Rebecca Ellis

2 weeks ago | thederrick.com | Jaweed Kaleem |Ruben Vives |Rebecca Ellis |Corinne Purtill |Rebecca Ellis

LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of demonstrators fanned out across Southern California Saturday for “No Kings Day” protests against President Donald Trump, depicting the president as an aspiring monarch who violates Democratic norms as he has clashed with California leaders over his deployment of the military to clamp down on at times violent protests sparked by immigration raids.

3 weeks ago | thederrick.com | Rachel Uranga |Rebecca Ellis |Clara Harter |Ruben Vives |Rebecca Ellis |Seema Mehta | +1 more

LOS ANGELES — Fallout from a blitzkrieg of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps in downtown Los Angeles continued Saturday, with fierce pushback from protesters and open sparring between L.A. leadership and federal officials. “As Mayor of a proud city of immigrants, who contribute to our city in so many ways, I am deeply angered by what has taken place.

Mar 12, 2025 | thederrick.com | Rebecca Ellis |Terry Castleman |Grace Toohey

Jan 8, 2025 | yahoo.com | Laura Nelson |Rebecca Ellis |Noah Haggerty |Daniel Miller |Jack Dolan |Ruben Vives | +1 more

By Wednesday morning, it looked as if a bomb had detonated on Sunset Boulevard. As the catastrophic Palisades fire receded from one of the city’s iconic thoroughfares, smoke and ash rendered the once-picturesque landscape into something oddly lunar. Read more: Homes, structures 'in the thousands' are burned in Palisades, Eaton, officials say; more fire weather aheadThere were charred buildings, some slightly damaged, others fully destroyed.

Jan 8, 2025 | yahoo.com | Rebecca Ellis

Arturo Garcia said he’s been working in the Palisades for 17 hours nonstop. His partner has been awake for over 24. Like the firefighters he was surrounded by the night before, he’s guarding homes — not against the flames, but against looters, who might see opportunity in an affluent neighborhood suddenly deserted.