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2 days ago | latimes.com | Wyatte Grantham-Philips |Damian J. Troise

Trader Thomas McCauley works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Global financial markets have been turned upside down this year by President Trump’s burgeoning trade war. Markets are not in full panic, but the double-digit declines in major U.S. stock indexes are testing nerves. U.S. markets had been on a two-year tear coming into 2025, though many believed that stock prices had become overinflated.

2 days ago | latimes.com | Jack Harris

The Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani, center, talk with teammates in the dugout before a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas, on Sunday. As a father of two, Dave Roberts is a true believer. Which, naturally, made the Dodgers manager all the more excited about the return of the team’s newest dad: Shohei Ohtani.

2 days ago | latimes.com | Jamey Keaten

A shop owner in Bethlehem, West Bank, places a black ribbon over a photo of Pope Francis on Monday after the news of his death at age 88. Church bells tolled in mourning. Well-wishers flocked into pews. Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from around the world on Monday after the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death at age 88.

3 days ago | latimes.com | George Skelton

Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, and state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta speak at a news conference in Ceres, Calif., announcing their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s use of emergency powers to enact sweeping tariffs that hurt states, consumers and businesses. Give Gov. Gavin Newsom credit. You can call it grandstanding and opportunistic, but suing President Trump over tariffs was smart, bold and much needed. Sure, it was political.

3 days ago | latimes.com | Yuras Karmanau

Ksenia Lutskina, a Belarusian journalist who fled the country after spending years in prison, is pictured in Berlin on April 15, 2025. She was released after developing a brain tumor. Journalist Ksenia Lutskina served only half of her eight-year prison sentence in Belarus after being convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the government. She was pardoned after she kept fainting in her cell due to a brain tumor diagnosed during pretrial detention.