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Pesticides in California's legal weed. Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter pleading guilty. The presidential elections: These were some of the biggest news events the L.A. Times covered in 2024.

An internal draft memo obtained by The Times shows the California Department of Social Services is considering building regional hubs to coordinate support for undocumented immigrants.

A column is a recurring opportunity to err in plain sight, then repent, Doyle McManus says. Election years offer extra chances for bad guesses.

The late president, in Sudan in 2010, often went to places with refugees, poverty, disease and despair to see and bear witness like the Bible school teacher he was back home.

If Carter had won another term as president, those four years would have been far less fruitful than the faith-filled four-decade 'second term' that he and Rosalynn devised.  

The narrative of Jimmy Carter being overwhelmed by inflation and Iran's ayatollah fails to account for his many achievements. But he was no saint.

Former President Carter returned again and again to charity work despite brain and liver cancer, finally entering hospice care at his Georgia home in February.

This past year was dominated by a presidential race unlike any other. With Trump set to retake the White House, columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak puzzle out the past 12 months and put 2025 in perspective.

Brace for a MAGA civil war, mayhem courtesy of Elon Musk and Democrats with more leverage than the Nov. 5 election might have led you to believe.

Trump, the self-described consummate dealmaker, says the Supreme Court should stand aside so he deal with TikTok

Russia won't say if it mistakenly downed an Azerbaijani plane on Christmas. But it acknowledges the crash came amid a Ukrainian drone attack in its republic of Chechnya.

Israel has severely weakened Hamas and Hezbollah. Now it's going after another member of Iran's so-called axis of resistance: the Houthi rebels of Yemen.

Common ground among Americans is shrinking by the minute. It's a challenge we are sadly less able to confront with Romney and others like him gone from public service.

The billionaire got more of what he wanted out of the spending bill than President-elect Donald Trump did. But his role and reasoning raise a host of questions.

With his pick for ambassador to Mexico, Trump signals that he might be serious about sending U.S. troops to fight the drug cartels

Donald Trump floats the idea of buying Greenland, as he did in 2019. The answer is the same: No. But is that the end of it?

Japanese automakers are starting to pull out of Thailand — a longtime hub of production — as Chinese electric-vehicle makers move in

California law enforcement is in the midst of a culture war, as experts inside and outside the system question a commonly used police interrogation method that they say can lead to false confessions and wrongful convictions.

Industries such as agriculture and construction rely on unauthorized immigration. But the people who hire undocumented workers rarely face repercussions.

Since the Nov. 5 election, sycophants, billionaires, lobbyists and job seekers have been spied paying court to President-elect Donald Trump in Florida.

Trump has vowed to fight California on a variety of fronts, including its homeless policies, its resistance to a border wall, its electric car mandate and over his plans to begin mass deportations.

The multibillionaire's newfound prominence in policymaking for the incoming Trump administration has a growing parallel across the Atlantic.