Politics

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to spend $7 billion to build a state-owned broadband network along highway rights-of-way into communities up and down California.

More than 40 of the county’s law enforcement agencies have yet to provide the district attorney’s office names of officers who have histories of dishonesty and other misconduct that could affect their credibility in court.

Even as the economy is rebounding, unemployment remains high, and the debt is forecast to grow beyond the $24.3 billion estimated for the end of this year, state officials said.

With the pandemic waning, Californians who receive unemployment benefits will next month have to start showing that they are looking for work

Local elections officials began sounding the alarm soon after Democrats unveiled new legislation last week allowing the Newsom recall to be held as early as Aug. 24.

After more than a decade, the Republican effort to kill the Affordable Care Act may have ended this week with a 7-2 defeat in the Supreme Court.

New research has found a 22% drop in humidity across the Southwest since the 1970s.

Congress is facing pressure to act on voting rights, but Democrats can’t agree on the best path.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to loosen pandemic restrictions comes with little short-term political risk. But other political challenges loom large in June.

In a ruling that could change college athletics, Supreme Court sides with athletes in dispute with the NCAA over rules limiting certain compensation.

A survey after the insurrection in January found that 56% of Republicans agreed that force might be needed to save “the traditional American way of life.”

Elected officials and interest groups still spar over California’s annual spending plan. But these days, the state budget is never truly finished.

The loudest voices, a minority of voters, are drowning everyone else out.

Juneteenth became a federal holiday this week, but as Vice President Kamala Harris noted at the bill signing, there’s a lot Americans don’t know about its history.

Contrasting inaugural vice presidential trips — Joe Biden’s to Europe in 2009 and Kamala Harris’ to Latin America — show their different roles in the No. 2 job.

Vice President Harris’ trip to Guatemala and Mexico underscored challenges and contradictions in Biden bid to address root causes of migration to U.S.

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She told Central American migrants ‘do not come.’ But she failed to mention the U.S. role in fueling the terror and corruption they are fleeing.

Two policy experts assess Vice President Kamala Harris’ Latin American trip and the questions it raises about Harris’ strategy for reducing Central Americans’ migration to the U.S.