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President Trump's pardon of former Honduran leader and convicted trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández sparked outrage and intensified criticism across Latin America.

In a highly unusual situation, a housing project in Santa Barbara must undergo reviews after a state bill included language apparently targeting the development.

A decade ago, 14 people were gunned down in San Bernardino. Survivors and family of the victims are still processing what happened, and the national impact.

If you dare show decency to people without papers, you want to 'destroy everything that America stands for,' and 'you won't be here for long!' per the president. Not even your passport or your birth certificate will save you.

After the shooting of two National Guard members, the push by Trump and America First Republicans to blame crime on brown and Black immigrants has reached a critical point.

Whether President Trump will choose to go to war with Venezuela has become a source of alarm on Capitol Hill.

Immigration attorneys described an escalating trend of cases in which someone who won protection from deportation has remained indefinitely detained.

The Trump administration has cited a more than 1,000% increase in assaults on immigration agents to justify aggressive tactics. But court records reviewed by The Times show the majority of the alleged assaults in the areas where ICE and Border Patrol ...

Actions that once seemed untoward or shocking are no longer politically disqualifying. The instinct for embattled candidates now is to fight and not surrender. It's certainly worked for Trump.

Rep. Robert Garcia, of Long Beach, has helped lead the House Democrats' push to secure release of the Epstein files, thrusting the second-term congressman into the national spotlight.