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Are California Democrats weak when it comes to protecting minors from sex trafficking? It’s a question that has caused chaos in the state Capitol for more than a week.
What’s really behind President Trump’s order to reopen Alcatraz as a prison? It’s about empowering authorities to act without fear of consequence.
Recent executive orders and actions have set the stage for the federal government to curtail states’ rights, once a central tenet of conservative policy.
Amid the chaos of government cuts, the defunding of grants to libraries has gone largely unnoticed. But California wasn’t spared.
VoicesChabria: Rep. Garcia returns from El Salvador with a sliver of hope for deported gay hairdresser
Long Beach Rep. Robert Garcia traveled to El Salvador with three colleagues this week, looking for answers and proof of life.
VoicesChabria: Newsom called the Abrego Garcia deportation fight a ‘distraction.’ Then came the pushback
Gov. Newsom warned that the wrongful deportation case of Abrego Garcia was a “distraction.” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who flew to El Salvador to see Garcia, shot back that due process isn’t a distraction. Who’s right?
America has an epidemic of violence against women. First partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and a working group of legislators, legal experts, health professionals and advocates want California to lead on change.
A dozen people were charged with felonies in connection with a pro-Palestinian protest at Stanford that university officials said resulted in $250,000 in damage.
L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will allow prosecutors in his office to consider pursuing the death penalty, a punishment his predecessor did not use.
In a rare ruling that reins in gun rights, the Supreme Court has figured out that a gun is a gun, whether you buy it ready-made or build it from a kit.
