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FAIR Plan Fix: What are lawmakers doing to fix California’s insurance and why is it taking so long? – CBS News Watch CBS News FAIR plan problems are nothing new, but suddenly, everyone is paying attention to California’s insurance crisis. Are we any closer to a fix? CBS News California investigates the flood of insurance-related bills in the aftermath of the L.A. fires and why it’s taken so long for lawmakers to take action. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

When military leaders from roughly 50 nations meet in Brussels on Friday to discuss aid shipments to Kyiv, one will be noticeably absent: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.Instead of attending the gathering, the 27th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, in person, Mr. Hegseth is expected to dial in and participate virtually.It will be the first time since the group’s creation three years ago that the Pentagon’s top civilian will not be physically present for an in-person meeting of the group, as the Trump administration treats Ukraine less like a partner and moves closer to Russia.President Trump promised on the…

Longtime Woodstock, N.B., resident Dave Tapley said he hasn’t been to the nearby U.S. border since at least November. And he has no plans to go anytime soon. “Because of all of the disrespect that Trump… I knew that was going to happen if he did it again. I wasn’t very fond of him the first time he was in, and even less so now,” he said Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Another resident said he doesn’t drive into the…

Fremantle champion Nat Fyfe has been locked in for his first WAFL game for premiership points this season. 

‘REASONABLE’ INTERVENTION For years, India has resisted foreign companies’ demands to revoke protectionist policies. Lobbying by Walmart and Amazon, for example, failed to ease regulations that protect small retailers. On e-waste, too, Modi’s administration is digging in. In a Mar 18 submission, the Environment Ministry urged the judges to dismiss the lawsuits, saying it was “reasonable” and within its powers to fix prices. The alternative of letting companies and recyclers determine prices may not account for all costs of environmentally sound waste management, the ministry said, adding that it wanted to prevent a “race to the bottom” in pricing. India’s…

The body lay wrapped in a maroon robe as a small cluster of mourners gathered last week to pay their respects. Buddhist monks chanted verses, praying for the deceased, who had been one of them.One monk, Ashin Javanar Linkhara, then held his dead colleague’s robe to his forehead and whispered the phrase used to announce the death of a loved one, “Impermanent, alas, are all formations.” He was clutching a dusty, thin and slightly torn cotton blanket that had belonged to the dead monk, Ashin Pyinnyar Tharmi, 27. It was found near his body in the rubble of a monastery…

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Making Showers Great AgainPresident Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday repealing Biden-instituted restrictions on water flow in shower heads.On Thursday, Jimmy Fallon said the good news is “more powerful shower heads are on the way. Bad news: They’re all made in China.”“Tomorrow, the president is scheduled to get his annual physical. They should do that in front of the cameras, too. They should have…

Michael Hurley, a singer and songwriter whose music — an idiosyncratic kind of folk mixed with a variety of other styles — made him a revered elder to younger artists like Cat Power, Devendra Banhart and the band Yo La Tengo, died on April 1 in Portland, Ore. He was 83.Mr. Hurley’s family announced the death but did not specify the cause.Mr. Hurley was visibly ill during his final shows — two on March 28 and 29 in Knoxville, Tenn., as part of the Big Ears Festival, and the third on March 31 in Asheville, N.C. — before flying back…

When Joan Campbell invited the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at her all-white church in the Cleveland suburbs in 1965, she had no idea of the furor it would cause.Bomb threats were made to her family’s spacious home in Shaker Heights, where Ms. Campbell was a full-time wife and mother. Some members of Heights Christian Church, where she worshiped, refused to let Dr. King cross its threshold.“He finally did speak there, but he spoke outside, on the steps of the church, and there were at least 3,000 people there to hear him, and that would have never…

For months, Nintendo, the maker of famed video game series like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, had expected the morning of April 2 to be a celebration.To much fanfare, the company announced the price and release date for the Switch 2, its new video game console eight years in the making. At an event in New York City, Doug Bowser, Nintendo of America’s president, took the stage as fans cheered the arrival of new games to accompany the console; Mario Kart, Donkey Kong and Kirby among them.Then, later that same day, President Trump announced tariffs that sent global stock…