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Jordan's King Abdullah II departs the White House after meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jordan’s king meets Trump amid deep discord over U.S. plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza

King Abdullah II dodges questions about President Trump’s plan to relocate Gazans to Jordan.

Feb. 11, 2025

JD Vance rails against ‘excessive’ AI regulation in rebuke to Europe at Paris summit

Feb. 11, 2025
With firings and lax enforcement, Trump moving to dismantle government’s public integrity guardrails

Feb. 11, 2025

Trump signs executive order to continue downsizing federal workforce

Feb. 11, 2025
Appeals court won’t halt judge’s order requiring Trump administration to unfreeze federal cash

Feb. 11, 2025
White House bars AP reporter from Oval Office because of AP policy on ‘Gulf of America’

Feb. 11, 2025
White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight, officials say

Feb. 11, 2025
Russia frees American Marc Fogel, but U.S. doesn’t say what it gave up

Feb. 11, 2025
Criminal case against NYC mayor hangs by a thread after Justice Department orders it dropped

Feb. 11, 2025
What to know about proposals to ban abortion pills and punish women who seek abortions

Feb. 11, 2025

Boiling Point: Democrats who make nice with Trump aren’t helping on climate

Feb. 11, 2025
Panamanians say the canal is theirs and always will be

Feb. 11, 2025
California loves Dungeness crab. But concerns over whale safety put industry in peril

Feb. 10, 2025

California Politics

U.S. Army Corps begins clearing tons of fire debris in Altadena and Pacific Palisades

Feb. 11, 2025
California lawmakers propose banning sales from dog brokers in crackdown on puppy pipeline

Feb. 11, 2025
Huntington Beach’s city attorney joins Trump’s Justice Department

Feb. 10, 2025
Column: In San Francisco, a political tremor — the rise of Democratic moderation

Feb. 9, 2025
Two transgender athletes navigate teen life on front lines of raging national debate

Feb. 9, 2025

The United States of California, a series exploring the state’s vast impact on the nation

Electric cars, climate credit schemes, diverse boardrooms and legal weed: How California exports its ideas and policies across the U.S.

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta discusses the California Department of Justice's efforts to protect rights of the state's immigrant communities at a news conference at the San Francisco Public Library's Bernal Heights branch in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Bonta says Trump is ‘spitting in the face of our democracy’ as federal funds remain frozen

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta joined a coalition of more than 20 other states Friday in asking a federal court to once again intercede and force the Trump administration to unfreeze billions of dollars in federal funding.

Feb. 7, 2025

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 06: Maria Eugenia Torres Ramirez has lived in Los Angeles since she arrived in the United States in 2021 as an asylum seeker. Torres Ramirez fled Venezuela after being targeted as an activist who opposed the government of President Nicolas Maduro. She has had Temporary Protected Status, which grants her a work permit and provisional deportation protection, while her asylum case is processed as an extra layer of protection. But if her asylum petition is denied, she worries she will be vulnerable to deportation without the protection of TPS. Photographed on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Trump administration is also going after immigrants who live here legally. It has them terrified

Feb. 7, 2025

California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at a news conference in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta won’t run for governor in 2026

Feb. 5, 2025

FILE - El Salvador President Nayib Bukele speaks after receiving Costa Rica's highest honor from President Rodrigo Chaves at the presidential palace in San Jose, Costa Rica, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Diaz, File)

News Analysis: The Trump administration’s budding bromance with El Salvador’s leader

Feb. 5, 2025

Bonta vows to defend California teachers, immigrant and LGBTQ+ students from Trump threats

Feb. 4, 2025

Policy, Issues and Agencies

Ukraine’s rare earth minerals could help keep U.S. military aid flowing

Feb. 11, 2025
Trump won’t block immigration arrests in houses of worship. Now these 27 religious groups are suing

Feb. 11, 2025
Pope rebukes Trump administration over migrant deportations, and appears to take direct aim at Vance

Feb. 11, 2025
Third judge blocks Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship for children of people in U.S. illegally

Feb. 10, 2025
Column: Trump isn’t an isolationist. He’s a bully — and that’s hurting U.S. influence in the world

Feb. 10, 2025
NIH cuts put medical research at risk, scientists say, raising concerns at UC and elsewhere

Feb. 8, 2025

Latest Newsletters

Column: California farmers bought Trump’s election pitch. Now they may pay the price

Feb. 10, 2025
‘Large scale’ immigration raid to hit Los Angeles soon, leaked internal documents show

Feb. 9, 2025
A city of immigrants moves to resist Trump. How far can L.A. leaders go?

Feb. 8, 2025
Column: Forget Trump’s wrecking ball. Here’s how to treat America’s public lands

Feb. 6, 2025

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World & Nation

Netanyahu threatens to resume fighting in Gaza if hostages aren’t released Saturday

Feb. 11, 2025
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Trump ally Stephen Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case

Feb. 11, 2025
Opinion

Goldberg: Love it or hate it, Trump’s zone-flooding can’t go on forever

Feb. 11, 2025
Hollywood Inc.

Will Trump have a chilling effect on Hollywood? Insiders say it’s already happening

Feb. 11, 2025
Business

Column: Trump’s move to kill federal consumer watchdog will protect Big Business but cost consumers billions

Feb. 11, 2025
Opinion

Opinion: Signposts on the road to authoritarian rule

Feb. 10, 2025
Hollywood Inc.

Television Academy to raise AI with lawmakers: ‘We want to focus on its ethical use’

Feb. 10, 2025
Politics

Judge finds Trump administration hasn’t fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending

Feb. 10, 2025
Politics

USAID watchdog warns of lack of oversight of $8.2 billion in unspent aid after Trump moves

Feb. 10, 2025
Hollywood Inc.

Fox Corp. acquires conservative podcast marketer Red Seat Ventures

Feb. 10, 2025
Science & Medicine

A pivotal senator says he extracted vaccine concessions from RFK Jr. How will that play out?

Feb. 9, 2025
World & Nation

What has Donald Trump not done yet? Here are some policy areas where he might act next

Feb. 8, 2025

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