The federal government owns hundreds of millions of square feet of office space around the country – most of it is in Washington, D.C., California, and Maryland – and it’s all now a target of the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency.

President Donald Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell said there will be strings attached to California wildfire aid. “As a Californian I’m all for it,” Grenell said during a conversation with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Friday.

After voters shunned Kamala Harris and sent Donald Trump back to the White House, California Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately positioned himself as the leader of the opposition. Newsom called a special legislative session,

The states' lawsuit claims that Musk has "roamed through the federal government unraveling agencies, accessing sensitive data, and causing mass chaos and confusion."

Keeping up the demands “is a good way for the senators to show their Democratic constituents they are standing up to Trump. So this is potentially effective electoral politics,” said Christian Grose, academic director at the University of Southern California’s Schwarzenegger Institute.

But the typical California shopper’s crystal ball seems fogged. Ponder the statewide “expectations” index, a forward-looking yardstick. It’s off 4% for the month to its lowest since April 2024. This measurement of the future is down 26% since October and is 12% below average. Shopper angst is a national malady, too.

Palm Desert High School claimed first place at the 20th annual Academic WorldQuest competition on Feb. 13, held at the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus. Sareen Bhakta, Kiamehr Karagah, Shaurya Mahajan and Tilda Rector will now advance to the National Academic WorldQuest competition on April 28.

Despite resistance from the Trump White House, California government officials and administrators at the state’s ports say they are still going full-speed ahead on offshore wind projects.

A look at key moments at the White House’s signature outdoor setting amid reports that it may be turned into a Mar-a-Lago-like patio.

Super Bowl champs tend to accept an invitation to visit White House, but it's unclear whether one will be extended by Trump to the Philadelphia Eagles