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With the clock ticking before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in, Gov. Gavin Newsom is heading to Washington this week to push for the Biden administration to safeguard some marquee California programs on the environment and disaster funding. The move is the latest in the governor’s highly visible effort to shield California from the second…
BAKU, Azerbaijan — No matter what kind of U-turn President-elect Donald Trump will make on climate change, America’s clean energy economy won’t reverse into the dirty past, a combative but “bitterly disappointed” top American climate negotiator said Monday.During the first day of the U.N. climate talks, COP29, climate advisor John Podesta struck a defiant but realistic…
The Kremlin on Monday rejected reports that President Vladimir Putin spoke last week with President-elect Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine, and a spokesman for Trump refused to comment on what he called his “private calls” with world leaders.The Washington Post first reported on Sunday, citing anonymous sources, that the two spoke on Thursday,…
As she runs the most truncated presidential campaign in modern American history, Vice President Kamala Harris has made lofty promises on issues that polls show voters care most about: the economy, abortion, gun policy and immigration. Since President Biden dropped out of the race in July, Harris has tried to lay out her policy proposals,…
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WASHINGTON — Sixteen-year-old Billy’s friends at his rural high school in the South don’t know he was one of thousands of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under then-President Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy.At school, where he plays football and soccer, Billy doesn’t talk about what he went through — that his father was…
Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a proposal Sunday to more than double the annual amount of money allocated to California’s film and TV tax credit program as Hollywood struggles to compete with other production hubs dangling lofty incentives.The governor declared his intent to expand the annual tax credit to $750 million, up from its current total…
Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden should go down in history as a seminal event of the 2024 campaign, a valedictory of hate, racism and misogyny that has become the entirety of his campaign and of the MAGA movement, and a terrifying symbol of where our politics are headed.It represented his closing statement…
Good morning and welcome to the final week of the spooky season. I’m environment reporter Alex Wigglesworth, filling in for Sammy Roth.California is home to more species of plants and animals than any other state in the nation. So maybe it’s no surprise the state has sent a large delegation to the United Nations summit…
Hello and happy Thursday. There are five days until the election, and OMG, it’s finally almost over. Most of you have likely voted by now, but the candidates are still hard at work attempting to woo those final, crucial few who somehow haven’t made up their minds. Really?Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have been…
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