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A year after ICE swept L.A., fewer raids but harsher rules squeeze immigrants nationwide
WASHINGTON — A year after the Trump administration kicked off its aggressive immigration enforcement tour with military-style raids across greater Los Angeles, federal officials have veered toward a less flashy but broader strategy: making immigrants’ lives harder so they will leave. The changes range in scale and scope, from disqualifying immigrants from certain jobs to indefinitely pausing…
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Judge piles on Jeanine Pirro with second beat down over vindictive criminal case
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s plan to scuttle a damaging ruling backfired when a federal judge smacked her down for a second time. Pirro — the former Fox News host tapped by President Donald Trump as Washington’s top federal prosecutor — had asked Chief Judge James Boasberg to wipe his own ruling from the record, arguing…
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The Women Who Don’t Own Clothes
You can spot the packages at most any UPS Store in any city. Sometimes they’re left in their own designated corner, dark gray amid a sea of brown cardboard. They have sprouted up in mail rooms, sorority houses, and even my own four-girl apartment. On their side reads a word that meant nothing 10 years…
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Bosnia beat Italy. Utica never recovered.
When Bosnian refugees started arriving in Utica, New York, in the mid-1990s, it was a down-on-its-heels Rust Belt city that had seen its population crater by roughly a third from a mid-century peak of just over 100,000 residents. “I thought I came to another war zone when I came here,” said Hanka Grabovica, who arrived…
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A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots
Within an hour after a horrific knife attack took place in Belfast on Monday night, far-right UK activist Tommy Robinson had shared a video of the incident on X, a post that racked up six million views. Within hours Elon Musk, the owner of the platform, weighed in, agreeing with a post calling for “consequences”…
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Unfounded claims of homeless voter fraud roil L.A. We went to Skid Row for answers
Since the Los Angeles mayoral primary election last week, unsupported conspiracy claims have flooded social media about how reality TV personality Spencer Pratt fell out of the race. One claiming that Pratt received zero votes in an update on election night was quickly debunked by the U.S. attorney’s office. Now another story has taken root:…
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Furious Trump fans freak out over latest Iran backtrack: ‘Let them die screaming in fire’
An announcement by Donald Trump that he is on the verge of a peace deal with Iran that preempted what was expected to be a major bombing campaign was not greeted with universal approval by members of his MAGA base. Late Thursday, the president took to his Truth Social platform to write, “Based on the…
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Why Lionsgate Embraced Physical Media and Created One of the Industry’s Coolest Boutique Labels
It was a swing so crazy that it could have failed spectacularly. In 2024, Lionsgate, home to modern franchises like “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games” and owner of one of the best libraries out there (including films from Artisan, Trimark, Summit and the Weinstein Company), launched Lionsgate Limited. The boutique label combines cult classic titles…
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Photos of the Week: Basilica Blessing, Tree Tunnel, Parrot Prediction
Ryan Murphy / APNew York Knicks fans cheer at a watch party during Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, on June 8, 2026, in New York City. Lindsay Dedario / ReutersNiagara Falls is illuminated as part of the lighting-up of 11 state landmarks announced by New York…
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Under fire from parents, ‘CoComelon’ turns to UCLA to prove its videos aren’t ‘crack for kids’
Beneath azure skies and fluffy white clouds, three giggling toddlers and their mothers arrive at a candy-colored water park in the town of CoComelon. It’s the opening of “Fast Little Fishy Splash Water Park Adventure,” a three-minute episode of “CoComelon,” the popular children’s cartoon series that is perhaps as controversial as it is appealing to…