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Work has officially begun on a bullet train to connect Southern California with Las Vegas, bringing the number of active high-speed rail projects in California to two. The groundbreaking of Brightline West took place April 22, just months after the endeavor was awarded billions from the federal government to get the project off the ground. In December, the Biden Administration began releasing billions in federal grant funding to passenger rail projects across the country, including earmarking more than $6 billion for the two ambitious projects currently underway in California. The California High-Speed Rail Authority was awarded a historic $3.07 billion in grant funding from the Biden Administration for its state-spanning rail system, while Brightline West was chosen to receive around $3 billion for its SoCal-to-Las Vegas bullet train. Both projects aim to transport passengers to their destination at high speeds from the comfort of electric-powered trains while providing thousands of union jobs during construction. But their similarities mostly end there. So what’s the difference between the California High-Speed Rail and Brightline West? First and foremost: scale. The California High-Speed Rail project, aka CAHSR, is the

4/25: The Daily Report with John Dickerson – CBS News Watch CBS News John Dickerson reports on former President Trump’s immunity claim in the Supreme Court, a new strategy to tackle carbon emissions, and the story of an aid worker in Gaza risking everything to help those in need. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Is the U.S. in the middle of two Cold Wars? – CBS News Watch CBS News It’s been nearly 35 years since the Cold War ended, but the author of a new book argues not only is the U.S. facing a new Cold War — it’s facing more than one. David Sanger, author of “New Cold Wars,” joins CBS News to explain. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

Flint residents still seeking justice after 10 years of water crisis – CBS News Watch CBS News Ten years ago, a water crisis began when Flint, Michigan, switched to the Flint River for its municipal water supply. The more corrosive water was not treated properly, allowing lead from pipes to leach into many homes. CBS News correspondent Ash-har Quraishi spoke with residents about what the past decade has been like. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

A 56-year-old man who sexually assaulted a Moreno Valley girl was sentenced Thursday to three years in state prison. David Anthony Padilla of Moreno Valley pleaded guilty in January to two counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 years old. No charges were dismissed under the plea agreement, which Riverside County Superior Court Judge Thomas Kelly certified during the sentencing hearing Thursday at the Riverside Hall of Justice. According to sheriff’s Investigator James Merrill, detectives received information in January 2023 that Padilla had committed unspecified lascivious acts on a child, identified in court documents only as “C.B.,” in the 11000 block of Hummingbird Place, near Swan Street, in Moreno Valley. Merrill said sufficient evidence was gathered to obtain an arrest warrant for Padilla, who was taken into custody without incident at the intersection of Swan and Pigeon Pass Road on Feb. 3, 2023. Court documents said the defendant molested C.B. in June and December 2022. The circumstances behind the acts, including the defendant’s relationship, if any, to the victim were not disclosed. At the time of his arrest, Padilla was also under investigation

A man who owned a marijuana dispensary and the business’ manager were sentenced Thursday to 25 years to life in prison for murdering a community college student whose remains were found in a remote area of the Mojave Desert nearly two months after he went missing in South Los Angeles. Superior Court Judge Mark Hanasono tacked on an additional one-year sentence for dispensary owner Weijia Peng in connection with an allegation stemming from his use of a syringe filled with a deadly dose of ketamine during the Sept. 22, 2020, attack on 21-year-old Juan Carlos Hernandez. Peng, 34, of Alhambra, and co-defendant Ethan Kedar Astaphan, 30, of San Gabriel, were convicted Feb. 26 of first-degree murder for the slaying of Hernandez, who was a student at El Camino College in Torrance. Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian said the two men suspected that Hernandez was stealing from the dispensary where he worked, although law enforcement found no proof to back up the allegation made in messages that Peng and Astaphan had written each other in the days before the young man’s killing. A forensic expert was

Mike Pinder, the keyboardist and last surviving original member of the rock group the Moody Blues, has died. he was 82. Moody Blues bassist John Lodge posted a statement from Pinder’s family to Facebook. “Michael Thomas Pinder died on Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 at his home in Northern California, surrounded by his devoted family. Michael’s family would like to share with his trusted friends and caring fans that he passed peacefully. His final days were filled with music, encircled by the love of his family. Michael lived his life with a childlike wonder, walking a deeply introspective path which fused the mind and the heart.” Pinder, born in the Erdington area of Birmingham, England, in 1941, co-founded the group in May 1964, co-writing the early hit “Go Now.” After several early lineup changes, in 1967 they released “Days of Future Passed,” considered one of the first prog-rock albums, which also saw Pinder’s debut recording with a Mellotron — an early electro-acoustic keyboard that uses manipulated tape loops to create an otherworldly orchestral sound. The instrument became a hallmark of Pinder’s style in the group, including

Billie Eilish is so sick of talking about her Oscar-winning “Barbie” song. The singer, who co-wrote “What Was I Made For?” with brother-collaborator Finneas for Greta Gerwig’s movie, finally has time to talk about how tiring it was to promote the song and attend all those awards ceremonies. “Bro, nobody can get enough of me,” she told Rolling Stone. “Every second of every day is Barbie, Barbie, Barbie, Barbie, Barbie, which is great, but as soon as the Oscars are over and I lose, I’m going the f— away. I’m literally gone.” She did not, in fact, lose the Academy Award for original song, and she and Finneas became the youngest two-time winners in Oscars history. The duo also picked up a Golden Globe and a Grammy for the hit. Eilish told the magazine — in what she said was her first non-”Barbie” interview in more than a year — that the song became a bigger hit than she was anticipating. The 22-year-old hitmaker is set to release her third album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” on May 17. Though she is exploring different sounds

During Vietnam War protests, the Nixon administration called them “outside agitators.” Now my university’s provost prefers “participants — many of whom do not appear to be affiliated with USC.” Beyond Andrew Guzman’s misdemeanor of wordiness, the playbook is the same: Blame outsiders, as part of the justification for police action against students exercising their rights to question a heinous U.S. foreign policy that is killing tens of thousands of men, women and children half a world away. In his statement to the USC community Wednesday, Guzman claimed that almost entirely peaceful protesters in Alumni Park were “threatening the safety of our officers.” USC officials determined that its own police were unable to contain the chanting, singing, marching-in-a-circle demonstrators. Agenda items for yesterday’s student action, before it was broken up by police, included yoga, kite-making, Black/Palestinian solidarity, a Jewish Voice for Peace Kaddish reading and a sunset vigil. In the face of these allegedly threatening protests, USC officials shut down the campus and called in the Los Angeles Police Department. I watched riot-ready officers posted at 36th and Vermont with more than three dozen police cruisers.

Tirelessness proves tiresome in “Boy Kills World,” a jokey revenge massacre starring Bill Skarsgård as its unnamed “Boy.” The kills are a desperate bid for mythic carnage status, and the world is a dystopian cartoon unimaginatively cribbed from “The Hunger Games.” Apart from mistaking energy for exhilaration, the movie is a mostly flavorless puree of dark humor, comic-book sentimentality and ultra-bloody combat. But it’s the relentless and banal video-game aesthetic that may get you involuntarily reaching for a controller in hopes of finding a pause button. Wasting no time — because who needs background or mood? — Moritz Mohr’s feature debut drops us in a totalitarian post-apocalyptic world just when, as part of a televised ritual called the Culling, a little girl in a pink onesie is shot in cold blood by grim-looking, black-clad Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), matriarch of the sadistic family running this tyrannical land. This future indeed looks horrible. Cut to the girl’s surviving brother, now an orphan being raised over the years in the art of punch-stab-and-kick vengeance by a wild-eyed shaman whom action aficionados will recognize as Yayan

One person is dead and another person has been taken into custody after a fatal shooting in a busy corridor of downtown Los Angeles Thursday afternoon. Authorities responded to the intersection of 6th and Main streets at around 3:45 p.m., the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to KTLA.   Aerial footage from Sky5 captured officers, along with medical personnel from the L.A. Fire Department, attempting life saving measures on a victim who was lying on the sidewalk near a trail of blood.   Police and paramedics attempting life saving measures on a gunshot victim in downtown L.A. on April 25, 2024. (KTLA) Police and firefighters on the scene of a shooting in downtown L.A. on April 25, 2024. (KTLA) Police and firefighters on the scene of a shooting in downtown L.A. on April 25, 2024. (KTLA) Police and firefighters on the scene of a shooting in downtown L.A. on April 25, 2024. (KTLA) Police and firefighters on the scene of a shooting in downtown L.A. on April 25, 2024. (KTLA) Details are extremely limited and it’s unclear what led to the shooting.   At around 4:15

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Crews are battling a fire that broke out on the Oceanside Pier Thursday afternoon. The fire is burning in a vacant restaurant at the end of the pier, Oceanside Fire Department said. The business was formerly Ruby’s Diner. A large plume of smoke was seen rising from the burning building. Residents as far east as Vista reported on social media they could see the smoke. Aerial video showed at least three boats fighting the blaze from the ocean. Missing Camp Pendleton Marine contacted, NCIS says, but family still searching “We are asking all citizens to please stay away from the immediate area,” Oceanside Fire Department said on X, formerly known as Twitter. The cause of the fire is not yet known. Crews are battling a fire that broke out on the Oceanside Pier Thursday afternoon. (FOX 5/KUSI) Check back for updates on this developing story.

Trump attends criminal trial as Supreme Court hears immunity claim – CBS News Watch CBS News The Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted for actions taken while in office. Notably missing from the hearing was Trump himself, who had to attend his New York criminal trial. Tom Dupree, former deputy assistant attorney general, joins “America Decides” to unpack the day’s events. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On