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LA Mayor Bass signs nearly $15 billion budget less than a week before election
The amount is an increase of $750 million - 5.3% - from the previous fiscal year’s adopted budget.
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Gov Landry announces a deal was reached between Louisiana and Exxon on coastal lawsuits
“This is huge for Louisiana, our Coast, and our environment! ExxonMobil has been in Louisiana for 115 years and we want them to be here for another 115 years!” Landry posted.
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No Kings movement plans national protests for Trump's 80th birthday next month
There have been three rounds of "No Kings" protests since the president took office last year, including a protest on his 79th birthday that coincided with the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C.
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Federal judge blocks Washington state law requiring clergy to report abuse learned in confession
Senate Bill 5375 makes members of the clergy – including ministers, priests, rabbis and others – mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.
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Newsom's office is skeptical as AG Bondi visits Alcatraz
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s staff expressed skepticism about reopening Alcatraz as a federal prison following Pam Bondi’s visit to the historic tourist attraction. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the idea "stupid."
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CA files lawsuit over $4B in cancelled high speed rail funds
“This is just a heartless attack on the Central Valley that will put real jobs and livelihoods on the line,” said California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a statement. “We’re suing to stop Trump from derailing America’s only high-speed rail actively under construction.”
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Report: 140 Californians a day flee to the land of no income tax – Washington
Experts are citing economic opportunities in Washington as the main driver. Susan Curran, director of the University of Washington' Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, expects the migration of Californians to Washington will continue at the current pace due to climate issues in California, which “will make portions of the state increasingly unlivable.”
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Appeals court reinstates 'cultural Marxism' lawsuit by silenced conservative professor
Bakersfield College history professor Daymon Johnson adequately alleged a "credible threat" of enforcement for criticizing DEI under California Education Code, 9th Circuit says.
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Third Biden witness invokes Fifth Amendment during House deposition
A statement from Comer’s office characterizes Tomasini’s and fellow witnesses who have pleaded the fifth as “a pattern of key Biden confidants seeking to shield themselves from criminal liability.”
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Illinois legislator slams $500k line item for closed college as ‘banner of incompetence’
Illinois legislators are raising concerns over a $500,000 budget item for Lincoln College, a private school that shut down in 2022. The earmark, added in a 2018 capital bill by then-state Sen. Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, was never funded but continues to appear in
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Man pleads guilty to sexual assault of female college classmate in 2013 after sending 'I raped you'
Ian Cleary will face a maximum possible sentence of four to eight years in prison when he is sentenced in October
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Five people charged in murder of UC Berkeley professor in Greece, including ex-wife
Przemyslaw Jeziorski, who taught quantitative marketing as a tenured associate professor at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, was killed on July 4 in Athens by an attacker who shot him in the chest and back
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CA Bill creating LA fire rebuilding agency on hold over backlash
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office repeated the Los Angeles Times’ description of the RRA as “a new local authority” that would “buy burned lots, rebuild homes and offer them back at discounted rates to the original owners.”