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07/29/2025

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After almost 20 years in business, Milestones Preschool in Inglewood closed its doors this month. It was a decision that preschool director Milena Bice had been putting off for years.

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07/29/2025

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Trump administration is shifting its tone on how it handles immigrants brought to the U.S. as children under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Also known as DACA, the program was created in 2012 to protect children who arrived in the country illegally prior to 2007 from deportation.
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07/29/2025

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A longtime Los Angeles city prosecutor will serve as temporary head of the region’s homeless services agency, but critics argue she has a history of enforcing policies that “criminalize and displace” unhoused people.

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07/29/2025

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President Trump's defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and its powerful owner has taken a personal turn.

In the legal filings — and on social media — Trump says he personally told media mogul Rupert Murdoch that the racy birthday greeting he had supposedly sent two decades earlier to the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had been faked and did not exist. Murdoch's Journal reported it anyway, despite Trump's warning.

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07/29/2025

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In Trump’s latest order, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other federal officials were directed to withhold funding to states that do not enforce bans on street camping. The order also directs officials to use federal funds to force the unhoused to seek substance use treatment and mental health rehabilitation.

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07/29/2025

While the popular Perseid meteor shower typically steals the show each summer, this year’s bright moon may dim its display.

As a result, skywatchers are being encouraged to look elsewhere.

Two lesser-known meteor showers, the Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids, will peak on the night of July 29 into July 30. With darker skies that night, they may offer a better viewing experience.

A bright moon will make it hard to see the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, but one night this week offers a decent chance of seeing some...

07/29/2025

Californians are most likely to name wildfires as the top environmental issue facing the state and are very concerned about the rising costs associated with climate change, according to a recent survey by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Wildfires are the top environmental issue for most Californians, who are also concerned about rising costs associated with climate change,...

07/29/2025

In an effort to curb harmful algal blooms that have long been a problem for Lake Elsinore and Canyon Lake, the Santa Ana Water Board recently adopted more stringent pollution limits, including for nitrogen and phosphorus.

The two nutrients are often found in yard and agricultural runoff and fuel algal blooms.

The new rules for Lake Elsinore and Canyon Lake upstream include stricter limits on common pollutants.

07/29/2025

California red-legged frogs — amphibians that had been eaten, bulldozed and eventually pushed out of the state decades earlier — are croaking, more like groaning, in Southern California again after a monumental effort to bring them back to their historic range.

How do scientists monitor the populations of the threatened California red-legged frog? With careful listening and a little help from AI.

07/29/2025

Home prices hit an all-time high in June, even as the housing market continued its post-pandemic slump.

But overall, sales numbers were at a nine-month low, seasonally adjusted. Sales in June decreased 2.7% from a month earlier.

How can prices be so high when the market is so slow?

Those with equity in a home can trade up more easily, while many first-time homebuyers are still stuck on the sidelines.

07/29/2025

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The Tustin-area home at the center of the elaborate bribery scheme orchestrated by former Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do is up for sale.

A Zillow posting of the home went up Sunday evening. Photos of the four-bedroom, two-bathroom home show a galley kitchen and one of the bedrooms with hardwood floors.

Proceeds from the sale will be returned to the county as restitution for millions of stolen tax dollars.

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07/29/2025

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In a new twist in the corruption case against former Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do, Orange County wants the former county supervisor to pay back more than $10 million he steered to a group in exchange for bribes.

That amount is far more than what prosecutors are seeking ahead of an upcoming hearing.

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