Genaro Molina

6 days ago | sanluisobispo.com | Genaro Molina

TORRANCE, CA - SEPTEMBER 5, 2024 - Dr. Gaurav Shinde gives Giti Noroozi, 85, her vaccinations for COVID and her flu shot at the Walgreens pharmacy in Torrance on September 5, 2024. In this photo Noroozi received the Comirnaty Pfizer vaccine for COVID. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) Genaro Molina TNS As promised, federal health officials have dropped longstanding recommendations that healthy children and healthy pregnant women should get the COVID-19 vaccines.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Genaro Molina

LOS ANGELES - Man's best friend appears to have a bone to pick with U.S. Postal Service workers in Los Angeles, which just ranked No. 1 in the nation when it comes to canine attacks on mail carriers. Seventy-seven Postal Service employees were attacked by dogs last year in Los Angeles, earning the city the unfavorable top spot on the Postal Service's incident list for the third year in a row. California also ranks No. 1 among all states for attacks on Postal Service employees.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Genaro Molina

LOS ANGELES – It was the first and possibly the most dramatic act by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after she took office: declaring a city emergency on homelessness. That move, backed by the City Council, gave Bass the power to award no-bid contracts to nonprofit groups and to rent hotels and motels for interim homeless housing. It also allowed Bass to waive regulations limiting the size and scale of certain types of affordable housing.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Genaro Molina

LOS ANGELES - Keith Puckett says he was heading to the gym to help prepare his son for basketball tryouts at El Segundo High School when a police officer passing in the opposite direction flipped a U-turn and stopped him. Puckett, 47, a senior security program manager at Microsoft, was driving a weathered pickup truck he'd borrowed from a friend, according to a civil rights complaint he filed last August in L.A. County Superior Court that described the March 2021 encounter.

2 weeks ago | kentucky.com | Genaro Molina

WASHINGTON - A multifront assault by the Trump administration against the nation's oldest university intensified on Friday when Harvard sued to block the government from barring international student enrollment, and a judge issued an immediate order to halt the ban. The rapid-fire legal action is the latest in Trump administration attacks against the university as it claims Harvard failed to adhere to its demands to combat antisemitism.