Instead, Democrats appear emboldened as they returned to Washington from their home states Tuesday and again rejected a GOP bill to reopen the government.| Los Angeles Times
Lawmakers are openly venting their frustration as they try to gain traction to end the government shutdown.| Los Angeles Times
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights play out.| Los Angeles Times
As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are being held for Labor Day, experts say President Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation’s labor force.| Los Angeles Times
The Trump administration has directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels after the president expressed alarm about the impact of his administration's aggressive enforcement.| Los Angeles Times
A mother detained in an ICE raid on a California cannabis farm says she was given a choice: fight the deportation in court — and be separated from her children — or agree to voluntarily return to Mexico with her daughters. She chose to leave but already dreams about returning to the U.S.| Los Angeles Times
At the start of Trump's second term, he suspended the asylum system as part of his wide-ranging crackdown on illegal immigration. Desperate immigrants from troubled countries face new uncertainty.| Los Angeles Times
Any immigrant who uses the CBP Home App to inform the government that they plan to return home, Homeland Security says, will receive a $1,000 payment after their confirmed return.| Los Angeles Times
Massive deportations from the U.S. have yet to materialize in Mexico. But Mexico is accepting migrants from third countries.| Los Angeles Times
An encampment in the Juarez neighborhood of Mexico City shows how migration is impacting countries south of the U.S. border.| Los Angeles Times
Though Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is hugely popular, opinion polls show a disconnect: Mexicans have deep concerns about crime, the economy and, increasingly, the defining issue of corruption, especially allegations tied members of Sheinbaum's own party to graft.| Los Angeles Times
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who is Jewish, called Israel's war on Gaza a 'genocide,' marking a decisive shift in her government's foreign policy — and putting it at odds with the United States.| Los Angeles Times
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has become the first female leader to preside over the country’s independence celebrations in 215 years| Los Angeles Times
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has maintained remarkably high marks and begun to differentiate herself from her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, despite a spate of domestic and international challenges.| Los Angeles Times
The delay of tariffs set to take effect Friday came after a phone call between President Trump and his Mexican counterpart, President Claudia Sheinbaum.| Los Angeles Times
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands, long a place of hope and opportunity, have been transformed by President Trump's immigration crackdown and tariff threats.| Los Angeles Times
More than 140 people have been killed in the last month in Culiacán as two factions of the Sinaloa compete to fill a power vacuum.| Los Angeles Times
For years, women have made inroads into Mexican politics thanks to a 2019 constitutional reform requiring gender parity in all elected posts.| Los Angeles Times
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum aims to succeed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and shares his policies, ideology and even speech patterns.| Los Angeles Times
For Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, appearing to stand up to the United States has proved to have political benefits at home.| Los Angeles Times
Donald Trump picks Scott Bessent, a former money manager for Democratic donor George Soros, as Treasury secretary. He also announces choices for Labor, HUD and top budget official.| Los Angeles Times
Mexico's president said immigrants shouldn't be treated as 'criminals,' but is planning for an influx of returnees if Trump implements mass deportations.| Los Angeles Times
The diplomatic dustup comes amid threats from President-elect Donald Trump to impose tariffs, deploy U.S. troops to go after cartels and conduct mass deportations.| Los Angeles Times
A string of gruesome killings has thrust Mexico's security crisis into the spotlight -- and poses challenges for new President Claudia Sheinbaum| Los Angeles Times
Fears in Mexico over Trump's victory. He has threatened punishing tariffs, military attacks on drug cartels, a closed border and mass deportations from the U.S.| Los Angeles Times
Trump has vowed to deport millions of people. Harris has pledged to reduce illegal entries into the United States. Migrants remain undeterred.| Los Angeles Times
Few countries would be more affected than Mexico by Trump's threats to enact sweeping tariffs on imports. They could lead to more poverty, migration, some economists say.| Los Angeles Times
Seven decades after Mexican women won the right to vote, Claudia Sheinbaum takes office as the country's first female president,| Los Angeles Times
The death of George Floyd sparked protests in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and New York. The officer who knelt on Floyd's neck was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter on Friday.| Los Angeles Times
YouTube said it was suspending President Trump’s channel for at least a week amid concerns over "ongoing potential for violence."| Los Angeles Times
Catherine Crump, a clinical professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, said messaging and social media platforms have a virtual “ironclad immunity” from the content made by its users under Sec. 230. She noted that the law has long been viewed as out of date — artificial intelligence and algorithms to monitor speech or content, she noted, did not exist when it was passed — but the platforms are protected from their own content until an act of Congress makes changes.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
President Trump appeared to cast doubt on such talks. 'We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be,' he posted on his Truth Social site on Monday.| Los Angeles Times
Israel says it plans to take over Gaza City.| Los Angeles Times
Eight hostages held by Hamas militants are returned to Israel as Palestinian prisoner releases proceed — but can the Gaza cease-fire hold?| Los Angeles Times
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities to close a $12-billion deficit.| Los Angeles Times
As online nationalism reaches new heights, youth and state bots are attacking anyone critical of the country and its communist government.| Los Angeles Times
The day the Vietnam War ended has become a high-profile celebration in Vietnam. But debates over the name of the April 30 holiday reveal lingering sensitivities within the country and beyond| Los Angeles Times
President Trump is nearing a decision on whether to join Israel’s war against Iran, a choice that will reshape the Mideast and divide his Cabinet and his party.| Los Angeles Times
Israel says the militant group's headquarters is located under residential buildings in Beirut suburb, which were hit.| Los Angeles Times
Here’s a look at the so-called Axis of Resistance, an Iran-backed coalition including Hezbollah, Hamas and other militant groups devoted to destroying Israel.| Los Angeles Times
Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group backed by Iran, appears to have hit the lowest point in its more than 40-year history.| 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
Hezbollah leader says Israel crossed all "red lines" with two-day wave of electronic device explosions in Lebanon.| Los Angeles Times
Lebanon wracked by fresh wave of explosions of booby-trapped communication devices believed to be part of an electronic sabotage campaign against Hezbollah.| Los Angeles Times
A U.N.-backed commission named several government-affiliated factions whose members allegedly took part in 'extrajudicial killings and torture and ill-treatment' of civilians in Alawite-majority areas.| Los Angeles Times
Hosam Saraya, who had returned to Syria to aid his ill father, was executed along with other members of his family. Their killings were captured on video recorded by the gunmen.| Los Angeles Times
Clashes in Syria’s coastal areas kill more than 700 people, a monitor says. Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa's government says it has regained control of the situation.| Los Angeles Times
With Syria's corruption-ridden economy in shambles after the overthrow of Bashar Assad, the caretaker government’s priority is to raise cash and bring stability.| Los Angeles Times
Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.| Los Angeles Times
Naim Kassem’s comments came as Lebanon’s Cabinet was meeting to discuss Hezbollah’s disarmament. Beirut is under U.S. pressure to disarm the group.| Los Angeles Times
The Israeli military says its warplanes have fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage facility.| Los Angeles Times
The cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah ended the deadliest bout of violence between the two sides in decades.| Los Angeles Times
Israel has stopped the entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza.| Los Angeles Times
Israel’s military orders evacuation of more areas in south Gaza — where many Palestinians had fled on its orders — as its deadly bombardment continues.| 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
The recent hostage-for-prisoner swaps between Hamas and Israel have focused attention on the number of Palestinian minors imprisoned by Israel.| Los Angeles Times
This moment in the Israel-Hamas saga can be glimpsed in the fate of two fathers, strangers who share misfortunes brought on by larger powers and are now left to find their way| Los Angeles Times
As the Palestinian militant group Hamas frees more hostages amid a temporary truce with Israel, a harrowing glimpse of captivity in war-torn Gaza emerges.| Los Angeles Times
After a hospital blast in Gaza, doctors struggling to save lives amid danger and dwindling supplies say they and the medical system are near collapse.| Los Angeles Times
Security video from a hospital in Sweida in southern Syria shows what appears to be the killing of a medical worker by men in military garb.| Los Angeles Times
Israel's military acknowledged “several casualties” as its forces opened fire on the approaching Palestinians, and said authorities would investigate.| Los Angeles Times
More than 100,000 people have marched in Paris to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.| Los Angeles Times
The videos released late last week by militant groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad show two skeletal hostages pleading for their lives.| Los Angeles Times
'Our human ask is that people give a damn when we die,' said one rabbi. Amid the Israel-Hamas war, many U.S. Jews feel betrayed by people they thought were allies.| Los Angeles Times
Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas appear set to go head-to-head on the ground in Gaza. What's each side's endgame?| Los Angeles Times
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes killed more than 50 people in Gaza, including children. U.S. officials are in the Middle East for talks.| Los Angeles Times
A Times special correspondent in Gaza offers a personal account of living in a place where nowhere feels safe.| Los Angeles Times
As desperate Palestinians in Gaza try to find refuge from Israeli bombardment, many ask why Egypt and other Arab nations refuse to take them in.| 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
Ancestors and histories are summoned but nothing has brought resolution to a conflict that again threatens to ignite the Middle East. This war between Israel and Hamas is scarier than the ones that came before.| Los Angeles Times
The Palestinian cause was fading in many Arab countries. The Israel-Hamas war has reignited it.| Los Angeles Times
The closure of schools has removed a key social outlet for young people as they grapple with war, hunger and displacement.| Los Angeles Times
Sunday’s announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to the Gaza Strip, a territory to over 2 million people.| Los Angeles Times
Hamas continues to free Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, holding to cease-fire terms. But the militant group's grip on Gaza remains strong| Los Angeles Times
The assertions by B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel add to an explosive debate over whether Israel’s military offensive in Gaza amounts to genocide.| Los Angeles Times
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is days away from implementing a new aid system in Gaza and plans to create a 'sterile zone' there, free of Hamas.| Los Angeles Times
Palestinians in Gaza are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited cease-fire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war.| Los Angeles Times
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's effort to remove Ronen Bar as director of the Shin Bet follows an increasingly acrimonious dispute.| Los Angeles Times
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to relocate Gaza’s 2 million people through “voluntary migration" — and what critics see as ethnic cleansing.| Los Angeles Times
Though the ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been holding, 'The war remains an unfinished project, for both sides,' one Middle East expert warns.| 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
Some parts of the world are particularly anxious over the prospect of a Trump victory in next week's presidential election| Los Angeles Times
Can wider war between Iran and Israel still be averted? U.S., others urgently call for restraint after retaliatory airstrikes near Tehran on Saturday.| Los Angeles Times
Directors, writers and actors who had to appease censors in the regime of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, now face a new uncertainty: Whether the Islamist-led government that overthrew Assad will seek more control on the programs they create.| Los Angeles Times
The Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Ukraine has adapted to the war by having women perform traditionally male roles, after many men left the troupe to fight.| Los Angeles Times
The trip gave him a chance to escape Washington’s summer heat, but he could not avoid questions about Jeffrey Epstein, the food crisis in Gaza or other issues.| Los Angeles Times
President Trump is in Scotland to inaugurate a new golf course in Aberdeenshire.| Los Angeles Times
A classified report casts doubt on Trump's assertions that Iran's nuclear facilities were 'totally obliterated.' The White House downplays the assessment, calling it 'flat-out wrong.'| Los Angeles Times
President Trump warned Tehran against retaliation against the U.S., saying Iran can choose between “peace or tragedy.”| Los Angeles Times
Gaza's Health Ministry says the bodies of 79 airstrike victims have been brought to hospitals in the last 24 hours, including nine of Dr. Alaa Najjar's 10 children.| Los Angeles Times
The World Food Program issued a statement condemning the violence that erupted in northern Gaza as Palestinians tried to reach a convoy of trucks carrying food.| Los Angeles Times
Israel is facing mounting international criticism for its latest offensive and pressure to let aid into Gaza amid a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.| Los Angeles Times
The Israeli prime minister, facing growing opposition at home and abroad, declares that Israel 'has no choice but to finish the job and complete the defeat of Hamas' in Gaza.| Los Angeles Times
Israeli warplanes pounded Syrian government buildings in Damascus, escalating its campaign against Syria’s new authorities amid heavy clashes between government forces and the country’s Druze minority.| Los Angeles Times
Israel and Iran have opened a new chapter in their long history of conflict when Israel launched a major attack with strikes early Friday on Tehran.| Los Angeles Times
Yarmouk, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, was once the de facto capital of the Palestinian diaspora. It was devastated during Syria's civil war. Now, after the fall of strongman Basha Assad, it faces an uncertain future.| Los Angeles Times
Sectarian violence has turned a Syrian city into a slaughterhouse, and survivors recount shelling, executions and burials in a mass grave.| Los Angeles Times
Syria's new government sent troops to quell fighting between the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim tribes. Then Israel intervened, bombing Damascus.| Los Angeles Times
Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria has deepened divisions in a country still recuperating from a civil war.| Los Angeles Times
Syria has welcomed the move by the Trump administration to ease sanctions, calling it a 'positive step' to ease humanitarian and economic suffering in the war-torn country.| Los Angeles Times
