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Friday, April 18, 2025

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THE HEADLINES

  • ‘A death blow’: Filmmakers, archivists reel as DOGE suddenly cuts their funding
  • LAT $: More immigrants opt to self-deport rather than risk being marched out like criminals
  • SacBee: California to sue White House for dismantling AmeriCorps, Gavin Newsom says
  • LAT $: LAX drops down the list of the world’s busiest airports by passenger count
  • CG: New Bill Would Give Up to $750 Tax Credits for Pet Adoption Continues To Await Assembly Hearing
  • LAT $: ‘There is nothing left’: Burglars cut alarms and cameras before downtown L.A. jewelry heist
  • AP: Judge dismisses lawsuit against Mormon church over how it uses donations
  • OCReg: ‘No stranger to body brokering and kickbacks,’ insurer’s $10 million suit says
  • CG: California Governor Creating Energy Poverty with 3,200-foot Setbacks Around Oil and Gas Wells
  • LAT $: UCLA international student detained at U.S.-Mexico border amid Trump visa cancellations
  • SacBee: CA lawmakers want more oversight of sexual assault complaints at women’s prisons
  • OCReg: Jon Coupal: Proposition 13 protects home equity
  • OCReg: California’s homeless crisis shows the need for government accountability
  • NR: Defunding PBS and NPR Is Long Overdue
  • NR: California Can Dramatically Increase Its Water Supply
  • CG: Sanctuary Cities and Democrats’ Rejection of Law, Order, and Voters’ Will
  • CG: UC Berkeley’s 2025 Male Supremacism Studies Conference
  • SFC: This S.F. neighborhood will get its biggest affordable housing development in two decades
  • SJMN: Sheriff Corpus sues San Mateo County to force release of corruption investigation expenses
  • SJMN: Mahan, Liccardo lend support as Waymo applies to bring robotaxis to San Jose
  • Modesto PD’s youth outreach gets praise, some concerns at police board meeting
  • CalCoast: Santa Barbara County judge ordered to step down
  • OCReg: How Orange County plans to sterilize mosquitoes to limit pest’s spread of disease
  • VOC: Huntington Beach Regulates Nonprofits at City Properties
  • VOC: Santa Ana Cracks Down on First Street ‘Drug Dens’ After Years of Police Calls
  • OCReg: 5 Freeway expansion project completed with new lanes for South County’s transportation ‘backbone’
  • ‘Driven by his heart’: San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Cuevas memorialized
  • Marine from Riverside identified as one of two killed in vehicle rollover during deployment to border
  • SDUT: National City appears poised to replace its city manager

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