LA county reports first drop in deaths of unhoused people in a decade

Most populous US county last year also noted fewer unhoused people in area facing affordable housing shortage More than 2,200 unhoused people died in Los Angeles in 2024, marking the first time in a decade that the homeless mortality rate decreased in the nation’s most populous county, public health officials announced on Tuesday. The signs … Read more

Trump urges Congress to pass SAVE America Act, fully fund DHS as TSA workers go without pay

President Donald Trump is urging Congress to pass the SAVE America Act (SAA) as well as restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as more than 100,000 federal employees go without pay during a prolonged funding lapse, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday.  Leavitt outlined the president’s dual push for sweeping … Read more

Far-left lawmaker endorses candidate who boasted about voting with Republicans 80% of time

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., a top progressive in Congress, is backing former businessman and Kansas state representative Raj Goyle in his bid to become New York’s next comptroller. “I am proud to endorse [Goyle] for New York State Comptroller. Raj has been a lifelong progressive: fighting for immigrant communities, defending reproductive freedom and holding corporations … Read more

WATCH: Dem witness accuses Trump of ‘population purge,’ Kennedy fires back: ‘You trigger my gag reflex’

David Bier, a Democrat-called witness at a Senate Budget Committee hearing Tuesday, drew a sharp rebuke from GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana after accusing the Trump administration of attempting a “population purge” in the U.S. Earlier in the hearing, Bier, an immigration policy expert at the CATO Institute, argued that both legal and illegal … Read more

Trump names Erika Kirk to key advisory board of US Air Force Academy

Widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk replaces husband on 16-member panel of military training facility Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy. The 37-year-old joins a number of other loyalists to the president on the 16-member … Read more

The Guardian view on Europe’s response to the Iran crisis: damage limitation only goes so far | Editorial

The US-Israeli bombardment has once again underlined Donald Trump’s indifference to international law. A stronger EU can be a vital counterweight When European leaders were blindsided in January by Donald Trump’s unilateral abduction of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, their immediate response was to hedge their bets. Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s top diplomat, affirmed that … Read more

Noma loses major sponsors for Los Angeles events after reports of abuse

American Express and Blackbird cut ties with restaurant after René Redzepi accused of abusing his staff After allegations emerged this week that René Redzepi had abused his staff at Noma, once considered the world’s best restaurant, sponsors on Tuesday announced they would end their support for the chef’s upcoming events in Los Angeles. The New … Read more