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LOS ANGELES — The Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt said that President-elect Donald J. Trump “walks into the Oval Office with a more intimate relationship with the Jewish people than any other president in the history of the United States of America.”

A Playboy Playmate who posted a photo on Snapchat of a naked, 70-year-old woman and made fun of her weight pleaded not guilty Monday to a misdemeanor count of invasion of privacy.

A homeless man in Los Angeles has gotten quite innovative with turning a freeway underpass into his personal compound.

Surveillance video of a blue-haired woman allegedly defacing four Los Angeles County government buildings with vulgar and otherwise anti-Donald Trump graffiti on Sunday led to her arrest on Tuesday.

A California man, who was previously convicted of impersonating a Roman Catholic priest and swindling parishioners out of thousands of dollars, was sentenced to 264 days in jail Friday after he was caught impersonating a priest again while on probation.

Roughly 500 demonstrators gathered on the steps of the Los Angeles City Hall for a “Rally Against Steve Bannon” on Wednesday evening.

Liberal mayors across the United States have vowed to keep their sanctuary city policies intact. Mayors of New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Providence spoke out in defiance of a possible nationwide, anti-sanctuary city law.

An estimated 8,000 people marched in what the Los Angeles Times characterized as “emotional” but peaceful protest against the election of President-elect Donald J. Trump after several nights of violent leftist protests across the country.

Texas-based election integrity organization True the Vote is calling into question whether Los Angeles County election officials are properly training poll workers to follow voter identification standards.

The Los Angeles Times reports that some 818,000 voters in Los Angeles County will not have a single Republican candidate to vote for, outside the presidential race featuring Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

A woman died after her son allegedly threw her out the window of their second floor apartment in Los Angeles following a verbal dispute, police say.

One of Los Angeles’ finest, Steve Owen, was killed on Wednesday as he responded to a burglary call and the suspect shot him down, stole his patrol car and crashed it into another deputy’s vehicle.

A suspect or suspects who shot 19-year-old U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Carlos Segovia in the head in South Los Angeles on Friday night were still unknown, as Segovia was declared brain dead Sunday.

Consultants who advise illegal aliens will now be regulated under a proposed Los Angeles County licensing requirement that passed 5-0 at the L.A. County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton will be holding a fundraiser in San Francisco by teleconference on Monday after canceling a two-day trip to California on Sunday evening.

Vandals destroyed a 9/11 memorial at Occidental College in California on the fifteenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

Donald Trump’s campaign officially opened its campaign headquarters in Los Angeles County on Saturday with a warm, diverse reception and traditional Cambodian “blessing dance” in Long Beach.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will host Hillary Clinton for a high-dollar fundraiser lunch at his home in Los Angeles later this month.

An Indiana-based animal shelter is using the popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go to encourage humans to walk dogs while they play.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to fundraise in the San Diego area on Wednesday afternoon. The same evening, Vice President Joe Biden will promote President Barack Obama in Barrio Logan, give an ESPY award in Los Angeles and head for Hawaii.

Political leaders and law enforcement officials in Los Angeles have expressed outrage at the murders of five police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas. In contrast, officials in San Francisco and Oakland equivocated, or ignored the event.

A California comedian who cavorts on social media under the name “Obvious Plant” left a series of fake “Animal Facts” placards around the Los Angeles Zoo this weekend, delighting some and confusing others with the offbeat claims about the creatures around them.

Some Donald Trump supporters, Hillary Clinton argued, were “frustrated” and “fearful” and therefore susceptible to what she described as Trump’s “misleading promises.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged voters to look at their personal habits in order to stop climate change, calling it one of the world’s biggest problems that the next president would have to face. “On an individual level,

California now has the highest voter registration in its history at near 18 million, with over 646,000 registrations in just 45 days, thanks in part to controversial Facebook’s two-day May registration push ahead of the June 7 Presidential primary election.

Two Los Angeles City Council members are pushing for a November ballot measure that, if voted in, would authorize a bond of at least $1 billion that would go towards housing for the city’s 47,000-person (and growing) homeless population.

In the first five days of early voting in Los Angeles County, turnout figures reveal that 3.5 times as many voters logged their votes in California’s primary election as in 2012.

Using the social media hashtag #RoadRage, an Auto Insurance Center survey of more than 65,000 Instagram posts concluded that the number-one road rage city in America is Los Angeles.

“I got to start by saying, that on Cinco de Mayo, I can’t think of a better place to be than right here,” Hillary Clinton said after arriving to an event in East Los Angeles. But she and her supporters were repeatedly harassed by hundreds of protesters.

For the first time in its history, the City of Los Angeles’s population has topped the 4 million mark after having gained more than 50,000 people since last year alone — a growth rate of 1.3 percent.

Tens of thousands of Armenians gathered internationally to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in which the Ottoman Empire murdered 1.5 million Armenians.

A fisherman kayaking in the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles caught a leopard shark — and soon found himself in a fierce tug-of-war with a great white shark.

In its newly-released “State of the Air” 2016 report, the American Lung Association has determined that Monterey County has the best air quality in the United States while Los Angeles and Bakersfield were deemed to have the worst air in the nation.

White House reporters following President Obama’s California fundraising tour were forced to wait in a garage, as President Obama attended an event hosted by Spiderman star Tobey Maguire, whose star role has since been replaced by two other younger actors.

Los Angeles commuters should expect full-blown traffic jams — or “Obamajams” — once again, with President Barack Obama’s arrival in the area between Thursday evening and Friday morning, where he will be raising money for House and Senate candidates.

President Barack Obama will head back to Hollywood this coming week for another pair of fundraisers.