Jumping ship: HHS secretary’s plans for California governorship already include hiring and spending on campaign

Washington Examiner— Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is preparing his political future after the Biden administration. Becerra’s reported plans to run for governor of California in 2026 to follow Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) may be more developed than those in the Biden administration thought. The secretary has been having detailed conversations about a gubernatorial campaign […]

Washington Examiner—California’s new affirmative action plan. The University of California, San Diego, is coming up with creative ways to implement a form of affirmative action for admittance into its engineering programs. Affirmative action was illegal in California long before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that colleges and universities could no longer consider an applicant’s race when admitting him or […]

International Business Times UK—Utah Couple Doesn't Know Cat Jumped Into Amazon Package, Accidentally Ships It to California. A Utah couple accidentally shipped their pet cat in an Amazon return package, trapping it without food or water for six days. The story of Galena, the cat who defied the odds, was eventually discovered safe and well in California.One of the cat's owners, Carrie Clark, noticed the pet had gone missing on April 10th. Clark, along with family and friends, searched the couple's house and neighbourhood for nearly a week and plastered missing posters around town, hoping to locate the cat."The anxiety...

Breaking Defense—Questions hang over UK’s new, ambitious defense spending plan: Analysts. Such is the scale of British Army acquisition problems alone that they could not be resolved if the UK moved to a long term spending settlement of even 4 percent GDP, an expert told British lawmakers.