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Reps. Ken Calvert, Young Kim to face off in new 40th District race By City News Service
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epublican Reps. Ken Calvert and Young Kim are set to face off in the 2026 midterm elections for the newly drawn 40th District as a result of Proposition 50. Calvert currently represents California's 41st Congressional District while Kim represents the 40th Congressional District. Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Prop 50, which redraws the state's congressional boundaries for the next three elections in an effort to boost the Democratic Party's already sizable advantage in the U.S. House delegation. Prop 50 was touted
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by Gov. Gavin Newsom as a response to a similar measure in Texas that favored Republicans. An analysis by the election news website Ballotpedia said it would shift five Republicanheld congressional districts toward Democrats. Democrats currently have a 43-9 advantage in California's House delegation. "I announced this week, after Prop. 50's passage, that I would be running in the newly drawn 40th Congressional District. That's the district I currently live in and have lived in my entire life," Calvert wrote Sunday in an op-ed for Southern California News Group.
See District race Page 27 LA County District 1 Supervisor Hilda Solis places food items in a car trunk during a food assistance event Saturday in El Monte. | Photo courtesy of Supervisor Hilda Solis' office
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he more than onemonth federal government shutdown appeared to be nearing its end Wednesday after several Senate Democrats voted for the spending package earlier this week. Among other disruptions, the shutdown caused a halt in food assistance funding to states that led to lawsuits seeking to require the Trump administration to use contingency funds during the shutdown. A Supreme Court decision late Friday stayed a Rhode Island judge's order that the administration resume paying full benefits. On Saturday, the USDA, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ordered states to pay 65% of benefits to the nearly 42 million Americans who get
SNAP benefits. "States must not transmit full benefit issuance files to EBT processors," according to the USDA's memorandum Saturday. "Instead, States must continue to process and load the partial issuance files that reflect the 35 percent reduction of maximum allotments detailed in the November 5 guidance. "To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized," the memo continued."Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November. ... "Failure to comply with this memorandum may result in USDA taking various actions, including cancellation of the Federal share of State administrative costs and
holding States liable for any overissuances that result from the noncompliance," according to the memo. The House of Representatives was preparing to vote Wednesday on the spending legislation after the Senate’s 60-40 vote on Monday. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday extended its temporary stay of the district court’s decision until Thursday evening as justices consider the Trump administration’s renewed request to stay the decision indefinitely while the lawsuit progresses. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the “administration has run back” to the nation’s highest court “to avoid fully funding SNAP benefits. It is unconscioSee Food aid Page 03
nable,” he said in a statement. Some SNAP recipients “still don’t know where their next meal is coming from thanks to the Trump Administration’s cruelty.” Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and current gubernatorial candidate criticized the seven Democratic senators who voted to move the spending deal forward. "Healthcare costs are skyrocketing because Republicans chose their billionaire donors over middle-class Americans — and now, after a 40-day gov shutdown, some Senate Democrats are willing to cave on a "deal" that has no concessions on healthcare costs," Villaraigosa, a Democrat, posted Sunday
Former Desert Hot Springs officer charged in high school use-of-force case By City News Service
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former Desert Hot Springs Police Department officer was charged Friday with assault with a deadly weapon, filing a false report, and assault by a peace officer under color of authority in connection with a 2024 high school use-offorce incident. The incident occurred around 1:55 a.m. on Nov. 8, 2024, when Desert Hot Springs police officers responded to a report of a burglary in progress at Desert Hot Springs See Former officer Page 14
High School, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office. Responding officers encountered fourmale suspects who ran from them as they attempted to make contact. One officer, later identified as Johnny Acosta, pursued a suspect, leading to a use-of-force incident. Police said officers continued searching the area, and Acosta later located a second suspect, resulting in another