The ACLU's federal lawsuit claims the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement operations violate the Constitution.

After an immigration arrest in Culver City, cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz created a painting that’s gone viral — and emerged as a flashpoint in the debate over immigration enforcement.

July 10. 562-570-3233, shorturl.at/OT0l6. Book Soup: Shelley Fisher Fishkin discusses and signs “Jim — The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade,” 7 p.m. July 10. Ross Halperin discusses and signs “Bear Witness – The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land,

The city and county of Los Angeles, along with several municipalities in Southern California, are seeking to join a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration over recent immigration raids.

Over the last half century or so, millions more people have moved to greater Los Angeles, settling in increasingly far-flung reaches of the desert and in the mountains, requiring more faucets, toilets and shower heads, producing more garbage and more gridlock on the 405 freeway, reinforcing all the clichés about excess and sprawl.

The good news is that the mini heat wave that hit on Wednesday is peaking on Thursday, July 10, and the weekend will be somewhat cooler. But according to the National Weather Service (NWS), above-average temperatures will again return to Los Angeles and especially to the inland regions next week.

The Los Angeles Lakers and Bronny James will tip-off Las Vegas Summer League on Thursday night against the Dallas Mavericks. The former USC Trojans guard, James

Michael Meiser was assigned to Operation Safe Jails, a unit dedicated to investigating gang and drug activity in the Los Angeles County jails. On Thursday, he admitted trying to smuggle more than a pound of heroin into a lockup.