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Check your mail: L.A. County may have just cleared your medical debt

More than 134,000 Los Angeles County residents began receiving notices in the mail this week informing them that their medical debt has been permanently canceled, marking the first wave of relief from the county's Medical Debt Relief Program. The initial round of notices eliminates $183 million in medical debt without requiring any action from recipients. The program represents the county's response to a growing crisis affecting nearly 882,000 adults in L.A. County who carry medical debt totaling $2.9 billion as of 2023. The initiative was launched in December 2024 through a partnership be

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Behind closed doors, ICE is casting a wider net than ever before

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has escalated its interior enforcement campaign, tripling its daily arrest goal from around 1,000 to 3,000. This shift, detailed in a June 2025 Los Angeles Times investigation, represents a significant broadening of ICE's priorities, moving beyond individuals with serious criminal backgrounds to include anyone with a final deportation order. ICE is now employing a dual-track targeting strategy that combines planned raids on businesses and random sweeps at places where workers gather. Since June 6, over 350 arrests have been made in L.A. as the gover

The COVID pandemic is not over, but L.A. may spend like it is

A fourth round of layoffs casts a shadow over Disney’s magic

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California lawsuit sparks new battle over federal vs state authority

The legal storm in California has taken center stage in a deeper constitutional struggle — the balance of power between the federal government and the states. California’s federal lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully deploying National Guard troops without the governor’s approval has ignited a pivotal debate over executive authority and states’ rights. On June 9 and 10, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a federal lawsuit and emergency motion demanding Judge Charles Breyer block the deployment of nearly 4,000 National Guard memb

“I looked back and saw a shark’s mouth” — Surfer’s scare at Montara Beach

Streaming giants take over: Sesame Street’s deal marks end of ‘Peak TV’ era

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Trump officials vow to step up immigration crackdown in Los Angeles as Marines deploy

Federal forces will continue their immigration crackdown in an effort to "liberate" Los Angeles, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, pledged on Thursday, pushing back at criticism that sending the U.S. military into the city was unwarranted and illegal. "We have more assets now today than we did yesterday. We had more yesterday than we did the day before, so we are only building momentum," Noem said during a press conference in the city. "This is only going to continue and be increased until we have peace on the streets of Los Angeles."As Noem was speaking, A U.S

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See crowd's reaction to Trump at the Kennedy Center

President Donald Trump drew charged reactions of both admiration and ire at the Kennedy Center’s opening night of “Les Misérables” – with a greeting of cheers and boos, drama at intermission and drag queens in the audience.When the lights came on after the end of the first act Wednesday, many people cheered and clapped as the president and First Lady Melania Trump stood up. But a woman below, seated in the orchestra section, started yelling: “Felon, you’re a convicted felon.”As cheers died down, and Trump walked out, her voice became clearer: “Convicted felon, rapist!” A sec

Court hearing set on Trump's use of National Guard and Marines to help with immigration raids in LA

No injuries after JetBlue plane rolls onto grass at Boston’s Logan Airport after landing

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At least 4 dead and 2 missing in San Antonio after heavy rains flood parts of Texas

Heavy rains in San Antonio rapidly flooded roads, swept away submerged cars and sent some people scrambling up trees to escape fast-rising waters Thursday while firefighters made dozens of rescues across the nation’s seventh-largest city. At least four people died and two were still missing, authorities said. The deaths all occurred in the northeast part of the city, where authorities found over a dozen vehicles in the water. Photos and video showed smashed and overturned vehicles submerged in a creek. Some of the people rescued in that area said they were swept

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Red Sox pitcher Hunter Dobbins defends discrepancies about his father playing for Yankees

Red Sox rookie Hunter Dobbins made some headlines prior to his first career start against the Yankees last week when he said he'd rather retire than pitch for New York. Now he's explaining why the claims he made about his father once playing in the minors for Boston's longtime rival aren't the intentional fabrication a New York Post report says they were. Hunter Dobbins said Wednesday he was made aware of the Post story, but said there is nothing nefarious about the connections he said his father had to the Yankees. “My feelings and all that are ba

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McConnell, Mathurin lead Pacers' bench charge in Game 3, fueling 2-1 NBA Finals lead over Thunder

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Lone passenger survives the deadly Air India crash

The lone passenger to survive the Air India crash that killed 241 people on board Thursday found himself near debris after being thrown out of the plane and walked to a nearby ambulance for aid, a medic said. A doctor at Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital identified the man as Vishwashkumar Ramesh, and Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said he met the survivor. The airline said he was a British national of Indian origin. “He was disoriented with multiple injuries all over his body,” Dr. Dhaval Gameti, who treated Ramesh, told The Associated Press. “But h

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At least 4 dead, 2 missing after torrential rain floods San Antonio

At least four people are dead, two more are missing and dozens of water rescues have unfolded after the heaviest rain in more than a decade triggered flash flooding in San Antonio, Texas.The deaths occurred early Thursday morning in northeastern San Antonio, near the city’s Perrin Beitel neighborhood, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.Water rescue calls started just after 5:00 a.m. CDT for the area, which is near the northeast loop of Interstate 410, Joe Arrington, the department’s public information officer, told CNN.Ten people were rescued there, four of whom needed treatment

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Fulbright scholarship board members resign over ‘unprecedented actions’ by the Trump administration

A look at previous plane crashes in India

India has had several major plane crashes in recent decades. An Air India flight with more than 240 people on board crashed in the city of Ahmedabad on Thursday. Here are some previous aircraft accidents in India: Aug. 7, 2020 An Air India Express flight to bring back Indians stranded abroad by the COVID-19 pandemic skidded off a runway in heavy rain and cracked in two in southern India. Eighteen people including the two pilots were killed and more than 120 were injured. The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Dubai to Kozhikode in Kerala state.

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Air India disaster is first fatal Boeing 787 accident

More than 200 people were killed when an Air India Boeing 787 bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India's western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.Here are some details on the wide-body intercontinental jet:The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is one of the most advanced jets in service and experts say it has a generally strong safety record, with no previous fatal accidents. Boeing said it was aware of initial reports and working to gather more information.* The 787-8 aircraft involved in Thursday's accident was delivered in 2014 and is the smallest of three vari