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CORRECTS SECOND AND THIRD SENTENCES - In this image taken Tuesday, June 16, 2020, and released by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, a Russian Tu-95 bomber, top, is intercepted by a U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter off the coast of Alaska. Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers have flown near Alaska on a mission demonstrating the military's long-range strike capability. The Russian Defense Ministry said that four Tu-95 bombers have flown over the Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea and the Northern Pacific during an 11-hour mission. The ministry said the bombers were escorted by U.S. F-22 fighters during part of their patrol. (North American Aerospace Defense Command via AP)

Russia’s nuclear threat explained

President Vladimir Putin conjured up the specter of nuclear war during the last week’s fierce fighting in Ukraine, instructing Russia’s military to place nuclear forces on “high combat alert,” a...
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIF. -- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2019: Pedro Luis Perez, 27, center, of Guatemala, with Katherine Hernandez, 24, left, of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, a transgender woman, and Perla, a 28-year-old Mexican from Guerrero, have breakfast at the Casa de Luz collective housing in Tijuana, Baja Calif., on Oct. 8, 2019. Pedro had to leave Guatemala after his dad tried to kill him and he faced multiple other assaults from police and the public. Many in the community are seeking political asylum for having received threats in their home countries for their sexual orientation. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Vulnerable LGBTQ migrants left to wait in Mexico

TIJUANA, MEXICO — Pedro Luis Perez arrived at the northern Mexico border in early 2019 looking for safety and asylum in the United States, but instead he spent about 10 months waiting...
Anti-Trump protesters argue with Trump ers outside the makeshift memorial to the victims of the WalMart shooting that left a total of 22 people dead, in El Paso, Texas, on August 7, 2019. - President Donald Trump consoled victims of a mass shooting in Ohio on Wednesday but protesters and opponents denounced what they say is his extremist rhetoric on race and immigration. The president's trip to Dayton, where nine people were gunned down over the weekend, was to be followed immediately after by a stop in the border city of El Paso, Texas, where 22 were murdered. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP) (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump ers come to his defense at El Paso memorial

EL PASO — The crowd gathered at a memorial Wednesday near the El Paso Walmart where a gunman killed 22 people was overwhelmingly anti-Trump. The president was visiting the city, and some...
HAMPTON, VA., JUNE 6, 2019?Dr. Chrstine Darden became one of NASA?s human computers in 1967 and worked there for 40 years, becoming a leader of the group working on sonic boom minimization. She was featured in the book, Hidden Figures. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

The women who helped put men on the moon

HOUSTON — The Civil Rights Act had just ed and the slide rule was giving way to computers when s “Poppy” Northcutt arrived at NASA’s Houston campus in 1965, eager to ...