By Tom Ozimek Contributing Writer The National Guard presence in Washington, D.C., has surged to nearly 2,300 troops as part of President Donald Trump’s law-and-order initiative in the nation’s capital. Meanwhile,
By Joseph Lord Contributing Writer The Texas Senate was set Friday to take up a bill to redraw Texas’s congressional maps to increase Republicans’ hold on the state’s U.S. House delegation
Compiled from news releases The two state legislators who represent the majority of the Santa Clarita Valley issued contrasting statements after the Legislature passed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s redistricting package, which
By Maya C. Miller and Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Writers Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to counter President Donald Trump’s election gerrymander in Texas with his own redistricting play in California is on
By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer A top House Republican said Monday that the Department of Justice has agreed to hand over documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. “There are
By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer A report released on Friday by the Congressional Budget Office predicted that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will reduce federal deficits by around $4 trillion over the
By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer The foreign-born population in the United States declined by nearly 1.5 million between January and June 2025, according to an analysis of census data by the
By Tom Ozimek Contributing Writer The FBI on Friday morning searched the Maryland home of John Bolton, former national security adviser under President Donald Trump, as part of a classified documents
By Bill Pan Contributing Writer The Federal Trade Commission is warning 13 major tech companies that they will be held accountable if they censor Americans or compromise privacy and data protections
By Naveen Athrappully Contributing Writer The Department of Education is seeking to suspend or end federal financial assistance to five Northern Virginia school districts for violating Title IX of the Education
By Sam Dorman Contributing Writer President Donald Trump has scored a significant legal win, with a New York appeals court throwing out the half-billion-dollar penalty he received in his business fraud
News release Sen. Suzette Martinez Valladares, R-Acton, announced Thursday she will be introducing an amendment to Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8, which seeks to implement redistricting for California’s Congressional district
By Joseph Lord Contributing Writer U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday announced that security clearances and any government employment for 37 current and former intelligence community officials were
By Chris Summers Contributing Writer Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that attempts to resolve security issues relating to Ukraine without including Moscow were a “road to nowhere.” Lavrov’s
By Guy Birchall Contributing Writer Israel has called up around 60,000 reservists ahead of an expansion of its operation in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Wednesday. In a post
By Jackson Richman and Joseph Lord Contributing Writers The Texas House on Wednesday advanced a newly drawn congressional map that would give Republicans five extra seats in the U.S. House. A
News release Rep. George Whitesides, D-Agua Dulce, wrote to Acting IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent over the planned Sept. 30 closure of the Santa Clarita IRS Post of Duty Office, raising
By Joseph Lord Contributing Writer Five California Republicans are poised to potentially lose their seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in upcoming elections as the California Legislature moves forward with
By Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Writer As Republicans lambasted California lawmakers for rushing through their effort to gerrymander the state’s congressional map, Democrats are facing a quieter angst in their own party.
By Aldgra Fredly Contributing Writer A semi-truck driver faces deportation after allegedly making an illegal U-turn in St. Lucie County, Florida, which led to a crash that left three people dead,