Gavin Newsom shakes hands with attendees after an event to promote and speak about his new book at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Israel, Iran, ICE, dyslexia, single moms and a pet otter named Potter were among the subjects discussed Tuesday evening at California Gov. “[The Trump administration’s] first rationale was we’ve got to make sure that they’re not armed with nuclear [weapons]. “The issue of Bibi [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] is interesting because he’s got his own domestic issues,” Newsom said. They were, after all, folks who had paid up to $80 a seat to hear the conversation and receive a copy of his book.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking steps to close Camp East Montana, a massive immigrant detention camp near the Mexican border that opened less than eight months ago, according to an internal ICE document reviewed by The Washington Post. One of the 10 buildings the government purchased for this plan is a large distribution center 15 miles south of Camp East Montana. At Camp East Montana, detainees live in enormous white tents, each as long as two football fields. In January, The Post interviewed a Camp East Montana detainee who said he witnessed Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards. “During the ensuing struggle, Campos stopped breathing and lost consciousness.”Deaths in ICE detention centers have occurred with increasing frequency in recent months.

NationalHegseth declares the U.S. sunk an Iranian shipMarch 4, 2026 | 3:07 PM GMTAt a Pentagon media briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces on March 4, a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.

Tuesday’s primaries exposed vulnerabilities that are expected to plague incumbent lawmakers in both parties throughout this year’s primary elections. Key races in Texas and North Carolina found voters acting on those preferences, and incumbents stumbling in response, a development that could foreshadow the results in races still to come. In Texas, the redistricting effort put two incumbents in the same district: Green, and newly elected Rep. Christian Menefee. !”In the House, incumbents losing races could have a major impact on Republican’s working majority. Privately, some House GOP leaders worry that lawmakers who lose their primaries, or are in runoffs, will no longer show up for work in Washington.

Caine declined to answer a reporter’s question about the possibility of deploying ground troops in Iran, something that Trump has not ruled out. UNITED STATES - MARCH 3: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives to the U.S. Capitol to brief senators on the military action against Iran on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. “You can say four weeks, but it could be six, it could be eight, it could be three,” he said. “So our air defenses and that of our allies have plenty of runway,” Hegseth said. The decrease could indicate that Iran is holding some weapons in reserve to prolong the conflict.

›Janisse Quiñones, the head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), has announced her resignation as part of a 'planned leadership transition'. Quiñones, who took the helm at LADWP in 2024, is returning to Puerto Rico to help modernize the island's electric grid. Under Quiñones' management, the department reinforced electric grid and water system reliability, enhanced coordination during wildfire events, and advanced investments to strengthen resilience amid increasing climate pressures. The players Janisse Quiñones The former head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, who is returning to Puerto Rico to help modernize the island's electric grid. Karen Bass The mayor of Los Angeles, who praised Quiñones' leadership and expertise during her tenure at LADWP.

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From the start of his war with Iran, President Donald Trump took care to acknowledge the ugly headlines that could result. He has many talents as a politician, but speaking about dead and wounded service members is decidedly not among them. The war with Iran is now less than a week old, and Trump and his administration have already made multiple awkward comments about the deaths of US soldiers. “And sadly, there will likely be more [deaths] before it ends,” Trump said, before adding: “That’s the way it is. These are also especially significant deaths, given they’re the first in a new war whose justification the administration has struggled mightily to explain.

“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday reacted after President Donald Trump was asked about the worst-case scenario in Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a U.S.-Israeli attack on the nation that is still underway. “And his answer was not the best,” Colbert said. Trump said the worst case would involve someone taking over in Iran who’s just as bad as Khamenei. “That could happen,” Trump said. You go through this and then in five years you realize you put somebody in who was no better.”Advertisement AdvertisementColbert agreed.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump plans to strip away layoff protections for longtime federal workers, a move unions warn could enable the administration to reward political loyalists during mass firings. It would also exclude more job categories from layoff protections, widening the pool of workers who could be cut. Many workers say their performance ratings have been unfairly downgraded since Trump took office, believing it is a pretext to reduce bonuses or make it easier to get rid of them. AdvertisementYet another administration scheme would reclassify thousands of workers to remove their civil-service protections, making it easier to fire them for politically motivated reasons. Unions and public interest groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at stopping Trump from moving forward with that plan.

AdvertisementBut nearly every Republican argued this week that Trump has legal authority to unilaterally wage war against Iran because its regime posed a threat to U.S. troops in the region. They forced a vote on the matter under the War Powers Act, which Congress passed in the wake of the Vietnam War to assert its constitutional authority over war-making. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a vocal critic of the Trump administration, voted with his party to block the war powers resolution. The GOP-controlled House of Representatives will vote on its own War Powers resolution blocking hostilities with Iran on Thursday. Among Democrats in the Senate, only John Fetterman of Pennsylvania broke ranks and voted to sustain the war in Iran.

It was beyond disconcerting to hear the Iranian foreign minister on Sunday sounding like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky circa 2022. That assassinates Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sparking retaliatory attacks by Iran across the Middle East. By contrast, President Trump took out a theocratic dictator who in January told his security forces to crush mass protests against him with lethal force , leading to thousands of deaths. Many of us remember President George W. Bush’s grandiose notions of exporting democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq. The protected U.S. zone in Baghdad during the Iraq war?

How to talk to your kids about what’s going on in IranShare via Close extra sharing options Email Facebook X LinkedIn Threads Reddit WhatsApp Copy Link URL Copied! PrintAs war with Iran escalates, parents may be struggling to decide whether they should talk to their children about the events unfolding. It can be tough to figure out how much a child should know if at all. Behavioral pediatricians shared why it may be good for parents to talk with their children about the war and what they should consider when approaching the conversation. “The idea is to let them know you are a safe person and a person who will help them understand things they wish to understand.”