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California
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 204 stories to California since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from California.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In California
10 storiesTrump tells cheering Nebraska rally to let Iran "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego, "a small price to pay" for keeping the country safe.
Newsom: "He is deranged and dangerous"
Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama sue California, New York and Massachusetts at the Supreme Court to void shield laws protecting providers who mail abortion pills.
Separate suit names 30 providers
23 states sue to block DHS rule letting officials deny green cards over food stamps or Medicaid, four days before it takes effect.
Prior version lost in court
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from freezing $10 billion in child care and safety net funding to Colorado, California, New York, Minnesota, and Illinois after officials couldn't provide evidence of fraud.
Based on one YouTuber's video
DHS whistleblower says leaders ordered agents to enter state voter-record sites under false pretenses and clear five cases an hour hunting noncitizen voters before the midterms.
Naturalized citizens wrongly flagged as noncitizens
Trump administration returns to the Supreme Court a third time in 6 weeks over its mail-ballot restrictions, filing on a Sunday 2 days after North Carolina began mailing ballots.
Second appeal since Thursday, first withdrawn
US diesel hits a record $5.85 a gallon, up nearly 60% in a year, as Iran and Ukraine wars knock refineries offline.
Analyst: "stealth tax" passed to consumers
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to unblock Postal Service mail-ballot rules that 23 states are fighting, one day before North Carolina begins mailing ballots.
Second such request in 6 weeks
Federal judge rules unconstitutional the immigration provision Rubio used to deport foreign students for criticizing Israel, in a case won by Stanford's student newspaper.
Noncitizen staffers quit, pulled Gaza stories
Meta agrees to pay states up to $17 billion and cap minors at 2 hours daily to settle the landmark child safety trial midway through testimony.
Terms tighten if TikTok joins
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesCalifornia Supreme Court orders Riverside County Sheriff Bianco, a former Republican candidate for governor, to return 650,000 ballots he illegally seized.
Ballots from California's redistricting vote
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
Federal judge rules DHS broke the law with its plan to halve FEMA's 23,000-person workforce over FEMA's own objections, calling the cut "pulled from thin air."
Violates Post-Katrina reform law
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