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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- Dozens of residents, environmentalists, activists and lawmakers gathered on Monday to oppose federal efforts they say could weaken California's coastal protections and prioritize offshore oil drilling over the environment.
There is a proposal to remember Mary Nomura, a Japanese American singer who was incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II, by renaming a post office in Irvine.
An increasing number of Democratic candidates are pledging to reject donations from business-linked political action committees in 2026 — a promise House Democrats say is easier said than done.
“I am deciding whether I’m going to committee or a meeting based on whether I have to meet with individual donors,” one House Democrat, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told NOTUS. “That’s fucked up.”
A Santa Ana native, Mia Verdin considers herself privileged to be able to call herself a U.S. citizen.
Verdin, along with her two younger brothers, was born in the U.S., which means they are citizens despite their parents’ immigration status. It’s a pivotal part of her family’s story, the 21-year-old said.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed down a decision in a case about mailed ballots in Mississippi that left California’s election officials breathing a sigh of relief.
Former U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi demonstrated Friday that she would rather the public believe the controversy surrounding the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files belongs to someone else now — perhaps acting Attorney General Todd Blanche or FBI Director Kash Patel.
It doesn’t.
Bondi testified Friday before the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein files, telling Congress in an opening statement she believed the DOJ “produced everything required” under federal law from the Epstein files, but admitted there were “redaction errors” in the files that were released.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee held a hearing in West Palm Beach, Fla., to highlight their ongoing investigation into late *** predator Jeffrey Epstein and the Justice Department’s failure to properly investigate him, beginning with former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta’s sweetheart plea deal with Epstein in 2008.
Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. Dave Min (D-Calif.) on Thursday sent letters to 17 people who received pardons or commutations from President Trump, asking whether the president granted them leniency under “pay-for-play” circumstances.
The lawmakers said the individuals got Trump’s clemency “under suspicious circumstances,” according to a list of recipients released by Min’s office.
Senate and House Democrats have launched an investigation into whether pardons and commutations issued by President Trump were driven by "pay-to-play dynamics," according to letters obtained by CBS News.