SAN DIEGO — The Chula Vista City Council voted 4-0 Tuesday to adopt an ordinance adding Chapter 2.19, known as the “Safe Neighbor Ordinance,” to the Chula Vista Municipal Code. Mayor John McCann recused himself from the vote, citing his position as a U.S. Navy Reserve officer.

The measure, which passed on the consent calendar as its ...Read more

NEW YORK — An immigration judge denied New York City Council staffer Rafael Rubio’s asylum case and ordered his removal from the U.S. on Wednesday.

Judge Charles Conway ordered Rubio removed because of a missing signature on his asylum paperwork, Council Speaker Julie Menin said, adding that Rubio’s lawyer plans to appeal the decision.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California political establishment reacted with outrage and sadness to a report from The New York Times Wednesday detailing how Cesar Chavez, one of the nation’s most storied labor leaders and a civil rights icon, sexually abused women and girls for years.

The Times interviewed 60 people who corroborated the ...Read more

BOSTON — The Boston City Council is weighing legislation that would grant immigrants with “legal status” but without full citizenship the right to vote in local elections.

Councilor Julia Mejia introduced a home rule petition Wednesday that would extend voting rights to noncitizens with “legal status” — a number she put at roughly ...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione, who is scheduled to go before a New York state jury in June on charges that he murdered UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson, is seeking to delay a subsequent federal trial until 2027.

Defense lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo told U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett in Manhattan Wednesday that it will be ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval said the university will remove its statue of Cesar Chavez, prominently displayed in the campus Peace Garden, amid “profoundly troubling claims” against the civil rights icon emerged Wednesday in a New York Times investigation.

Jiménez-Sandoval said Wednesday afternoon in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith appeared to downplay a question about rising beef prices last month by saying Americans have “so many proteins to choose from.”

Fellow Republican Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio told a conservative podcaster last week that people living in poverty lack the experience to handle the “real world.”

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In an abrupt and unexpected gesture, the government of Costa Rica announced Wednesday the closure of its embassy in Havana and told Cuban diplomats to leave San José, the country’s capital, citing the Cuban government violations of human rights and lack of legitimacy.

“We must rid the hemisphere of communists,” Costa Rican president ...Read more

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, says she was sexually abused and impregnated by the late labor leader, whose legacy the union will no longer celebrate this year.

The civil rights advocate, who was 66 when he died in 1993, typically is commemorated on March 31, which in 2014 was dubbed Cesar Chavez Day, a ...Read more

Last October, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sold his multibillion-dollar ownership interest in Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services company he led for more than three decades, to trusts benefiting his four children — a move designed to comply with federal ethics rules.

At about the same time, one of the trusts did something ...Read more

A congressional candidate in Arizona is leading a campaign to recall Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, whose department is heading up the Nancy Guthrie investigation.

Tucson GOP hopeful Daniel Butierez is hoping to turn the city’s 7th Congressional District red after Adelita Grijalva finishes the term started by her dad prior to his death in ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall, who's been criticized for blocking bills to make the Legislature's records available to the public, claimed Tuesday to have won a transparency award from an organization that might not exist.

At a press conference inside the Capitol, the Richland Township Republican told reporters he had been...Read more

Undergraduate students from families with an annual income below $150,000 can now attend the University of Notre Dame for free beginning in the 2026-27 academic year, according to a university statement.

The change is part of a broader university initiative, Pathways to Notre Dame, which was initially announced at the inauguration of the ...Read more

RICHMOND, Calif. — Driven by public safety concerns, automatic license plate readers will be turned back on in Richmond, months after they were shut down over privacy risks.

In addition to turning the cameras back on, a 4-3 vote by the City Council on Tuesday extended the city’s contract with Flock Safety, one of the largest surveillance ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the pages of history, they were a team that changed the world.

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded the United Farm Workers and brought new life to the American labor movement, drawing national attention to the brutal working conditions and unlivable wages that agricultural workers experienced.

Chavez was the iconic ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and the city’s inspector general blamed each other’s offices on Wednesday for hampering their ongoing probes into city contractor payments after an oversight report alleged that two community-based organizations submitted fraudulent invoices to the mayor’s public safety office.

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next Homeland Security secretary, committed to working with lawmakers of both parties to address immigration policy concerns and said he would walk back some of the policies implemented under his predecessor.

Mullin, the Oklahoma Republican and former mixed ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Four of the five members of the Board of Fire Commissioners, which oversees the Los Angeles Fire Department, are stepping down at a time when the department is under intense scrutiny because of its missteps in handling the devastating Palisades fire.

The departures, which include board President Genethia Hudley Hayes, come after...Read more

Federal Reserve officials left interest rates unchanged and continued to expect one rate cut this year as they acknowledged increased uncertainty due to war in the Middle East.

Chair Jerome Powell emphasized that to resume lowering rates, officials would have to see progress in reducing inflation, especially goods inflation that has been ...Read more