Sadly, the historian David Abulafia died a few days ago. He had been a Cambridge historian longer than I have been. I did not know him well. We were in different Faculties and different colleges, but we often crossed paths. Over the last decade or so, Abulafia had taken a different route from me in […]

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A second person has died in a suspected fireworks explosion inside an apartment in Bell Gardens Tuesday night, leaving a family devastated. Multiple people reported hearing the blast shortly after 6 p.m. in the 6500 block of Purdy Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “We thought it was an earthquake because the house literally felt like […]

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department are in pursuit of a driver reportedly behind the wheel of a vehicle that was reported stolen out of Simi Valley. The suspect was leading authorities in chase on Reseda Boulevard at Plummer Street in Northridge and the area of Porter Ranch around 5:20 p.m. Sky5 is over […]

A federal immigration agent pepper-sprayed a woman during an enforcement operation in Santa Barbara on Wednesday, according to video posted on social media. Witnesses told KEYT that around 7:15 a.m., masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempted to detain the driver of a white Toyota 4Runner in the area of Salinas Street and Carpinteria […]

Firefighters are battling a dangerous commercial blaze in South El Monte Wednesday afternoon, with propane tanks exploding at a property on North Tyler Avenue, according to Los Angeles County fire officials. According to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, crews were dispatched around 2:32 p.m. to the 2215 block of North Tyler Avenue, with a […]

Two California customers have filed a proposed nationwide class‑action lawsuit accusing Costco of falsely advertising that its rotisserie chicken contains “no preservatives.” The suit, filed Jan. 22 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, alleges the wholesale retailer misled “millions of shoppers” by promoting its Kirkland Signature Seasoned Rotisserie Chicken as […]

A man in his 50s was found bound with duct tape inside his vehicle Tuesday night near the Los Angeles International Airport after an apparent armed robbery, police said. Officers responded around 8:14 p.m. to the 6100 block of West Century Boulevard after receiving a call about a victim whose feet had been duct-taped, according […]

Population growth in the United States slowed to a crawl last year due to a historic decline in net migration, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday. The nation’s population grew just 0.5% — an increase of 1.8 million people — between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, marking the slowest annual growth since the […]

Last night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper broadcast an exclusive interview with the woman who was first seen in early videos posted of federal agents killing Alex Pretti last Saturday. Stella Carlson was standing close to the deadly skirmish, and ended up as the citizen with the best vantage point to record the shooting—holding her camera phone […]