She lived through the L.A. riots and now is in Chicago. She says Trump is making up urban unrest

Katrina Thompson, mayor of Broadview, lived in Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots. She says there's no comparison to ...

Group Sues For Answers On Who Organized LA’s Anti-ICE Riots

Law enforcement agencies across Los Angeles are fielding lawsuits as questions mount over how this summer’s anti-immigration ...

Q&A: A look at the National Guard's role as Trump seeks to deploy troops in Oregon and Chicago

President Donald Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities — including Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon; ...
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In LA, Olympic Dreams Lead to Nightmares for a Historic Black Community

Fre’Drisha Dixon can still recall the laughter that once spilled across the playground of the now-shuttered Clyde Woodworth ...

Trump's National Guard troops can stay in Illinois but federal judge blocks deployment

Federal judge restricts National Guard operations in Illinois amid President Donald Trump's suggestions about invoking the ...
Los Angeles Times

These 10 buildings tell the story of L.A.’s monumental 1930s, year by year

Maybe this was a pressure-creating-diamonds situation. Somehow in the 1930s, amid the immense stresses of economic collapse, natural disaster, Olympic anxiety and the looming shadow of World War II, ...

Robert Rector, former Pasadena Star-News editor and columnist, dies at 83

Rector, city editor of the Pasadena Star-News from 2001 to 2007 and later a prolific columnist, died on Sept. 4, in his ...

President Trump: ‘waging war’ on Chicago

Federal agents are carrying out ‘increasingly aggressive’ immigration raids – but have sanctuary cities like Chicago brought ...
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The Insurrection Act: How it has been used before and why Trump wants to invoke it now

The 1807 legislation allows the US president to deploy the Armed Forces on national territory in times of insurrection, ...