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Los Angeles municipal officials are under growing financial strain as costs from police operations during immigration enforcement protests have reached $32 million, according to City Controller Kenneth Mejia. These expenses stem from the city’s response to demonstrations that broke out on June 6 following federal immigration actions across L.A. County. Mejia emphasized that these figures do not account for future legal costs, warning that the city’s already fragile budget could be further impacted. In addition to policing expenses, the city spent $1.4 million on restoring damaged publi

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Bacteria converts plastic waste to popular pain medicine in scientific leap

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh discovered a method to convert plastic waste into paracetamol using genetically modified bacteria, potentially revolutionizing pharmaceutical manufacturing and plastic recycling. The research, published in Nature Chemistry, demonstrates how E. coli bacteria can transform polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles into the world's most commonly used painkiller with 92% efficiency and virtually no carbon emissions. The innovation addresses two critical environmental challenges simultaneously: the 350 million tons of PET plastic waste generated

It’s not your child’s fault—they were never taught to read the right way

Governor touts California as “global epicenter” of entertainment production

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Experts warn of economic fallout if Trump revives immigration crackdown

California could once again see population losses and economic strain if President Donald Trump reinstates the strict immigration policies he imposed during his first term, experts warn. Between 2015–16 and 2018–19, annual authorized immigration into California dropped from roughly 211,000 to 159,000. “Some of it is slowing down what’s happening at foreign embassies, making them come multiple times for multiple vetting sessions, slowing their processing down,” said Walter Schwarm, the finance department’s chief demographer. Immigrants—both legal and undocumented—are c

How financial aid fraud may delay your college funding

LAUSD approves $500 million bond sale to settle sexual abuse claims

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Trump administration threatens Harvard's accreditation, seeks records on foreign students

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration escalated its feud with Harvard University on Wednesday, declaring the Ivy League school may no longer meet the standards for accreditation and that it would subpoena it for records about its international students.The move is the latest in a series of actions the administration has taken against Harvard, which sued the federal government after officials terminated billions of dollars in grants awarded to the school and moved to bar it from admitting international students.The administration has said it is trying to force change at Harvard and oth

Trump promises more tariff letters and warns BRICS of what’s coming

President Donald Trump said at least seven countries can expect tariff letters on Wednesday morning, as he ramped up pressure on nations to strike deals with the United States by saying his new August 1 deadline would not be extended.The announcement came as Trump vowed to slap a 10% levy on imports from the BRICS group of emerging economies, revealed plans for a 50% tariff on copper imports and threatened a massive 200% import tax on pharmaceuticals, renewing uncertainty for the global economy and markets – which have already experienced months of volatility.“A minimum of seven” tariff

Texas flooding, and politics around it, underscore the challenges Trump faces in replacing FEMA

Los Angeles seeks to join lawsuit against Trump administration over immigration raids

Hear audio from 2024 fundraiser where Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow and Beijing

Donald Trump told a private gathering of donors last year that he once sought to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine by threatening to “bomb the sh*t out of Moscow” in retaliation, according to audio provided to CNN.“With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice,’” Trump said during one 2024 fundraiser, according to the audio. “And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10%.”Trump later claimed he relayed a similar warning to Chinese President

Russia attacks Ukraine with 700 drones after Trump vows to send more weapons

Russia targeted Ukraine with a record 728 drones early on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to send more defensive weapons to Kyiv and aimed unusually sharp criticism at Russian President Vladimir Putin.The attack was the latest in a series of escalating air assaults in recent weeks that have involved hundreds of drones in addition to ballistic missiles, straining Ukrainian air defences at a perilous moment in the war.Kyiv's military downed almost all the drones but some of the six hypersonic missiles launched by Russia had caused unspecified damage, air force spokespe

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges as a leading dissenter in an era of Trump

Supreme Court keeps hold on Florida immigration law aimed at people in the US illegally

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'Superman' brings a message of hope to a cynical world

Superman might do more than just save Metropolis — filmmaker James Gunn hopes the beloved superhero will bring hope to a cynical world. “Everybody’s gotten so cynical and ironic," said Gunn. “Everybody’s ironic about everything all the time. And he (Superman) is a good-natured guy who wants to be kind. And when you see the world through Superman’s eyes, everyone is beautiful.” “Superman,” which flies into theaters nationwide Thursday, is a bit of a change in tone for the writer and director who brought a mischievous playfulness and snark to the c

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How can families handle anxiety around summer camp after the Texas floods?

�� parents naturally and unavoidably react by thinking about what might happen to their own children. And children worry in turn about what might happen to them.The flash flooding last week that killed more than 100 people along the Guadalupe River in central Texas, including dozens of campers and counselors at Camp Mystic, was a family nightmare come true. Every summer, kids hug their parents goodbye for camp, with both sides full of anxiety about what it means for children to be away from home and family.Now that those normal worries are being amplified by the news from Texas, what should pa

Novak Djokovic reaches a record 14th Wimbledon semifinal and faces No. 1 Jannik Sinner next

Pro-Israel website was used to find names of student protesters to investigate, senior ICE official says

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Orcas are bringing humans gifts of food – but why?

When researcher Jared Towers set up his cameras underwater to observe a pair of killer whales, he saw something strange.One of the orcas, a juvenile female, “approached a camera I had in the water to film her younger brother and then opened her mouth and let out a dead seabird,” Towers, the executive director of Bay Cetology, a Canadian team of marine biologists based in Alert Bay, British Columbia, told CNN. She closed her mouth, paused, apparently watching for Towers’ reaction and hung in the water while the dead seabird floated up above her. Then, after a few seconds, she rolled aroun

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Flash flooding that killed 3 leaves New Mexico village heartbroken, anxious as cleanup begins

Broken tree limbs, twisted metal, crumpled cars and muddy debris remained Wednesday as crews worked to clear roads and culverts in the wake of a flash flood that descended upon the New Mexico mountain community of Ruidoso, killing three people and damaging dozens of homes. An intense bout of monsoon rains set the disaster in motion Tuesday. Water rushed from the surrounding mountainside, overwhelming the Rio Ruidoso and taking with it a man and two children from an RV park along the river. The bodies were found downstream during search and rescue efforts. The chi