Miller Sanford WASHINGTON — House GOP leaders are urging their Republican members to hold town halls virtually whenever possible amid backlash from the cost-cutting moves by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Party members huddled on Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning to discuss the fallout from recent, high-profile town halls in their districts — some of which … Read more
A bicyclist rides along Venice Boulevard in West Los Angeles in March. The curbside lane is marked by plastic pylons buffered by parked cars and has ignited controversy on the Westside. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Two years after state lawmakers boosted the gas tax with a promise to improve California streets, some cities … Read more
Meg Whitman will “root out fraud” and “cut wasteful spending.” Carly Fiorina wants to eliminate “the billions of dollars of waste and bloat that sits in our federal budget.” Ho-hum. Is it campaign time again? As the crocus heralds the coming of spring, the sure sign that we’re working up to a major election is … Read more
Ethics violation lodged against former CalRecycle director For lawmakers and lobbyists who worked on ensuring the passage of California’s landmark plastic waste law, Rachel Wagoner’s abrupt career shift was nothing short of jaw dropping. The former director of CalRecycle — who oversaw, wrote and promoted the single-use plastic legislation known as SB 54 — is … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in London on Sunday. (Sean Kilpatrick / Associated Press) I don’t say this often, but let’s give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. During Trump’s instantly infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky last week, the Ukrainian president was determined to make one point above all: that Russian President Vladimir … Read more
6Millie Bobby Brown, 21, was spotted heading into her London hotel on Tuesday dressed in head-to-toe leopard print — down to her mini umbrella. Shutterstock A wildly chic street style moment. Millie Bobby Brown was spotted heading into her London hotel on Tuesday dressed in head-to-toe leopard print — down to her mini umbrella. The … Read more
Dolly Parton’s late husband, Carl Dean, was not seen in public for the final five years of his life. Dean, who died Monday in Nashville, Tennessee, at 82, was last photographed publicly on a rare outing in Brentwood, Tennessee, in December 2019. 9Carl Dean in Brentwood, Tennessee, in 2019. TheImageDirect.com 9Dean out and about in … Read more
Bill Murray and Bob Woodward reportedly exchanged “tense” words over the Watergate reporter’s book on John Belushi when they came face to face at the Kennedy Center over the weekend. Their spat took place on Sunday at a screening of “Becoming Katharine Graham,” a documentary on the former Washington Post publisher. “Bill Murray and Bob … Read more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a federal court on Tuesday it was dropping a lawsuit filed in December against three of the nation’s largest banks over their handling of the payment service Zelle, court papers show. The agency, which was virtually shuttered by President Trump last month, had accused JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo of failing to protect consumers … Read more
A consortium of firms led by BlackRock is buying two key ports in the Panama Canal from a Hong Kong-based firm for nearly $23 billion after President Donald Trump expressed concern that the strategic waterway was falling under Chinese influence. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with a portfolio of investments valued at $11.5 trillion, … Read more
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