Immigration enforcement officials blitz Los Angeles park

18 States Challenge ICE Raids in Los Angeles

California, along with 17 other states, is challenging recent federal immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles. These states filed an amicus brief on Monday, supporting a lawsuit that questions the constitutionality of these operations. The...

ICE detains asylum-seeking drag queen in San Francisco

On June 26, a Guatemalan drag performer, known under the stage name Hilary Rivers, attended his scheduled asylum hearing in San Francisco, California. The judge denied the government’s motion to dismiss the drag queen’s asylum case, but ICE...

Despite Protests, Border Sector Chief Vows to Enforce Immigration Law in Sanctuary Los Angeles, Elsewhere

As Border Patrol agents carried out an immigration related enforcement operation, guarded by a contingent of U.S. Marines, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and a group of protesters intervened. Despite the protests, the operation went on as planned....

Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids

Armed and masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors roughly tackled to the ground and forcefully held down. Since early June, the streets of Los Angeles...

Troops and federal agents briefly descend on Los Angeles park in largely immigrant neighborhood

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal officers and National Guard troops fanned out around a mostly empty Los Angeles park in a largely immigrant neighborhood on foot, horseback and military vehicles on Monday for about an hour before abruptly leaving, an...

Mission Science Workshop, the mad-scientist garage for San Francisco

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Mission Science Workshop is big. Big enough that one of its front windows, looking out onto the corner of Mission Street and Excelsior Avenue,...

California Assistant Pastor Sentenced For Stealing Church Funds

A former California assistant pastor has been sentenced to two years in state prison for stealing funds from a church while its founding pastor lay dying, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Curtis Frank Lemons, 68,...

California’s Oldest Drive-In Theater Is Just One Hour From L.A. — Where You Can Catch A Movie For Just $10

Credit: Riverside Convention & Visitors Bureau (RCVB) What do you get when you mix a summer nights with L.A.’s film culture? That’s right: a classic open-air drive-in where you can enjoy top screenings from the comfort of your car, just like in...

Culture and barbarism: Terrorizing neighborhoods one Automatic Delivery Vehicle at a...

Multiple Waymo taxis burn near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following last night's immigration raid protest. | AP Photo/Eric Thayer The Trump administration and the obliging mainstream media...

California ranks as one of the worst states for retirement, new analysis finds

Elderly people talk at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images OAKLAND, Calif. - With affordability being a main factor, California was ranked near the bottom, named among the worst states for...

California Debates New Education Standards for Police Officers

California is considering new education requirements for police officers amid ongoing discussions about police reform. In 2020, former Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer introduced a bill requiring prospective officers aged 18 to 25 to earn a...

California debates new education requirements for police officers. Are they watered down?

California lawmakers are debating a bill that would require new education standards for police officers. CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Amid calls for police reform in the...

Immigration Tracker: Updates on TPS, work visas and deportation rules

In the past six months, the Trump administration has unleashed a wave of immigration directives, rolling back key protections for immigrants and narrowing access to due process. With many of these directives now contested in court, the legal...

California, NJ senators want immigration officers to display visible IDs

Senators Alex Padilla and Cory Booker introduced a bill to make ICE agents identify themselves. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced a bill to require immigration enforcement officers to display clearly visible ID...

California Democrats walk back climate policies to avoid a political collapse

The Democratic Party’s monopoly on power in California is, apparently, not as invincible as it seems. That is the only conclusion one can reach from the events in Sacramento over the past month, as Democrats have been forced to balance their...

LGBTQ voters divided in Ward 8 special election

As Pride month draws to a close and Washington begins to take down its rainbow flags and WorldPride decorations, it can be easy to confine the ideas of LGBTQ liberation to June. One historic organization in Washington has been speaking out — or...

California Rejects Title IX Plan To Keep Boys Out Of Girls’ Sports: ‘You’ll Be Hearing From Bondi’

California on Monday rejected the resolution agreement from the Trump administration to follow federal law and keep men out of women’s sports. The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) aligned itself with the California Department of...

California Focus: Trump on ‘remigration’: Heed the rhetoric

Even now, six months into President Trump’s second term, there’s a tendency to disregard President Trump’s sometimes fiery rhetoric as mere big talk. Americans ought to know better by now. Iranians certainly do, after Trump sent bunker bombs into...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom to visit Upstate Wednesday

FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES AND GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM TONIGHT IS MAKING HIS WAY TO SOUTH CAROLINA. YEAH, THIS TRIP TO THE NATION’S SOUTH. A FURTHER FUELING SOME SPECULATION THAT HE’S RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. WE’VE BEEN HEARING THAT QUITE A BIT IN THE...