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Six former Mountain View School District students molested by a teacher won their lawsuit against the district and their ex teacher and were awarded $48 million by a jury on Monday, April 14. The district will have to pay $36.2 million of the $48 million while the rest will come from ex-teacher, Joseph Alfred Baldenebro, according to the ex-students’ lawyers. Baldenebro is in prison for committing lewd acts on students. “Justice finally came for these six survivors,” Michael Carillo, attorney for the victims, said Tuesday. “Mountain View School District fought them for so many years without accepting any responsibility for…
By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision. The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast and economical. But Republican lawmakers and commercial tax preparation companies complained it was a waste of taxpayer money because free filing programs already exist, although they are hard to use. The program had been in limbo since the start of the Trump administration as Elon…
The point of gig work is independence. You set your own hours. It can be a full-time job, or part-time to pay for unexpected bills. It also means avoiding the rigid structure and rules of jobs controlled by union membership and collective bargaining agreements. Such stifling regulations could strike under Assembly Bill 1340, by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, called the Transportation Network Company Drivers Labor Relations Act. The TNC companies affected are Uber and Lyft. The bill says gig “drivers have the right to form, join, and participate” in a union “for the purpose of collective bargaining.” The bill tasks…
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve can stay patient and wait to see how tariffs and other economic policies of the Trump administration play out before making any changes to interest rates, Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday. “For the time being, we are well positioned to wait for greater clarity” on the impact of policy changes in areas such as immigration, taxation, regulation, and tariffs, Powell said. The sharp volatility in financial markets since President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs April 2, only to put most of them on hold a week later, has led to speculation…
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATTHEW BROWN WASHINGTON (AP) — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen arrived in El Salvador Wednesday to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation. Van Hollen, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a video posted to X before he boarded his flight that he hopes to meet with Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland. He said he also hopes to meet with high-level officials to press for…
LOS ANGELES — The UCLA athletics staff piled into Yates Gym on Monday morning, pom poms in hand. The group assembled for a thunderous 8-clap as a sendoff for the Bruins gymnastics team as it prepares for the NCAA championships. The team huddled afterward for a chant even more powerful. At the end of it all, a singular voice shouted: “Who’s winning nationals?” “BRUINS,” the team shouted in reply. @haleymsawyer The UCLA athletics staff came to gymnastics practice on Monday to send the team off to the NCAA championships with an eight clap. #sportsreporter #journalism #reporter #sports #gymnastics #ucla ♬…
By JEFF AMY ACWORTH, Ga. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene came to a town hall in suburban Atlanta on Tuesday night to deliver full-throated support of President Donald Trump, and she wasn’t letting the protesters faze her — not even the one who was wrestled to the ground by police and subdued with a Taser. Three people were arrested at the event — including a second person police said they also shocked — and others were escorted out because Greene and police said they were being disruptive. But a majority of the crowd of more than 150 was…
By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, AP Education Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research grants for Harvard University, which is pushing back on demands for changes to campus policy. The feud between the Republican administration and the nation’s wealthiest college will be closely watched across higher education as the White House uses federal funding as leverage to pursue compliance with its political agenda. But the impact will be felt most immediately by researchers at the Ivy League school and its partner institutions. While some have cheered…
By MICHAEL PHILLIS, Associated Press A federal judge says some nonprofits awarded billions for a so-called green bank to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects cannot have their contracts scrapped and must have access to some of the frozen money. The ruling is a defeat for President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, which argues the program is rife with financial mismanagement. The order late Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan “gives us a chance to breathe after the EPA unlawfully — and without due process — terminated our awards and blocked access to funds that were appropriated by Congress…
There’s so much wrong with the Trump administration’s deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran super-max prison that it’s hard to know where to begin. But we should start with basic human decency. Immigration and Customs Enforcement admits in a sworn statement that it deported the Maryland man because of an error — yet the administration refuses to return him home. If the government makes a heinous error, it should take every measure to right the wrong. Abrego Garcia entered the country illegally in 2011, but a judge withheld his deportation to El Salvador based on evidence that…