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California will move its presidential primary from June to March under a bill signed on Wednesday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, a change aimed at giving the liberal-leaning state more influence in choosing candidates from either national party. The most populous U.S. state, which voted heavily for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November's presidential election, has traditionally held its primary so late that Democratic and Republican voters in other states had essentially already chosen their parties' candidates.
FBN's Lou Dobbs weighs in on the California attorney general's decision to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its push to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall. 
 It is becoming increasingly clearer that the state of California has organized much of its state government and legal resources to mount a campaign of harassment and obstruction against the Trump administration.
Farmers in the nation's largest irrigation district are considering whether to sign on to California's big... . A small group of protesters carrying signs that said "Water is a human right" and "Stop the water tunnel tax" gather at Los Angeles City Hall on Monday, Sept.
Taking the reverse route of Texas , California lawmakers have passed a law restricting the ability of state and local police to cooperate with federal immigration officials. The bill, SB 54, has been watered down since it was first introduced .
California has the most people and more registered voters than any other state, the world's sixth-largest economy and often, little influence over who Republicans and Democrats nominate for president. State lawmakers want to change that.
The California Assembly has voted to move the 2020 presidential primary to March to give the nation's most populous state more influence in choosing nominees. The bill approved Friday will now go to the state Senate where it's expected to pass.
California Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Senate leader said Monday they've agreed to changes in proposed legislation that would further restrict interactions between law enforcement officers and federal immigration agents. The agreement came on the same day the state sued the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that shields young immigrants from deportation.
The Latest on California's efforts to prevent a Trump administration crackdown on illegal immigration and an order to end a program giving deportation protection to young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally or by parents who overstayed visas. California Gov. Jerry Brown and the state's top Senate leader have agreed to legislation that would further restrict interactions between state and local law enforcement officers and federal immigration agents.
In this Jan. 24, 2017 file photo, Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray speaks to reporters in Mexico City. Mexico's top diplomat will make a two-day visit to immigrant-friendly California as relations between his country and the U.S. government have strained over President Donald Trump's border wall and immigration and trade proposals.
Mexico's top diplomat is expected to meet with California officials and young immigrants on a visit to a state that has sought to push back against the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray will meet Monday with Gov. Jerry Brown and state legislative leaders in Sacramento.
In this Oct. 2, 2009 file photo, in California's Westland Water District of the Central Valley, canals carry water to southern California. A new federal audit says the federal government improperly spent tens of millions of dollars on the California water project.
California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the Los Angeles County Area on Sunday after the largest fire in the city's history began to rage out of control. The fire started Friday and has since consumed 5,895 acres , pushing hundreds of residents out of their homes near the Burbank area in Southern California, CNN reports.
Jerry Brown, who has twice in my lifetime been the two-term governor of California , once said something that I love. He said he learned more from James Taylor's song "Fire and Rain," than he learned in Yale Law School.
The California Assembly's top Republican said Thursday he'll resign his leadership post, following weeks of party pressure for him to step aside over his vote for major climate change legislation. Assemblyman Brian Dahle will take over Sept.
Republican Rep. Knute Buehler, who is running for governor, defends his pro-choice stand, saying he believes in making abortion "rare," as well as safe and legal. "Remarkably," he writes, "that's no longer an acceptable position among the professional pro-abortion lobby."
I am proud to pen this commentary from my new office space, referred to around the state Capitol as "the Dog House." The Dog House is where you get sent as punishment when you draw the ire of the leaders for standing up to them on principle.
Last week, Essential Politics opined on the potential for a slow week in news with the California Legislature, Congress and President Trump on vacation. Boy, was I wrong.
The father of a former Marine says he was notified by the U.S. State Department that his son was killed in Syria while fighting for a Kurdish militia battling the Islamic State group. The father of a former Marine says he was notified by the U.S. State Department that his son was killed in Syria while fighting for a Kurdish militia battling the Islamic State group.
North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman is making moves on the environmental front, candidly speaking out against the White House's initiatives regarding public lands and energy, as well as recent actions by U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Huffman has wholeheartedly taken up climate change as a platform issue, introducing two pieces of legislation on energy policy and joining three other members of Congress on climate legislation that seeks to get the U.S. on 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2050, named the 100 by '50 Act.
California's signature initiative to fight global warming will get another decade of life after lawmakers from both parties joined Gov. Jerry Brown in extending the law credited with reducing the state's carbon footprint. Monday night's votes to renew California's cap-and-trade program bolster the Democratic governor's quest to portray the state as a leader in the fight against climate change.