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Gov. Gavin Newsom, former Vice President Kamala Harris and a slew of other national and California Democrats on Saturday rallied supporters to stay fired up in seeking passage of a ballot measure to redraw the stateβs congressional districts ahead of the midterm elections. While polling suggests Proposition 50 is likely to pass Tuesday, volunteers must…
The crew had just poured a concrete foundation on a vacant lot in Altadena when I pulled up the other day. Two workers were loading equipment onto trucks and a third was hosing the fresh cement that will sit under a new house. I asked how things were going, and if there were any problems…
The Lakers are still searching for an identity after 31 games, a task complicated by injuries that have depleted their rotation for much of the season. Theyβre lacking a defensive personality. They havenβt been a physical team, an overly athletic team or a fast team. The Lakers got a close look at a team that…
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has written to the UK’s human rights watchdog asking for an investigation into the government’s plan to postpone some local elections next year. In a letter to the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, Sir Ed said that nearly ten million people could see their democratic rights “ripped away”. It…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ The Trump administration is initiating a leadership shakeup at a dozen or so offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to bring more aggressive enforcement operations across the U.S. Some of the outgoing field office directors at ICE are anticipated to be replaced with leaders from Customs and Border Protection, according to news reports. Among the…
Almost 200,000 students who were at university during the COVID-19 pandemic are seeking financial compensation. The Student Group Claim argues that students at the start of the pandemic did not have access to the tutoring and services they paid for, as teaching was moved online. The action first started in 2023 when 100,000 students signed…
Perched in the hills outside Rome sits the Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the centuries-old lakeside summer home for popes, which is also home to the Vatican Observatory, established in 1891 to help bridge the chasm between religion and science. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with scientists and students for whom the Church’s observations of the heavens…
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy is expected to be grilled in the Commons today after an asylum seeker sex offender was mistakenly released from prison. Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead…
Elon Musk is planning to launch a new payments platform, called XMoney, in beta form to select users in April. InΒ announcingΒ a planned partnership between XMoney and Visa more than a year ago, then X CEO Linda Yaccarino referred to the platform as a so-called “Everything App” β a reference to the kind of all-in-one digital…
During a volleyball tournament trip to Las Vegas in March, Chatsworth coach Sina Aghassy confiscated all his playersβ cellphones and put them in his backpack to make sure they focused on their sports assignment β with one exception. Anyone waiting to learn if they were accepted to a college could briefly have access to their…
