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L.A. was forged by global commerce. Can the metropolis we know survive the Trump trade wars?

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Trump administration says it will exclude some electronics from 'reciprocal' tariffs

Supreme Court slows Trump's mass deportations, but doesn't stop them

Trump's new director of federal jail system led a troubled state agency

How Venezuela's most popular band conquered the chances and ended up being the soundtrack of a generation in exile

IRS strategy to give information to ICE might wallop California, where numerous immigrants pay taxes

Inside the war over water developing at the U.S.-Mexico border

Contributor: Right-wing commentators scrambled to spin Trump's disastrous tariffs

Apollo 13 Launch: 55 Years Ago

Pope makes surprise appearance in St Peter’s Square to delight Catholic faithful on Palm Sunday

Envoys from Iran and United States get here in Oman for talks over Tehran's nuclear program

Eurovision organisers address call for debate around Israel’s participation

Judge rules Menendez brothers can continue bid for resentencing

Guy charged over hazards to eliminate Donald Trump

Divers search Hudson River for parts of helicopter after crash

Pig kidney eliminated from Alabama female a record 130 days after she received transplant

Parents, three children and pilot killed in New York helicopter crash

Israel says it will fire army reservists who signed letter against war in Gaza

Europe pledges ‘record boost’ in military funding for Ukraine as US envoy meets Russian president

Germany ‘exhausted’ by mass migration and may need to use emergency EU powers to block asylum seekers

'Hell on earth': humanitarian products will go out in Gaza in two weeks, Red Cross employer says

Woman spared jail over terminally ill father’s ‘mercy killing’

'Unsecured' penguin in traveler seat causes helicopter crash in South Africa

China hikes its tariffs on US imports to 125pc in retaliation to Donald Trump’s climbing rates

Bomb explodes outside Greek railway company offices in Athens

3 individuals eliminated and one injured after little aircraft crashes into Florida road

Head of US Space Force base in Greenland fired after Vance visit

Daughter who smothered her terminally-ill father in ‘mercy killing’ avoids jail sentence

Russian strike on city centre in Ukraine's Sumy kills 21

Mayor of Ukraine's Sumy says over 20 dead from Russian missile strike

China's Xi swears to Indonesia's Prabowo to deepen partnership: Xinhua

M5.9 earthquake strikes Myanmar, felt in northern Thailand

Variety of non-local pregnant women refused Hong Kong entry rises by 5 times

Ecuador's presidential hopefuls face harmful brew of criminal activity, unemployment

Blaze triggers alarm over rise of huge batteries

Worldwide accord reached on taking on future pandemics

Iran and United States prepare ground for nuclear talks

Hamas expects 'real progress' in talk with end Gaza war

Cold winds sweep Beijing, closing key sites, interrupting travel

Hong Kong's Cathay to keep power bank restriction for aircrew, however promises layover choice

Iran seeks 'real and reasonable' handle nuclear talks with US

Huge great void 'awakening' in Virgo constellation

Iran states looks for 'genuine and fair' deal in nuclear talks with US

Contributor: Trump's latest trade war with China is sorely needed

Supreme Court says government should seek return of wrongly deported Maryland man

China to reduce the number of Hollywood films allowed amid trade war

Chabria: Felony charges for pro-Palestinian Stanford students Trump will love this

Democrats running for California governor take digs at Kamala Harris' delayed decision on the race

Federal officials arrived, denied entry at L.A. schools amid immigration enforcement fears

Markets soar as Trump pauses most worldwide tariffs, intensifies trade war with China

'From dictatorship to occupation': Syrian civilians caught in Israeli advance

Factor: The Trump administration is ignoring reactionary terrorism. That just makes it more unsafe

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

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

Chabria: Bringing the death penalty back to L.A. is politics and hubris, not justice

Trump dangers do the unimaginable: Transform Canadians into flag-waving, U.S.-booing patriots

Education secretary deflects anti-DEI questions, says 'discrimination is the bad thing'

Linear Sand Dunes in the Great Sandy Desert

Exploration 73 Crew Launches to International Space Station

Judge will decide whether to proceed with Menendez bros resentencing hearing

Jury finds Soulja Boy liable for abuse and sexual assault of former assistant

'My life is worse. Before I lost my leg, I might play' - numerous kids amongst 4,500 brand-new amputees in Gaza

Killing of scientist found dismembered in Colombia ‘may have been a case of mistaken identity’

Galaxy next to ours is being ripped apart, say scientists

Ballerina jailed over €45 donation to Ukraine freed in prisoner exchange

'Eyes of Gaza' author Plestia Alaqad: 'As a Palestinian, it's a full-time task to try to show the world that you're human'

Prioritise hostages' freedom, says 1,000 fighter pilots, however Israel counters by stating sackings will follow

Volodymyr Zelensky claims Russia 'methodically' recruiting Chinese soldiers to fight in Ukraine

Families tell of torment as death toll reaches 221 in Dominican Republic nightclub roof collapse

'You can't let politics get in your method': the Irish in the US who won't give up on the American dream

Inside the Oval Office where phone calls during Fox News commercials and desperate world leaders changed Trump’s mind on tariffs

Prince Harry meets war victims in unannounced visit to Ukraine

US-Russian double nationwide imprisoned over Ukraine donation released in prisoner swap

Number of dead in roofing system collapse at club in Dominican Republic rises to 221

Macron says France could identify Palestinian state as early as June

Trump's tariffs: Anger over China allowed the EU out the space, suggests Simon Harris as EU consents to pause vindictive tariffs for 90 days

Andrew Tate accused of pointing weapon in female's face, court documents state

Author better half of Weezer bassist shot by authorities and charged with tried murder

How ‘scary market freak out’ forced Donald Trump to cave in on tariffs

Death toll nears 200 in Dominican Republic club tragedy

In skies, as on land, European forces face spaces if United States draws back

Russia, US swap detainees in push for closer ties

Traveler household, pilot killed in 'terrible' New york city helicopter crash

Tourist helicopter crashes into New York's Hudson River, eliminating all 6 aboard

Australian IVF clinic admits embryo mix-up

US firm brought back extinct dire wolves

Panama deal permits US to release soldiers to canal

Orcas, dolphins stuck in closed French marine park

Iran, United States raise stakes ahead of crucial talks in Oman

Why did a Dominican bar roofing system cave in

Prada to purchase Versace for 1.25 bn euros to develop new force in Italian fashion

US-China trade war rises, overshadowing Trump climbdown

Global plastic recycling rates 'stagnant' at under 10%: research study

Miuccia Prada's course from activist to leading designer

Death toll in Dominican club disaster increases to 218

Hong Kong police take away US-based activist's parents for questioning

Earthquake of M5.4 strikes off Indonesia's West Papua

Japan's World Expo touts unity ... and algae

Rebels in Indonesia's Papua say they killed 17 people this week

Turkey detains popular journalists in raids

Fresh appeal to find killer who bludgeoned former midwife 30 years earlier

World's most sophisticated bionic arm is 'the stuff of sci-fi', states CEO

Hezbollah says it is ready to disarm ifIsrael withdraws from south Lebanon

‘You will always feel insecure and it will never go away’ – Elon Musk ‘rage-quits’ favourite video game amid wave of online taunts

'If we're not killed by bombs, we'll pass away of cravings'-- Palestinian mom

Prince Harry’s safety and life are at stake, appeal case over his protection is told

Dominican Republic club collapse: Death toll reaches a minimum of 124 as rescuers race to find survivors in rubble

At least 23 killed after Israel strikes four-storey residential block in Gaza

Irishman is jailed in United States and implicated over $1m repair work rip-off targeting elderly house owners

Donald Trump blames his 90-day tariffs pause on ‘people getting afraid’

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz clinches coalition deal with centre-left SPD

7 British policemans required to medical facility after major crash throughout pursuit

Male detained over death threat to judge who founded guilty France's Marine Le Pen

Mackerel slips further down sustainability scale in most current 'great fish guide'

Tributes paid to murdered London scientist after body parts found in luggage in Colombia

Pilgrims in Italy flock to tomb of first millennial saint

US House votes to limit judges' injunction power

King Charles addresses Italian parliament, welcomes pope

Animal puppets travel from Africa to Europe in environment action

Turkey opposition to combat Erdogan 'up until the end': leader tells AFP

China hawk Peter Navarro has Trump’s ear

Preservationists race to save 17th century Swedish warship

Trump administration to accelerate building and construction of California-Mexico border wall

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

Extreme trade retaliation from Canada, China reveal challenge ahead for Trump group

Supreme Court OKs Trump's mass firing of brand-new federal workers, blocking S.F. judge's rehire order

Californians see undocumented immigrants as essential to economy, poll finds

Like it or not, the A's have a brand-new home, and it's a win for this scrappy city

Sixty Years in Canberra: NASA’s Deep Space Network

The Tariff war China didn’t want, but will now fight to the death

World leaders lining up to ‘kiss my ass’, Donald Trump boasts

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Statements outside court after a boy and girl found guilty of killing 80-year-old pet dog walker

Europe's first Universal amusement park set to open in UK after federal government backs deal

Virginia Giuffre's alleged limiting order breach lawsuit adjourned until June

Trump's tariffs take effect: Tánaiste flies to Washington DC for settlements; United States president states pharmaceutical tariff announcement coming quickly

'Zen' Europe is attempting so hard not to trigger escalation of trade war while keeping a cautious eye on what China does next

Italy's state train prepares high-speed service to London and Paris in difficulty to Eurostar

Researchers recognize most bitter compound known to humanity

UN declines Israeli plan to control all aid streaming into Gaza

Prince Harry back in London court over 'inferior treatment' in his royal security plans

South Korea fires alerting shots after North's soldiers cross border

Uproar at court hearing over Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to sack Israeli intelligence boss

Woman (13) and kid (15) condemned of killing 80-year-old dog-walker near Leicester, UK

Tape increase in renewables suggests green energy now produces 40pc of global electricity

Iran sceptical of US intentions ahead of talks on nuclear deal

At least 28 killed in Dominican Republic as nightclub roof collapses

Elon Musk calls Trump trade consultant 'dumber than a sack of bricks' in most current tariffs spat

Chinese nationals caught fighting for the Russians in Ukraine, Zelensky says

Protesters rally for fourth week against Hungary’s law banning Pride events

Having a cat or pet dog is as good for your wellbeing as having a hubby or partner, research study finds

Tariffs war: Only concern is how bad does it have to get

Beijing calls US Vice President 'ignorant' and 'disrespectful' over 'Chinese peasants' remark

Author of explosive Meta memoir to star at US Senate hearing

Musk brand names Trump aide 'dumber than a sack of bricks' in tariff spat

Roof collapse in Dominican Republic kills at least 67

UK to host Europe's first Universal theme park

Judge orders White House to raise constraints on AP access

Markets increase regardless of China-US tariff clash

Ukraine captures ‘two Chinese fighting for Russia’

Iran says US goodwill required for nuclear deal

Paris retrospective celebrates frail David Hockney

World's 'remarkable' heat streak continues

South Korean governmental survey to be held June 3

‘Major brain drain’: Researchers eye exit from Trump’s America

Supreme Court supports Trump's war power to deport Venezuelan gang members

Amid economic chaos, some Republicans want control of tariffs back in Congress

Trump digs in on tariff plan and threatens stiffer China levies as trade crisis deepens

Supreme Court pauses wrongful deportation case at behest of Trump lawyers

Their hopes for asylum in U.S. dashed, migrants in Tijuana ponder next moves

Trump administration orders national parks to remain open amid staffing shortages

He fought racism and fascism: 108-year-old WWII paratrooper who paved course for Black soldiers dies

Trump is cutting the nation's environmental programs. Here are the health risks to Americans

Gateway’s First Habitation Module Arrives Stateside

‘We have been given the greatest gift’ – couple welcome baby girl following UK’s first womb transplant

'Revenge will be unavoidable'-- Ukraine's fury over lethal Russian strike as kids are buried

Robyn Dixon: Donald Trump's 'property-developer method' to settlements no match for Russians

How North Korea's 'Lazarus Group' made hermit kingdom a worldwide hacking superpower

10 Britons implicated of war crimes against Palestinians as dossier handed to Met authorities

Efforts to discover quake survivors end as death toll passes 3,600

Lady (84) from Netflix documentary 'Con Mum' is charged with scams

Iran in 'fantastic risk' if it does not concur nuclear offer, warns Donald Trump

RFK Jr praises anti-vaxxers after attending funeral service of lady (8) who died of measles

Scientists alerted of increased risk of seismic catastrophes just days before Myanmar quake

Revealed: how the time of year you’re conceived in affects your chances of being slim

Israeli soldiers clear land in Gaza as new report informs of 'kill zone'

Bourbon, wine and dairy not included in EU draft of counter-tariffs on US after Trump threats

'I do not want to live under emergency situation rule': Why firebrand Republican Rand Paul is leading charge against Trump's tariffs

Birmingham chocolatiers declare to have actually cracked world's biggest Creme Egg-- and it weighs the like a newborn horse

Artist says her company is 'in threat' after Trump called her portrait of him 'distorted' and 'genuinely the worst'

'We will follow Martin Luther King as an example,' Le Pen states, as thousands end up in assistance at Paris rally

Sex toys and massage pillows utilized in suspected Russian parcel bombs that went on fire in storage facilities

Labour MPs declined entry to Israel as part of parliamentary delegation to occupied West Bank return home to UK

Trump’s national security adviser saved journalist’s number under wrong name, say reports

Ongoing attacks by Russia show Vladimir Putin does not want to end the war, says Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky

‘We’re trying to understand why this happened’ – Israel changes its account over killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza

Pope Francis greets crowds at Vatican in surprise public appearance

Nose job boom in Iran where treatment can increase social status

Audit finds Hong Kong company flouted terms of Panama Canal ports contract

Teotihuacan altar discovered at Guatemala Maya site

Worldwide temperatures at near historic highs in March - EU screen

200 firefighters battle significant Paris inferno

US Supreme Court lifts order barring deportations under wartime law

Netanyahu satisfies Trump for tariff and Gaza talks

Trump promises substantial new China tariffs as markets nosedive

Russia, accused of stalling, wants responses before truce

Boeing settles to prevent civil trial over Ethiopian Airlines crash

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific bans pilots, cabin crew from taking power count on flights

Belgian prince seeks social security on top of allowance

Buchenwald camp survivor states liberation, 80 years on

China holds military drills at newly broadened Cambodian naval base

2nd US kid passes away of measles, practically 650 ill: authorities

Haiti jazz festival is rare respite for violence-racked capital

US storms, 'disastrous' flooding death toll climbs to 17

Gaza rescuers state Israeli strikes eliminate 44

World scrambles to temper Trump tariffs as market fears mount

Thousands march across US in anti-Trump protests as tariffs fallout continues

Recovering Pope surprises crowd at Vatican square

France's far-right, leftwingers rally supporters after Le Pen conviction

Numerous protesters turn out in European cities against Trump

Jaguar Land Rover to ‘pause’ US shipments in wake of tariffs

Prosecutors seek seven years in prison for disgraced ex-congressman George Santos

More than 1,200 protests against Donald Trump and Elon Musk planned across the US Saturday

US begins collecting Trump tariffs, smashing global trade standards after stock market sell-off

Rain makes complex healing in quake-hit Myanmar as death toll rises

'Hands Off!' Anti-Trump Americans flood Washington

India and UAE to develop Sri Lanka energy hub

USAID team fired throughout Myanmar quake objective

Factor: The Statue of Liberty was a welcome indication. Now the U.S. ambiance is 'avoid'

'There was blood everywhere.' Sectarian killings wreck Syrian villages

Manila sees Beijing's arrests of 'spies' as retaliation

Trump's international 'standard' tariff takes effect

Supreme Court OKs Trump's cuts to teacher training grants in California

Markets devastated as recession fears grow over Trump tariff plan

Trump says he will extend TikTok's sell-or-be-banned deadline

Homes of Blake Snell, Richard Sherman broken into as burglars target pro athletes in Seattle area

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim

World's wealthiest individuals lost $200bn in single day after Trump's tariffs rocked markets

Hundreds of Palestinians killed since fighting resumed, as IDF expands its ‘security zone’ in Gaza

Myanmar quake death toll at 3,354

Donald Trump demands France free far-right leader Marine Le Pen and claims she is facing ‘witch hunt’

Ukraine ‘risks becoming global arms trafficking hub’ after war ends, Europol warns

Israeli airstrike kills Hamas commander ‘in violation of ceasefire’

Anger as shunned Myanmar junta leader shakes hands with heads of world states at high-profile summit

US judge rules man wrongly deported to El Salvador must be returned

6 kids amongst 14 eliminated in strike on Volodymyr Zelensky's home town

‘He’s marking his territory’ – French president Emmanuel Macron wears ‘industrial levels’ of fragrance, new book claims

Prince Andrew still a ‘valuable communication point with China’, and sends Xi Jinping birthday cards

Donald Trump unveils $5m ‘gold card’ for wealthy immigrants who want to live in the US

'Trump let us off but it's still in the air': tariff fears hang over town that Big Pharma constructed

US antisemitism lobby group in bid to fight Trump’s deportations over Palestinian rallies

South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol officially removed from office over martial law declaration

Males and female set to appear in court over damage to Trump's golf course

Donald Trump states he is offering TikTok another 75 days to discover a United States purchaser

Russell Brand charged with rape, indecent assault and sexual attack by UK Police

Hawk that terrorised tall, bald men for weeks was ‘hormonal’, falconer says

Woman who suffocated her newborn and left his body in woodland 27 years ago avoids prison

Danish PM tells US ‘you cannot annex another country’ on Greenland visit

Orban says Hungary stopping ICC to end its 'half-hearted' subscription

10 dead as landslide hits passing cars on Indonesia's Java island

Israel expands ground offensive in Gaza

South Korea's Constitutional Court eliminates President Yoon Suk Yeol from office

In O.C., former Vice President Harris says she'll stay politically active: 'I'm not going anywhere'

Trade war heats up: Mexico keeps calm as Canada hits back

Trump says his tariffs are 'reciprocal.' Are they

Trump's tariffs are sowing confusion. That may be the point.

Trump says tariffs are 'going very well' as markets plummet, countries aim to retaliate

Calmes: Making America a colonizer again

Father Richard Estrada, defender of the downtrodden, dead at 83

Even in O.C. Trump country, some worry about how tariffs will hit their pocketbooks

U.S. revokes visas of Mexican band members accused of 'glorifying' drug kingpin

Contributor: Trump's tariff strategy is worse than a gamble. It's a surefire loser

Trump declares 'Liberation Day,' announces sweeping global tariffs on 'friend and foe alike'

Judge restores funds for lawyers representing children in immigration court

Former federal health chief Xavier Becerra announces run for California governor

His mother was eliminated before his eyes. Now a young boy struggles to rejoin his household

'I want to be remembered.' Death row inmate puts San Quentin journals, art up for sale at $80,000

World braces for 'Liberation Day' as Trump set to reveal sweeping tariffs

Artemis II Insignia Honors All

X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet

Taoiseach warns pain from US tariffs ‘won’t be short-term’ as Donald Trump flags levies for pharma industry in ‘near future’

South Korean court removes impeached president from workplace

Myanmar earthquake death toll rises as access to healthcare 'almost impossible'

US guy is detained after entering Indian island home of isolated tribe

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'Kerrygold is enormous in the US, even with Americans'-- Irish tech employee living in New York on tariff concerns

United States informs diplomats and officials in China not to have sexual relationships with Chinese over security worries

Lael Brainard: Gain for the wealthy and pain for the workers in Donald Trump’s trade war

Up to 16 dead after migrant boats sink on way from Turkey to Lesbos

Fresh Lucy Letby evidence ‘blows case out of the water’, her lawyer claims

Hundreds of thousands of Gazans leave as Israeli soldiers attempt to catch Rafah city

Eleven detained in Turkey over shopping boycott calls to support jailed mayor

Myanmar earthquake: Deathtoll rises to 3,085 as relief efforts continue and ceasefire declared

Elon Musk's PAC alters video with $1m lady saying she was paid to vote

Donald Trump liberates Americans from their retirement savings with tariff gamble

Democrats-backed judge triumphs in battle with Elon Musk, as billionaire accused of trying to ‘buy’ the supreme court election in Wisconsin

Discovery of ancient garden at Jesus’ burial site backs up description in Bible

Elon Musk to step aside from adviser role, Donald Trump tells cabinet and confidants

How Bonnie Prince Charlie ran in steps of dinoasaurs as he fled Culloden

Row over ownership of tree roots in Vincent Van Gogh painting fixed

‘Everything appeared in order,’ says Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti of alleged €1m tax fraud

'US won't take control of Greenland,' Danish PM insists during check out

Israel accused of executing 15 Palestinian paramedics found in shallow grave with hands tied

Why Macron fears new far-right leader Bardella more than veteran foe Le Pen

Taylor Swift and Hugh Jackman appear in Hong Kong's English examination

130,000-year-old child mammoth goes under scalpel

South Korea court upholds President Yoon's impeachment, strips him of workplace

Irish school trains thatchers to conserve renowned roofs

Object as quake-hit Myanmar junta chief joins Bangkok top

Professionals warn 'AI-written' paper is most current spin on environment modification rejection

Penguin memes fly after Trump tariffs remote island

Trump purges nationwide security group after satisfying conspiracist

Japan problems megaquake caution, but lots of travellers from Hong Kong undeterred

HIV employees race to plug funding spaces after Trump USAID cuts

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