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By CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump delivered a likely death blow to bipartisan congressional budget negotiations, rejecting the measure as full of giveaways to Democrats after billionaire ally Elon Musk whipped up outrage toward the bill and cheered on Republican lawmakers who announced their opposition.Trump’s joint statement Wednesday with Vice President-elect JD Vance stopped the bill in its tracks and punctuated a torrent of social media posts by Musk attacking the legislation for what he described as excessive spending.“Stop the steal of your tax dollars!” Musk wrote on his social media platform X as he dangled primary challenges against…
LOS ANGELES — DJ Harvey found out like everybody else, even though he was closer than most anyone with Kamari Ramsey.For days, even after Harvey had announced his decision to transfer from San Jose State to USC, the cornerback had been giving Ramsey his space to figure out his own future. The two had been tight “ever since the sandbox,” as Harvey put it in a conversation with the Southern California News Group: Ramsey’s parents are Harvey’s godparents, and the two played three years of football together at Sierra Canyon High.Playing with Ramsey, Harvey said, was like playing with family.Any…
“Swift swings” takes a quick peek at one economic trend.The number: California homebuying in November took its biggest one-year leap since June 2021.The source: My trusty spreadsheet looked at the California Association of Realtors’ latest home sales report.The curveSales of existing, single-family detached homes ran at a 267,800 annual statewide pace for the month, up 19.5% from November 2023.But there’s a catch to this jump. November 2023 was the slowest selling month in 17 years.California home sales — mired in affordability woes chasing off many house hunters — remain well below the pre-pandemic 400,000-a-year buying pace.DetailsPrices remain stubbornly high. November’s…
Proposition 36, the ballot measure that among other things toughens penalties for theft and other criminal offenses and which won widespread approval from California voters last month, officially went into effect this week — with supporters hoping it will lead to less crime and opponents fearing a swell in incarceration.In November, the proposition proved popular — California voters in every county approved the ballot measure with its provisions to reclassify some drug offenses and repeated thefts as felonies, alongside other reforms. It went into effect Wednesday.The measure walks back some aspects of Proposition 47, which voters approved in 2014. Proposition…
By JOHN HANNA, Associated PressTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas official who is an informal adviser to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on immigration issues doesn’t expect mass deportations to prompt arrests of migrants at sensitive locations such as schools and churches.But Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach does expect Trump to take action that will spark a legal challenge over the citizenship status of children born in the U.S. to immigrants living in the country illegally. He also expects Trump to encourage local and state law enforcement officers to help with efforts to arrest and detain migrants.Kobach has for two…
By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports WriterMarcus Freeman spent his first two seasons as the Notre Dame coach chasing the playoff dream.This year, he’s living it – at home.After closing the regular season on a 10-game winning streak and getting two weeks to prepare for the most meaningful postseason game of his career, Freeman is finally ready to lead the seventh-seeded Fighting Irish against 10th-seeded Indiana on Friday on what is expected to be a frigid night in South Bend, Indiana.“We’ve been in the playoffs since Week 3,” Freeman said, alluding to their postseason hopes following the stunning loss to Northern…
By THALIA BEATY, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations in a blog post on Wednesday, bringing the total she’s given away since 2019 to $19.2 billion. She also revealed new information about how she was managing her wealth, saying she had directed advisors to invest her funds into “mission-aligned ventures.” Most of the grants she made in 2024, she said, went to bolstering economic security and opportunities. “I’ve asked the investment team helping me manage the assets I’m working to give away to source funds and companies focused…
An investigation was continuing Thursday into the death of a cruise ship passenger who allegedly became belligerent, chased other passengers and was detained by crew members with zip ties shortly after the ship left the Port of Los Angeles bound for Ensenada, Mexico.The man was detained by crew members aboard the Royal Caribbean ship last Friday. Cell phone video shot by another passenger and aired on various TV news stations shows the man in a hallway leaning against a cabin door and repeatedly kicking it, while crew members try to calm him.The video later shows the man on the ground…
By THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated PressIn the first major flex of his influence since Donald Trump was elected, Elon Musk brought to a sudden halt a bipartisan budget proposal by posting constantly on his X megaphone and threatening Republicans with primary challenges.The social media warnings from the world’s wealthiest man preceded Trump’s condemnation of a measure negotiated by GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, which effectively killed the stopgap measure that was designed to prevent a partial shutdown of the federal government.Washington was scrambled a day after Musk’s public pressure campaign. Trump on Thursday declined to say if he had confidence in…
LOS ANGELES — Early in the season, Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner seemed to be struggling. Or, at least by the standards that he set in his first two seasons, after each of which he was named a first-team All-Pro. He gave up a career-high 97 passing yards on six targets in Week 2, and teams continued to test him.But in his last two games, Gardner has returned to form, holding receivers to three catches on 11 targets, including a 1-for-6 performance in a Week 15 win over Jacksonville.That’s the Gardner the Rams (8-6) will face Sunday for the first time…