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By COLLIN BINKLEY WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is opening new investigations into allegations of antisemitism at five U.S. universities including Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley, the Education Department announced Monday. Related Articles National Politics | Texas National Guard can now arrest and detain people who illegally enter the US National Politics | ACLU sues over Trump shutting down asylum access at the southern border National Politics | How Trump’s pledge to punish South Africa reflects Musk’s criticism of the country he grew up in National Politics | Tariff threats take aim at fentanyl trafficking. Here’s how…
State Farm General requested a 22% emergency rate hike in California on Monday, Feb. 3 to cover losses from the Los Angeles County wildfires and stop its “financial deterioration,” the company wrote in a letter filed with the state’s insurance commission.The property insurer, the state’s largest and a subsidiary State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., said it has received more than 8,700 claims from the Jan. 7 fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas. The company said it has paid more than $1 billion to customers.The company is seeing signs of rapid deterioration of its capital structure, according to the…
By NADIA LATHANAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas National Guard soldiers can arrest and detain people for entering the U.S. illegally from Mexico under an agreement with the Trump administration that expands the military’s role in immigration enforcement.The new authority is a shift for the Guard and the military broadly, which has been limited to a supporting role for the Border Patrol. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott gave Texas Guard members the power to arrest migrants on trespassing charges in 2021, but that order was limited to encounters on border landowners’ private property.Texas’ pact with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, signed Friday,…
LOS ANGELES — Mick Cronin said he knew he was actually in the Big Ten when, at the conference’s media day back in October, he ran into Michigan State coach Tom Izzo. Izzo is the longest-tenured head coach in the Big Ten. He took over for the Spartans when he was 40 years old. He’s 70 now and in his 30th season at the helm.He won an NCAA Championship in 2000. He coached Zach Randolph. He coached Draymond Green. He has stuck around through the NIL and transfer portal era, as other coaches have left the game behind.When that person…
The second Senate confirmation hearing for Robert Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services concluded last Thursday, rendering him even less appealing than he already was and confirming to all that he is not fit for the role. The primary concern with RFK Jr. as secretary of HHS is not that he believes that vaccines cause autism or that he suggested that the HPV vaccine causes cancer. It’s also not that he believes that the jury is still out on what happened on September 11, 2001. Those are concerning for sure but the real issue is that he lacks…
Contestants in this year’s San Bernardino County Academic Decathlon competition will learn later this week who won the title. Seniors at Chaffey High School in Ontario, Arielle Jett, left, and Bryon Greet, compete Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in the San Bernardino County Academic Decathlon at Alta Loma High School in Rancho Cucamonga. (Courtesy of the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools) Fifteen teams from schools across the county completed the contest Saturday, Feb. 1, when the gameshow-style Super Quiz was held at Alta Loma High School in Rancho Cucamonga. This year’s winner will have to get past Ontario’s Chaffey High…
By Kara Carlson | BloombergTesla registered fewer cars in California in all four quarters of 2024, as sales of its second-most important model plunged 36% for the year.The electric-vehicle maker’s sales in by far the biggest EV market in the US fell almost 8% in the fourth quarter and 12% for the year, according to data sourced by the California New Car Dealers Association. Annual registrations of the Model 3 sedan dropped by more than a third.Also see: Trump order weighs eliminating EV-favoring policies and subsidiesTesla’s registrations declined despite the company adding a fifth model — the polarizing Cybertruck — to…
By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration advocacy groups on Monday sued the Trump administration over its ban on asylum access at the southern border, saying the sweeping restrictions illegally put people who are fleeing war and persecution in harm’s way.The decision outlined in one of President Donald Trump’s immigration-related executive orders is “as unlawful as it is unprecedented,” the groups — led by the American Civil Liberties Union — said in the complaint, filed in a Washington federal court.“The government is doing just what Congress by statute decreed that the United States must not do. It is returning…
Orioles’ Rich Dauer lashes a first-pitch home run over left field fence in third inning of Game 7 of the World Series at Baltimore, Oct. 17, 1979, to score first run of the game. Pirates Jim Bibby is pitching and Steve Nicosia is catching. Ball is light blur at top right. (AP Photo) Pirates Phil Garner slides head first into third base and is tagged by Orioles Rich Dauer (25) in second inning of third game of World Series, Oct. 12, 1979. Garner had doubled and was out in run down play after he tried to reach third. Dauer, second…
California State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, recently introduced legislation that would cap cost-sharing for insulin at $35 a month, regardless of whether a patient has public or private insurance. It’s a popular idea. But it may not be necessary. The cost of insulin has been falling due to market forces. Most insured patients already pay less than $35 a month. Six years ago, the average monthly out-of-pocket cost for insulin made by Eli Lilly was $38.64. It’s now $17.16, a 56% drop. In other words, insulin manufacturers have been dropping their prices because of old-fashioned competition. And that’s largely…