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A gunman is spotted near a grade school. O.C. residents ask why immigration agents, police gave no warning

As law enforcement and federal agents searched for an armed man in Fullerton one morning last week, students were arriving at the elementary school just around the corner. Campus officials…

Her body was found in a remote mountain town weeks ago. Now, her husband has been accused of murder

After weeks investigating the death of a Newport Beach woman whose body was found along a steep embankment in a San Bernardino County mountain town, officials have arrested her estranged…

Lockheed Martin, PG&E, Salesforce and Wells Fargo team up to battle wildfires

Lockheed Martin, PG&E Corporation, Salesforce and Wells Fargo are teaming up to help firefighters and emergency responders prevent, detect and fight wildfires more quickly. On Monday, the four companies said…

Why is Trump skipping the Super Bowl? He says it’s “too far”

The Rams won’t be the only no-shows at the Super Bowl. President Trump will be conspicuous in his absence from the biggest annual, single-day sporting event in the United States.…

Thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers launch strike

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California and Hawaii walked off the job early Monday in the latest work stoppage to roil the nation’s largest not-for-profit medical…

Commentary: Under Trump, the bootlickers have come out in force. Minneapolis cements it

President Trump has an army of bootlickers that seems to stretch to the sunset. Many of them creep around on social media and almost certainly legions of them come from…

Is California’s proposed billionaire tax smart policy? History holds lessons

In the roiling debate over California’s proposed billionaire tax, supporters and critics agree that such policies haven’t always worked in the past. But the lessons they’ve drawn from that history…

Housing costs are crippling many Americans. Here’s how the two parties propose to fix that

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s promises on affordability in 2024 helped propel him to a second term in the White House. Since then, Trump says, the problem has been solved: He…

‘Ear Hustle’ podcast got host pardoned. See a live show in Los Angeles

When then Gov. Jerry Brown’s team spoke to Earlonne Woods to tell him his life sentence was being commuted after spending 21 years in prison, in the background of the…

Barack and Michelle Obama blast Trump and ICE conduct

Former President Obama and Michelle Obama called on Americans to recognize the dangers of the increasingly violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement crack-downs in the wake of the deadly shooting of…