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EL SEGUNDO, CA, NOVEMBER 7, 2025: A passenger checks in for a Delta flight at LAX on Friday, November 7, 2025. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Here’s how many flights have been canceled out of Southern California airports since Friday

The government shutdown has led to numerous flight cancellations and delays coming into and out of Southern California airports over the weekend.

Jodeah Wilson, 22, on his laptop at his off-campus apartment near Sacramento State University on Oct. 17, 2025. Wilson, a former Sac State student, left school this semester after being unable to afford tuition.

Half a million young Californians aren’t in school or work. Most are men

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GARDEN GROVE, CA SEPT 6, 2025 - Corrin Rankin, Chairwoman of the California Republican Party, speaks to the media at the California GOP Convention in Garden Grove, CA on Saturday, September 6, 2025. (Eric Thayer/For The Times)

California Republicans point fingers, search for change, answers after Prop. 50 defeat

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 25: A protester waves a flag featuring part of the Mexican national flag and the United States flag in Little Village during a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following two days of raids earlier in the week in Chicago,Illinois, U.S., October 25, 2025. Little Village is a neighborhood in Chicago's South Lawndale area with a large Mexican-American community. (Photo by Seth Herald/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 22: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters after he participated in a fireside chat at the California Economic Summit on October 22, 2025 in Stockton, California. Gov. Newsom answered questions about the Trump administration's plans to deploy border patrol officers and the National Guard to San Francisco. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Los Angeles, - September 25: Homes sit in the shadows of the Inglewood oil field as Governor Gavin Newsom signs legislation related to oversight of oil and gas wells, and community protections on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024 in Los Angeles, . (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

As a century-old oil field winds down, what’s next for Baldwin Hills? A sprawling park or housing?

PALM DESERT, CA - NOVEMBER 6, 2025: A Trump key chain dangles on top of a large God Bless America button which hangs next to a hair dryer and a Bible inside "Just Marylou" hair salon which is decorated heavily with Republican slogans on November 6, 2025 in Palm Desert, California.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - September 09: Former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa speaks to reporters during Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' formal endorsement of him for California Governor outside the LA Sentinel newspaper office in Los Angeles Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - September 15: USC Interim president Beong-Soo Kim, left, speaks to former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for the university's Democracy Day at Town and Gown of USC on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - September 19: Council member Tim McOsker speaks at a press conference discussing the LA Convention Center expansion and modernization along with local union members and government officials at LA City Hall on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)

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Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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Toting a tambourine, she built L.A.’s first megachurch. Then she suddenly disappeared

Aimee Semple McPherson built a megachurch in Echo Park. Then at the peak of her fame, she seemed to vanish into the waves at Venice Beach. What really happened?

Yucca Valley, CA - October 22: From left: Andrew Fortner, Patryk Swietek, Ryan Cherlin, Josh Rudin, partners of the Cohost Company, a luxury short-term management business, Joshua Tree's largest short-term rental management company, show off a short term rental property in Yucca Valley Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. Operators are exiting the short-term rental market in the Joshua Tree area after the pandemic drove the number of listings to record highs. Some are selling, at times facing the prospect of losing money in a real estate market that has cooled. Others are seeking long-term tenants in a bid to offset their mortgages as they wait to see if home sales pick up. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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Spanish mountaineer Kilian Jornet climbed 72 summits over 14,000 feet in the contiguous U.S. in 31 days this fall. Jornet is seen here climbing Mount Rainer in Washington.
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Los Angeles, CA - October 01: The Boyle Heights Bridge Runners running club run across the 6th street bridge which is unlit on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
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Harrison Ford as tough cop Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" in 1982 in Los Angeles

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Los Angeles, California-A post card of palm trees in front of Republic Pictures, North Hollywood. (Patt Morrison Collection)
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Art Linfoot and Joyce Birdwell, whose Berry Creek home (shown in photo) was lost in the North Complex Fire in 2020, decided not to rebuild and moved into Joyce's condo in Irvine.
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MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

A popular L.A. sheriff touted reforms in a troubled system. Then a young FBI agent showed up

Marvin Gaye, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician photographed in Los Angeles.

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FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

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Elmer Pratt enroute to afternoon session in court at Hall of Justice.

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1990-06-22 - 'Holy Terror 'Manson tunnel LAPD crime scene photo. The railroad tunnel in which Ronald Baker was found had spooky graffiti and a dark mystique, the kind of place Valley kids dared each other to walk through at night. People called it the Manson Tunnel-the cult leader and his disciples had lived nearby at the Spahn Movie Ranch-and someone had spray-painted HOLY TERROR over the entrance.
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(Original Caption) Convicted spy Christopher Boyce is led by federal marshals at Burbank airport upon his arrival from Springfield, Massachusetts, for arraignment on charges related to his escape from Lompoc federal prison in January 1980.

How a pair of Palos Verdes altar boys grew up to be Soviet spies

Boster, Mark -- - LOS ANGELES,CA.,JUNE 9, 2009: Veteran LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus,49, appears at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles for her arraignment on murder charges June 9, 2009. Lazarus is charged with the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times)

It took LAPD 23 years to identify one of their own as the culprit in this fatal love triangle

Los Angeles, CA - May 29, 1986 : Richard W. Miller (center) with his defense attorney (right) watch as the jury arrives to the Little League Park location as part of the espionage retrial. The park is located at Ohio Ave, and Sepulveda Blvd. May of 1986. ( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times )

Charged with selling state secrets to the Soviets, a bumbling FBI agent had a novel defense

(Original Caption) Only a few hours of life remaining. San Quentin, California: Pictured as she entered the San Quentin Prison gates today is Barbara Graham, 31, mother of three, who is doomed to die in the gas chamber at 10:00 am tomorrow for the 1953 murder of Mrs. Mabel Monohan, 62, of Burbank, California. A car brought her to San Quentin from the Corona, California prison. Two men convicted with her, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins, will be executed a few hours later in the same gas chamber.

Convicting ‘gun moll’ Barbara Graham was a famous win for L.A. prosecutors. Did they cheat?

A 1988 photo of then Glendale, CA Fire Dept. arson investigator John Orr.

He was both fire captain and prolific arsonist. His novel put him in prison

Oct. 1910: The bombed out Los Angeles Times building with poster announcing temporary locations of Times departments. On the back of this photo was written: Following the bombing, the newspaper moved its offices to a branch at 531 S. Spring St. A rival paper offered its presses to that the paper could be printed. In a box on the front page of the Times on Saturday morning Oct. 1, 1910, Harry Andrews, Managing Editor of the the Times wrote: They can kill on men and can wreck out building, but by the God above they cannot kill the Times.

Before Scopes, Clarence Darrow fought another battle. He was accused of bribing a jury

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