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The University of California hopes to enroll nearly 3,600 more students next year, but is bracing for an impending budget shortfall that could make it difficult to pay for the enrollment increase. University of California officials said Wednesday that the 10-campus university system will receive $504.7 million in 2025-26 if the state follows through on a warning earlier this year to cut higher education funding as it grapples with its budget deficit. told regents that they could face a financial shortfall. In addition to the decline in state funding, increased expenses are expected to fill the University of California’s budget,…

CAMARILLO, Calif. — Stanley Jensen worked with firefighters to pry open a safe that had melted into the rubble of his family’s home.While Mr. Jensen used a window screen to sift through the safe’s ashes for diamonds and stones, his wife, Dawn D’Amato, turned black, searching for evidence of the couple’s life before the wildfires. He was wandering around the base.“Grammy, I made this for you,” cried granddaughter Violet, pointing into the ashes. D’Amato picked up a clay butterfly sculpture with the 11-year-old’s name engraved on it. Beverly Hills firefighter Missy Follett retrieved a wall safe from the rubble of…

Sandra Sanchez explained that she had a severe headache. They occur when she starts thinking about where her husband and two sons will live.To make way for a larger apartment complex, her landlord plans to demolish the six-unit bungalow court in South Los Angeles that the family has called home for decades. The stress can be overwhelming because her husband makes only $38,000 a year at a nearby factory, and the rent for a nearby apartment is hundreds of dollars more than she is currently paying. “They are forcing us to live on the streets,” said Sanchez, 55.Some tenant advocates…

Donald Trump has promised to launch the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history if re-elected. That commitment is already taking shape with his appointment. Stephen Miller will become deputy chief of staff, and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will become secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Both are notorious anti-immigrant activists. And then there’s Tom Homan, whom President Trump has dubbed the “border czar.”In a recent interview on “60 Minutes,” correspondent Cecilia Vega asked Homan what such a campaign would look like.Cecilia Vega: Is there a way to carry out mass deportations without separating families?Tom Homan: Of course it…

Isabel Jurado had good reason to smile when I met her earlier this week at the Highland Park home she shares with her father and teenage daughter.The 34-year-old endured the political upheaval she first caused in March by defeating incumbent Kevin de Leon in a City Council seat that stretches from Downtown to Boyle Heights to Eagle Rock, when she and He was elected before any other Latino congressman. primary member. Despite losing the general election and facing an onslaught of negative ads, mailers and headlines in the weeks leading up to polling day, she is still the subject of…

Friendship is at the heart of the fight between 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and much younger YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul. Friction helped build hype for the bout, which tests how to bring boxing to the masses, the first-ever martial arts to be offered on streaming platform Netflix rather than pay-per-view or traditional cable. “I think they’re Mike Tyson’s biggest fans,” Paul said, trying to explain the boos he received when the two appeared together to hype up events in recent months. “And I’m the new kid on the block, the disruptor, the loudmouth, the polarizing guy,” Paul said. “And…

A 49-year-old man has been identified in connection with three attempted carjackings of women in several areas in East Los Angeles, police said Wednesday. In the horrifying incident on November 9, some of which was captured on surveillance video, the suspect, now identified by police as Maurice LaTorre, violently attacked unsuspecting victims. It shows that there are. The first attempt occurred around 10:40 a.m. at a gas station in the 3200 block of North Broadway, according to a Los Angeles Police Department news release. A 49-year-old man was seen filling up his car with petrol and approaching the woman. The…

A man posing as an Uber driver, who said he was driving on a family member’s account, was arrested on suspicion of raping a 15-year-old girl outside a school in Southgate late last month. The horrifying, traumatic ordeal unfolded on October 23 after the teen’s mother, whose first name was Estela, ordered a rideshare to drop her daughter off at school. The victim said the sexual assault continued for several minutes just outside Southgate High School after the man got into her back seat and overpowered her. “He grabbed her by the neck, pinned her against the seat and pulled…

The incoming Trump administration is considering locations and consulting with private prison companies for a major expansion of immigration detention centers to hold immigrants before deportation as part of President-elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation plan. Two people familiar with the plan told NBC News. The goal is to increase the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention beds (41,000 currently allocated by Congress) to temporarily hold the large number of immigrants awaiting deportation after being apprehended in the United States. It is said that the goal is to double the amount. The plan also includes reviving a policy of…

It’s been nearly two months since Hoda Kotb announced she was leaving TODAY, and viewers can now find out a familiar face will be sliding into her chair as co-anchor. Craig Melvin, who has been with NBC News for nearly 14 years, will move into the co-anchor seat alongside Savannah Guthrie during the 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. time slots. After Hoda said goodbye to the morning shift on Friday, January 10th, he will start work on Monday, January 13th. Craig has held numerous positions, from his longtime weekend co-anchor on TODAY to his current role as TODAY’s third-hour co-host…