Val Verde is a place with few strangers. Forty miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, the tiny foothill community of 3,000 has one main road, spotty cell service…
Read more Cowboys, margaritas and toxic trash: Some sour on lawyers in lucrative L.A. landfill casesWhile AI is often cited as one of the reasons for mass layoffs, particularly in the tech sector, for fast-growing companies it also seems to be creating new…
Read more Want an AI-proof job? New research says you may be safer at companies embracing the technologyNewly released video from an officer’s body camera and a surveillance camera at a Texas running track captures the moments after a teenage athlete fatally stabbed another teen…
Read more Video captures aftermath of a fatal stabbing at Texas track meetWith the Trump administration reportedly in talks to create an anti-fraud task force for California, state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta on Thursday vehemently denounced what he described as…
Read more Trump says California is full of fraud. Bonta says the claims are ‘reckless’WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear Monsanto’s claim that it should be shielded from tens of thousands of lawsuits over its weed killer Roundup because…
Read more Supreme Court may block thousands of lawsuits over Monsanto’s weed killerKanye West, the rapper now known as Ye, is suing his former project manager and his lawyers, alleging they wrongfully put a $1.8-million lien on his former Malibu…
Read more Kanye West sues ex-employee over Malibu mansion lienIranian state media broke its silence Friday over the demonstrations that swept the country overnight, alleging “terrorist agents” of the U.S. and Israel set fires and sparked violence.The…
Read more Iran state TV breaks silence on protests, claims ‘terrorist agents’ of US and Israel set firesWASHINGTON — Tips provided to federal investigators about Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s schemes with young women and girls are “sensationalist” and “untrue,” the Justice Department said on…
Read more Claims about Trump in Epstein files are ‘untrue,’ the Justice Department saysDozens of California National Guard troops under President Trump’s command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of an appellate court’s…
Read more National Guard troops under Trump’s command leave L.A before court’s deadlineA total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary’s School, a Catholic institution in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state, the…
Read more Number of children abducted in Nigerian school attack raised to more than 300The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have altered their website on autism and vaccines, removing unequivocal statements that immunizations don’t cause the neurodevelopmental disorder and replacing…
Read more CDC replaces website on vaccines and autism with false and misleading statementsDaytona Beach City Manager Deric C. Feacher is defending how city employees use taxpayer-funded credit cards, even as an audit is now underway to review city spending practices.On…
Read more City manager pushes back on claims of misuse of Daytona Beach P-cardsWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed without comment a long-shot challenge to the constitutional right to marry for same-sex couples. The justices turned away an appeal petition from…
Read more Supreme Court dismisses long-shot challenge to right to marry for same-sex couplesL.A. County supervisors have unanimously approved an $828-million settlement for alleged victims of childhood sexual abuse, finalizing the deal while questions mount over the legitimacy of some claims…
Read more As concerns loom over sex abuse payouts, L.A. County finalizes $828-million settlementThe text was every parent’s worst nightmare: A 17-year-old said he had been abducted, shot and wounded by a group of men on a Florida highway. Law enforcement…
Read more Teen’s claim he was nabbed, shot by ‘Hispanic’ men sparked outrage. It was a hoax, police sayAt a tense political moment in the wake of conservative lightning rod Charlie Kirk’s killing, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum focusing federal law enforcement on disrupting “domestic…
Read more In Trump’s ‘domestic terrorism’ memo, some see blueprint for vengeance that echoes historyA leading consumer group is proposing a policyholder rights initiative that would require insurers to offer coverage to California homeowners who fireproof their homes — or lose the…
Read more After insurance pullback, advocates demand a ‘bill of rights’ for California policyholdersWASHINGTON — Behind a White House effort to saddle President Trump’s political foes with accusations of mortgage fraud is a 37-year-old home construction executive with a deep partisan past. Bill…
Read more A Trump donor, now a regulator, leads effort to accuse president’s foes of mortgage fraudAfter receiving more than 1,000 complaints from Jan. 7 fire victims about how insurers are handling their claims, state regulators are considering referring hundreds of the cases to…
Read more Wildfire victims in limbo as fight with insurers hits another snagWASHINGTON — With two conservatives in dissent, the Supreme Court on Monday turned down a property-rights claim from Los Angeles landlords who say they lost millions from unpaid rent during…
Read more Supreme Court turns down claim from L.A. landlords over COVID evictions ban
