A federal judge issued a last-minute temporary stay on Monday to block the Trump administration’s attempt to remove temporary legal protections for up to 350,000 Haitian immigrants across the United States. In a brutal 83-page takedown, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the US District Court for DC specifically laid into a December X post from […]

A former UCLA gynecologist who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex abuse-related crimes had his conviction tossed by an appeals court this week, much to the shock of abuse survivors. Dr. James Heaps worked in UCLA’s student heath department part-time between 1983 and 2010 before being hired full-time in 2014; he also had medical staff […]

It took over a week for Mia Ives-Rublee, a wheelchair user and senior director of the Center for American Progress’s disability justice initiative, to be able to move more than a block past her home after one of the country’s most extensive winter storms in years hit her home of Washington, DC, at the end […]

A pursuit through Huntington Beach ended with two people being taken into custody, including one “soggy suspect.” The incident took place around 10 p.m. on Sunday night, the Huntington Beach Police Department said on social media, and involved a stolen vehicle.   “The driver briefly pulled over, then decided to test their luck instead, leading officers on […]

Three Southern California teenagers, including a 16‑year‑old girl booked on suspicion of attempted murder, were arrested Monday following an investigation into a shooting in Ventura last month. The victim in the January incident told police he and the suspects were attending a gathering in the area of Seaward Avenue and Pierpont Boulevard when he was […]

The LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games announced Tuesday six additional venues that will host matches for the 2028 men’s and women’s soccer tournaments. Organizers previously confirmed that the semifinals and finals will take place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, but the locations for earlier rounds had not been revealed. “Now we finally have the […]

Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy is teaming up with his cousin on a new mental health initiative, even as many in his family want HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign.

Today, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers will be asked to vote in special elections in New York City and Buffalo. But the real decision about who will fill the Senate and Assembly seats created when Zohran Mamdani, Sean Ryan, Brad Hoylman-Sigal, and Harvey Epstein were elected to city offices won’t be made by the voters of those districts. The outcome is essentially predetermined, having been set behind closed doors by party insiders weeks before ballots are cast.

Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr. and his wife, Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, convicted of brutally murdering their two eldest children and forcing their young siblings to view the bodies, were sentenced Monday. The gruesome events unfolded on Nov. 29, 2020, the DA’s Office says, when Taylor, 39, and Brothwell, 49, fatally stabbed two of their young children, Maliaka, 13, and Maurice Jr., 12, in […]

New details have emerged since the arrest of a former Southern California tech CEO in connection with the alleged murder of his estranged wife late last year. Ayan Papoli, 58, was found dead at the bottom of a 75-foot embankment in Crestline, a San Bernardino Mountains community, on Nov. 18, 2025. Initially, investigators were unable to identify Papoli and believed her death was the […]