By KEN MORITSUGU BEIJING— Dissidents silenced. Security tightened. References scrubbed from the internet. China imposed an information lockdown Tuesday on the 30th anniversary of its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square, a stark reminder that three decades later, the possibility of democratic change has all but evaporated. Extra checkpoints and street closures greeted…
A woman posing as statue of liberty stands next to the ‘Trump Baby’ blimp as people gather to demonstrate against the state visit of President Donald Trump in Parliament Square, central London, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Trump will turn from pageantry to policy Tuesday as he joins British Prime Minister Theresa May for a day…
A state watchdog agency is investigating the top consultant on the California bullet train project for modifying a multimillion-dollar contract involving a company in which he had heavily invested, and the consultant’s company has suspended him because of the probe, The Times has learned. Roy Hill,…
San Francisco supervisors were expected to consider a proposal Tuesday that could force drug addicts with serious mental illnesses into treatment. Mayor London Breed and other supporters of the proposal say the move — known as conservatorship — is necessary to help addicts who are often homeless…
Anaheim’s relationship to the city’s chamber of commerce was off during the last years of the former mayor’s tenure, but if a proposed one-year $425,000 contract is an indication, things are definitely on again. The City Council is expected to vote tonight, June 4, on whether to hire the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce to market…
Former Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti says he’ll fight a bid by the State Bar of California to keep him from practicing law in the state. The bar on Monday asked the State Bar Court to place Avenatti on involuntary inactive enrollment. It mentioned accusations that Avenatti stole nearly…
On Tuesday, voters living within the boundaries of the Los Angeles Unified School District will decide whether to pass Measure EE, a property tax to benefit Los Angeles public schools. The campaign came together quickly — with supporters hoping to build on the goodwill generated by teachers during…
Deep in the engineering labs at UCLA, students and faculty are hard at work on the future. In one lab, Jacob Rosen, a professor of medical robotics, shows off robots that can stitch up wounds and help rehabilitate stroke victims. Other faculty and students are developing a carbon-neutral concrete…
A man who had been sentenced to 22 years behind bars for a 2013 attempted murder in Orange County is one of two suspects in the fatal stabbing of another prison inmate from Riverside County on Thursday, May 30, officials said Monday. Corrections officers used pepper spray and a blast grenade to break up an…
Navy Judge Aaron Rugh has removed Cmdr. Chris Czaplak as prosecutor in the case of Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, a Navy SEAL accused of a series of war crimes including killing a teen ISIS fighter in 2017. Rugh announced his decision Monday, June 3, in an email to the parties involved. Tim Parlatore, Gallagher’s lead attorney,…
