Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Treasury Watchdog Audits Musk DOGE Team’s Access to Payment System

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General on Friday said it was launching an audit of the security controls f...

Treasury Watchdog Audits Musk DOGE Team’s Access to Payment System

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General on Friday said it was launching an audit of the security controls f...

/ 3 weeks ago

Federal Workers Debate Legitimacy of Financial Incentives to Quit as Deadline Nears

WASHINGTON — Thousands of miles from Elon Musk’s office in the White House complex, a federal worker based in the Pacific Northwest is...

/ 1 month ago

What Is an Executive Order? A Look at Trump’s Tool for Quickly Reshaping Government

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is returning to the White House ready to immediately overhaul the government using the fastest tool he has — the e...

/ 2 months ago

Vivek Ramaswamy, an Ohio Native, Is Interested in Filling Vance’s Old Senate Seat, AP Source Says

CINCINNATI — Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has expressed interest in the Ohio U.S. Senate seat that was vacated b...

/ 2 months ago

Reparations Proposals for Black Californians Advance to State Assembly

SACRAMENTO — The California Senate advanced a set of ambitious reparations proposals Tuesday, including legislation that would create an age...

/ 10 months ago

California Passed a Law to Stop ‘Pay to Play’ in Local Politics. After Two Years, Legislators Want to Gut It

Described by its author as the “most significant political reform” in decades, a 2022 law designed to limit businesses’ and contractors’ att...

/ 10 months ago

Californians Will See Lower Electricity Rates and a New Fee That Won’t Vary with Power Use

State utility regulators decided Thursday to let California’s largest power providers stick their customers with a new monthly flat fee in e...

/ 10 months ago

California’s Budget Deficit is Likely Growing, Complicating Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Plans

SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Gavin Newsom will update his budget proposal on Friday, and the news likely won’t be good. Newsom, ...

/ 10 months ago

San Francisco Mayor Touts Possibilities After Voters Expand Police Powers, Gets Tough on Drug Users

■New measures will install cameras in high crime areas and deploy drones. ■Breed plans to bring 30,000 new residents and students downtown b...

/ 1 year ago

Charges Against Alleged White Supremacists Are Tossed by a California Judge for the Second Time

■Rise Above Movement members accused of conspiring to riot. ■Judge dismisses charges against Robert Rundo and Robert Boman. ■Prosecutors pla...

/ 1 year ago

4 hours ago

Fresno State Alum Davante Adams Returns to California, Signs with Rams

The aftermath of the Palisades fire, in Malibu, Calif., Jan. 17, 2025. Residents of parts of Los Angeles County on Sunday afternoon felt a minor earthquake centered west of Malibu, Calif. and preliminary estimates showed that the quake had a magnitude of 4.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
4 hours ago

Small Earthquake Rattles Southern California

A "Justice for HINU” sign rests at the base of a statue on the lawn at the entrance of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, Feb. 25, 2025. A group of Native American tribes and students is suing the Trump administration to reverse its recent firing of federal workers at Native schools that they said has severely lowered their quality of education. (Chase Castor/The New York Times)
5 hours ago

Tribes and Students Sue Trump Administration Over Firings at Native Schools

First responders work the scene after a plane crashed in the parking lot of a retirement community in Manheim Township, Pa., Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Logan Gehman/LNP/LancasterOnline via AP)
5 hours ago

A Single-Engine Plane Crashes Near a Pennsylvania Airport. All 5 Aboard Are Taken to Hospitals.

The White House in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. The Secret Service shot a man near the White House early Sunday around midnight on Saturday after an “armed confrontation” with law enforcement officers, the agency said in a statement. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
5 hours ago

Secret Service Shoots Armed Man Near the White House

Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Josh Sweat (19) reacts after sacking Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP/Matt Slocum)
5 hours ago

Super Bowl Stars Josh Sweat and Milton Williams Headline a List of NFL Free Agents

Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP File)
5 hours ago

ICE Arrests Palestinian Activist Who Helped Lead Columbia University Protests

Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidate Mark Carney delivers a speech as he's introduced during the Liberal leadership announcement in Ottawa, Ontario, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
5 hours ago

Ex-Central Banker Mark Carney to Become Canada’s Next Prime Minister

Play Video

Help continue the work that gets you the news that matters most.

Search