Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, who surprised his Republican backers by becoming a staunch liberal on the high court, has died.

In his first several months in office, President Trump has worked with incredible speed to implement policies that align with Project 2025.

One prominent community tracking project claims President Trump has already implemented more than 40% of Project 2025's recommendations.

The number of Californians getting therapy via telemedicine has outpaced the number meeting with therapists in person. It marks a profound shift in the way mental healthcare is delivered.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has occasionally weighed in on issues of faith and politics — including reposts of items taking issue with Trump administration actions.

The faithful in Los Angeles, America's most Catholic city, were delighted — and a little stunned — to learn a Chicago-born priest with deep roots in Peru had been elected to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

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For Catholic theologians, the significance of the name could not be clearer, with the new pope tying himself to one of the foundational figures of modern Catholic social teaching, Pope Leo XIII, who advocated for the rights of the poor and working class.

Mexican business leaders and executives lauded statements from Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Marc Rowan emphasizing the need for a trade partnership between the U.S. and Mexico.

Although the White House called the trade deal a 'milestone,' U.S. officials also described it as merely the 'end of the beginning' of talks involving the trade relationship with Britain.

Trump selects an L.A. holistic medicine doctor for surgeon general. A doctor friend wonders whether her views on medicine sync with those of Health Secretary Kennedy.

The Trump administration has proposed cutting rental assistance funding by 43%, while giving states more flexibility on how they spend the money that remains. Advocates for low-income households say the proposal would be a disaster.

A tepid California poll undermines Gov. Newsom's standing compared with other Democrats mulling over a 2028 bid. He gets mixed reviews in early voting states.

Democratic divides over the ongoing bloody conflict in the Middle East were on display this week as gubernatorial candidates made their pitches to politically active Jewish Californians.

If you're over 60, you viscerally get the need for, say, the Clean Air Act, functioning Social Security and affordable dolls at Christmas.

Republicans are scrambling to find creative ways to fulfill budget cuts they voted on without gutting Medicaid.

Are California Democrats weak when it comes to protecting minors from sex trafficking? It's a question that has caused chaos in the state Capitol for more than a week.

Homeland Security officials have said welfare checks aim to ensure that unaccompanied children "are safe and not being exploited, abused, and sex trafficked."

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The popular Energy Star program is threatened under a planned reorganization of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Supreme Court usually defers to the military and did so again to rule against transgender members of the armed forces.

A poll finds that 68% of registered voters in California disapprove of the president's job performance and believe the country is on the wrong track.

An American, 47, reportedly tried to climb over a fence in Piazza del Colosseo, presumably to get a closer look at the Colosseum, before falling and impaling himself.

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A day after President Trump said he wants to reopen Alcatraz as a symbol of law and order, tourists at the decayed historic site struggled to see the logic.

A day after President Trump announced a 100% tariff on films shot overseas, Hollywood reacts to the news.

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.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bissent kicked off the Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton on Monday by saying Trump's tariffs will lead to a resurgent economy.

What's really behind President Trump's order to reopen Alcatraz as a prison? It's about empowering authorities to act without fear of consequence.

California joined a coalition of states Monday in suing the Trump administration to block sweeping cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Lee Jae-myung has been the front-runner in South Korea's presidential election, but his candidacy has been complicated by criminal trials he has decried as politically motivated.

The president, on his Truth Social platform, called for a steep tariff on movies made overseas. Hollywood has been hurting as foreign governments offer rich incentives to filmmakers.

If Claudia Sheinbaum can't tackle the crises of crime and disappearances more directly, she is unlikely to hold on to her 80% approval rating.

Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Saturday vowed that his party is unified in their opposition to cuts to Medicaid, Social Security, veterans' services and other safety net programs for vulnerable Americans.

A lawyer who was fierce advocate for her Indigenous community and women's rights disappeared with her husband last fall. Their bodies were recently found in shallow graves in Mexico's Oaxaca state.

Kennedy is on a quest to dismantle a multitude of programs that help keep Americans alive and disease free.

Multiple federal prosecutors in Los Angeles submitted resignations after U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli offered a plea agreement to an L.A. County sheriff's deputy who had already been convicted of using excessive force, sources told The Times.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she rejected an offer by President Trump to send U.S. troops to fight Mexican drug cartels.

As Trump's aggressive tariffs rattle business owners and shake the foundation of American importing, the men and women who work on the ground at the country's busiest port are feeling the effects too.

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The U.S. created the Alhurra network to provide pro-American news coverage in the Middle East. Now it, like Voice of America and other global media efforts, is being dismantled by the Trump administration.

An ex-assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has filed a claim calling his dismissal "unlawful" and alleging it was motivated in part by his prosecution of the ex-CEO of the Fatburger and Johnny Rockets restaurant chains.

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Autism researchers are facing massive cuts to federal funding, misinformation about the condition they study and worrisome policy announcements.

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the movie's New Mexico set. Some proceeds from the film's distribution will help compensate her family, who sued.

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.

President Trump claims 'everybody is saying' his second term had the best start in presidential history. No, they're not.

Recent executive orders and actions have set the stage for the federal government to curtail states' rights, once a central tenet of conservative policy.

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Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they have a bittersweet new lease on life.

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris blasted President Trump's policies as a betrayal of the nation's founding principles and warned of a constitutional crisis.

Senators question Rodney Scott, who formerly led the U.S. Border Patrol and is now the nominee to lead its parent agency, about the brutal 2010 beating of a migrant by agents.

Massive deportations from the U.S. have yet to materialize in Mexico. But Mexico is accepting migrants from third countries.

Sectarian violence has erupted again in Syria, raising fresh doubt on the ability of the new Islamist rulers to control armed factions and calm tensions.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has bolstered religious rights and now could change America's public schools.

A UC San Francisco eye doctor mentioned "hesitancy" and "uptake" in her grant application. That cost her $3 million in funding for shingles vaccine research.

Amid the chaos of government cuts, the defunding of grants to libraries has gone largely unnoticed. But California wasn't spared.

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Mexico's attorney general said a forensic investigation found 'not a shred of proof' that corpses were burned at a ranch that was used as a training camp by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

Israel has blocked food aid for six weeks. More than 2.1 million people are trapped and dying. Even my cat is starving.

Potential Trump administration funding cuts at NASA would take a blowtorch to space science and American leadership in space.

The ACLU sued on behalf of early childhood groups to stop the Trump administration from further disrupting Head Start child-care centers without action by Congress.

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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.

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The story of Tony Lam, the first Vietnamese American elected to public office in the U.S., is also the story of Little Saigon.

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President Trump's first 100 days in his second term have been a blitz of executive orders, job and spending cuts, and global tariffs, in pursuit of expanded presidential power.

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One order directs the attorney general and Homeland Security secretary to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that 'obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.'

Supporters of President Trump and counterprotesters converged in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills on Sunday in a small but raucous confrontation that included a performance from a pro-Trump punk rock star and remarks from a disgraced former congressman.

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President Trump enjoyed the highest approval ratings of his political career when he entered office in January, but his support has dropped sharply in the 100 days since.

Since taking over as chairman of the communications agency, Carr has revived news bias complaints and launched probes into diversity initiatives at Comcast and Disney. This month, he blasted NBC's coverage of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia controversy.

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.

The speech comes as Harris has been weighing whether to enter the 2026 California governor's race to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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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

Ten students at Occidental College are staging a hunger strike, calling on the college to divest from weapons manufacturers with ties to Israel and to shield international students the Trump administration might target for deportation.

Jim Sanfilippo says his lighting company, Nila, has planned carefully to get some breathing room with smaller projects. But what will happen to the multimillion-dollar ones is up in the air, he said.

Irish hotelier Patrick McKillen is suing members of the Qatari royal family, accusing them of defrauding him and his company. The family has denied the allegations.

The arrest appears to heighten the stakes in the Trump administration's aggressive actions against judges who have challenged its immigration crackdown.

Situated at the nexus of the face-off between the executive and judicial branches is a little-scrutinized arm of the federal government: the U.S. Marshals Service.

Pope Francis regularly called a church in Gaza to ask how residents there were doing during the Israel-Hamas war. He is remembered as a defender and consoling presence.

Since Trump took office in January, hurling insults and threatening devastating tariffs and U.S. drone strikes, Mexico has been seized by a nationalistic fervor.

Under U.S. law, noncitizens may be detained and deported, but they can't be punished and imprisoned without a trial.

The conservatives teeing up against him don't like his approach to Iran.

Eight endangered Fijian iguanas have arrived at their new home at the San Diego Zoo. The creatures were seized by Spanish authorities in a 2017 bust of more than 600 illegally trafficked reptiles.

Some nonprofits are fighting back, including an L.A. provider that's leading a campaign to try to stop potential GOP cuts to healthcare for low-income Americans.

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Chief executives of Walmart, Target and Home Depot reportedly warned Trump that supply chain disruptions would lead to empty shelves at U.S. stores in weeks.

FBI agent Richard Miller acknowledged his secret dealings with the Soviets, but claimed he did so to infiltrate Soviet intelligence and redeem his career.

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Homeland Security sent an email to a Los Angeles attorney, warning: 'Do not attempt to remain in the United States — the federal government will find you.'

The Department of Justice is investigating L.A. County over alleged waits of up to 18 months for gun permits, a case that legal experts say could have far-reaching implications.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services will work toward eliminating more than half a dozen common dyes from the U.S. food supply.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin visited the polluted Tijuana River on the U.S.-Mexico border, calling for a '100% solution' to clean up raw sewage that has fouled the waterway for years.

Tyler Hassen, a member of Elon Musk's DOGE team with ties to the oil industry, was recently named assistant secretary in the Department of Interior, with the power to make vast changes to the agency in charge of more than 500 million acres of federal land.

The late pope's climate change encyclical, 'Laudato Si,' is more relevant than ever.

Justices suggest they would extend religious liberty rights to parents with children in public schools.

A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins with immigration authorities.

Conservative commentator and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Hilton is the second prominent Republican to enter the 2026 race to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Mexico's president said her government asked TV stations to pull a Trump administration advertisement warning against undocumented migration to the U.S.

Gov. Newsom warned that the wrongful deportation case of Abrego Garcia was a "distraction." Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who flew to El Salvador to see Garcia, shot back that due process isn't a distraction. Who's right?

Isael Hermosillo, a mediator who was negotiating labor contracts for California grocers, was one of 130 terminated in March.

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The meeting caps the first of a four-day visit by Vance and his family, a trip that underscores India's importance among countries seeking trade negotiations with the U.S.

California wolves are on the comeback. And no matter how hard wildlife officials try to direct them toward their natural prey, the wolves seem to find the domesticated cattle wandering through open pastures a lot more appealing.

Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) and Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) led the effort to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported, to the U.S. for a hearing.

Pope Francis, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic Church and drew widespread admiration from outsiders, has died.

What do penguins, the Chinese government and sewing machines have in common? Tariff jokes.

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Easter is supposed to be a happy time, but all I can think of is the people who persecuted Jesus. At a time when Christians are called upon to embrace Jesus' message of love and charity, our president continues to revel in a cruelty that's, well, biblical.

Lawyers for Venezuelan detainees said they were poised for removal presumably to an El Salvadoran prison.

'I accept your choice with a deep sense of responsibility, humility and love,' Lee said in her victory statement.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Thursday in San Salvador. President Trump calls the Maryland resident a 'very violent person.'

Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks honestly and candidly of the fear Trump has instilled with his rogue presidency. She's a rare, brave voice among Republican politicians.