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The Trump administration said Tuesday it paid a $3,500 fine for being in contempt of court after a federal judge ruled Homeland Security didn’t turn over documents being sought in a case about immigration enforcement in Los Angeles. Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, issued the contempt ruling in secret last week, charging the government $500 per day until it produced the information. She unsealed the order Tuesday. The documents at issue are personal phone records from government officials describing how immigration officers chose enforcement targets during last year’s deportation surge in Los Angeles. The government was required to…

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RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Authorities on Sunday arrested a man who was walking the grounds and appeared to be monitoring security planning at President Donald Trump’s California golf course two days ahead of the president’s visit. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the man was taking photos and video and had a 16-round magazine with ammunition in his pocket. They recovered a loaded pistol in his car. The sheriff’s department announced the arrest Tuesday as Trump was preparing to arrive for a fundraising dinner at his golf club outside of Los Angeles. The 38-year-old man was arrested for…

Cost. If you’re eligible for USAA auto insurance, it’s a clear contender for low-cost car insurance. For those with clean driving records, USAA has the cheapest minimum-coverage rates among the companies we analyzed. It also has the lowest average rates for drivers with a speeding ticket or at-fault accident on their records. Discounts. If your parents had USAA, you can take advantage of the Legacy Discount for up to 10% off. USAA also has discounts for new vehicles, low-mileage drivers, loyal customers and more.Military-focused benefits. Features specific to military members include up to 60% off rates if you’re storing your vehicle…

BEIRUT — An oil spill caused by leakage from a U.K.-sanctioned tanker grounded for weeks off Oman appears to be expanding dramatically, reaching shorelines and far out to sea, according to experts and satellite images reviewed by The Associated Press. Greenpeace Germany said in a statement Monday that satellite images from a day earlier indicate the oil spill now covers an estimated 58 square miles, affecting large stretches of Qibliyah Island off Dhofar, Oman’s largest governorate. Compared to satellite images from a week earlier, “it is a drastic increase,” said Nina Noelle of Greenpeace Germany, who noted that clearly a…

LOS ANGELES — Sparks from an idle transmission tower owned by Southern California Edison caused the 2025 Eaton fire in the Los Angeles area that killed 19 people and destroyed more than 9,400 homes and businesses, Los Angeles County fire officials said in a report released Tuesday. It took firefighters nearly a month to extinguish the blaze, which scorched 22 square miles. The Eaton fire burned at the same time as the wind-whipped Palisades fire. An AP analysis at the time showed both blazes torched more urban area than any California fire in decades. The Eaton fire was caused by…

A Yellowstone National Park visitor’s cellphone video is going viral after a bison briefly chased down a child who wandered too close to the animal near a park boardwalk, the latest in a string of close calls between tourists and the park’s bison herds this summer. The footage, captured by a witness named Brittany Peteler and shared through the news agency Storyful, shows a woman safely walking past a bison moving near a boardwalk on July 28. Moments later, a second group that included several children began walking in the animal’s direction, despite the alarm expressed by witnesses. When one…

Broadway’s “Hadestown” and actor Geno Segers mutually agreed that he would not join the production, producers said Sunday, days after theater fans circulated previously posted videos in which he criticized transgender women competing in women’s sports and questioned pronoun practices. Mr. Segers had been scheduled to begin playing Hades on Sept. 1, opposite Tony Award nominee Amber Iman as Persephone. The producers’ statement did not cite a reason for the decision, saying only that Mr. Segers “will no longer join the Broadway production.” The timing followed several days of online criticism, though producers did not directly tie the decision to…

Walgreens is continuing to close stores in 2026 under new private ownership, though the extent of its updated closure plans for this year is not fully clear. The company said in October 2024 that it planned to close 1,200 underperforming stores over three years, with about 500 of those closures occurring in fiscal 2025. Walgreens estimated at the time that a quarter of its roughly 8,700 U.S. locations were unprofitable amid weakening retail sales and lower pharmacy reimbursement rates.  Ownership changed hands in August 2025, when Walgreens went private following its acquisition by Sycamore Partners, a New York-based private equity…

A federal judge has blocked New York’s new law barring ICE officers from wearing masks while on duty in the state, but allowed another law that blocks localities from signing cooperation agreements with the deportation agency. U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino, an Obama appointee, said the masking law was written with the intent to hinder federal immigration enforcement, and that runs afoul of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. She issued a preliminary injunction blocking it, even as she suggested she sympathized with New York’s goal. “Defendants’ perspective is grounded in unavoidable observations of recent troubling events which loom darkly over the…