Mikhail Zinshteyn
CalMatters-
A federal judge sided with UCLA in ordering the Trump administration to restore hundreds of health and science research grants. Even more funding is at stake going forward for UC campuses. -
A 19th Century law called the Posse Comitatus Act defines what the military can do on U.S. soil. President Trump broke that law by sending the National Guard to L.A., a federal judge rules. -
Doctors regularly need to pay more than $300,000 for medical school, including tuition and housing. New regulations signed by President Donald Trump cap their federal borrowing at $200,000 for medical degrees. -
California could lose votes in the electoral college and suffer economic setbacks if President Trump’s immigration crackdown deters people from moving to the state. -
California voted to bar immigrants from schools and social services in 1994. Now most Californians see immigrants as a benefit to the state. -
President Trump had a legitimate interest in protecting federal employees when he deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles, an appeals court ruled. -
Department of Justice lawyers representing the Trump administration returned to court today to repeat their maximalist argument that the president has the authority to commandeer state National Guards troops and that judges have no authority to second guess him. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed major cuts to Medi-Cal and other social programs to close a $12 billion deficit. Democrats in the state Legislature are pushing back, proposing more borrowing. -
At least 24 University of California and California State University campuses lost training grants that provided their students with annual stipends of approximately $12,000 or more. -
The UC has grown its enrollment of California undergraduates by 16,000 in the last five years. University officials say they won’t be able to continue that growth if state funding is cut. -
The National Institutes of Health restored a leading University of California researcher’s $36 million grant studying dementia on Friday after terminating it three weeks ago as part of the Trump administration’s DEI purge. The UC says others were restored, too. -
Some students work multiple jobs and give up extracurricular activities to supplement their financial aid. Many say it’s worth it.
