Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
- Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until at least Sept. 18, a major reprieve for the Republican former president. Judge Juan Merchan agreed today to put it off while weighing the possible impact of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
- U.S. health officials have approved a new Alzheimer’s drug that can modestly slow the disease. It’s only the second drug that has been convincingly shown to slow the memory-destroying disease.
- Some Arab American, Jewish and civil rights groups blasted proposed state legislation they said would chill campus free speech and lead to increased targeting of Palestinian students and faculty members. They opposed a measure aimed at protecting students in California colleges and universities from harassment and violence, and another that would put Holocaust and genocide education in the hands of a group critics said ignored Palestinian perspectives.
- Top California Democrats announced this week that they will ask voters to approve a plan cracking down on retail theft in the state, in a plan intended to compete with another crime-focused ballot measure seeking to reform Prop 47.
- California State Attorney General Rob Bonta released the new statewide annual hate crime report last week. This year’s report found that while overall hate crimes in California have decreased, hate crimes targeting religious minorities have risen.