Fesia Davenport, CEO for Los Angeles County, announced she would resign from her position next month, citing undisclosed health issues. Los Angeles County’s chief executive officer Fesia Davenport, who has been on medical leave since October, has announced that she will resign next month. California L.A. County chief executive got $2-million settlement after Measure G fallout, records say Fesia Davenport, L.A. County’s chief executive, received a seven-figure payout due to professional fallout from a voter-approved ballot measure that will soon make her job obsolete, according to a letter she wrote to the county’s top lawyer that was released Tuesday. The elected county executive will be in place by 2028. The office of chief executive issued a statement Saturday saying chief operating officer Joe Nicchitta will continue serving as acting chief executive officer while Davenport remains on medical leave.

Bodycam shows Justin Timberlake sobriety testBodycam video released by the Sag Harbor Police Department shows Justin Timberlake struggling to perform sobriety tests when he was pulled over in 2024. "I'm a little nervous," Timberlake said to the officers as he tried to walk a straight line. The pop star had filed a petition to block the release of the arrest footage. CNN has reached out to Timberlake's attorney for comment.

Major appearances include Lionel Richie discussing his memoir, Sarah Jessica Parker on "The Radiant Dark," and Larry David discussing the making of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." The festival debuts an Audiobook and Podcast Stage presented by Spotify and expanded programming for the romance and fantasy genres. Attendees can expect eight outdoor stages, including the LA Times Stage, Children’s Stage, and a Food Stage featuring demos from Cassandra Peterson (Elvira). What they're saying:The festival organizers highlighted the diversity of this year's talent, ranging from literary giants to pop culture icons. Regarding the programming, the announcement notes, "the weekend festival will feature esteemed authors and cultural luminaries, spanning literary heavyweights, performers, celebrity authors, poets, politicians and journalists."

Saturday’s vote to advance the amendment required 60 votes under Senate rules. The Trump-backed voting bill would require voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before registering to vote and to show photo identification when voting, among other provisions. Trump has demanded that Republicans amend the bill to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports, restrict gender-transition care for children and ban most voting by mail. Senate Democrats have vowed to block the bill, which they warn would make it harder to vote. Republicans, who control the Senate, do not have the 60 votes they need to overcome a Democratic filibuster.

If senators don’t figure out a way to pass this bill, they say, Republicans won’t be able to win elections anymore. If the bill isn’t signed into law, they say, GOP voters will just stay home in the 2026 midterm elections. It’s all rather apocalyptic, especially given the legislation deals with a purported problem (noncitizen voting) for which there is precious little actual evidence. But when the poll asked about the actual piece of legislation, formerly known as the SAVE Act, support wasn’t anywhere close to those numbers. Attendees hold signs advocating for voting rights and against the SAVE America Act outside the U.S. Capitol on March 18, 2026.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGRobert Mueller, the former FBI director who later served as special counsel overseeing the 2016 investigation into Russian election interference, has died at the age of 81. Mueller served as FBI director from 2001 to 2013 after being nominated by President George W. Bush. In 2017, the Department of Justice appointed Mueller as special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He was appointed after Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey, who had been investigating possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. AdvertisementMueller’s probe led to dozens of indictments, and his report on the investigation, best known as the Mueller report, described extensive Russian interference in the election.

“His family asks that their privacy be respected.”AdvertisementFormer special counsel Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference on July 24, 2019. Trump posted on social media about Mueller’s death: “Robert Mueller just died. AdvertisementAfter several years in private practice, Mueller was asked by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to return to public service as special counsel in the Trump-Russia inquiry. He famously stood alongside Comey, then deputy attorney general, during a dramatic 2004 hospital standoff over federal wiretapping rules. AdvertisementU.S. Attorney Robert Mueller III stands outside his office building in Washington in this Aug. 8, 1996 photo.

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Mark Robinson admitted he did not tell the complete truth about making disturbing comments on a porn site and referring to himself as a “black Nazi,” and said he bent the truth in order to protect President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. Some of the things about the whole story, some of it — there’s some truth to it,” Robinson said on pastor Josh Hall’s “After the Call” podcast Thursday. He denied the report and even sued CNN, but eventually dropped the case. “We can deal with this on the back end, but I certainly don’t want to be the person that cost the President of the United States the election. Didn’t want to cost anyone else their election,” Robinson said.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGMS NOW host Chris Hayes took aim at President Donald Trump’s “whiplash” rhetoric on the war in Iran, comparing it to the scattershot messaging the president used in his first term during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said our allies will help us open the Strait of Hormuz. He said we will help our allies open the Strait of Hormuz. ‘Open schools.’ ‘Close the schools.’ ‘Everyone has to socially distance.’ ‘It will be open by Easter.’”AdvertisementHayes then wondered what the next steps in Trump’s Iran war plan are — if there even is a plan. I don’t think Donald Trump even knows,” Hayes said.

President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to airports unless congressional Democrats agree to a GOP-backed funding deal, escalating a standoff that has already slowed security lines at airports nationwide. The changes Democrats are seeking include a requirement that ICE agents get a warrant from a judge before forcefully entering homes and cease wearing masks. “If you want TSA workers to get paid, then vote yes,” Schumer said on the Senate floor, arguing that Republicans have tied TSA funding to broader Homeland Security spending without new limits on immigration enforcement. “Surely, the next thing people want after waiting hours in long TSA lines is to get wrongfully detained by ICE,” she said. Trump said that he would deploy the ICE agents if Democrats did not “immediately sign an agreement.”That type of operation, Sandweg said, would almost certainly target a population of immigrants without criminal history.

The secretive giving is the latest example of how outside groups are obscuring their spending in competitive campaigns. Special interest groups, including AIPAC, have sometimes tried to veil their spending by using affiliated organizations that appear unrelated to the parent organization’s stated policy goals. Super PACs poured more than $57 million into Illinois races, including two that ranked among the top 10 House primaries targeted with the most outside spending ever. “It absolutely should be a priority, particularly the issue of transparency,” Bean said of outside spending. “Kat’s campaign is being funded with tens of thousands of dollars from right-wing donors to Republicans and Donald Trump,” said an ad the group spent about $800,000 on.

The Algorand Foundation on Wednesday joined the ranks of crypto firms slashing headcount, losing 25% of its fewer than 200 employees and citing "the uncertain global macro environment" and a broader crypto downturn. "Not using AI at Gemini will soon be the equivalent of showing up to work with a typewriter instead of a laptop." To be fair, the company blamed the broader crypto environment. New job postings across major crypto job boards ran at roughly 6.5 per day in January, down around 80% from the same period a year earlier. Just the companies mentioned in this story — excluding Messari, which did not disclose numbers — have announced around 450 job cuts in a matter of weeks.

Starlink cutoff disrupts Russian coordinationRussia’s loss of Starlink access in February significantly degraded its ability to coordinate troops and drone operations. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, introduced a system that restricted Starlink access to approved users, allowing Ukrainian forces to retain connectivity while cutting off Russian units. Ukrainian troops said Russian forces were forced to rely more heavily on radio communications, which could be intercepted. Loss of control inside Russian unitsThe loss of Starlink also affected command and control within Russian units, reducing oversight of frontline troops. Strategic impact on the battlefieldUkrainian partisans have confirmed that the loss of Starlink access has crippled Russian battlefield command and led to incidents of friendly fire.