Angeles Times
Migrants waiting in border towns have increasingly turned to TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites for updates on how the expiration of immigration policy Title 42 will affect them.| Los Angeles Times
Protestors railed on Tuesday against an Orange County congresswoman who could be a critical vote on President Trump’s proposal to cut more than $1 trillion in federal dollars that helped pay for healthcare for those in need.| Los Angeles Times
The Biden administration is stepping up criticism of Israel for not doing more to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza.| Los Angeles Times
Hassan Nasrallah propelled Hezbollah in Lebanon into one of the world’s most powerful paramilitary factions and Israel's constant foe.| Los Angeles Times
Iran and Israel trade threats of destruction, and Hezbollah and Israel report 'close-quarter' combat in Lebanon.| Los Angeles Times
As half a million in Lebanon are displaced by the raging Israel-Hezbollah conflict, people search for safety and sanity in crowded homes and shelters.| Los Angeles Times
In announcing the states’ lawsuit, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said the 'unprecedented' demand 'violates all kinds of state and federal privacy laws' and 'further breaks the trust between the federal government and the people it serves.'| Los Angeles Times
In its first 100 days, California has challenged the Trump administration multiple times, while backing other litigants against the federal government in even more cases.| Los Angeles Times
A behind-the-scenes look at the months-long effort to resist President Trump's agenda inside California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta's office.| Los Angeles Times
California has spent the first $5 million of $25 million aimed at protecting the state from President Trump's attacks. With 13 wins so far, it looks like money well spent.| Los Angeles Times
Democrats are demanding answers about a shifting work focus, diminished staffing and demands of Trump loyalty within the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, including from the Californian at its helm.| Los Angeles Times
The 2026 governor's race is in suspended motion as donors and powerful Democratic interests await former Vice President Kamala Harris' decision about whether she will enter the contest.| Los Angeles Times
Porter focused on protecting Californians from President Trump's policies, a theme that is expected to be a throughline in next year's gubernatorial contest.| Los Angeles Times
The wide-open race to succeed Gavin Newsom as California governor has already attracted a large and diverse field of candidates.| Los Angeles Times
With the Games happening in a presidential election year, Trump would love nothing more than to traipse around an L.A. radically transformed by his deportation aggressions to proclaim his mission accomplished and broadcast his conquest to the world.| Los Angeles Times
Two bills endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom would be the most transformative changes to the California Environmental Quality Act in generations, experts said. Lawmakers hope reforms will unleash a wave of housing and public infrastructure projects.| Los Angeles Times
In addition to a precarious presidential election and high-stakes U.S House races, California voters in November will also weigh in on a slew of statewide ballot measures that could significantly shape policy.| Los Angeles Times
The cancellations of events in Baltimore, Washington and other cities came amid widespread criticism from the party’s liberal base over his vote.| Los Angeles Times
The Senate gave final approval to a stopgap spending bill to fund the government through Sept. 30. The GOP-backed measure cleared a key hurdle with help from 10 Democratic senators.| Los Angeles Times
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending bill to prevent a midnight Friday government shutdown.| Los Angeles Times
The massive Republican tax bill signed by Trump is expected to soon claw $750 million per year from the L.A. County Department of Health Services, which oversees four public hospitals and roughly two dozen clinics.| Los Angeles Times
Protesters outside U.S. Rep. Young Kim's Orange County office tell how potential Medi-Cal cuts could spell disaster for their families.| Los Angeles Times
The Trump administration barred undocumented immigrants from Head Start and other federal benefit programs — a move California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta called 'cruel.'| Los Angeles Times
Mexico's President Sheinbaum says she will work with Trump on deportations, border issues and cartels, but laughs at his 'Gulf of America' order.| Los Angeles Times
The Trump administration cancelled a program aimed at easing the process of applying for asylum, leaving thousands of asylum-seekers disappointed and unsure of what to do next.| Los Angeles Times
How will Mexican leaders respond if, as expected, Trump pressures them to accept deportees from third countries? 'Mexico is in a really tough spot.'| Los Angeles Times
Bracing for Trump and his threatened migrant roundups, Mexico aims to roll out a 'panic app' for Mexican nationals facing deportation from the United States.| Los Angeles Times
California is receiving a slightly larger share of a federal program earmarking $300 million nationwide for migrant-assistance programs.| Los Angeles Times
Migrant arrests near Texas plummeted in January compared to the same month a year ago, but they soared at entry points in California and Arizona.| Los Angeles Times
Reversing a Trump move, the EPA will allow California to set emissions standards stricter than the federal government's. But court fights may get in the way.| Los Angeles Times
It can't be a protest in L.A. without street food. Meet the vendors who want to go down in 'history books' for serving and aiding anti-ICE protesters.| Los Angeles Times
Former Democratic Rep. Katie Hill of Santa Clarita is pushing to make revenge porn a federal crime.| Los Angeles Times
The House took a trio of votes this week targeting California’s decades-old authority to enforce its own environmental standards, setting the stage for a significant standoff in the U.S. Senate.| Los Angeles Times
California has the tools, means and desire to fight back against Trump's environmental actions, including through lawsuits and legislation, experts say.| Los Angeles Times
Violence surges in the West Bank as Israel increases raids to root out militants. Palestinians say the military is using the war as an excuse to crack down.| Los Angeles Times
The U.S. should be well-positioned to sway Israel and Arab allies in containing the crushing Gaza war. But the Biden administration's efforts are falling short.| Los Angeles Times
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultranationalist government has quietly taken steps toward cementing Israel's control of the occupied West Bank.| Los Angeles Times
The Israeli military said it targeted Syrian antiaircraft batteries, missile depots, manufacturing facilities, drones, helicopters, fighter jets, tanks, hangars, radars and 15 naval vessels.| Los Angeles Times
Nearly everyone in Gaza is going hungry these days. In the north, experts say a full-blown famine may be underway amid aid issues for Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas war.| Los Angeles Times
Sinwar’s killing ends a yearlong hunt for the Palestinian leader, who orchestrated Hamas' war with Israel.| Los Angeles Times
Christian villages in southern Lebanon thought their neutrality may spare them from violence in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Then the evacuation orders came.| Los Angeles Times
California is joining a coalition of states in suing the Trump administration over massive cuts to AmeriCorps, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said.| Los Angeles Times
Once upon a time, it was possible to believe Donald Trump would set aside rancor and lies and be a president for us all. Now, God help us.| Los Angeles Times
Donald Trump's decisive presidential victory was confirmed after he picked up the battleground states of Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.| Los Angeles Times
Joe Sanberg and other anti-poverty activists say California's current path to a $15 hourly minimum wage isn't enough given rising living costs.| Los Angeles Times
The Times recommends these five excellent candidates on the Nov. 5 ballot to fill open judicial seats for Los Angeles Superior Court.| Los Angeles Times
Democrats do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when they split over the GOP's stopgap measure to avoid a federal government shutdown.| Los Angeles Times
California and other states are suing the Trump administration over plans to cut billions of dollars in grants designed to make states more resilient to infectious disease.| Los Angeles Times
For first time in 25 years, San Diego is the top spot in the nation for migrant border crossings, surpassing Tucson.| Los Angeles Times
The huge growth in charging ports indicates the increasing number of zero-emission vehicles on California roads. But the milestone also comes as the Trump administration has moved to deprioritize shifting away from gasoline-powered cars.| Los Angeles Times
Gov. Gavin Newsom this week stymied implementation of landmark state environmental legislation that would have limited the amount of single-use plastics sold and distributed in California.| Los Angeles Times
If elected, former President Trump would have the authority to make good on his threat to cut off federal aid to California for wildfires.| Los Angeles Times
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are neck and neck in the 2024 presidential contest.| Los Angeles Times
Less than one year after Rachel Wagoner resigned as director of CalRecycle, she's working for a coalition of plastic and packaging companies.| Los Angeles Times
SB54 put an end to polystyrene — which had low recycling rates and high levels of pollution — in California. But the plastic industry may have spooked the governor into silence.| Los Angeles Times
Hundreds reported killed in Hamas attack in Israel. Hundreds are dead in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military retaliates, Palestinian authorities say.| Los Angeles Times
California voters passed a tough-on-crime ballot measure and ousted progressive prosecutors, signaling a shift in attitudes around public safety.| Los Angeles Times
California voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 35, the measure that cements an existing tax on health plans to help fund the Medi-Cal program, as election results continued to be tallied Wednesday.| Los Angeles Times
Proposition 4 called for spending $3.8 billion for water projects, including those that provide safe drinking water, water recycling projects, groundwater storage and flood control.| Los Angeles Times
California voters approved a ballot measure that will impose stricter penalties for repeat theft and crimes involving fentanyl.| Los Angeles Times
Proposition 5 will lower the voter threshold required to pass local affordable housing and transportation bond measures.| Los Angeles Times
President Biden announces that he will step aside, opening a path for a new Democratic presidential nominee.| Los Angeles Times
Kamala Harris pushed for increased penalties for sex trafficking crimes years before Republicans did the same, and crafted protections for young girls ensnared.| Los Angeles Times
Proposition 36 won't end homelessness or crime waves. It will only refill prisons, push more people to the streets and erase criminal justice reform progress.| Los Angeles Times
In November, there were 46,610 migrants stopped at the U.S-Mexico border, the lowest number of apprehensions during the Biden administration.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump signed executive orders that will fundamentally change how the nation handles immigration, beefing up enforcement and deportations.| Los Angeles Times
This measure asks voters to change parts of Proposition 47, a controversial ballot initiative passed in 2014 that turned some nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors.| Los Angeles Times
Progressive district attorneys and advocates who claimed the mantle of criminal justice reform were routed on election day in California. But despite the recent defeats, some reform advocates are confident their movement 'doesn’t need a rebrand.'| Los Angeles Times
Has California reached its limit in providing benefits for immigrants living here illegally? That’s the indication after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed three bills passed by the liberal Legislature.| Los Angeles Times
The Supreme Court refuses to shield Uber and Lyft from California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens of thousands of drivers.| Los Angeles Times
Israel-Hamas war: In Israel, a quest to identify unrecognizable bodies. In Gaza, bodies are piled and some stored in ice cream trucks as power fails.| Los Angeles Times
On Israel's border with Lebanon, residents are worried that groups like Hezbollah will join a war that eventually spirals into a regionwide conflict.| Los Angeles Times
Biden issued an apparent warning to Hezbollah: “To any country, any organization, anyone thinking of taking advantage of the situation, I have one word: Don’t."| Los Angeles Times
Israel battled Hamas infiltrators for a third day and massed tens of thousands of troops near the Gaza Strip after the biggest attack in decades on Israeli soil.| Los Angeles Times
Here's how California voted on statewide measures in the 2024 election, including Proposition 36 on retail theft and fentanyl.| Los Angeles Times
How did we allow a convicted felon, compulsive liar, adjudicated sexual abuser and wannabe dictator to be elected our nation’s president? Three words: Democrats botched it.| Los Angeles Times
Those who worked with Kamala Harris when she was San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general say her approach to being a prosecutor was nuanced and defies labels.| Los Angeles Times
Before she was the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris took actions as California attorney general, San Francisco district attorney and courtroom prosecutor that have left lasting impacts on some, for better or worse.| Los Angeles Times
President Biden signs an executive order allowing him to close the border with Mexico outside official ports of entry when crossings are high, with few exceptions.| Los Angeles Times
Indigenous Californians want President Biden to establish a national monument in a stretch of desert that is both an ecological wonder and a window into their cultures.| Los Angeles Times
The escalating war between Hezbollah and Israel — coupled with scorching heat — has sparked fires that are destroying forests and farmland.| Los Angeles Times
Lebanon-based Hezbollah is holding back from all-out war with Israel for now — but chances of a dangerous miscalculation by either side are high.| Los Angeles Times
California native Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, hasn't been seen by family since before Hamas' attack on Israel. They're determined to find him and bring him home.| Los Angeles Times
A longtime campaign of military cyberattacks between Iran and its adversaries, including the U.S. and Israel, is shifting to include civilian targets.| Los Angeles Times
Proposition 35 would spell out how the tax on health insurance providers like Anthem Blue Cross and L.A. Care, known as managed care organizations, can be used.| Los Angeles Times
Proposition 34 would limit non-patient spending by certain healthcare organizations. The Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is the target.| Los Angeles Times
In collaboration with the radio program "This American Life," The Times takes an exclusive, front-line look at a much-criticized Trump administration policy to restrict asylum -- the Migrant Protection Protocols -- from the perspective of the asylum officers implementing it.| Los Angeles Times
Two former U.S. health officials say Vice President Mike Pence ordered the CDC in March to seal U.S. borders despite objections from CDC scientists.| Los Angeles Times
