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Talk about timing.President Donald Trump denounced California’s bullet train for the project’s delays and rising costs on Tuesday, and said his administration would investigate how billions of federal and state dollars have been spent.“The train that’s being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco is the worst-managed project I think I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen some of the worst,” Trump told reporters, asserting that the project is “billions and billions” of dollars over budget.“We’re going to start a big investigation of that, because I’ve never seen anything like it,” he added. “Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. The worst overruns that there have ever…

By SALLY HOSEATTLE (AP) — It’s one thing to fix your home after something basic has gone wrong, but it’s a different beast to rebuild and recover after a major natural disaster has destroyed multiple properties on your street, in your neighborhood or across the region.Don’t wait until you’re in crisis mode to figure out what to expect. It’s important to understand your benefits and rights when it comes to home insurance in the event of a widespread emergency.What kind of coverage mattersInsurance is meant to cover what you lost, but that can mean two very different things.If you do…

Raymond Lee Oyler, who was given the death penalty for setting the 2006 Esperanza fire near Cabazon that killed five U.S. Forest Service firefighters, was not the “actual killer,” as defined by current law, his attorney asserted this week as he asked the state Supreme Court to overturn five murder convictions and set aside the death sentence. Although no one else was charged with setting the blaze, attorney Michael W. Clough suggested in a highly nuanced argument on Wednesday, Feb. 5, that a 2019 state law requires a more hands-on slaying and physical presence for a murder conviction. The Engine 57…

By DAVE COLLINSDemocratic attorneys general in several states vowed Thursday to file a lawsuit to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s from accessing federal payment systems containing Americans’ sensitive personal information.A dozen attorneys general, including New York’s Letitia James, said in a statement that they were taking action “in defense of our Constitution, our right to privacy, and the essential funding that individuals and communities nationwide are counting on.”“As the richest man in the world, Elon Musk is not used to being told ‘no,’ but in our country, no one is above the law,” the statement said. “The President…

With 10 combined goals in consecutive victories, the Kings’ offensive doldrums have begun to dissipate.That awakening could prove timely as they get set for Friday’s steel-cage match with the NHL’s third-best defensive team, the Dallas Stars, and Saturday’s Freeway Faceoff against the Ducks’ formidable goaltending.During Saturday’s statement game in Carolina and Wednesday’s domineering performance at home against Montreal, the Kings appeared to have found the spark that had been missing for almost all of January.“A lot of our success near the beginning of the year, in that November stretch, was playing north and playing a little bit more aggressive,” said…

By Akayla Gardner | Bloomberg NewsPresident Donald Trump outlined his tax priorities in a meeting with Republican lawmakers, including a call to end the carried interest tax break used by private equity fund managers and expand the state and local tax deduction.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump laid out those measures and other provisions he would like to see in a sweeping tax bill this year during a meeting Thursday.Also see: How Trump’s tax cut turned politics on its head in Southern CaliforniaAmong the tax cuts he mentioned are his campaign pledges to end levies on…

By WILL GRAVESPresident Donald Trump is ready to take his fight against transgender athletes to the International Olympic Committee.Trump said Wednesday during a signing ceremony for an executive order aimed at banning transgender athletes from women’s sports that his administration wants the IOC to “change everything having to do with the Olympics and having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject” ahead of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.The order empowers the Secretary of State’s office to pressure the IOC to amend standards governing Olympic sporting events “to promote fairness, safety and the best interests of female athletes by…

SANTA ANITA LEADERS (Through Sunday) Jockeys / Wins Juan Hernandez / 26 Flavien Prat / 24 Umberto Rispoli / 18 Hector Berrios / 15 Tiago Pereira / 11 Trainers / Wins Bob Baffert / 15 Mark Glatt / 12 Jeff Mullins / 12 Doug O’Neill / 10 George Papaprodromou / 9 UPCOMING STAKES SANTA ANITA Saturday • $100,000, Grade III San Marcos Stakes, 4-year-olds and up, 1¼ miles on turf Sunday • $100,000 Sweet Life Stakes, 3-year-old fillies, about 6½ furlongs on turf DOWN THE STRETCH • Truly Quality (Vincent Cheminaud riding), the Hollywood Turf Cup winner at Del Mar, goes…

By Joe Lovinger | BloombergRealtor.com is joining the ranks of companies leaving California for Texas.The real estate listings website, operated by News Corp. subsidiary Move Inc., is relocating its headquarters to Austin from Santa Clara. Realtor.com will now be based at 901 E. Sixth St. in the Texas capital, a building where it’s been a tenant since 2019.Also see: California brokerage leans into private listings. Critics say buyers and sellers will be hurtA string of businesses have moved from the coasts to Texas in recent years as the state has courted companies with its low taxes and limited regulation. Elon…

By SOPHIA TAREENCHICAGO (AP) — The Trump administration sued Chicago on Thursday alleging that ‘sanctuary’ laws in the nation’s third-largest city “thwart” federal efforts to enforce immigration laws.The lawsuit, which also names the state of Illinois, is the latest effort to crack down on places that limit cooperation between federal immigration agents and local police. It follows the federal government’s threats of criminal charges and federal funding cuts to what are known as sanctuary cities.“The conduct of officials in Chicago and Illinois minimally enforcing — and oftentimes affirmatively thwarting — federal immigration laws over a period of years has resulted…