High-speed rail leader says project needs to find new funding or costs and timeline will expand
High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri said the authority will ask the Trump administration for money, but even if that ...
Histories of Native America and the Port of Los Angeles Win Bancroft Prize
The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” ...
Old-Fashioned Train Heists Yield Modern-Day Loot: Nike Air Jordans
Transnational gangs have been targeting sneakers, wireless gaming headsets and other modern merchandise transported by rail, ...
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Daring train thieves target BNSF Railway, stealing $2M worth of Nike and other goods
Train heists aren't just a thing of the Old West. A series of brazen train robberies has emerged across the western United ...
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2 held for placing telephone post on railway track
Thiruvananthapuram: Kundara Police arrested two men for placing a telephone post across Kollam–Sengottai railway line near Ezhukone on Saturday. They intended to collect the cast iron from it ...
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass removes LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley over handling of Palisades fire
She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Hylton has previously worked at NBC LA, Telemundo 52, The Los Angeles Times and KOMO 4 News in Seattle.
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Acting ICE director reassigned amid frustrations over pace of mass deportations
recently said arrests inside the U.S. — as opposed to people arrested as they’re crossing the border — are about three times higher than they were this time last year, under President Biden.
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We may all regret dismantling USAID
American foreign assistance is experiencing an existential moment. The foreign assistance budget appears to be on the chopping block, and the primary agency responsible for delivering foreign ...
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Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested near Capitol on assault charge after news conference
WASHINGTON — Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol on a charge that he assaulted a woman protesting a gathering attended by Tarrio and others ...
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L.A.-area doctor bragged about the good life. Now, he’s accused in massive real estate swindle
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge was admonished ... Many of Syiau’s investors are retired and elderly, and some told The Times that they invested their entire savings or retirement ...
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Federal judge allows Trump’s mass firings of federal workers to move forward
regrettably at times, the consequences of their rulings for average people.” The ruling comes as thousands of federal employees have been shown the door during the first month of Trump’s ...
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Los Angeles removes fire chief in wake of massive wildfires
Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE Ronnie Villanueva, a retired LA Fire chief deputy of emergency operations, has been appointed as interim chief. While she was removed from ...