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‘It’s a shambles’: DOGE cuts bring chaos, long waits at Social Security for seniors

Elderly and disabled people are encountering severe service disruptions as the Trump administration overhauls the Social Security Administration system.

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Markets tumble toward more big losses as China retaliates with an 84% tariff on U.S. goods

A worker packages Little Tikes Snug 'n Secure Swings at the MGA Entertainment toy factory in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. The sprawling desert city of Juarez will house a long list of new factories that were ordered up by anxious CEOs across the world when the pandemic roiled their global supply routes. Photographer: Paul Ratje/Bloomberg via Getty Images

From Bratz dolls to Krusty the Clown: How Trump tariffs are hurting L.A. toy makers

Walnut, CA, Monday, April 7, 2025 - Trade tariffs are already affecting grocery stores, like Diamond Farmers Market, where much of their produce and groceries come from foreign countries. Juan Balmaceda fills a shelf with celery from California. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Trump tariffs bring anxiety to Costco aisles: Cut back or stock up before prices soar?

FILE - White House trade adviser Peter Navarro listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House, on Aug. 14, 2020, in Washington. Former Trump adviser Navarro revealed in a draft court filing Tuesday, May 31, 2022, that he has been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury this week as part of the Justice Department's sprawling probe into the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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Trump’s visa policies have foreign musicians on edge. How will they affect Coachella and touring?

TECOLUCA, EL SALVADOR - MARCH 16: In this handout photo provided by the Salvadoran government, inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations knee on the ground at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Trump's administration deported 238 alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organizations 'Tren De Aragua' and Mara Salvatrucha with only 23 being members of the Mara. Nayib Bukele president of El Salvador announced that his government will receive the alleged members of the gang to be taken to CECOT. On February of 2023 El Salvador inaugurated Latin America's largest prison as part of President Nayib Bukele's plan to fight gangs. (Photo by Salvadoran Government via Getty Images)

Supreme Court immigration ruling: Due process in theory, deportation in practice

Los Angeles, California-Sept. 9, 2021-Rep. Karen Bass shakes hands with her supporters at Los Angeles Trade Tech College at the kickoff to her campaign for mayor of Los Angeles on Oct. 16, 2021. Representative Bass was born and raised in Los Angeles and has a new vision for the city. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Mayor Karen Bass is looking vulnerable. But will anyone challenge her in 2026?

Their work in peril, UCLA researchers decry Trump administration funding cuts at protest

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An art project called the Goodbye Line prompts passersby to make a collect call and say goodbye — to a loved one, a pet or maybe a part of themselves. People are dialing.

Hung up for good: L.A.’s payphones fade into history

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA - 2025/04/06: Hundreds of people rally against U.S tarrifs and threats of annexation at the Manitoba Legislature. Hundreds gathered at the Manitoba Legislature for a "Rally for Canada," showing national pride and protesting U.S. tariffs and annexation threats. The event featured ball hockey, burgers, and music, with attendees dressed in red and white to affirm Canada's sovereignty. (Photo by Lyle Stafford/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Trump threats do the unthinkable: transform Canadians into flag-waving, U.S.-booing patriots

Instead of cowing Canadians, President Trump’s threats to annex their country have unleashed a wave of patriotic fervor unmatched in living memory.

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LOS ANGELES -- MARCH 18, 2025: Hannah and Hayden Coplen with their son Silas in their garden at their West Adams home on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Yasara Gunawardena / For The Times)

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PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - MARCH 15, 2025 - - Workers shovel shredded lithium-ion batteries at a staging area operated by the Environmental Protection Agency at the Will Rogers State Beach parking lot in Pacific Palisades on March 15, 2025. The lithium-ion battery shredder, background, helps break down the lithium-ion batteries. The EPA has finished removing all the burned, unstable batteries from the Palisades burn area and is finishing up the process of shredding them for recycling. The batteries are soaked for days in brine solution to de-energize them and then shredded. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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San Diego, CA. April 8, 2025 - Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks during a fireside chat at the ASU+GSV Summit at The Manchester Grand Hyatt in Downtown San Diego on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Sandy Huffaker/The Los Angeles Times)

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JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, CA - MARCH 20, 2025 - - A portion of he U.S./Mexico border wall, where migrants used to cross with great frequency, are nowhere to be seen these days near the incorporated town of Jacumba Hot Springs on March 20, 2025. The recently added concertina wire has prevented anyone from climbing over the wall. This was an area that has been a favorite entry point for many migrants. "It's hard to keep it up if you don't see anyone at all," Schultz said about his efforts to continue to bring food and water to the migrants in the area. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Trump administration to speed up construction of California-Mexico border wall

ADDS NAME OF SKI RESORT - Skiers climb to the top of a mountain near Palisades Tahoe, a California ski resort near Lake Tahoe, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in Calif. After closing down every lift and trail in the avalanche's aftermath, Palisades Tahoe reopened many runs on Thursday. But its iconic KT-22 lift, which serves the area of mostly expert runs where the slide occurred, remained closed while crews worked to clear a road to enable snowcats and snowmobiles to enter and clean up. (Mark Sponsler via AP)

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico warns against potential U.S. drone strikes on cartels

Amid reports that the Trump administration is considering drone strikes against drug cartels, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated her staunch opposition to any such military action.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol greets his supporters after he came out of a detention center in Uiwang, South Korea, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Kim Do-hun/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea’s Constitutional Court removes President Yoon Suk Yeol from office

Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes a.ka. El Mencho, reputed leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, with his son Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, known as El Menchito, in an evidence photo used by federal prosecutors.

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FILE - Nobel Peace Prize laureate and two-time Costa Rican President Oscar Arias looks at the media during the opening ceremony of the XV World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at the University in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 26: Portrait of Mariam Rahmani, author of Liquid: A Love Story on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Mariah Tauger)

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FULLERTON, CA - APRIL 4, 2025 - - Brothers Frank, from left, Rikk and Alfie Agnew, of the punk band Adolescents, strike a punk pose in front of the display that features their band at the, "Punk OC - From the Streets of Suburbia," exhibit at the Fullerton Museum Center on April 4, 2025. The Agnew brothers are the main subject of director Gabriel L. Zavala, Jr.'s, new documentary, "AGNEW - the story of a California family," capturing their impact on the OC punk scene. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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TOPSHOT - US former tennis player and activist Billie Jean King attends her Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony in front of the W Hotel on April 7, 2025, in Hollywood, California. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Billie Jean King looked at Hollywood Walk of Fame stars as a kid. Tennis icon now has her own

Savannah Chrisley at the annual CPAC DC conference at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxon Hill, MD on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (Photo by Dominic Gwinn / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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A worker packages Little Tikes Snug 'n Secure Swings at the MGA Entertainment toy factory in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. The sprawling desert city of Juarez will house a long list of new factories that were ordered up by anxious CEOs across the world when the pandemic roiled their global supply routes. Photographer: Paul Ratje/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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The New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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The Charcter.AI app on a smartphone arranged in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. The artificial intelligence startup, valued at $1 billion, allows people to create their own customizedchatbots, impersonating anyone and anything living or dead or inanimate. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images

California lawmakers tackle potential dangers of AI chatbots after parents raise safety concerns

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 15, 2019 Lyft and Uber driver Carlos Martinez waves his Mobile Workers Alliance flag as he joined Lyft and Uber drivers that paraded then parked on Spring Street between Temple and 1st Street in front of Los Angeles City Hall as the drivers rally to support a City Council proposal to guarantee a $30-per-hour wage for drivers. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

California lawmakers to propose legislation giving ride-hailing drivers right to unionize

FILE - A sign bearing the Tesla company logo is displayed outside a Tesla store in Cherry Creek Mall in Denver, Colorado, Feb. 9, 2019. U.S. safety regulators are turning up the heat on Tesla, announcing investigations into steering wheels coming off some SUVs and a fatal crash involving a Tesla suspected of using an automated driving system when it ran into a parked firetruck in California. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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LONG BEACH CA - FEBRUARY 7, 2025 - - Abraham and Cecilia Beltran sit in the living room in their one-bedroom apartment in Long Beach on February 7, 2025. They both love Midcentury design and color and have decorated the apartment with lots of colorful accents and personal mementos, including family photos and collectables from their travels. The living room is surrounded in family photographs and keepsakes the couple have collected for years. It's an 800-square foot post-war apartment typical in this Long Beach neighborhood. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Agoura Hills, CA - March 31: Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing on Monday, March 31, 2025 in Agoura Hills, CA. Delivery of the first soil creating a wildlife habitat began via a conveyor belt to be spread on top of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura Hills. The processing of the soil is positioned on the north side of the crossing, parallel to the 101 freeway where the soil will be added via the conveyor. Track loaders on the top deck of the crossing spread the soil over a base layer of small rock into position where landscape crew can rake the soil into position. The team uses caution at this stage to avoid weight imbalance as they add the soil in stages over a couple of weeks. Overall the plan will add 6,000 cubic yards of soil to the top of the structure, which will be contoured to different depths. (Al Seib / For The Times)

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Long Beach, CA - March 20: Lori Basheda poses for a portrait in her garden on Thursday, March 20, 2025 in Long Beach, CA. Basheda's garden is a part of the annual Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

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Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, March 15, 2025 - People line up outside a New Balance Harajuku to purchase special edition Shohei Ohtani shoes early Saturday morning. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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