Protesters in custody after Columbia calls in NYPD
NEW YORK — Officers took protesters into custody late Tuesday after Columbia University called in police to end the pro-Palestinian occupation on the New York campus.…
Donald Trump was held in contempt. Could he go to jail?
Judge Juan M. Merchan has, in his soft-spoken but hard-nosed way, told Donald Trump something no other court has over the course of his many…
Delaine Eastin, pioneering California politician, dies at 76
Delaine Eastin, a trailblazer who is among a handful of women ever elected to statewide office in California, has died after suffering a stroke, according…
This ain’t N.Y. and other reasons Harvey Weinstein won’t win in California court
Hello and happy Tuesday. There are 188 days left until the election and I feel compelled to start this newsletter with a public service announcement:…
RFK Jr. says he’s qualified for California presidential ballot
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he has qualified for California’s presidential election ballot, giving his third-party candidacy a long shot chance at collecting…
The dream of East L.A. as its own city rises again
1931. 1933. 1961. 1963. 1975. 2012. Those years were on the lips of the 130-plus people who crammed into the cavernous East Los Tacos on…
Nuclear waste storage could roil Nevada U.S. Senate race
More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, near an idyllic beach…
Judge orders Trump to pay $9,000 for violating gag order
NEW YORK — Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making…
Climate change is a star in some of Hollywood’s most popular movies
I never saw the 2017 film “Justice League.” But if I had, I would have been treated to a scene in which Batman (Ben Affleck)…
Antonio Villaraigosa joins cryptocurrency firm Coinbase as paid adviser
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa doesn’t own any cryptocurrency — at least, not yet. But he’s about to become a player in the industry’s…
Closing California prisons should be the easiest budget cut
California is facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit that will require lawmakers and the governor to make painful decisions. Nobody wants less funding for their child’s…
Will AI deepfakes and robocalls upset the 2024 election?
In the analog days of the 1970s, long before hackers, trolls and edgelords, an audiocassette company came up with an advertising slogan that posed a…
April 30 deadline looms for student loan forgiveness
Californians who obtained federally backed student loans from private banks can have some or all of their remaining debt forgiven by the Biden administration, but…
Trump, DeSantis meet to make peace, talk fundraising for Trump
NEW YORK — Former President Trump met privately with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the weekend, according to three people familiar with the discussion, marking a…
W. Virginia and North Carolina’s transgender care policies discriminate, judges rule
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain healthcare for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled…
Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador discuss migration
WASHINGTON — President Biden spoke with his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, about cooperating on migration policy as the U.S. leader continues to deliberate whether…
Column: Biden’s big campaign promises come with a warning label
WASHINGTON — For two weeks, former President Trump has been cooped up in a Manhattan courtroom on charges that he falsified records to conceal payments to…
California weighs regulations on herbal substance kratom
It comes in greenish powders, capsules and extracts, and is readily found in smoke shops and online. Some say they use it for an energy…
Column: We’re wiping out the Southern California steelhead trout. Time to fix that
SACRAMENTO — The state Fish and Game Commission recently declared the Southern California steelhead trout an endangered species. You think? These native beauties have been endangered…
Saying the stakes could not be higher, Newsom to speak at Vatican climate summit
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking his climate change advocacy overseas next month to the epicenter of Catholicism, where he was invited to speak at…