도널드 트럼프

Gov. Gavin Newsom sits at a table surrounded by three lawmakers behind him as he signs several documents.

정치

Newsom’s 2025: Wildfire crisis, budget cuts and bombastic opposition to Trump

Gavin Newsom's year: LA fires, budget cuts, Trump battles and a Prop 50 win. What's next for California's governor in his final year?

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진 쿠앙

• 12월 31, 2025

A wide view of several semi-trucks exiting a port after picking up shipping containers.

경제

Year in review: Trump drives uncertain economy

A variety of decisions and statements from President Donald Trump created a great deal of economic uncertainty, especially in California.

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레비 수마가이사이

• 12월 29, 2025

A group of law enforcement officers in full riot gear stands in formation at night, illuminated by bright vehicle headlights behind them. The officers wear camouflage uniforms, helmets with visors, gas masks, and carry batons. A police vehicle is partially visible in the background.

정당성

Trump’s immigration crackdown upended life in California. It continues as the new year begins

President Trump focused on California first as his administration rolled out its crackdown on unauthorized immigration, sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and carrying out high profile raids throughout the state.

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웬디 프라이

• 12월 29, 2025

A close-up view of a child receiving a vaccine shot in their arm with their sleeve rolled up. Both the nurse and the child are wearing face masks and sitting near a table inside a make-shift clinic.

건강

Federal cuts and reversals upend California health care in 2025

California health care was hit hard in 2025: more than three million may lose Medicaid, Covered California subsidies at risk, and the state froze enrollment for undocumented residents amid budget cuts.

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아나 B. 이바라

• 12월 26, 2025

A wide-view of a classroom as students sit in round tables and raise their hands in the air.

K-12 교육

California K-12 schools brace for another year of uncertainty: 2025 in review

California schools are likely to face continuing threats of funding cuts and more uncertainty.

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캐롤린 존스

• 12월 25, 2025

Students walk across a walkway near a tree in front of a geometric-shaped building on a college campus on a cloudy day.

고등교육

A year of cuts and court orders for California’s colleges and universities: 2025 in review

In their approach to higher education, Trump and Newsom shared one thing in common this year: reducing funding for colleges and universities. The federal government pulled back research funds while the state, facing a deficit, imposed austerity measures on the UC and Cal State University systems.

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아담 에첼먼

• 12월 25, 2025

Mist drifts through a wide valley surrounded by dark, rugged mountain cliffs, with a tall, rounded granite peak rising in the distance under a hazy sky.

논평

Protecting California’s public lands from oil and gas drilling is defending public health

Federal plans for oil drilling along a million acres in California would change healthful, wild spaces into sources of pollution and illness.

By Ashley McClure, M.D. • 12월 23, 2025

A group of officers, dressed in full tactical gear and wearing face masks, stands in the roadway of a neighborhood street during the middle of the day. In the foreground, we can see over the shoulders of a couple of people as they point to the officers, with one of the officers visible between the two people.

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California is banning masks for federal agents. Here’s why it could lose in court

The Trump administration is suing to block a new California law that would ban federal law enforcement officers from wearings masks on duty. It was shaped by concerns over masked immigration agents in Los Angeles.

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나이젤 두아라

• 12월 22, 2025

A resident shovels mud deposited by flooding from his driveway in Cutler on March 12, 2023. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local

환경

Trump move to break up atmospheric research center threatens wildfire, storm predictions

‘This is only going to hurt Americans.’ Scientists, California state officials say the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle a key climate science hub will put public safety at risk.

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레이첼 베커

• 12월 20, 2025

A person wraps bags of potatoes placed in card boxes while surrounded by other people doing the same.

논평

New federal law harms families who rely on CalFresh to put food on the table

Guest Commentary written by Hannah Mudgett Hannah Mudgett is a student at University of California, Berkeley, pursuing a master’s in public health Every day more than 5 million Californians rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known here as CalFresh, to keep food on the table. It is our state’s largest anti-hunger program. Yet […]

By Hannah Mudgett • 12월 15, 2025