During a day of protests and violence in Los Angeles, dozens of people were arrested on Sunday and charged with various offences, including attempted murder and arson. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, California Highway Patrol, and Los Angeles Police Department made 42 arrests in total, the LAPD reported early Monday. Among the alleged offences…
President Trump declared Monday that if he were border czar Tom Homan, he would arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom — following anti-ICE riots that swept through Los Angeles. Trump joked that Newsom’s “primary crime is running for governor since he’s done such a bad job,” saying, “I would do it, if I were Tom,” after…
Federal student aid is essential to many students’ and their families’ ability to attend college. However, the fiscal year 2026 budget proposal from the Trump administration proposes drastic cuts to funding for higher education, including a reduction in the maximum federal Pell Grant award from $7,395 to $5,710 annually and a reduction in the federal…
Amid growing tension over the president’s intensifying immigration enforcement effort, President Trump’s new travel ban for citizens of 12 countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East, went into effect Monday. Citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen are covered by the new…
In an effort to strengthen the city’s campaign against antisemitism, Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order on Sunday that adopted the definition of antisemitism provided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. In order to make the IHRA definition official law, he also proposed legislation pleading with the City Council to accept it. Many Jewish…
As he manages a continuing power struggle with the federal government and supervises clashes between law enforcement officers and protesters in response to immigration raids throughout Los Angeles, California Governor Gavin Newsom resisted threats of arrest from Trump administration officials. Despite criticism from Democratic leaders who have warned that immigration operations and the presence of…
Governor Kathy Hochul of New York urged Senate Republicans to oppose the “big beautiful bill” that was passed by the House on Friday, citing worries that it may negatively affect the most vulnerable Americans through cuts and modifications to programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the biggest nutrition assistance program in…
According to a number of senators on Thursday, Republicans are considering measures to reduce “waste, fraud, and abuse” in Medicare in order to finance their expansive bill for President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda. They added that the pursuit has been approved by President Donald Trump. “I think anything that can be — that’s waste, fraud…
After Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy claimed that a California high-speed rail project had broken several conditions of its federal grant agreements, the project’s existence is in jeopardy. The California High-Speed Rail Authority “has no viable path to complete this project on time or on budget,” according to a statement released by the agency on Wednesday….
When the House discusses a bill to realign legal marijuana oversight in Massachusetts on Wednesday, potency limitations, allocating tax income for special education, public health research, and advertising restrictions will all be discussed. Representatives submitted forty-five modifications to a bill that passed both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Cannabis Policy Committee last…
