There are at least several known instances in which ICE has discharged detainees who are on the edge of death. Let me tell you about one of them. Johana Medina Leon fled El Salvador and sought asylum here only to die in an El Paso hospital in 2019, four days after she was freed

Just over a month after she was detained by ICE, Johana Medina Leon’s health was in free fall. She was transferred to an El Paso hospital where she died on June 1, 2019. But her name wasn’t among the nine deaths recorded by ICE that year. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

The American West is on the cusp of major change. Let Sammy Roth and an amazing team of Los Angeles Times journalists tell you all about it: latimes.com/environment/st…

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Amboy Crater, Amargosa Opera House, Route 66 Mother Road Museum. Wonderful selection of Mojave Desert recommendations from Rachel Schnalzer: latimes.com/travel/newslet…

The La Brea Tar Pits, in the middle of L.A., has provided scientist incredible preserved bones and fossils for hundreds of years. Here are three of the most tantalizing puzzles posed by the pits that remain to be solved... by Rachel Schnalzer latimes.com/california/sto…

What’s the story behind Burbank’s gigantic castles? I really loved digging into this L.A. mystery. My latest: latimes.com/california/sto…