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DHS's handling of the incident raises questions about the department's oversight mechanisms to investigate employee misconduct.
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California says it will train 988 responders to support LGBTQ+ youth calling for help. -
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that children without legal status cannot enroll in Head Start — effective immediately. But without implementation guidelines, providers say they're in a holding pattern. -
Undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families are learning how to assert themselves — and prepare for worst-case scenarios.
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San Diego’s community college district finds itself directly in Trump’s crosshairs: Its “pride centers” were the only items called out by name in the administration’s plan to slash more than $10 billion of federal spending on education. -
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement of the intent to revoke Chinese student visas could affect more than 50,000 at California universities and colleges. -
The Port of Los Angeles reported that it expected 80 ships to arrive in May, but 17 have been canceled.
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President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. Here's what it means.
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Production in Hollywood has been suffering. But it's unclear how a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the United States would work — or who it would help.
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The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Donald Trump says it's time to substantially enlarge and rebuild Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.
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The Trump administration and Congress have taken a series of actions that could greatly affect federal student loan borrowers.
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Hours after the Trump administration proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts from next year's federal budget, hundreds of arts groups in the U.S., including in Los Angeles, were told their grants were canceled.
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When asked about the image, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York who is friendly with Trump, said "it wasn't good" and that he hoped Trump had nothing to do with it.
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The president says a third term is "not something I'm looking to do," and the U.S. economy is in a "transition period."
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The Department of Health and Human Services says it will require new vaccines to be tested against a placebo, which could complicate and delay Food and Drug Administration approval of many vaccines.
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In an executive order, President Donald Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters. LAist gets about 4% of its annual funding from CPB.
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The $250 million, which would fund about 500 electric trucks at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach, remains frozen as a legal dispute plays out.
His policies are picking winners and losers — and blurring the lines between business and government.
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Million dollar settlements to regain federal funding? Rising tuition, but layoffs and course cuts? We're here to help.
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Trump has threatened to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, challenging the Fed's independence. Experts say he's not the first president to target the central bank, but he's the most public and aggressive.
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Trump has said he kicked Epstein out of his club for hiring workers away from Mar-a-Lago. When asked Tuesday if the workers included young women, Trump responded, "the answer is yes, they were."
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The lawuit contends that Trump’s signature tax law is unconstitutionally vague and requires states to violate Planned Parenthood’s First Amendment rights.
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Trump says he personally told his "very good friend Rupert Murdoch" that he had not sent a racy birthday greeting two decades ago to Jeffrey Epstein. Murdoch's Journal reported it anyway.
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"DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country," said DHS assistant press secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who then encouraged "every person here illegally" to self-deport.
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Public health experts say sustained exposure to ethylene oxide increases the risk of various cancers.
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South Park skewered President Trump. Stephen Colbert isn't holding back. This week, comedians on Paramount-owned shows aired their grievances against both their parent company and Trump.
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The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.
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President Trump is expected to spend much of his time at his golf courses. He'll also meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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Trump’s call to enforce bans on encampments echoes Gov. Gavin Newsom’s policy. But the president wants to upend two other core tenants of California’s homelessness response.
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The grants fund a wide range of education programs, including migrant education, services for English language learners and adult education.
