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Revised LAUSD budget saves jobs today, trims future retiree health benefit contributions

An $18.8 billion budget that delays layoffs for a year but partially offsets increased spending by lowering planned payments to a trust fund for ...

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UC Berkeley law professors take on a case for colleagues: Fighting Trump research cuts

A major early victory this week in California stands out among a flurry of cases in which states and universities are battling the Trump ...

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Barabak: You can’t separate sports from politics. Just ask the L.A. Dodgers

Sports provide a haven, a respite from the stress and problems of daily life. Of course, there is the competition. Additionally, there is a ...

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Chabria: How conflict with Iran could supercharge Trump’s domestic agenda

The risk of the United States being further drawn into a global battle has been somewhat reduced by the tense ceasefire between Israel and ...

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ICE wants to expand detention capacity in California. This new facility will be the largest in the state

A deal has been signed between the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private prison and detention contractor CoreCivic to transform its 2,560-bed facility ...

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Trump bans ‘negative’ signage at national parks, asks visitors to snitch on unpatriotic text

President Trump has ordered the National Park Service to remove any material that he believes to be offensive, unpatriotic, or reminiscent of improper partisan ...

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California school district faces sex abuse lawsuit. Did L.A.’s $4-billion payout open floodgates?

Five California women filed a lawsuit against the Fresno County school system on Wednesday, claiming that administrators disregarded their allegations that a second-grade teacher ...

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L.A. sheriff’s officials say their post on Iran was an error and ‘offensive’

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department expressed their sympathies for the Iranian victims on social media the day after the U.S. military destroyed three nuclear ...

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L.A.’s Iranian community has ‘mixed and complicated’ feelings about U.S. attack

With a distressed accent, Roozbeh Farahanipour sat in the blue-green light of his restaurant’s 220-gallon saltwater aquarium and fretted about Iran. It was Sunday ...

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Immigrant father of three Marines is violently detained, injured by federal agents, son says

Alejandro Barranco finds it unpleasant to watch the widely shared video of a landscaper in Orange County being pulled down, pinned, and violently punched ...

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