WASHINGTON — A commerce cope with the UK introduced by the White Home on Thursday marked the primary of its form since President Trump launched sweeping international tariffs final month, providing a glimpse into the Trump administration’s negotiating technique because it seeks to reset phrases with buying and selling companions all over the world. The settlement, hailed by Trump and U.Ok. Prime Minister Keir Starmer as “historic,” saved the U.S. baseline tariff charge on U.Ok. imports at...

I’ve only one factor to say about President Trump’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz as a jail for ruthless offenders. What took you so lengthy? The “Rock,” because it has someday been referred to, sits uselessly in the midst of the San Francisco Bay, criminally underutilized as a vacationer vacation spot. I’ve been there, and the fantastic thing about the situation is that again when cons tried to go over the wall, sharks have been on responsibility 24/7, working as unpaid jail guards....

The California State Bar’s botched roll out of a brand new examination — a transfer that the cash-strapped company made within the hopes of saving cash — may in the end find yourself costing it an extra $5.6 million. Leah T. Wilson, govt director of the State Bar, informed state lawmakers at a Senate Judiciary listening to Tuesday that the company expects to pay round $3 million to supply free exams to check takers, an extra $2 million to guide in-person testing websites in July, and...

When Donald Trump signed an government order final week cracking down on truckers who don’t converse one of the best English, there was one business professional I wanted to name: my dad. Lorenzo Arellano drove large rigs throughout Southern California for 30 years earlier than retiring in 2019. His six-day workweeks saved us well-fed and clothed and allowed him to afford a three-bedroom Anaheim dwelling with a swimming pool, the place he and my youngest brother nonetheless stay at this...

The governor has stated repeatedly that he’s not contemplating working for president, regardless of the hypothesis about his political future. He additionally agreed with journalist Mark Halperin’s assertion in a latest interview that he’s extra undecided than individuals consider. The governor has turn into a goal of conservative criticism over his liberal insurance policies, equivalent to providing undocumented immigrants state-sponsored healthcare that, in keeping with the ballot,...

On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of legislators in Sacramento launched a letter urging California’s congressional delegation to guard the embattled Head Begin program and reject any proposed Trump administration cuts. The letter, which was signed by over three-quarters of state lawmakers, stated they’re “deeply alarmed” by a rising listing of cuts to the federal early childhood program underneath the Trump administration — together with the specter of whole elimination — and requested...

“60 Minutes” is not going easy on President Trump. But since the suit was filed last fall, “60 Minutes” has remained dogged in its coverage of the Trump administration’s insurance policies. This previous Sunday was no completely different as correspondent Scott Pelley reported on how Trump is utilizing govt orders to focus on regulation companies that he accuses of “weaponizing” the justice system in opposition to him. The orders threatened to bar attorneys from courthouses and federal...

The Bard of Los Angeles was ready for an elevator after I arrived on the workplace in the future in 2002. Columnist Al Martinez and I greeted one another, and with a mix of pleasure and disbelief, he shared a milestone. “This is it,” he mentioned. “Fifty years in the business.” Martinez was in his early 70s and mentioned he had no intention of slowing down. You’d have wanted a tranquilizer gun to maintain him from chasing after the following story, and the following, and he was nonetheless...

James B. Milliken, the chancellor of the College of Texas who has led among the many nation’s largest increased schooling programs and navigated GOP politics, has been named the subsequent president of the College of California. His appointment, introduced Friday afternoon by the UC Board of Regents, comes at a tense time for the state’s vaunted system and elite universities nationwide, that are beneath assault by President Trump’s actions to purge increased schooling of what he derides as...

In my household, voting isn’t only a proper — it’s a lifeline. My mother and father have been sharecroppers in Arkansas till 1951, when my dad dared stand as much as his boss for not paying him a good wage on the agricultural weigh station. Beneath risk from the KKK, he left city in a wagon, lined in hay so he wouldn’t be found. Three months later — after months of threats of violence from the Klan at our house — the remainder of our household rode in that very same wagon on our option to...

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta issued a stark warning Tuesday to immigration detention facilities throughout the state, notifying them they should make “significant improvements” to adjust to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention requirements. Bonta sounded the alarm because the California Division of Justice launched a 165-page report that discovered all the state’s six privately-operated immigration detention services are falling brief in offering psychological well being...

Amid President Trump’s fusillades in opposition to the media, a latest strike stood out: Carr accused Comcast of twisting its reporting on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. Trump has alleged Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gang member (which he denies) and the president’s lieutenants have defied a decide’s order to return him to the U.S., placing the administration more and more at odds with federal courts. Inside days, a conservative authorized group...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris plans to supply a pointed critique of President Trump and his insurance policies on Wednesday in her first main speech since leaving workplace. “She will reflect on the enduring promise of America and issue a call to action in the face of reckless economic policies and the urgent and escalating crisis facing America’s institutions and global leadership,” in line with an individual with data of Harris’ speech who requested anonymity to talk candidly....

Southern California Edison has repeatedly insisted that its former authorities affairs supervisor, state Assemblywoman Lisa Calderon (D-Whittier), was by no means an govt with the corporate. However that’s not what Edison advised the federal authorities. Calderon is sponsoring laws favored by Edison that might slash the credit that many householders obtain for producing electrical energy with rooftop photo voltaic panels. However in its official stories to the Federal Election Fee, the...

The textured mat is already on the desk as Tony Lam sits right down to shuffle the polished tiles. He’s right here to take part in a ritual that he observes 4 days every week, a pursuit that retains his “head in shape.” On today, sitting in his daughter’s home, he’s competing towards his spouse, son-in-law and grandson, all of whom construct a wall of sport items in entrance of them. It’s mah-jongg o’clock, and he’s prepared. One after the other, they roll the cube to start their...

California will be part of a coalition of states Tuesday in suing the Trump administration over huge cuts to AmeriCorps, the federal program that every yr deploys lots of of hundreds of volunteers to pure catastrophe websites and different needy communities nationwide, California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta mentioned. Bonta mentioned the Trump administration and its Division of Authorities Effectivity have been appearing unlawfully by unilaterally axing a program established and funded by Congress...