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Sacramento, CA - March 20: California Assemblymember Bill Essayli along with fellow lawmakers honor women in California making an impact during Women's History Month on Monday, March 20, 2023 in Sacramento, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Trump ally and rising California GOP star Essayli is named top federal prosecutor in L.A.

The attorney general has selected Riverside County Assemblymember Bill Essayli — a rising and controversial Republican voice — to serve as interim U.S. attorney for L.A. and surrounding areas.

Los Angeles, CA - March 11: A homeless person sleeps under a wet blanket in the rain on the street downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

County supervisors create new homeless agency, despite warnings from L.A. mayor

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Trump’s axing of L.A. federal prosecutor part of broader war on perceived legal enemies

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 7, 2025 - - Keith Aaron Robinson, 44, shares a warm moment with Brianna Choudary, 26, in front of his tent in Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on March 7, 2025. Robinson has been living homeless in Skid Row for 7 years. A court-ordered audit has revealed a deep lack of financial oversight in Los Angeles' homelessness spending, raising concerns about the mismanagement of billions of taxpayer dollars. The audit, released by U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, found that the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and city officials failed to accurately track expenditures, verify services, or ensure accountability among vendors. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

L.A. County supervisors to vote on creating their own homeless services agency

LOS ANGELES - MARCH 26, 2025 - - Community Ambassadors Samson Tafolo, left, and Crushow Herring, in knit hat, with The Sidewalk Project, give out water, hygiene bags, CBD Gummies and harm reduction supplies to the homeless in Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles on March 26, 2025. The Sidewalk Project is an L.A.-based organization with a harm reduction arm consisting in part of syringe access services for drug users. It is one of many organizations that has raised concerns about its operations should Trump formally eliminate the CDC's HIV prevention division or move to classify fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction" - both of which he has suggested in recent weeks he plans to do. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Will Trump kill programs that help drug users? L.A. harm reduction groups await fate

White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say

L.A. Times sues city over Mayor Bass’ deleted text messages during fire response

L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. can’t get inmates to court on time, angering judges, delaying justice

LAFD actions in Palisades fire shrouded in secrecy as city refuses to release records

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 8: California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tour the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds, the Palisades Fire has grown to over 2,900 acres and 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate while a second major fire continues to burn near Eaton Canyon in Altadena. (Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images)

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L.A. mayor’s text messages provide vivid window into early fire response

Mayor Karen Bass’ texts illustrate how she communicated remotely with her staff and across levels of government, trying to marshal federal resources as the conflagration exploded. They also show an Angeleno desperate to get home.

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