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A fence might deter MacArthur Park crime and homelessness, but is it enough?	My first reaction, when I heard about the proposed $2.3-million fence around MacArthur Park, was skepticism. Yeah, the park and the immediate neighborhood have long dealt with a nasty web of urban nightmares, including homelessness, crime and a rather astonishing open-air drug scene, all of which I spent a few months looking into not long ago. But what would a fence accomplish? Well, after looking into it, maybe it’s not the worst idea. Skepticism, I should note, is generally a fallback position for me. It’s something of an occupational duty, and how can you not be cynical about promises and plans in Los Angeles, where each time you open the newspaper, you have to scratch your head? I’m still having trouble understanding how county supervisors approved another $828 million in child sexual abuse payments, on top of an earlier settlement this year of $4 billion, even after Times reporter Rebecca Ellis found nine cases in which people said they were told to fabricate abuse allegations. The same supes, while wrestling with a budget crisis, agreed to pay $2 million to appease the county’s chief executive officer because she felt wronged by a ballot measure proposing that the job be an elected rather than appointed post. Scratching your head doesn’t help in this case; you’re tempted instead to bang it into a wall. Or maybe a $2.3-million fence. The city of L.A. is primarily responsible for taking on the problems of MacArthur Park, although the county has a role too in the areas of housing, public health and addiction services. I made two visits to the area in the last week, and while there are signs of progress and slightly less of a sense of chaos — the children’s playground hit last year by an arsonist has been fully rebuilt — there’s a long way to go. In a story about the fence by my colleague Nathan Solis, one service provider said it would further criminalize homelessness and another said the money “could be better used by funding ... services to the people in the park, rather than just moving them out.” The vast majority of people who spoke at the Oct. 16 meeting of the Recreation and Parks Commission, which voted unanimously to move forward with the fence, were adamantly opposed despite claims that enclosing the space would be a step toward upgrading and making the park more welcoming. “Nothing is more unwelcoming than a fence around a public space,” one critic said. “A fence can not solve homelessness,” another said. Others argued that locking up the park, which is surrounded by a predominantly immigrant community, recalls the ridiculous stunt that played out in June, when President Trump's uniformed posse showed up in armored vehicles and on horseback in what looked like an all-out invasion of Westlake. But another speaker, Raul Claros — who is running against Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez in the 1st District — said he’d spoken to residents and merchants who support the fence, as long as it’s part of a greater effort to address the community’s needs. Claros said he has three questions: “What’s the plan? What’s the timeline? Who’s in charge?” Hernandez, by the way, is not opposed to the fence. A staffer told me there’s a fence around nearby Lafayette Park. Other fenced parks in Los Angeles include Robert Burns Park, adjacent to Hancock Park, and the L.A. State Historic Park on the edge of Chinatown, which is locked at sunset. As for the long-range plan, the Hernandez staffer said the councilwoman has secured and is investing millions of dollars in what she calls a care-first approach that aims to address drug addiction and homelessness in and around the park. Eduardo Aguirre, who lives a couple of blocks from the park and serves on the West Pico Neighborhood Council, told me he’s OK with the fence but worried about the possible consequences. If the people who use the park at night or sleep there are forced out, he said, where will they go? “To the streets? To the alleys? You know what’s going to happen. It’s a game,” Aguirre said. Last fall I walked with Aguirre and his wife as they led their daughter to her elementary school. They often have to step around homeless people and past areas where dealing and drug use, along with violence, are anything but infrequent. Families and others should be able to feel safe in the park and the neighborhood, said Norm Langer, owner of the iconic Langer’s deli on the edge of the park. “I completely understand why you’re skeptical,” Langer told me, but he said he’s seen improvements in the last year, particularly after fences were installed along Alvarado Street and vendors were shut down. Police say some of the vendors were involved in the drug trade and the resale of stolen merchandise. “The point isn’t to limit access,” Langer said. “The fence is intended to improve safety and quality of life for the people who live, work, and spend time here. It gives park staff a fighting chance to maintain and restore the place, especially at night, when they can finally clean and repair without the constant chaos that made upkeep nearly impossible before.” LAPD Capt. Ben Fernandes of the Rampart division told me police are “trying to make it not OK” to buy and use drugs along the Alvarado corridor. Drug users often gather in the northeast corner of the park, Fernandes said, and he thinks putting up a fence and keeping the park off limits at night will help “deflect” some of “the open-air usage.” The park has a nice soccer field and a lovely bandstand, among other popular attractions, but many parents told me they’re reluctant to visit with their children because of safety concerns. If a fence helps bring back families, many of whom live in apartments and have no yards, that’s a good thing. But as the city goes to work on design issues, questions about enforcement, opening and closing times and other details, it needs to keep in mind that all of that is the easy part. It took an unforgivably long time for L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and other elected officials to acknowledge a social, economic and humanitarian crisis in a place that’s home to thousands of low-income working people. The neighborhood needs much more than a fence. [email protected]	[ "Steve Lopez" ]	Views are mixed about installing a fence around L.A.'s MacArthur Park, which has been the scene of violence, drug use and homelessness.	[ "California", "Housing & Homelessness", "L.A. Politics ", "Crime & Courts" ]	California	2025-11-01T12:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T11:59:59.564Z	https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/lopez-column-macarthur-park-fence
Oronde Gadsden II one of the NFL’s biggest surprises? Not to those who know him best	Tre’ Harris watched as Oronde Gadsden II burst by him, the 6-foot-5 tight end chugging over the turf at Golden West College’s football field. Months before Harris and Gadsden suited up as Chargers rookies, the duo were catching passes from Jaxson Dart — now the starting quarterback for the New York Giants — during pre-NFL Scouting Combine training sessions at the Huntington Beach community college as the trio took advantage of sunny weather in Southern California. “I saw his talents immediately,” Dart said of Gadsden. “Skill set-wise, I thought he was a very unique athlete, being, you know, the stature that he is. I thought his footwork was some of the best that I've seen.” Over the past two weeks, the footwork that Harris said separates Gadsden from the rest of the NFL, has been on display. Gadsden, 22, ranks fifth in NFL tight end receiving yards this season (385) despite not playing in the first two games. Two weeks ago, against the Colts, the son of former NFL wide receiver Oronde Gadsden emerged for 164 receiving yards and a touchdown. Against the Vikings last week, the former Syracuse standout, who set the program record for receptions in a season with 73 catches, recorded another 77 receiving yards and a touchdown. Those accomplishments — which he credits to studying the likes of Chargers teammates Keenan Allen and Will Dissly — earned Gadsden earned NFL Rookie of the Week honors in Week 7, the first Charger to claim the award since Asante Samuel Jr. did it twice in 2021. “It's been good, getting in passes with Justin [Herbert], whether it's a practice, and then following up in the game,” Gadsden said. “It feels good to see all the hard work that I've been doing, all the hard work that the whole team has been doing, come forward and translate into the game.” Jim Harbaugh can’t help but smile when talking about Gadsden. Asked about the Chargers' rookies — and the efforts they've put in to keep the team afloat amid a rash of injuries — the usually stoic Chargers coach remarked about how wide his grin was before slamming his hands down onto the podium in front of him. “I mean, Oronde Gadsden,” he said, “of course, has been great.” Herbert added: “It was only a matter of time until he put together two games like he has back-to-back, and he's gonna make a ton of plays for us. He's gonna have a super long career.” Gadsden had his first opportunity to relax during the mini bye week in the 10-day gap between the Chargers' win over the Vikings and their game against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. He said it’s been non-stop football for him since the beginning of his senior year at Syracuse; from the college season to pre-draft training, rookie mini camp, and now the NFL season. For the first time since those training sessions at Golden West, Gadsden decided to visit Disneyland. It was a rare break for Gadsden since his daily pre-draft days working alongside trainer T.J. Houshmandzadeh, the former Pro Bowl wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals. What makes Gadsden a special player, Harris said, is his never-stop attitude. During minicamp, Gadsden would arrive at the facility at 5 a.m. — using his East Coast-wired clock to his advantage to get extra work in. “I'm not gonna say I knew he was gonna do this,” Harris said of Gadsden’s recent success, before pausing. “There's not a lot of tight ends that can move like he does. And, you know, I've seen it firsthand.”	[ "Benjamin Royer" ]	Chargers tight end Oronde Gadsden II is having a stellar rookie campaign, but his success doesn't shock teammates who've seen his dedication and work ethic.	[ "Chargers", "Sports" ]	Chargers	2025-11-01T11:15:00.000Z	2025-11-01T11:14:59.770Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/chargers/story/2025-11-01/chargers-oronde-gadsden-standout-rookie-season-chargers
Prep talk: Quarterback Luke Fahey passes for school-record 569 yards	The senior season being put together by quarterback Luke Fahey of Mission Viejo High can be described as nothing less than sensational. In his latest performance on Thursday night against Los Alamitos, the Ohio State commit passed for a school-record 570 yards in a 76-49 victory. According to Mission Viejo's official statistics, he completed 24 of 31 passes for 569 yards and five touchdowns with one interception. He has led Mission Viejo (9-1) to wins over six teams that have been ranked in the state's top 25 going into the release of Sunday's Southern Section playoff pairings. Mission Viejo will be part of the Division 1 playoffs that are expected to have an eight-team field. Receiver Jack Junker was Fahey's favorite target on Thursday, catching 10 passes for 299 yards and three touchdowns. On the season after 10 games, Fahey has completed 75% of his passes for 3,108 yards and 25 touchdowns with just two interceptions. He has turned in MVP performances for much of the 2025 season. This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email [email protected].	[ "Eric Sondheimer" ]	Luke Fahey of Mission Viejo High set a school record on Thursday night with 569 yards passing in a 76-49 victory over Los Alamitos.	[ "High School Sports", "Sports" ]	High School Sports	2025-11-01T11:15:00.000Z	2025-11-01T11:15:00.692Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2025-11-01/prep-talk-luke-fahey-passes-for-school-record-569-yards
Warning to rest of NFL: Davante Adams-Matthew Stafford attack heating up for Rams	As a 12th-year pro, Davante Adams knows the value of rest during a bye week. So before the Rams played the Jacksonville Jaguars in London on Oct. 19, Adams looked forward to days off that awaited. Then Adams, flashing his three-time All-Pro form, caught three touchdown passes. Was there any part of him that did not want a break? “Oh, hell yeah,” Adams said this week, noting that he told coach Sean McVay, “‘I wish we could keep rolling at this point.’” So did McVay. “He’s like, ‘Man, I don’t want to have a week off,’” McVay recalled. “I said, ‘Hey, just enjoy it.’” Adams, rested and ready after spending part of last week in Mexico with family, intends to pick up where he left off two weeks ago when the Rams play host to the New Orleans Saints at SoFi Stadium. The game will mark the return of fellow star receiver Puka Nacua, who sat out against the Jaguars because of an ankle injury suffered Oct. 12 against the Baltimore Ravens. But the Rams will be without speedy receiver Tutu Atwell, who will be sidelined for at least four games on injured reserve because of a hamstring injury. McVay and quarterback Matthew Stafford showed against the Jaguars that the Rams' weapons go beyond Nacua and Adams. Four tight ends — Tyler Higbee, Colby Parkinson, Davis Allen and rookie Terrance Ferguson — were among the 10 players who caught passes in the 35-7 victory that improved the Rams record to 5-2. “The more people we can get involved in the game, the better we are,” said Stafford, who has passed for 17 touchdowns, with only two interceptions. “We have a couple of extremely talented players, quite a few that are difference-makers in this league. When we can spread the ball around and make everybody defend all the guys, all the eligibles, every blade of grass, that's when we're at our best.” The Rams signed Adams aiming to capitalize on his experience and playmaking, his elite separation skills and the threat he poses near the goal line. Stafford, 37, and Adams, 32, combined for a few highlight-reel plays in the first six games. But they acknowledged in the week leading up to the game against the Jaguars that they were still working to get completely in sync. They found their rhythm against the Jaguars. Adams made dynamic catches from inside the two-yard line for all of his touchdowns. Offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur said the Rams “absolutely” envisioned those kinds of plays when they pursued Adams, who has 109 career touchdown catches, the most among active players. “There’s a reason he has over a hundred touchdowns,” LaFleur said, adding, “It’s not shocking.” Did the Rams find something they can build on? “Yeah, we'll see what the red-zone targets look like this week and then we'll be able to fully tell you,” Adams said, chuckling. “But definitely it's not a secret that I've been able to make plays in the red zone. “I think a lot of it was just getting on the same page, us feeling each other out and coming up with a good plan. The coaches did that and we were able to connect. “I think the more you make plays, the more you build that confidence and then you stop straining and pressing to make plays and you just be yourself and go out there and be natural.” Adams has 31 catches for 431 yards and six touchdowns. With Stafford and Adams continuing to solidify their connection, the offense is poised to remain productive as the Rams drive toward a playoff spot. “Me being who I am and Matthew being who he is and just having the team that we do, my expectations are really high and standards are really high for what I should bring and what this team should be able to do,” Adams said. “I’m definitely not satisfied with what we've done, but happy with where we are.”	[ "Gary Klein" ]	As the Rams prepare to face the Saints, Davante Adams and Matthew Stafford seem to be on the cusp of achieving great things in the passing offense.	[ "Rams", "Sports" ]	Rams	2025-11-01T11:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T11:00:00.000Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/story/2025-11-01/davante-adams-matthew-stafford-passing-attack-rams-saints
How UCLA’s Mick Cronin lured Donovan Dent in pursuit of a banner season	Here he was, the top point guard in the transfer portal, and Donovan Dent was being told what he couldn’t do. Pleasantries weren’t the point of the conference call with Mick Cronin. The UCLA basketball coach asked the player who could help his team contend for a national title about his plans after college. That was easy enough. Dent told Cronin that he wanted to play in the NBA. OK, Cronin responded, let’s say you’re playing the Lakers tomorrow. Who would you guard? It couldn’t be their primary ballhandlers, Luka Doncic and LeBron James, because they’re 6 feet 6 and 6-9, respectively, while Dent is only 6-2. So who do you guard next? Continuing down the roster, Cronin got to Austin Reaves, the 6-5 dynamo. “Cronin’s like, well, you're not a good enough defender to guard him,” said Josh Giles, who was on the call last spring as an advisor to Dent after having coached him at Corona Centennial High. “And so he's like, that's your biggest issue is you’ve got to be a better defender.” Cronin went on to tell Dent that if he hollered at him about defense in practice, he would be doing his job to help him play in the NBA. This was a different approach than that of most coaches pursuing the honorable mention All-American from New Mexico. They were known for being positive and taking it easy on their star players, rarely challenging them. Having already coached five high-level prospects who went on to play for Cronin, Giles was something of an expert on his UCLA counterpart. Giles cursed and yelled but was probably closer in temperament to the agreeable coaches than he was to Cronin. Making sure Dent understood what he would be signing up for if he transferred to UCLA, Giles reiterated after the call ended that he would be held accountable, that he would be called out if he faltered. “Well,” Dent responded, having been sold, “maybe that’s exactly what I need.” His talent reveals itself in so many ways. During UCLA’s first exhibition game, with a large lead having uncomfortably dwindled, Dent used a burst of speed to get to the rim on multiple late possessions. He made a layup or drew a foul each time, sinking every free throw to help his team prevail. During the Bruins’ second exhibition game, playing only the first half of a 30-point blowout, Dent made an array of floating jumpers and logged eight assists to go with one turnover and one steal. Exceeding his statistics were the raves he drew from teammates afterward. Said forward Tyler Bilodeau: “He can break down any defense.” Said guard Skyy Clark: “He makes life a lot easier, for sure.” Perhaps most pleased was the coach who told Dent that he wanted to retain the offensive brilliance he had shown at New Mexico while cutting down on turnovers and tightening up on defense. “I mean, I love that he kept it real,” Dent said of Cronin’s conference call. “Like, he didn't sugarcoat, he didn't try to kiss my you-know-what for me to come here. He just kept it real. He’s like, ‘I'm gonna coach you. We gotta work on your defense if you wanna get to the next step that you wanna go. You can't have no more silly one-hand pass turnovers.’” Growing up in Riverside, Dent developed a deep appreciation for the UCLA point guards who preceded him. He admired Russell Westbrook, Jaylen Hands, Jrue Holiday and Tyger Campbell but modeled his game most after the free-and-fast style of Lonzo Ball. “That’s kind of how I like to play,” Dent said. “I like to get to the rim and play a lot at a fast pace and just move around a little bit and get my teammates involved.” There was another lure to putting on a UCLA jersey besides tradition and tough coaching. A close family member is battling a serious illness, giving Dent additional reason to battle traffic for weekend commutes home to the Inland Empire. “I'm not gonna smoke too much of it out there because, like, that’s my inner circle stuff,” Dent said of the situation, “but that was the only reason I didn’t go to Big Ten media day. I had to be around my family for an important moment. We’re still kind of going through it, so still trying to figure it out. “We're praying right now. It's been great for us and it’s definitely trending more in the upward direction, so we’re just hoping it stays that way.” Dent’s former high school teammate knew where the conversation was headed when a reporter inquired about “the pass.” “The one-handed pass?” asked Eric Freeny, now Dent’s college teammate. That’s right. That one. During a high school championship game against Harvard-Westlake, Dent’s teammate grabbed a rebound and threw him an outlet pass near the left sideline above the three-point line in the backcourt. The pass was behind Dent, so he had to reach back with his right hand, his back turned toward the basket on the far end of the court. In one motion, Dent spun around and hurled a bounce pass between two defenders as if throwing a baseball, hitting Freeny in stride for a layup. Standing in front of the Centennial bench, Giles turned toward his assistant coaches. “That’s the best pass I’ve ever seen,” the veteran coach told them. Nearly four years later, in a nod to Dent’s passing wizardry, Freeny conceded only that the pass was among Dent’s top five. “I just know that’s not the No. 1,” Freeny said with a chuckle. “He’s just a great point guard. He sees everything. He’s got eyes behind his head, he knows where all the spots are.” In another playoff game, against Sierra Canyon, Giles asked his point guard to be more of a scorer than a facilitator. Known for extraordinary speed with the ball in his hands, Dent was given a mandate whenever a certain defender tried to stop him. “It was like, ‘Donny, just go by him,’” Giles said of a plan that led to Dent scoring 18 points during an unexpected blowout. Dent won a state championship but might have suffered from having too much talent on his team. With recruiters fixated on fellow guards Jared McCain and Kylan Boswell, Dent was largely overlooked. Cronin admired Dent’s talent but didn’t need another point guard with Dylan Andrews set to arrive in Westwood, so he encouraged close friend Richard Pitino, the coach at New Mexico, to recruit him. “Everybody was looking at certain guys,” Giles said of the college coaches, “and I'm like, ‘Hey, this guy right here, I'm not so sure he can't be the best of everybody. Don't sleep on this guy right here.’ ” Cronin’s recruiting tip proved to be a good one. Dent became a star by the end of his three years at New Mexico. In his final season with the Lobos, Dent showed the Bruins what they were missing. Continually getting to the rim and finding his teammates with passes for easy baskets, Dent helped New Mexico beat UCLA last November. He went on to become the first NCAA player with 600 points and 200 assists in the same season since Ja Morant at Murray State in 2018-19. Yet Dent’s heavy usage came with a downside. His turnovers ticked upward — he had nine alone in the victory over the Bruins — and his defense slipped from where it had been in high school. “It's funny, all these guys, once they start learning how to score a little bit,” Giles said, “that defense kind of drops sometimes, and now that Donnie can score it a little bit, he's not necessarily the same defender.” Thus the conference call from Cronin, who needed a new point guard last spring after Andrews transferred to Boise State. The coach didn’t want to change everything about Dent. Like his new top player, Cronin was suddenly feeling the need for speed as part of a stylistic makeover. “We’re getting up the court really fast right now,” said Clark, Dent’s new backcourt sidekick. “I love the way we’re playing.” Playing alongside a strong supporting cast that includes Clark, Bilodeau and Eric Dailey Jr. — who averaged a combined 33.4 points last season — should reduce the burden on Dent to make every play. “What I tell him, on this team, he does not need to be Superman,” Cronin said. “I think there’s times because he had to do it at times last year for his team, he had to kind of try to put the cape on, and there will be times maybe he has to do that here.” If all goes well, those opportunities will extend into early April. Just as Cronin told Dent on that conference call that he wouldn’t bring him to UCLA to lose in the second round of the NCAA tournament — as both of their teams had last spring — Dent told his new coach that he wanted a chance to play in the Final Four. They ended the call in lockstep. The point guard was coming home after what felt more like an affirmation than a recruitment. “It was more, like, ‘Hold on a second,’” Cronin said. “ ‘Let me tell you how this is gonna go before you say yes.’”	[ "Ben Bolch" ]	The Bruins coach let the honorable mention All-American know that if he wanted to play in the NBA, his defense would have to improve and he'd be held accountable.	[ "UCLA Sports", "Sports" ]	UCLA Sports	2025-11-01T11:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T11:00:00.932Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2025-11-01/ucla-basketball-season-preview-donovan-dent-recruitment
Man serving life in prison admits to three cold case murders, police say	Almost two decades after a series of slayings in Long Beach, authorities say they have identified a suspect: A man already serving multiple life sentences for murder and attempted murder. The suspect, Glenn Cox, 39, is incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in the San Joaquin Valley, the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement. He was booked on three additional counts of murder and attempted murder, as well as two lesser offenses related to alleged weapons possession, the statement said. Authorities say Cox confessed his involvement in the murders to staff at Avenal in December 2023, prompting Long Beach police to investigate. The department claimed to have found corroborating evidence, but did not elaborate. Cox was allegedly the gunman in a December 2004 shooting that left two dead and hospitalized two others, according to authorities, as well as a shooting in February 2007 that killed one. Authorities say Cox also confessed to being involved in an August 2007 shooting that wounded one man, the police statement said. Long Beach police said the shootings are thought to be gang-related. Officials from the department have presented the cases to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office for filing consideration.	[ "Terry Castleman" ]	The suspect, Glenn Cox, 39, is incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in the San Joaquin Valley, the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement.	[ "California", "The Latest", "Crime & Courts" ]	California	2025-11-01T11:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T11:00:01.824Z	https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/long-beach-police-arrest-suspect-linked-to-three-cold-case-murders
9 Antimicrobial Sheets to Upgrade Your Bedroom and Help You Sleep Better	LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links. You’ve got your nightly routine down: wash your face, apply your products, brush your teeth, maybe sip some magnesium. But what about your sheets? Let's be honest, most of us wait too long between washes. This means we're sleeping on a whole ecosystem of bacteria, sweat, and shed skin cells. Studies now show that sheets can harbor up to 17,000 times more bacteria than a toilet seat in just a few days. And after just one week, pillowcases are said to have 3 to 5 million colony-forming units (CFUs) of bacteria per square inch. Wait a month? That number can jump to nearly 12 million. "Even if your bed looks clean, microscopic buildup can occur surprisingly quickly," says the team behind Bearaby’s Second Skin Sheets. "Your bedding is in contact with your skin for hours every night… it can either support your rest or silently disrupt it." 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We're talking about bacteria like gram-negative rods, which are linked to pneumonia, and bacilli, which are often involved in food poisoning. And it's not just the sheets. That buildup seeps into your mattress, too. A mattress that's over seven years old can have more than 16 million CFUs of bacteria. So, antimicrobial bedding isn’t just a hygiene hack. It seems to be part of the bigger 'clean sleep' movement, which is all about prioritizing the body’s recovery. Not just comfort. Click here to learn more about Amerisleep	[ "Sara Kitnick" ]	Find the best antimicrobial sheets for clean sleep. Shop 9 top picks for 2025 that help stop bacteria, calm skin, and keep you cool all night.	[ "Bedroom", "Sleep Quality", "Live & Well", "SPACES", "Room Decor" ]	Bedroom	2025-11-01T10:39:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:39:00.526Z	https://www.latimes.com/spaces/room/bedroom/story/best-antimicrobial-sheets
What’s at stake for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers in a World Series Game 7?	Once again, the planets have aligned for Shohei Ohtani. The elements are in place for another climactic finish to the latest chapter of this real-life manga, and baseball might never be the same after this. World Series. Game 7. Ohtani will be the Dodgers’ starting pitcher and designated hitter. This is his moment. He dominates the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday night at Rogers Center, and he’s to baseball what Michael Jordan is to basketball, what Tom Brady is to football, what Wayne Gretzky is to hockey. With eight home runs, he’s already tied Corey Seager’s record for the most home runs by a Dodgers player in a single postseason. Ohtani will now have a chance to pick up his third win of these playoffs, in a game to clinch the World Series. From denying the Dodgers to sign with the Nippon-Ham Fighters out of high school to denying the Dodgers again to sign with the Angels when he moved to the major leagues, everything Ohtani has done over the last 12 years have set him up for this game. Now, if he can just win it and maybe homer once or twice. The Dodgers are planning to deploy Ohtani as a so-called opener not because they’re determined to build his legacy but because doing so represents their most likely route to victory. Ohtani will be pitching on three days’ rest, but pitching him in relief would present logistical problems. Under baseball’s current rules, if he pitches in relief and is removed from the game as a pitcher, he would also have to be removed as the designated hitter. That would force him to play in the outfield or be taken out of the game entirely. Ohtani could close, but, say, his turn to bat comes up while he’s warming up to pitch. A league official said the pitch-clock rules would still apply, meaning Ohtani would have to sprint from the bullpen to the batter’s box in 15 or 18 seconds, depending on whether there are men on base. Only as a starter could Ohtani remain in the game as a designated hitter after he is taken out as a pitcher. Considering Ohtani pitched on Tuesday in Game 4 and considering he’s never pitched on three days’ rest for the Dodgers, manager Dave Roberts downplayed what should be expected of him. “With Shohei, it could be two innings,” Roberts said. “But it could be four innings.” What about five? In that scenario, Tyler Glasnow and Blake Snell could probably combine to pitch the final four innings by themselves. Roberts would be spared from having to turn back to Sasaki, a converted starter who was extremely shaky in Game 6. The incentive for Ohtani to pitch more innings was greater after Friday night when Sasaki failed to complete the ninth inning and forced Glasnow into the game. The three-pitch appearance, and the warm-up that preceded it, probably ruled out Glasnow from pitching, say, four innings. Sasaki said he would be ready for Game 7. “I think it will be a total war tomorrow, so I’ll do my best to hold the opposition in the spots entrusted to me,” Sasaki said in Japanese. Roberts said only one pitcher would be unavailable: Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who pitched six innings in Game 6. Then again, Walker Buehler wasn’t part of the Dodgers’ plans for their World Series clincher last year. Buehler registered the final three outs. Yamamoto also wasn’t part of the team’s plans for their 18-inning victory in Game 3. Yamamoto was only two days removed from pitching a complete game, but he nonetheless volunteered to warm up. He joked that he would rather not do something like that again. “If I’m told, ‘Go,’ I’ll go, but if possible, I’d like to do my best cheering,” Yamamoto said with a mischievous smile. Later, when speaking of the intense pressure the teams would face in Game 7, Yamamoto again smiled and cracked, “It will be difficult for the players who play.” Ohtani will play, and he will have the most to gain. The universe has conspired to make him a hero again, just as it did in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Ohtani closed for Japan in the championship game, which was against the United States. The final batter was Mike Trout, whom he struck out. The at-bat stands as the signature moment of Ohtani’s career. That could change on Saturday night.	[ "Dylan Hernández" ]	Shohei Ohtani dominates the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday, and he’s to baseball what Michael Jordan is to basketball, what Tom Brady is to football, what Wayne Gretzky is to hockey.	[ "Dodgers", "Sports" ]	Dodgers	2025-11-01T10:30:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:30:00.000Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-11-01/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-world-series-game-7-legacy
Chargers vs. Titans: How to watch, start time and prediction	Good teams win the games they should win — and the Chargers are out to prove they’re a good team. They travel to Tennessee on Sunday to face rookie quarterback Cam Ward, the No. 1 overall pick, who has shown flashes of promise but isn’t yet where he wants to be in his career. The Chargers are riding high after an Oct. 23 win over Minnesota that marked the return of outstanding left tackle Joe Alt. That makes a big difference both in the protection of Justin Herbert and paving the way for the running game. Tennessee has one win, and that came a month ago to Arizona, and the Titans were rolled by the Rams in Week 2. How the Chargers can win: Control the tempo with the run; the Titans just gave up 164 yards rushing in a loss to Indianapolis. Attack a depleted secondary; one starter is hurt and two more were traded, which should help open the passing lanes for Herbert. Limit the damage returner Chimere Dike does, as he’s capable of breaking a big one. How the Titans can win: Create turnovers. This offense has struggled to move the ball and score points, so short fields will be critical for Tennessee. Do a better job of running with Tony Pollard and Tyjae Spears to take the heat off Ward. Continue to get edge-rushing productivity from Dre’Mont Jones, who has recorded sacks in three consecutive games. Chargers: G Mekhi Becton (knee, questionable); TE Will Dissly (illness, questionable), LS Josh Harris (chest, questionable); RB Hassan Haskins (hamstring, out); S Tony Jefferson (hamstring, out); DB Deane Leonard (knee, questionable); CB Tarheeb Still (knee, out). Titans: OLB Arden Key (quadricep, out); WR Bryce Oliver (knee, questionable); WR Calvin Ridley (hamstring, out); DT Jeffrey Simmons (hamstring, out); FS Xavier Woods (hamstring, out). The Chargers and the Minnesota Vikings will play Sunday at 10 a.m. PDT at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. The game will be available on CBS and Paramount+ in the Los Angeles area and will be available nationally via a subscription to NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. In Southern California, fans can listen to the game on 640 AM or 105.5 FM (Español). Sam Farmer’s pick: The Titans are bad in the red zone, have a depleted secondary, won’t have Calvin Ridley or Jeffrey Simmons and are leaning on a bunch of rookies. The Chargers are rested and should be able to string together wins. Chargers 31, Titans 17	[ "Sam Farmer" ]	Everything you need to know about the Chargers vs. the Tennessee Titans on Sunday, including how to watch, betting odds and a prediction on who will win.	[ "Chargers", "Sports" ]	Chargers	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:15.191Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/chargers/story/2025-11-01/chargers-titans-watch-score-prediction-odds-start-time
Refugees will be among the first to lose food stamps under federal changes	After fleeing the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Antoinette landed in the Atlanta area last November and began to find her footing with federal help. Separated from her adult children and grieving her husband’s death in the war, she started a job packing boxes in a warehouse, making just enough to cover rent for her own apartment and bills. Antoinette has been relying on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, for her weekly grocery trips. But now, just as life is starting to stabilize, she will have to deal with a new setback. President Donald Trump’s massive budget law, which Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, slashes $187 billion — or nearly 20% — from the federal budget for SNAP through 2034. And separate from any temporary SNAP stoppages due to the federal shutdown, the law cuts off access completely for refugees and other immigrant groups in the country lawfully. The change was slated to take effect immediately when the law was signed in July, but states are still awaiting federal guidance on when to stop or phase it out. For Antoinette, 51, who did not want her last name used for fear of deportation and likely persecution in her native country, the loss of food aid is dire. “I would not have the means to buy food,” she said in French through a translator. “How am I going to manage?” Throughout its history, the U.S. has admitted into the country refugees like Antoinette, people who have been persecuted, or fear persecution, in their homelands due to race, religion, nationality, political opinions, or membership in a particular social group. These legal immigrants typically face an in-depth vetting process that can start years before they set foot on U.S. soil. Once they arrive — often with little or no means — the federal government provides resources such as financial assistance, Medicaid, and SNAP, outreach that has typically garnered bipartisan support. Now the Trump administration has pulled back the country’s decades-long support for refugee communities. The budget law, which funds several of the president’s priorities, including tax cuts to wealthy Americans and border security, revokes refugees’ access to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities, starting in October 2026. But one of the first provisions to take effect under the law removes SNAP eligibility for most refugees, asylum seekers, trafficking and domestic violence victims, and other legal immigrants. About 90,000 people will lose SNAP in an average month as a result of the new restrictions narrowing which noncitizens can access the program, according to the Congressional Budget Office. “It doesn’t get much more basic than food,” said Matthew Soerens, vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief, a Christian humanitarian organization that supports U.S. refugees. “Our government invited these people to rebuild their lives in this country with minimum support,” Soerens said. “Taking food away from them is wrong.” The White House and officials at the United States Department of Agriculture did not respond to emails about support for the provision that ends SNAP for refugees in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for reduced levels of immigration to the U.S., said cuts to SNAP eligibility are reasonable because foreign-born people and their young children disproportionately use public benefits. Still, Camarota said, the refugee population is different from other immigrant groups. “I don’t know that this would be the population I would start with,” Camarota said. “It’s a relatively small population of people that we generally accept have a lot of need.” Federal, state, and local spending on refugees and asylum seekers, including food, healthcare, education, and other expenses, totaled $457.2 billion from 2005 to 2019, according to a February 2024 report from the Department of Health and Human Services. During that time, 21% of refugees and asylum seekers received SNAP benefits, compared with 15% of all U.S. residents. In addition to the budget law’s SNAP changes, financial assistance given to people entering the U.S. by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a part of HHS, has been cut from one year to four months. The HHS report also found that despite the initial costs of caring for refugees and asylees, this community contributed $123.8 billion more to federal, state, and local governments through taxes than they received in public benefits over the 15 years. It’s in the country’s best interest to continue to support them, said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge, a nonprofit refugee resettlement agency. “This is not what we should think about as a handout,” she said. “We know that when we support them initially, they go on to not just survive but thrive.” Food insecurity can have lifelong physical and mental health consequences for people who have already faced years of instability before coming to the U.S., said Andrew Kim, co-founder of Ethnē Health, a community health clinic in Clarkston, an Atlanta suburb that is home to thousands of refugees. Noncitizens affected by the new law would have received, on average, $210 a month within the next decade, according to the CBO. Without SNAP funds, many refugees and their families might skip meals and switch to lower-quality, inexpensive options, leading to chronic health concerns such as obesity and insulin resistance, and potentially worsening already serious mental health conditions, he said. After her husband was killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Antoinette said, she became separated from all seven of her children. The youngest is 19. She still isn’t sure where they are. She misses them but is determined to build a new life for herself. For her, resources like SNAP are critical. From the conference room of New American Pathways, the nonprofit that helped her enroll in benefits, Antoinette stared straight ahead, stone-faced, when asked about how the cuts would affect her. Will she shop less? Will she eat fewer fruits and vegetables, and less meat? Will she skip meals? “Oui,” she replied to each question, using the French for “yes.” Since arriving in the U.S. last year from Ethiopia with his wife and two teen daughters, Lukas, 61, has been addressing diabetes-related complications, such as blurry vision, headaches, and trouble sleeping. SNAP benefits allow him and his family to afford fresh vegetables like spinach and broccoli, according to Lilly Tenaw, the nurse practitioner who treats Lukas and helped translate his interview. His blood sugar is now at a safer level, he said proudly after a class at Mosaic Health Center, a community clinic in Clarkston, where he learned to make lentil soup and balance his diet. “The assistance gives us hope and encourages us to see life in a positive way,” he said in Amharic through a translator. Lukas wanted to use only his family name because he had been jailed and faced persecution in Ethiopia, and now worries about jeopardizing his ability to get permanent residency in the U.S. Hunger and poor nutrition can lower productivity and make it hard for people to find and keep jobs, said Valerie Lacarte, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. “It could affect the labor market,” she said. “It’s bleak.” While the Trump administration ended SNAP for refugees effective immediately, the change has created uncertainty for those who provide assistance. State officials in Texas and California, which receive the most refugees among states, and in Georgia told KFF Health News that the USDA, which runs the program, has yet to issue guidance on whether they should stop providing SNAP on a specific date or phase it out. And it’s not just refugees who are affected. Nearly 42 million people receive SNAP benefits, according to the USDA. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that, within the next decade, more than 3 million people will lose monthly food dollars because of planned changes — such as an extension of work requirements to more people and a shift in costs from the federal government to the states. In September, the administration ended a key report that regularly measured food insecurity among all U.S. households, making it harder to assess the toll of the SNAP cuts. The USDA also posted on its website that no benefits would be issued for anyone starting Nov. 1 because of the federal shutdown, blaming Senate Democrats. The Trump administration has refused to release emergency funding — as past administrations have done during shutdowns — so that states can continue issuing benefits while congressional leaders work out a budget deal. A coalition of attorneys general and governors from 25 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Oct. 28 contesting the administration’s decision. Cuts to SNAP will ripple through local grocery stores and farms, stretching the resources of charity organizations and local governments, said Ted Terry, a DeKalb County commissioner and former mayor of Clarkston. “It’s just the whole ecosystem that has been in place for 40 years completely being disrupted,” he said. Muzhda Oriakhil, senior community engagement manager at Friends of Refugees, an Atlanta-area nonprofit that helps refugees resettle, said her group and others are scrambling to provide temporary food assistance for refugee families. But charity organizations, food banks, and other nonprofit groups cannot make up for the loss of billions of federal dollars that help families pay for food. “A lot of families, they may starve,” she said. Rayasam writes for KFF.	[ "Renuka Rayasam" ]	Under the budget law that Republicans call the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, food assistance for refugees will be sliced. The change is sowing fear, uncertainty, and a struggle for survival — a sign of what’s to come for millions of Americans.	[ "Science & Medicine", "Politics", "Food", "Trump Administration", "Immigration & the Border" ]	Science & Medicine	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:08.739Z	https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-11-01/refugees-will-be-among-the-first-to-lose-food-stamps-under-federal-changes
News Analysis: Trump channels past Latin American aggressions in new crusade: ‘We’re just gonna kill people’	They’re blowing up boats in the high seas, threatening tariffs from Brazil to Mexico and punishing anyone deemed hostile — while lavishing aid and praise on allies all aboard with the White House program. Welcome to the Monroe Doctrine 2.0, the Trump administration’s bellicose, you’re-with-us-or-against-us approach to Latin America. Not yet a year into his term, President Trump seems intent on putting his footprint in “America’s backyard” more than any recent predecessor. He came to office threatening to take back the Panama Canal, and now seems poised to launch a military attack on Venezuela and perhaps even drone strikes on cartel targets in Mexico. He vowed to withhold aid from Argentina if this week's legislative elections didn't go the way he wanted. They did. “Every president comes in promising a new focus on Latin America, but the Trump administration is actually doing it,” said James Bosworth, whose firm provides regional risk analysis. "There is no country in the region that is not questioning how the U.S. is playing Latin America right now.” Fearing a return to an era when U.S. intervention was the norm — from outright invasions to covert CIA operations to economic meddling — many Latin American leaders are trying to craft please-Trump strategies, with mixed success. But Trump’s transactional proclivities, mercurial outbursts and bullying nature make him a volatile negotiating partner. “It’s all put Latin America on edge,” said Michael Shifter, past president of Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based research group. “It’s bewildering and dizzying and, I think, disorienting for everyone. People don’t know what’s coming next.” In this super-charged update of U.S. gunboat diplomacy, critics say laws are being ignored, norms sidestepped and protocol set aside. The combative approach draws from some old standards: War on Drugs tactics, War on Terrorism rationales and Cold War saber-rattling. Facilitating it all is the Trump administration’s formal designation of cartels as terrorist groups, a first. The shift has provided oratorical firepower, along with a questionable legal rationale, for the deadly “narco-terrorist” boat strikes, now numbering 14, in both the Caribbean and Pacific. “The Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere,” is how Pete Hegseth, Trump's defense secretary, has labeled cartels, as he posts video game-esque footage of boats and their crews being blown to bits. Lost is an essential distinction: Cartels, while homicidal, are driven by profits. Al Qaeda and other terror groups typically proclaim ideological motives. Another aberration: Trump doesn't see the need to seek congressional approval for military action in Venezuela. “I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war,” Trump said. "I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead.” Trump's unpredictability has cowed many in the region. One of the few leaders pushing back is Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who, like Trump, has a habit of incendiary, off-the-cuff comments and social media posts. The former leftist guerrilla — who already accused Trump of abetting genocide in Gaza — said Washington’s boat-bombing spree killed at least one Colombian fisherman. Petro called the operation part of a scheme to topple the leftist government in neighboring Venezuela. Trump quickly sought to make an example of Petro, labeling him “an illegal drug leader” and threatening to slash aid to Colombia, while his administration imposed sanctions on Petro, his wife, son and a top deputy. Like the recent deployment of thousands of U.S. troops, battleships and fighter jets in the Caribbean, Trump's response was a calculated display of power — a show of force designed to brow-beat doubters into submission. Amid the whirlwind turns in U.S.-Latin American relations, the rapid unraveling of U.S.-Colombia relations has been especially startling. For decades Colombia has been the linchpin of Washington’s anti-drug efforts in South America as well as a major trade partner. Unlike Colombia and Mexico, Venezuela is a relatively minor player in the U.S.-bound narcotics trade, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. And yet the White House has cast Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, as an all-powerful kingpin "poisoning" American streets with crime and drugs. It put a $50-million bounty on Maduro's head and massed an armada off the coast of Venezuela, home to the world’s largest petroleum reserves. An exuberant cheerleader for the shoot-first-and-ask-no-questions-later posture is Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has for years advocated for the ouster of left-wing governments in Havana and Caracas. In a recent swing through the region, Rubio argued for a more muscular interdiction strategy. “What will stop them is when you blow them up,” Rubio told reporters in Mexico City. “You get rid of them.” That mindset is "chillingly familiar for many people in Latin America,” said David Adler, of the think tank Progressive International. “Again, you’re doing extrajudicial killings in the name of a war on drugs.” U.S. intervention in Latin America dates back more than 200 years, when President James Monroe declared that the United States would reign as the hemispheric hegemon. In ensuing centuries, the U.S. invaded Mexico and annexed half its territory, dispatched Marines to Nicaragua and Haiti and abetted coups from Chile to Brazil to Guatemala. It enforced a decades-long embargo against communist Cuba — while also launching a botched invasion of the island and trying to assassinate its leader —and imposed economic sanctions on left-wing adversaries in Nicaragua and Venezuela. Motivations for these interventions varied from fighting communism to protecting U.S. business interests to waging a war on drugs. The most recent full-on U.S. assault against a Latin American nation — the 1989 invasion of Panama — also was framed as an anti-drug crusade. President George H.W. Bush described the country's authoritarian leader, Gen. Manuel Noriega, as a "drug-running dictator," language that is nearly identical to current White House descriptions of Maduro. But a U.S. military invasion of Venezuela presents a challenge of a different magnitude. Venezuela is 10 times larger than Panama, and its population of 28 million is also more than tenfold that of Panama's in 1989. Many predict that a potential U.S. attack would face stiff resistance. And if curtailing drug use is really the aim of Trump's policy, leaders from Venezuela to Colombia to Mexico say, perhaps Trump should focus on curtailing addiction in the U.S., which is the world's largest consumer of drugs. To many, the buildup to a potential intervention in Venezuela mirrors the era preceding the 2003 Iraq war, when the White House touted not drug trafficking but weapons of mass destruction — which turned out to be nonexistent — as a casus belli. “Somehow, the United States of America has found a way to combine two of its greatest foreign policy failures — the Iraq War and the War on Drugs — into a single regime change narrative,” Adler said. Further confounding U.S.-Latin American relations is Trump's personality-driven style: his unabashed affection for certain leaders and disdain for others. While Venezuela’s Maduro and Colombia's Petro sit atop the bad-hombre list, Argentine President Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele — the latter the self-described “world’s coolest dictator" — are the darlings of the moment. Trump has given billions of dollars in aid to bail out the right-wing Milei, a die-hard Trump loyalist and free-market ideologue. The administration has paid Bukele’s administration millions to house deportees, while maintaining the protected status of more than 170,000 Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S. “It’s a carrot-and-stick approach,” said Sergio Berensztein, an Argentina political analyst. “It’s fortunate for Argentina that it gets the carrot. But Venezuela and Colombia get the stick.” Trump has given mixed signals on Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum and Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The two leftists lead the region’s largest nations. Trump has wielded the tariff cudgel against both countries: Mexico ostensibly because of drug trafficking; Brazil because of what Trump calls a "witch hunt" against former president Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing Trump favorite convicted of attempting a coup after he, like Trump, lost a bid for reelection. Paradoxically, Trump has expressed affection for both Lula and Sheinbaum, calling Lula on his 80th birthday “a very vigorous guy” (Trump is 79) and hailing Sheinbaum as a “lovely woman,” but adding: “She’s so afraid of the cartels that she can’t even think straight.” Sheinbaum, caught in the crosswinds of shifting policy dictates from Washington, has so far been able to fight off Trump's most drastic tariff threats. Mexico's reliance on the U.S. market highlights a fundamental truth: Even with China expanding its influence, the U.S. still reigns as the region's economic and military superpower. Sheinbaum has avoided the kind of barbed ripostes that tend to trigger Trump's rage, even as U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats creep closer to Mexico's shores. Publicly at least, she seldom shows frustration or exasperation, once musing: “President Trump has his own, very special way of communicating." Special correspondents Cecilia Sánchez Vidal in Mexico City and Andrés D'Alessandro in Buenos Aires contributed to this report.	[ "Patrick J. McDonnell", "Kate Linthicum" ]	U.S. gunboat diplomacy returns as President Trump threatens Venezuela invasion and sanctions Colombia. He also has worked to support right-wing admirers in Brazil and Argentina.	[ "World & Nation", "Mexico & the Americas", "Trump Administration" ]	World & Nation	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:00.799Z	https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-11-01/latin-america-trump-venezuela-mexico
Daylight saving time ends Sunday. What to know about ‘falling back’	Halloween weekend partygoers will get an extra hour of fun Saturday night — technically, Sunday morning — as clocks across the West Coast fall back an hour. Daylight saving time ends Sunday at 2 a.m., bringing earlier sunrises, sunsets, and an hour more of darkness for Californians. However, even though the 1 a.m. hour will repeat Sunday, California bars and clubs are still required to stop serving alcohol from that moment until 6 a.m., so the party might have to continue elsewhere. The nonprofit National Sleep Foundation recommends people gradually adjust their sleep schedule to acclimate to the reconfigured clock, including by napping, and use relaxation techniques such as meditation and breathing exercises to calm themselves. Daylight saving time began on March 9 this year, when clocks sprung forward an hour. The current iteration of daylight saving time, extending from the second Sunday in March to the first in November, was established in 2005. The debate over its efficacy and future has raged ever since. In 2018, California voters approved Proposition 7, which would allow the state Legislature to approve either permanent daylight saving time or permanent standard time — eliminating the annual time shifts — with a two-thirds vote. However, permanent daylight saving time would require congressional approval. States such as Arizona and Hawaii have foregone daily saving time entirely, choosing to stay on standard time year-round and never switch their clocks. For now, Californians are encouraged to set back their clocks before bed Saturday night, or risk losing track of time. Times staff writer Ruben Vives contributed to this report.	[ "Terry Castleman" ]	Daylight saving time will end Sunday at 2 a.m. as clocks fall back by one hour. Sunrise and sunset will both be an hour earlier.	[ "California", "The Latest" ]	California	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:08.056Z	https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/daylight-saving-time-ends-sunday-what-to-know
Democrats may be finding themselves, but voters know what they want	Tuesday is election day, and it appears Democrats in California are ready, in the words of Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), to “fight fire with fire.” As many as 60% of voters plan to vote yes on Proposition50, according to two recent statewide polls. If it passes, five Democrats could be added to the House of Representatives. Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed the legislation to balance the effects of an effort in Texas to redraw the state’s congressional districts and add five Republicans. Gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa told me he supported Newsom’s decision and plans on voting yes because it is the best way to defend against the Trump administration. “I think we’ve seen very clearly: We have a man in the White House that wants to rig an election,” Villaraigosa said. “That’s what they’re doing in Texas. The legislature has voted. What’s different about California is that the people get to decide.” It’s no secret the party has been trying to find itself since last November. As unpopular as President Trump’s economic policies are; as much as video of ICE raids unnerve people; as uncomfortable as the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files has been … the reality is that Americans don’t like Democrats that much either. So while it’s helpful to have Prop. 50 provide some defense for the political power the party still has, without a plan for offense the midterm election isn’t going to provide the blue wave progressives are hoping for. Earlier this week, Politico published a 2024 autopsy conducted by the party titled “Deciding to Win.” Supposedly “it aims to provide the most comprehensive account to date of why Democrats lost and what our party needs to do to win again.” I say supposedly because the words “race” and “gender” were missing in the executive summary. According to the study, “thousands of election results, hundreds of public polls and academic papers, dozens of case studies, and surveys of more than 500,000 voters” were conducted since the 2024 election. And according to “Deciding to Win,” the problem began in 2012, when the party went too far left. I don’t question the findings, just the characterization of what the authors found. In the past three presidential elections — 2016, 2020, 2024 — the candidates campaigned on policy but the elections were shaped by identity both in the media and on the trail. And yet this Democratic strategy document suggests that talking about gender and race was part of the party’s problem in those cycles. But prejudice is not a subplot in American politics; it’s a major factor regardless of whether Democrats bring it up. The Republican nominee those three years was endorsed by the newspaper of the KKK. So sure, the party needs to continue talking about kitchen table issues, but we can’t pretend the socioeconomic divisions of America are by happenstance and not socially engineered. There are more than 300 counties in this country that have been perpetually poor since 1990. Some are majority white and historically have voted Republican, others are majority minority and vote for Democrats. Either way, they’ve been poor for decades because of policy failure. They don’t vote differently because of identity. Being clear eyed about that reality isn’t being “too woke,” as the report is cowardly trying to suggest; it’s having a holistic understanding of the issues. Democrats didn’t forget about working-class people, as the report suggests. It’s just that “working class” is the progressive’s euphemism for “straight white people.” They use it the way conservatives and people inside the Beltway say “evangelical Christians.” The idea that immigration rights or policies that help Black people are somehow detached from the working class in this country is ridiculous. They are one and the same. The Democrats have struggled to communicate that over the past three elections. Even in victory, under President Biden, voters saw his universally good economic policies as not helping the “working class” because of messaging. It’s not a lack of ideas that hurt Dems. It’s a lack of nerve, as demonstrated by the establishment’s unwillingness to endorse the transformative candidate in New York City’s mayoral election next week. However history shows us Trump supporters were not handcuffed by tradition, transformed by data or motivated by reports. After President Obama’s election in 2008, Republicans did their own “autopsy.” It was well researched and reasoned … and ignored by voters in 2010, when they had their own ideas. That’s when the tea party rose to power, and by 2014, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was ousted — the first time a sitting majority leader had lost a primary. The party’s base didn’t wait or play defense. The people moved and dragged elected officials with them. And sometimes, some officials get left behind. That’s what election day is really about anyway — not what was or is, but what could be. YouTube: @LZGrandersonShow	[ "LZ Granderson" ]	It’s not a lack of ideas that hurt Democrats in recent elections. It’s a lack of nerve.	[ "Opinion Voices", "Contributors" ]	Opinion Voices	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-11-01/democratic-strategy-midterms-presidential-election
Proposition 50 could disenfranchise Republican California voters. Will it survive a legal challenge?	Six years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld highly partisan state election maps in North Carolina and Maryland — ruling that federal courts cannot block states from drawing up maps that favor one party over the other — one of the court’s liberal justices issued a warning. “If left unchecked, gerrymanders like the ones here may irreparably damage our system of government,” Associate Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissent. Kagan argued that Republicans in North Carolina and Democrats in Maryland — the two examples before the court — had rigged elections in a way that “deprived citizens of the most fundamental of their constitutional rights,” “debased and dishonored our democracy” and turned “upside-down the core American idea that all governmental power derives from the people.” “Ask yourself,” Kagan said as she recounted what had happened in each state: “Is this how American democracy is supposed to work?” That's the question Californians are now weighing as they decide how, or whether, to vote on Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to scrap congressional maps drawn by the state’s independent redistricting commission and replace them with maps drawn by legislators to favor Democrats through 2030. Democrats don’t deny that the measure is a deliberate attempt to dilute GOP voting power. From the start, they’ve argued that the point of redistricting is to weaken Republicans’ voting power in California — a move they justify on the grounds that it is a temporary fix to offset similar partisan gerrymandering by Texas Republicans. This summer, President Trump upped the ante, pressing Texas to rejigger maps to shore up the GOP’s narrow House majority ahead of the 2026 election. Experts say opponents of Proposition 50 have no viable federal legal challenge against the new maps on the basis that they disenfranchise a large chunk of California Republicans. Even since the 2019 U.S. Supreme Court decision Rucho vs. Common Cause, complaints of partisan gerrymandering have no path in federal court. Already, Proposition 50 has survived challenges in state court and is unlikely to be successfully challenged if passed, said Richard L. Hasen, professor of law and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA School of Law. “If you're a Republican in California, or you're a Democrat in Texas, you're about to get a lot less representation in Congress,” Hasen said. “I don't think there's anything you can do about that.” If Californians vote in favor of the measure on Tuesday, the number of Republicans in the state's House — nine of 52 total members — would likely be reduced by five. That could mean Republicans have less than 10% of California's congressional representation even though Trump won 38% of the 2024 vote. “All of this is unconstitutional, but the federal courts aren't available to help,” said Justin Levitt, a law professor at Loyola Law School. “Every time you redraw a district specifically to protect some candidates and punish others," Levitt said, "what you're basically saying is it shouldn't be up to the voters to weigh in on whether they think the candidates are doing a good job or not." Possible legal avenues But even if the issue of partisan gerrymandering is blocked in federal courts, there are other potential legal avenues to challenge California’s new legislative maps. One route would be to claim that Proposition 50 violates the California Constitution. David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law, said that if Proposition 50 passes, he expects a barrage of “see what sticks” lawsuits raising California constitutional claims. They stand little chance of success, he said. “Voters created the redistricting commission,” he said. “What the voters created they can change or abolish.” Attorneys might also bring racial discrimination claims in federal court alleging California lawmakers used partisan affiliation as a pretext for race in drawing the maps to disenfranchise one racial group or another, Carrillo said. Under current law, he said, such claims are very fact-dependent. Attorneys are already poised to file complaints if the referendum passes. Mark Meuser, a conservative attorney who filed a state complaint this summer seeking to block Proposition 50, said he is ready to file a federal lawsuit on the grounds that the new maps violate the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. “We're saying that race was a predominant factor in drawing the lines,” Meuser said. “When race is a predominant factor in drawing the lines without a compelling interest, strict scrutiny will mandate the maps be stricken.” Some legal experts believe that would be a tricky case to prove. “It sure seems like the new map was oriented predominantly around politics, not race,” Levitt argued. “And though they’d be saying that race was a predominant factor in drawing the lines, that’s very, very, very different from proving it. That’s an uphill mountain to climb on these facts.” Some experts think the new maps are unlikely to raise strong Voting Rights Act challenges. Eric McGhee, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California who specializes in elections, said the new districts appeared to have been carefully carved to preserve Latino- or Black-majority districts. A successful challenge is possible, McGhee said, noting there are always novel legal arguments. “It’s just the big ones that you would think about that are the most obvious and the most traditional are pretty closed,” he said. Supreme Court looms large Ultimately, legal experts agree the fate of California maps — and other maps in Texas and across the nation — would depend on the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on a redistricting case from Louisiana. Last month, conservative Supreme Court justices suggested in a hearing that they were considering reining in a key part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in a language minority group. “Whatever happens with Proposition 50 — pass or fail — almost doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things,” Carrillo said, noting that the Supreme Court could use the Louisiana case to strike Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. "There's a big litigation storm coming in almost any scenario.” Levitt agreed that the Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, which could come any time between now and June, could change current law. But he stressed it is impossible to predict how broad the ruling could be. “Whether that leaves any of California’s districts vulnerable — either in the current map or in the map if Prop. 50 passes — depends entirely on what Scotus says,” Levitt argued. “There are only nine people who know what they’ll actually say, and there are a lot of possibilities, some of which might affect California’s map pretty substantially, and some of which are unlikely to affect California’s map at all.” Will Congress intervene? As the redistricting battle spreads across the country and Democratic and Republican states look to follow Texas and California, Democrats could ultimately end up at a disadvantage. If the overall tilt favors Republicans, Democrats would have to win more than 50% of the vote to get a majority of seats. Congress has the power to block partisan gerrymandering in congressional map drawing. But attempts so far to pass redistricting reform have been unsuccessful. In 2022, the House passed the Freedom to Vote Act, which would have prohibited mid-decade redistricting and blocked partisan gerrymandering of congressional maps. But Republicans were able to block the bill in the Senate, even though it had majority support, due to that chamber’s filibuster rules. Another option is a narrower bill proposed this summer by Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley, who represents parts of the Sacramento suburbs and Lake Tahoe and could lose his seat if Proposition 50 passes. Kiley’s bill, along with similar legislation introduced by California Democratic representatives, would ban mid-decade redistricting. “That would be the cleanest way of addressing this particular scenario we're in right now, because all of these new plans that have been drawn would become null and void,” McGhee said. But in a heavily deadlocked Congress, Kiley’s bill has little prospect of moving. “It may have to get worse before it gets better," Hasen said. If the redistricting war doesn't get resolved, Hasen said, there will be a continued race to the bottom, particularly if the Supreme Court weakens or strikes down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Another scenario, Hasen argued, is Democrats regain control of Congress and the presidency, overcome the filibuster rule and pass redistricting reform. If that doesn't happen, Levitt said, the ultimate power rests with the people. “If we want to tell our representatives that we're sick of this, we can,” Levitt said. “There's a lot that's competing for voters’ attention. But that doesn't mean that we don't have agency here.”	[ "Jenny Jarvie" ]	If Californians vote in favor of the measure on Nov. 4, the number of Republicans in California’s House — nine of 52 total members — would likely be cut in half.	[ "California", "The Latest", "California Politics " ]	California	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:01.710Z	https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/why-prop-50-likely-to-survive-legal-challenge-despite-disenfranchising-some-california-voters
Rams vs. Saints: How to watch, start time and prediction	It was December 2020, and the Rams were in the midst of their third run to the playoffs in four seasons under coach Sean McVay. Their opponent: the 0-13 New York Jets. There was seemingly no way the hapless Jets could beat a 9-4 Rams team at SoFi Stadium. But the Rams came out flat and lost, 23-20. On Sunday, the Rams welcome the seemingly hapless New Orleans Saints, who arrive with a 1-7 record. “I don’t care what the record says,” McVay said. “The tape tells you a very different story. ... If we’re not ready to go we’ll certainly be humbled.” Don’t expect a repeat of 2020. The Saints, under first-year coach Kellen Moore, will send rookie quarterback Tyler Shough into his first start against a Chris Shula-coordinated Rams defense that features edge rushers Jared Verse and Byron Young and linemen Kobie Turner, Braden Fiske and Poona Ford. Young ranks third in the NFL with nine sacks. Verse has four. Sunday’s game marks the Rams debut of cornerback Roger McCreary, who was acquired in a trade with the Tennessee Titans. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford has passed for 17 touchdowns, with only two interceptions. He has not had a pass intercepted in four games. Star receiver Puka Nacua is back after sitting out an Oct. 19 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in London because of an ankle injury. Right tackle Rob Havenstein also will return after being sidelined for three games because of an ankle injury. Saints defensive coordinator Brandon Staley was the Rams’ defensive coordinator in 2020 before the Chargers hired him as their head coach. Rams: WR Puka Nacua (ankle, will play); OL Rob Havenstein (ankle, will play); S Kam Kinchens (toe, will play); CB Darious Williams (shoulder, doubtful). Saints: RB Alvin Kamara (ankle, questionable); WR Rashid Shaheed (hip, questionable); CB Alontae Taylor (shoulder, questionable). The Rams and New Orleans Saints will play at 1:05 p.m. PDT Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. The game will be shown on Fox in Southern California and will be available nationally via a subscription to NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. In Southern California, fans can listen to the game on 710 AM, 93.1 FM and 1330 AM (Español). Gary Klein’s pick: The Saints might not be as bad as their record indicates but the Rams have too much firepower — including the return of Nacua — to be knocked off track from winning their third game in a row. Rams 30, Saints 13	[ "Gary Klein" ]	Everything you need to know about the Rams vs. New Orleans Saints in Week 9 of the NFL season, including how to watch and a prediction on who will win.	[ "Rams", "Sports" ]	Rams	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:16.741Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/story/2025-11-01/rams-new-orleans-saints-prediction-watch-start-time-betting-odds
Homeless service provider’s CEO placed on leave, law firm to probe property valuations	Two top officials at the Weingart Center Assn., one of Los Angeles' most prominent homeless services providers, have been placed on leave while the nonprofit conducts an internal review into its housing projects. Weingart has retained an outside law firm to probe "certain" homeless housing projects "in light of recent reporting raising questions concerning the valuation" of the projects, a spokesperson said in a statement Friday. The two officials — Kevin Murray, a former state senator who serves as president and CEO, and Ben Rosen, director of real estate development — could not immediately be reached for comment. "During this time, the Board has assigned Chief Operating Officer Tonja Boykin to lead and ensure the continuity of Weingart’s mission to empower and transform lives by delivering innovative solutions to combat homelessness in Los Angeles," the spokesperson, Stefan Friedman, said in the statement. The statement did not specify which housing projects, but the move comes after The Times raised questions about two projects. One is at the center of an ongoing criminal case in which federal prosecutors have accused a real estate executive of using fake documentation to buy a nursing home in Cheviot Hills for $11.2 million, then quickly selling it to Weingart for $27.3 million. A second project would have converted a Torrance hotel into apartment units for homeless people. Weingart planned to purchase the hotel for $30 million — a price that was probably significantly higher than the hotel's actual value, The Times found. In both cases, Weingart used, or planned to use, state and local funds designated for housing homeless people. Weingart was awarded up to $20.5 million from the city of Los Angeles and $26.6 million in state Homekey funds to acquire and convert the Cheviot Hills nursing home into homeless housing, with a $1.4-million developer fee going to Weingart. Earlier this month, the real estate executive was charged with nine felonies over allegations that he used fake bank statements to get loans and lines of credit to buy the property for $11.2 million before flipping it to Weingart for more than double the price. The project has yet to open. Prosecutors have said they are investigating what the city of Los Angeles and Weingart knew about the executive's actions. In Torrance, Weingart planned to use Homekey+ funds to purchase a 122-room Extended Stay America hotel for $30 million and convert it into permanent supportive housing for people who are homeless or at risk of being so. Several independent experts interviewed by The Times criticized the appraisal that Weingart used to justify the $30-million price of the Torrance hotel, with one expert valuing the hotel at $21.5 million and another at $22.7 million, depending on what the buyer would eventually do with the property. “I cannot imagine a world in which this is worth $30 million,” said Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. Torrance officials, who opposed the project, commissioned an appraisal that determined the hotel was only worth $10.2 million. Weingart had sought $37.7 million in state Homekey+ funds, and L.A. County committed $12 million for the project. Weingart would have pocketed a developer’s fee of more than $2 million and also would have received a subsidy to run the facility. In the face of community opposition, Weingart ultimately decided not to pursue the project. The state Homekey+ program is an offshoot of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Homekey initiative to quickly shelter homeless people by buying buildings such as hotels and motels and converting them into apartments. Homekey+ projects — funded by Proposition 1, which was approved by voters last year to increase treatment and housing beds — are required to serve veterans and individuals with mental illness or substance use disorders. California has poured $3.6 billion into three rounds of Homekey proposals since the start of the pandemic, according to the Department of Housing and Community Development, which has helped cities, counties and homeless services providers fund more than 250 projects to create more than 15,800 units of housing. The state has awarded additional funds from Proposition 1 for Homekey+ projects. Headquartered in Skid Row, Weingart is one of the area’s most prominent homeless services providers, operating or developing more than a dozen housing projects across L.A. County. Friedman said Weingart serves nearly 2,000 people daily through its network of interim and permanent supportive housing sites. Mike Mauno, a former Torrance city council member, said that after he complained to the FBI about what he suspected was the Extended Stay America hotel's overvaluation, an FBI agent asked him for a copy of Weingart’s appraisal. “It’s overvalued dramatically compared to the market,” he told The Times. “They’re overpaying for these projects — the question is why?” Weingart pulled out of the Torrance project in August, with Murray blaming the city’s resistance. “It is a shame that the City of Torrance is leaving approximately $50 Million of State and County Funding on the table which could have gone to permanently and supportively house their most vulnerable residents,” Murray said at the time. He added that developer fees “are used to cover the overhead and risk of developing and managing a complicated Real Estate Project.” Murray had argued that the project cost, which is equivalent to $414,000 per unit, including a manager’s unit, was a good deal. He said it was significantly less than building new apartments, which could run more than $700,000 a unit, making the proposal “extremely viable and cost effective.”	[ "Alene Tchekmedyian", "Andrew Khouri" ]	Weingart Center Assn. has retained an outside law firm to probe “certain” homeless housing projects “in light of recent reporting raising questions concerning the valuation” of the projects, a spokesperson said in a statement.	[ "California", "Housing & Homelessness" ]	California	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:13.313Z	https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/homeless-service-providers-ceo-placed-on-leave-law-firm-to-probe-property-valuations
10 books to read in November, from Margaret Atwood’s new memoir to John Irving’s latest	Great writing, even when an author sets a story in early 20th century Maine or during ancient uprisings, often sheds light on our own era. From a novel starring a sentient gale-force wind, on to a memoir from a leading African American writer, this month’s titles provide illumination as we lose daylight. Helm: A Novel By Sarah Hall Mariner Books: 368 pages, $30 (Nov. 4) U.K. inhabitants of Hall’s native Cumbria region have grappled for centuries with a wind known as “The Helm.” Different eras have deemed it a measure of divine anger or human sin, and more recently, as one of earth’s vital signs. Helm’s narration alternates with chapters from perspectives including an astrologer, an astronomer, a Crusader, an herbalist and a climatologist, each adding to the strength of the immortal force. Palaver: A Novel By Bryan Washington Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 336 pages, $28 (Nov. 4) As in his first two novels “Memorial” and “Family Meal,” Houston-based Washington weaves scenes of Americans at home and in Japan with exquisite attention both to queer culture and to emotions. “The mother” and “the son” are never named; her Jamaican origins affect his upbringing, as well as his identity. When she makes an unannounced visit to see him in Japan, the title’s gentle irony becomes apparent. Queen Esther: A Novel By John Irving Simon & Schuster: 432 pages, $30 (Nov. 4) Readers will recall Dr. Wilbur Larch from “The Cider House Rules.” Here he is the 1919 go-between for Esther Nacht, a 14-year-old Jewish refugee whom he places with the Winslow family as an au pair. Like so many women through the ages, that role results in a different kind of labor for her, one that turns this most Irving-esque (wrestling! sex!) book into writer Jimmy Winslow’s origin story. The Silver Book: A Novel By Olivia Laing Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 256 pages, $27 (Nov. 11) The 1975 murder of Italian subversive film director Pier Paolo Pasolini forms the tortured heart of Laing’s first historical novel. In 1974 protagonist Nicholas Wade leaves England and lands in Venice, where he meets Danilo Donati, costume designer for Pasolini as well as Fellini and others. Their relationship reflects those auteurs’ themes, especially those of fascism’s rebirth in Pasolini’s “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.” The White Hot: A Novel By Quiara Alegría Hudes One World: 176 pages, $26 (Nov. 11) Noted playwright Hudes pens a stunning debut novel that rends conventional notions of motherhood. Years after disappearing from her child’s life, April Soto writes her daughter Noelle a letter to read on her 18th birthday. Less apology than explanation, and less explanation than soul-searching screed, this novel has a huge voice, a woman’s attempt to create meaning from the depths of family trauma. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts By Margaret Atwood Doubleday: 624 pages, $35 (Nov. 4) Only Margaret Atwood could write a debut memoir at age 85 and make it significantly different from her previous work while at the same time infusing it with her droll wit and many passions, literary, environmental and familial. While she has always combined public and private in her acclaimed and groundbreaking novels, essays, and poetry, this volume beautifully fuses Atwood the person, and Atwood the writer. Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia By Brian Barth Astra House: 304 pages, $29 (Nov. 11) Barth, a freelance journalist, spent time in three different Bay Area encampments of unhoused people, including Oakland’s Wood Street Commons, and, as Gov. Gavin Newsom moves forward on a new task force targeting these areas for removal, he argues that solutions to homelessness should come from the ground up, with the involvement of those most affected. Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime By Sarah Weinman Ecco: 320 pages, $32 (Nov. 11) Until the 1970s in most states, a married woman could not legally refuse to have sex with her husband. The 1978 Oregon trial of John Rideout for marital rape of his wife Greta — despite his then-acquittal — raised awareness of this legislation and led to Rideout’s conviction for rape and sodomy nearly four decades later in a case involving two other partners. Weinman (“The Real Lolita”) writes with energy about a case with present-day ramifications. Revolutions: A New History By Donald Sassoon Verso: 432 pages, $40 (Nov. 18) You say you want a revolution — and historian Sassoon says: Consider your predecessors. Although we focus on hot-button moments, the long tale of these uprisings can lead to long-term instability and injustice (e.g., the young United States choosing to persist with enslavement). What is the real price of transformation? Is it worth considering when people unite against tyranny and oppression? Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975–2025 By John Edgar Wideman Scribner: 400 pages, $29 (Nov. 18) Wideman’s 1985 essay “The Language of Home” was about the power of words to capture our foundations, so it’s fitting that his new collection covering 50 years of his powerful prose mimics that essay’s title. The new title’s plural refers to the author’s constant themes, which aren’t surprising. What does surprise is his prescience about still-relevant concerns, from a disappearing middle class to police brutality.	[ "Bethanne Patrick" ]	Our 10 recommended books for November include a memoir from Margaret Atwood and a new novel from John Irving that revisits a ‘Cider House Rules’ character.	[ "Books", "Entertainment & Arts" ]	Books	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:05.027Z	https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-11-01/10-books-to-read-in-november
The power of August Wilson’s best play, ‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,’ lives on at A Noise Within	“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” arguably the finest work in August Wilson’s 10-play series chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century, is set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911. The Great Migration is underway, with millions of Black Americans moving from the rural South to the industrial North and Midwest in search of opportunity and freedom. Gregg T. Daniel, who has been making his way through Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle at A Noise Within, has infused his revival of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” with a sense of momentous transit. The characters who stop for a time at the boarding house owned and operated by Seth (Alex Morris) and his wife, Bertha (Veralyn Jones), understand that this is a way station, a place to collect oneself before continuing on the fraught journey to an unknown future. Slavery didn’t end with the Civil War, as Herald Loomis (Kai A. Ealy) knows only too well. He has arrived at the boarding house with his young daughter, Zonia (Jessica Williams), in tow. For seven years, Loomis was held captive in Joe Turner’s chain gang, abducted for being Black, forced into hard labor and separated from his wife, whom he has been searching for since his release. Loomis has a turbulent presence that casts an anxious pall over the boarding house, re-created with a background view of Pittsburgh’s bridges by scenic designer Tesshi Nakagawa. Bynum (Gerald C. Rivers), a conjure man who serves as a spiritual guide for the other residents, understands right away that Loomis is a man who has lost his song, the imprint of his soul. But Seth sees nothing but trouble from his new guest and tells Loomis he must leave by Saturday. The timing works out because Saturday is when Rutherford Selig (Bert Emmett), a peddler and touted people finder, is expected to return with news of the whereabouts of Loomis’ missing wife, Martha (Tori Danner). Before he can press on as a free man, Loomis needs to know what happened to his wife. Life keeps racing ahead whether the characters are ready or not. Jeremy (Brandon Gill), a new resident who’s part of the construction team of a new bridge but would rather be exercising his considerable skill on the guitar, is being harassed by the police when off duty and exploited by a white man when on the job. He romantically takes up first with Mattie Campbell (Briana James), who comes to Bynum to see if he can mystically bring back the man that left her. But after Molly Cunningham (Nija Okoro) flirtatiously moves in and Jeremy loses his job, his amorous attention turns to her, leaving Mattie once again in the lurch, though Loomis has already noticed what a fine “full” woman she is. Daniel’s production, put into sharper focus by Kate Bergh's costumes and Karyn Lawrence's lighting, is at its best in capturing the rhythms and rituals of daily life. The ensemble (full of A Noise Within Wilson alums) melds miraculously as the characters share meals, stories, musical ecstasy and fits of laughter. Wilson had a genius for depicting how people do and don’t get along when they haven't much choice about the company they keep. Jones, who was so brilliant in Daniel’s production of “King Hedley II” at A Noise Within is just as luminous here as the calming force at the boardinghouse. Her Bertha is the kindly, nurturing counterweight to Seth’s badgering boisterousness, a quality Morris infuses with just enough avuncular affection. The more time we spend with Gill’s Jeremy, Okoro’s Molly and James’ Mattie, the more we can appreciate the fine-drawn nature of their portraits. The revival has some acoustical static and moments of mumbling, but “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” grows more lifelike and absorbing with each scene. The spiritual standoff in the play is between Ealy’s Loomis and Rivers’ Bynum, and both actors bring a muscular reality to a reckoning that can no longer be postponed. Daniel’s staging loses its grip during the more hallucinatory scenes between the characters. The natural is a good deal more theatrically convincing than the supernatural in this production. But Ealy intensely conveys the threat of Loomis’ angry-somber brooding and Rivers lets us see that the source of Bynum's otherworldly power is his humane vision. Bynum is a seeker as well as a seer, inseparable from the struggles of his people. He shares that living sense of heritage that Wilson, who died in 2005, made the principal subject of his art. This production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” seems like a gift from the other side, that mysterious, creative realm where history is spiritualized.	[ "Charles McNulty" ]	Gregg T. Daniel directs a fine production of August Wilson's 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at A Noise Within, as part of an ongoing reexamination of the playwright's 10-play cycle.	[ "Entertainment & Arts", "Arts", "Theater" ]	Entertainment & Arts	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:04.181Z	https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-11-01/joe-turners-come-and-gone-noise-within-august-wilson-review
Tyler Glasnow and Justin Wrobleski shine with Dodgers’ title hopes on the line	Tyler Glasnow threw seven, maybe eight, pitches in the bullpen. There was no more time to wait. The red emergency light was flashing. For 14 years, Glasnow has made a nice living as a pitcher. He has thrown hard, if not always durably or effectively. There is one thing he had not done. In 320 games, from the minors to the majors, from the Arizona Fall League to the World Series, he never had earned a save. Until Friday, that is, and only after the Dodgers presented him with this opportunity out of equal parts confidence and desperation: Please save us. The winning run is at the plate with no one out. If you fail, we lose the World Series. No pressure, kid. He is not one of the more intense personalities on the roster, which makes him a good fit in a situation in which someone else might think twice, or more, at the magnitude of the moment. “I honestly didn’t have time to think about it,” Glasnow said. In Game 6 on Friday, the Dodgers in order used a starter to start, a reliever to relieve, the closer of the moment, and then Glasnow to close. In Game 7 on Saturday, the Dodgers plan to start Shohei Ohtani, likely followed by a parade of starters. Glasnow, who said he could not recall ever pitching on back-to-back days, could be one of them. “I threw three pitches,” he said. “I’m ready to go.” The Dodgers had asked him to be ready to go in relief on Friday, so he moseyed on down to the bullpen in the second inning. He didn’t really believe he would pitch. After all, Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto had thrown consecutive complete games. If Yamamoto could not throw another, Glasnow did not believe he would be the first guy called. He was not. Justin Wrobleski was, protecting a 3-1 lead, and he delivered a scoreless seventh inning. Closer Roki Sasaki was next, and the Dodgers planned for him to work the eighth and ninth. Glasnow said bullpen coach Josh Bard warned him to be on alert. Sasaki walked two in the eighth but escaped. He hit a batter and gave up a double to lead off the ninth, and the Dodgers rushed in Glasnow. “I warmed up very little, got out there,” Glasnow said. “It was like no thinking at all.” The Dodgers’ scouting reports gave Glasnow and catcher Will Smith reason to believe Ernie Clement would try to jump on the first pitch, so Glasnow said he threw a two-seam fastball that he seldom throws to right-handed batters. Clement popped up. The next batter, Andrés Giménez, hit a sinking fly ball to left fielder Kiké Hernández. Off the bat, Glasnow said he feared a hit. If the ball falls in, Giménez has a single and the Dodgers’ lead shrinks to one run. If the ball skips past Hernández, the Blue Jays tie the score. Glasnow said he had three brief thoughts, in order: 1: “Please don’t be a hit.” Hernández charged hard and made the running catch. 2: “Sweet, it’s not a hit.” Hernández threw to second base for the game-ending double play. 3: “Nice, a double play.” Wrobleski tipped his cap to his new bullpen mate. “He’s a beast, man,” Wrobleski said. “To be able to come in in that spot, it takes a lot of mental strength and toughness. He did it. I didn’t expect anything less out of him, but it was awesome.” Wrobleski was pretty good himself. The Dodgers optioned him the maximum five times last year and four times this year. He did not pitch in the first three rounds of the playoffs, and his previous two World Series appearances came in a mop-up role and during an 18-inning game. On Friday, they entrusted him with helping to keep their season alive. They got three critical outs from Wrobleski, who is not even making $1 million this season, and three more from Glasnow, who is making $30 million. “We got a lot of guys that aren’t making what everybody thinks they’re making, especially down in that bullpen,” Wrobleski said. ”We were talking about it the other day. There’s a spot for everybody. If you keep grinding, you can wedge yourself in.” He did. He was recruited by Clemson out of high school, then basically cut from the team. “They told me to leave,” he said. Did a new coach come in? “No, I was just bad,” he said. “I had like a 10.3 ERA.” Glasnow signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates out of Hart High in Santa Clarita. In the majors, the Pirates tried him in relief without offering him a chance to close. Did they fail to recognize a budding bullpen star? “I never threw strikes,” he said. "I just wasn’t that good.” We’ve all heard stories about the kid who goes into his backyard with a wiffle ball, taking a swing and pretending to be the batter who hits the home run in the World Series. Glasnow doesn’t hit. “I’ve had all sorts of daydreams about every pitching thing possible as a kid — relieving, closing out a game, starting in the World Series,” he said. “I thought about it all the time. So it’s pretty wild. I haven’t really processed it, either. I think going out to be able to get a save in the World Series is pretty wild.” The game-ending double play was reviewed by instant replay, so Glasnow missed out on the trademark closer experience: the last out, immediately followed by the handshake line. Instead, everyone looked to the giant video board and waited. Eventually, an informal line formed. “I got some dap-ups,” he said. He smiled broadly, then walked out into the Toronto night, the proud owner of his first professional save. For his team, and for Los Angeles, he had kept the hope of a parade alive.	[ "Bill Shaikin" ]	Tyler Glasnow comes out the bullpen and gets the final three outs for the Dodgers and Justin Wrobleski provides solid relief in World Series Game 6 win.	[ "Dodgers", "Sports" ]	Dodgers	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:14.361Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-11-01/dodgers-tyler-glasnow-justin-wrobleski-world-series
Firefighters urged mass Altadena evacuations. It took three hours for command center to act	The Eaton fire was cutting a destructive path into Altadena and parts of northern Pasadena just before midnight Jan. 8 when some fire officials urged more widespread evacuations. With home after home going up in flames, several Los Angeles County firefighters on the ground suggested to incident commanders that the rest of the nearby foothill communities, from Altadena west into La Cañada Flintridge, be evacuated. Most of east Altadena had been evacuated, but residents on the west side had not yet been told to flee. They were not even under an evacuation warning. For unknown reasons, it took another three hours — and in some cases even longer — for officials to issue west Altadena mandatory evacuation orders. By then, homes in the area were on fire and residents were in danger, as embers rained down on streets and smoke filled bedrooms and obscured sight lines. In the end, all but one of the 19 people who died in the Eaton fire were found in this section of Altadena. The evacuation recommendation, revealed in county documents released last month, raises new questions about the L.A. County Fire Department's handling of the Eaton Fire. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who represents Altadena, conceded this week that the county fire department was responsible for what she called "a gap" between when evacuation alerts were needed and actually ordered. "That was where the breakdown was," Barger told The Times. "There was a gap there." West Altadena received its first evacuation order at 3:25 a.m., four hours after 911 callers started reporting smoke and flames in the area. Some parts of west Altadena weren't evacuated until just before 6 a.m. The Times first reported in January the disparity between when the fire threatened west Altadena and when residents were ordered to leave. Barger pointed specifically to the period from 1:12 a.m. to 3 a.m., when the Office of Emergency Management received no direction to send out evacuation alerts, a finding from the after-action report on evacuations. That report, conducted by the McChyrstal Group at the request of county supervisors, found that during that time period "ember cast from the main fire and from downed power lines caused spot fires west of Lake Avenue after midnight on Jan. 8 and accelerated in the following hours." Lake Avenue is the unofficial divider between east and west Altadena. It's historically significant since the avenue served as a discriminatory redlining boundary for home loans in the early 20th century and confined Black homebuyers to western neighborhoods. The population of east Altadena, which received evacuation orders within an hour of the Eaton fire's ignition, remains much whiter than that of unincorporated neighborhoods to the west. L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone declined to be interviewed for this story. But agency spokesperson Heidi Oliva said Marrone "is committed to ensuring the Department continues to improve for future fires." In response to questions about whether the department should be considered at fault for the delayed evacuation alerts, Oliva only said that the department "agrees with Supervisor Barger that Unified Command makes and executes evacuation decisions." A unified command structure is typically how California officials respond to major fires, with several agencies joining forces. During the first hours of the Eaton fire, L.A. County Fire was one of the main agencies responding, but formed a unified command with other local fire agencies, including from Pasadena and the Angeles National Forest, as well as other first responder agencies, including the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and Office of Emergency Management. Oliva did not directly answer questions about why the pre-midnight evacuation recommendation from staff in the field wasn't acted upon. Instead she pointed to the "massive, unprecedented natural disaster" that county fire officials faced that night, with the Eaton, Palisades and Hurst fires all igniting the same day during severe winds that grounded aircraft for hours and limited situational awareness. "Unified command did their very best to identify evacuation zones to be alerted based on the information available to them at that time," Oliva said in a statement. "When unified command learned that the fire was seen north of Lake and moving west, it validated and acted to issue the orders that were sent out by OEM." Oliva did not explain why it took hours for officials to realize the fire was threatening west Altadena, despite evidence from 911 calls, radio traffic and the recommendation from firefighters in the field. She did, however, say that the county fire department "is committed to continuing to learn and improve." The agency has now made it a "best practice" to surround evacuation orders with evacuation warnings, something the McChrystal report recommended. McChrystal investigators found out about the suggestion to enact more widespread evacuations just before midnight "during the interview process," according to the report. But the only other mention of this communication in the report says that "Unified Command staff did not recall this occurring and reported that the fire front of the Eaton Fire was not moving west into those areas at that time." The Times requested more information about the evacuation recommendation, but the McChrystal Group declined to share anything beyond what was in the report. A request for related records to the county has not yet been filled. Shawn Tyrie, a McChrystal Group partner who worked on the report, said in an interview that his team was unable to uncover any evidence about what happened to that pre-midnight recommendation. While he didn't want to speculate, he said there were many potential reasons that a call to evacuate may not not have been acted upon, noting findings in the report of poor internet access, spotty cell service, short-staffing and overall chaos during the unprecedented conflagration fueled by hurricane-force winds. “It could have been a technical issue," Tyrie said. "It could have been somebody got busy and didn’t push the right button. Who knows?” Part of the reason it has been so hard to pin down exactly what happened is the structure of that unified command. While the command structure is designed to encourage collaboration, it also divides responsibility and accountability, Tyrie said. “It does leave responsibility and actual command authority as this kind of ambiguous thing," Tyrie said, noting that this is a common practice across the country. “There tends to be someone that's running the incident command post. But there is really not even any room in the guidance in the county code to say that, definitively, Person X is in charge.” While the report was not intended to assign blame for the delayed evacuation alerts, he said that task could be challenging if officials decide to go that route. He said the "vast majority" of communication the night of the fire was through radio calls, text messages or shared in person, with little notetaking. “It’s difficult to go back and do a forensic audit of how was the decision-making actually made," Tyrie said. Though the report didn't make clear why west Altadena got such late alerts, it detailed a process that put L.A. County Fire at the helm of the delayed evacuation alerts. "For the Eaton Fire, the evacuation zones receiving evacuation warnings and orders were identified by LACoFD staff as part of Unified Command," the report said. "They were then communicated to OEM ... who then selected the zones in the Genasys EVAC system and thereafter send evacuation messages out via the Genasys ALERT system." L.A. County has a contract with Genasys to send out its wireless emergency alerts, which ping cellphones within a designated geographical area. The L.A. Sheriff's Department was a part of unified command, but the report found that LASD officials were not "always initially aware in real time of what zones were designated for evacuation." There are other ongoing reviews of the fire response, including a probe initiated by the governor which should have access to more data from a wider array of agencies, Barger said. Only county agencies participated in the McChrystal after-action review, which was requested by L.A. County supervisors at a price tag of almost $2 million. "There are still a lot of things that the community wants to better understand as it related to what went wrong," Barger said. She hopes the independent review ordered by the state can provide more answers. That review, which looks at the entire 2025 Los Angeles firestorm, is being conducted by UL Research Institutes' fire safety research arm, according to the institutes' spokesperson, Natalie Haack. She said there wasn't yet a release date for the findings, but Barger thought it could come in the next few weeks. Still, Barger said she believes the county is better prepared to respond to wildfires, given all that has been learned since January. "I am,100%, confident that we are ready," Barger said. "I do believe that the lessons learned have definitely ... [helped] to restructure from within an emergency management department that actually is going to meet the needs of the 10 million residents of L.A. County."	[ "Grace Toohey", "Terry Castleman" ]	County Supervisor Kathryn Barger conceded this week that county fire department was responsible for "a gap" between when evacuation alerts were needed and actually ordered.	[ "California", "The Latest", "Fires" ]	California	2025-11-01T10:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T10:00:07.172Z	https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/firefighters-urged-evacuations-three-hour-delay
5-Acre Estate in Pasadena	The finest work of renowned architect Reginald D. Johnson, this majestic 1928 Monterey Colonial estate is set on five acres in the heart of Pasadena. The Bauer/Cannell Estate & Gardens represents the union of architectural and horticultural artistry. Owned by only two families over its 96-year history, the estate was designated in the City of Pasadena survey of Historic Gardens and is recognized as a contributing property in the proposed National Register Historic District. Most recently, the property was selected as the 2025 Pasadena Showcase House of Design, in which 30 top designers remodeled and redesigned the estate for a month-long celebration of philanthropic events. Location: 1220 Hillcrest Avenue, Pasadena 91106 Asking Price: $22,000,000 Year Built: 1928 Living Area: 15,533 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms Features: Renowned architect Reginald D. Johnson; owned by only 2 families over the 96 years; 2025 Pasadena Showcase House of Design; guest house; tennis court; pool house; circular drive leads to a motor court with a 10-car garage; 18 grandly scaled rooms; 10 rooms with wood-burning fireplaces Contact: Compass Ted Clark, DRE#: 01074290 626.817.2123 [email protected] www.tedandheather.com Heather Lillard, DRE#: 01892752 323.363.3610 [email protected] www.tedandheather.com	[]	Own the historic $22M Bauer/Cannell Estate, a 1928 Reginald D. Johnson-designed Monterey Colonial on 5 acres in Pasadena, featuring 15,533 sq ft, a guest house, and pool, and recently selected as the 2025 Pasadena Showcase House.	[ "LA County Homes", "Hot Property" ]	LA County Homes	2025-11-01T07:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T07:00:00.318Z	https://www.latimes.com/brandpublishing/hotproperty/los-angeles-county/story/1220-hillcrest-avenue-pasadena-ca-91106
Timeless Design and Contemporary Living Converge	At 1300 Monaco Drive, timeless design and contemporary living converge on the coveted east end of the Riviera. The residence unfolds with great scale and volume, where sunlight and proportion create interiors that are as inviting as they are refined. An approximately 800-square-foot guest house (not included in the property’s square footage) extends the home’s versatility, while an oversized sports court introduces a dynamic dimension to the estate’s program. Beyond the privacy gates, the grounds are defined by lush landscaping and an expansive grassy yard, establishing a resort-like atmosphere. Location: 1300 Monaco Drive, Pacific Palisades 90272 Asking Price: $7,995,000 Living Area: 5,087 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms Features: A sparkling pool anchors the outdoors, framed by terraces for al fresco dining, thoughtfully placed BBQ and sitting areas, and entertaining. An exceptional estate that checks all the boxes in a prime Riviera location. Contact: Carolwood Estates Richard Ehrlich 310.968.8881 [email protected] www.Carolwoodre.com DRE#: 01267136	[]	Discover 1300 Monaco Drive, a $7.995M estate on the Riviera's east end with 5,087 sq ft, a separate guest house, pool, expansive grounds, and a sports court, blending timeless design with contemporary resort living.	[ "LA County Homes", "Hot Property" ]	LA County Homes	2025-11-01T07:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T07:00:00.888Z	https://www.latimes.com/brandpublishing/hotproperty/los-angeles-county/story/1300-monaco-drive-pacific-palisades-ca-90272
Hamptons-style Home in Prestigious Upper Riviera	Brand-new Hamptons-style home in prestigious Upper Riviera, one of the Westside’s most coveted addresses. Spanning approx. 7,850+ sq ft, it offers 6 bedrooms, including a main floor attached ADU. Designed with timeless elegance and modern convenience, highlights include a floating staircase, grand living and dining rooms, walnut office cabinetry, gourmet kitchen with a full suite of Sub-Zero/Wolf appliances, white oak floors, smart wiring, theater, gym, wine room, elevator, saltwater pool, spa and built-in cover. A rare blend of privacy, craftsmanship and luxury in one of L.A.’s most exclusive neighborhoods. Location: 1675 San Remo Drive, Pacific Palisades 90272 Asking Price: $17,250,000 Year Built: 2025 Living Area: 7,841 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms Features: Main floor junior primary suite with sitting room, large bedroom, kitchenette and luxurious bathroom. Theater; gym; family room; game room; wine room; pool and spa. Contact: Sotheby’s International Realty Steven Moritz 310.871.3636 [email protected] www.stevenmoritz.com DRE#: 00928961	[]	Discover a brand-new $17.25M Hamptons-style luxury estate in Pacific Palisades' Upper Riviera, featuring 7,841 sq ft, a main-floor ADU, elevator, theater, gym, wine room, and a saltwater pool/spa.	[ "LA County Homes", "Hot Property" ]	LA County Homes	2025-11-01T07:00:00.000Z	2025-11-01T07:00:01.443Z	https://www.latimes.com/brandpublishing/hotproperty/los-angeles-county/story/1675-san-remo-drive-pacific-palisades-ca-90272
Mater Dei rallies from 21 points down to upset St. John Bosco	Mater Dei trailed 24-3. The Trinity League title appeared destined to belong to St. John Bosco, another win to cap an undefeated for the consensus No. 1 team in the nation. Until Chris Henry Jr. emerged for two touchdowns and 214 yards on five receptions. “He could be a track star,” said Mater Dei coach Raul Lara, referencing Henry’s 70-yard touchdown catch near the end of the second quarter. Until Kayden Dixon-Wyatt took over alongside his teammate — both Ohio State commits — and turned on the burners for three second-half scores. “I wish I could be the quarterback,” Lara joked about his senior wide receivers. Testing the wide receiver corps of Mater Dei — who outpowered the Braves’ impressive trio of Division I-committed receivers — left St. John Bosco hapless on Friday night in Bellflower. Mater Dei (7-2, 4-1) finished on a 33-7 run, Ryan Hopkins tossing five touchdowns in that span to help the Monarchs defeat St. John Bosco 36-31 in comeback fashion. Hopkins finished 13-of-21 passing for 295 yards and the five touchdowns. All of the doubts over the Monarchs’ regular-season campaign could be close to washed away as the second-half domination confirmed another year when Mater Dei at least owns a share of the Trinity League title. Since Santa Margarita (7-3, 4-1) also won Friday — defeating JSerra 41-14 — the Eagles, along with Mater Dei and St. John Bosco (9-1, 4-1) earned a share of the Trinity League crown. Defensive stands set up plays such as Henry’s 70-yard touchdown grab to cut the Braves’ lead to seven with 4:12 remaining in the third quarter. Mater Dei defensive back CJ Lavender Jr. forced and recovered a fumble in the first quarter to set up the Monarchs’ first points: a field goal. Lavender then intercepted St. John Bosco sophomore quarterback Koa Malau'ulu twice more. One pick created a silver-platter touchdown for Dixon-Wyatt, who finished with four receptions for 46 yards and three touchdowns, while the other turnover allowed Mater Dei to seal the game on fourth and 10 from its own 10-yard line. “Anything he threw, I was going to go get it,” said Lavender, who now has a team-high seven interceptions on the season. Before the final interception — which came with 1:34 remaining in the game — St. John Bosco was driving. An unsportsmanlike penalty even provided the Braves at first and inches from the goal line. But a bad snap to Malau'ulu pushed the Braves backward to the seven-yard line. A run for a loss brought St. John Bosco to the 10-yard line that then led to an interception. Henry, who hadn’t played since Oct. 10 against Orange Lutheran, said he was itching to get back out on the field to play St. John Bosco. “It was really difficult,” Henry said of his time off the field. “But I was ready for a game like this.” Henry will have plenty more opportunities upcoming in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs, starting next week. The trio of Trinity League teams likely will see Sierra Canyon (10-0) — which finished its Mission League-winning campaign with a 52-3 victory over Loyola — among the teams they could face off against in the playoffs.	[ "Benjamin Royer" ]	The Monarchs dominate in the second half to earn a share of the Trinity League title with Santa Margarita and the Braves.	[ "High School Sports", "Sports" ]	High School Sports	2025-11-01T06:52:26.569Z	2025-11-01T06:52:26.569Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2025-10-31/mater-dei-st-john-bosco-football-game-recap
Jueces ordenan usar fondos de contingencia para el programa de alimentos SNAP durante el cierre	Dos jueces federales fallaron casi simultáneamente el viernes que la administración del presidente Donald Trump debe seguir financiando el SNAP, el programa de ayuda alimentaria más grande del país, utilizando fondos de contingencia durante el cierre del gobierno. Los jueces en Massachusetts y Rhode Island dieron a la administración la opción de financiar el programa parcial o completamente para noviembre. Eso también trae incertidumbre sobre lo que sucederá a continuación y retrasará los pagos para muchos beneficiarios, cuyas tarjetas por lo general se recargan a principios de mes. El Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos (USDA) planeaba congelar los pagos al Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria a partir del 1 de noviembre, argumentando que ya no podía seguir financiándolo debido al cierre. El programa ayuda a uno de cada ocho estadounidenses, es una pieza clave de la red de seguridad social del país y cuesta alrededor de 8.000 millones de dólares mensuales a nivel nacional. La senadora Amy Klobuchar, demócrata de Minnesota e integrante de la Comisión de Agricultura del Senado que supervisa el programa de ayuda alimentaria, dijo que los fallos del viernes de jueces nominados al tribunal por el expresidente Barack Obama confirman lo que los demócratas han estado diciendo: "La administración está eligiendo no alimentar a los estadounidenses necesitados, a pesar de saber que está legalmente obligada a hacerlo". Fiscales estatales o gobernadores demócratas de 25 estados, así como el Distrito de Columbia, desafiaron el plan de pausar el programa, argumentando que la administración tiene la obligación legal de mantenerlo en funcionamiento en sus jurisdicciones. La administración federal dice que no tiene permitido utilizar un fondo de contingencia con alrededor de 5.000 millones de dólares para el programa, y revirtió un plan del Departamento de Agricultura de antes del cierre que decía que se utilizaría dinero para mantener funcionando el SNAP. Los funcionarios demócratas dicen que no solo se puede, sino que se debe de usar ese dinero. También dijeron que hay otro fondo por separado con alrededor de 23.000 millones de dólares disponibles para la causa. En un caso presentado por ciudades y organizaciones sin fines de lucro, el juez federal John J. McConnell falló en Providence, Rhode Island, que el programa debe ser financiado utilizando al menos los fondos de contingencia, y pidió una actualización sobre el avance para el lunes. Además de ordenar al gobierno federal que use reservas de emergencia para respaldar los beneficios del SNAP, McConnell dictaminó que todas las exenciones de requisitos laborales anteriores deben respetarse. Durante el cierre, el Departamento de Agricultura ha terminado con las exenciones que eximían de requisitos laborales a adultos mayores, veteranos y otros. Hubo elementos similares en el caso de Boston, donde la jueza federal Indira Talwani dictaminó en una opinión escrita que el USDA tiene que pagar por el SNAP, y calificó la suspensión de “ilegal”. Ordenó al gobierno federal que informe al tribunal para el lunes si usarán los fondos de contingencia para proporcionar beneficios reducidos del SNAP en noviembre o financiarán completamente el programa “utilizando tanto los fondos de contingencia como fondos adicionales disponibles”. “La suspensión de los pagos del SNAP por parte de los demandados se basó en la conclusión errónea de que los Fondos de Contingencia no podían usarse para asegurar la continuación de los pagos de SNAP”, escribió la jueza. “Este tribunal ha aclarado ahora que los demandados están obligados a usar esos Fondos de Contingencia según sea necesario para el programa SNAP”. Después del fallo, no estaba claro qué tan rápido podrían recargarse las tarjetas de débito que los beneficiarios usan para comprar alimentos. Ese proceso a menudo toma de una a dos semanas. La administración no dijo de momento si apelará los fallos. Los estados, bancos de alimentos y beneficiarios del SNAP se han estado preparando para un cambio abrupto en cómo las personas de bajos ingresos pueden obtener alimentos. Defensores y beneficiarios dicen que detener la ayuda alimentaria obligaría a las personas a elegir entre comprar alimentos y pagar otras facturas. La mayoría de los estados han anunciado más financiamiento, o más rápido, para bancos de alimentos o formas novedosas de cargar al menos algunos beneficios en las tarjetas de débito utilizadas en el programa. A lo largo de Estados Unidos, defensores que llevaban semanas alertando sobre el corte inminente de beneficios del SNAP dejaron escapar un pequeño suspiro de alivio el viernes cuando se emitieron los fallos, aunque reconocieron que la victoria es temporal y posiblemente incompleta. "Miles de bancos de alimentos sin fines de lucro, despensas y otras organizaciones en todo el país pueden evitar la carga imposible que habría resultado si los beneficios del SNAP se hubieran detenido", dijo Diane Yentel, presidenta y directora general del Consejo Nacional de Organizaciones Sin Fines de Lucro, uno de los demandantes en el caso de Rhode Island. Cynthia Kirkhart, directora general del Banco de Alimentos Facing Hunger, en Huntington, Virginia Occidental, dijo que su organización y las despensas a las que sirve en Kentucky, Ohio y Virginia Occidental mantendrán sus horas extra este fin de semana, sabiendo que las personas cuyos subsidios suelen llegar al inicio del mes no los verán. “Lo que sabemos, a menos que la administración sea mágica, es que nada va a suceder mañana”, sentenció. Kristle Johnson, una estudiante de enfermería a tiempo completo de 32 años y madre de tres en Florida, está preocupada por la posibilidad de que llegue menos ayuda. A pesar de comprar carne al por mayor, planificar cuidadosamente las comidas y no comprar comida chatarra, dijo que la ayuda de 994 dólares mensuales no cubre los alimentos de todo el mes. "Ahora tengo que lidiar con alguien que quiere deshacerse de todo lo que tengo para mantener a mi familia a flote hasta que yo pueda mejorar", dijo Johnson sobre Trump. En una conferencia de prensa en Washington el viernes, la secretaria de Agricultura, Brooke Rollins, cuyo departamento administra al SNAP, dijo que los fondos de contingencia en cuestión no cubrirán por mucho tiempo el costo del programa de apoyo alimenticio. Hablando en una conferencia de prensa junto con el presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Mike Johnson, en el Capitolio, la funcionaria culpó a los demócratas por negarse a poner fin a su obstrucción en el Senado y llegar a un acuerdo presupuestal con los republicanos. Un esfuerzo esta semana para mantener la financiación del SNAP durante el cierre del gobierno fracasó en el Congreso. Para calificar al SNAP en 2025, el ingreso neto de una familia de cuatro después de ciertos gastos no puede exceder la línea de pobreza federal, que es de aproximadamente 31.000 dólares al año. El año pasado, el programa proporcionó asistencia a 41 millones de personas, casi dos tercios de las cuales eran familias con niños. “La decisión del tribunal protege a millones de familias, personas mayores y veteranos de ser utilizados como palanca en una lucha política y sostiene el principio de que nadie en Estados Unidos debería pasar hambre”, dijo Skye Perryman, presidenta y directora general de Democracy Forward, sobre la decisión de Rhode Island.	[ "MICHAEL CASEY, GEOFF MULVIHILL y KIMBERLEE KRUESI" ]	El programa ayuda a uno de cada ocho estadounidenses	[ "EEUU", "Noticas-Más", "California", "Vida y Estilo" ]	EEUU	2025-11-01T06:44:33.514Z	2025-11-01T06:44:33.514Z	https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/jueces-ordenan-usar-fondos-de-contingencia-para-el-programa-de-alimentos-snap-durante-el-cierre
Troy Terry scores twice in Ducks’ victory over Detroit Red Wings	Troy Terry scored two goals and added an assist to lead the Ducks to a 5-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night. Leo Carlsson had a goal and three assists and Mason McTavish and Chris Kreider also scored for the Ducks. Lukas Dostal had 28 saves. Alex DeBrincat and Lucas Raymond had a goal and an assist each for the Red Wings, who came into the game on a three-game winning streak. John Gibson had 27 saves for Detroit. DeBrincat's goal came on the power play. Terry opened his scoring for the Ducks in the first period with a short-handed wrist shot 4:53 into the period, assisted by Drew Helleson and Carlsson. He added an empty-net goal with 2:32 remaining. Kreider's fifth of the season came just 55 seconds into the third period and gave the Ducks a 4-2 lead. Up next for Ducks: vs. New Jersey Devils at Honda Center on Sunday night.	[]	Troy Terry scored two goals and added an assist to lead the Anaheim Ducks to a 5-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings.	[ "Ducks", "Hockey" ]	Ducks	2025-11-01T06:33:31.207Z	2025-11-01T06:33:31.207Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/hockey/ducks/story/2025-10-31/ducks-vs-detroit-red-wings-troy-terry
Miguel Rojas’ ‘energy infusion’ is what Dodgers needed in World Series Game 6 win	Miguel Rojas knows his role. “A utility guy who can play different positions, who can really play defense,” he said. Turns out that was exactly what the Dodgers needed Friday in Game 6 of the World Series. And Rojas was up to the task, making four splendid plays in the field to preserve a 3-1 win that sent the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays to a deciding Game 7 on Saturday. “Miggy played the heck out of second base and made some huge plays,” manager Dave Roberts said. “We were hoping for that kind of energy infusion. We got that from Miggy.” The biggest play was the last one. With one out in the ninth and Toronto’s Addison Barger at second base, representing the tying run, Andrés Giménez sliced a broken-ball liner to left field. The Dodgers’ Kiké Hernández got a great jump on the ball and made a running catch, followed by a poor throw to second in an attempt to double off Barger. The ball took a tricky hop but Rojas stuck with it, catching the ball behind his left knee and hanging on as the retreating Barger knocked him to the ground. Rojas rolled on his back and pumped him right arm three times in celebration. “I was coming in full speed so I didn't want to really throw hard, because I was probably going to throw it over his head,” Hernández said. “Unbelievable pick by Miggy. I didn't give him the best of throws.” “Yeah, pretty epic ending there,” Rojas added with a smile. Without that play, the Dodgers’ season could have come to an end Friday — and with it, Rojas’ time in Dodger uniform. He’ll be a free agent after the World Series and, at 37 next season, there’s no guarantee he’ll be back in L.A. So he said he went into Game 6 determined to extend his time as a Dodger one more day. “I started my career here. This is special because they gave me an opportunity when nobody really did in back in 2013 when I was a minor league free agent,” he said. “I will never forget that.” Since then, Rojas has gone from the Dodgers to the Miami Marlins and back again. He’s gone from being a utility player to being an everyday shortstop and back again. But what hasn’t changed is the preparation and grit he brings to the game when he does play. Friday’s start was his first since Game 2 of the National League Division Series and just his second appearance in 23 days. Yet with the season on the line, Roberts wrote Rojas’ name in the lineup in the most important game of the year. “I just really wanted Miggy in there,” he said. “He's been a really glue guy for our club this year, and I just feel that having him in the lineup infuses some extra intensity. On the defensive side, too. “I wanted him to be in the lineup.” Rojas didn’t disappoint. In the third, he saved a run when he slid to his right to backhand a Giménez shot up the middle. An inning later he made a quick turn on a chopper from Daulton Varsho to start one of three double plays he was involved with. And then in the seventh he took a hit away from Barger when he bare-handed a high hopper and threw to first, beating the runner by half a step. That also saved a run since Ernie Clement followed with a double to the wall. “In these kinds of games, you always have to do your part,” he said. “It doesn't matter what you do. It can be on the defensive side. Can be on the offensive side. It can be on the bases. “Play the game one pitch at a time and don't take any pitches off. That's the reason why we were able to make really good plays, big plays when we needed to.” That’s also the reason Rojas and the Dodgers will get to do it one more time on Saturday. “Game 7. Amazing,” Hernández said. “This is what we dream of ever since we were little kids. We always put ourselves in the backyard in Game 7 of the World Series. “Baseball deserves a Game 7. This has been a great, great World Series. Both teams have played their butts off. Tomorrow is just going to be a one-game series and see who plays better tomorrow to win a World Series.”	[ "Kevin Baxter" ]	Second baseman Miguel Rojas made four splendid plays in the field to preserve a 3-1 win that sent the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays to a deciding Game 7.	[ "Dodgers", "Sports" ]	Dodgers	2025-11-01T06:25:03.170Z	2025-11-01T06:25:03.170Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-10-31/dodgers-miguel-rojas-world-series-game-6-double-play
Shohei Ohtani expected to start World Series Game 7 for Dodgers	The Dodgers have forced a Game 7 in the World Series. And Shohei Ohtani is expected to be their starting pitcher. In what will be just four days removed from his six-plus-inning, 93-pitch start in Game 4 of this World Series, Ohtani will likely serve as the team’s opener in Saturday’s winner-take-all contest, according to a person with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak publicly. While Ohtani almost certainly won’t make a full-length start, he should be able to get through at least two or three innings (depending on how laborious his outing is). Four or five innings might not be out of the question, either, even in what will be only his second career MLB outing pitching on three days’ rest. The only time Ohtani did so was in 2023, when he followed a rain-shortened two-inning start at Fenway Park against the Red Sox with a seven-inning outing four days later. Saturday, of course, will come under entirely different circumstances, in what will be the first seventh game in a World Series since 2019. By starting Ohtani, the Dodgers would ensure they wouldn’t lose his bat for the rest of the game, thanks to MLB’s two-way rules. If he were to enter in relief during the game, the only way he could stay in afterward is if he shifted to the outfield (since MLB’s rules stipulate that a team would lose the DH spot under such circumstances). Starting him also eliminates any complications that would come with trying to find him time to warm up if his spot in the batting order arose the inning prior — something that would have made it potentially more difficult for him to be able to close out the game. Ohtani has completed six innings in each of his three previous pitching appearances this postseason, with a 3.50 ERA and 25 strikeouts in 18 innings. The Dodgers should have options behind Ohtani. Tyler Glasnow will likely be available after needing just three pitches to get the save in Friday’s wild finish. Blake Snell also said he would be available after his Game 5 start back on Wednesday. In the bullpen, Roki Sasaki figures to be at manager Dave Roberts’ disposal, as well, despite throwing 33 pitches in one-plus inning of work on Friday. Roberts said everyone short of Game 6 starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto would be available.	[ "Jack Harris" ]	Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani is expected to start Game 7 of the World Series against Toronto just four days removed from his 93-pitch effort in Game 4.	[ "Dodgers", "Sports" ]	Dodgers	2025-11-01T05:36:02.401Z	2025-11-01T05:36:02.401Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-10-31/shohei-ohtani-expected-to-start-world-series-game-7-dodgers-blue-jays
Clippers beat Pelicans on Kawhi Leonard’s last-second shot	Kawhi Leonard made a buzzer-beater and finished with 34 points to give the Clippers a 126-124 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night in the first game of the NBA Cup group stage for both teams. Leonard pump-faked to get Jeremiah Fears up in the air and then rose up for a long two-point shot to win it after Zion Williamson had tied the score with 9.6 seconds remaining by making two free throws. James Harden had 24 points and 14 assists, and the Clippers have won all three home games to start the season. Derrick Jones Jr. scored 16 points, and Ivica Zubac had 14 points and 11 rebounds. Jordan Poole had 30 points and made seven three-pointers, Williamson finished with 29 points, but the Pelicans remained winless through five games. It is their worst start since dropping eight in a row to begin the 2016-17 season. The Clippers had led by as many as 17 in the second half but their struggles to defend the Pelicans’ shooting from three-point range made things harder than they had to be. New Orleans ended up 18 of 37 (48.6%) from three, but it wasn’t enough to overcome a dynamic showing by the Clippers, led by Harden as both a scorer and distributor. Harden had 14 points and five assists in the second quarter alone, including a four-point play when Yves Missi didn’t give him room to land on a long three. Clippers: Host the Miami Heat on Monday. Pelicans: Visit the Thunder in Oklahoma City on Sunday.	[]	Leonard finishes with 34 points to help the Clippers win their third consecutive home game to start the season. James Harden contributes 24 points and 14 assists.	[ "Clippers", "Sports" ]	Clippers	2025-11-01T05:26:00.370Z	2025-11-01T06:04:03.597Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/clippers/story/2025-10-31/los-angeles-clippers-new-orleans-pelicans-game-recap
Luka Doncic returns and Lakers get a road win at Memphis	Luka Doncic didn’t celebrate when he sank his first half-court heave during warmups. He didn’t gloat when coaches dutifully dropped to the court to pay the pushup price. The Lakers superstar just makes greatness feel expected. Doncic’s 44 points, 12 rebounds and six assists led the Lakers to a 117-112 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday at FedEx Forum as he returned from a three-game absence. The 26-year-old guard has scored 40 points in each of his three games this season. The only thing that’s slowed him down is injuries: a left finger sprain and a left leg contusion suffered in the second game of the season in which he still put up 49 points. Doncic scored 16 points in the third quarter to lead the Lakers (4-2) back from a 16-point halftime deficit. Austin Reaves, who has starred in Doncic’s absence, finished with 20 points. After missing the Lakers’ thrilling win in Minnesota on Wednesday, Doncic rejoined the team Thursday in Memphis and promptly went to the gym with coaches and staff members. He and guard Marcus Smart (left quad contusion) participated in shoot-around Friday and went directly into the starting lineup. Doncic returned like he never left. He was hitting step-back threes and hopping on one leg as he admired the arc on his shot. He pivoted around and through a double team and faded away deep in the shot clock, ready to sink Memphis’ hopes with his signature jump shot. But instead of shooting, he dumped off a pass to a wide-open Deandre Ayton, who scored on a wide-open layup. Doncic split a double team with a slick behind-the-back dribble that drew oohs and ahhs from the Memphis crowd. The crafty finish at the rim put the Lakers up by four. Hometown fans wondered how the Grizzlies were staying so close when it felt like Doncic had the game on a string. While Doncic was carrying the Lakers, the Grizzlies (3-3) fought back as a unit. Memphis answered with 19 consecutive points. Six different players scored during the run as the Grizzlies led by 16 at halftime. Doncic had no trouble responding. He opened the third quarter with a three-pointer. Reaves followed with another. The Lakers flipped the halftime deficit to a two-point lead going into the fourth quarter despite playing the entire second half without Ayton. When Ayton returned to the sideline with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter, trainers continued to work on his back. The team didn’t provide an immediate update on the starting center who finished with 12 points, three rebounds and four assists.	[ "Thuc Nhi Nguyen" ]	After a three-game absence, the superstar guard finishes with 44 points, 12 rebounds and six assists to help the Lakers improve to 4-2.	[ "Lakers", "Sports" ]	Lakers	2025-11-01T04:19:39.051Z	2025-11-01T04:19:39.051Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers/story/2025-10-31/los-angeles-lakers-memphis-grizzlies-game-recap
Now that’s more like it! Dodgers recapture mojo, survive scary World Series Game 6	The Dodgers, it turns out, chose the perfect costume in which to parade on this scariest of Halloween nights. They came dressed as the Dodgers. The Yoshinobu-Yamamoto-firing Dodgers. The Mookie-Betts-blasting Dodgers. The energetic-and-inspired Dodgers. The listless team of the previous two games was gone. The passionate team of the previous month was back. Earlier this week fans were asking, who are those guys? On Friday they emphatically answered that question by finally, forcefully, being themselves. Faced with elimination in Game 6 of the World Series, the Dodgers rose from the presumed dead to haunt the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre with a 3-1 victory to knot the duel at three games apiece. And they did with the most unlikely of saves, a game-ending double play on a lineout that Kiké Hernández caught in left field and, while sprinting toward the infield, threw to Miguel Rojas at second base, where he made a scooped catch to double up Addison Barger. The Blue Jays began the inning with runners on second and third and none out. They ended it watching the Dodgers celebrate around Rojas on second base, their golden opportunity to clinch their first title in more than three decades having disappeared under a welcome wave of Dodger savvy. How on earth does Toronto come back from something like that? “Wild way to finish it, for sure… baseball happens sometimes,” said Toronto Manager John Schneider. How on earth can the Dodgers not gain insurmountable momentum from something like that? “I feel great,” said Dodger Manager Dave Roberts. “I feel great.” The Dodgers' quest to become the first team in 25 years to win consecutive World Series championships lives. Game 7, Saturday night in Toronto, awaits. And Shohei Ohtani The Starting Pitcher appears. “We're going to leave it out there,” said Roberts. “I don't think that the pressure, the moment's going to be too big for us. We got to go out there and win one baseball game. We've done that all year. Everyone's bought in.” The stage is indeed set for all sorts of dramatics after a night when the Dodgers took an early three-run lead on the back of slump-busting Betts and then cruised to victory on the back of another brilliant pitching performance by Yamamoto and a surprising three-inning shutdown from the Dodger bullpen. It didn’t end smoothly, but it ended splendidly, after reliever Roki Sasaki began the ninth by hitting Alejandro Kirk in the hand with a two-strike pitch, then Barger hit a ball to center field that lodged under the outfield padding for a ground-rule double. With runners on second and third and no out, Tyler Glasnow made an emergency appearance and recorded that memorable save, retiring Ernie Clement on a first pitch popout and ending the game by inducing Andrés Giménez into a lineout that Hernandez perfectly threw to Rojas. “He's one of the headiest baseball players I've ever been around,” said Roberts of Hernández. “And even just getting off on the ball, the awareness to get to his arm, get the ball into second base. He's just a heck of a baseball player.” The Dodgers have been here before. It was just last year, in fact, when they needed consecutive wins against the San Diego Padres in the division series to save their season. They calmly won both and rolled to a championship. A similar path could end in a similar destination this weekend after the Dodgers rebounded from two lifeless losses at Dodger Stadium to weather the loud Game 6 storm with calm and cohesion. “Yeah, I mean, we all know that everything has to go perfect for us to be able to pull this off,” said Teoscar Hernández before the game. So far, so good, beginning Friday with the much-maligned Betts, who was the biggest villain of the Dodgers hitting drought with a .130 World Series average while stranding 25 consecutive baserunners. He had been dropped to third in the batting order in Game 5, and then dropped again to fourth for Game 6, and it finally worked, as he knocked a two-strike fastball into left field to drive in two runs and give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead. “He’s one of our guys,” said Roberts of Betts. “I'm going to, as they say, ride or die with him.” Next up, Yamamoto, who followed consecutive complete games by giving up one run on five hits in six innings. “We can’t afford to lose,” said Yamamoto through an interpreter. Enter the bullpen, which had given up nine runs in the Dodgers three losses in this series. But Glasnow, Sasaki and Justin Wrobleski combined to pitch three scoreless innings, and when that happens, anything can happen. “I'm excited, it's going to be fun,” said Will Smith, who doubled in the Dodgers’ first run. “We work all year long to be in this situation to win a ball game and win a World Series. So it should be a fun one tomorrow.” That fun actually began a day earlier when Roberts did his best Tommy Lasorda imitation by literally leaving it all on the field during Thursday’s day off. He challenged speedster Hyeseong Kim to a race around the bases, and gave himself a generous head start, but as Kim was passing him up around second base, Roberts tripped and fell flat on his face. The moment was caught on a video that quickly spread over social media and actually led the FOX broadcast before Friday’s game. Roberts looked silly. But Roberts also looked brilliant, as his pratfall injected some necessary lightness into the darkening team mood. He lost, but he won. “Of course it makes you smile and it makes you have a good time,” said Rojas. “When the head of the group is…loose like that, and he's willing to do anything, that's what it tells everybody, that he will do anything for the team.” Now it’s down to one game, and one team that will once again do anything for each other. The Dodgers are back. Advantage Dodgers.	[ "Bill Plaschke" ]	Earlier this week fans were asking, who are those guys? On Friday they emphatically answered that question by finally, forcefully, being themselves.	[ "Dodgers", "Sports" ]	Dodgers	2025-11-01T03:49:36.976Z	2025-11-01T04:46:00.000Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-10-31/dodgers-blue-jays-world-series-game-6-kike-hernandez
Facing elimination, Dodgers force Game 7 with dramatic World Series victory over Blue Jays	The play that saved the Dodgers’ season started with a sound, and a feeling. There was a faint crack of a broken bat. A ball that was momentarily lost in the lights. And a player with more postseason experience than anyone else in Dodgers history, making the right read, and the perfect play, at the most critical juncture of the entire year. In the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 6 of the World Series on Friday night, the Dodgers were in danger of succumbing to disaster. The two-run lead they’d held for much of the evening was suddenly under threat. The Toronto Blue Jays had the tying runs in scoring position with nobody out. The Dodgers had removed closer Roki Sasaki to call on potential Game 7 starter Tyler Glasnow in emergency relief. And inside a sold-out Rogers Centre, the hopes of an entire nation had turned the scene deafening. On each pitch, however, the raucous crowd of 44,710 would briefly quiet down, and collectively hold its breath. What happened next could be the defining moment of this World Series. At the very least, it helped seal the Dodgers’ 3-1 win and force a Game 7 back here on Saturday night. Andrés Giménez hit a one-out line drive to left that was just a little too far off the end of his bat, cracking the lumber as the ball made impact. In the outfield, Kiké Hernández heard the sound, and let instinct take over as he ran to field it. “For a split second, as Glasnow threw the ball, the crowd got quiet,” Hernández said afterward. “I was able to hear that the bat broke, so I just got a really good jump on the ball. And I came in.” By breaking in toward the infield, Hernández was in perfect position to make the highlight reel play that followed: He caught the ball on the run, despite losing it in the lights ever so briefly; contorted his body to quickly throw to second, having peripherally “felt” baserunner Addison Barger drift too far off the bag; then delivered a one-hop strike that was cleanly picked off the dirt by teammate Miguel Rojas. Double play. Game over. See you tomorrow night. "Pretty epic ending there,” Rojas said. “That was just wild,” Mookie Betts added. “He caught it, threw him out, it was kind of crazy,” Glasnow echoed. “Like, there wasn't enough time to think.” Entering Friday night, the Dodgers had nothing but time to think about the position they had put themselves in, coming to Toronto facing elimination after lackluster performances in Games 4 and 5. That latter contest had been one of the longest nights of the Dodgers’ season. And it grew even longer when their flight back to Canada was delayed. First, a faulty engine pump light in the cockpit forced the plane to return to the gate. Then, there was a long wait on the aircraft to be refueled after the initial gas truck broke down. At one point, the players — who fly separately from the coaching staff and the rest of the organization’s traveling party — contemplated staying the night in Los Angeles, and trying to fly out again in the morning. But by then, they had already stewed on their Game 5 clunker long enough. They wanted to get to Toronto, prepare for an off-day workout Thursday, and begin the daunting task of trying to win consecutive games and preserve their repeat-title dreams. “I gave our players an option to not work out today, because of the long series and 18 innings [in Game 3] and the travel and all that stuff,” manager Dave Roberts said the next afternoon. “And not one guy took the option. So that was pretty exciting for me. It just speaks to where these guys are at. ... We’re gonna keep going, and keep fighting.” Friday’s fight started with a shift of approach from the Dodgers’ recently scuffling and overly passive offense: Be aggressive, swing often, and don’t live in fear of striking out or making mistakes. “When you want to do so good, you press, and you start being really careful about your move and about your pitch selection and all that,” Rojas said. “Yeah, we have a plan, and we got to execute the plan. But … I feel like all we have to do is free ourselves up when we go to the plate.” It didn’t lead to pretty results early. In the first two innings, the Dodgers struck out five times in six straight outs, swung at 22 of Kevin Gausman’s first 32 pitches and whiffed on 12 while fouling off several fastballs he left in the zone. Undeterred, the Dodgers kept hacking. And in the top of the third, they finally came to life. Tommy Edman and Will Smith ambushed Gausman for doubles, leading to the night’s opening run. Then, with the bases loaded later in the inning, Betts came up and snapped his three-for-24 slump to start the series. After a strong day of work in batting practice Thursday, which Roberts said had Betts’ swing looking as good as it had at any point in this series, the shortstop squared up a fastball from Gausman and sent it screaming through the left side of the infield for a two-run single. As he pulled into first base, Betts clapped toward the dugout, then slapped his hands against his thighs in an outburst of relief. It marked the first time the Dodgers had scored more than two runs in an inning since Game 4 of the NL Championship Series, and it gave pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto an early lead to protect. “It felt great to come through for the boys,” Betts said. “I was able to pull the ball. ... Get some pace, some athletic swings.” The rest of the night was tense. The Dodgers wouldn’t score again against Gausman, who completed his six-inning start by retiring the final 10 batters he faced. Yamamoto, coming off complete games in his previous two starts, gave one run back in the bottom of the third but also limited the damage in his own six-inning outing, finishing with a sixth and final strikeout that stranded two runners on base. Roberts rolled the dice in the seventh, turning to rookie left-hander Justin Wrobleski to face the bottom of the Blue Jays’ order. He gave up a two-out double to Ernie Clement, but bounced back by striking out Giménez to retire the side — and let out a fired-up yell as he walked off the mound. Then, as the Dodgers squandered a bases-loaded opportunity in the eighth, Sasaki got ready for a potential six-out save. The first three did not come easy, with the right-hander — pitching for only the second time this series — having to wiggle out of a two-on jam. Then, in the ninth, he invited more danger, hitting Alejandro Kirk with a two-strike splitter before giving up a scorching line drive that Barger laced to left-center. That play would be the first big break of the inning for the Dodgers. The ball was hit so hard, it got wedged in the base of the wall for an automatic double. Defensive replacement Justin Dean was closest to it in center field, but (along with Hernández) wisely threw his hands up before trying to field it. That helped ensure the umpires recognized the situation. There were still no outs in the inning, but the Blue Jays' runners were forced to return to second and third. “That’s probably the first time [in my life I’ve been the one] getting the ball” on such a play, Dean said afterward. “It’s just something you’re taught from an early age. Like, ‘Hey, if you see this, throw your hands up.’ ... Literally just instincts.” Two batters later, instincts took over again for Hernández. After Glasnow entered and got one quick out, he heard Giménez’s bat break on the line drive to left. The sound helped Hernández come in on the ball immediately, but he did have to contend with the lights. Asked if he went into panic mode then, he answered with a laugh: “When the World Series is on the line, I was willing to get hit in the face.” Eventually, of course, the ball came back into sight. And as soon as Hernández fielded it, he said he could subconsciously “feel” that his best play was to second — where Barger, who had broken toward third on contact in hopes the ball would drop, was frantically trying to scramble back. “It's just, the play's in front of you, and you feel the play,” said Hernández, the veteran utilityman who passed Justin Turner earlier in this Fall Classic for the most postseason games played ever by a Dodger (Friday was his 91st with the team, and 102nd of his career). “I guess maybe that comes with playing everywhere. But like, you don't have to look to get an idea where the runners are. You feel it.” The instinct was indeed correct. And with the help of Rojas’ clutch scoop, the out call was confirmed on a video review. “One of the headiest baseball players I've ever been around,” Roberts said of Hernández. “When he hit the ball,” Rojas added. “I thought there wasn't a chance.” Instead, the Dodgers poured out of the dugout as Betts leapt into Hernández's arms. The noise inside Rogers Centre vanished, and this time for more than a breath. Now, the Dodgers will go to Game 7, when Ohtani is expected to start on the mound and Glasnow and Blake Snell could help in relief. They will live to see one final day, ensuring (this time, thankfully) that their return flight home was once again delayed. “This is what we dream of,” Hernández said. “I think baseball deserves a Game 7,” Even if it took a sound, and a feeling, to help make it happen.	[ "Jack Harris" ]	Mookie Betts busts out of his slump and Kiké Hernández executes an incredible game-ending double play as the Dodgers prevail in Game 6 of the World Series.	[ "Dodgers", "Sports" ]	Dodgers	2025-11-01T03:39:59.243Z	2025-11-01T07:51:00.000Z	https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2025-10-31/dodgers-defeat-toronto-blue-jays-world-series-game-6
Yamamoto y Dodgers fuerzan a 7mo juego de la Serie Mundial, con victoria sobre Azulejos	Yoshinobu Yamamoto venció a Toronto por segunda vez en una semana, Mookie Betts se desperezó con un sencillo de dos carreras en una tercera entrada de tres anotaciones y los Dodgers de Los Ángeles, campeones defensores, se impusieron el viernes 3-1 sobre los Azulejos para llevar la Serie Mundial a un séptimo y decisivo encuentro. Yamamoto no estuvo tan afinado como en su juego completo de cuatro hits en el segundo compromiso de esta serie, el primer juego completo de la Serie Mundial en una década. De cualquier modo, duró seis entradas y permitió apenas un sencillo impulsor en la tercera por parte de George Springer, quien regresó después de perderse dos juegos por una lesión en el costado derecho. Los relevistas novatos Justin Wrobleski y Roki Sasaki se combinaron para conseguir seis outs antes de que el abridor Tyler Glasnow saliera del bullpen para escapar de un aprieto en la novena entrada y rescatar a los Dodgers. Glasnow necesitó sólo tres lanzamientos para lograrlo. Con corredores en segunda y tercera y sin outs , hizo que Ernie Clement elevara su primer pitcheo hacia el cuadro para un out fácil . Luego, el venezolano Andrés Giménez conectó una línea al jardín izquierdo, que el puertorriqueño Kiké Hernández convirtió en una doble matanza para terminar el juego. Hernández atrapó la bola corriendo entre el bosque izquierdo y el central y lanzó a la segunda base, donde el venezolano Miguel Rojas hizo una difícil jugada, recogiendo la bola de un bote para retirar a Addison Barger. “Estaba jugando un poco más adelante de lo que se me requería. Pero dada la situación, con un tipo realmente rápido en segunda base, pensé, ‘¿sabes qué? Voy a jugar realmente, realmente adelante. Si la golpea sobre mi cabeza, bien por él’. Siento que su poder es más hacia el lado de halar", dijo Hernández. “De alguna manera pude escuchar que el bate se rompió incluso con esa multitud. Lo loco es que no tenía idea de dónde estaba la bola porque estaba en las luces todo el tiempo. Pero dada la situación en el juego, la Serie Mundial en riesgo y lo bien que estaba bateando esta noche, pensé, ‘me va a golpear en la cara, pero no voy a detenerme. No voy a frenar’. Y al final, la bola salió de las luces y fue a mi guante.” Fue la primera doble matanza 7-4 para terminar un juego en la historia de la postemporada, según el Elias Sports Bureau. "Le di un tiro realmente difícil de atrapar. Creo que fue una mejor atrapada que una buena jugada de mi parte”, dijo Hernández. Sasaki golpeó al mexicano Alejandro Kirk con un lanzamiento de 0-2 para comenzar la entrada, y Barger conectó un doble de terreno entre el jardín izquierdo y el central —la pelota se quedó atascada en el acojinado al pie de la barda. Fue entonces cuando el manager de los Dodgers, Dave Roberts, llamó a Glasnow. “Simplemente sentí que en ese momento, Roki no estaba tan afinado y sentí que Glas es un tipo que tiene cosas para hacer fallar el swing y simplemente quería apostar por él", dijo Roberts. "Ha estado ansioso por tener un impacto.” Max Scherzer abrirá el séptimo juego el sábado por la noche para los Azulejos. El tres veces ganador del premio Cy Young también comenzó el séptimo juego de la Serie Mundial de 2019, en el que se fue sin decisión cuando Washington ganó el título sobre Houston. “Estos muchachos son realmente buenos en simplemente pasar la página”, dijo el manager de Toronto, John Schneider. “Ese es un final salvaje. Me encanta la forma en que jugamos.” Por los Dodgers, el dominicano Teoscar Hernández de 4-0. El boricua Hernández de 4-0. El venezolano Rojas de 3-0. Por los Azulejos, el dominicano Vladimir Guerrero Jr. de 3-1. El mexicano Kirk de 3-0. El venezolano Giménez de 4-0. _____ Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes	[ "RONALD BLUM" ]	Yoshinobu Yamamoto venció a Toronto por segunda vez en una semana, Mookie Betts se desperezó con un sencillo de dos carreras en una tercera entrada de tres anotaciones y los Dodgers de Los Ángeles, campeones defensores, se impusieron el viernes 3-1 sobre los Azulejos para llevar la Serie Mundial a un séptimo y decisivo encuentro.	[ "Deportes", "Béisbol" ]	Deportes	2025-11-01T03:35:09.173Z	2025-11-01T03:35:09.173Z	https://www.latimes.com/espanol/deportes/articulo/2025-10-31/yamamoto-y-dodgers-fuerzan-a-7mo-juego-de-la-serie-mundial-con-victoria-de-3-1-sobre-azulejos
LAPD captain claims city pushed misleading statement to justify police tactics at protest	It was April 2021 and the LAPD was facing sharp criticism over its handling of mass protests against police brutality. The Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles complaint accused officers of firing less-lethal weapons at demonstrators who posed no threat, among other abuses. Smith said the assistant Los Angeles city attorney wanted his signature on a prewritten sworn declaration that described how LAPD officers had no choice but to use force against a volatile crowd hurling bottles and smoke bombs during a 2020 protest in Tujunga. He refused to put his name on it. Instead, eight months later, Smith filed his own lawsuit against the city, alleging he faced retaliation for trying to blow the whistle on a range of misconduct within the LAPD. Smith and his attorneys declined to be interviewed by The Times, but evidence in his lawsuit offers a revealing look at the behind-the-scenes coordination — and friction — between LAPD officials and the city attorney's office in defense of police use of force at protests. Smith's lawsuit says he felt pressured to give a misleading statement to cover up for reckless behavior by officers. The captain's claim, filed December 2021 in Los Angeles Superior Court, has taken on new significance with the city facing fresh litigation over LAPD crowd control tactics during recent protests against the Trump administration. The 2020 protests led to a court order that limits how LAPD officers can use certain less-lethal weapons, including launchers that shoot hard-foam projectiles typically used to disable uncooperative suspects. The city is still fighting to have those restrictions lifted, along with others put in place as a result of a separate lawsuit filed in June by press rights organizations. Last month, City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto drew a rebuke from the City Council after she sought a temporary stay of the order issued by U.S. District Judge Hernán D. Vera. Feldstein Soto argued that the rules — which prohibit officers from targeting journalists and nonviolent protesters — are overly broad and impractical. Vera rejected Feldstein Soto's request, but the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is taking up the matter, with a hearing tentatively set for mid-November. Smith said in his lawsuit that he wouldn't put his name on the Tujunga declaration because he had reviewed evidence that showed officers flouting LAPD rules on beanbag shotguns, as well as launchers that fire 37mm and 40mm projectiles — roughly the size of mini soda cans — at over 200 mph. Smith's lawsuit said the launchers are intended to be “target specific,” or fired at individuals who pose a threat — not to disperse a crowd. Smith said he raised alarms for months after the Tujunga protest, which occurred amid outrage over the police killings nationwide of Black and Latino people at the end of President Trump's first term. But it wasn't until the city got sued, Smith's complaint said, that incidents he flagged started to receive attention. The city has denied the allegations in Smith's lawsuit, saying in court filings that each LAPD use of force case was thoroughly investigated. Smith's lawsuit cites emails to senior LAPD officials that he says show efforts to sanitize the department's handling of excessive force complaints from the protests. An internal task force deemed most of the citizen complaints "unfounded." Yet nearly two dozen of those cases were later reopened after Smith and a small team of officers found that the department's review missed a litany of policy violations, his lawsuit says. Smith also called out what he saw as "problematic bias" in the way what occurred at the Tujunga protest was reported up the chain of command. His complaint describes a presentation given to then-Chief Michel Moore that downplayed the severity of the damage caused by less-lethal projectiles. According to Smith, the report omitted photos of "extensive injuries" suffered by one woman, who said in a lawsuit that she had to undergo plastic surgery after getting shot in the chest at close range with a beanbag round. The LAPD stopped using bean-bag shotguns at protests after a state law banned the practice, but the department still allows officers to use the weapons in other situations, such as when subduing an uncooperative suspect. Alan Skobin, a former police commissioner and a friend of Smith's, told The Times he was in the room when Smith received a call in April 2021 from the city attorney's office about the declaration he refused to sign. The exchange appeared to turn tense, Skobin recalled, as Smith repeated that details contained in the document were a "lie." Skobin said he wondered whether the assistant city attorney went "back and examined the videotaped and all the other evidence.” “That’s what I would hope would happen,” Skobin said. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles city attorney, Karen Richardson, provided The Times with a California State Bar report that said there was insufficient evidence to discipline the lawyer involved; the case was closed in June 2024. Richardson declined further comment, citing Smith's pending lawsuit. According to Smith, other high-ranking LAPD officials went along with the misleading story that the officers in Tujunga acted in response to being overwhelmed by a hostile crowd. Smith claims he faced retaliation for reporting a fellow captain who said police were justified in using force against a protester who held a placard turned sideways "so that the pole can be used as a weapon against officers." Body camera footage showed a different version of events, Smith said, with officers launching an unjustified assault on the man and others around him. The colleague that Smith reported, German Hurtado, has since been promoted to deputy chief. The city has denied the allegations in court filings. When reached for comment on Friday, Hurtado said he was limited in what he could say because the litigation is ongoing. “From what I understand all that’s been investigated and it was unfounded,” he said, referencing Smith’s allegations. “The lawsuit, I don’t know where it’s and I don’t know anything about it. No one’s talked to me. No one’s deposed me.” Critics argue that the LAPD continues to violate rules that prohibit targeting journalists during demonstrations. After a peaceful daytime "No Kings Day" protest downtown Oct. 18, about 100 to 200 people lingered outside downtown's Metropolitan Detention Center after nightfall. Police declared an unlawful assembly and officers began firing 40mm projectiles. Lexis-Olivier Ray, a reporter for the news site L.A. Taco who regularly covers demonstrations, was among those hit by the rounds. In a video shared widely online, an LAPD officer can be heard justifying the incident by saying they were firing at "fake" journalists. An LAPD spokesperson said the incident with Ray is under internal investigation and could offer no further comment. Ray said it wasn’t the first time he'd been struck by less-lethal rounds at protests despite years of legislation and court orders. “It’s pretty discouraging that stuff like this keeps happening,” he said. LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell defended the department at the Police Commission's weekly meeting Tuesday, saying the "No Kings" protesters who remained downtown after dark were shining lasers at officers, and throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks. Asked about the incident involving Ray, the chief said he didn't want to comment about it publicly, but would do so "offline" — drawing jeers from some in the audience who demanded an explanation. McDonnell told the commission that he supported the city's efforts to lift the court's injunction. Easing the restrictions, he said, would "allow our officers to have access to less-lethal force options so that we don't have to escalate beyond that." Times staff writer Noah Goldberg contributed to this report.	[ "Libor Jany" ]	A lawsuit filed by an LAPD captain offers a revealing look at the behind-the-scenes coordination — and friction — between police officials and the city attorney’s office.	[ "California", "L.A. Politics ", "Crime & Courts" ]	California	2025-11-01T03:10:11.272Z	2025-11-01T04:07:35.517Z	https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-31/lapd-protest-use-of-force-lawsuit
Cuba dice que no recibió ayuda concreta de EEUU tras el paso de ciclón pese a declaraciones	Las autoridades cubanas aseguraron el viernes que pese a la declaración pública del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos con una inusual oferta de ayuda humanitaria tras el paso del destructivo huracán Melissa por la isla, no han recibido ningún tipo de propuesta o envío concreto. “Solo conocemos declaraciones públicas, que no equivalen ni es como se canaliza ayuda en casos de desastre”, dijo en una declaración escrita enviada a The Associated Press el vicecanciller Carlos Fernández de Cossío. “Hasta ahora Estados Unidos no ha formulado ofrecimiento de ayuda concreta alguna. Sí lo han hecho otros países y organizaciones internacionales”, agregó el diplomático. La víspera en un comunicado de prensa el Departamento de Estado aseguró que ese país estaba “listo para ayudar al pueblo cubano” tras el devastador paso de Melissa y brindar “asistencia humanitaria inmediata directamente y a través de socios locales que puedan entregarla de manera más efectiva a los necesitados”. Es habitual que Estados Unidos ofrezca apoyo a los países aliados en la región ante casos de desastres naturales, pero con Cuba mantiene una fuerte disputa. Las relaciones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos se encuentran en máxima tensión tras la llegada de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca y su secretario Marco Rubio, quienes han endurecido las sanciones contra la isla impuestas hace más de seis décadas buscando un cambio de modelo político. Las medidas contemplan desde la prohibición de viajes o la persecución de barcos con combustible a la isla hasta multas para las empresas de terceros países que comercien con Cuba. El huracán Melissa atravesó el oriente cubano el miércoles con fuertes vientos e inundaciones que arrasaron cosechas –plátano, yuca y café entre las más afectadas--, destruyeron viviendas, tiraron postes de luz y cableado telefónico, pero no ocasionaron víctimas mortales como las decenas reportadas en Jamaica y Haití. Unas 735.000 personas fueron evacuadas de lugares vulnerables. El ciclón llegó a la nación caribeña en momentos en que atraviesa una fuerte crisis económica con desabastecimiento, cortes de luz y emigración. "Alentamos a aquellos que buscan apoyar directamente al pueblo cubano a que se comuniquen con nosotros si hay algún problema”, dijo el comunicado del Departamento de Estado. Sin embargo, el vicecanciller Fernández de Cossío recordó que desde hace muchos años “existen vías establecidas en Cuba” para los envíos de familiares y organizaciones diversas desde Estados Unidos. Miles de toneladas de productos –alimentos, electrodomésticos, generadores eléctricos o medicinas—llegan a Cuba cada semana enviadas por parientes y amigos a los suyos en la isla. ———— Siga a Andrea Rodríguez en X: https://x.com/ARodriguezAP	[ "ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ" ]	Las autoridades cubanas aseguraron el viernes que pese a la declaración pública del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos con una inusual oferta de ayuda humanitaria tras el paso del destructivo huracán Melissa por la isla, no han recibido ningún tipo de propuesta o envío concreto.	[ "EEUU", "Noticas-Más", "Internacional", "Nota Roja", "Medio Ambiente" ]	EEUU	2025-11-01T02:20:46.025Z	2025-11-01T02:20:46.025Z	https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/cuba-dice-que-no-recibio-ayuda-concreta-de-eeuu-tras-el-paso-de-ciclon-pese-a-declaraciones
Hombre de Chicago cuya hija lucha contra el cáncer es liberado bajo fianza por jueza de inmigración	Un hombre de Chicago cuya hija de 16 años está recibiendo tratamiento para combatir un cáncer en etapa avanzada será puesto en libertad bajo fianza y podrá regresar a casa, dictaminó el jueves una jueza de inmigración. Rubén Torres Maldonado, un mexicano de 40 años que se dedica a pintar y renovar casas, fue detenido el 18 de octubre en una tienda Home Depot en los suburbios de Chicago. Sus abogados solicitaron que sea liberado mientras su caso de deportación se resuelve en los tribunales. La jueza Eva S. Saltzman destacó el jueves que Torres Maldonado no tiene antecedentes penales como uno de los argumentos para permitir que sea liberado con una fianza de 2.000 dólares. "Estamos agradecidos de que la jueza haya tomado hoy la decisión humana y de sentido común de reunir a Rubén Torres Maldonado con su familia mientras enfrentan esta desafiante crisis de salud de su hija", afirmó su abogado, Kalman Resnick, en un comunicado. Resnick añadió que su cliente será puesto en libertad el jueves o viernes, y que está solicitando la residencia permanente en Estados Unidos. La hija de Torres Maldonado, Ofelia Torres, fue diagnosticada en diciembre pasado con una rara y agresiva forma de cáncer de tejido blando conocida como rabdomiosarcoma alveolar metastásico y ha estado recibiendo quimioterapia y radioterapia. "No puedo esperar para ver a mi papá", dijo Ofelia en un comunicado. "Necesitamos que esté en casa conmigo y nuestra familia". En un video publicado en una página de GoFundMe creada para su familia, Ofelia describió a su padre como una "persona trabajadora que se levanta de madrugada y se va a trabajar sin quejarse, pensando en su familia". Torres Maldonado y su pareja, Sandibell Hidalgo, también tienen un hijo de 4 años. Hidalgo agradeció a la jueza, a su comunidad y a las personas que han seguido la historia de la familia, la cual acaparó titulares a nivel nacional este mes. "Estamos muy agradecidos con todas las personas que han donado a nuestro GoFundMe, nos han traído la cena y nos han brindado apoyo emocional", dijo en un comunicado. El arresto de Torres Maldonado se produjo después de varias semanas de tensiones y tácticas cada vez más agresivas por parte de los agentes federales de inmigración involucrados en la Operación Midway Blitz, la cual ha resultado en más de 3.000 arrestos en el área metropolitana de Chicago. El juez de distrito de Estados Unidos, Jeremy Daniel, dijo la semana pasada que la detención de Torres Maldonado es ilegal y viola sus derechos al debido proceso. Pero Daniel también recalcó que no podía ordenar su liberación inmediata. "Aunque simpatizo con la difícil situación que enfrenta la hija del solicitante debido a sus problemas de salud, el tribunal debe actuar dentro de las limitaciones de los estatutos, reglas y precedentes relevantes", escribió el juez el viernes. El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional argumenta que Torres Maldonado ha estado viviendo sin autorización legal en Estados Unidos desde hace años, después de ingresar al país en 2003.	[ "CHRISTINE FERNANDO" ]	Un hombre de Chicago cuya hija de 16 años está recibiendo tratamiento para combatir un cáncer en etapa avanzada será puesto en libertad bajo fianza y podrá regresar a casa, dictaminó el jueves una jueza de inmigración.	[ "EEUU", "Noticas-Más", "Política", "Internacional", "California", "Nota Roja", "MIGRACIÓN" ]	EEUU	2025-11-01T02:07:30.170Z	2025-11-01T02:07:30.170Z	https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/hombre-de-chicago-cuya-hija-lucha-contra-el-cancer-es-liberado-bajo-fianza-por-jueza-de-inmigracion
Manifestantes exigen la renuncia del gobernador tras redada policial letal en Río de Janeiro	Cientos de manifestantes marcharon el viernes en una de las favelas donde se efectuó la redada policial más letal en la historia de Río de Janeiro, la cual dejó más de 100 muertos, exigiendo la renuncia del gobernador del estado de Río, Cláudio Castro, en medio de persistente indignación por el operativo. Residentes locales, políticos, activistas, madres afligidas que perdieron a sus hijos en operaciones anteriores, y personas de otros barrios de Río de Janeiro se reunieron para expresar su furia en Vila Cruzeiro, parte del complejo de favelas Penha, donde días antes los residentes colocaron en el piso decenas de cuerpos que habían recogido de un área verde cercana tras la redada. Al menos 121 personas murieron en el operativo del martes, incluidos cuatro policías, según la policía. La oficina del defensor público de Río dice que 132 personas perdieron la vida. “¡Cobarde, terrorista, asesino! Sus manos están manchadas de sangre”, denunció Anne Caroline Dos Santos, de 30 años, refiriéndose a Castro, aliado del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro y opositor del presidente izquierdista Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Castro ha acusado al gobierno federal de abandonar a Río en su lucha contra el crimen organizado, una afirmación que el gobierno de Lula ha refutado. Dos Santos acudió desde la favela más grande de Brasil, Rocinha, en la zona sur de Río, para expresar su indignación. Al igual que muchos otros manifestantes, acusó a las fuerzas policiales de cometer tortura y ejecuciones extrajudiciales. "Ahora las madres están luchando para recuperar los cuerpos de sus hijos y enterrarlos", manifestó, y añadió que había perdido a un amigo en la operación. Muchas tiendas han reabierto desde que cerraron esta semana, pero todavía había señales en las calles de los eventos recientes, incluidos autos quemados que fueron utilizados como barricadas contra el ingreso de la policía al barrio de bajos ingresos. Muchos vestían de blanco, lo que un manifestante dijo simbolizaba su deseo de paz, y algunas camisetas tenían manos rojas impresas. Otros sostenían carteles que decían: "dejen de matarnos", o llevaban calcomanías que rezaban: "basta de masacres". “Esto es una desgracia para Brasil”, lamentó Leandro Santiago, de 44 años, quien vive en Vila Cruzeiro y se gana la vida con su motocicleta, proporcionando paseos y haciendo entregas. "Nada justifica esto". La redada del martes, llevada a cabo por unos 2.500 policías y soldados, estaba enfocada en la notoria banda Comando Rojo en las favelas Complexo de Alemão y Complexo da Penha. Los objetivos declarados de la operación eran capturar a sus líderes y limitar la expansión territorial del Comando Rojo, que ha aumentado su control sobre las favelas en los últimos años, pero también se ha extendido por Brasil, incluso en la selva amazónica. Los miembros de la banda recibieron a los policías con disparos y otras represalias, lo cual desató escenas de caos en toda la ciudad. Castro indicó el martes que Río está en guerra contra el "narcoterrorismo", un término que evoca el usado por el gobierno del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump en su campaña contra el contrabando de drogas en América Latina. Dijo que la operación había sido un éxito. El gobierno estatal señaló que los muertos eran criminales que se resistieron a la policía. Pero el número de fallecidos, el más alto jamás registrado en una operación policial en Río, provocó condenas de grupos defensores de los derechos humanos y de Naciones Unidas, al igual que un intenso escrutinio por parte de las autoridades. El Supremo Tribunal Federal, fiscales y legisladores le ordenaron a Castro proporcionar información detallada sobre el operativo. Alexandre de Moraes, juez del Supremo Tribunal Federal, programó una audiencia con el gobernador del estado y los jefes de la policía militar y civil en Río para el 3 de noviembre. Gran parte de la furia en Vila Cruzeiro el viernes era contra Castro. Algunos manifestantes lo llamaron "asesino" y exigieron su renuncia, o incluso que sea enviado a prisión. “El gobernador dijo que estaba haciendo esta operación para combatir el narcotráfico. Pero necesitamos asfixiar a quienes lo financian. Necesitamos políticas que busquen abordar la corrupción”, declaró Mónica Benício, concejala local y viuda de la concejala asesinada Marielle Franco. "El asesinato de jóvenes en las favelas no es una política pública, es una masacre", añadió. Mientras que algunos en Brasil —particularmente votantes y políticos de derecha— elogiaron la operación contra la banda fuertemente armada, otros cuestionaron si lograría resultados duraderos, y argumentaron que muchos de los muertos eran de bajo rango y fácilmente reemplazables. El gobierno estatal indicó el viernes que, de los 99 sospechosos identificados hasta ahora, 42 tenían órdenes de arresto pendientes y al menos 78 tenían antecedentes penales extensos. Pero el periódico local O Globo señaló que ninguno de los 99 nombres fue acusado formalmente por la fiscalía pública de Río de Janeiro en la investigación que respaldó la operación principal. En la protesta muchos condenaron el estado en que se encontraron los cuerpos, de los cuales al menos uno estaba decapitado, mientras que otros fueron hallados con heridas de arma blanca o atados. Adriana Miranda, una abogada de 48 años presente en la manifestación del viernes, dijo que incluso si los jóvenes asesinados eran sospechosos de participar en el crimen organizado, de todas formas tenían derechos. "Las sospechas deben ser investigadas. Hay todo un procedimiento establecido en el Código Penal y el Código de Procedimiento Penal que debe seguirse", expresó. "La Constitución garantiza los derechos de todos".	[ "ELÉONORE HUGHES" ]	Cientos de manifestantes marcharon el viernes en una de las favelas donde se efectuó la redada policial más letal en la historia de Río de Janeiro, la cual dejó más de 100 muertos, exigiendo la renuncia del gobernador del estado de Río, Cláudio Castro, en medio de persistente indignación por el operativo.	[ "Internacional", "Nota Roja" ]	Internacional	2025-11-01T01:57:20.735Z	2025-11-01T01:57:20.735Z	https://www.latimes.com/espanol/internacional/articulo/2025-10-31/manifestantes-exigen-la-renuncia-del-gobernador-tras-redada-policial-letal-en-rio-de-janeiro
Maduro acusa a EEUU de tratar de imponer una narrativa para justificar un ataque contra Venezuela	El presidente Nicolás Maduro volvió a acusar a Estados Unidos de tratar de imponer una narrativa “extravagante” para justificar un ataque contra Venezuela y un cambio de régimen en el país sudamericano. Los estadounidenses “siempre nos quieren imponer un relato, una narrativa”, señaló Maduro el viernes durante la clausura de un encuentro de parlamentarios del Caribe por la paz celebrado en Caracas. “Puedo decir que la narrativa que ha elegido el poder estadounidense contra la Venezuela digna, pacífica y bolivariana, es una narrativa extravagante, mentirosa y además calumniosa, con la dignidad de un pueblo decente, trabajador”, aseveró el gobernante ante las acusaciones de Washington que señalan a Venezuela como una pieza importante en el narcotráfico internacional. Los señalamientos de Maduro se dan en momentos de creciente tensión entre Venezuela y Estados Unidos por el despliegue de buques de guerra estadounidenses en aguas frente a la nación sudamericana. El gobierno de Trump dice que el despliegue busca combatir las amenazas de los cárteles de drogas latinoamericanos. Desde septiembre, las fuerzas militares de Estados Unidos han implementado una serie de ataques contra embarcaciones sospechosas de contrabando de drogas en el mar Caribe, incluidos al menos cuatro botes que afirman partieron de Venezuela. Ninguno ha tenido lugar en el mar territorial venezolano. “La verdad es que Venezuela es inocente y todo lo que se está haciendo contra Venezuela es para justificar una guerra, un cambio de régimen y robarnos la inmensa riqueza petrolera, que es la principal reserva petrolera y la cuarta reserva de gas del mundo”, agregó. A inicios de agosto Washington duplicó a 50 millones de dólares una recompensa por información que dé con la captura de Maduro, a quien acusó formalmente de narcoterrorismo. Maduro recalcó que son infundadas las denuncias y que buscarían desestabilizar a su gobierno. “Hoy quieren imponer una agenda permanente de amenazas de guerra, amenazas militares, guerra psicológica. Y yo siempre le digo al pueblo de Venezuela: nervios de acero, calma, cordura y máxima unión nacional. La fórmula para que nuestro país no se desvíe del camino que hemos tomado”, acotó el mandatario.	[]	El presidente Nicolás Maduro volvió a acusar a Estados Unidos de tratar de imponer una narrativa “extravagante” para justificar un ataque contra Venezuela y un cambio de régimen en el país sudamericano.	[ "EEUU", "Noticas-Más", "Política", "Internacional" ]	EEUU	2025-11-01T01:53:54.392Z	2025-11-01T01:53:54.392Z	https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-10-31/maduro-acusa-a-eeuu-de-tratar-de-imponer-una-narrativa-para-justificar-un-ataque-contra-venezuela

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