Sam Levin

1 week ago | inkl.com | Maanvi Singh |Raima Amjad |Sam Levin

A protester is detained by CHP officers after they took over the 101 Freeway in Downtown LA to protest immigration sweeps. Photograph: Jill Connelly/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock California lawmakers who toured a detention facility where people arrested in sweeping immigration raids at workplaces across the Los Angeles area are being held, have reported deteriorating conditions, including a lack of access to clean clothes and towels.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Holmes |Dani Anguiano |Edward Helmore |Lois Beckett |Sam Levin |Lauren Gambino

Los Angeles police have announced they are making mass arrests in the city’s downtown area, as people gathered in defiance of an overnight curfew imposed after days of protests against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and military deployment. Late on Tuesday night local time, the LAPD wrote on X that “multiple groups” continued to congregate within the designated downtown curfew area. “Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated,” it said.

3 weeks ago | wfla.com | Sam Levin

by: Sam Levin Posted: Jun 5, 2025 / 12:21 PM EDT Updated: Jun 5, 2025 / 12:28 PM EDT Tampa (BLOOM) – The Today Show’s Nutrition, Health, and Lifestyle Expert, Joy Bauer, joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, sharing delicious summer fruit recipes that are easy to make. Joy Bauer is an expert when it comes to creating delicious recipes for all occasions.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sam Levin

AB Hernandez, a 16-year-old track and field athlete from California, had trained for years for this moment. On Saturday, the high school junior from Jurupa Valley, a city east of Los Angeles, won first place in the high jump, first place in the triple jump and silver in the long jump in the state finals. “Track is everything to me. Track is my little baby,” she told the Guardian on Tuesday. “It’s crazy I can say that I’m a state champion for something I love so much.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Sam Levin

Patricia Krenwinkel, a former Charles Manson follower who has been imprisoned for 56 years over her role in the Tate-LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, could go free after being recommended for parole last week. The decision marked a major victory for the aging incarcerated woman after 16 parole hearings. Krenwinkel, now 77, was 21 at the time of the 1969 killings and has been imprisoned longer than any other woman in California.