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In 1971, Berkeley, Calif., became the first place in the nation to deem itself a sanctuary city, at the time to provide refuge for sailors who protested the Vietnam War.Today, at least 25 cities and counties in California have declared themselves sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants by passing laws that limit how much they will cooperate with federal efforts to deport people.Those policies could soon make California a greater target for the Trump administration as federal officials try to punish governments with sanctuary policies.President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday night directing federal officials to publish a…

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Politics / April 28, 2025 You can’t name Penn Station after Donald Trump. You can’t even joke about it. Ad Policy New York Governor Kathy Hochul(Selcuk Acar / Anadolu via Getty Images) Yes, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is already backtracking. Embroiled in various public transportation battles with disgraced, twice-impeached President Donald Trump, Hochul recently offered one way to win his support to complete renovations on storied Penn Station: to name it after him.  “If he puts $7 billion into it? Who knows?” the governor told reporters on Friday. “It would not be my favorite thing to call it, but…

President Trump signed three more executive orders on Monday, including one targeting local jurisdictions that the administration says are not cooperating with its aggressive immigration crackdown.The orders represent Mr. Trump’s latest salvo against so-called sanctuary cities, meaning jurisdictions that limit or refuse to cooperate with federal officials’ efforts to arrest undocumented immigrants. As the president attempts to increase the pace of deportations, his administration has grown increasingly frustrated that some jurisdictions will not hold migrants in jail beyond their release dates to make it easier for federal officials to detain them.One order directs Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Kristi…

Washington — The House passed a bipartisan bill Monday that makes it a federal crime to post real and fake sexually explicit imagery online of a person without their consent, sending the legislation that was backed by first lady Melania Trump to the president’s desk. The bill, known as the “Take It Down Act,” cleared the lower chamber in a 409-2 vote. The two “no” votes came from Republicans. The Senate unanimously passed the measure in February. The legislation requires social media companies and other websites to remove images and videos, including deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence, within 48 hours after a…

House Republicans are proposing to charge migrants $1,000 to claim asylum, one of a series of new or increased fees on immigrants seeking to gain legal entry into the United States that is part of their effort to curb immigration and pay for the Trump administration’s border crackdown.The fees on immigrants are one of several proposals in legislation released on Monday by the House Judiciary Committee to be included in the major domestic policy bill Republicans are putting together to implement President Trump’s domestic agenda.The application fee would be the first time the United States specifically charged migrants who are…

Schools shuttered early and cities warned of probable power outages, as potentially dangerous thunderstorms threatened the Upper Midwest late Monday afternoon.In northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota and western Wisconsin, residents were bracing for storms that could bring high winds, tornadoes and hail the size of Ping-Pong balls. The Upper Midwest is accustomed to severe weather, but the high level of risk for very large hail and strong tornadoes caused alarm for state and local officials, who activated emergency operations centers and closed nonemergency city buildings.“We always have severe weather, I guess, in Iowa,” said Superintendent Joe Carter of the Algona Community…

Getting a college education has traditionally been seen as a way to move up the economic ladder. But an analysis by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that the cost of a degree may not always be worth it.The value of a college education has increasingly come into question in recent years, especially as tuition costs steadily climb and millions of Americans grapple with student loans. As a result, only one in four U.S. adults say it’s extremely or very important to have a four-year college degree to get a well-paying job, according to a 2024 Pew…

Workers stand inside a special chamber at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The chamber is used to test new conventional explosives used to detonate advanced nuclear weapons designs, and the data produced from such experiments is considered restricted. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hide caption toggle caption Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have been given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America’s nuclear weapons, two independent sources tell NPR. Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, and Adam Ramada, a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems…

The textile mills that once served as the backbone of Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, have long been shuttered, and officials believed federal money would be key to the town’s overdue revitalization. They hoped an improved stormwater drainage system and secured electrical wires – funded through a program to help communities protect against natural disasters and climate change – would safeguard investments in new businesses like a renovated historic theater to spur the largely rural economy. Source link