1+ hour, 16+ min ago (763+ words) Mayoral candidate Austin Beutner on Monday unveiled new campaign analysis that he says shows Los Angeles" 911 system is sending paramedics to too many non-medical calls " slowing response for Angelenos experiencing life-threatening emergencies. Speaking outside of Los Angeles Fire Department"s Station 63 in Venice, Beutner said L.A."s median response times have risen to almost eight minutes, roughly a minute and a half slower than a decade ago. "Today, there"s too much work for too few people " about five times as many calls as a generation ago for a department that"s about the same size," he said. Beutner attributed the delay not just to staffing or equipment shortages but to the way 911 calls are screened and dispatched. He said firefighters and paramedics are regularly dispatched to calls that are not medical emergencies"anything from leg cramps to someone asking for…...

6+ hour, 41+ min ago (836+ words) More than five months after the nation's first major federal immigration raid kicked off in Los Angeles, House Democrats from Southern California, led by Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach, gathered in downtown L.A. to hear about the impacts of the ongoing immigration enforcement actions, including from people who were personally detained or had loved ones detained. Similar hearings have been, or will be, held by other congressional committees elsewhere in the country, to document and build a record of what happened, lawmakers said during the Monday, Nov. 24, hearing. Although Democrats are in the minority in both the U.S. Senate and House, Garcia, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said the goal is to start collecting evidence. That way, Garcia said, if Democrats regain control of Washington, they'll be able to subpoena members of the Trump administration and take actions…...

8+ hour, 25+ min ago (1070+ words) Since late September, hundreds of federal, state and local law enforcement personnel tied to the Memphis Safe Task Force have made traffic stops, served warrants and searched for fugitives in the city of about 610,000 people. More than 2,800 people have been arrested and more than 28,000 traffic citations have been issued, data provided by the task force and Memphis police shows. The task force, which includes National Guard troops, is supported by Republican Gov. Bill Lee and others who hope the surge reduces crime in a city that has grappled with violent crime, including nearly 300 homicides last year and nearly 400 in 2023. On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi traveled to Memphis to meet with officers and tout the task force's success in taking suspects and illegal guns off the street. Bondi and other law enforcement leaders later served food to officers to thank…...

9+ hour, 2+ min ago (629+ words) As the first year of President Donald Trump's second term comes to a close, two new polls from the Pew Research Center find that Hispanic adults are increasingly unhappy with the way his administration is handling the economy and immigration, issues that were key for voters during last year's election. The surveys of more than 5,000 Hispanic adults in the U.S., conducted in October and September, found that a year after Trump eroded the Democrats' traditional advantage with Latino voters, most Hispanic adults are feeling worse about their place in the country, and they're more likely to be worried that they or someone close to them could be deported than they were earlier this year. About two-thirds of Hispanic adults overall disapprove of the Trump administration's approach to immigration, while 61% say his economic policies have made conditions worse. Hispanic voters shifted toward…...

17+ hour, 51+ min ago (506+ words) The S&P 500 climbed 0.9% and added to its jump from Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 72 points, or 0.2%, as of 10 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.7% higher. Stocks got a lift from rising hopes that the Federal Reserve will cut its main interest rate again at its next meeting in December, a move that could boost the economy and investment prices. The market also benefited from strength for stocks caught up in the artificial-intelligence frenzy. Alphabet, which has been getting praise for its newest Gemini AI model, rose 5.6% and was one of the strongest forces lifting the S&P 500. Nvidia slipped 0.3% after bobbing up and down. An early gain for the U.S. stock market guarantees nothing, though, as the last few weeks have so painfully shown. Stocks have been swinging sharply, not just day to day but also…...

5+ hour, 29+ min ago (196+ words) Antelope Valley and San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys are under a frost advisory which was issued by the National Weather Service on Monday at 7:34 p.m. The advisory is valid for Tuesday, Nov. 25 between 2 a.m. and 9 a.m. The NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA states to anticipate, "Temperatures as low as 32 degrees will result in frost formation." "Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation. Sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered," according to the NWS. "Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold." Frost advisories are issued from May to October (but can be extended if necessary) when temperatures, winds, and sky cover are favorable for frost development. This is most likely to happen when the temperature is 36 degrees or less. In some cases, the frost is severe enough to end the growing season and is then referred to as a…...

11+ hour, 22+ min ago (661+ words) The pastor of a Pasadena church that sued the state over COVID-related lockdowns during the early part of the pandemic is running to be governor of California. Ch" Ahn, the senior pastor at Harvest Rock Church, is a Republican who voted for President Donald Trump all three times he ran for president. Ahn said he wants voters to know he'd be a governor for all Californians if elected. "Once they (voters) get to know me and know my heart, I don't feel I'm political at all. I'm a pastor. I am for all the people. I want to be governor of everyone, not just the evangelical conservatives," said Ahn, who leads a network of evangelical churches. He described himself as a political outsider who felt called by God to help improve conditions in California. "It wasn't like I heard a…...

13+ hour, 6+ min ago (807+ words) I had the correct day, but the wrong time: KOST (103.5 FM) did indeed make the annual switch to holiday music on November 14. But instead of waiting until the end of Ellen K's popular morning show as I'd expected, they switched at 8 a.m. This is the 25th year the station has dropped its regular format in favor of holiday tunes, and it has been a hit since day one. Every single year, KOST jumps in the ratings with the annual switch, making it one of the most successful programming moves in the history of radio. Indeed, KOST earns at least double and often triple the ratings of the second-place station each year during this time. Those who study such things say that people tend to have fond memories of the songs they heard during the season while growing up, so listening makes them…...

12+ hour, 58+ min ago (604+ words) By SYLVIA HUI, Associated Press Senior BBC leaders were quizzed by Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee amid a major crisis at the publicly funded corporation after its director general and head of news both quit earlier this month and Trump threatened to file a billion-dollar lawsuit. Chairman Samir Shah said the broadcaster should not have waited days before responding to allegations of biased reporting over a documentary on Trump it aired days before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The third-party production company that made the film " titled "Trump: A Second Chance?" " spliced together three quotes from a speech Trump gave on Jan. 6, 2021, into what appeared to be one quote in which Trump urged supporters to march with him and "fight like hell." The editing made it look like Trump was directly encouraging his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol as Congress was…...

13+ hour, 12+ min ago (326+ words) By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press Media Writer The case has wound its way through federal district court and, more recently, federal appellate court throughout the year. Julie Pace, AP's executive editor, wrote in an op-ed piece Monday morning that the question of access is not just about AP; it's about people's access to the government that works for them. "Letting the government control which journalists can cover the highest office in the land and setting rules about what those journalists can say or write is a direct attempt to undercut the First Amendment," Pace wrote. "It should worry all of us." The Trump administration says it is up to the White House, not the press, to decide access to areas where space is limited. The White House Correspondents' Association had been deciding who is in the press pools since the…...