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For years after her diabetes diagnosis, a patient at St. John’s Community Health had kept her blood sugar levels in check. Then, federal immigration raids intensified across the region. She stayed home, fearing federal agents would detain her. The patient didn’t go to the grocery store to buy food and ate what was in her home — tortillas and coffee — for five days. Eventually, she canceled one of her regular appointments at a St. John’s clinic. Staff with the health network, which operates 28 locations in Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire, called the patient and offered to…
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “famous.” Related Articles Some US restaurants and servers oppose Republicans’ ‘no tax on tips’ budget proposal Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time, without clear legal basis In Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, Democrats reprise a 2018 roadmap for opposing Trump 2.0 Trump’s latest judicial pick is someone Joe Biden almost nominated ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle…
NEW YORK — Jo Adell has played 100 games since making a decision that may have changed his career. Before the Angels’ game July 30, 2024, Adell decided that the leg kick he’d used for his entire career wasn’t working, so he scrapped it and simply tapped his toe. Since then, Adell has hit .230 with 19 homers and a .756 OPS. The major-league average OPS is .712. About three weeks ago, Adell actually began using a more controlled version of the kick he used before. He calls it more of a “lift.” Adell has hit .290 with eight homers…
There was a time when California celebrated the freedom and fun of cars, when The Beach Boys raised the “Little Deuce Coupe” to mythical status, and when the government thought its job was to build infrastructure that accommodated the growing population and raised the quality of life. All gone, and now we’ve lost Brian Wilson, too. This is how Gov. Gavin Newsom described gasoline-powered cars in a new executive order: “century-old outdated and ineffective technology, keeping us bound to a fossil fuel industry and manufacturers that benefit from thwarting progress and polluting our communities.” The air has long since been…
By Levi Sumagaysay and Lauren Hepler | CalMatters Brandon Mejia usually spends his weekends conducting a symphony of vendors serving pupusas, huaraches and an array of tacos at his two weekly 909Tacolandia pop-up events. Half food festival, half swap meet, the events draw 100-plus vendors a week in Pomona and San Bernardino. They offer a way to “legalize” street food — vendors get a reliable location, cities collect taxes and enforce health codes — while patrons enjoy delicacies from all over Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Spanglish music plays, people dance and kids flock to facepainting and pony…
LOS ANGELES – The unrest centered on ICE raids throughout the Los Angeles area has found its way to Dodger Stadium. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were denied access to Dodger Stadium this morning. The agents were seen staging near a stadium entrance in videos that appeared on social media but were not allowed to enter. News cameras showed some of the ICE contingent parked outside the stadium entrance for some time before being escorted away by Los Angeles police as protesters arrived at the site. The Dodgers acknowledged the incident in a statement, saying “ICE agents came to…
On March 20, President Trump signed an executive order “Eliminating Information Silos.” The order directed heads of federal agencies to make sure officials designated by the president “have full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, data, software systems, and information technology systems.” The executive order did not attract much attention until it was more recently revealed that the administration was working with tech company Palantir to create a database containing all information collected by all federal agencies on all US citizens. A database consisting of all the information of American citizens collected by the various federal agencies such…
Empty food stands lined a street outside a Hollywood Home Depot on Thursday morning, June 19, after federal immigration agents detained at least 15 vendors and day laborers, activists said. At around 7:20 a.m., Edwin Guevara, a general contractor, received a call that federal immigration officials were raiding the store, and that one of his workers was stuck in the parking lot, so he drove over. “They came out here, attacked our communities with our people vending,” Guevara said. “To see them run and escape for their lives really hurts me because day laborers built this community. … We built…
By BILL BARROW, OLIVIA DIAZ and MIKE CATALINI HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (AP) — Abigail Spanberger opened her general election bid for Virginia governor Wednesday using her high school alma mater near Richmond. “I grew up walking the halls of Tucker High School,” the former congresswoman says as she walks past a bank of lockers in her first ad since securing the Democratic nomination. Later, she notes her experience as a CIA case officer, then in the halls of Congress as a tough-minded, get-things-done lawmaker. The same kind of message is echoing in New Jersey from Rep. Mikie Sherrill, as she…
By JIMMY GOLEN, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of widows and other caregivers for former NFL players diagnosed with CTE say a published study is insulting and dismissive of their experience living with the degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions and other repeated head trauma common in contact sports like football. An open letter signed by the players’ wives, siblings and children says the study published in the May 6 issue of Frontiers in Psychology suggests their struggles caring for loved ones was due to “media hype” about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, rather than the disease itself.…