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07301252ec899ad1dca814110729c39f | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-puerto-rico-statehood-20171002-story.html | Can Puerto Rico’s governor convince Trump his island should be a state? | Can Puerto Rico’s governor convince Trump his island should be a state?
Puerto Ricans have long felt like second-class U.S. citizens.
The island lacks voting representation in Congress or any power in presidential elections. Nearly everything costs more, including healthcare. And now, amid the devastation of Hurricane ... |
865db4c07aeaa8e3e47f834e152a86e9 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-racist-chinese-commercial-20160526-snap-story.html | Analysis: This Chinese laundry ad is racist, but it’s hardly the first | Analysis: This Chinese laundry ad is racist, but it’s hardly the first
A lot of Americans are mad about a Chinese commercial. “We found it,” proclaimed a BuzzFeed headline. “The most racist commercial of 2016.”
In the below commercial for laundry detergent, a Chinese woman is doing her washing when a paint-spattered bl... |
12a1ff33a4d9d18a8fcae8a751ab9969 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-racist-ferguson-email-police-resign-20150306-story.html | 2 Ferguson police officials resign, court clerk fired over racist emails | 2 Ferguson police officials resign, court clerk fired over racist emails
A Ferguson police captain and sergeant resigned and a top court clerk has been fired over racist emails reported this week by the Department of Justice in a scathing report about police practices in the Missouri city.
The emails were cited in the ... |
0d564c4ef2a5809e0d2c10c2a1090d86 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-rainier-climbers-20140602-story.html | For some climbers, Mt. Rainier’s often deadly allure is irresistible | For some climbers, Mt. Rainier’s often deadly allure is irresistible
Mt. Rainier looms over Puget Sound, seductive and deadly, wooing climbers and testing their skills.
Now, the icy peak has claimed six more victims in the second-worst mountaineering accident in Rainier’s history.
More than 14,000 feet high at its summ... |
cf9fe6b10ac1b70b20efd787e8a21813 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-refugee-resettlement-increase-20170527-story.html | U.S. to increase number of refugees allowed in, reversing a sharp decline under Trump | U.S. to increase number of refugees allowed in, reversing a sharp decline under Trump
The State Department announced that it will lift its restriction on the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States, after a steep decrease in arrivals in recent months amid President Trump’s efforts to limit entry.
In an em... |
36f8d0c739e12c5ba7a92c6ac28b4c60 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-rodman-west-point-20160303-story.html | Dennis Rodman talks North Korea diplomacy before an audience of cadets at West Point | Dennis Rodman talks North Korea diplomacy before an audience of cadets at West Point
So here’s an out-of-the-box suggestion for dealing with the North Korea conundrum.
Send Dennis Rodman to negotiate a meeting between President Trump and dictator Kim Jong Un.
Only half-kidding, the idea was raised at an unusual panel h... |
a42796e6bb2de9930363e95a29ee0e3c | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-rower-20151129-story.html | Rower lands in Brooklyn after crossing Atlantic Ocean for HIV/AIDS awareness | Rower lands in Brooklyn after crossing Atlantic Ocean for HIV/AIDS awareness
A New Yorker who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean for AIDS awareness has arrived home in Brooklyn, ending a 21-month journey.
Victor Mooney arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Friday and plans a ceremony at the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday, he sa... |
37a76ede4474b652f19d104dec95a86e | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-roy-moore-ethics-20160928-snap-story.html | First it was the Ten Commandments, then same-sex marriage. Alabama chief justice in hot water again | First it was the Ten Commandments, then same-sex marriage. Alabama chief justice in hot water again
For the second time in 13 years, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, the contentious Deep South jurist who urged probate judges across the state not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, stood trial Wednesday on c... |
88e10cf0b0e0f468e4a8cc6236302add | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-russia-tech-20171031-story.html | Facebook tells Congress that 126 million Americans may have seen Russia-linked ads | Facebook tells Congress that 126 million Americans may have seen Russia-linked ads
As many as 126 million Americans may have seen divisive Russian-generated ads and posts on Facebook over the last two years, apparently part of a wide-ranging effort by Moscow to influence the 2016 presidential election, the social media... |
3c001c390841a238163d67bc7f4fb5b9 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ryan-health-care-plan-20160622-snap-story.html | Still no Obamacare alternative from House Republicans, five years on | Still no Obamacare alternative from House Republicans, five years on
More than five years after taking the majority on a promise to replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act, House Republicans have elected again not to advance a comprehensive alternative.
Instead, lawmakers are putting forward a general outline Wednesday th... |
de36c9c428de4385fe1b3271c6cf537b | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sanctuary-church-20170222-story.html | A Unitarian church in Denver shields immigrant from deportation | A Unitarian church in Denver shields immigrant from deportation
It was standing room only at the First Unitarian Church.
The choir belted out the African American spiritual “Down by the Riverside,” and Dee Galloway, a local poet, took the floor.
For the record:
An earlier version of this article referred to the America... |
32876c90d9f5a7f3571e23ec57460e8e | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sanders-campaign-technology-20150715-story.html | The savvy tech strategy fueling Bernie Sanders’ upstart 2016 campaign | The savvy tech strategy fueling Bernie Sanders’ upstart 2016 campaign
Bernie Sanders is more likely to sport a rumpled suit than a hoodie, has no affinity for geeking out on the gadgets of Silicon Valley and may prefer the company of protesters over programmers — yet no candidate running for president is more successfu... |
8a5235a6db02d4f07cea08dda585d589 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sanders-democrats-analysis-20150729-story.html | Bernie Sanders is drawing big crowds -- but how long will they stick around? | Bernie Sanders is drawing big crowds -- but how long will they stick around?
The Summer of Sanders — as in Bernie, the Vermont socialist and long-shot presidential hopeful — has featured big crowds flocking to hear the U.S. senator’s fist-shaking message: 8,000 in Dallas, 10,000 in Madison, 11,000 in Phoenix.
The impre... |
d9f3f8f7082eca76f648514875b68274 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sasse-trump-20160509-snap-story.html | How a freshman Republican senator became one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken critics in Washington | How a freshman Republican senator became one of Donald Trump’s most outspoken critics in Washington
Nebraska’s new senator spent his first year as fresh arrivals to Capitol Hill are supposed to: head down, hard at work, zero speeches.
No more.
The rise of Donald Trump to GOP presidential nomination turned the senator, ... |
366e03e5d2558a101bb9b6be17b0c2ae | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-saudi-sisters-20181103-story.html | Saudi sisters found dead in New York spoke of harming themselves, police say | Saudi sisters found dead in New York spoke of harming themselves, police say
Two immigrant sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies washed up on the New York City waterfront, bound together with duct tape, had told people that they would rather harm themselves than go back to their home country, according to investigator... |
de03f660d4d9688b5be8855bf1420be4 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-savannas-act-20181115-story.html | Global Development: The horrific death of a Native American woman spurs action in Congress | Global Development: The horrific death of a Native American woman spurs action in Congress
A year ago in August, during her last month of pregnancy, Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind placed a pizza delivery order to her family’s Fargo, N.D., apartment before heading upstairs to see a neighbor.
It was the last time LaFontaine... |
4e6a4492c50262cd6fab3f42bfc449c0 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-scalia-race-20151210-story.html | Justice Scalia under fire for race comments during affirmative action argument | Justice Scalia under fire for race comments during affirmative action argument
The Congressional Black Caucus, civil rights lawyers and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) denounced Justice Antonin Scalia on Thursday for what they said were racist and insulting comments in which he suggested some black students ... |
18bdecc521a841bf88d5ccc613fa3d99 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-scotus-abortion-protest-20140116-story.html | Supreme Court signals opposition to abortion clinic buffer zone | Supreme Court signals opposition to abortion clinic buffer zone
WASHINGTON — In a case pitting free speech against abortion rights, Supreme Court justices signaled Wednesday they were inclined to strike down a Massachusetts law that sets a 35-foot buffer zone to prevent protesters from approaching clinics that offer th... |
e468a26ebcaf5de8815ab263b376edbf | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-scotus-lapd-search-20140226-story.html | Supreme Court ruling expands police authority in home searches | Supreme Court ruling expands police authority in home searches
WASHINGTON — Police officers may enter and search a home without a warrant as long as one occupant consents, even if another resident has previously objected, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a Los Angeles case.
The 6-3 ruling, triggered by a Los Angeles ... |
81963d202eabbdde5eeec6bbb0ff86da | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-seattle-city-council-recall-2016-story.html | More than 20,000 sign petition to recall socialist Seattle councilwoman who urged Trump protests | More than 20,000 sign petition to recall socialist Seattle councilwoman who urged Trump protests
She’s the first socialist elected to the Seattle City Council in 100 years, and she campaigned on a platform that included rent control, a revenue-raising tax on millionaires and a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Now, Kshama Sawa... |
a57cbe6dcb5bec95dc8be7f6ea5958b5 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-seattle-sports-arena-20160506-story.html | Seattle councilwomen’s vote against NBA plan inspires sexist rage | Seattle councilwomen’s vote against NBA plan inspires sexist rage
When the Seattle City Council this week blocked a developer’s effort to build a new sports arena and bring professional basketball back to the city, the disappointment among the city’s basketball fans was no surprise.
Many were still pining over the loss... |
559293d7fa15ce431dc0ab08fb726e43 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-seattle-teen-death-20151218-story.html | Somali American teen’s unexplained death rattles Muslims and blacks in Seattle | Somali American teen’s unexplained death rattles Muslims and blacks in Seattle
He had almost memorized the entire Koran.
That’s what Hamza Warsame’s friends and family in Seattle’s Somali American community come back to again and again: Hamza, just 16, was only one sura, or chapter, away from finishing Islam’s central ... |
5c2db903848885dce18088d47c9b1a6d | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-arctic-drilling-20160707-snap-story.html | Obama administration strengthens Arctic drilling restrictions | Obama administration strengthens Arctic drilling restrictions
The Obama administration has made it harder to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean – not that many companies are trying to do so these days.
After years of revision, the administration announced final rules late last week that require companies working in the ... |
f4f895c2adc558c05068a6d1df6101d6 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-colorado-river-20160703-snap-story.html | Facing historically low levels, Lake Mead officials are fending off a water war. Here’s how | Facing historically low levels, Lake Mead officials are fending off a water war. Here’s how
This may be what the start of a water war looks like.
Drought is draining the West’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, to historic low levels. Forecasts say climate change will make things worse. Headlines warn of water shortages an... |
b6e6d5c761bd60461d4d9538b165d05f | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-colorado-river-arizona-20150719-story.html | Shrinking Colorado River is a growing concern for Yuma farmers — and millions of water users | Shrinking Colorado River is a growing concern for Yuma farmers — and millions of water users
The Colorado River begins as snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains and ends 1,450 miles south in Mexico after making a final sacrifice to the United States: water for the farm fields in this powerhouse of American produce.
Thro... |
6bd590694dd58f7345b1f713854162bb | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-drought-salmon-20150803-story.html | Heat and drought devastate sockeye salmon fishing and spawning on Washington rivers | Heat and drought devastate sockeye salmon fishing and spawning on Washington rivers
Here at the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia rivers, tens of thousands of sockeye and chinook salmon stage themselves every summer in an underwater base camp, waiting to make a final push to higher elevations in Canada and their ... |
1a9c21af0f037d3a53d8031b1c8a3a11 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-measuring-future-20151018-story.html | New technology is keeping the air we breathe under an unprecedented level of scrutiny | New technology is keeping the air we breathe under an unprecedented level of scrutiny
Measure twice, cut once, they say. Unless you are trying to save the planet.
In that case, measure and cut constantly.
Rising calls to create cleaner air and limit climate change are driving a surge in new technology for measuring air... |
6d8b008424ddd36386077d7407612f88 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-north-dakota-oil-town-20160111-story.html | In North Dakota, an oil boomtown doesn’t want to go bust | In North Dakota, an oil boomtown doesn’t want to go bust
People loved to leave this town. Kids grew up and got out. Take me to Minot, they would say. To Fargo or Bismarck. Anywhere but this emptiness.
Then the boom began and the world came to them.
Young men arrived by the thousands seeking their fortunes in the Bakken... |
4fce0fe0d6918dd6b1da486647f4ed99 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-oregon-standoff-environment-20160212-story.html | After the Oregon standoff, a new occupation begins -- this time it’s the birds | After the Oregon standoff, a new occupation begins -- this time it’s the birds
The same day four final holdouts ended the armed occupation of a remote wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon, a new occupation was just getting underway.
According to two decades’ worth of federal data, Feb. 11 is, on average, the earliest date... |
f9e0200819047106e365cc5ab780fcc6 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-sage-grouse-20150921-story.html | Unlikely allies are joining the quest to save the imperiled sage grouse | Unlikely allies are joining the quest to save the imperiled sage grouse
The greater sage grouse works hard for love.
When male birds emerge each spring in clearings called leks, they strut and cluck and puff their strange chests. They flare their tail feathers, do combat with competitors, whatever it takes to win the h... |
23684a3dbce51c6d215eae9cc110e4be | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-seattle-light-rail-20160404-story.html | On the Ground: Seattle continues quest to get greener as it grows with ‘transformative’ light-rail expansion | On the Ground: Seattle continues quest to get greener as it grows with ‘transformative’ light-rail expansion
It is just a modest extension — two stations added to 13 others already in existence on a line that serves a tiny fraction of the population in one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities.
But you could be forgiv... |
93d62c43bd6077e76dabd5cf1d7af294 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-utah-coal-20151211-story.html | How Utah quietly made plans to ship coal through California | How Utah quietly made plans to ship coal through California
The troubled U.S. coal industry has said for years that its future is in Asia. The question has been how to get there.
New coal export facilities proposed for the West Coast have met stiff and sometimes fatal resistance. City councils have passed defiant resol... |
8e324a71ea6679e00ac408300d71b436 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-selma-20150307-story.html | Selma, 50 years after march, remains a city divided | Selma, 50 years after march, remains a city divided
In preparation for the weekend’s goings-on, Selma city workers put up barricades downtown, outside Carter Drug.
In the 1960s, the drugstore served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement because its soda counter would not serve black customers. As the workers set ... |
01e018e132f1d7ebdbc6acc01654fef8 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-selma-sunday-march-20150308-story.html | In Selma, thousands join commemorative ‘Bloody Sunday’ civil rights march | In Selma, thousands join commemorative ‘Bloody Sunday’ civil rights march
Thousands of marchers, many singing “We Shall Overcome” or “This Little Light of Mine,” turned out Sunday to retrace the steps their forebears took half a century ago on the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The route was the same, but the condition... |
824e8b2b16f65bd307a48861bc8b84e8 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-senate-gay-rights-20131105-story.html | Gay rights bill clears key hurdle in Senate | Gay rights bill clears key hurdle in Senate
WASHINGTON — The gay rights movement won at least a preliminary victory Monday as the Senate voted to advance a measure that would ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
The 61-30 procedural vote does not necessarily predict the final out... |
0ae6551ff88ca55a67ddf1532c20133f | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sentencing-politics-20140421-story.html | Bids to shorten prison terms get bipartisan support (and opposition) | Bids to shorten prison terms get bipartisan support (and opposition)
WASHINGTON — For decades the Republican Party prided itself for being tough on crime, often putting Democrats on the defensive by pushing for longer, mandatory sentences for convicts.
In 1988, that hard-line stance helped sink the presidential dreams ... |
8c8f0c98a0a80849edd879b1fa83afc3 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-serial-killer-20181214-story.html | Must Reads: The inside story: How police and the FBI found one of the country’s worst serial killers | Must Reads: The inside story: How police and the FBI found one of the country’s worst serial killers
The FBI analysts sat mutely, listening intently to the scratchy audio feed from an interview room across the hall.
The two women were anxious, having spent months collecting and assessing ephemeral crumbs from the nomad... |
3b59b3f544397b8f5686ad3cfc59c696 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sessions-marijuana-20170809-story.html | Sessions says he has ‘serious concerns’ about legal marijuana. Now states wonder what’s next | Sessions says he has ‘serious concerns’ about legal marijuana. Now states wonder what’s next
With thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at stake, it’s a burning question: Is Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions preparing to mess with voter-approved sales of recreational marijuana?
It’s a question of prime importance in six Wes... |
d8fa8f4bb8c52f259c70d60c82721b04 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sheriff-joe-arpaio-20150421-story.html | Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces contempt hearing in Phoenix | Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces contempt hearing in Phoenix
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio cut a wide swath even beyond his Arizona world, where he was a very big political fish. He became the voice for a type of tough justice that harked back to the Wild West, when the lawman’s word was absolute and few worried a... |
91e40ecc096c5bfd5ccd7c7ae4745db0 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-shooter-drills-20131218-story.html | Columbine shooting continues to cast shadow over schools | Columbine shooting continues to cast shadow over schools
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — As she does every day, Kay Cates asked her 10-year-old son how his school day went. He shrugged.
“We did math. We did reading. We had a lockdown,” the Boulder fourth-grader replied.
She froze. When pressed, the boy matter-of-factly expla... |
438a23d6e7deb4fa5deade95a8006ec1 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-shooting15feb15-story.html | Northern Illinois University shooting leaves 6 dead, 16 wounded | Northern Illinois University shooting leaves 6 dead, 16 wounded
A gunman dressed in black stormed into an oceanography class at Northern Illinois University Thursday afternoon and opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns, killing five students and wounding 16 more in a matter of seconds.
Then, still on stage, he kil... |
fb3717d24c1201cfa689c824486ecee8 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sinclair-trial-20140320-story.html | Related story: Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair tearfully pleads with judge at sentencing | Related story: Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair tearfully pleads with judge at sentencing
FT. BRAGG, N.C. — His eyes red, his head bowed, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair strode uneasily to a courtroom lectern Wednesday and glanced up at a silver-haired military judge who will sentence him for offenses he admits he committed.... |
8646653ee32cab9a634bb2c6a05bb5e8 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-south-carolina-shooter-trial-2016-story.html | Dylann Roof trial: ‘He put five bullets in my son,’ church attack survivor testifies | Dylann Roof trial: ‘He put five bullets in my son,’ church attack survivor testifies
In stark and meticulous detail, federal prosecutors on Wednesday began to lay out their case against Dylann Roof, the self-avowed white supremacist charged with killing nine black worshipers at the historic Emanuel AME Church, describi... |
7c4e5c9d8fbe851e1339affd748cbfc6 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-spelling-bee-20180531-story.html | Newcomer wins National Spelling Bee after 4-time participant botches ‘Bewusstseinslage’ | Newcomer wins National Spelling Bee after 4-time participant botches ‘Bewusstseinslage’
The end of the biggest Scripps National Spelling Bee in history came abruptly, and it wasn’t the conclusion that many expected. Naysa Modi, a poised and charismatic four-time participant whose long spelling career seemed to be build... |
f328617a7221f17c6fe3030ecafbdf1a | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-standing-rock-journalist-arrest-20170205-story.html | Journalist faces charges after arrest while covering Dakota Access pipeline protest | Journalist faces charges after arrest while covering Dakota Access pipeline protest
A journalist arrested in a broad sweep of a “rogue” protest camp near the Standing Rock reservation is facing criminal charges from North Dakota authorities.
Jenni Monet, 40, on assignment for Indian Country Today and the Center for In... |
e59c61efb740aa06a19b44c7eea3687a | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-state-budgets-20140228-story.html | Recession’s over: Why aren’t public services coming back? | Recession’s over: Why aren’t public services coming back?
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — At Noble Prentis Elementary School, a classroom is crammed with 31 students and all their backpacks and books. Last year, the fifth-grade class had just 17 students, but a teaching position was cut when the school ran short of money.
The scho... |
d1a6c3201521554c2f9779dacd569d3f | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-states-planned-parenthood-20150824-story.html | States may not have legal right to cut Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood clinics | States may not have legal right to cut Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood clinics
The secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing how fetal tissue may be used for medical research spurred Republican governors in several states to announce a cutoff of Medicaid funds to the group’s clinics.
But ... |
75fb6e542301ff08f05c29150873ca25 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-steyer-20131222-story.html | Tom Steyer may be liberals’ answer to the Koch brothers | Tom Steyer may be liberals’ answer to the Koch brothers
Tom Steyer is standing upright near the corner of a small, beige meeting room at Georgetown University, arms at his sides, eyes shut intently. Half a dozen ministers and priests surround him, laying hands on his torso.
Together, the pastors begin to pray, asking f... |
0cf32503b4eb3adccc612bcf0fd64cf6 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-stranded-cruise-passengers-20170907-story.html | Thousands of cruise ship passengers dropped off in Miami ahead of Hurricane Irma | Thousands of cruise ship passengers dropped off in Miami ahead of Hurricane Irma
When Natasha Allen and her husband, Richard, embarked Monday on a five-day Royal Caribbean cruise to the Bahamas, the recently married couple expected a relaxing vacation.
While they had known that Hurricane Irma was potentially headed the... |
1739dca410dd0186ad40986361623533 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-student-protests-20180220-story.html | A spreading movement? How Florida school shooting survivors are inspiring other students to demand gun control | A spreading movement? How Florida school shooting survivors are inspiring other students to demand gun control
It started as a memorial to the 17 dead.
But after students at West Boca Raton Community High School gathered outside Tuesday to mark 17 minutes of silence — one for each person shot to death last week at near... |
726ae6bcb04371f1472fd71ceeea2b1a | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sugar-limits-20150317-story.html | Food industry waging a bitter battle over proposal on added-sugar labels | Food industry waging a bitter battle over proposal on added-sugar labels
Of all the issues the Obama administration is grappling with, a modest redesign of what food labels say about sweeteners might not have seemed among the more controversial. But ever since First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled the plan last year, a lo... |
540df8fd6293cf7177cf99d5a594f516 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-american-flag-20150330-story.html | Ruling on U.S. flag raises questions about students’ free-speech rights | Ruling on U.S. flag raises questions about students’ free-speech rights
The Supreme Court rejected a free-speech appeal Monday from several California high school students who were told they could not wear a shirt emblazoned with an American flag on the Cinco de Mayo holiday.
The court’s action has the effect of uphold... |
f7a75a66b2aafe46ca5cfefd88516c47 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-health-benefits-union-retirees-20150126-story.html | Supreme Court knocks down promised health benefits for union retirees | Supreme Court knocks down promised health benefits for union retirees
The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on the future of old union contracts that had promised lifetime health benefits for retired workers and their families.
In a case seen as a victory for corporate America, the justices ruled these promises should no... |
965d0b234dee8f909c8affb495e20177 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-new-term-20151005-story.html | Why liberals fear new Supreme Court term could hurt abortion rights and unions | Why liberals fear new Supreme Court term could hurt abortion rights and unions
After legalizing same-sex marriage and upholding provisions of President Obama’s legacy healthcare program for a second time, the Supreme Court justices return to work Monday in a new term that will put liberals on the defense.
If the five c... |
d592348bf324e3177cabcdff8fef9535 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-tamir-rice-grand-jury-20151228-story.html | Grand jury declines to indict Cleveland officer in fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice | Grand jury declines to indict Cleveland officer in fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice
A grand jury Monday declined to indict a white rookie police officer in the killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was shot while playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun.
In explaining the decision, Cuyahoga ... |
5835ef6cfad735945b669421c9cdbda6 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-teacher-shooting-20180228-story.html | After their teacher fires a gun at school, Georgia students use opportunity to challenge Trump’s proposal | After their teacher fires a gun at school, Georgia students use opportunity to challenge Trump’s proposal
Jesse Randall Davidson wasn’t a stranger, some mysterious threat from the outside. He was a bearded, bespectacled, 53-year-old social studies teacher and the play-by-play announcer for the football games at Dalton ... |
3f28d39c8821333cb94594bc5365c4ba | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-terence-crutcher-funeral-20160923-snap-story.html | Mourners remember Tulsa man killed by police officer | Mourners remember Tulsa man killed by police officer
As music reverberated through the walls, hundreds of people packed into a large Baptist church Saturday evening to mourn the death of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man shot to death by a white police officer.
“It could have been me,” said family friend and attor... |
f00ca81e3a2bbf996f91b33a240170d0 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-border-cemeteries-20190219-story.html | Must Reads: Border fence threatens family burial ground — and a slice of African American history | Must Reads: Border fence threatens family burial ground — and a slice of African American history
When Ramiro Ramirez was a boy, his grandmother would bring him to visit the family cemeteries tucked amid vegetable and sugarcane fields here just north of the Rio Grande. He would carry a small bucket of water to help her... |
064b8799219f816ae6733912c5d36341 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-border-chapel-20190208-story.html | A border fence could seal off this tiny Texas chapel, but its worshipers aren’t giving up | A border fence could seal off this tiny Texas chapel, but its worshipers aren’t giving up
Dozens of people packed into the one-room chapel Friday to pray that the 19th century mission known as La Lomita, perched on a hill above the Rio Grande, won’t be sealed off behind a border fence.
Worshipers bowed their heads duri... |
a7ad392cd80932ead03a827a8ecd288f | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-border-corruption-20160918-snap-story.html | 3 brothers in south Texas, one a Border Patrol agent, charged in drug cartel-linked murder case | 3 brothers in south Texas, one a Border Patrol agent, charged in drug cartel-linked murder case
Joel Luna seemed an ideal Border Patrol hire: south Texas native, high school ROTC standout, Army combat veteran.
Luna worked out of a border checkpoint about 100 miles north of Mexico in Hebbronville, patrolling ranch land ... |
d50860b21467fa34f63d0fc4b7bc90e0 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-border-wall-church-20190130-htmlstory.html | A cowboy priest battles to protect 153-year-old Texas chapel from a border fence | A cowboy priest battles to protect 153-year-old Texas chapel from a border fence
The white-haired priest stepped from the fog like a ghost, his robes and cowboy hat glowing in the predawn darkness like the sandstone chapel that he returns to again and again.
They call this one-room church rising above the banks of the ... |
c66eaa3a4c6a08f1253944727fa21947 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-fort-hood-20160603-snap-story.html | Tragedy strikes Ft. Hood once more as 9 soldiers die in training accident | Tragedy strikes Ft. Hood once more as 9 soldiers die in training accident
The bodies of four more soldiers have been recovered at Ft. Hood, bringing to nine the number of service members killed when a military truck overturned in a rain-swollen creek at the sprawling base, authorities said.
The death total had stood at... |
af8ae585ca40076dbc6f386478e2312b | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-george-hw-bush-2018-story.html | Now it’s Texas’ time to bid farewell to George H.W. Bush | Now it’s Texas’ time to bid farewell to George H.W. Bush
George H.W. Bush was born and raised in New England, but when his body left Washington on Wednesday, it was flown back to his adopted home: Texas.
Bush supporters in Texas have flocked to makeshift memorials at the feet of his statues overlooking Houston’s Buffal... |
ae2f706d7477d5040168322d5490f55a | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-harvey-nursing-homes-20170929-story.html | After Harvey hit, one Texas nursing home evacuation began with a gun drawn | After Harvey hit, one Texas nursing home evacuation began with a gun drawn
The front doors to the Lake Arthur Place nursing home were locked when Ben Husser and his team of volunteer rescuers arrived on boats. He knocked, and when somebody cracked open the entrance, he pushed his way in.
The hallways smelled like feces... |
ade90deb2944e53739219cf24cd6bd15 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-immigrants-harvey-20170901-story.html | For Texas immigrants, Harvey came at an already tense time | For Texas immigrants, Harvey came at an already tense time
With Hurricane Harvey barreling toward his house in Corpus Christi and his family waiting it out in San Antonio, the young man’s mother made a comment that will stick with him.
If there’s nothing left when we get back to Corpus Christi, she said, we’re going ba... |
9c00ae5f62b7de0625405881dfd056a1 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-immigration-20180622-story.html | Confusion spreads about reunifying immigrant families and the future of ‘zero tolerance’ | Confusion spreads about reunifying immigrant families and the future of ‘zero tolerance’
Officials meeting on the southern border Friday vowed not to split immigrant families, but said that it was unclear whether parents would be charged criminally and that it could take months to reunify those already separated under ... |
e0ff79eefcb9a56ddc2fcc2b5b5fdc9b | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-immigration-fasting-20180627-story.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Ffeatures%2Freligion+%28L.A.+Times+-+Religious+News%29 | In Texas, fasting, prayers and some anger over immigrant children still separated from parents | In Texas, fasting, prayers and some anger over immigrant children still separated from parents
The night before, a federal judge in California had granted the American Civil Liberties Union a preliminary injunction that calls for all children affected by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy to... |
7d8d8ae883653595daca461d365cb209 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-oil-20150303-story.html | In West Texas oil boomtowns, ‘the end is near’ | In West Texas oil boomtowns, ‘the end is near’
Fear blew in fierce over a patch of West Texas late last year, falling fast and without warning through gray skies to alight on the shoulders of men and women who depend on oil for their livelihoods.
Oil that was once $100 a barrel started selling for $75, then $60. Well d... |
904c29a92725bc6c909703731ce04957 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-ranch-sale-20151020-story.html | 800-square-mile Texas ranch for sale; all yours for $725 million | 800-square-mile Texas ranch for sale; all yours for $725 million
For sale: the biggest American ranch ever put on the block -- larger than Los Angeles and New York City combined -- nearly 800 square miles of north Texas prairie, cattle pasture and, of course, oil fields.
Price tag: $725 million, more than quadruple the... |
6e2a466ea26a90c7d4f2f070cac8867d | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-sanctuary-bill-20170503-story.html | Texas lawmakers approve bill outlawing ‘sanctuary cities’ | Texas lawmakers approve bill outlawing ‘sanctuary cities’
The Texas Senate on Wednesday approved a controversial “sanctuary cities” ban that would make it a crime for law enforcement to refuse cooperation with federal immigration officials.
Ending several weeks of emotional debate in both houses of the Legislature, the... |
4199b16248ebb9a6391a2817a07a2a14 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-shooter-20180519-story.html?utm_source=wnd&utm_medium=wnd&utm_campaign=syndicated | Must Reads: Texas school shooter killed girl who turned down his advances and embarrassed him in class, her mother says | Must Reads: Texas school shooter killed girl who turned down his advances and embarrassed him in class, her mother says
As he heard the gunshots approaching down the hall Friday morning, Santa Fe High School student Abel San Miguel, 15, hid with a few classmates in the art class storage closet.
He wasn’t sure if he was... |
11e8fbd67831259158c85392aba6d4d4 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-tropical-storm-harvey-20170830-story.html | ‘We’re at God’s mercy’: Texas coast doused with new assault from Harvey’s rain and winds | ‘We’re at God’s mercy’: Texas coast doused with new assault from Harvey’s rain and winds
The biggest rainstorm in U.S. mainland history made a second landfall on the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, cutting a devastating path across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana — even as the sun began to emerge in Houston and some r... |
dfdf3bde01f8fe198cb761ee887df767 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-tps-revoked-20180720-story.html | The Trump administration wants more than 400,000 people to leave the U.S. Here’s who they are and why | The Trump administration wants more than 400,000 people to leave the U.S. Here’s who they are and why
For nearly three decades, the United States has allowed immigrants from certain countries plagued by civil war or natural disasters to live here until conditions in their homelands improved.
Such immigrants entered the... |
e9c9e5a380079b842858bca159274c12 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-train-derailment-20131204-story.html | New York train crash inquiry focuses on engineer’s actions | New York train crash inquiry focuses on engineer’s actions
NEW YORK — The brakes on a passenger train that sped into a curve at 82 mph before derailing were functioning properly, and the engineer was working his regular shift on a familiar route and should have been fully rested, investigators said Tuesday as attention... |
156038d36a34bd906616a2e9052a58b6 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-transgender-enlistment-delay-20170630-story.html | Pentagon delays decision on transgender enlistments by 6 months | Pentagon delays decision on transgender enlistments by 6 months
Defense Secretary James N. Mattis is giving the military chiefs another six months to conduct a review to determine whether allowing transgender individuals to enlist in the armed services will affect the “readiness or lethality” of the force.
Pentagon spo... |
ef8f7c317294b7bc096b2f0e00534f47 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-travel-ban-court-20170315-story.html%C2%A0 | Federal judge in Hawaii blocks new travel ban nationwide; Trump vows to pursue his case ‘all the way’ | Federal judge in Hawaii blocks new travel ban nationwide; Trump vows to pursue his case ‘all the way’
A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked the major provisions of President Trump’s revised ban on refugee resettlement and travel from six predominantly Muslim countries, hours before the executive order was to take effec... |
211db57683eeee668d7a1969f959a5e7 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-travel-executive-order-20170216-story.html | Trump says he will issue a new order after a ‘very bad decision’ blocked his initial travel ban | Trump says he will issue a new order after a ‘very bad decision’ blocked his initial travel ban
Faced with a string of legal defeats across the country, President Trump on Thursday effectively abandoned efforts to uphold his controversial ban on travel from several countries with links to terrorism and said he would is... |
36032b6cdd059b1619f1c6e4e06de414 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-travel-slump-2017-story.html | The Trump slump? Tourists say they’re scared to visit the United States | The Trump slump? Tourists say they’re scared to visit the United States
During spring break, Canadian families used to pile the kids into a tour bus and head to New York to see the Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and other attractions. It was the start of the busy season for Comfort Tour, a Toronto-based firm tha... |
4a1db42dd3f4f3b69c61f402b82939c2 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-troops-texas-border-20181106-story.html | ‘Caravan-related exercise’ on the Texas border canceled because of election day concerns | ‘Caravan-related exercise’ on the Texas border canceled because of election day concerns
U.S. troops have been climbing, armed, from helicopters onto the borderlands of south Texas this week, dozens riding in on heavy military vehicles, stringing concertina wire and erecting temporary structures near border bridges whe... |
b8f6a06b2095f9e2146bc2c41a28e832 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-climate-change-20170405-story.html | Is this the end of U.S. participation in the Paris climate deal? Not necessarily, says Obama’s former envoy | Is this the end of U.S. participation in the Paris climate deal? Not necessarily, says Obama’s former envoy
Under President Obama, the United States was seen as a leader on climate change, forging alliances with China and other big polluters that were pivotal to an agreement reached in Paris two years ago that aims to ... |
960a320c23004305ed5990a44bec0679 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-costs-20170508-story.html | Trump’s multiple residences, large jet-setting family and commuter marriage drive up first family travel and protection costs | Trump’s multiple residences, large jet-setting family and commuter marriage drive up first family travel and protection costs
On the Thursday evening before Easter, photographers staking out Palm Beach International Airport in Florida awaiting President Trump were surprised to see not one, but two Air Force planes arri... |
7e7fda9ad833d702d44a85101c05b9e9 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-defense-20180212-story.html | Trump proposes huge increase in military spending | Trump proposes huge increase in military spending
The Trump administration on Monday proposed a defense budget of $716 billion for fiscal 2019, part of an ambitious effort to substantially boost Pentagon spending after years of tight budget limits and refocus the military on countering Russia and China.
The budget blue... |
1f512960849447fc07d7ccca4c8231bc | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-fact-check-20181119-story.html | Midterms, veterans and Adam Schiff: Trump’s words and math just don’t add up | Midterms, veterans and Adam Schiff: Trump’s words and math just don’t add up
In a week honoring the sacrifice of America’s warriors, President Trump appeared to claim that he visited Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day last year and asserted that veterans, thanks to him, no longer face long waits for medical ca... |
e322d7f450eef5edac97310c20597883 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-foundation-tax-20181126-story.html | Trump charity that gave away millions before 2016 election did not donate last year | Trump charity that gave away millions before 2016 election did not donate last year
President Trump’s charitable foundation made no donations last year, a sharp break from the 2016 election year when it gave away millions of dollars and drew a lawsuit alleging the charity was acting as a quasi-political group.
The Dona... |
71f5de9f2673037bd5b76b7c6026d2b7 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-nation-virginia-20160421-snap-htmlstory.html | Inside Trump Nation: Virginia voter, struggling to make ends meet, finds a voice with take-charge Donald Trump | Inside Trump Nation: Virginia voter, struggling to make ends meet, finds a voice with take-charge Donald Trump
Peggy Hayes is professionally upbeat. A personal trainer, she teases clients about the pain that awaits them and hands out calling cards that read: “Clear your mind of can’t.”
Yet beneath her motivational smil... |
7cbe9b00fc38a2897591e70d561cc707 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-nra-convention-20180430-story.html | No guns but plenty of protesters expected when Trump addresses NRA convention | No guns but plenty of protesters expected when Trump addresses NRA convention
President Trump will address gun rights supporters on the first day of the National Rifle Assn. convention in Dallas on Friday, a White House official confirmed — a move likely to increase tension and protests at the annual gathering.
The con... |
b20a2d8a96cb5a3fa79d0b283bdd2d30 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-obamacare-repeal-20161212-story.html | Trump and the GOP are charging forward with Obamacare repeal, but few are eager to follow | Trump and the GOP are charging forward with Obamacare repeal, but few are eager to follow
As they race to repeal large parts of the Affordable Care Act, President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are leaving behind nearly everyone but their base voters and a handful of conservative activists.
Not a sing... |
7e576a7f60baaa6c1a0be5c5674b00c9 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-ramos-univision-20150825-story.html | Donald Trump and Univision’s Jorge Ramos engage in testy exchange in Iowa | Donald Trump and Univision’s Jorge Ramos engage in testy exchange in Iowa
Donald Trump ordered Univision anchor Jorge Ramos unceremoniously evicted from a news conference Tuesday as the immigration debate continued to dominate the Republican presidential primary.
At the news conference in Dubuque, Iowa, Ramos stood wit... |
ab6a55671ca968ef21413c44ac0a677c | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-russia-comments-20180721-story.html | Pence, Bolton, Kelly confronted Trump in Oval Office about Russia comments | Pence, Bolton, Kelly confronted Trump in Oval Office about Russia comments
Facing condemnation from allies and foes alike on Capitol Hill, President Trump was outnumbered even in the Oval Office. Top aides gathered to persuade the president to issue a rare walk-back of the comments he’d made raising doubts about U.S. i... |
b74927750e3f37e22c1b1f16a4f2e916 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-sanders-20150814-story.html | The populist sentiment fueling both the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump campaigns | The populist sentiment fueling both the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump campaigns
If Donald Trump were running against Bernie Sanders in the general election next year, Americans would face a choice between an unabashed capitalist and an enthusiastic socialist. One candidate would rail against the power of the “billion... |
82cbf6ad8c19c802f074fd638aa5e390 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-supreme-court-list-20160518-snap-story.html | Trump announces list of potential Supreme Court picks, including one who has repeatedly mocked him | Trump announces list of potential Supreme Court picks, including one who has repeatedly mocked him
Hoping to reassure Republicans worried that he might be too liberal, Donald Trump on Wednesday named 11 conservative judges from outside the Washington Beltway as his likely choices for a Supreme Court justice should he b... |
d7d6d8cccd9368f2f2fbd1d6cadb7483 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-travel-ban-court-20170401-story.html | With new court filings, Trump’s travel ban appears more likely to reach Supreme Court | With new court filings, Trump’s travel ban appears more likely to reach Supreme Court
For weeks, President Trump has bemoaned court decisions blocking two versions of his ban on travel from six majority-Muslim countries and all refugee resettlement, saying he wants to take his case to the highest court of the land.
Soo... |
2a3d5695914d2b2ca03d40abe735cc89 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-white-pride-20161117-story.html | ‘There’s nothing wrong with being white.’ Trump’s win brings ‘white pride’ out of the shadows | ‘There’s nothing wrong with being white.’ Trump’s win brings ‘white pride’ out of the shadows
As he watched the news of the presidential election in the last week, Kory Duquette became increasingly agitated. Pundits were blaming a “whitelash” for Donald Trump’s win and called it a massive exercise of angry white ballot... |
8a37c24ecc005494269433f10e64839b | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-women-20150808-story.html | Will Megyn Kelly’s question about women derail Donald Trump’s candidacy? | Will Megyn Kelly’s question about women derail Donald Trump’s candidacy?
The debate-night clash between Donald Trump and Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly spilled offstage and onto Twitter, television and the campaign trail Friday, as Republicans wondered whether the seemingly unstoppable celebrity-candidate had met his m... |
224377e3f5d6dd7517c3fba5e8d7796b | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-tsa-monitor-airline-passengers-20180730-story.html | Air marshals secretly monitored U.S. passengers for years | Air marshals secretly monitored U.S. passengers for years
Federal air marshals have for years been quietly monitoring small numbers of U.S. air passengers and reporting on in-flight behavior considered suspicious, even if those individuals have no known terrorism links, the Transportation Security Administration said o... |
958a75eeaa6a065a653da650afbbac61 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-tyler-barriss-swatting-sentencing-20190329-story.html | California man sentenced to 20 years in fatal ‘swatting’ | California man sentenced to 20 years in fatal ‘swatting’
A California man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for making bogus emergency calls to authorities across the U.S., including one that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man following a dispute between two online players over a $1.50 bet in the “Call o... |
c9e309f9ebeed4ddc4fe83a73d2f1ffe | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-uranium-one-explainer-20171030-story.html | Here’s what we know about what Trump calls the ‘Uranium to Russia deal’ | Here’s what we know about what Trump calls the ‘Uranium to Russia deal’
On Sunday, two days after a federal grand jury approved the first indictments in the investigation of potential collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia, President Trump tweeted his concern about the “Uranium to Russia deal,” an issue... |
ad4a2bae907d03d67ce1880e35abb859 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-elections-20161213-story.html?_amp=true | The U.S. is no stranger to interfering in the elections of other countries | The U.S. is no stranger to interfering in the elections of other countries
Update: President Obama on Thursday slapped Russia with new penalties for meddling in the U.S. presidential election, kicking out dozens of suspected spies and imposing banking restrictions on five people and four organizations the administratio... |
c84163a15942b6ed1de8167424a4a2b4 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-iraq-deportations-20170626-story.html | Detroit judge halts deportations of Iraqi immigrants nationwide | Detroit judge halts deportations of Iraqi immigrants nationwide
A federal judge in Detroit on Monday put a temporary hold on the deportation of scores of Iraqi nationals swept up in immigration enforcement raids around the country in recent months.
U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith had already issued a 14-day stay of ... |
890ea6c9c8944d622bc55e99b80cd808 | https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-trump-protests-20161111-story.html | Oregon protester shot during a fourth night of election protests across the nation | Oregon protester shot during a fourth night of election protests across the nation
A protester was shot in Portland amid a rowdy standoff with police as a fourth night of protests unfolded around the nation, spurred by outrage over the election of Donald Trump as president.
The non-fatal shooting occurred when a protes... |
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