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Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, the ideological fulcrum of the high court whose support for gay rights culminated in his 2015 decision striking down state bans against same-sex marriage , is retiring at the pinnacle of his career. Kennedy's retirement will leave a hole for President Donald Trump to fill smack in the middle of the deeply divided court, where all nine justices tend to vote the way the presidents who nominated them expected.
A College Area Pregnancy Services clinic is seen Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in San Diego. The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively put an end to a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion.
Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that millions of public sector workers can stop paying union fees, a group tied to Republican billionaires long opposed to organized labor and its support of the Democratic Party has pledged to build on the landmark ruling to further marginalize employee representation. The conservative nonprofit Freedom Foundation said that starting Wednesday, it will deploy 80 people to a trio of West Coast union bastions: California, Oregon and its home state of Washington.
Seventeen states, including New York and California, sued the Trump administration Tuesday to force it to reunite the thousands of immigrant children and parents it separated at the border, as the legal and political pressure mounted to reconnect families more quickly. "The administration's practice of separating families is cruel, plain and simple," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said in a statement.
California may still get its super strong net neutrality protections after all, as Democrats in the state legislature agree to head back to the negotiating table, after key provisions of the bill On Friday, the bill's author, state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, said he and fellow Democrat, Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, the chair of the committee, will begin negotiating next week to fix the bill to ensure the protections that were weeded out in the committee process are added back into the legislation. "We've agreed to make a good faith effort to make amendments to the bill in order to pass strong net neutrality," he said in an interview.
California legislation that was billed as one of the nation's most aggressive efforts to revive net neutrality was watered down during a tense legislative hearing Wednesday, leading the author to repudiate what he called a "mutilated" bill. Sen. Scott Wiener has been pushing legislation to revive regulations repealed last year by the Federal Communications Commission that prevented internet companies from exercising more control over what people watch and see over the internet.
WEBVTT [CHANTING] VICK ACROSS CALIFORNIA, PASSIONATELY DIVIDED RESPONSES OVER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY OF SEPARATING FAMILIES ACCUSED OF CROSSING THE BORDER ILLEGALLY. THE RESCUE BRIGADE OF GRANDPARENTS DEMONSTRATING OUTSIDE RIO COSUMNES CORRECTIONAL CENTER, ELK GROVE'S ICE DETENTION FACILITY.
Nearly half of registered California voters are still undecided in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Dianne Feinstein and state Sen. Kevin de Leon, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. Feinstein, who is seeking a fifth full term, holds a 36 percent to 18 percent lead over De Leon among registered voters who said they are going to vote in November, while 46 percent of registered voters remain undecided, according to the poll.
California would lead the U.S. in significantly changing the standard for when police can fire their weapons under legislation that cleared its first hurdle Tuesday after an emotionally charged debate over deadly shootings that have roiled the country. It's time to change a "reasonable force" standard that hasn't been updated in California since 1872, making it the nation's oldest unchanged use-of-force law, said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, a San Diego Democrat who introduced the measure.
File - In this Oct. 18, 2018, file photo, former Mexican President Mexico Vicente Fox speaks at the CATO Institute in Washington. Former Mexican President Vincente Fox calls himself a soldier in the global cam... .
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In 1928, Amelia Earhart embarked on a trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales with pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, becoming the first woman to make the trip as a passenger. This 1937 photo shows Earhart before takeoff in Miami for an attempted round-the-world flight.
That effort, part of a major immigration bill in the House of Representatives, threatens to undermine sanctuary policies across California by making jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities liable for some crimes committed by undocumented immigrants they release. The bill, scheduled for a vote next week, also provides a path to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants but restricts legal immigration, limits asylum claims and budgets $25 billion for the construction of a border wall and other border security measures.
Ruben Navarrette should add to his list of "Democrats' treatment of immigrants and refugees [is] as bad as Republicans' " , the injury done to our immigrant community when Democratic Gov. Brown and his colleagues released illegal immigrant ex-felons among California residents, including California's immigrant communities where the ex-felons are likely to return. Get editorials, opinion columns, letters to the editor and more in your inbox weekday mornings.
Californians will face a choice this November of whether to divide the nation's most populous state into three, an effort that would radically shake up not only the West Coast, but the entire nation. The "Cal 3" initiative is driven by venture capitalist Tim Draper, who has tried and failed in the past to place an effort to break up California on the ballot, including a bid in 2016 to create six separate states.
The economy's booming. Some states have raised minimum wages. But even with recent wage growth for the lowest-paid workers, there is still nowhere in the country where someone working a full-time minimum-wage job could afford to rent a modest two-bedroom apartment, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition.
An initiative that would divide California into three separate states qualified Tuesday to appear on the ballot in November's general election. Californians will vote whether to separate into three states: California, Northern California and Southern California - subject to approval by US Congress.
Nine Inland Southern California men were arrested this week by federal agents in a crackdown on what they called one of the largest child-pornography distribution operations ever. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations unit took eight of the men into custody in cities throughout the region.
First, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes called it quits. Next, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck broke up, and then the unimaginable; Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ended up in Splitsville too.
Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders compromised on plans to put millions more toward homeless programs and agreed to pump more money into higher education under a $139 billion general fund budget deal announced Friday. The agreement includes about $1 billion more in additional spending than what Brown proposed last month for the 2018-19 fiscal year beginning July 1. It came one week ahead of the deadline for the Legislature to pass a state budget, which Brown has until June 30 to sign.