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How Vallarta and Northgate became more than just supermarkets

Mexican‑owned supermarket chains across Los Angeles are taking deliberate steps to protect immigrant customers amid a surge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. Vallarta Supermarkets and Northgate Gonzalez Markets—a pair of family‑owned Latino grocery chains—have moved quickly to reinforce their grocery aisles as sanctuaries, extending operating hours, expanding delivery options, and publicly affirming solidarity with troubled communities. At its Carson location, Vallarta staff greeted patrons with aguas frescas and reaffirmed their mission through a statement on I

They survived the fires — but not the insurance maze

The MAHA movement is changing parenting — and not in the way you think

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Did L.A. Metro bid process favor Lyft for $198 million bike‑share contract?

Allegations have emerged that the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority manipulated its bidding process to unlawfully favor Lyft, the current operator of its bike‑share system, in the awarding of a new $198 million contract. According to a formal complaint filed by Bicycle Transit Systems (BTS), Metro drafted specifications that aligned exceptionally closely with Lyft’s operations, effectively delineating competitors from mounting viable bids. The complaint states that Metro’s requirements mirrored Lyft’s existing technology, a move BTS argues amounted to a tai

Can LAX handle Olympic crowds with current customs bottlenecks?

From Paradise to Pollution: Imperial Beach's Ongoing Sewage Crisis

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Can the world survive without mosquitoes and should we even try to find out?

Scientists have developed gene editing technology that could wipe out malaria-carrying mosquitoes within subsequent generations, offering hope against diseases like Malaria, which kills nearly 600,000 people each year. But as field trials approach, bioethicists warn that deliberately driving a species to extinction raises profound questions about our right to reshape nature. Communities in hard-hit regions now face a difficult tradeoff: accept ecological risks or continue losing lives to preventable mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquito-borne diseases extend far beyond Malaria. Dengue

Can the Supreme Court revive rooftop solar in California?

Push to electrify homes in Southern California faces opposition from gas industry

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Former NFL WR Henry Ruggs III apologizes to family of woman he killed in fatal DUI crash

Former NFL wide receiver Henry Ruggs III has apologized to the family of the woman he killed in a fatal 2021 DUI crash on Tuesday.In 2023, Ruggs was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from the crash that killed a 23-year-old woman, Tina Tintor, and her dog in November 2021.Let out temporarily on special release, the 26-year-old spoke at Hope for Prisoners – an event for former and current prisoners – expressing his regret for what happened almost four years ago when asked what he would say to Tintor’s family.“I wish I could turn back the

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Sen. Smith reveals what she told Sen. Lee over post

Republican Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday deleted a series of inflammatory social media posts from over the weekend on the deadly attacks in Minnesota, prompting a confrontation with one of the state’s Democratic US senators.Lee provoked controversy when he made a series of posts on X speculating about the political affiliations of the alleged shooter. In one post he wrote, “This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way.” And in another he appeared to link the suspect to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, posting: “Nightmare on Waltz Street.”As of Tuesday afternoon, the posts

GOP senator deletes inflammatory social media posts about Minnesota shootings

A split forms in MAGA world as Trump weighs next steps on Iran, with some top stars rebuking him

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‘We’re not safe’: US lawmakers demand more be done after political violence in Minnesota

Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota has decided to sleep with a loaded pistol near his nightstand after the deadly shootings targeting Minnesota state lawmakers and their families over the weekend.Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan didn’t know he was potentially putting himself at risk by attending a “No Kings” protest in his Wisconsin district Saturday because he didn’t find out until the next day that his name had been included among the Minnesota suspect’s alleged writings.And Rep. Tim Burchett, who has repeatedly raised lawmaker safety concerns with House GOP leadership, is now

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New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander released after arrest by immigration officers inside court

New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was released from federal custody Tuesday afternoon, hours after he was arrested by officers at immigration court in Manhattan after he tried to escort a migrant whom officers were attempting to arrest.His arrest is the latest involving a Democratic politician in an immigration-related incident.Lander, who is running in a crowded Democratic mayoral primary set to take place next week, had been monitoring immigration court activity in the past few days, walking alongside migrants as they exited their court appointments in response to r

Ketanji Brown Jackson reports $2 million in income last year for her memoir, 'Lovely One'

US State Dept has established Middle East task force amid Israel-Iran war

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US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning far beyond Israel’s strikes on Tehran

Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S. then supported the long, repressive reign of the Shah of Iran, whose security services brutalized Iranian citizens for decades. The two countries have been particularly hostile to each other since Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979, resulting in economic sanctions and the severing of formal diplomatic relations between the nations. Since 1984, the U.S. State

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Iran's leader rejects call to surrender, saying US intervention would cause 'irreparable damage'

Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of blistering Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage” to them, in recorded video aired by state TV. It was the second public appearance by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei since the Israeli strikes began, and came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump demanded “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in a social media post and warned Khamenei that the U.S. knows where he is but has no plans to kill him, “at least not for now.” Tru

How cities are scaling back Juneteenth celebrations after Trump-era DEI rollbacks

What is Juneteenth and when did it become a US federal holiday?

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Macron fears regime change chaos as Trump ups threats on Iran

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday underlined his differences with U.S. President Donald Trump over Iran, appearing to oppose tougher military action against Tehran that could lead to regime change and plunge Iran and the region into chaos.Macron on Monday had suggested to reporters that Trump was leaving the G7 as part of efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.He was firmly rebuffed Tuesday morning when Trump on X said Macron was mistaken and said his departure had nothing to do with securing a ceasefire. Since Tuesday morning, Trump has upped the bellicose rhetoric de

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Airlines to bring stranded Israelis back home, no outward flights

Israel's airlines said on Tuesday that they had received government permission to start flights to bring back people who had been stranded abroad during the conflict with Iran. Israel's airspace has been closed since Israel and Iran began trading attacks on Friday, stranding tens of thousands whose flights to Tel Aviv were cancelled. El Al Airlines, Israel's flag carrier, said it expects to operate flights on Wednesday from Larnaca, Athens, Rome, Milan and Paris to bring anyone who had a cancelled El Al ticket to Israel. There would still be no passenger flights leaving Israel, it added. El A