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Hundreds take buyouts at 21st Century Fox -- Hundreds of employees from media giant 21st Century Fox have opted to take buyouts as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs at its TV networks and film studio. Ryan Faughnder in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

State panel approves raises for governor, legislators -- Citing the improved economy and healthy state budget, a state panel on Wednesday approved 4% pay raises for the governor, legislators and other elected state officials. California legislators already receive the highest base salary of any state legislators in the nation, but the action by the Citizens Compensation Commission boosts legislators' salaries from $100,111 to $104,115. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times$ Juliet Williams Associated Press Jim Miller in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 6/1/16

Judge rejects Bernie Sanders' supporter's voting lawsuit -- A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit by a Bernie Sanders supporter who argued elections officials in California were robbing unaffiliated voters of the chance to vote in the state's June 7 Democratic presidential primary. Sudhin Thanawala Associated Press John Myers in the Los Angeles Times$ Jeremy B. White in the Sacramento Bee$ Bob Egelko in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/1/16

Clinton to give national security speech in San Diego -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to deliver a major national security speech in San Diego Thursday and make her first appearance in the city as a formal presidential candidate. Joshua Stewart in the San Diego Union-Tribune$ -- 6/1/16

Bernie Sanders appeals to Asian-Americans in Palo Alto appearance -- Bernie Sanders wrapped up a Bay Area swing in Palo Alto Wednesday rallying supporters and making a direct appeal to a constituency that is up for grabs in next week's primary: Asian Americans. Matthew Artz in the San Jose Mercury$ -- 6/1/16

Fox: Gutting the “Gut and Amend” Process -- Legislative transparency, good government and the ability of the legislature to get things done are issues voters will consider if the “California Legislature Transparency Act” initiative makes it to the ballot. Joel Fox Fox & Hounds -- 6/1/16

Two dead in murder-suicide at UCLA; LAPD says 'campus is now safe' -- A campus shooting at UCLA Wednesday morning left two men dead in a murder-suicide that sent thousands of students running for safety and barricading themselves in classrooms, authorities said. Joseph Serna, Richard Winton and Hailey Branson-Potts in the Los Angeles Times$ also in the Los Angeles Daily News$ Christopher Weber Associated Press -- 6/1/16

UCLA students, professor recount terrifying moments after campus shooting -- It was a “Bruin Alert” that Alan Mendoza, a student at UCLA, will never forget. Mendoza, a 20-year-old psychobiology major from Long Beach, said he had just finished class and met his girlfriend at the university’s iconic Royce Hall, when he received the alert via text message that there was a shooting on campus. Brenda Gazzar and Larry Altman in the Los Angeles Daily News$ -- 6/1/16

'It's crazy.' Student survived Isla Vista rampage, and now UCLA violence -- The routine seemed all too familiar to Jeremy Peschard. The alerts rolled in about an active shooter; buildings were quickly locked to protect the students inside; officers swarmed the campus. He had seen it all before just two years ago during the shooting rampage in Isla Vista near UCSB. Sarah Parvini in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Gun buyer in San Bernardino attack linked to aspiring terrorists, prosecutors say -- The ties between the man who bought the guns used in December’s attack in San Bernardino and two aspiring terrorists arrested in 2012 are closer than authorities initially let on, according to federal court documents. Joseph Serna in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

State lawmakers vote to cap nonresident enrollment at UC schools -- Amid outrage over the number of out-of-state students taking spots in the University of California system, the Assembly on Wednesday voted to approve a 10% cap on nonresident enrollment. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Children's asylum approvals vary by US region -- Youngsters whose applications are handled by the U.S. government's regional offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles are far more likely to win approval from asylum officers than those applying in Chicago or Houston, according to data obtained by The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act request. Amy Taxin Associated Press -- 6/1/16

Online speech backers’ newest fear: Trump -- There are few people who relish a good lawsuit like Donald Trump, and few people that scares more than those occupying Silicon Valley. Nancy Scola Politico -- 6/1/16

California Policy & Politics This Morning   

Senate flexes its muscle with Southern California's clean air board -- Amid charges that polluting industries are taking over Southern California’s clean-air board, the state Senate on Tuesday approved counter-measures including an expansion of the board by three state apppointees. Patrick McGreevy in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Charles Munger spending big to boost Duf Sundheim for Senate -- California Republicans running below-the-radar campaigns for the U.S. Senate have spent months trying to distinguish thems elves to prevent being shut out entirely from the fall’s general election. Christopher Cadelago in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 6/1/16

Sacramento candidate Steinberg advising major Southern California water district -- Sacramento mayoral candidate Darrell Steinberg has worked since July as an adviser to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the massive agency that partly relies on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to serve more than 19 million south state residents. Ryan Lillis in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 6/1/16

Why Jerry Brown decided to back Hillary Clinton -- Gov. Jerry Brown’s fourth-quarter endorsement of Hillary Clinton came after a sit-down between the two that went well into the night and covered a number of issues, we’re told — chief among them, climate change. Matier & Ross in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/1/16

Clinton braces for last stand against Sanders week before California primary -- It’s a big question sitting out there: Who needs to win California more — Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? For Sanders, the answer is simple. David Montero in the Los Angeles Daily News$ -- 6/1/16

Social media captures incredible line to see Bernie Sanders' Oakland speech -- Local supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders were hella feeling the Bern. On Monday, they were also feeling the pain of standing on their feet: an epic line preceded the presidential candidate's speech at Frank Ogawa Plaza and traversed six city blocks. Dianne de Guzman in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/1/16

Independents favor Sanders, but their turnout is hardly assured -- California's independent voters are struggling to figure out how to cast ballots in next Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary, threatening Bernie Sanders' chances to carry the state and making the race even more difficult for pollsters to handicap. Matthew Artz in the San Jose Mercury$ -- 6/1/16

California Assembly kills bill overhauling State Bar -- In a clear rebuke to California’s system for regulating attorneys, the Assembly on Tuesday decisively rejected a bill that sought to overhaul the State Bar. Jeremy B. White in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 6/1/16

Senate, Assembly Pass Dozens Of Bills In First Day Of Marathon Voting -- All bills have to pass out of the chambers where they were introduced by Friday—Senate bills need to get out of the Senate; Assembly bills out of the Assembly. All measures move to the other chamber, and the marathon voting will continue through at least Thursday. Ben Bradford Capital Public Radio -- 6/1/16

Former CalPERS chief sentenced to prison in bribery scandal -- He arrived in plain jail clothes, shackles around his ankles, the humbled former leader of America’s largest public pension fund ready to accept his punishment for taking bribes. He left with a prison term of 4 1/2 years. Dale Kasler in the Sacramento Bee$ Sudhin Thanawala Associated Press -- 6/1/16

San Francisco Reaches Agreement With Police Union on Body Cameras -- If the city Police Commission approves the new policy emerging from negotiations that for months appeared to be stalled, the first deployment of cameras could hit the streets by Aug. 1, according to the mayor’s office. Alex Emslie KQED -- 6/1/16

African Americans less trusting of L.A. County law enforcement, poll finds -- Despite two decades of efforts to improve relations, Los Angeles law enforcement are still struggling to build trust among African American residents, according to a new poll. Kate Mather in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Pelosi grilled by San Francisco middle schoolers on guns, Trump -- The visit to the Mission neighborhood private school capped the students’ yearlong civics project about gun control, which included producing a newspaper, a website and a 1,000-signature petition delivered to Pelosi’s local office supporting a range of legislation, including requiring background checks for gun purchases across the nation. Jill Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/1/16

Orange County district attorney and supervisor go another round in public feud -- Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas is accusing one of his fiercest critics, county Supervisor Todd Spitzer, of “falsely impersonating” an assistant district attorney in recent robo-calls promoting an upcoming ballot measure. Anh Do, Christopher Goffard in the Los Angeles Times$ Sean Emery in the Orange County Register -- 6/1/16

Feds: Suspected terrorist Farook’s life insurance payout should go to victims -- Federal prosecutors filed a court action Tuesday to seize $275,000 payouts from life insurance policies taken out by San Bernardino terrorist shooter Syed Rizwan Farook in the years before the Dec. 2 attack that claimed 14 lives. Richard K. De Atley in the Los Angeles Daily News$ -- 6/1/16

Economy, Employers, Jobs, Unions, Pensions      

L.A is projected to add a lot of low-paying jobs through 2020 -- Los Angeles County will add hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next four years, most of them low paying, according to a report released Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation. Natalie Kitroeff in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Tesoro’s planned refinery merger faces another delay as residents question health impacts -- Local air quality regulators have extended to June 10 the deadline for public comment on a report detailing the anticipated environmental and health impacts of Tesoro Corp.’s planned integration of its two South Bay plants into the West Coast’s largest oil refinery. Sandy Mazza in the Los Angeles Daily News$ -- 6/1/16

Faraday Future enters exclusive negotiations with Vallejo for factory -- Gardena electric car company Faraday Future is now one step closer to establishing a vehicle manufacturing plant in California. Samantha Masunaga in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Audit finds gender wage gap persists in some California counties -- The Bureau of State Audits review focused on four counties – Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange and Santa Clara – and found that female employees’ total pay was between 73 percent and 88 percent of what male employees earned. Jim Miller in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 6/1/16

Pay gap growing between men and women working for L.A. County -- A state audit released Tuesday found a significant – and growing – gap in the average pay for men and women working for several large California counties, including Los Angeles. Abby Sewell in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Elon Musk announces plan to revolutionize factories -- Having already upset the traditional automobile industry with his electric cars and the space exploration business with his reusable Space X rockets, Tesla Motors Chief Executive Elon Musk will now set about trying to revolutionize the American factory. Charles Fleming in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Elon Musk: Tesla was founded on 2 false ideas, and survived anyway -- Elon Musk on Tuesday gave Tesla Motors shareholders a personal history of the upstart electric automaker that emphasized a point he has made before — the company was based on assumptions that proved to be false and almost died as a result. David R. Baker in the San Francisco Chronicle -- 6/1/16

Immigration / Border 

California nears letting undocumented immigrants buy healthcare -- Immigrants living in the country illegally would be allowed to buy health coverage on California’s insurance exchange under a bill that passed the state Assembly on Tuesday. Jeremy B. White in the Sacramento Bee$ -- 6/1/16

Environment 

Scientists begin search, testing for dangerous pollutants near City of Industry battery plant -- The mandatory testing was overseen by the state Department of Toxic Substances Control as part of a new round of sampling to determine if the plant is releasing unsafe levels of lead, which has been shown to harm children’s health at low exposures, and arsenic, a known human carcinogen. Steve Scauzillo in the Los Angeles Daily News$ -- 6/1/16

Scientists at Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach hope to bring back white abalone -- Six white abalone stewed in six white buckets, each submerged in a chemical bath that was supposed to prompt them to spawn. Fewer than 1,000 of these slow-moving, cream-colored sea snails still live in the open ocean, according to one estimate, and they’re spaced so far apart from one another that they can’t reproduce on their own. Aaron Orlowski in the Los Angeles Daily News$ -- 6/1/16

Health 

UnitedHealth to stop selling Obamacare coverage in California -- Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, which sat out California’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act until this year, will not sell health plans on the state’s insurance marketplace in 2017, state and company officials said Tuesday. Noam N. Levey in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Beltway 

Shady accounting underpins Trump’s wealth -- Politico spoke with more than a dozen financial experts and Trump’s fellow multimillionaires about the presumptive Republican nominee’s latest financial statement. Their conclusion: The real estate magnate’s bottom line — what he actually puts in his own pocket — could be much lower than he suggests. Some financial analysts said this, and a very low tax rate, is why Trump won’t release his tax returns. Ben White Politico -- 6/1/16

Former Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony -- In blunt testimony revealed on Tuesday, former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald J. Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics, employed unqualified instructors, made deceptive claims and exploited vulnerable students willing to pay tens of thousands for Mr. Trump’s insights. Michael Barbaro and Steve Eder in the New York Times$ Greg Moran in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 6/1/16

Million-dollar super-PAC donation coming for Libertarian ticket -- Chris Rufer, the founder of California tomato processing company Morning Star, told The Hill he's going to give at least $1 million to an outside group supporting the Libertarian presidential ticket of Johnson, a former New Mexico governor, and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. " Jonathan Swan The Hill -- 6/1/16