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As Trump administration officials ramp up pressure on local law enforcement to cooperate with a national illegal immigration crackdown, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes on Monday said his department’s policy of focusing on state and local laws and leaving immigration enforcement to federal officials will not change.While Barnes expressed frustration at limits the state’s sanctuary laws place on local law enforcement’s ability to assist federal immigration enforcement agencies, the sheriff in a prepared statement made clear that “securing the border and enforcing immigration law are important responsibilities of the federal government,” and his department “does not enforce federal immigration law…“The…
SACRAMENTO — Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, has reached a record-breaking 1.9 million people enlisted with the addition of nearly 300,000 new members who joined ahead of the Jan. 31 deadline, according to a press release.The count, recorded as of Jan. 26, marks a 13% increase over 2024’s enrollment numbers, Covered California officials said.“Uninsured Californians are taking advantage of the unprecedented financial help available to help pay for coverage in 2025, as we have seen robust sign-ups throughout the state and reached our all-time record sign-ups before the end of open enrollment,” Covered California Executive Director Jessica Altman…
USC forward Kiki Iriafen, right, collides with Seton Hall forward Yaya Lops during the second half of their Acrisure Holiday Invitational game earlier this season in Palm Desert. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) USC forward Kiki Iriafen smiles while stretching before their game against Fresno State on Tuesday night at the Galen Center. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh) USC forward Kiki Iriafen shoots over Purdue forward Lana McCarthy during the first half of their Big Ten game on Wednesday night in West Lafayette, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) USC forward Kiki Iriafen, left, blocks the shot of Michigan guard Olivia Olson during the second…
A 32-year-old Moreno Valley man who claimed, according to court documents, that city council members were “infiltrating his phone” and that he planned to kill them has been charged with threatening public officials.The specific victims were not identified by name in either a declaration written by Riverside County sheriff’s Investigator Robert Castellanos to increase bail or the criminal complaint filed in court by the District Attorney’s Office. But the documents listed by title a single Moreno Valley councilmember and the captain of the sheriff’s Moreno Valley station.“We’re literally going to … kill them. We’re going to start killing officers,” Jesse…
By ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANIWASHINGTON (AP) — Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the company after it suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to three people familiar with the matter.It’s the latest instance of a large corporation settling litigation with the president, who has threatened retribution on his critics and rivals, and comes as Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have joined other large technology companies in trying to ingratiate themselves with the new Trump administration.The people familiar with the matter…
A toast to the Dodgers! Who have chased their 2024 World Series championship with the greatest offseason since … the previous offseason.I’d give them an A++ for the roster they’ve assembled, this baseball masterpiece – if it didn’t feel like I was looking at Van Gogh’s sunflowers minus the seeds.If it didn’t read like Alexandre Dumas forgot the count when he wrote “The Count of Monte Cristo,” or Jerry Lee Lewis dropped the balls when he played “Great Balls of Fire.”As it is, as great as it is, the Dodgers’ offseason homework gets an INCOMPLETE until they add that final…
By MELISSA GOLDINDuring a signing ceremony Wednesday for the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump claimed that his administration had “identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas.”Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, made a similiar claim on Tuesday during her debut press briefing, stating that the Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Management and Budget “found that there was about to be 50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.” She called the alleged aid “a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.”But there’s no credible…
Finally, a real libertarian is president.That’s in Argentina, where Javier Milei surprised pundits by winning the election by a landslide. Now that he’s had a chance to govern, my new video covers the results and explains why Milei is now even more popular.Argentina was once one of the richest countries in the world. Then, years of big government brought high inflation and poverty. By last year, Argentina was one of the poorest and least free countries in the world.Then Milei, an economist, ran for office, saying things like, “The state is not the solution. The state is the problem!”The media called him “radical”…
By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITHTestifying Tuesday in his own defense, a Hollywood producer charged with murder in connection with the deaths of a model and her friend denied giving them the drugs that killed them.David Brian Pearce told the downtown Los Angeles jury hearing the case against him that he “didn’t personally see” 24-year-old model and aspiring actress Christy Giles and her 26-year-old friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola “consume any drugs,” and said he had “absolutely not” provided the women with any cocaine after they returned from an early-morning rave in downtown Los Angeles to his residence on Olympic Boulevard in Beverly…
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONEWASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two senate hearings as he tries to make the case to become President Donald Trump’s health secretary.Kennedy is seeking to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the $1.7 trillion agency that funds medical research, public health outreach, food and drug safety, hospital oversight, funding for community health care clinics as well as Medicare and Medicaid.Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee expressed hope Kennedy could help reduce chronic diseases and…