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Newsom’s ‘Golden State Start’ promises 400 free diapers per baby as California grapples with budget woes

Gov. Gavin Newsom announces Golden State Start, a new California program offering 400 free diapers to every family with a newborn starting this summer.

Hochul’s state-budget game-playing is getting ever less effective

For the third straight year, Hochul announced an "agreement in principle" on core issues...

Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50 gambit comes back to haunt California

Gavin Newsom spent hundreds of millions of dollars that California doesn't have when he...

Angelenos have been taxed enough — but the county wants more

Every year, Angelenos are reminded of what it means to pay their share. We...

Sacramento created California’s doctor shortage — here’s how to fix it

California leads the nation in doctor shortages. A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of federal...

Homan says he’s ‘sure’ ICE officers detain US citizens: ‘But we don’t deport them’

White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday he's "sure" Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have detained U.S. citizens, "but we don't deport them." Homan told reporters outside the White House that U.S. citizens have "nothing to fear." "We deport people that are going to be deportable," he continued. "We arrest people that will...

Newsom launches California program to provide free diapers to newborns in state

California will become the first state to provide free diapers to newborns starting this summer under a new program Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Friday.  Under the “Golden State Start” initiative, every newborn in the state will receive 400 diapers when they are discharged from participating hospitals. “The big problem defined universally in our city,...

Shell-shocked Democrats scramble after Virginia redistricting whiplash

Shell-shocked Democrats are scrambling to pick up the pieces after the Virginia Supreme Court quashed a new map designed to help them seize control of the House in November’s midterms. The decision immediately eliminates four House seats that were expected to flip to the Democrats’ side in the Old Dominion. And it constitutes an enormous...

Trump announces 3-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine

President Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day ceasefire over the weekend, which includes a prisoner swap. The ceasefire will last from May 9-11, Trump wrote on Truth Social. The pause in fighting is for Russia’s Victory Day celebrations. “The Celebration in Russia is for Victory Day but, likewise, in...

Rogan: UFO file dump could be distraction from Iran war that’s ‘not going very well’ 

Podcaster Joe Rogan questioned GOP Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.) about the motives behind the Trump administration’s decision to release new government files about UFOs amid the Iran war. The Pentagon released a trove of UFO-related files on Friday, after President Trump directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to do so. Burchett and Republican Rep. Anna Paulina...

Judge schedules criminal trial for James Comey for July 15 

A federal judge on Friday set a July 15 trial date for former FBI Director James Comey on his new criminal charges of threatening President Trump. U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan, who will oversee the trial, also agreed that Comey doesn’t have to make the trek to her North Carolina courtroom on Monday to formally...

Louisiana urges Supreme Court to uphold order blocking mailing of abortion pill

Louisiana officials in a court filing urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order from a lower court that blocks women nationwide from obtaining a widely used abortion medication through the mail.  The Trump administration, trying to straddle the line on abortion, was silent. Last week, Justice Samuel Alito temporarily paused an order from the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals...

Don’t forget our hostages: Trump must prioritize their release in Iran talks

The Trump administration must make the release of American hostages in Iran a publicly stated condition of any negotiated agreement, and ensure that Iran never again uses the detention of U.S. nationals as a bargaining chip.

$1.5 trillion for the Pentagon is not a defense budget: It’s a war budget

Increased military spending is no longer a matter of technical budgetary judgment; it is a driver of human suffering.

Greene says UFO files release ‘shiny object propaganda’ as ‘they wage foreign wars’

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday called the Pentagon's release of documents related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) and UFOs "shiny object propaganda" as the Trump administration wages "foreign wars." The Pentagon released 162 files earlier Friday morning amid President Trump's push for greater transparency on the issue. The Defense Department shared a...

Watch live: Trump gives remarks from Rose Garden

President Trump will give remarks Friday afternoon from the White House Rose Garden. Trump will welcome "Gold Star" and "Angel" moms — or those whose children were killed while serving in the U.S. military or at the hands of people in the country illegally — for a luncheon ahead of the Mother's Day holiday. The...

Trump says ceasefire still intact after fire exchanged

President Trump signaled late Thursday that the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement is still in play, despite a fresh exchange of fire between the two sides in the Strait of Hormuz. “​If there’s no ceasefire​, you’re not going to have to know. You’re just going to have to look at one ​big glow​ coming out of Iran​,"...

Pentagon releases new batch of UFO files

The Pentagon on Friday released a new tranche of files focused on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), or UFOs, as part of the Trump administration's vow to be transparent on the issue. President Trump ordered the Defense Department to identify and release documents given the public's interest in UFOs and on extraterrestrial life. "The American people...

US added 115K jobs in April, beating expectations

The U.S. economy added 115,000 new jobs in April, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department, beating the expectations of economists. The jobless rate held firm at 4.3 percent last month. Economists expected the U.S. to have added roughly 67,000 jobs in April, according to consensus estimates. The April jobs numbers may be...

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