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  • Exec order to end birthright citizenship met with lawsuits across nation

    Exec order to end birthright citizenship met with lawsuits across nation
    Jan 23 2025
    President Donald Trump has taken swift action to crack down on immigration, including ending the CBP One app and issuing an executive order to end birthright citizenship. For more, KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern spoke to Melissa Crow, director of litigation at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies in San Francisco.
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    8 min
  • CA begins long recovery from Palisades and Eaton fires in special session

    CA begins long recovery from Palisades and Eaton fires in special session
    Jan 22 2025
    A fierce new wildfire has exploded in Southern California, already burning thousands of acres near Castaic. Meanwhile, the Southland could get some much-needed rain and snow this weekend, but that also raises the risk of mudslides in the fire zone The worst of the Palisades and Eaton fires may be over, but the recovery will take years, and the state legislature got down to business today to begin that process, with hearings during a special session. For more, KCBS Political Reporter Doug Sovern spoke with State Senate President pro tem Mike McGuire, who represents Senate District 2, which covers the North Coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border.
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    9 min
  • CA files lawsuit against Trump's quest to end birthright citizenship

    CA files lawsuit against Trump's quest to end birthright citizenship
    Jan 21 2025
    Donald Trump has only been in office for a little more than one day and the state of California and the city of San Francisco are already suing him. This first lawsuit is to challenge his executive order ending birthright citizenship for babies born to undocumented immigrants, even some whose mothers are here legally. For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke with KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern.
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    9 min
  • Trump signs dozens of executive orders following inaugural speech

    Trump signs dozens of executive orders following inaugural speech
    Jan 21 2025
    Donald J. Trump is president again, sworn in today for a second term, capping perhaps the greatest political comeback in American history. President Trump gave a subdued 30-minute inaugural address and then immediately signed a flurry of executive orders to make good on many of his campaign pledges, including to crack down on illegal immigration, increase domestic energy production and reverse many of the policies of the Biden administration. He also made proclamations that have no teeth, such as declaring that he is restoring free speech, reversing the betrayals of the last four years and that from now on, the United States will only have two genders, male and female. He also decreed that Mt. Denali give up its Native American name and return to the name Mt. McKinley, and that the Gulf of Mexico will be rechristened the Gulf of America. For more, KCBS Radio news anchor Bret Burkhart and KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern spoke with Bob Shrum, longtime Democratic political consultant and director of the Center for the Political Future at USC.
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    9 min
  • 3 more indicted in corruption probe as Sheng Thao pleads innocent

    3 more indicted in corruption probe as Sheng Thao pleads innocent
    Jan 17 2025
    Doug Sovern is away today. Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao pleaded not guilty today, Jan. 17, to the several federal charges she's facing. Now, it's not just the former mayor facing an indictment, three others are also headed to court. This comes just two months after Thao was recalled by voters. To talk more about it, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke with KCBS Insider Phil Matier.
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    9 min
  • Former councilmember Loren Taylor on his run for Oakland mayor

    Former councilmember Loren Taylor on his run for Oakland mayor
    Jan 16 2025
    A truncated campaign for Mayor of Oakland is underway in earnest, with just three months until voters will choose someone to complete the term of recalled Mayor Sheng Thao. For now, City Council President Kevin Jenkins is serving as interim Mayor. But now retired Congresswoman Barbara Lee is running for the full-time job, and so is former Councilmember Loren Taylor, who narrowly lost to Sheng Thao in the ranked choice instant runoff in 2022. We had Representative Lee on this program on Tuesday. Today, KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern spoke with Loren Taylor.
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    7 min
  • Ceasefire deal boosts Biden's foreign policy legacy in the nick of time

    Ceasefire deal boosts Biden's foreign policy legacy in the nick of time
    Jan 15 2025
    President Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation this evening, with just five days left in his presidency. The speech comes on a day when Biden announced that he successfully brokered a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas to end the fighting in Gaza after 15 months of war. President Biden got that truce done just in time, in the closing days of his administration, which will become a part of his complex legacy. He had some significant and notable achievements in his four years as president, but his tenure was also clouded by questions about his age, voter concern about the economy, and his unprecedented move to step aside late in the campaign to allow Kamala Harris to take his place as the Democratic nominee for president. For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart and KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern spoke with political scientist Henry Brady, an esteemed professor at UC Berkeley, former dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at Cal, and past president of the American Political Science Association.
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    8 min
  • Former California rep. Barbara Lee on her bid for Oakland mayor

    Former California rep. Barbara Lee on her bid for Oakland mayor
    Jan 14 2025
    The campaign for a new Mayor of Oakland is underway now, after the recall of Mayor Sheng Thao. Former Representative Barbara Lee shook up the race by throwing her hat in the ring, making her the prohibitive favorite. Last week, Lee made her candidacy official, just days after retiring from Congress, and now she is the frontrunner in the April 15 special election for a new Mayor to finish the last two years of Thao’s term. For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart were joined by KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern. Sovern spoke with Congresswoman Lee, in one of her first major interviews since declaring her candidacy, to talk about her decision to run for Mayor.
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    8 min