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Marines Will Begin Withdrawing From Los Angeles

The departure of the Marines follows the removal of hundreds of other National Guard soldiers who were part of President Trump’s deployment to Los Angeles.

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Marines guarding the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles in June.
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Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask.

Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a “reign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to “keep them and their families safe.”

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A federal immigration officer in Manhattan wearing a face covering last week.
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Investigators in L.A. Explosion Examine Condo for Link to Explosives

Officials were looking into whether the explosion, which killed three sheriff’s deputies, was caused by devices seized from a condo in Santa Monica a day before the blast.

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Law enforcement officials investigate the scene of the condo complex on Bay Street in Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday.
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Driver Purposely Plows Car Into Crowd in L.A., Injuring at Least 30, Officials Say

Seven people were in critical condition after the driver veered onto a sidewalk outside a music club, officials said. The driver was booted from the club earlier in the night for being disruptive.

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Police vehicles near the scene in Los Angeles where a driver plowed into a crowd early Saturday.
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Jewel Thais-Williams, Whose Nightclub Catch One Celebrated ‘Queer Black Joy,’ Dies at 86

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Catch One, which she opened in Los Angeles in 1973 in the face of local animosity, became a glittering sanctuary for a largely shunned community.

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Jewel Thais-Williams in 2015 at her nightclub, Jewel’s Catch One. She sold the venue that year.
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Explosion at Los Angeles Training Center Kills 3 Sheriff’s Deputies

It was not immediately clear what caused the blast at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Training Academy center. No one else was injured, officials said.

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Officers monitored a street closure near the site of the explosion in Los Angeles.
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They Grew Up on Mexican Coke. Trump’s Cane Sugar Plan Makes Them Uneasy.

After President Trump announced that Coke will be made with cane sugar in the U.S., as it is in Mexico, foodies of Mexican heritage said in interviews that they weren’t excited.

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A Coca-Cola truck driving through Izamal, Mexico, last year.
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They Grew Up on Mexican Coke. Trump’s Cane Sugar Plan Makes Them Uneasy.

After President Trump announced that Coke will be made with cane sugar in the U.S., as it is in Mexico, foodies of Mexican heritage said in interviews that they weren’t excited.

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A Coca-Cola truck driving through Izamal, Mexico, last year.
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Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A.

Thousands of National Guard members have served in the L.A. region since last month. Six soldiers spoke in interviews about low morale over the deployment.

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Members of the California National Guard have protected federal buildings and accompanied agents on immigration raids in the Los Angeles region.
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Trump Releases About Half of the National Guard Troops in Los Angeles

President Trump mobilized the troops on June 7 in the wake of chaotic protests. They have remained in Southern California several weeks after most of the demonstrations had ended.

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About half of the California National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles are being released, Trump administration officials said on Tuesday.
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Son of Ex-Hollywood Agent, Jailed in 3 Murders, Dies by Suicide, D.A. Says

Samuel Haskell, 37, was accused of dismembering his wife and his in-laws. He was the son of Sam Haskell III, an Emmy-winning film producer and veteran talent agent.

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Samuel Haskell, who was facing murder charges in three killings, in court in Los Angeles in 2023. The authorities said he was found dead in jail on Saturday and that he had taken his own life.
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Homeless Population Declines in Los Angeles for Second Straight Year

A key survey of homelessness in Los Angeles determined that the number of people sleeping without shelter fell again. More than 72,000 people remain homeless in Los Angeles County.

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Homelessness declined in Los Angeles for the second year in a row, according to a new survey.
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Living ‘A Day Without a Mexican’ in L.A., 21 Years Later

The 2004 indie film imagined an absurd, Latino-less California. As fears of immigration raids empty out parts of Los Angeles, the film’s premise feels all too real, its creators say.

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The filmmaker Yareli Arizmendi, one of the creators of the film “A Day Without a Mexican,” in Los Angeles in July.
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ICE Raids Scare Off L.A. Workers Rebuilding Fire-Torn Areas

Immigrant workers are central to recovery efforts in neighborhoods burned in the January wildfires, but recent raids have led some to stay home.

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Some construction workers say they are afraid to rebuild fire-torn areas after recent ICE raids targeted laborers in Southern California.
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids

A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.

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The initial rulings represented a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in and around Los Angeles during raids, which have entered their second month.
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Judge Orders Los Angeles Police to Stop Shooting Projectiles at Journalists

Los Angeles Police Department officers fired foam projectiles and flash-bang devices at reporters and photographers who were covering the immigration protests in June.

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Flash-bangs and gas canisters being used against protesters at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles last month.
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Immigration Arrests in Los Angeles Spike Amid Aggressive Enforcement

Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.

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Since the beginning of June, Department of Homeland Security agents and officers have arrested nearly 2,800 immigrants in the Los Angeles area, according to the agency.
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27 Workers Make Improbable Escape from Collapsed L.A. Tunnel

They climbed over a mound of loose soil and emerged at the tunnel’s only entrance five miles away, officials said.

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The Los Angeles Fire Department rescued dozens of workers trapped inside an industrial tunnel that collapsed on Wednesday.
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L.A. Moves to Join Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Immigration Raids

The legal move came the day after federal agents and National Guard troops converged on a Los Angeles park in an extraordinary show of force.

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Protesters gathered in Pasadena, Calif., last month, after immigration officials detained people in the area.
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