Stacy Spikes grew up at the movies. When he was a child in Houston, his mother would give him and his brother $5 each, drop them off at the theater — the manager knew them by name — and come back hours later. “She’d probably be arrested today,” he said. “It was a different time.” […]

There have been tense confrontations in Los Angeles as riot police and demonstrators – protesting federal immigration raids – squared off in the downtown area. Earlier on Friday, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents took dozens of people into custody during raids across Los Angeles city. Caravans of unmarked military-style vehicles and vans […]

In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the Museum at The Times. The Advocate, a national L.G.B.T.Q. newsmagazine, took The New York Times to task in its issue of Dec. 9, 1986, for what the magazine regarded as this newspaper’s indifference, if not hostility, […]

Former longtime Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman Tom Rafferty died Thursday after suffering a stroke, The Dallas Morning News reports. Rafferty was 70 years old. Rafferty’s daughter, Rachel Powers, told the Morning News that her father had been hospitalized since early May. The Cowboys selected Rafferty out of Penn State in the fourth round of the […]

Standing near the ledge of a magnificent canyon in Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park in the hours before sunset, my fiancée Gia and I looked each other in the eyes as we read our vows. But our officiant was nowhere in sight. That’s because she was darting around the rocks, seeking the perfect angle […]

Russia bombarded Ukraine’s second-largest city with massive strikes in the early hours of Saturday, its mayor said, one night after Moscow carried out one of the war’s largest aerial assaults on Ukraine. Russia has conducted extensive attacks on Ukraine in recent days, in what is being viewed as retaliation for an audacious drone operation by […]

LOS ÁNGELES — Una serie de redadas sorpresivas del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE) en el centro de Los Ángeles provocaron el viernes una fuerte reacción de funcionarios electos y manifestantes, que denunciaron las acciones como “crueles e innecesarias” y dijeron que avivaron el miedo en la comunidad inmigrante. La tensión […]

A vigil was held to honor the life of Samuel Riveros, 35, a Baldwin Park police officer who was killed in the line of duty. Over 1,000 people gathered outside Baldwin Park City Hall on Friday night, where a large memorial filled with flowers, candles and mementos continues growing. A speaker at the memorial described […]

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The Huntsville man charged with killing two women on Bonnell Drive in August 2023 appeared in court on Friday. 25-year-old Tye Deshun Stevens is charged with the capital murder of D’Asia Monique Morris and Sequoiya Mone’e Lamar. Stevens was arrested in September 2024 in Anniston, Alabama. He appeared before Madison County […]

CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — Democratic politics in rural Virginia are not of a bygone era, according to Abigail Spanberger. The former congressional representative, now the Democratic nominee in the race to be Virginia’s next governor, posts videos online of herself sitting in a car on an interstate highway that goes up and down the Appalachian […]