California
L.A. Sheriff’s Department announces policy it says will ban deputy gangs, hate groups
Sept. 18, 2024
Housing & Homelessness
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is warning that a ban on homeless shelters and other housing in the city of Norwalk is against the law.
Sept. 17, 2024
World & Nation
The federal government is warning that allowing people to bet on the outcome of U.S. elections poses too much of a risk to be allowed in the U.S.
Sept. 16, 2024
Politics
Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions is officially repealed.
Sept. 14, 2024
Climate & Environment
Proponents of the bill say legislation is needed to position California as a leader in humane aquaculture.
Sept. 11, 2024
A state judge says North Dakota’s constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion, writing, ‘The law as currently drafted takes away a woman’s liberty.’
Sept. 12, 2024
The ruling invalidated a law spearheaded by environmental justice activists that barred new oil and gas extraction and required that all existing operations stop production within 20 years.
Santa Monica leaders will discuss new changes to its anti-camping ordinance, including to a section allowing homeless people to use pillows, blankets, bedrolls.
Sept. 10, 2024
Letters to the Editor
Gov. Gavin Newsom should sign long-overdue legislation banning the thicker “reusable” plastic grocery bags that just get thrown away.
Sept. 8, 2024
California may enforce its recent ban on guns in some ‘sensitive places,’ but not others, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
Sept. 6, 2024