It’s a sign of the times that the list above — from the left and the right — is woefully incomplete. Careful observers will be able to point to any number of additional culture-war-motivated statutes, regulations and government actions that take aim at the Bill of Rights. State attacks on civil liberties are even affecting […]
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While the impact of the law remains unclear, it has buoyed the spirits of some farmworkers. Asuncion Ponce started harvesting grapes along the rolling green hills of the Central Valley in the late 1980s. Through the decades, Mr. Ponce has worked on several farms with U.F.W. contracts. Bosses on those farms, he said, seemed aware […]
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WATSONVILLE, Calif. — Evacuation orders were in force, announced late on Thursday through social media posts and over speakers used by the local police department. Another storm was approaching. Residents needed to get to safety. As he had done during the previous storm, Cesar Leon, 39, the director of the Salvation Army shelter in the […]
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CRESTLINE, Calif. — Goodwin & Sons Market, with its old-fashioned soda counter and sweet shop, has been a hub of civic life in Crestline, high in the San Bernardino Mountains, for nearly eight decades. Now it’s starting over. When a devastating storm swept through the region northeast of Los Angeles, dropping nearly 10 feet of […]
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The F.T.C. is examining whether Twitter can protect user data and privacy, The Times reports. Though the agency had been looking at a former executive’s claims about inadequate security practices pre-Musk, it ramped up its inquiry into the company after he began the mass layoffs. Twitter is still operating under a consent decree it reached […]
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The stakes are high for Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid and the other companies with large pharmaceutical arms, including Kroger, Albertsons and Walmart. The Republican attorneys general wield powerful weapons, including the ability to press charges against companies or individual pharmacists who dispense the abortion pills or even pull the company’s pharmaceutical license in the state. […]
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SACRAMENTO — A California panel on Wednesday denied parole for Sirhan B. Sirhan, the man convicted in the 1968 assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, in its first review of the case since Gov. Gavin Newsom decided last year that Mr. Sirhan, 78, should not be released. The parole board’s latest decision, which followed a […]
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The share of United States farmland owned by Chinese people and companies is small and has not been growing substantially. Chinese owners held about 350,000 acres at the end of 2020, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report, and most of the farmland came from the Chinese acquisition of Smithfield Foods in 2013. Canadian […]
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