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Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes sees an opportunity for his party to get involved with California's climate policies. Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes sees an opportunity for his party to get involved with California's climate policies.
California lawmakers pushed forward Wednesday with a proposal that would substantially remake the health care system of the nation's most populous state by eliminating insurance companies and guaranteeing coverage for everyone. The idea known as single-payer health care has long been popular on the left and is getting a new look in California as President Donald Trump struggles to replace former President Barack Obama's health care law.
North Korean leader takes the salute as his army fires rockets and torpedoes at mock enemy warships during country's 'largest ever' live-fire artillery drills Father of kidnapped Tennessee teenager divorces her mother and accuses her of 'beating the girl, locking her in the basement' and making her 'vulnerable' to 50-year-old teacher U.S. Navy fires warning flare at an Iranian vessel in the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions between the two countries U.S. Air Force launches unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California as a test amid rising tensions with North Korea 'See you in the Supreme Court!' Trump blasts 'egregious overreach' of San Francisco judge who blocked his sanctuary city crackdown and says liberal lawmakers who protect illegal immigrant criminals 'have blood on their hands' I'm a North Korean... Get me out of here! 'Super-hot' defectors are celebs in South Korea ... (more)
North Korean leader takes the salute as his army fires rockets and torpedoes at mock enemy warships during country's 'largest ever' live-fire artillery drills Father of kidnapped Tennessee teenager divorces her mother and accuses her of 'beating the girl, locking her in the basement' and making her 'vulnerable' to 50-year-old teacher U.S. Navy fires warning flare at an Iranian vessel in the Persian Gulf amid rising tensions between the two countries U.S. Air Force launches unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California as a test amid rising tensions with North Korea 'See you in the Supreme Court!' Trump blasts 'egregious overreach' of San Francisco judge who blocked his sanctuary city crackdown and says liberal lawmakers who protect illegal immigrant criminals 'have blood on their hands' I'm a North Korean... Get me out of here! 'Super-hot' defectors are celebs in South Korea ... (more)
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Supporters of SB54, which would create a statewide sanctuary for immigrants in the country illegally, prepare to testify for the measure in the Senate Appropriations Committee in Sacramento, Monday, March 13, 2017. California has launched a war on President Trump's attempt to clamp down on sanctuary cities.
The long-proposed Sites Reservoir in Northern California is “going to get built” but it will be a challenge, according to Woodland-based rice farmer Fritz Durst. Durst was speaking to the Woodland Chamber of Commerce Water Committee Tuesday morning and while he remains confident the Maxwell-area reservoir will one day be completed, he said there are challenges.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at overturning environmental regulations and reviving the coal industry. Trump also railed against a so-called "War on Coal" as well as general federal regulations in his speech prior to signing the order, promising to strike down regulations in every industry by the "thousands."
But that's not the case for California's freshman senator. The Sacramento Bee reports that Sen. Kamala Harris received lots of cheers Friday at her first town hall meeting.
California has long been what one expert calls a "symbolic death penalty state," one of 12 that has capital punishment on the books but has not executed anyone in more than a decade. Prodded by voters and lawsuits, the nation's most populous state may now be easing back toward allowing executions, though observers are split on how quickly they will resume, if at all.
Republicans have a lock on power in Congress and the White House. But far across the country in California, the party of Reagan is seeing yet another threat to its fraying relevance.
If the Affordable Care Act were a game, it would be Milton Bradley's Cold War-era creation, Time Bomb. In the black-and-white TV commercial that lives forever on YouTube, Broadway comedian Stubby Kaye plays catch with adorable kids, except instead of a ball, they're tossing a toy bomb that makes a tick-tick-tick sound when the fuse is wound up.
The Trump administration intensified its threats to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal immigration authorities, warning nine jurisdictions Friday that they may lose coveted law enforcement grant money unless they document cooperation. It sent letters to officials in California and major cities including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans, all places the Justice Department's inspector general has identified as limiting the information local law enforcement can provide to federal immigration authorities about those in their custody.
The Trump administration intensified its threats to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal immigration authorities, warning nine jurisdictions Friday that they may lose coveted law enforcement grant money unless they document cooperation. It sent letters to officials in California and major cities including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans, all places the Justice Department's inspector general has identified as limiting the information local law enforcement can provide to federal immigration authorities about those in their custody.
California cities are mobilizing to fight the Trump administration's effort to strip federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities, which do not enforce federal immigration policy. Even as the Justice Department on Friday advised eight local governments and the state of California that they were at risk of losing federal dollars if they don't cooperate, several cities had already directed their lobbyists to oppose such efforts.
Shortly after the 2008 election, President Obama's soon-to-be chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, infamously declared, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste." He elaborated: "What I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
Supporters of one long-shot bid to make California an independent nation ended their effort on Monday, while another group said it will launch a new campaign for a statewide vote next year. The drive to make the nation's most populous state its own country, with what would be the world's sixth-largest economy, has drawn extra interest after last year's election of Republican Donald Trump as president.
Senator Dianne Feinstein's town hall meeting is interupted by heckler Michael Stone speaking out at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center San Francisco, California, on Monday, April 17, 2017. Senator Dianne Feinstein's town hall meeting is interupted by heckler Michael Stone speaking out at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center San Francisco, California, on Monday, April 17, 2017.
A bill pending in the California Senate would guarantee healthcare for all under what's known as a single-payer model - people pay into a fund, and a state agency handles coverage from there. The idea will be the subject of two town hall meetings at the Sonora Opera Hall on Thursday, one at 12:30 p.m., the other at 6:30 p.m. "We really think that with the federal attacks on healthcare, California has an opportunity to lead and has another path," said Pilar Schiavo, one of the presenters and a Sonora-area native who is coordinating the campaign on behalf of the California Nurses Association.
Around 200 people were on the scene when fights broke out at the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park and are blocking several streets in the city's center, Berkeley police said . "No one would release them while the audit is going on", he said.
Rep. David Valadao meets a constituent during district meetings last month. The last two GOP presidential candidates lost in his district by double digits.