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DOGE impersonators demand sensitive information at S.F. City Hall, flee before deputies arrive, authorities say

Authorities believe three unidentified men posing as federal officials attempted to seize sensitive information from San Francisco City Hall before they were rebuffed and fled on Friday afternoon. At around noon, the suspects approached City Hall wearing Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, shirts and MAGA hats, according to the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. The […]

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Newsom threatens to veto immigration enforcement bill again

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said this week that he would veto a bill for a second time that sought to restrict the state prison system’s ability to coordinate with federal immigration authorities attempting to deport felons. The headline-making threat gave the Democratic leader an opportunity to counter a conservative narrative that California protects immigrants with

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Trump administration policy is slowing the very fire prevention work he endorsed, critics say

President Trump has insisted that “raking” of the forests and other fuel reduction measures would help prevent wildfires from devastating the West. But early actions by his administration have frozen one of the key programs to complete that sort of work, weeks after a pair of giant fires devastated broad stretches of Altadena and Pacific

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Opinion: Sending immigrants to Gitmo will be a fiasco for Trump and everyone else

Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where the Trump administration has started sending people it describes as criminal migrants. Noem said that the site will “house the worst of the worst and illegal criminals that are in the United States of America.” President Trump

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Opinion: Someday, most likely, the buck will stop with Trump

Since taking office last month, Donald Trump has governed like a man with a sledgehammer and a checklist. He’s moving at a breakneck pace — executive orders flying, agencies gutted, norms obliterated. USAID workers? Put on ice. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Unprotected. Low-flow toilets? Flushed. The Gulf of Mexico? No longer found on Google

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The LAPD has immigrant officers protected by DACA. Could Trump try to deport them?

Will a badge and gun be enough to shield someone from potential deportation under President Trump’s immigration crackdown? That is the question facing the Los Angeles Police Department and the handful of other law enforcement agencies who employ police officers protected by DACA, the Obama-era program that is short for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

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California, other states sue over Elon Musk's virtually 'unchecked' power in White House

California joined more than a dozen other states Thursday in suing the Trump administration over Elon Musk’s informal role as the president’s personal budget advisor, denouncing as unconstitutional the tech billionaire’s assumed authority to slash at the federal budget and zero out federal agencies. “There is no greater threat to democracy than the accumulation of

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News Analysis: Trump cedes to Russia on Ukraine, but the bigger victim may be NATO

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s siding with Russia in its war against Ukraine not only imperils the smaller former Soviet republic, but also may undermine eight decades of transatlantic security and force Europe to go it alone. Trump’s new secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, made his first trip in that role to the headquarters of NATO in Brussels

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Hammer: I'm glad Trump and the courts are squaring up. We're overdue for a civics lesson

America, unfortunately, has long been suffering from a crisis of civics. Put simply, many Americans are woefully ignorant about the structure and features of their government. But every so often, an opportunity emerges to reteach some basics. The media’s predictable shrieks and howls of “constitutional crisis” notwithstanding, we are in the throes of a grand

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Solutions: Here's how the Trump administration can curb housing costs

One reason American voters handed the country’s reins back to President Trump was the extreme inflation in housing prices that took place under his predecessor. The federal government has less influence over this issue than, say, California mayors and legislators — but whoever is in the White House can take certain steps to push prices

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