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Toronto, Canada-December 5, 2024- Pedestrians walk by Canada merchandise being sold in the city's Chinatown neighbourhood, one of the largest Chinatowns in North America. In a challenging post-COVID economy with skyrocketing housing costs, anti-immigration sentiment in Canada appears to be rising. (Laura Proctor / For the Times)

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Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency

DAMASCUS, Syria-Dec. 12, 2024--Inside the morgue of Damascus's Mujtahed Hospital, a man searches the dead for a missing relative. Five days after Damascus fell to rebel insurgents, people from all over the Syria have converged on the capital, scouring hospital morgues and penal facilities for the missing. (Ayman Oghanna/For The Times) .

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Los Angeles, CA - November 07: Claire Bernson and Andres Cortes sit inside his Cypress Park property on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / For the Times)

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As children’s book bans soar, sales are down and librarians are afraid. Even in California

Book bans are tanking sales of children’s books. Schools and libraries aren’t buying books about LGBTQ+ issues and race as they brace for culture war pushback.

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California

California lawmaker questioned in sprawling cannabis corruption investigation

Newly unsealed documents suggest that state Sen. Susan Rubio was involved in a cannabis bribery scheme when she served on the Baldwin Park City Council and campaigned for the Legislature in 2018.

Police officers stand near a body covered by a tarp outside of Feather River Adventist School after a shooting Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Oroville, Calif. (Michael Weber/The Chico Enterprise-Record via AP)

Suspect in Oroville school shooting sat in San Bernardino County jail weeks earlier but was released

Oak Hills, California-Dec. 12, 2024--San Bernardino Sheriff Deputies serve a search warrant at the 5000 block of Honeyhill Road in Oak Hills California and found 90,000 pounds of marijuana. (San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department)

Authorities raid 45-ton, $100-million marijuana stash in San Bernardino County

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World & Nation

Housing crisis, economic woes and Trump: How Canada turned against immigrants

Canada was long viewed as a beacon for immigrants. But record levels of migration here in recent years have triggered widespread backlash.

Trucks cross the International Bridge from Mexico into the United States, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Mexico cracks down on drugs and migrants. Will it be enough to stop Trump tariffs?

Anti government fighters stand on top of a Syrian army jet after they took over a military airbase near the central city of Hama, on December 6, 2024. Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's rule, their Islamist leader said in an interview published on December 6. In little over a week, the offensive has seen Syria's second city Aleppo and strategically located Hama fall from Assad's control for the first time since the civil war began in 2011. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP) (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel targets Syrian military bases and arsenals before new leaders can take them over

Syrian citizens wave the revolutionary flag and shout slogans as they celebrate during the second day of the take over of the city by the insurgents in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

In post-Assad Damascus, a mix of joy and trepidation

Participants tear a banner representing the flag of the ruling People Power Party during a rally to demand South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment in front of the headquarters of the ruling People Power Party, in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahnn Young-joon)

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Middle East latest: Israeli strikes in Gaza kill dozens, including kids, officials say
NATO chief warns that Putin wants long-term confrontation with Europe after Ukraine
Judge orders CIA analyst accused of Israel-Iran leak held pending trial
Ex-FBI informant accused of lying about Bidens agrees to plead guilty to federal charges