Newsom signs racial justice bills on corporate board diversity, reparations, courts
By Alexander Nieves09/30/2020 05:31 PM EDT Updated: 09/30/2020 05:42 PM EDT Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed bills aimed at addressing systematic racism in California’s court system and corporate boardrooms, as well as studying reparations for African Americans. Impact: Lawmakers said during a virtual bill-signing event that they introduced many proposals before the Minneapolis police killing […]
‘Acceptable carnage’: Big school districts wrestle with reopening
By Andrew Atterbury , Nicole Gaudiano , Mackenzie Mays , Juan Perez Jr. , Madina Touré 09/30/2020 12:59 PM EDT Months into a pandemic that cut short one school year for most students and is on the verge of destroying a second, the country’s largest school districts are still grappling with how to get back into the […]
U.S. bars palm oil imports from large Malaysian producer
By Doug Palmer09/30/2020 11:41 AM EDT Updated: 09/30/2020 06:02 PM EDT U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday it was barring imports of palm oil from a large Malaysian producer because of evidence the oil is produced with forced labor. Why CBP took the step: The order against FGV Holdings Berhad and its subsidiaries and joint […]
Trump signs stopgap spending measure to avert a shutdown
By Caitlin Emma09/30/2020 06:18 PM EDT Updated: 10/01/2020 07:08 AM EDT President Donald Trump signed a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown early Thursday morning after briefly missing the midnight deadline for his signature, averting an unlikely but potentially disastrous scenario that would kneecap federal agencies in the weeks before the presidential election. […]
