The issue's macro-politics are that while gas-emitting industries and business groups favor its renewal as a predictable way of meeting emission reduction goals, environmental groups see it as business buying exemptions from pollution. They would prefer direct company-by-company regulation. Within that conflict are other issues, such as steadily dropping proceeds from the emission auctions, which emitters with vital products should be given permits without cost, and how auction revenues should be spent.
Top UC leaders will attempt to negotiate a settlement with the federal government and have identified guardrails to protect the nation's premier public university system after the Trump administration cut more than half a billion dollars in UCLA research grants and demanded a $1-billion fine to atone for antisemitism, according to high-placed UC officials. The talks with the Justice Department are just beginning and so far involve 10 of the 24 UC regents, including chair Janet Reilly and UC President James B. Milliken. The group held its first publicly announced meeting last week after an emergency convening of all regents Aug. 11.
Maybe Newsom should try the Pete-Bobby challenge: 100 push-ups, 50 pull-ups in 10 minutes, said Watters on his show Jesse Watters Primetime. Let's see what he's got, 'cause last time we looked he was knocking down Chinese kids like bowling pins. Watters then played a video of Newsom accidentally knocking over and falling on a child while playing basketball during a 2023 trip to Beijing.
Newsom's press office runs the account, @GovPressOffice, which has, for all intents and purposes, turned that social media feed into a political parody mocking Trump and his Republicans allies, posting hot takes on their GOP initiatives around voting, redistricting, and Ukraine, just to name a few-all while mimicking the president's style of lavishly praising himself and insulting, often viciously, those who disagree with him.
The strawberry delivery driver was making his last drop-off in Little Tokyo, unloading nearly a dozen boxes onto the sidewalk outside the Japanese American National Museum. Inside the building, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his allies were holding a news conference about a Democratic Party plan to fight back against President Trump's efforts to maintain control of the U.S. House of Representatives through redistricting in Texas.
“It's difficult for us, just in a regular election, being a smaller rural county,” said Juan Pablo Cervantes, the registrar of voters for Humboldt County, which has just over 85,000 registered voters. Usually Cervantes and his staff have at least five months of lead time to find voting sites, hire staff and procure all the machines, pens and ballots for a statewide election.
Governor Gavin Newsom has 30% favorable and 41% unfavorable ratings, with 28% either unaware of him or having no opinion, indicating challenges for a presidential bid.
I'm really afraid of what the outcome will be. I mean, obviously, mental health is really important, especially when it comes to mental health surrounding suicidal ideology and how hard it can be to get through something like that.
California Governor Gavin Newsom aligned his views with far-right rhetoric, questioning participation of trans athletes in women's sports and supporting anti-trans narratives on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast.