Under Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not allow U.S. taxpayer dollars to be squandered on illegal aliens LOS ANGELES – Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Los Angeles Field Office issued a Title 8 subpoena to the State of California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI). This program provides benefits to aliens who are ineligible for Social Security benefits because of their immigration status. The subpoena requests all records from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services – who administers the state program – to determine if ineligible illegal aliens received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) from the Social…
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Cerritos College student Peijuan Huang has been selected for the 2025 Brooke Owens Fellowship, a nationally acclaimed nonprofit program that recognizes exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities, providing them with mentorship, career development, and industry networking opportunities. “This fellowship is a highly competitive program that selects women and gender minorities passionate about aerospace,” said Peijuan. “I’m excited to officially become part of the Class of 2025!” She is among 44 fellows, known as “Brookies,” chosen this year from an international pool of over 400 applicants from colleges and universities. Inspired by her lifelong fascination with space exploration, Peijuan is majoring…
Victims’ Family Calls DA’s Attempt to Silence the Truth a Grave Miscarriage of Justice LOS ANGELES -The Justice for Erik and Lyle Coalition, a family-led initiative advocating for the release of Erik and Lyle Menendez, issued the following statement in response to Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman’s remarks regarding his pending resentencing recommendation and his opposition to the brothers’ habeas petition. “District Attorney Nathan Hochman took us right back to 1996 today. He opened the wounds we have spent decades trying to heal. He didn’t listen to us. We are profoundly disappointed by his remarks, in which he effectively…
LONG BEACH – The FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the location of a one-time Long Beach resident who was charged with a murder that occurred at a restaurant in Long Beach, California, on October 18, 2008. Jose Manuel Flores, 47, is wanted for his alleged involvement in the shooting death of an individual inside the Brite Spot Restaurant in Long Beach, California, on October 18, 2008. Following an investigation by the Long Beach Police Department, Flores was charged with murder and possession of firearm by a felon on March 9, 2010 in…
By Matt Hamilton and David Zahniser | LA Times Faced with a deluge of litigation from the Palisades fire, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power approved a three-year, $10-million contract with a top law firm to defend the utility. The Board of Water and Power, which is made up of mayoral appointees, voted Tuesday to retain the L.A. firm Munger, Tolles & Olson to investigate anticipated claims related to the fire and respond to lawsuits from residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged. Although the firm is to be paid by DWP, it was selected by L.A. City Atty. Hydee…
By Adriana Gomez Licon | LA Times FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The State Department had been in talks with Elon Musk’s Tesla company to buy armored electric vehicles, but the plans have been put on hold by the Trump administration after reports emerged about a potential $400-million purchase. A State Department spokesperson said the electric car company owned by Musk, who has become President Trump’s billionaire advisor aiming to dismantle agencies and downsize the federal workforce, was the only one that expressed interest back in May 2024, when Joe Biden was president. While it was in its planning phases, the deal with Tesla…
By Lia Russell | Sacramento Bee In a poll published Thursday, Emerson College said a majority of likely Democratic primary voters would support the former Vice President in 2026. Harris returned to her Los Angeles home earlier this year and is reportedly considering a run for the Golden State’s highest-elected office after losing to President Donald Trump in a race for president in November. She did not give a direct answer about her political plans when reporters pressed her for an answer last week while she surveyed damage from the Palisades wildfire. https://twitter.com/erika_d_smith/status/1885200728429650201?s=46 Harris’ support was at 57% overall of…
By Scott Schwebke | OC Register A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge was publicly admonished this week for repeatedly entering the private chambers of other jurists after hours to rifle through their confidential papers and try to access their personal computers. The California Commission on Judicial Performance said Judge Daviann L. Mitchell, who has been on the bench since 2006, engaged in a “serious breach of the expected trust shared among judicial colleagues and entirely at odds with the behavior expected of judges.” “Judge Mitchell’s conduct constituted a failure to uphold the integrity and independence of the judiciary and…
By Jaweed Kaleem and Teresa Watanabe | Los Angeles Times A federal lawsuit accuses the University of California of illegally considering race when accepting new students, alleging that the system’s long-term growth of Black and Latino enrollment would not be possible under a state law prohibiting the use of race in admissions and a Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action. The lawsuit was filed Monday in California’s Central District federal court on behalf of Asian American and white students who are considering applying to UC campuses as first-year applicants, transfers or law students. It alleges that UC gives “discriminatory preferences…
By Keri Blakinger and Rebecca Ellis | Los Angeles Times Los Angeles County was hit with a record number of lawsuits last year, with spending on outside attorneys ballooning to defend against a deluge of child sex abuse claims. The number of new lawsuits against the county rose to 2,675 in the last fiscal year — about 400 more than the prior year, according to a tally of the county’s legal spending released this week. It’s the highest figure since the county began publicly tracking the data in 2008. Woman’s lawsuit claims Motel 6 and other chains allowed her to be raped nearly 1,000…
By Kate Wolffe | Sacramento Bee California’s Republican lawmakers are calling on their Democratic colleagues to put money behind Proposition 36 — last year’s tough-on-crime ballot measure that passed overwhelmingly. So far, Democratic lawmakers haven’t indicated whether they will. Prop. 36 increases penalties for some drug and theft-related offenses. Gov. Gavin Newsom was vocally against the measure, arguing it targeted low-level non-violent offenses and would be a “real setback” for the state’s progress on criminal justice reform and away from mass incarceration. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto left 4 million California voters unregistered, new report says Newsom and other opponents pointed…
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers in the Assembly sent Gov. Gavin Newsom legislation he requested as part of a special session to bolster the state’s legal defenses and immigration services to fight President Donald Trump. SBX1-1, allows the California Department of Justice to use $25 million on legal fights with the Trump administration. It also creates a website to track lawsuits between the state and the Trump administration. During President Trump’s first term, California sued the administration 123 times. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFo4U9YM1GH/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== SBX1-2, provides $25 million in grants to non-profit organizations that provide immigration-related legal services, especially for those facing eviction, intimate partner…
Rep. Robert Garcia launched an investigation Monday into Los Angeles County’s emergency alert system following a succession of faulty wireless alerts that urged millions of residents to prepare to evacuate and stoked panic as deadly fires engulfed the region. Rep. Garcia, a Long Beach Democrat who sits on the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters requesting information from Los Angeles County, Genasys Inc. — the software company contracted with the county to issue wireless emergency alerts — the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission. They waited and waited for an evacuation order. The fire came…
Probation Department shifted field officers to a troubled juvenile hall and now can’t keep up By Jason Henry | Pasadena Star News The Los Angeles County Probation Department, citing a “significant void” in its supervision of dangerous probationers, is desperately calling on local law enforcement agencies to step in and take over key duties from its officers. Probation Chief Guillermo Viera Rosa sent out a request for mutual aid in late December asking for the Sheriff’s Department and the county’s more than 45 municipal police departments to use their officers and equipment to conduct “compliance checks” on probationers over the…
By Andrew Sheeler | Sacramento Bee President Donald Trump on Wednesday waded into the contentious “parental rights” debate, with an executive order to target the federal funding of schools that affirm transgender children. The order is the latest anti-transgender action from Trump, who also has moved to ban trans Americans from serving in the military and also prohibiting federal funds from being used for gender-affirming care for minors or institutions that “promote gender ideology.” The order runs contrary to California law and state Department of Education policy, which explicitly protects transgender students’ right to access the bathroom or school activities…