Trump Will Hit Mexico, Canada and China With Tariffs
February 1, 2025
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Trump Will Hit Mexico, Canada and China With Tariffs

President Trump plans to impose stiff tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on Saturday, a move aimed at pressuring America’s largest trading partners into accepting more migrants and…

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Trump Administration Considers Halting Congestion Pricing
January 30, 2025
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Trump Administration Considers Halting Congestion Pricing

The Trump administration is considering a move to halt New York City’s congestion pricing program, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter. The Department of Transportation…

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Prosecutors claim defendant strangled, beheaded and buried homeless woman in Huntington Beach
January 30, 2025
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Prosecutors claim defendant strangled, beheaded and buried homeless woman in Huntington Beach

A man accused of killing a homeless woman in Huntington Beach more than two years ago strangled her to death before decapitating her and burying her body, Orange…

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Citizenship by Birthright? By Bloodline? Migration Is Complicating Both.
January 29, 2025
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Citizenship by Birthright? By Bloodline? Migration Is Complicating Both.

For two summers during high school, instead of joining her classmates at the beach, Noura Ghazoui had an internship at the town hall of her hometown, Borghetto Santo…

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Suspect in MacArthur Park shooting is arraigned
January 28, 2025
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Suspect in MacArthur Park shooting is arraigned

A man with prior felony convictions was arrested on suspicion of being the gunman behind last week’s gang-related shooting in MacArthur Park that injured four men and a…

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Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations
January 28, 2025
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Inside Colombia’s Crisis Over Trump’s Deportations

Colombia’s president, early on Sunday, announced that he had turned back two American military planes carrying deportees from the United States, setting off an extraordinary crisis inside and…

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Belarus’s Strong-Arm Leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Cruises to Re-election
January 26, 2025
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Belarus’s Strong-Arm Leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Cruises to Re-election

Europe’s longest-serving leader, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus, cruised to his seventh election victory in a row on Sunday in a contest that his exiled opponents dismissed…

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Edison says encampment found near area where Eaton fire started
January 25, 2025
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Edison says encampment found near area where Eaton fire started

Facing growing scrutiny over whether one of its transmission towers sparked the Eaton fire, Southern California Edison this week said that an encampment was found roughly 300 yards…

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Changing Tunes – The New York Times
January 25, 2025
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Changing Tunes – The New York Times

I loved reading about the 27-year-old French pianist Alexandre Kantorow, a rising star in the classical world who’s won major awards, played in the rain in the opening…

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L.A. wildfires cause $350 million in damage to city facilities
January 23, 2025
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L.A. wildfires cause $350 million in damage to city facilities

The wildfires that have torn through Pacific Palisades and other parts of Los Angeles this month have damaged or destroyed about $350 million in public infrastructure, including streetlights,…

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