The murals, one of which featured a “Defund Pomona Police” protest sign, decorated Gente Organizada’s youth center.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, who has repeatedly decried the deployment, celebrated what she called the retreat of the federalized troops. At a press conference Tuesday evening, Bass said the troops were ...

But after the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, numerous cities were seeing far more street homelessness than ever before. With too many humanitarian crises on officials’ minds, homelessness fell on ...