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Victor Bericoto says his brother’s girlfriend was killed in the earthquake in Venezuela. Just awful, prayers for the family and for the country and to Bericoto’s brother Jose.
DEAL WATCH: Senate Local Gov hearing this morning was canceled.
Looks like the tax deal is dead -- no vote on LA Mansion Tax deal, full steam ahead for @HJTA tax-limiting initiative as @joncoupal balked
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The group behind the billionaire's tax in California announces virtual press conference at 5:30pm tomorrow, the deadline for CA's Secretary of State to certify measures on the ballot.
Group will brief media "about the historic effort to prevent widespread hospital closures and save patient lives by ensuring billionaires finally pay their fair share."
NEW:
After leaving prison, Sal Prasad promised to spend his life helping others.
Instead, he became known as a serial sexual predator among formerly homeless women in San Francisco. His employer, HomeRise, looked the other way.
Gift link @sfchronicle https://t.co/UKLgpnQUFi
New: DHS is changing its guidelines for the Iranian team ahead of its game Friday in Seattle, now allowing them to enter the U.S. two days in advance, a request the federation had made to match other World Cup teams. They will still be asked to leave for Mexico after it ends.
NEW: The Trump administration told a federal court judge in Michigan that it plans to sell the warehouse it purchased to detain immigrants in the state.
This is the first public acknowledgement of plans to sell warehouses after our story last week.
Exclusive: In a memo sent to ICE employees, acting director David Venturella said the agency is eliminating its requirement to report deaths that occur within 30 days of people being released from its custody. https://t.co/vZVJ2iE1EQ
USC part-time, adjunct and full-time non-tenure-track faculty have vote to unionize -- forming one of the largest private campus faculty unions in the U.S.
But USC is challenging the result, asking the National Labor Relations Board to review the vote.
https://t.co/5y6qUpcH1K
The US House Ethics Committee is investigating Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez over allegations of sexual misconduct, sources tell CNN.
In a lengthy statement for this story, Gomez acknowledged having made mistakes that caused his family pain but said they had not violated the law or any House ethics rules. He said he would "cooperate with any Ethics Committee inquiry and provide it with whatever information it might need. https://t.co/09Gd7q7k1P
CBS News Exclusive: Internal government documents show the Trump administration is developing a plan that would allow U.S. immigration officials to quickly reject some asylum applications without interviewing the applicants.
https://t.co/4IHnkGDaXp
NEW: The ICE agent who killed Keith Porter Jr. in Los Angeles allegedly told his girlfriend's ex-husband ICE would criminally prosecute the man for leaking his identity, according to court records and a recording. Latest w/ @liborjany https://t.co/ftydopFH5F
BREAKING: A handful of federal agents in unmarked cars this morning arrested a man outside his home in the Sunnyside neighborhood of San Francisco.
He was later seen was being escorted into the ICE field office downtown.
https://t.co/RTqZfsnhad
LA Times owner Patrick Shoon-Shiong just bought a Major League Volleyball expansion team for $15-20 million and says the Times will cover it. The Times does not have a full-time beat writer covering the Clippers, Angels, Kings, Ducks, UCLA, Galaxy, LAFC, Angel City, Sparks, etc.
🚨 ALL EVACUATION ORDERS LIFTED 🚨
All evacuation orders related to the Garden Grove hazardous materials incident have been lifted.
Unified Command (Fire, Law, EPA, and County Health) have confirmed there is: >>>>
***INCIDENT UPDATE***
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