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Authorities in Los Angeles on Tuesday touted the results of a statewide crackdown on human trafficking, announcing the arrests of more than 600 suspects and saying more than 170 victims were rescued as part of the operation. “This is a multibillion-dollar industry,” said Los Angeles County Dist. In addition, 14 children were rescued from sex trafficking. “We have traffickers that are putting barely teenage girls out there on the streets of Los Angeles to be victimized,” he said. Hochman also criticized current state sex trafficking laws, which don’t consider incidents involving adults as serious, violent felonies, he said.

The newspaper’s books department will be closed, the Associated Press reported, and its Washington-area news department and editing staff will be restructured. The Washington Post Guild, the union for staff members, said roughly 400 people have lost their jobs in the last three years. Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein famously broke the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, contributing to President Nixon’s resignation. The Washington Post Guild had appealed to the public to send a message to Bezos: “Enough is enough. Without the staff of The Washington Post, there is no Washington Post.”

Which is to say: The Washington Post feels like a part of my family’s DNA, imprinted on our earliest memories, memorialized among clippings of our hair and other, more traditional, recollections (first diaper blowout, first word). The Post journalists I know have shown a genuine willingness—even an eagerness—to evolve, a spirit of creativity and innovation at a time of transformation in the media. George Packer: The Washington Post is dying a death of despairNearly all media outlets are struggling to reinvent themselves. “There’s sort of an Avis mentality at the Post: ‘We try harder,’” Mike Semel, a longtime Post editor who now works at The Athletic, told me. Andrew Golden, who covers the Washington Nationals for the paper, met and fell in love with his now-wife at the Post.

As a child, Korey spent almost as much time at the Broomstones Curling Club in tiny Wayland, Mass., as he did at home. Those games, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, also marked the only time the U.S. has climbed to the top of the podium in Olympic curling. Skip Tabitha Peterson, 36, has competed in eight world championships and two previous Winter Olympics, though she has never won a major international competition. U.S. skip Tabitha Peterson competes against Canada at the World Women’s Curling Championship in Uijeongbu, South Korea, on March 18. The U.S. has never medaled in women’s curling at the Winter Games, finishing fourth in 2002 and 2006.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGFORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course in 2024 was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. AdvertisementProsecutors had asked for life without parole, saying Routh is unrepentant and has never apologized. A defense attorney brought in for his sentencing asked for 27 years, noting that Routh is already turning 60. At Routh’s trial, a Secret Service agent helping protect Trump on the golf course testified that he spotted Routh before Trump came into view. Routh had multiple previous felony convictions including possession of stolen goods, and a large online footprint demonstrating his disdain for Trump.

A teen-aged girl was killed and a woman was in grave condition this morning after a fire ripped through a home in Hollywood. A teenage girl is dead and her grandmother in grave condition after a fire burned through a home in Hollywood, according to authorities. Cody Weireter told KTTV. Both were pronounced dead at the scene but paramedics were able to revive the elderly woman on the way to the hospital, Weireter told reporters. She was listed in grave condition.

USC guard Alijah Arenas celebrates after hitting a three pointer against Indiana Tuesday at the Galen Center. After USC leading scorer Chad Baker-Mazara went down early in the second half with what appeared to be a knee injury, freshman Alijah Arenas knew what he needed to do. USC’s game against Indiana (15-8, 6-6 Big Ten) Tuesday night at the Galen Center was close early. After leaving the game, Baker-Mazara returned to the Trojans’ bench with ice on his knee and crutches. “We felt if they shot 29% or below from 3, we would win the game,” Musselman said.

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AdvertisementCalifornia LAPD investigation continues into fatal New Year’s Eve shooting by off-duty ICE agent Federal officials have said the ICE agent was responding to an “active shooter situation” at his apartment complex. A Los Angeles police official said it was “too early to tell” if the man killed was firing a gun into the air on New Year’s Eve. Stacie Halpern, an attorney for the ICE agent, has said there is evidence that Porter shot first. Hours before the news conference, numerous speakers showed up to the commission’s meeting to demand that the federal agent responsible be arrested. California ICE agent who killed L.A. man accused of child abuse, racism in court filings The off-duty federal immigration agent who shot and killed a Los Angeles man on New Year’s Eve was previously accused of child abuse and making racist remarks about Black people and immigrants, court records show.

Netflix Inc. Co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos pledged to maintain a 45-day theatrical window for Warner Bros. films during a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday. He pointed to Netflix’s lack of comparable film and TV studios, or the distribution infrastructure that Warner Bros. has. The hearing comes just two months after Netflix prevailed in a hotly contested bidding war for Warner Bros. But Paramount has continued to pursue the company, fighting to acquire all of Warner Bros. Paramount has also filed proxy materials to ask Warner shareholders to reject the Netflix deal at an upcoming shareholders meeting.

But Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pennsylvania) and Tom Suozzi (D-New York), co-chairs of the Problem Solvers Caucus, argue that the affordability agenda will show their colleagues that reducing costs should be Congress’s top priority. Ask The Post AIDive deeperA New York Times-Siena poll conducted in January found voters ranked the economy as the nation’s top problem. Another January poll from Fox News found voters believe the economy and inflation should be Trump’s top priorities. Democrats, too, have argued that they would bring down the cost of living if they were given the reins in Washington from health care to housing and taxes. “There’s a lot to unpack there, but I think one thing we can all agree on … when you turn something like health care into a profit motivated business, it doesn’t work,” he said.

Twins VideoThere is still much we don’t know about the specific events that led to the Twins and Derek Falvey parting ways. One thing we do know, though, is that Falvey was set up to fail in three key ways. The Correa SigningThe first way in which ownership misled Falvey was Joe Pohlad’s green-lighting of Carlos Correa’s second signing. In short, the Pohlads forced Falvey to immediately thread a needle if he wanted to succeed. Ownership Communication and Decision-MakingThe second way the Pohlads made Falvey’s job harder is through their public-facing ineptitude.

President Donald Trump will sit with NBC’s Tom Llamas for an interview which will air in part during the net’s Super Bowl LX pregame coverage on Sunday afternoon, according to Brian Stelter of CNN. He did tape an interview with Fox’ Bret Baier last year when the game was on Fox. Agreeing to the NBC interview, part of which also will air on “NBC Nightly News,” provides Trump an opportunity “to reach beyond his regular audience” (CNN.com, 2/3). NBC has “not announced when exactly the Trump interview will air” during the five-plus hour pregame show. One question to consider is whether Trump will “insist, as he has with CBS News, that the interview air unedited.” That would seem to be “impossible, given the time constraints and tight choreography of a Super Bowl pregame show” (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 2/4).

ETPresident Donald Trump criticized CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins for "not smiling" after she raised a question about the files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "You are the worst reporter," Trump told Collins during an exchange in the Oval Office on Feb. 3. The tense interaction began when Collins asked the president about redactions in the Epstein files. Similarly, when a journalist asked Trump about the Epstein files aboard Air Force One in November 2025, the president pointed at her as he said: "Quiet! CNN colleagues defend Kaitlan CollinsOn X, several of Collins' CNN colleagues came to her defense after the exchange.