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California Republicans Retreat as Anti-Prop 50 Campaign Collapses

California Republicans are retreating from their campaign to defeat Proposition 50, a Democratic-backed ballot initiative that would redraw the state’s congressional districts, Politico reports. With just a week before Election Day, the GOP opposition has nearly vanished amid dwindling funds and low morale. Major donor Charles Munger Jr. has halted...

Trump Officials in Charge of Food Aid Leave Their Posts

WASHINGTON — Two Trump administration officials in charge of food aid are leaving their posts amid the government shutdown as the program that funds food stamps is set to lapse. James Miller, the administrator of the Agriculture Department’s Food and Nutrition Service, and Babs Hough, a senior policy adviser there,...

Paramount to Lay Off 2,000 Employees

Paramount on Wednesday began laying off more than 2,000 employees, a long-awaited consequence of its merger with the Hollywood studio Skydance. The cuts, announced internally by David Ellison, Paramount’s CEO, will initially include roughly 1,000 employees in the United States across many divisions, including CBS News, the Paramount film studio...

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