CALmatters Commentary: Feinstein, Harris pursue agendas in Kavanaugh hearings

As fate would decree, both of California's U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, both played starring roles in last week's confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and both had personal political agendas. Feinstein is running this year for re-election and needed to be critical enough of President Donald Trump and Kavanaugh to avoid alienating fervently anti-Trump Democratic voters, while maintaining an air of senatorial decorum.

Obama Campaigns for California Dems, Including Bi Woman Katie Hill

Barack Obama came to Southern California Saturday to campaign for Democratic congressional candidates, including Katie Hill, the bisexual woman challenging homophobic incumbent Steve Knight, and Harley Rouda, a former Republican taking on another deeply anti-LGBTQ incumbent, Dana Rohrabacher. Obama spoke at a rally in Anaheim, in the traditionally conservative stronghold of Orange County.

The Latest: Pence disappointed Obama back on trail

Former President Barack Obama is blasting Republicans, saying "the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party." Vice President Mike Pence says it's disappointing that former President Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail criticizing President Donald Trump.

Barack Obama in campaign-mode for Democratic congressional candidates in California

ANAHEIM, Calif.>> Barack Obama is jumping back into campaign-mode with a visit to a once-solid Republican stronghold in California, promoting Democratic congressional candidates and reminding voters of the stakes in the November elections. Former President Barack Obama talks with Caffe Paradiso owner Young Jeon during a surprise campaign stop with Illinois Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker and his running mate, state Rep. Juliana Stratton, after speaking on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Ill.

Many women’s toiletries do cost more than men’s – and their mortgages might too, report finds

There is some evidence women pay more than men for mortgages, cars and auto repairs and have less access to small-business credit, a federal report has found. The "pink tax" is real: Many products aimed at women cost more than the versions men are supposed to buy - and women might also be paying more for gender-neutral things such as mortgages, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

Verizon makes changes as lawmakers decry firefighters’ woes

In this Aug. 7, 2018 file photo, firefighters monitor a backfire while battling the Ranch Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex Fire near Ladoga, Calif. A nationwide telecommunications company that slowed internet service to firefighters as they battled the largest wildfire in California history says it has removed all speed cap restrictions for first responders on the West Coast.

In one tweet, Trump confuses everything about California bushfires

Los Angeles: No one would mistake President Donald Trump for an expert on climate change or water policy, but a tweet he issued late Sunday about California's bushfires deserves some sort of award for most glaring misstatements about those two issues in the smallest number of words. Trump blamed the fires on "bad environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilised."

The Latest: Pilot’s emergency call didn’t specify problem

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arl... An investigator says the pilot declared an emergency but didn't state the nature of his problem before a Cessna nosedived into a Southern California parking lot, killing all five people on board. The National Transportation Safety Board's Albert Nixon said he didn't know Monday how much time elapsed between the distress call and the crash.

Californians displaced by fire work, wait amid uncertainty

Bell-Gardin... . Diane Bell-Gardiner, a registered nurse at Mercy Medical Center, who lost her home in the Carr Fire, works at her job in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Redding, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018.

California Mesothelioma Victims Center Now Urges a US Navy Veteran…

If you want to receive the very best possible mesothelioma financial compensation you need direct access to some of the nation's most skilled mesothelioma attorneys " NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA, July 30, 2018 / EINPresswire.com / -- According to the California Mesothelioma Victims Center, "If you are a US Navy Veteran who has recently been diagnosed with mesothelioma in California or this is a family member, please call us anytime at 800-714-0303 so you do not hire an inexperienced lawyer/law firm.

5 Killed Including 2 Children and Their Great-Great Grandmother in California Wildfires

The United States federal government has approved aid for the state of California to help battle a devastating blaze that has engulfed nearly 81,000 acres of land and has killed at least five people. Today, President Donald Trump "ordered federal assistance to supplement state, tribal and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from a wildfire beginning on July 23." Because of this, the Federal Emergency Management Agency "is authorized to identify, mobilize and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency."

Pressure to oppose new offshore oil drilling grows on GOP Congress members in Southern California

Oil rigs off the coast of Huntington Beach, which offer a home for marine life below the surface, are seen during a new eco-tour put on by IEX Helicopters out of John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, on Thursday, June 28, 2018. The Heli-Marine Expedition takes tours above Southern California coastline to search for dolphins, whales and other sea creatures.

LGBT Activist David Mixner Will Not Be Put Out to Pasture

After 50 years of fighting against corruption, racism, homophobia, and bigotry, activist David Mixner continues to shape D.C. politics and educate queer youth on the importance of remaining in the fight. Young people, Mixner says, have always been at the heart of change - from the early civil rights movement to modern day student-led gun reform protests.

This California district has been red for over 20 years. Katie Hill could change that.

On a blisteringly hot Saturday morning in June, 10 days after 30-year-old Katie Hill emerged as the Democratic party's candidate to unseat Republican Steve Knight for California's 25th Congressional district, dozens of her supporters gathered at the campaign's cramped headquarters in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita to prepare for a massive voter registration drive. This last remaining GOP bastion in Los Angeles County is high up on the list of priorities for Democrats hoping to turn the district from red-to-blue in November.