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LOS ANGELES — A taxpayer lawsuit will be filed today against the city of Los Angeles alleging an unlawful “gift of public funds” to the Los Angeles Rams in the form of security at home games. The lawsuit will be filed by former Los Angeles City Councilmember Deis Zine and Los Angeles resident James Bibeau “to prevent the city from expending any additional taxpayer funds to provide over 200 LAPD officers free of charge to secure Rams home games,” according to a statement from the Los Angeles Police Protective League. “Rams owner Stan Kroenke has refused to pay in full for the police services necessary to ensure public safety at his team’s home games,” the statement said. “This free use of LA...

EVERETT, Wash. >> In a surprise move, Donald Trump will travel to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto, just hours before the Republican delivers a highly anticipated speech on immigration. Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to say he looks “very much forward” to meeting with the Mexican leader. Pena Nieto’s office confirmed the meeting with its own tweet, saying the two men would meet privately. The unexpected trip comes as Trump seeks to clarify his stand on illegal immigration, a contentious issue that has been a centerpiece of his Republican presidential campaign. Trump has long called for deporting people currently living in the U.S. illegally and buil...

Chef Arthur Gonzalez said he is weeks away from realizing his goal of opening a new seafood place, called Roe Restaurant, in Belmont Shore after experiencing so many challenges there that he ended up opening an entirely different restaurant since his first attempt four years ago. “We’re starting to come down to crunch time,” Gonzalez said. Late last week, the future home of Roe Restaurant was still a dusty construction site in the space next to its sister enterprise Roe Xpress, a fish market selling dishes prepared from the likes of salmon, mahi mahi, yellowtail and octopus, as well as a place where clam “chowdah” is spelled with Boston accent even though Hatch chiles are part of the recipe....

While a majority of Americans see undocumented immigrants in a positive light, a new poll found that staunch Donald Trump supporters have a more threatening view of people who are in the U.S. without legal status. More than 76 percent of those surveyed said undocumented immigrants are as hardworking and honest as U.S. citizens, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center. And, 67 percent said undocumented immigrants are no more likely than citizens to commit serious crimes. Also, 61 percent oppose building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. Trump backers offer a different perspective. The poll, released Aug.u200925, found that half of all Trump supporters surveyed said u...

JACKSON, Miss. — Republican nominee Donald Trump is linking his “movement to take back the country” to Britain’s surprising vote to leave the European Union. The architect of the withdrawal campaign, known as Brexit, took up Trump’s invitation to join the GOP presidential nominee on stage during a rally late Wednesday in Jackson, Mississippi. “If I was an American citizen, I wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me,” said Nigel Farage, the outgoing leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party. “You have a fantastic opportunity here,” he told members of the audience. “You can go out, you can beat the pollsters, you can beat the commentators, you can beat Washington, and you’ll do ...

More than a year after the Califoia Coastal Commission halted the demolition of three waterfalls at Trump National Golf Club, the club was given a go-ahead this week by commission staff to move forward with restoration work. The initial infraction stemmed from demolition work at three man-made waterfalls at Trump National. The club had received a building permit from the city of Rancho Palos Verdes in April 2015, but didn’t get approval from the Coastal Commission for construction work inside the coastal zone. Parts of the course are home to protected bird species, including the Califoia gnatcatcher, which nests exclusively in the coastal sage scrub along a limited range of the Califoia coa...

NEW YORK — Donald Trump and his Republican allies say Hillary Clinton is weak, lacks stamina and doesn’t look presidential. Intent on undermining his Democratic rival, Trump and GOP backers are increasingly relying on rhetoric that academics and even some Republican strategists say has an undeniable edge focused on gender. His criticism of Clinton goes beyond “Crooked Hillary,” and complaints about her use of a private email server as secretary of state and her foreign policy decisions. Clinton, Trump said in a speech last week, “lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS and all the many adversaries we face.” He has repeatedly called attention to Clinton’s voice, saying listenin...

SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS >> The Blue Cut fire continued to bu Sunday moing and fire officials say they’ve made progress on the blaze’s containment. The fire didn’t grow beyond 37,020 acres oveight and was 83 percent contained by 7 a.m. according a news release from the U.S. Forest Service. As of Sunday moing, officials with U.S. Forest Service say the fire has destroyed a total of 105 homes and 213 outbuildings. • Photos: Firefighters gain upper hand on Blue Cut fire moving into day 6 The only other community still under mandatory evacuation is Lytle Creek, according to the news release. The San Beardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a tweet that Lytle Creek residents would be al...

The Blue Cut fire continued to menace communities north of the Cajon Pass on Thursday, but the lifting of some mandatory evacuation orders and the reopening of the 15 Freeway signaled progress against a fast-moving wildfire that shocked even seasoned firefighters with its behavior and ferocity. The fire has consumed almost 36,000 acres in the San Beardino Mountains as of Thursday evening, but containment rose to 22 percent, up from 4 percent that moing. U.S. Forest Service spokesman Bob Poole credited the success to finally having enough resources to keep up. • Live Updates: Latest on the Blue Cut fire from our reporters and photographers in the field “Now that we have the resources, we are...

Rio de Janeiro >> In a sort of victory lap before the victory, Usain Bolt held up his left arm, his index finger extended into a wet night, as he walked slowly clockwise from a tuel entrance, around the Olympic Stadium curve to his blocks in Lane 6 and the start of the Olympic Games 200-meter final. Such audacity would have been laughable from any other sprinter. Then again there never has been any other sprinter like Bolt. Besides, the result Thursday night was never in doubt, even the most remote of chances for an upset vanquished before the race even hit the homestretch. Bolt once again reduced the rest the field at a major championships to spectators, racing to a 19.78 victory in ...

A pair of plump penguin chicks, their black-and-white plumage not quite matching the tuxedo look of their adult counterparts, made their public debut Thursday at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. The birds — both males who have yet to be named — hatched in May. One chick is the offspring of birds known at the aquarium as Kate and Avery, both of whom arrived in Long Beach after they were rescued from the Brazilian coast in 2011. The other chick is the offspring of penguins known as Patsy and Robbie, with the latter also saved from the Brazilian shoreline. The 20 penguins living at the aquarium’s June Keyes Penguin Habitat are Magellanic penguins, which rarely venture as far north as...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> A Japanese joualist asked American hurdlers Briaa Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin how they were going to celebrate their historic sweep of the Olympic Games 100-meter hurdles medals, the one and only 1-2-3 of the Rio Games so far. Was there going to be a girls’ night out? the reporter asked the trio as a late Wednesday night became an early Thursday moing in Rio. “Well every night we’re together is girls’ night out,” Castlin said. Such was the case at the Olympic Stadium Wednesday, the U.S. hurdlers putting on yet another exhibition of a dominance unmatched in any single event by another nation in women’s track and field. Rollins, the 2013 world champion, was in c...

LOS ANGELES — At the peak of a Southland heat wave, the National Weather Service issued a red flag waing today for the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles and Ventura counties and the foothills in the Antelope Valley. The waing, which denotes a heightened risk of wildfire, was the first issued since the region’s heat wave began Saturday. Even though the heat wave has been projected to end Wednesday, forecasters said today that an “elevated fire danger” will exist in inland areas through Thursday because a hot and dry air mass is parked overhead, and a strengthening onshore flow will generate gusty winds. No other red flag waings were immediately issued, but “elevated fire danger” will pers...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Ten of 25 laps into the Olympic Games 10,000-meter final and a night when Great Britain’s Mo Farah was chasing the likes of Zatopek, Viren and Gebrselassie through history, the unthinkable happened. Farah, the reigning Olympic and World 10,000 and 5,000 champion, crashed to the track after getting entangled with Nike Oregon Project teammate Galen Rupp of the U.S. Farah’s immediate thought was the same as most at the Olympic Stadium Saturday night. “Is the race over? Is the race?” Farah recalled asking himself. “I just kept telling myself ‘No! No! No!’” Rupp dropped back to check on his friend. “You alright?” Rupp asked. Farah answered with a resounding victory, blowi...

As Kim Rhode took aim at another Olympic shooting medal in Rio de Janeiro on Friday moing, a roomful of friends and supporters miles away in Redlands hung on every shot. “I had chills the entire time,” said Allison Rangel, manager of the Redlands Shooting Park, which hosted a live stream viewing party of the women’s skeet finals. “My heart was pounding. (Rhode) had to be pretty nervous. You have to be so strong-minded, and if anybody is, she is.” Rhode proved her mettle by surviving a pair of tense shoot-offs to win the bronze medal over China’s Wei Meng and become the first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympic Games. Like Rangel, many of the several dozen people assembled around the h...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Another Simone from suburban Houston made history in the Olympic pool Thursday night. Simone Manuel, pride of Sugar Land, Texas became the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic title in swimming, tying Canadian teenager Pey Olesiak for the 100-meter freestyle gold medal at the Olympic Aquatics Center. The pair touched the wall in an Olympic record 52.70 seconds. Manuel’s victory came just hours after Simone Biles, a 19-year-old out of the north Houston suburb of Spring, won the Olympic all-around title. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

It’s a royal makeover for a lady with a long legacy. The Queen Mary’s new leaseholders aounced Wednesday a $15 million renovation of staterooms and other interior spaces of a vessel that once hosted the likes of Winston Churchill and numerous fighting men who embarked upon the ship on their way to the European Theater during World War II. Urban Commons, a Los Angeles real estate firm, has held the master lease for the ship and an adjacent 43 acres since April. Long Beach’s city govement owns the 80-year-old vessel, now in use as a shoreside hotel, and City Hall officials selected Urban Commons to assume control of the ship and nearby land partly due to expectations that the firm’s persoel ha...

It’s a royal makeover for a lady with a long legacy. The Queen Mary’s new leaseholders aounced Wednesday a $15 million renovation of staterooms and other interior spaces of a vessel that once hosted the likes of Winston Churchill and numerous fighting men who embarked upon the ship on their way to the European Theater during World War II. Urban Commons, a Los Angeles real estate firm, has held the master lease for the ship and an adjacent 43 acres since April. Long Beach’s city govement owns the 80-year-old vessel, now in use as a shoreside hotel, and City Hall officials selected Urban Commons to assume control of the ship and nearby land partly due to expectations that the firm’s persoel ha...

WILMINGTON, N.C. >> Donald Trump said Tuesday that Second Amendment advocates might find a way to stop Hillary Clinton from rolling back gun rights if she’s elected, setting off a political firestorm as Democrats quickly accused him of encouraging violence against his opponent. Speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, the Republican nominee said incorrectly his general election opponent wants to “abolish, essentially, the Second Amendment.” He continued: “By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” Trump did not elaborate on his meaning. But within minutes, Clinton’s campaign and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> American Ibtihaj Muhammad looked like all the other fencers when she stepped on the piste, save for the non-descript black scarf covering her head. With that small gesture, Muhammad made history. Muhammad became the first American athlete Monday to compete in the Olympics with a hijab, which she wears to adhere to the tenets of her Muslim faith. Muhammad, ranked eighth in the world in sabre, beat Ukranian Olena Kravatska, 15-13, in her first match before falling to France’s Cecilia Berder, 15-12, in the round of 16. Muhammad will compete again Saturday in the team sabre event. “I feel like it’s a blessing to be able to represent so many people who don’t have voices, ...