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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is involved in a major recruitment drive, but you won’t see Customs & Border Patrol at a job fair scheduled for Chino Hills on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Local community groups sounded the alarm in late January. “Indivisible Inland Empire and the Cat Ladies for America Inland Empire condemn the…
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The Los Angeles government has developed a bad habit of taking private property for the good of the public, and not paying for it. This is a very old problem that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution attempted to solve in 1791. “Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation,”…
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By KATE BRUMBACK and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The FBI obtained a search warrant to seize hundreds of boxes of ballots from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia, as part of a criminal investigation into possible “deficiencies or defects” in the vote count in the 2020 contest lost by President Donald Trump, according to…
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A 5-year-old boy who portrayed a younger Bad Bunny during the Super Bowl halftime show hails from Costa Mesa. Lincoln Fox Ramadan, a child actor and model, appeared during the Puerto Rican superstar’s show, which drew 135 million viewers. One scene captured hearts across the nation: Lincoln, dressed in a striped collared shirt and khaki…
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By Yue Stella Yu | CalMatters One of California’s larger public employee unions is pushing legislation to make remote work a permanent option for state workers as the clock ticks down on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s July 1 mandate for most employees to be in the office four days a week. The measure, authored by Assemblymember…
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By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers decried Tuesday what they said were invasive tactics in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, pressing representatives from leading telecommunications companies about their role in providing prosecutors with phone records of certain sitting members of Congress. “I think what…
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There’s no doubt that Chargers general manager Joe Hortiz and coach Jim Harbaugh believe they built a strong offensive foundation in their two seasons together. But there are plenty of questions about its structural integrity in the wake of an unfulfilling end to the 2025 season. Harbaugh got the point quickly during his season-ending news…
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By JONATHAN MATTISE, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter, changing course before a meeting of its board, which has a majority of members picked by the coal-friendly Trump administration. In new filings, the…
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By Ben Christopher | CalMatters In the fall of 2023, the California Legislature tasked the state’s fire safety regulators with writing a report that some housing affordability advocates say could make it easier to build bigger, airier and better lit apartment buildings in California’s housing-strapped cities. The Office of the State Fire Marshal was given…
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Q: I saw on television that the Mickey Mouse character is no longer subject to copyright, or something along those lines. This seems very surprising. Can you clarify? B.W., Culver City Ron Sokol A: In the United States, a copyright under the current rule (a work created after 1978) has a duration of the life…
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