Shawn Hubler

Behind a towering hedge in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades sits a house that Tom Cruise bought in 1990 and Nicole Kidman sold after their divorce. A few

Like most big cities, Los Angeles has steep challenges: homelessness. Extreme weather. Housing affordability. Budget shortfalls.

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles and her former ally, Nithya Raman, clashed on Tuesday in a hard-hitting debate that highlighted the high stakes and

State and local officials said that they received thousands of names lacking key identifying information, and that many of the names were paired with addresses over which they had no jurisdiction.

The ruling covered stops and field interviews being carried out by hundreds of Department of Homeland Security agents assigned to fan out across the country.

The job was not an obvious next step for a veteran member of Congress. Had city leaders not asked, she might never have considered it. Yet on that October day

The job was not an obvious next step for a veteran member of Congress. Had city leaders not asked, she might never have considered it. Yet on that October day

A federal judge on Tuesday opted not to immediately rule on the Trump administration's effort to force California to set aside about 20,000 mail ballots that the federal government claimed were sent to noncitizens.

The judge ruled that no immediate action was necessary, dealing another setback to the administration as it moves to target voting by noncitizens.

Judge David O. Carter wrote that the administration's demand for urgent action “would wreak havoc and disrupt the election that is already underway."