Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vetoed bills that would have provided tangible benefits to those descendants, though he approved a state agency to determine who qualifies for potential reparations.
Supporters of reparations for Black Californians rallied outside City Hall in San Francisco in 2023. The movement faces challenges as state leaders consider forms of compensation.
The justices on the State Supreme Court heard arguments in a long dispute about whether the Tesla chief executive’s compensation was fair to shareholders.
In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the justices grappled with whether there should be a time limit on using race as a factor in carving up voting districts.
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has criticized Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani over his past support for decriminalizing prostitution. Mr. Mamdani’s campaign has not emphasized the issue.
The justices have shown a willingness to chip away at the landmark civil rights legislation. A Louisiana case could unravel much of its remaining power.
President Lyndon B. Johnson with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after signing the Voting Rights Act in August 1965. Since then, the law has served to protect the voting power of Black Americans.
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.
One of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s signature projects since he joined the court 20 years ago has been to grant the president more and more power to fire executive officers.
The U.S. government is shut down. Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a stopgap funding bill, leading to the shutdown. The journalist Molly Jong-Fast argues that the Democrats did the smart thing by refusing to acquiesce to President Trump.
A potential deal to reduce TikTok’s ties to China would give the app a new board with six American directors out of seven, the White House press secretary said.
The president told reporters Friday that China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, had approved a deal for TikTok. But he also suggested the agreement was a work in progress.
As President Trump extended for a fourth time a deadline to determine TikTok’s future in the United States, details of an agreement to address concerns about the app began to emerge.
Top economic officials met in Madrid for a second day, with deadlines looming on tariffs and a ban on TikTok in the United States if it is not sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance.
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