LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has canceled more than a dozen international student visas at California campuses, including UCLA, UC San Diego and Stanford, university leaders, students and faculty at campuses confirmed to The Times.

At UCLA, the revocations hit at least eight international students, according to faculty groups and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The $600 million effort to rebuild the three L.A. Unified schools burned in the Palisades fire has hit an important milestone ahead of schedule — all debris has been cleared from the properties, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said Friday.

Calling the debris removal a "pivotal moment for all of us," he detailed rebuilding ...Read more

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet on Monday with President Donald Trump in Washington to seek a better tariff deal for Israel and to discuss the war in Gaza, the situation in Syria and the Iranian nuclear program, an Israeli official said.

Netanyahu is in the Hungarian capital Budapest where he was warmly welcomed by Prime Minister ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to federal programs has delivered a considerable hit to the nation’s environment, but experts say its plans to repeal hard-won protections for clean air and water will also directly jeopardize Americans’ health — and their wallets.

Two new reports from environmental ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked police and prosecutors from enforcing a new state law that makes it a crime for immigrants to come into Florida after they enter the country illegally.

Calling the law likely unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams suspended enforcement of it for 14 days and ...Read more

President Donald Trump has vowed his historic tariff blitz would revive domestic manufacturing, but industry worries about his approach are raising fresh doubts about whether he can deliver on his promise of an economic boom.

In the Rose Garden on Wednesday, Trump declared “jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country” and ...Read more

President Donald Trump has boasted that he’s “decimated” the Houthis, the Iran-backed militants who have attacked commercial ships transiting the Red Sea since 2023. But three weeks into a campaign of U.S. airstrikes, his administration has offered limited evidence of weapons deployed and targets hit to back up that assertion.

Former ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Several trails and campgrounds in the Angeles National Forest that have been closed since January's firestorm have reopened for visitors, U.S. Forest Service officials announced.

At one point, about 17% of the 700,000-acre forest was closed due to fire damage from both the Eaton fire in January and Bridge fire in September.

But...Read more

Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets her fingers when she’s tired and bites the air when something hurts.

Josephine, 16, has been diagnosed with tetrasomy 8p mosaicism, severe autism, severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention-...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s attorney general seemed to signal this week that Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell was again in GOP leaders’ sights, just months months after Central Florida voters returned her to office.

James Uthmeier took to social media late Thursday to denounce a new policy of Worrell’s office, calling it “...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Daniel Llorente stood outside the home he’s renting late last summer, holding the an American flag, ready to place it at the entrance.

His housemate, Ralph Buran, told Llorente he should put it on the left side of the house, not the right.

“Why the left?” Buran recalls Llorente asking. “I didn’t know that.”

“Kind...Read more

A majority of Americans said they don’t think states should be required to provide funding for religious charter schools, according to a new poll.

Fifty-seven percent of U.S. adults said states can refuse to fund religious charter schools, while 43% said states are required to do so, according to a poll published this week by Marquette Law ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Rep. George Santos should be sentenced to more than seven years in prison for committing fraud while campaigning for Congress, federal prosecutors said.

A “significant” sentence is needed to protect the public from the Long Island, New York, Republican to prevent him from “adding new victims to the list of ...Read more

A California man has been arrested for possessing and extorting child pornography and other disturbing content as part of his role in the violent online network 764, which aims to accelerate the “downfall of the current world order,” according to the feds.

Jose Henry Ayala Casamiro was taken into custody by the FBI on allegations that he �...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will not finalize a Biden-era plan to require coverage of anti-obesity medications in Medicare and Medicaid.

In a rule finalized Friday afternoon, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services stated it does not intend to continue with the Biden proposal, which was released in November.

CMS did not ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge gave the government until the end of Monday to return a man to the U.S. after it said it had mistakenly sent him to a prison in El Salvador in an “administrative error.”

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday ordered the government to get Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador’s notorious ...Read more

Human-rights groups are pushing back against a proposal by Haiti authorities to enlist members of a rogue force into the fight against a powerful gang alliance carrying out a deadly siege in three of the country’s 10 regional departments.

“It’s scandalous,” said Samuel Madistin, an attorney and president of the Fondasyon Je Klere/ Eyes ...Read more