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8 February 2025

  • Gavin Newsom at Los Angeles international airport.

    California allocates $50m to fight Trump administration and deportation efforts

  • A crowd of people wearing Christmas-themed headbands pack into a bar, as one person in the center waves a bubble gun into the air

    Come early, leave early: a gen X dance party that ends at 10pm is taking off across the US

  • Farm-Workers-Almeda-Fire

    Food security project that helps farm workers springs from ashes of wildfires

  • Sandra French's house in Los Angeles

    ‘It’s a gut punch’: how the California wildfires affected film and TV workers

7 February 2025

  • people hold microphones toward a group of solemn-looking Black men dressed in suits

    Altadena’s Black community demand justice for LA fire victims: ‘I want us to be taken care of’

    Memorial service led by Rev Al Sharpton highlighted Eaton fire’s disproportionate impact on Black residents
  • People walk through snow-covered streets in Obihiro, northern Japan

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    Weather tracker: Japan’s record snowfall causes chaos as temperatures dive

    Vehicles stranded, trains and planes cancelled, and schools closed after record 129cm of snow falls in 12 hours
  • train passes by next to beach

    California city partners with US border patrol to surveil beach for migrant boats

    San Clemente to install cameras to detect boats carrying passengers attempting to enter US without authorization

6 February 2025

  • man wearing green suit looks over shoulder while sitting in courtroom

    A$AP Rocky’s prosecutors rest case at his felony trial over two assault charges

    Five witnesses called in eight days, including accuser A$AP Relli, who was on stand for three day’s worth of testimony
  • people walk through parking lot with two white signs around them

    Fema workers responding to LA fires reportedly told to say ‘alien’ instead of ‘immigrant’

    Email shows Trump administration told officials to change vocabulary around gender and immigration immediately

    • Interpreter who stole $17m from MLB star Shohei Ohtani jailed for nearly five years

    • LA school district directs $2.2bn towards repairing schools damaged by wildfires

    • California fires destroyed or damaged nearly half of Black homes in Altadena

5 February 2025

  • A metal fence topped with barbed wire

    California prison gynecologist accused of ‘horrific’ abuse of patients in lawsuit

    Class action also alleges prison officials knew of Dr Scott Lee’s abuse of incarcerated women for years, but did not act. This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault
  • two men talking

    California governor meets with Trump at White House to seek wildfire aid

    Meeting on Wednesday underscores political tightrope Gavin Newsom must walk to secure assistance for state

    • California warns hospitals not to withhold trans youth healthcare

    • Knock, knock! Who’s bear? California man returns to 525lb tenant in evacuated home

    • Abuse claims are rife in California detention centers. Now the facilities are poised to expand

4 February 2025

  • A small group of students walks across a college campus.

    University of California rejects claim it was sued for racial discrimination

    School system says it has not been served with a filing and will ‘vigorously defend’ its admissions practices
  • elephant calf leans on adult elephant's leg

    Asian elephant Rose-Tu gives birth to 200lb calf at Oregon zoo

    After 20-month pregnancy, Rose-Tu gives ‘smoothest birth’ with baby ‘standing up on her own within 15 minutes’
  • Smoke rises from the charred remains of a structure

    Kiwifruit and cheese sandwiches: LA school staff pack free lunches for over 2,000 students affected by fires

    Pasadena school district direct’s Liz Powell and staff used ‘everything on hand’ at school sites to dispense meals
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