Los Angeles, crowd
Digest more
L OS ANGELES — In the era of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, even the simple act of buying pan dulce can set nerves on edge. So it was when Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stopped by an East LA bakery one morning only to find the doors shut and the people inside conspicuously ignoring her knocks on the window.
The divide between California and the Trump administration is growing as the battle over policy and power continues in Los Angeles.
A Delta Air Lines flight to Atlanta caught fire after takeoff from a Los Angeles airport. There were no reports of injuries to the passengers or crew.
23hon MSNOpinion
Heather Mac Donald links border policies to civil unrest in California, suggesting immigration caps could improve assimilation as protests continue under the Trump administration.
Your morning catch-up: a clear message from our summer of ICE, L.A. County's health system is in crisis, and more big stories.
3d
Boing Boing on MSNTrump's Los Angeles military deployment bored, bitter and defecating in the humveesBoth The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times report morale problems for Trump's unneeded occupying force. "They gave Disneyland tickets to the people who worked in the wildfires," one soldier said.
The city and county of Los Angeles, along with several municipalities in Southern California, are seeking to join a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration over recent immigration raids.
The massive Republican tax bill signed by Trump is expected to soon claw $750 million per year from the L.A. County Department of Health Services, which oversees four public hospitals and roughly two dozen clinics.