Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is running for re-election. After weeks of speculation, the California Democrat decided to come out of the bunker and announce her plans to run for anther term yesterday.
An onslaught of wildfires across a wide swath of Northern California broke out almost simultaneously then grew... . The remains of an automobile sit in the Coffey Park area of Santa Rosa, Calif.
Vice President Mike Pence traveled up California on Monday to raise money for endangered Republican congressional candidates and tout the Trump administration's proposal for cutting taxes. It was the first visit to the heavily Democratic state by a member of the Trump-Pence ticket since the November election, when Democrat Hillary Clinton won the state by more than 4 million votes.
Former GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks outside of The United States Supreme Court after oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, a case on partisan gerrymandering.
Union members rally outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, as the court heard arguments in the Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association case.
Security officers are seen outside the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in San Francisco on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. These days, California is known as much for its great weather and nice beaches as it is for its high levels of poverty and inhospitable business climate.
As delicious as that sounds, Trump's tax overhaul may be tastiest for what it makes tiny, appealing, and compact: the 1040 tax return. If Washington Republicans manage not to botch tax reform - as they wrecked Obamacare repeal - simplification should be among the new system's most attractive elements, along with its consolidation of seven tax rates to three: 12, 25, and 35 percent.
Victim advocates are encouraging survivors of the Las Vegas mass shooting, as well as their family members, to reach out to the California Victim Compensation Board for financial assistance. Officials with the state-run panel are working closely with their counterparts in Nevada to help victims and their families apply for benefits such as for funeral expenses, medical bills and mental-health treatment.
D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine, center, will decide this week whether the District will appeal a federal court's ruling against one of its gun laws to the Supreme Court. D.C. officials say they will decide this week whether to ask the Supreme Court to review a ruling striking down the city's restrictions on carrying concealed guns - a choice that could determine the fate of similar laws in cities such as New York and Los Angeles and that is being closely watched by national gun-control activists.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya during a 2016 trip to Moscow, a previously undisclosed tAate-A -tAate that sheds additional light on the extent to which Moscow-based political operatives sought to influence American officials in the run-up to last year's presidential election. with a pro-Russian Crimean news service, Veselnitskaya said she met with Rohrabacher - a California Republican and arguably the most prominent advocate in Congress for closer relations between Washington and Moscow - in April 2016 to discuss issues surrounding the Magnitsky Act, the punitive American sanctions measure responding to Russian human rights abuses that she has lobbied against.
Nevertheless, two events last week bolster the notion that California is being targeted by the Trump administration, a Republican Congress and even the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court. The first was a rollout of a Republican plan, backed by the White House, to overhaul the federal tax system.
Four P-51 Mustangs fly in formation while another trails behind during the California Internatial Airshow at the Salinas Municipal Airport on Sunday. From the F-22 Raptor to the aerial acrobatics by Vicki Benzing in her 1940 Boeing Stearman biplane, the sky was full of visual spectacles.
A majority of likely California voters supports protecting immigrants who arrived in the country as children from deportation and about half don't think Sen. Dianne Feinstein should run for re-election next year, according to a Public Policy Institute of California survey released Wednesday. The poll also found that only about 27 percent of Californians approve of the job President Trump is doing.
International police agency Interpol voted Wednesday to include Palestine as a member state, in a new boost to Palestinian efforts for international recognition and influence amid long-stalled negotiations with Israel for full statehood. The decision drew an angry Israeli reaction and threat of retaliation.
For the past decade, Democrats hoping to pass a big climate law have played Charlie Brown to the Republicans' Lucy. Despite the GOP making it clear it has no intention of holding the ball for a global warming kick, the left routinely convinces itself that their counterparts will kneel into position once it gets a running start.
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.
Two real estate investors pleaded guilty for their role in conspiracies to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced. Joseph J. Giraudo pleaded guilty to two counts of bid rigging, and Kevin B. Cullinane pleaded guilty to one count of bid rigging.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering issuing subpoenas to President Donald Trump 's former campaign chairman and two FBI officials close to fired director James Comey as part of the panel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election s. It would be the second time the panel has subpoenaed Paul Manafort , Trump's former campaign chairman.
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.