States Sue Over Grant Conditions | Los Angeles News

Presented by The Plant Daddies — rare specimen trees, living art, and hand-carved limestone vessels and fountains for extraordinary spaces. Showrooms in Los Angeles and Irvine. Listeners of Los Angeles News Today receive 10% off with code LANEWS10. theplantdaddies.com/lanews California and 24 other states are suing the Trump administration for the third time, challenging new federal emergency grant conditions that tie disaster funding to immigration enforcement and election rules — including voter ID systems, paper ballots, and post-election audits — with threats of funding cuts for non-compliance. Critics call it politically motivated suppression, while FEMA defends it as essential election security. This isn’t the first legal battle — states won twice before — and a federal judge previously declared such funding leverage unlawful. Meanwhile, in Boyle Heights, cleanup of spoiled food waste from a burned warehouse continues under a looming August 14 deadline, with lingering odors and skepticism over the effectiveness of odor control measures. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/5ebabb450b576f00