6 h. ago Trump and California don’t see eye to eye, but critique of high

Dream of going from LA to San Francisco in three hours is past deadline, over budget, and after 16 years, incompleteCalifornians know their state is a punching bag for Donald Trump’s administration, a “paradise lost” that the president intends to wrest back from the “radical left lunatics”. But when Trump took aim at the state’s much-delayed high-speed rail project earlier this month, saying it was “the worst managed project” he’d ever seen, some of those leftwingers – and more moderate voters – found themselves in the unusual position of conceding he might have a point.California’s beautiful dream of a bullet train whisking passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours has been more than 16 years in the making, approved by voters but dogged by so many delays, broken deadlines and cost overruns that it has only just reached the initial stages of laying down track. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Judge OKs prison abuse settlement, rejecting Trump administration's push to rewrite protections

A judge has given final approval to a legal settlement that subjects the federal Bureau of Prisons to independent monitoring and increased transparency in the wake of rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse at a now-shuttered federal women’s prison in California

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47 h. ago US energy secretary touts nuclear power as tech sector's thirst for electricity grows

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says it's critical that the nation be out in front when it comes to artificial intelligence

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57 h. ago Apple shareholders not expected to scrap diversity programs despite broader backlash

Apple shareholders are expected to reject an attempt to pressure the technology trendsetter into scrapping corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce

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6 d. ago Trump administration takes aim at $4B in funding for California high

The Trump administration is investigating delays and cost overruns in California’s high-speed rail project

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7 d. ago Unions sue over federal worker firings, alleging Trump administration misused probationary periods

Unions for federal workers have filed a lawsuit to block the mass firings of probationary federal employees by President Donald Trump’s administration, alleging that officials are exploiting and misusing the probationary period to eliminate staff across government agencies

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7 d. ago Why Trump’s water releases were dangerous for California’s levees

The condition of the state’s system was already precarious when the US president ordered billions of gallons be let outFirst, there was Donald Trump’s executive order to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in California’s Central valley, a move the feds walked back after farmers and water experts decried it as wasteful, ill-conceived – and an unnecessary risk factor for levees in the region.The mandate, said Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geoscience at the University of California at Davis who studies California’s levees, amounted to “hydrologic insanity”. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump administration halts legal aid for migrant children, leaving some to navigate courts alone

The Trump administration has suspended a program that helped children who come to the U.S. without a parent or guardian navigate the immigration court system

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9 d. ago Schools around the US confront anxiety over Trump's actions on immigration

President Donald Trump’s immigration policies already are affecting schools across the country

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