The New York Post is reporting that the Trump administration is preparing preliminary contingency plans for a potential attack on Iran, including the possibility of large-scale airstrikes. According to insiders who spoke with the Wall Street Journal, U.S. officials are discussing how to respond to President Trump’s recent escalation in...
Judge Bars Trump From Withholding Election Funds to States
WASHINGTON — A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Friday from enforcing part of an executive order directing the government to withhold federal election funds to states that do not alter their voting procedures in line with the president’s demands. Judge John H. Chun, of the U.S. District Court...
Iran Authorities Signal Intensified Crackdown As Unrest Grows
DUBAI, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iran's authorities indicated on Saturday they could intensify their crackdown on the biggest anti-government demonstrations in years, with the Revolutionary Guards blaming unrest on terrorists and vowing to safeguard the governing system. A day after U.S. President Donald Trump issued a new warning that the...
Mamdani Condemns Slurs and Pro-Hamas Chant at Heated Queens Protest
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the language used at a protest outside a synagogue in Queens on Thursday night, when pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanted in support of Hamas and pro-Israel demonstrators shouted racial and homophobic slurs. Asked by reporters on Friday to respond to the protest, which included chants...
Lawmaker Targets Repeat Drunk Drivers in Push to Fix Problems Exposed by CalMatters
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A coalition of lawmakers is planning a series of bills this Legislative session to fundamentally revamp how California handles dangerous drivers, Assemblymember Nick Schultz of Burbank said this week. Schultz, a Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s Public Safety...
Invasive Critters ‘Musseling’ Into Valley Waterways as Managers Struggle to Stop Spread
The dreaded, destructive golden mussel has become an urgent topic among San Joaquin Valley water agencies prompting near daily meetings on how to combat the tiny mollusk that is clogging pipes and equipment from Stockton to Arvin. “We’re going to be dealing with this for the foreseeable future if not...
Newsom’s Budget Shows Big Revenue Gain, but We’ve Been Down That Path Before
This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. When Gov. Gavin Newsom declared Friday that the state will likely receive an extra $42.3 billion in tax revenue over the next three years, thus alleviating a stubborn budget deficit, the inimitable Yogi Berra’s famous observation came to...
Agents in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Have Fired at Vehicles at Least 10 Times
Maryland. Chicago. Phoenix. Los Angeles. Minneapolis. And now Portland, Oregon. A day after a federal immigration agent shot and killed a woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis, federal agents in Portland on Thursday afternoon shot a man and a woman in their car during a “vehicle stop.” The Department of...
Google Guys Say Bye to California
For nearly three decades, Google has been steeped in the lore of Silicon Valley. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University graduate students, created the search engine in 1998 and built the startup out of a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California. Over time, Google became a nearly $4...
After Machado Offers Her Nobel, Trump Says It Would Be ‘Honor’ to Accept It
President Donald Trump indicated Thursday evening that he will meet with María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, next week in Washington, after refusing to support her to lead the country following the U.S. seizure of Nicolás Maduro. Machado has tried to ingratiate herself to Trump and earlier this week offered...