Few who saw gruesome video footage of Shani Louk’s near-naked body being paraded through the streets of Gaza more than three weeks ago would have imagined the young German Israeli woman might still be alive. But some friends and family had clung to that hope. Israel’s foreign ministry on Monday confirmed the death of Louk, 22 — one of hundreds of young people, Israeli and foreign, who had flocked earlier this month to an all-night desert rave staged just three miles from the border fence with Gaza. Louk was described by friends and family as a free-spirited young woman who loved raves just...…Few who saw gruesome video footage of Shani Louk’s near-naked body being paraded through the streets of Gaza more than three weeks ago would have imagined the young German Israeli woman might still be alive. But some friends and family had clung to that hope. Israel’s foreign ministry on Monday confirmed the death of Louk, 22 — one of hundreds of young people, Israeli and foreign, who had flocked earlier this month to an all-night desert rave staged just three miles from the border fence with Gaza. Louk was described by friends and family as a free-spirited young woman who loved raves just...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump, confronted with a damaging report that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill American and allied troops in Afghanistan, declared Sunday on Twitter that he was about the finding by U.S. intelligence.Democrats including Trump’s prospective presidential rival, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharply criticized Trump’s seeming indifference to the explosive report in Friday’s New York Times. Neither Trump nor other administration officials have specifically denied the report, which has since been...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump, confronted with a damaging report that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill American and allied troops in Afghanistan, declared Sunday on Twitter that he was about the finding by U.S. intelligence.Democrats including Trump’s prospective presidential rival, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharply criticized Trump’s seeming indifference to the explosive report in Friday’s New York Times. Neither Trump nor other administration officials have specifically denied the report, which has since been...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The nation’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 in less than four months on Wednesday, a heart-rending inflection point in a pandemic that has profoundly altered Americans’ daily lives, ravaged the U.S. economy and put the country’s bare-knuckle political disunity on display for all the world to see. Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The first...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The nation’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 in less than four months on Wednesday, a heart-rending inflection point in a pandemic that has profoundly altered Americans’ daily lives, ravaged the U.S. economy and put the country’s bare-knuckle political disunity on display for all the world to see. Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The first...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement America is having a conversation with itself, in voices that ring with rage, despair — and, sometimes, hope. For nearly two weeks, street protests have, leaping cities and towns in an electrifying arc, reverberating far beyond the Minneapolis street corner where a white police officer of a black man, George Floyd, and kept it there for nearly nine minutes.That image — and all it evoked about America’s disturbing past and troubled present — was seared into the collective consciousness. Floyd’s last words — “I can’t breathe” — were at...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement America is having a conversation with itself, in voices that ring with rage, despair — and, sometimes, hope. For nearly two weeks, street protests have, leaping cities and towns in an electrifying arc, reverberating far beyond the Minneapolis street corner where a white police officer of a black man, George Floyd, and kept it there for nearly nine minutes.That image — and all it evoked about America’s disturbing past and troubled present — was seared into the collective consciousness. Floyd’s last words — “I can’t breathe” — were at...WW…

Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementTeachers and workers in child care, emergency services and food and agriculture will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations in Los Angeles County starting Monday, though officials warn that the pace will be slowed by limited supply.Nearly 1.2 million people fall into these newly approved categories, according to . They will join about 2.2 million L.A. County residents who are already eligible to be vaccinated — those who work in healthcare, live in long-term care facilities or are 65 or older. “Opening eligibility to more groups...…Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementTeachers and workers in child care, emergency services and food and agriculture will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations in Los Angeles County starting Monday, though officials warn that the pace will be slowed by limited supply.Nearly 1.2 million people fall into these newly approved categories, according to . They will join about 2.2 million L.A. County residents who are already eligible to be vaccinated — those who work in healthcare, live in long-term care facilities or are 65 or older. “Opening eligibility to more groups...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Under intense bipartisan pressure, President Trump on Sunday signed a sweeping coronavirus relief and spending bill — the denouement of a days-long drama over whether he would allow millions of Americans to endure a devastating cut to unemployment benefits and force a chaotic shutdown of the federal government in the final weeks of his administration.The abrupt reversal by the president, ensconced at his Florida resort, came as converging crises of COVID-19, economic suffering, the looming government shutdown and Trump’s ongoing...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Under intense bipartisan pressure, President Trump on Sunday signed a sweeping coronavirus relief and spending bill — the denouement of a days-long drama over whether he would allow millions of Americans to endure a devastating cut to unemployment benefits and force a chaotic shutdown of the federal government in the final weeks of his administration.The abrupt reversal by the president, ensconced at his Florida resort, came as converging crises of COVID-19, economic suffering, the looming government shutdown and Trump’s ongoing...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump’s refusal toto President-elect Joe Biden continued into Sunday, with Democrats urging respect for the vote’s integrity while the president’s staunchest allies defended his and readied a blitz of lawsuits.But more cracks appeared in what has largely been a wall of silence from senior GOP figures on the president’s still-incendiary rhetoric contesting the vote. Former President George W. Bush offered Biden his congratulations, and a few moderate Republicans pressed the case for “cooler heads” to prevail.And adding to a...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump’s refusal toto President-elect Joe Biden continued into Sunday, with Democrats urging respect for the vote’s integrity while the president’s staunchest allies defended his and readied a blitz of lawsuits.But more cracks appeared in what has largely been a wall of silence from senior GOP figures on the president’s still-incendiary rhetoric contesting the vote. Former President George W. Bush offered Biden his congratulations, and a few moderate Republicans pressed the case for “cooler heads” to prevail.And adding to a...WW…