Underworld Turns

The Film the BBC Wouldn’t Air

Two veteran journalists set out to document Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health care system: hospitals attacked, medical workers killed, doctors detained and held for long periods without criminal charges. The BBC had commissioned the film.  But their Palestinian sources in Gaza and the West Bank were skeptical.  “We really had to try and persuade them…to […]
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24-year-old Los Angeles woman killed by hit-and-run driver, suspect remains at large

New details were released as police continue searching for the hit-and-run driver who killed a 24-year-old woman in Arlington Heights. The deadly incident occurred on Nov. 14, 2023, as Taylor Jackson, 24, and a friend were crossing the street on Arlington Avenue, just north of Venice Boulevard, around 10 p.m. Surveillance video released by the […]
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Human trafficking kingpin admits to smuggling 20,000 people into U.S.

An undocumented immigrant who lived in Los Angeles pleaded guilty Friday to leading what authorities say was one of the largest human smuggling operations in the United States. Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul, 52, pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy, transporting and harboring undocumented immigrants, and hostage taking, the Department of Justice announced. He has been in […]
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California leaders call for return of deaf 6-year-old boy deported by ICE to Colombia

California officials are calling for the return of a deaf 6-year-old student and his family after they were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents this week and deported to Colombia. The boy, his 5-year-old sibling and his mother, Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, were asylum seekers from Colombia who had been in the U.S. […]
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